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November/December releases — Click on the cover for reviews.

• Any Given Doomsday by Lori Handeland (11/04/08)
• Divine Justice by David Baldacci (11/4/08)
• Esther’s Inheritance by Sandor Marai (11/4/08)
• The Fireman’s Wife by Jack Riggs (12/30/08)
• A Long Stone’s Throw by Alphie McCourt (11/4/08)
• The Magician’s Book by Laura Miller (12/3/08)
• A Mercy by Toni Morrison (11/11/08)
• The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling (12/6/08)
• Teaser by Jan Brogan (12/09/08)
• This One Is Mine by Maria Semple (12/4/08)
• Wake by Lisa McMann (12/23/08)
• Your Heart Belongs to Me by Dean Koontz (11/25/08)

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October releases — Click on the cover for reviews.

• Alpine Americas by Olaf Soot and Don Mellor (10/2008)
• The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly (10/14/08)
• Here’s the Story by Maureen Mccormick (10/14/08)
• Islands of Divine Music by John Addiego (10/28/08)
• Otherwise by Farley Mowat (10/28/08)
• Runaway Dolls by Ann M. Martin, Laura Godwin, and Brian Selznick (10/07/08)
• The Scent of Oranges by Joan Zawatzky (10/15/08)
  
• Scratch Beginnings by Adam W. Shepard (10/14/08)
• Songs for the Missing by Stewart O’Nan (10/30/08)
• The Tenth Case by Joseph Teller (10/01/08)
• Testimony by Anita Shreve (10/08)
• ‘Tis the Season by Lorna Landvik (10/28/08)
• Until We Reach Home by Lynn Austin (10/1/08)
• The Wild Sight by Loucinda McGary (10/1/08)

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September releases — Click on the cover for reviews.

• The 7th Victim by Alan Jacobson (9/23/08
• American Widow Alissa Torres and Sungyoon Choi (9/9/08)
• The Book of Murder by Guillermo Martinez (9/18/08)
• The Darker Side by Cody Mcfadyen (9/30/08)
• Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman (9/16/08)
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (9/2/08)
• An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken 9/10/08)
• Farworld, Book 1: Water Keep by J. Scott Savage (9/12/08)
• Getting the Girl by Susan Juby (9/30/08)
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (9/16/08)
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (9/30/08)
• The Great Karoo by Fred Stenson (9/9/08)
• Guernica by Dave Boling (9/2/08)
• The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran (9/16/08)
• The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent (9/3/08)
• Home by Marilynne Robinson (9/2/08)
• Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (9/14/08)
• Imaginary Friends by John Marco and Martin H. Greenberg (9/2/08)
• In Hovering Flight by Joyce Hinnefeld (9/16/08)
• The Keepsake by Tess Gerritsen (9/9/08)
• Letter to my Daughter by Maya Angelou (9/23/08)
• Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott (9/2/08)
• My Name Is Number 4 by Ting-xing Ye (9/2/08)
• Night Runner by Max Turner (9/9/08 in Canada)
• Pieces of My Heart by Robert Wagner (9/23/08)
• Red Dog Red Dog by Patrick Line (9/2008 in Canada)
• Regina’s Closet by Diana M. Raab (9/30/07)
• Resistance by Agnes Humbert (9/02/08)
• Ritual by Mo Hayder (9/15/08)
• The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue (9/22/08)
• The Servants by Michael Marshall Smith (9/9/08)
• The Shadow of Malabron by Thomas Wharton (8/4/08)
• The Shape of Mercy by Susan Meissner (9/16/08)
• Starclimber by Kenneth Oppel (9/2/08 in Canada)
• Sweetheart by Chelsea Cain (9/2/08)
• Too Close to Home by Linwood Barclay (9/30/08)
• Untamed by PC Cast and Kristin Cast (9/23/08)
• We Bought a Zoo by Benjamin Mee (9/9/08)
• When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson (9/24/08)
• Who by Fire by Diana Spechler (9/23/08)

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August releases — Click on the cover for reviews.

• The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff (8/5/08)
• The Bible Salesman by Clyde Edgerton (8/11/08)
• Bookweird by Paul Glennon (8/19/08)
• Devil Bones by Kathy Reichs (8/26/08)
• Exit Lines by Joan Barfoot (8/12/08)
• Faces of Fear by John Saul (8/12/08)
• First Daughter by Eric Van Lustbader (8/19/08)
• The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson (8/5/08)
• The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti (8/26/08)
• Jolted: Newton Starker’s Rules for Survival by Arthur Slade (8/11/08)
• Left to Die by Lisa Jackson (8/1/08)
• One More Year: Stories by Sana Krasikov (8/12/08)
• Rapunzel’s Revenge by Shannon and Dean Hale, and Nathan Hale (8/5/08)
• The Road Home by Rose Tremain (8/28/08)
• Sisters of Misery by Megan Kelley Hall (8/1/08)
• Sweetsmoke by David Fuller (8/26/08)
• Takeover by Lisa Black (8/5/08)
• The Tomato Girl by Jayne Pupek (8/26/08)
• When Twilight Burns by Colleen Gleason (8/5/08)
• The White Mary by Kira Salak (8/5/08)
• Wife in the North by Judith O’Reilly (8/4/08)

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July releases — Click on the cover for reviews.

