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November 2009
A Touch Of Dead: Sookie Stackhouse: The Complete Stories
by Harris, Charlaine
Synopsis: A collection of the Sookie Stackhouse stories, starring Sookie, a telepathic waitress in Harris' Southern Vampire novels.
Copyright Date: 2009
American On Purpose: The Improbable Adventures Of An Unlikely Patriot
by Ferguson, Craig
Synopsis: In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson delivers a moving and achingly funny memoir of living the American dream as he journeys from the mean streets of Glasgow, Scotland, to the comedic promised land of Hollywood. Notes: Frequent strong language. Some Scottish spellings, idioms, and punctuation. Photo pages of captions at the end.
Copyright Date: 2009
An Echo In The Bone (Outlander #7)
by Gabaldon, Diana
Synopsis: Readers have been waiting with bated breath for the seventh volume in bestselling author Gabaldon's epic Outlander saga-- a masterpiece of historical fiction featuring Jamie and Claire, from one of the genre's most popular and beloved writers.
Copyright Date: 2009
Born Of Night (League Series #1)
by Kenyon, Sherrilyn
Synopsis: First published in 1996, Kenyon's League series has been out of print for years-- and fans have been clamoring its return. Now, the first book in her classic series has been completely re-written and is even bigger and better than before.
Copyright Date: 2009
Evidence
by Kellerman, Jonathan
Synopsis: In the half-built skeleton of a monstrously vulgar mansion in one of L.A.'s toniest neighborhoods, a watchman stumbles on the bodies of a young couple murdered in flagrante and left in a gruesome postmortem embrace.
Copyright Date: 2009
Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
by Walls, Jeannette
Synopsis: Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle was "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly). Now she brings us the story of her grandmother -- told in a voice so authentic and compelling that the book is destined to become an instant classic.
Copyright Date: 2009
Hardball
by Paretsky, Sara
Synopsis: Chicago politics-- past, present, and future-- take center stage in New York Times-bestselling author Sara Paretsky's brilliant new V. I. Warshawski novel.
Copyright Date: 2009
Have A Little Faith: A True Story
by Albom, Mitch
Synopsis: What if our beliefs were not what divided us, but what pulled us together?
Copyright Date: 2009
Her Fearful Symmetry
by Niffenegger, Audrey
Synopsis: When Elspeth Noblin dies of cancer, she leaves her London apartment to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina. These two American girls never met their English aunt, only knew that their mother, too, was a twin, and Elspeth her sister.
Copyright Date: 2009
High On Arrival
by Phillips, Mackenzie
Synopsis: This is the autobiography of a child star, and daughter of a musical legend. It is also the story of her lifelong battle with drugs.
Copyright Date: 2009
Hothouse Orchid (Holly Barker Series #5)
by Woods, Stuart
Synopsis: A brand-new page-turning Holly Barker novel from the perennially entertaining New York Times-bestselling author Stuart Woods.
Copyright Date: 2009
Juliet, Naked
by Hornby, Nick
Synopsis: The story revolves around three main characters - Annie, Duncan and Tucker. Annie and Duncan are an English couple living in a small seaside town, quickly hurtling towards middle age in a relationship that isn't keeping either particularly happy.
Copyright Date: 2009
Nine Dragons
by Connelly, Michael
Synopsis: LAPD Detective Harry Bosch is off the chain in the fastest, fiercest, and highest-stakes case of his life. Fortune Liquors is a small shop in a tough South L.A. neighborhood, a store Bosch has known for years.
Copyright Date: 2009
Razor Sharp (The Sisterhood, Book #14)
by Michaels, Fern
Synopsis: When it comes to repaying a debt, the women of the Sisterhood never forget. And now one of their allies needs the kind of help only they can give, in this 14th novel in the series by #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author Michaels.
Copyright Date: 2009
Rough Country (Virgil Flowers Series, #3)
by Sandford, John
Synopsis: Virgil Flowers has always been known for having a somewhat active, er, social life, but he's probably not going to be getting too many opportunities for that during his new case. While competing in a fishing tournament in a remote area of northern Minnesota, he gets a call from Lucas Davenport to investigate a murder at a nearby resort, where a woman has been shot while kayaking.
Copyright Date: 2009
Southern Lights
by Steel, Danielle
Synopsis: Danielle Steel sweeps us from a Manhattan courtroom to the Deep South in her powerful new novel at once a behind-closed-doors look into the heart of a family and a tale of crime and punishment.
Copyright Date: 2009
Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
by Dubner, Stephen J. and Levitt, Steven D.
Synopsis: The highly anticipated, explosive follow-up to the blockbuster "Freakonomics" offers another groundbreaking collaboration between Levitt and Dubner, an award-winning author and journalist.
Copyright Date: 2009
Tempt Me At Twilight (The Hathaways #3)
by Kleypas, Lisa
Synopsis: Poppy Hathaway finds her true love in a man she initially considers highly unlikely.
Copyright Date: 2009
That Holiday Feeling
by Macomber, Debbie and Woods, Sherryl and Carr, Robyn
Synopsis: Three Christmas stories: Silver Bells by Debbie Macomber, The Perfect Holiday by Sherryl Woods, and Under the Christmas Tree by Robyn Carr.
Copyright Date: 2009
The Case For God
by Armstrong, Karen
Synopsis: "The Case for God" explores the changing face of the world and the importance of religion at both the societal and individual level. It draws on the insights of the past in order to build a faith that speaks to the needs of our dangerously polarized age.
Copyright Date: 2009
The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence For Evolution
by Dawkins, Richard
Synopsis: In a brilliant follow-up to his blockbuster The God Delusion, Dawkins lays out the evidence for evolution.
Copyright Date: 2009
The Murder Of King Tut: The Plot To Kill The Child King - A Nonfiction Thriller
by Patterson, James and Dugard, Martin
Synopsis: A secret buried for centuries Thrust onto Egypt's most powerful throne at the age of nine, King Tut's reign was fiercely debated from the outset.
Copyright Date: 2009
The National Parks: An Illustrated History
by Duncan, Dayton and Burns, Ken
Synopsis: The companion volume to the new Ken Burns film: a magnificently illustrated history of the American National Park System. In a rich, deeply informative narrative, Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns examine how each new park was brought into the system.
Copyright Date: 2009
The Perfect Christmas
by Macomber, Debbie
Synopsis: What would make your Christmas perfect? For Cassie Beaumont, it's meeting her perfect match. Cassie, at thirty-three, wants a husband and kids, and so far, nothing's worked. Not blind dates, not the Internet and certainly not leaving love to chance.
Copyright Date: 2009
The Professional
by Parker, Robert B.
Synopsis: A knock on Spenser's office door can only mean one thing: a new case. This time the visitor is a local lawyer with an interesting story.
Copyright Date: 2009