Prepub Alert
By Barbara Hoffert -- Library Journal, 2/15/2006
Fiction | Nonfiction
Deaver, Jeffery. The Cold Moon: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel. S. & S. Jun. 2006. 416p. ISBN 0-7432-6093-7. $26. Lincoln Rhyme is back, helped along by Amelia Sachs, who has her own case to solve even as she and Rhyme track a serial killer obsessed with clocks. With a 12-city tour. Evanovich, Janet. Twelve Sharp. St. Martin's. Jun. 2006. 320p. ISBN 0-312-34948-3 [ISBN 978-0-312-34948-6]. $26.95. Cassette/CD: Audio Renaissance. In her 12th outing, Stephanie Plum must contend with a female stalker and other crazies in Trenton, NJ. With a national tour.Giffin, Emily. Baby Proof. St. Martin's. Jun. 2006. 320p. ISBN 0-312-34864-9 [ISBN 978-0-312-34864-9]. $23.95. CD: Audio Renaissance. First comes love, then comes marriage, but Ben and Claudia always agreed they didn't want that baby carriage. What happens when Ben changes his mind? From the best-selling author of Something Borrowed.
Glass, Julia. The Whole World Over. Pantheon. Jun. 2006. 512p. ISBN 0-375-42274-9. $25.95; lrg. prnt. Random. ISBN 0-7393-2645-7. $27.95. CD: Random Audio. Back after winning the National Book Award for Three Junes in 2002, Glass recounts a complex familial tale featuring Greenwich Village pâtissière Greenie Duquette, who heads west with her young son—but not her husband—after New Mexico's governor taps her as his personal chef. Yes, her coconut cake was that good. With a 12-city tour. Green, Jane. Life Swap. Viking. Jun. 2006. 400p. ISBN 0-670-03480-0. $24.95. CD: Penguin Audio. To Vicky Townsley, the successful (and single) features editor of London-based Poise! magazine, Amber Winslow's settled life as a Connecticut wife and mom looks good—and vice versa. Then a contest in Poise! allows them to switch places. Green has had USA Today best sellers here and No. 1 best sellers in England.
Harris, Jane. The Observations. Viking. Jun. 2006. 400p. ISBN 0-670-03773-7. $24.95. Irish lass Bessy is puzzled when her new mistress, Arabella, asks her to keep a journal—and not a little alarmed when she realizes how obsessed Arabella is with deceased maid Nell. An award-winning British short story writer and filmmaker debuts as a novelist.Hillerman, Tony. The Shape Shifter. HarperCollins. Jun. 2006. 304p. ISBN 0-06-056345-1 [ISBN 978-0-06-056345-5]. $25.95; lrg. prnt. ISBN 0-06-111991-1. CD: HarperAudio. Never mind that Joe Leaphorn is retired and that Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito are honeymooning. They still get caught up in solving the longstanding theft of a valuable Navajo rug. With a one-day laydown.Kenyon, Sherrilyn. Dark Side of the Moon: A Dark-Hunter™ Novel. St. Martin's. Jun. 2006. 352p. ISBN 0-312-35743-5 [ISBN 978-0-312-35743-6]. $19.95. Disgraced reporter Susan Michaels tries to regain credibility by following up a tip about a serial killer that leads to the local animal shelter. The cat she adopts there turns out to be a hunky shapeshifter claiming to be an immortal vampire slayer. Not your average news story. With six million copies in print, the “Dark-Hunter” series finally goes hardcover. Lowell, Elizabeth. The Wrong Hostage. Morrow. Jun. 2006. 320p. ISBN 0-06-082981-8 [ISBN 978-0-06-082981-0]. $24.95; lrg. prnt. ISBN 0-06-112000-6. $24.95. CD: HarperAudio. Joe Faroe was a kidnap specialist until a friend died trying to kill him. But he agrees to help federal judge Cate Silva when her son falls into the wrong hands.McCullough, Colleen. On, Off. S. & S. Jun. 2006. 416p. ISBN 0-7432-8642-1. $25.95. Body parts keep showing up at a leading neurological research center, and without fancy techniques (it's 1965) Lt. Carmine Delmonico must use his smarts to track down the perpetrator. McMurtry, Larry. Telegraph Days. S. & S. Jun. 2006. 304p. ISBN 0-7432-5078-8. $25. CD: S. & S. Audio. A Western saga as told by Nellie Courtright, who starts out as a telegrapher and ends up romancing Buffalo Bill. McGovern, Cammie. Eye Contact. Viking. Jun. 2006. 320p. ISBN 0-670-03765-6. $24.95. The only person who can help solve a child's murder is the autistic classmate found sitting next to the body. There's authenticity here; debut novelist McGovern has an autistic child. Malmont, Paul. The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril. S. & S. Jun. 2006. 368p. ISBN 0-7432-8785-1. $24. Denizens of 1930s New York's White Horse Tavern go after a power-hungry bad guy. A much-touted debut (note the five-city tour) that celebrates the pulp genre. Naylor, Clare & Mimi Hare. The First Assistant. Viking. Jun. 2006. 320p. ISBN 0-670-03497-5. $23.95. Second Assistant Lizzie gets promoted. Oates, Joyce Carol writing as Lauren Kelly. Blood Mask: A Novel of Suspense. Ecco: HarperCollins. Jun. 2006. 240p. ISBN 0-06-111903-2 [ISBN 978-0-06-111903-3]. $26. Following the abduction of arts benefactress Drewe Hildebrand, cutting-edge bio-artists present a “blood mask” of her likeness at an exhibition—and all hell breaks lose. Payne, David. Back to Wando Passo. Morrow. Jun. 2006. 432p. ISBN 0-06-085189-9 [ISBN 978-0-06-085189-7]. $24.95. A washed-up rock musician, home to effect a reconciliation, unearths a voudou pot in the backyard that takes him deep into his family history. From a winner of the Houghton Literary Fellowship Award; with an eight-city tour.Rambaud, Patrick. Napoleon's Exile. Grove. Jun. 2006. 352p. ISBN 0-8021-1826-7 [ISBN 978-0-8021-1826-4]. $23. Rambaud wraps up a trilogy on Napoleon begun with The Battle and The Retreat.
