Prepub Alert
By Barbara Hoffert -- Library Journal, 3/1/2007
Fiction | Nonfiction
Fiction
Adair, Cherry. White Heat. Ballantine. Jul. 2007. 352p. ISBN 0-345-47644-1 [ISBN 978-0-345-47644-9]. $21.95.Emily Greene is upset enough when her mentor dies. Then she discovers that he may have been murdered. Another in the author’s successful series about the private antiterrorist organization T-FLAC.Agee, Jonis. The River Wife. Random. Jul. 2007. 400p. ISBN 1-4000-6596-8 [ISBN 978-1-4000-6596-7]. $24.95.
In the early 1900s, when Hedie Rails arrives at Jacques’ Landing, MS, to marry Clement Dumarche, she discovers diaries harkening back to the early 1800s that reveal the complex life and loves of Clement’s grandfather, a frontier river pirate. With an eight-city tour.Burke, Alafair. Dead Connection. Holt. Jul. 2007. 336p. ISBN 0-8050-7785-5 [ISBN 978-0-8050-7785-8]. $19.95.
Investigating a serial killer who seems to be targeting young women connected with the online dating service First Date, Det. Ellie Hatcher isn’t happy when the killer starts acting just like the murderous nut her policeman dad lost his life pursuing. With a ten-city tour. Carter, Stephen L. New England White. Knopf. Jul. 2007. 560p. ISBN 0-375-41362-6 [ISBN 978-0-375-41362-9]. $26.95. CD: Random Audio.
Murder splits apart a staid New England university town, where university president Lemaster Carlyle and his wife, dean of the divinity school, are African Americans in a sea of white folk. With a 14-city tour and a reading group guide.Christopher, Nicholas. The Bestiary. Dial. Jul. 2007. 320p. ISBN 0-385-33736-1 [ISBN 978-0-385-33736-6]. $25.
Xeno loved animals as a kid, so perhaps it’s not surprising that as an adult he becomes determined to track down a lost medieval text about animals that never made it onto Noah’s Ark. From the esteemed author of novels like A Trip to the Stars.Karasyov, Carrie. The Infidelity Pact. Broadway. Jul. 2007. 304p. ISBN 0-7679-2690-0 [ISBN 978-0-7679-2690-4]. $22.95.
When four well-to-do L.A. housewives decide that they will all commit adultery and then compare notes, they encounter a lot more than naughty sex. With a four-city tour.O’Brian, Patrick. The Road to Samarcand. Norton. Jul. 2007. 256p. ISBN 978-0-393-06473-5. $25.95.
First published in 1954, O’Brian’s tale of an orphaned American teenager chasing down a mysterious treasure in Central Asia gets a sparkling new edition. Pearson, Ridley. Killer Weekend. Putnam. Jul. 2007. 304p. ISBN 0-399-15407-8 [ISBN 978-0-399-15407-2]. $24.95. CD: Putnam Audio.
Poor Walt Fleming. As county sheriff, he’s sweating over the death threat Attorney General Elizabeth Shaler receives after landing in Sun Valley to announce her presidential candidacy. With a national tour.Rice, Luanne. What Matters Most. Bantam. Jul. 2007. 400p. ISBN 0-553-80533-9 [ISBN 978-0-553-80533-8] . $24; lrg. prnt. $26.95. CD: Random Audio.
Never mind that Bernadette Sullivan and Tom Kelly, first seen in last year’s Sandcastles,are passionately in love. Bernadette has followed the call and withdrawn to a cloister. Then the two are compelled to seek out the son they gave up for adoption. Roberts, Nora. High Noon. Putnam. Jul. 2007. 448p. ISBN 0-399-15434-5 [ISBN 978-0-399-15434-8]. $26.95.
Phoebe MacNamara is the top hostage negotiator on the Savannah police force, but she has yet to deal with the guy who assaulted her at her precinct house and is now leaving nasty notes at her door. Literary Guild® and Doubleday Book Club® main selections.Saul, John. The Devil’s Labyrinth. Ballantine. Jul. 2007. 368p. ISBN 0-345-48703-6 [ISBN 978-0-345-48703-2]. $25.95.
Troubled by the loss of his father, teenaged Ryan is supposed to get help by switching to St. Ignatius Catholic School. But what could be less helpful than a charismatic priest, famed as an exorcist, who seems to have dark intentions of his own? See, Lisa. Peony and the Interrupted Dream. Random. Jul. 2007. 272p. ISBN 1-4000-6466-X [ISBN 978-1-4000-6466-3]. $23.95.
The sheltered daughter of a scholar in 17th-century China, Peony so loves the opera The Peony Pavilion that when she dies, she returns as a ghost to pursue her interest. She also manages to insinuate herself into her former fiancé’s new marriage. With a 15-city tour.Silva, Daniel. The Secret Servant. Putnam. Jul. 2007. 352p. ISBN 0-399-15422-1 [ISBN 978-0-399-15422-5]. $25.95.
Silva stalwart Gabriel Allon is back, investigating the murder of terrorism analyst Ephraim Rosner by a Muslim immigrant in Amsterdam. The plot thickens with the kidnapping of the U.S. ambassador’s daughter in London. With a three-week tour.Steel, Danielle. Bungalow 2. Delacorte. Jul. 2007. 352p. ISBN 0-385-33831-7 [ISBN 978-0-385-33831-8]. $27; lrg. prnt. $29.95. CD: Random Audio.
