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July 2009

July’s roundup of New in Paperback titles includes PROMISES IN DEATH by J. D. Robb, in which Lieutenant Eve Dallas faces down a cop killer; THE OTHER QUEEN, a work of historical fiction from Philippa Gregory that examines a different aspect of Tudor England from the perspective of one of Queen Elizabeth’s greatest rivals --- Mary, Queen of Scots; THE COMFORTS OF A MUDDY SATURDAY, the fifth installment in Alexander McCall Smith’s series featuring Isabel Dalhousie, who returns to investigate a medical mystery; GOOD-BYE AND AMEN, a beautifully written novel that continues the story of the Moss family that began in Beth Gutcheon’s critically acclaimed LEEWAY COTTAGE; BOOKS: A Memoir, in which Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award winner Larry McMurtry recounts his life as both a reader and a writer; and THE HOUSE AT SUGAR BEACH, Helene Cooper’s memoir that chronicles her youth and coming of age in 1980s Liberia during a period of political unrest.

FICTION:

ART IN AMERICA
Ron McLarty
Penguin
ISBN: 9780143115540
BLOOD COLONY
Tananarive Due
Washington Square Press
ISBN: 9780743287364

THE BOOK OF MURDER
Guillermo Martínez
Penguin
ISBN: 9780143115809
THE COMFORTS OF A MUDDY SATURDAY: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel
Alexander McCall Smith
Anchor
ISBN: 9780307387073

DECEMBER
Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop
Vintage
ISBN: 9780307388575
ENLIGHTENMENT FOR IDIOTS
Ann Cushman
Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 9780307381651

THE FIFTH FLOOR
Michael Harvey
Vintage
ISBN: 9780307386298
THE GLIMMER PALACE
Beatrice Colin
Riverhead Trade
ISBN: 9781594483813

GOOD-BYE AND AMEN
Beth Gutcheon
Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780060539085
I SEE YOU EVERYWHERE
Julia Glass
Anchor
ISBN: 9781400075775

IT ONLY TAKES A MOMENT
Mary Jane Clark
Avon
ISBN: 9780061286100
JULY AND AUGUST
Nancy Clark
Anchor
ISBN: 9781400078707

MAN IN THE MIDDLE
Brian Haig
Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 9780446616676
THE MERCEDES COFFIN: A Decker and Lazarus Novel
Faye Kellerman
Harper
ISBN: 9780061227370

THE MERCY RULE
Perri Klass
Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780547237848
MY NAME IS WILL: A Novel of Sex, Drugs, and Shakespeare
Jess Winfield
Twelve
ISBN: 9780446508834

OFF SEASON
Anne River Siddons
Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 9780446698290
ONE OF THOSE MALIBU NIGHTS
Elizabeth Adler
St. Martin’s Griffin
ISBN: 9780312557256

THE OTHER QUEEN
Philippa Gregory
Touchstone
ISBN: 9781416549147
PROMISES IN DEATH
J. D. Robb
Berkley
ISBN: 9780425228944

REAL WORLD
Natsuo Kirino
Vintage
ISBN: 9780307387486
REQUIEM, MASS.
John Dufresne
W.W. Norton & Co.
ISBN: 9780393334869

ROUGH JUSTICE
Jack Higgins
Berkley
ISBN: 9780425228630
A ROYAL PAIN: A Royal Spyness Mystery
Rhys Bowen
Berkley
ISBN: 9780425228722

SAY YOU’RE ONE OF THEM
Uwem Akpan
Back Bay Books
ISBN: 9780316086370
THE SEAMSTRESS
Frances De Pontes Peebles
Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780060738884

THE SISTER
Poppy Adams
Anchor
ISBN: 9780307388315
SO LONG AT THE FAIR
Christina Schwarz
Anchor
ISBN: 9780307275493

STILL WATERS
Nigel McCrery
Vintage
ISBN: 9780307388704
TAILSPIN
Catherine Coulter
Jove
ISBN: 9780515146486

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NONFICTION:

BLUE SKY JULY: A Mother's Story of Hope and Healing
Nia Wyn
NAL Trade
ISBN: 9780451226952
BOOKS: A Memoir
Larry McMurtry
Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9781416583356

THE CHALLENGE: How a Maverick Navy Officer and a Young Law Professor Risked Their Careers to Defend the Constitution -- and Won
Jonathan Mahler
Picador
ISBN: 9780312428853
THE HOUSE AT SUGAR BEACH: In Search of a Lost African Childhood
Helene Cooper
Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9780743266253

HOW FICTION WORKS
James Wood
Picador
ISBN: 9780312428471
LEARNING TO BREATHE: One Woman's Journey of Spirit and Survival
Alison Wright
Plume
ISBN: 9780452295353

ROME 1960: The Summer Olympics That Stirred the World
David Maraniss
Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9781416534082
THE SHADOW FACTORY: The NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America
James Bamford
Anchor
ISBN: 9780307279392

THE THREE OF US: A Family Story
Julia Blackburn
Vintage
ISBN: 9780307278937
TOO CLOSE TO THE SUN: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton
Sara Wheeler
Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780812968927

TUNA: Love, Death and Mercury
Richard Ellis
Vintage
ISBN: 9780307387103
WAITER RANT: Thanks for the Tip: Confessions of a Cynical Waiter
The Waiter, Steve Dublanica
Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780061256691

WASHINGTON BURNING: How a Frenchman's Vision for Our Nation's Capital Survived Congress, the Founding Fathers, and the Invading British Army
Les Standiford
Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 9780307346452
WELL ENOUGH ALONE: A Cultural History of My Hypochondria
Jennifer Traig
Riverhead Trade
ISBN: 9781594483806

WHY I CAME WEST: A Memoir
Rick Bass
Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780547237718

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