THEFT:
A LOVE STORY
by Peter Carey

Two-time Booker Prize winner Peter Carey writes a dazzling send-up of the art world.

A SHORT HISTORY OF TRACTORS IN UKRANIAN
by Marina Lewycka

Explores the disastrous (but humourous) consequences that occur when an elderly widower marries an exploitive Ukrainian woman.

CITY OF TINY LIGHTS

A comic mystery that introduces an intriguing hero, Tommy Akhtar, a Ugandan-Indian London PI, whose résumé includes a stint with the mujahideen in Afghanistan.

AUTHOR, AUTHOR
by David Lodge

An imagined reconstruction of the life of Henry James and why he aspired to be a playwright.

TENDERWIRE
by Claire Kilroy

Narrator Eva Tyne becomes obsessed with a rare violin of dubious provenance in this psychological suspense who-dunnit.

THE STOLEN CHILD
by Keith Donohue

Seven year-old Henry Day runs away from home one sunny summer afternoon and into the nearby woods, falls asleep and wakes to the changeling world of European folklore.

BOOT TRACKS

A gritty noir about an ex-con just out of prison with one last job, that is bound to go wrong.

RAYMOND + HANNAH: A LOVE STORY
by Stephen Marche

A one-night stands turns into a long-distance relationship in this unnusual debut, which PW calls "a rare hybrid: the page-turner prose poem."

THE SHOE TESTER OF FRANKFORT
by William Genazino

The unnamed speaker has been working for seven years as a "shoe tester," a man who walks around Frankfort testing shoes, which gives him ample opportunity to muse about his life.

IT'S GETTING LATER ALL THE TIME
by Antonio Tabucchi

Letters from 17 different men to the women who have dominated their lives, revealingthe circumstances of each inevitable breakup

MOONLIGHT HOTEL
by Scott Anderson

Veteran war correspondent Anderson sets his second novel amidst the U.S. diplomatic community in a small fictional quasi-Arab backwater, circa 1983.

PEDRO PARAMO
by Juan Rulfo

Originally published in 1955, this masterpiece vividly portrays rural Mexico at the beginning of the 20th century. It is this novel that inspired Gabriel Garcia Marquez's use of magial realism in ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE.

LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Speaking of GGM; this novel is about love in difficult times, through social change and political change, through betrayal and bold declarations. It is witty and hilarious.

THE BROTHERS K
by David James Duncan

This is an epic story (a seemingly formidable but ultimately very satisfying 645 pages) told largely by the youngest son, Kincade, about a strange and exuberant household with two gods: fundamentalist Christianity and baseball.

WOLVES OF MEMORY
by Bill James
Reviewed by Mary Whipple

This long running British series features an unnusual cop duo -- Iles, a borderline psychotic Assistant Chief Constable and the sardonic Detective Chief Superintendent Harpur, who must control Iles and keep crime in check.

VANISHING POINT
by Marcia Muller
Reviewed by Chuck Barksdale

Sharon McCone takes on a cold case for a friend whose mother suddenly disappeared 22 years earlier and her body was never found.

PROOF POSITIVE
by Phillip Margolin

Amanda Jaffe, Oregon defense attorney, is defending a homeless man accused of murder, while her father, Frank, is representing a mobster on a similar charge. Although both men profess their innocence, the forensic evidence says otherwise.

BRETHREN
by Robyn Young

First in a triology about the epic adventures of the Knights Templar; historical fiction about knighthood, royalty and Christianity in the years before the Last Crusade.

THE ART OF DETECTION
by Laurie R. King

San Francisco cop Kate Martinelli investigates the death of a well expert on Sherlock Holmes and his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

THE BETRAYED
by David Hosp

Set in Washington, D.C. area, partners Detective Sergeant Darius Train and his partner Jack Cassian investigate the torture/murder of a 36-year old Washington Post reporter Elizabeth Creay.

BROKEN TRAIL
by Alan Geoffrian

Set in the west during the late 1800s. An old cowboy and his nephew buy 500 horses in eastern Oregon and drive them to Wyoming to sell for a tidy profit to agents of the British army.

A YELLOW RAFT IN BLUE WATER
by Michael Dorris

Cross-generational story OF three Native American women in Montana who must come to grips with the past. This was the author's first novel.

CLOUD CHAMBER
by Michael Dorris

Written ten years after A YELLOW RAFT IN BLUE WATER it covers the covers the five generation beginnig with Rose Mannion, an immigrant from Ireland, and ending with Rayona Taylor of the first. 

THE SKIRT MAN
by Shelly Reuben

In the small town of Killdeer, New York, a local hermit named Skirt Man is found burned to death in his living room. Some think it was spontaneous combustion.

THE GOD PARTICLE
by Richard Cox

A fast-paced plot that provides fascinating and easily understood explanations of the awesome questions being asked in physics. 

LITTLE BLUE WHALES
by Kenneth R. Lewis

Debut novel to feature Chief of Police Kevin Kearnes set on the Oregon coast. The author is writing from personal experience -- he is also the Chief of Police in Oregon