• Aberrations by Penelope Przekop (7/1/08)
• Black Wave by John Silverwood and Jean Silverwood (7/1/08)
• Fisherman’s Bend by Linda Greenlaw (7/01/08)
• Fractured by Karin Slaughter (7/29/08)
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (7/29/08)
• House and Home by Kathleen Mccleary (7/1/08)
• The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry (7/29/08)
• The Likeness by Tana French (7/17/08)
• The Map Thief by Heather Terrell (7/29/08)
• Mosquito by Roma Tearne (7/29/08)
• Nightwalker by Jocelynn Drake (7/29/08)
• Say Goodbye by Lisa Gardner (7/15/08)
• The Seance by Iain Lawrence (7/8/08)
• So Long at the Fair by Christina Schwarz (7/8/08)
• Somebody Else’s Daughter by Elizabeth Brundage (7/3/08)
• Undiscovered Country by Lin Enger (7/3/08)
• Vampyres of Hollywood by Adrienne Barbeau and Michael Scott

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June releases — Click on the cover for reviews.

• America America by Ethan Canin (6/24/08)
• Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love by Lara Vapnyar (6/3/08)
• The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer (6/1/08)
• Gone by Michael Grant (6/24/08)
• The House at Midnight by Lucie Whitehouse (6/3/08)
• The Impostor by Damon Galgut (6/1/08)
• Island of Eternal Love by Daina Chaviano (6/12/08)
• Loose Girl by Kerry Cohen (6/3/08)
• The Loveliest Woman in America by Bibi Gaston (6/10/08)
• Made in the U.S.A. by Billie Letts (6/19/08)
• Mistress of the Sun by Sandra Gulland (6/3/08)
• Moving Forward: Taking the Lead in Your Life by Dave Pelzer (6/24/08)
• Mr. Fooster Traveling on a Whim by Tom Corwin and Craig Frazier (6/17/08)
• The Murder Notebook by Jonathan Santlofer (6/3/08)
• No One You Know by Michelle Richmond (6/24/08)
• Queen of the Road by Doreen Orion (6/3/08)
• The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (06/12/08)
• The Sister by Poppy Adams (6/17/08)
• Stealing Athena by Karen Essex (6/17/08)
• Summer Blowout by Claire Cook (6/3/08)
• This Charming Man by Marian Keyes (6/17/08)
• Vows of Silence by Susan Hill (6/17/08)
• The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton (6/17/08)

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May releases — Click on the cover for reviews.

• Apples and Oranges by Marie Brenner (5/13/08)
• The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein (5/13/08)
• Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen (5/27/08)
• Breath by Tim Winton (5/27/08)
• A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif (5/20/08)
• The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway (5/15/08)
• Comfort Food by Kate Jacobs (5/6/08)
• The Crossroads by Chris Grabenstein (5/27/08)
• The Diplomat’s Wife by Pam Jenoff (5/1/08)
• Evernight by Claudia Gray (5/27/08)
• The Eyes of a King by Catherine Banner (5/27/08)
• The Fisher Boy by Anable (5/10/08)
• The Host by Stephenie Meyer (5/6/08)
• Killing Rommel by Steven Pressfield (5/6/08)
• Madapple by Christina Meldrum (5/13/08)
• Netherland by Joseph O’Neill (5/20/08)
• Newton and the Time Machine by Michael McGowan (5/13/08)
• The Prince of Frogtown by Rick Bragg (5/6/08)
• The Prism Blade by Patricia Bow (5/19/08)
• The Safety of Secrets by Delaune Michel (5/27/08)
• Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian (5/6/08)
• The Space Between Before and After by Jean Reynolds Page (5/13/08)
• Stone Creek by Victoria Lustbader (5/27/08)

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April releases — Click on the cover for reviews.

