October 2009
October’s roundup of New in Paperback titles includes Jamie Ford’s debut novel, HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET, a love story about two people who come from totally different worlds and a cultural examination set against the backdrop of Japanese internment during World War II; WHILE MY SISTER SLEEPS by Barbara Delinsky, in which the life of a woman is turned upside down and inside out when her sister suffers a heart attack and ends up in a coma; BURN OUT, Marcia Muller’s 26th Sharon McCone mystery that finds the San Francisco PI drawn into the plight of a troubled, highly secretive Native American lady and her dysfunctional family; BLOOD AND BONE, William Lashner’s first stand-alone thriller and an introduction to a young man whose aloofness is seriously challenged when he’s drawn into a murder investigation; and THE LONGEST TRIP HOME, a coming-of-age memoir from MARLEY & ME author John Grogan about growing up in the 1960s and his struggle to find himself despite his family's conflicting values.
FICTION:
THE BLACK TOWER
BLOOD AND BONE
BURN OUT
A COUNTRY CALLED HOME
DASHING THROUGH THE SNOWMary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark
Pocket Books
ISBN: 9781439130087
DEADLOCK
DYING FOR REVENGE
THE END
THE ENGLISH MAJOR
GHOST AT WORK
THE GLASS OF TIME
HEAT LIGHTNING
THE HERETIC’S DAUGHTER
HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET
INDIGNATION
THE MURDER NOTEBOOK
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE
THE SÉANCE
SHOW NO FEAR: A Nina Reilly Novel
SOMETHING TO TELL YOU
THE SPANISH GAME
THE SWEET IN-BETWEEN
THE UNPOSSESSED CITY
THE VICTORIA VANISHES: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery
WHILE MY SISTER SLEEPS
YOUR HEART BELONGS TO MENONFICTION:
ALFRED & EMILY
AMERICAN LIGHTNING: Terror, Mystery, and the Birth of HollywoodHoward Blum
Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 9780307346957
THE ASCENT OF MONEY: A Financial History of the World
THE BITTER ROAD TO FREEDOM: The Human Cost of Allied Victory in World War II EuropeWilliam I. Hitchcock
Free Press
ISBN: 9781439123300
THE BREAKTHROUGH: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama 
FINDING BEAUTY IN A BROKEN WORLD
I AM AMERICA (AND SO CAN YOU!)
THE LONGEST TRIP HOME: A Memoir
NOTHING TO BE FRIGHTENED OF
SPELLBOUND BY BEAUTY: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading LadiesDonald Spoto
Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 9780307351319
STREET GANG: The Complete History of Sesame Street
SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the NorthThomas J. Sugrue
Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780812970388
SWEET MANDARIN: The Courageous True Story of Three Generations of Chinese Women and Their Journey from East to WestHelen Tse
St. Martin’s Griffin
ISBN: 9780312604813
THIN IS THE NEW HAPPY: A Memoir
TITANIC’S LAST SECRETS: The Further Adventures of Shadow Divers John Chatterton and Richie KohlerBrad Matsen
Twelve
ISBN: 9780446582049
WHY WE SUCK: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid Dr. Denis Leary
Plume
ISBN: 9780452295643
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