Antrim, Donald. The Afterlife. Farrar. Jun. 2006. 176p. ISBN 0-374-29961-7 [ISBN 978-0-374-29961-3]. $20. Since the New Yorker pieces Antrim wrote about his family were subsequently anthologized in Best American Essays, this full-scale account of his relationship with his troubled and troublesome alcoholic mother should be good. Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. Houghton. Jun. 2006. 240p. ISBN 0-618-47794-2 [ISBN 978-0-618-47794-4]. $19.95. Bechdel offers a graphic memoir, if you will, about growing up with a remote dad who managed a funeral home (see the title) while hiding his homosexuality; the author herself came out as a teen. Bechdel's Dykes To Watch Out For comic strip is syndicated in 50 alternative publications. Dunn, Jancee. But Enough About Me.... HarperCollins. Jun. 2006. 304p. ISBN 0-06-084364-0 [ISBN 978-0-06-084364-9]. $24.95. Dunn's journey from suburban New Jersey to Rolling Stone.Faith, Nicholas. The Bronfmans: The Rise and Fall of the House of Seagram. Thomas Dunne Bks: St. Martin's. Jun. 2006. 352p. ISBN 0-312-33219-X [ISBN 978-0-312-33219-8]. $25.95. How a billion-dollar global liquor business got liquidated; from a former investment editor of the Economist.
Furstenberg, François. In the Name of the Father: George Washington, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation. Penguin Pr: Penguin Group (USA). Jun. 2006. 352p. ISBN 1-59420-092-0. $27.95. Making Americans a people after the Revolutionary War; from a University of Montreal historian. Galbraith, Peter W. The End of Iraq: How the United States Unintentionally Broke Up Iraq and Transformed the Middle East. S. & S. Jun. 2006. 384p. ISBN 0-7432-9423-8. $26. Kurds to the north, Shi'ites to the south, Sunnis in the middle: Iraq is now a shattered country, argues the man who woke the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to Hussein's campaign against the Kurds. With a six-city tour.Gardner, Chris with Quincy Troupe. The Pursuit of Happyness . Amistad: HarperCollins. Jun. 2006. 320p. ISBN 0-06-074486-3 [ISBN 978-0-06-074486-1]. $25.95; lrg. prnt. ISBN 0-06-112067-7. CD: HarperAudio. Abandoned by his father as a child, Gardner was laid off from a Wall Street job and ended up homeless. But he never abandoned his own son. Now he heads up a multi-million-dollar brokerage firm. Look for the film, starring Will Smith, in December 2006.Gilbert, Martin. Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction. HarperCollins. Jun. 2006. 176p. ISBN 0-06-057083-0 [ISBN 978-0-06-057083-5]. $21.95. A leading historian and biographer of Churchill revisits the night in November 1938 that presaged the Holocaust. Goodell, Jeff. Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future. Houghton. Jun. 2006. 320p. ISBN 0-618-31940-9 [ISBN 978-0-618-31940-4]. $25.95. The author of the best-selling Our Story, about nine miners caught underground, begs to differ with President Bush's assertion that coal is the way to go. Tragically relevant; with a six-city tour. Kahn, Roger. Into My Own. Thomas Dunne Bks: St. Martin's. Jun. 2006. 320p. ISBN 0-312-33813-9 [ISBN 978-0-312-33813-8]. $24.95. Recalling baseball and more, Kahn considers the people who touched him most, from Jackie Robinson to Robert Frost to a son lost at age 23.Laird, Thomas. The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama. Grove. Jun. 2006. 288p. ISBN 0-8021-1827-5 [ISBN 978-0-8021-1827-1]. $25. A journalist based in Kathmandu, Nepal, for 30 years, Laird discloses Tibet through unprecedented conversations with the Dalai Lama. With a ten-city tour.McPhee, John. Uncommon Carriers. Farrar. Jun. 2006. 176p. ISBN 0-374-28039-8 [ISBN 978-0-374-28039-0]. $24. McPhee sums up eight years of riding around with people who haul freight in vehicles ranging from 18-wheelers to towboats.Mnookin, Seth. Feeding the Monster: The True Story of the Making (and Unmaking) of the World Championship Boston Red Sox. S. & S. Jun. 2006. 320p. ISBN 0-7432-8681-2. $25. From Hard News to the hard-luck Red Sox and their final triumph.Ozick, Cynthia. The Din in the Head: Essays. Houghton. Jun. 2006. 256p. ISBN 0-618-47050-6 [ISBN 978-0-618-47050-1]. $24. Essays in praise of the novel, revisiting authors from Tolstoy to Sontag.Ridley, Matt. Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code. HarperCollins. Jun. 2006. 192p. ISBN 0-06-082333-X [ISBN 978-0-06-082333-7]. $19.95. An award-winning science writer adds to the “Eminent Lives” series.
