April 2009
April 2009
The Maple Stories by John Updike – (April 2009) 
The Last Secret by Mary McGarry Morris – A tautly told tale of psychological tension and chilling moral complexity. (April 2009) 
Laura Rider’s Masterpiece by Jane Hamilton – (April 2009)
Yes, My Darling Daughter by Margaret Leroy - Every once in a blue moon, a masterful writer dives into Gothic waters and emerges with a novel that—like Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw, or, more recently, Patrick McGrath’s Asylum—simultaneously celebrates and transcends the genre. Welcome Margaret Leroy to the clan. Haunted and haunting, Yes, My Darling Daughter is a wonderfully original, deliciously suspenseful mystery. Impossible though it may seem, Grace has to face the fact that her daughter may be remembering a past life. And not only that: the danger haunting Sylvie from her past life is still very much a threat to her in this one. (April 2009)
Love Stories in This Town by Amanda Eyre Ward – a stunning collection of twelve stories about love in all its complexity, absurdity, and glory. From San Francisco to Savannah, Texas to Montana, Ward’s characters are united in their fervent search for a place where they truly belong. (April 2009)
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley -In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. (April 2009)
Everything Asian by Sung J. Woo – You’re twelve years old. A month has passed since your Korean Air flight landed at lovely Newark Airport. Your fifteen-year-old sister is miserable. Your mother isn’t exactly happy, either. You’re seeing your father for the first time in five years, and although he’s nice enough, he might be, well–how can you put this delicately?–a loser. Welcome to the wonderful world of David Kim. (April 2009)
The Song is You by Arthur Phillips – Julian Donahue is in love with his iPod. Each song that shuffles through triggers a memory. There are songs for the girls from when he was single; there’s the one for the day he met his wife-to-be, and another for the day his son was born. But when his family falls apart, even music loses its hold on him, and he has nothing. Until one snowy night in Brooklyn, when his life’s soundtrack–and life itself–starts to play again. (April 2009)
Fifty Grand by Adrian McGinty – This knockout punch of a thriller from a critically acclaimed author follows a young Cuban detective’s quest for vengeance against her father’s killer in a Colorado mountain town. (April 2009)
Triple Cross by Mark T. Sullivan – “TRIPLE CROSS is a smart, prescient thriller that makes one wonder why the bottom really dropped out of the stock market. The story snaps and twists like a cracking whip, you can’t help but root for Mickey Hennessey and his kids, and I defy you to guess the ending. Mark T. Sullivan has written a super-charged bestseller and surefire motion picture!”–Robert Crais (April 2009)
Italian Shoes by Henning Mankell – Living on a tiny island entirely surrounded by ice during the long winter months, Fredrik Welin is so lost to the world that he cuts a hole in the ice every morning and lowers himself into the freezing water to remind himself that he is alive. Haunted by memories of the terrible mistake that drove him to this island and away from a successful career as a surgeon, he lives in a stasis so complete an anthill grows undisturbed in his living room. When an unexpected visitor alters his life completely, thus begins an eccentric, elegiac journey–one that shows Mankell at the very height of his powers as a novelist. (April 2009)
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead – The warm, funny, and supremely original new novel from one of the most acclaimed writers in America. (April 2009)
Rhyming Life and Death by Amos Oz – An ingenious, witty, behind-the-scenes novel about eight hours in the life of an author. (April 2009) 
Secret Son by Laila Lalami – Youssef el-Mekki, a young man of nineteen, is living with his mother in the slums of Casablanca when he discovers that the father he believed to be dead is, in fact, alive and eager to befriend and support him. Â (April 2009)
Follow Me by Joanna Scott – On a summer day in 1946 Sally Werner, the precocious young daughter of hardscrabble Pennsylvania farmers, secretly accepts her cousin’s invitation to ride his new motorcycle. Like so much of what follows in Sally’s life, it’s an impulsive decision with dramatic and far-reaching consequences. Soon she abandons her home to begin a daring journey of self-creation, the truth of which she entrusts only with her granddaughter and namesake, six decades later. But when young Sally’s father–a man she has never known–enters her life and offers another story altogether, she must uncover the truth of her grandmother’s secret history. (April 2009)
Admission by Jean Hanff Korelitz – (April 2009)
No Such Creature by Giles Blunt – Eight years ago, Owen Maxwell was saved from a foster home by the arrival of his uncle Max from England. Once a promising Shakespearean actor, Magnus “Max” Maxwell has since put his dramatic skills to new use: a master of disguise, a virtuoso of foreign dialects, and a performer to his core, he has become an extremely successful gentleman thief. Every summer, Max and Owen take a road trip across the United States, pulling off elaborate robberies along the way. But this year is different. (April 2009)
Look Again by Lisa Scottoline – When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a “Have You Seen This Child?” flyer in the mail, she almost throws it away. But something about it makes her look again, and her heart stops—the child in the photo is identical to her adopted son, Will.  (April 2009)
Wrongful Death by Robert Dugoni – Just minutes after winning a $1.6 million wrongful-death verdict, attorney David Sloane confronts the one case that threatens to blemish his unbeaten record in the courtroom. Beverly Ford wants Sloane to sue the United States government and military in the mysterious death of her husband, James, a national guardsman killed in Iraq. (April 2009)
A World I Never Made by James LePore – Pat Nolan, an American man, is summoned to Paris to claim the body of his estranged daughter Megan, who has committed suicide. The body, however, is not Megan’s and it becomes instantly clear to Pat that Megan staged this, that she is in serious trouble, and that she is calling to him for help. (April 2009)
Loitering With Intent by Stuart Woods – A new Stone Barrington novel (April 2009)
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith – The tenth installment of this universally beloved and best-selling series finds Precious Ramotswe in personal need of her own formidable detection talents. (April 2009)
Fatally Flaky by Diane Mott Davidson (April 2009)
Liars Anonymous by Louise Ure – (April 2009)
The 8th Confession by James Patterson - Latest Women’s Murder Club book. (April 2009)
First Family by David Baldacci – Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, back from their harrowing and near-fatal adventure in the blockbuster #1 bestseller Simple Genius, return in a mesmerizing new thriller. (April 2009)
Nobody Move by Denis Johnson - A provocative thriller set in the American West. Nobody Move, which first appeared in the pages of Playboy, is the story of an assortment of lowlifes in Bakersfield, California, and their cat-and-mouse game over $2.3 million. Touched by echoes of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, Nobody Move is at once an homage to and a variation on literary form. (April 2009)
The Language of Bees by Laurie R. King – In a case that will push their relationship to the breaking point, Mary Russell must help reverse the greatest failure of her legendary husband’s (Sherlock Holmes) storied past—a painful and personal defeat that still has the power to sting…this time fatally. (April 2009)
The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert V.S. Redick – Scant years after a terrible war that shook empires, a six-hundred-year-old ship sets sail for enemy lands in an attempt to forge an enduring peace between the world’s two greatest monarchies. A vast city afloat, the ancient vessel bears a royal bride-to-be; a stowaway tribe of foothigh warriors; an honest young tarboy with a heritage of treason; a rat with a magical secret; and a dark conspiracy centered around the Red Wolf, a legendary and dangerous artifact. (April 2009)
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