Tanya Harris is thrilled to be ensconced in Bungalow 2, writing a screenplay as hotshot actors and a famed producer swirl about. But what does this mean for the husband and daughters she has left behind?Tropper, Jonathan. How To Talk to a Widower. Delacorte. Jul. 2007. 352p. ISBN 0-385-33890-2 [ISBN 978-0-385-33890-5]. $20.
Not yet 30 and already a widower, Doug Parker must contend with a demanding twin sister who wants him to start dating and a stepson who would rather live with Doug than his own dad. With a reading group guide; optioned by Paramount Pictures.Twelve Hawks, John. The Dark River. Doubleday. Jul. 2007. 400p. ISBN 0-385-51429-3 [ISBN 978-0-385-51429-3]. $24.95.
Back from a trip to the best sellers lists, the eponymous hero of The Traveler returns to hunt for his missing father worldwide with the help of the Harlequin Maya. Second in the “Fourth Realm Trilogy,” which boasts rights sales in 27 countries.Young, Robin. Crusade. Dutton. Jul. 2007. 480p. ISBN 978-0-525-95016-5. $25.95.
Young follows up her high-profile debut, Brethren, with this continuation of a trilogy about conflict in the Middle East nearly eight centuries ago. Even as the Brethren struggle to keep the peace, another Crusade threatens.
Nonfiction
Abbott, Karen. Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America’s Soul. Random. Jul. 2007. 256p. ISBN 1-4000-6530-5 [ISBN 978-1-4000-6530-1]. $24.95.
An early 1900s Chicago brothel called the Everleigh Club was so high-toned (gourmet meals, discussions of Longfellow) that rival brothels plotted against it. Then Progressives made everyone afraid of “white slavery.” The publisher suspects that this may be a sleeper hit.Brown, Sylvia. Psychic Children. Dutton. Jul. 2007. 304p. ISBN 978-0-525-95013-4. $25.95.
The best-selling author ponders the psychic abilities of children.Ferrari-Adler, Jenni. Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone. Riverhead: Putnam. Jul. 2007. 272p. ISBN 1-59448-947-5 [ISBN 978-1-59448-947-1]. $22.95.
Ferrari-Adler takes time off from writing the short stories she’s been publishing to compile reflections on what’s fun about eating alone. With authors as varied as M.F.K. Fisher, Laurie Colwin, and Haruki Murakami.Katz, Jon. Dog Days: Dispatches from Bedlam Farm. Villard. Jun. 2007. 256p. ISBN 1-4000-6404-X [ISBN 978-1-4000-6404-5]. $23.95.
Katz adds to the five big books he’s already written about dogs and the rural life. Kerasote, Ted. Merle’s Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog. Harcourt. Jul. 2007. 320p. ISBN 0-15-101270-9 [ISBN 978-0-15-101270-1]. $25. CD: Harcourt Audio.
Lessons that Marleynever taught you. A Lab mix, subsequently named Merle, was living wild when he encountered National Outdoor Book Award winner Kerasote and elected to come home with him. But Merle runs off whenever he wants through a door Kerasote kindly built.Queen, William & Douglas Century. Armed and Dangerous: The Hunt for One of America’s Most Wanted. Random. Jul. 2007. 256p. ISBN 1-4000-6577-1 [ISBN 978-1-4000-6577-6]. $24.95.
The author of the best-selling Under and Alonerecalls life as a rookie ATF bureau agent, when he was called upon to challenge a crazed drug dealer in the San Bernardino mountains.Roiphe, Katie. Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Marriages 1910–1939. Dial. Jun. 2007. 336p. ISBN 0-385-33937-2 [ISBN 978-0-385-33937-7]. $26.
Roiphe returns to early 1900s England to investigate marriage partners, e.g., Vanessa and Clive Bell, who didn’t stick to convention.Spector, Ronald H. In the Ruins of Empire: The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia. Random. Jul. 2007. 320p. ISBN 0-375-50915-1 [ISBN 978-0-375-50915-5]. $26.95.
The battles fought all over postwar Asia, as recounted by a historian whose last three books have been History Book Club main selections.Sun Shuyun. The Long March: The True History of China’s Founding Myth. Doubleday. Jun. 2007. 320p. ISBN 0-385-52024-7 [ISBN 978-0-385-52024-9]. $26.
As Beijing-born Sun knows, the Long March is revered in China, but here she reveals stories of disease, desertion, and brutality during the march and persecution of some marchers afterward.Tabor, James M. Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of the Most Tragic, Mysterious, and Controversial Disasters in Mountaineering History. Norton. Jul. 2007. 400p. ISBN 978-0-393-06174-1. $26.95.
In July 1967, seven young men attempting to scale towering Mt. McKinley stumbled into an Arctic storm 20,000 feet up and were never seen again. A former Outside contributing editor reports. Wallis, Michael & Michael S. Williamson. The Lincoln Highway: Coast to Coast Along Route 30 from Times Square to the Golden Gate. Norton. Jul. 2007. 320p. ISBN 978-0-393-05938-0. $39.95.
Begun in 1913, the 3,389-mile Lincoln Highway stretches over 13 states. The road trip celebrating this work by Route 66 author Wallis and prize-winning photographer Williamson will take in all 13 states, with car rallies, dances, and more.
