October 2009
October 2009
Tell Me Something True by Leila Cobo – Gabriella always loved the picture of her mother kneeling in front of a bed of roses, smiling, beautiful and impossibly happy. But then she learns that her late mother hated gardening; that she had never wanted the house in the Hollywood hills, the successful movie producer husband, and possibly, her only daughter. 
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk – “It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn’t know it.” So begins the new novel, his first since winning the Nobel Prize, from the universally acclaimed author of Snow and My Name Is Red.(October 2009)
The Double-Jack Murders by Patrick F. McManus – Sheriff Bo Tully is the kind of western lawman who’s as good with the ladies as he is with his guns, and he never lets a death threat get in the way of a good barbecue. He’s a man with a sense of humor, which comes in handy when trying to establish order in Blight County. (October 2009)
True Blue by David Baldacci- A mysterious high-profile homicide in the nation’s capital collides with the dark side of national security in David Baldacci’s new, heart-stopping thriller. (October 2009)
Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon – A shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, the true story of a fabulist, an entire life in parts and pieces, Manhood for Amateurs is the first sustained work of personal writing from Michael Chabon. (October 2009)Â
Hummingbirds by Joshua Gaylord – A sly, charming novel about the students at a Manhattan girls’ school and the adults who sometimes remember to teach them. (October 2009) 
Makers by Cory Doctorow – A sly, charming novel about the students at a Manhattan girls’ school and the adults who sometimes remember to teach them. (October 2009)
Box 21 by Anders Roslund and Borge Helstrum – The International Thriller that Stockholm City hailed as the Best Crime Novel of the Year has finally crossed the Atlantic! (October 2009)
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel - In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII’s court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king’s favor and ascend to the heights of political power. Cromwell is a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people and a demon of energy: he is also a consummate politician, hardened by his personal losses, implacable in his ambition. Man Booker Long List nomination. (October 2009)
Sunflowers by Sheramy Bundrick- A young prostitute seeking temporary refuge from the brothel, Rachel awakens in a beautiful garden in Arles to discover she is being sketched by a red-haired man in a yellow straw hat. This is no ordinary artist but the eccentric painter Vincent van Gogh—and their meeting marks the beginning of a remarkable relationship. He arrives at their first assignation at No. 1, Rue du Bout d’Arles, with a bouquet of wildflowers and a request to paint her—and before long, a deep, intense attachment grows between Rachel and the gifted, tormented soul. (October 2009)
Family Album by Penelope Lively – All Alison ever wanted was a blissful childhood for her six children, with summers at the beach and birthday parties on the lawn at their family home. Together with Ingrid, the family au pair, she has worked hard to create a real “old-fashioned family life.” But beneath its postcard sheen, the picture is clouded…(October 2009)
The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt – From the Booker Prize–winning author of Possession, a dazzling new novel that spans the years from the Victorian era through World War I and centers around a famous children’s book author and the passions, betrayals, and secrets that tear apart the people she loves. Man Booker Long List nomination (October 2009)
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving -In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County–to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto–pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. In a story spanning five decades, it depicts the recent half-century in the United States as “a living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course.” (October 2009)
Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel by Jeanette Walls – A magnificent, true-life novel based on the author’s no-nonsense, resourceful, hard working, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier town — riding five hundred miles on her pony, all alone, to get to her job.
War Dances by Sherman Alexie – Fresh off his National Book Award win, Alexie delivers a heartbreaking, hilarious collection of stories that explores the precarious balance between self-preservation and external responsibility in art, family, and the world at large. (October 2009)
Crossers by Philip Caputo – A blistering new novel about the brutality and beauty of life on the Arizona-Mexico border and about the unyielding power of the past to shape our lives. (October 2009) 
Lying with the Dead by Michael Mewshaw – In this novel, Greek tragedy meets a dysfunctional family from Maryland, revealing how time and place matter little when it comes to the implacable logic of the darkest human emotions. The family matriarch–half Medea, half Clytemnestra–calls home her three children, who take turns narrating this story, for a final, bedside reunion. (October 2009)
The Gate by John Connolly – Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund, Boswell, are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Halloween, which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Road… (October 2009)
Invisible by Paul Auster – Three different narrators tell the story of Invisible, a novel that travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from Morningside Heights, to the Left Bank of Paris, to a remote island in the Caribbean. It is a book of youthful rage, unbridled sexual hunger, and a relentless quest for justice. With uncompromising insight, Auster takes us into the shadowy borderland between truth and memory, between authorship and identity, to produce a work of unforgettable power. (October 2009)Â
Locked In by Marcia Muller – Shot in the head by an unknown assailant, San Francisco private eye Sharon McCone finds herself trapped by locked-in syndrome: almost total paralysis but an alert, conscious mind. (October 2009)
The Professional by Robert B. Parker The 37th Spenser novel… (October 2009)
Evidence of Murder by Lisa Black – Forensic investigator Theresa MacLean takes on the worst kind of murder case—one without clues—in this second novel in a hot new series(September 2009)
The Vintage Caper by Peter Mayle – (October 2009)
Midnight Fugue by Reginald Hill – Four stories, two mismatched detectives trying to figure it all out, and twenty-four hours in which to do it: Dalziel and Pascoe are about to learn the hard way just how much difference a day makes. (October 2009)
Death Messages by Mark Billingham – Delivering the “death message.” That’s what cops call those harrowing moments when they must tell someone that a loved one has been killed. Now Detective Investigator Tom Thorne is receiving messages of his own: photographs of murder victims sent to his cell phone. (October 2009)
David’s Revenge by Hans Werner Kettenbach - When David Ninochvili arrives from war-torn Georgia, the peaceful existence of a schoolteacher’s family in Germany comes to an abrupt end. Christian Kestner has all but forgotten his stay in Tbilisi seven years before under Soviet rule, but when he receives a letter from David announcing his visit, he begins to worry. Why is David coming? To seek revenge for a relationship that Christian had with his wife? To conspire with one of the different factions now vying for the control of Georgia? Christian becomes intensely suspicious of David’s secretive ways, jealous of the Georgian’s attraction to his wife, and even resentful of his relationship with his teenage son. Fear turns into panic, a feeling so corrosive that it almost transforms this most rational individual into a monster.
Spoon by William Greer – A novel of the contemporary American West, Spoon tells the story of Arcus Witherspoon, a mysterious half-black, half-Indian, oddly clairvoyant man searching the West for his roots. (October 2009)
What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell – (October 2009)
The Villa Golitsyn by Piers Paul Read – (October 2009)
Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly – Harry Bosch is assigned a homicide call in South L.A. that takes him to Fortune Liquors, where the Chinese owner has been shot to death behind the counter in an apparent robbery. Joined by members of the department’s Asian Crime Unit, Bosch relentlessly investigates the killing and soon identifies a suspect, a Los Angeles member of a Hong Kong triad. But before Harry can close in, he gets the word that his young daughter Maddie, who lives in Hong Kong with her mother, is missing. (October 2009)
Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett (October 2009)
Matchless: A Christmas Story by Gregory Maguire – The beloved author of Wicked reimagines Hans Christian Andersen’s classic story “The Little Match Girl” for modern readers in this charming, beautifully illustrated gift book. (October 2009)
The Monster in the Box by Ruth Rendell – A new Inspector Wexford novel. (October 2009)
The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam – (October 2008)
Second Line: Two Short Novels of Love and Cooking in New Orleans by Poppy Z. Brite (October 2009)
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan – (October 2009)
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