• The Arthurian Omen by G. G. Vandagriff (4/2/08)
• Belly of the Whale by Linda Merlino (4/1/08)
• Belong to Me by Marisa De Los Santos (4/1/08)
• Bulls Island by Dorothea Benton Frank (4/8/08)
• Chloe Anne by Valerie Oblath (4/4/08)
• Daughters of the North by Sarah Hall (4/1/08)
• The End of East by Jen Sookfong Lee (4/29/08)
• The Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber (4/01/08)
• The Girl with No Shadow by Joanne Harris (4/1/08)
• Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go by Dale E. Basye and Bob Dob (4/28/09)
• The House at Riverton by Kate Morton (4/22/08)
• Janeology by Karen Harrington (4/1/08)
• Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay (3/3/08)
• Laughing without an Accent by Firoozeh Dumas (4/29/08)
• The Mayor’s Tongue by Nathaniel Rich (4/17/08)
• Months and Seasons by Christopher Meeks (4/7/08)
• My Beautiful Idol by Pete Gall
• Outlander by Gil Adamson (4/15/08)
• The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich (4/29/08)
• The Red Leather Diary by Lily Koppel (4/8/08)
• The Resurrectionist by Jack O’Connell (4/8/08)
• The Story of Forgetting by Stefan Merrill Block (4/1/08)
• The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer (4/29/08)
• Things I Want My Daughters to Know by Elizabeth Noble (4/8/08)
• The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale (4/15/08)
• Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (4/1/08)
• When Answers Aren’t Enough by Matt Rogers (4/1/08)
• The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (4/22/08)
• Winter Haven by Athol Dickson (4/1/08)

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March releases — Click on the cover for reviews.

• Another Thing to Fall by Laura Lippman (3/11/08)
• Barnacle Love by Anthony De Sa (3/18/08 in Canada)
• Black Ships by Jo Graham (3/10/08)
• Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult (3/4/08)
• Chosen by PC Cast and Kristin Cast (3/4/08)
• Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana by Anne Rice (3/4/08)
• Compulsion by Jonathan Kellerman (3/25/08)
• Dervishes by Beth Helms (3/4/08)
• Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart (3/25/08)
• Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell (3/11/08)
• Empress of Asia by Adam Lewis Schroeder (3/18/08)
• A Foreign Affair by Caro Peacock (3/25/08)
• The Girl in Saskatoon by Sharon Butala (3/30/08)
• Mudbound by Hillary Jordan (3/4/08)
• No One Heard Her Scream by Jordan Dane (3/25/08)
• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (3/25/08)
• Outcast by Sadie Jones (3/11/08)
• Procession of the Dead by D. B. Shan (3/3/08 in UK/Canada)
• The Ravine by Paul Quarrington (3/11/08)
• The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black (3/4/08)
• Sitting Practice by Caroline Adderson (3/11/08)
• Tarnished Beauty by Cecilia Samartin (3/18/08)
• The Translator by Daoud Hari (3/18/08)

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February releases — Click on the cover for reviews.

• Before Green Gables by Budge Wilson (2/21/08)
• The Bleeding Dusk by Colleen Gleason (2/5/08)
• Breathless in Bombay by Murzban F. Shroff (2/5/08)
• Breathing out the Ghost by Kirk Curnutt (2/20/08)
• Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah (2/5/08)
• A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz (2/12/08)
• Friend of the Devil by Peter Robinson (2/26/08)
• Have You Found Her by Janice Erlbaum (2/12/08)
• Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen by Susan Gregg Gilmore (2/12/08)
• Losing It by Valerie Bertinelli (2/25/08)
• The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff (2/5/08)
• Quirks and Quarks Guide to Space by Jim Lebans (2/19/08)
• Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella (2/26/08)
• Resistance by Owen Sheers (2/19/08)
• Ringside, 1925: Views from the Scopes Trial by Jen Bryant (2/12/08)
• The Secret Scroll by Ronald Cutler (2/1/08)
• The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes (2/5/08)
• Springtime on Mars by Susan Woodring (2/29/08)
• The Triumph of Deborah by Eva Etzioni-Halevy (2/26/08)
• Valentines by Ted Kooser (2/1/08)
• World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler (2/11/09)

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January releases — Click on the cover for reviews.

• Anatomy of a Deception by Lawrence Goldstone (1/29/08)
• Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis (1/29/08)
• Atomic Lobster by Tim Dorsey (1/22/08)
• Becky by Lenore Hart (1/8/08)
• Dear John by Norma L. Betz (1/26/08)
• Detective Story by Imre Kertesz (1/22/08)
• A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam (1/08/08)
• Keeper and Kid by Edward Hardy (1/08/08)
• Leftovers by Laura Wiess (1/1/08)
• Mermaids in the Basement by Michael Lee West (1/8/08)
• The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan (1/8/08)
• People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (1/1/08)
• River by Lowen Clausen (1/15/08)
• The Secret Between Us by Barbara Delinsky (1/22/08)
• Ships without a Shore: America’s Undernurtured Children by Anne Pierce (1/28/08)
• The Winter Rose by Jennifer Donnelly