Prepub Alert

By Barbara Hoffert -- Library Journal, 3/15/2007

Fiction | Nonfiction

Fiction

Addonizio, Kim. My Dreams Out in the Street. S. & S. Jul. 2007. 256p. ISBN 0-7432-9772-5 [ISBN 978-0-7432-9772-1]. $23.
A National Book Award finalist for poetry, Addonizio returns with her second novel (following Little Beauties), which concerns a homeless woman who thinks marriage will heal her life.

Bradbury, Ray. Now and Forever: Somewhere a Band Is Playing and Leviathan ’99. Morrow. Jul. 2007. 208p. ISBN 0-06-113156-3 [ISBN 978-0-06-113156-1]. $24.95. lrg. prnt.
Two novellas, the first started long ago and meant as a gift for Katharine Hepburn and the second sf wizard Bradbury’s take on Moby-Dick.

Brinkman, Kiara. Up High in the Trees. Grove. Jul. 2007. 240p. ISBN 0-8021-1847-X [ISBN 978-0-8021-1847-9]. $23.
This first novel from an up-and-coming author who’s made a name for herself in venues like McSweeney’s features a child so close to the mother he has just lost that he begins reliving her life. Reading group guide.

Bujold, Lois McMaster. The Sharing Knife: Legacy. Eos: HarperCollins. Jul. 2007. 384p. ISBN 0-06-113905-X [ISBN 978-0-06-113905-5]. $25.95.
In this follow-up to The Sharing Knife: Beguilement, Lakewalkers and farmers effect an uneasy reconciliation as Dag, the Lakewalker soldier who married farmer girl Fawn, confronts a terrible evil. With a five-city tour.

Burke, James Lee. Jesus Out to Sea & Other Stories. S. & S. Jul. 2007. 256p. ISBN 1-4165-4856-4 [ISBN 978-1-4165-4856-0]. pap. $14.
Burke, James Lee. The Tin Roof Blowdown: A Dave Robicheaux Novel. S. & S. Jul. 2007. 352p. ISBN 1-4165-4848-3 [ISBN 978-1-4165-4848-5]. $26.
A doubleheader from Burke, with the devastation wrought by Katrina as backdrop. The first is a paperback original featuring ten stories and the second brings back Burke stalwart Dave Robicheaux.

Cabot, Meg. Queen of Babble in the Big City. Morrow. Jul. 2007. 288p. ISBN 0-06-085200-3 [ISBN 978-0-06-085200-9]. $22.95.
The Princess Diaries princess offers an adult novel featuring overeager Lizzie, a New York City newcomer who can’t get her boyfriend to commit but ends up paying the bills by becoming a marriage mediator.

Carey, Mike. The Devil You Know. Warner. Jul. 2007. 416p. ISBN 0-446-58030-9 [ISBN 978-0-446-58030-4]. $24.99.
Comic book writer Carey enters the fiction fold with the story of freelance exorcist Felix Castor, whose latest assignment is proving pretty devilish. With a ten-city tour.

Cumming, Charles. A Spy by Nature. St. Martin’s. Jul. 2007. 320p. ISBN 978-0-312-36635-3. $24.95.
A London School of Economics grad who once trained for M16, Alec Milius has a spiffy job with a British oil firm that leads to some very sticky industrial espionage. A best-selling debut in England.

Dean, Zoey. How To Teach Filthy Rich Girls. Warner. Jul. 2007. 304p. ISBN 0-446-57901-7 [ISBN 978-0-446-57901-8]. $19.99. CD: Hachette Audio.
Having triumphed with her A-list teen series, Dean takes a chance at adult fiction with the story of two filthy rich teens whose grandmother will disinherit them—unless brainy but broke Megan Simms can get them into Duke.

DeAngelis, Camille. Mary Modern. Shaye Areheart Bks: Crown. Jul. 2007. 352p. ISBN 0-307-35258-7 [ISBN 978-0-307-35258-3]. $24.
Frustrated young genetic researcher Lucy can’t get her career or her plans for motherhood in gear, so she clones her own grandmother from a bit of bloodied apron in the attic. A much-touted debut; reading group guide.

Deveraux, Jude. Someone To Love. Atria: S. & S. Jul. 2007. 352p. ISBN 0-7432-3716-0 [ISBN 978-0-7432-3716-5]. $25.95.
Devastated by his fiancée’s suicide, Jace finds a clipping she left behind that directs him to a mansion called Priory House—and a stirred-up ghost that might be able to explain everything.

Drucker, Eugene. The Savior. S. & S. Jul. 2007. 224p. ISBN 1-4165-4329-5 [ISBN 978-1-4165-4329-9]. $23.
A member of the ineffable Emerson String Quartet, Drucker debuts with the story of a young German violinist compelled to perform for concentration camp inmates and the dangerous power he discovers to manipulate others. With a three-city tour.

Fforde, Jasper. Thursday Next. Viking. Jul. 2007. 400p. ISBN 0-670-03871-7 [ISBN 978-0-670-03871-8]. $24.95.
Both Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple have been killed, and now Thursday gets a death threat aimed at ending her series. With a ten-city tour; reading group guide.

Grossman, Austin. Soon I Will Be Invincible. Pantheon. Jun. 2007. 272p. ISBN 0-375-42486-5 [ISBN 978-0-375-42486-1]. $22.95.
Mad scientist Doctor Impossible has broken out of prison, and skin-and-chrome woman Fatale gets to join the superheroes intent on recapturing him. If you think this sounds like a breakout first novel from a video game designer, you’re right. With a six-city tour.

Hurwitz, Greg. The Crime Writer. Viking. Jul. 2007. 320p. ISBN 978-0-670-06321-5. $24.95.
After he’s found bloodied and unconscious on top of his fiancée’s corpse, crime novelist Drew Danner must figure out whether he really did kill her. With a five-city tour.

Maupin, Armistead. Michael Tolliver Lives. HarperCollins. Jul. 2007. 304p. ISBN 0-06-076135-0 [ISBN 978-0-06-076135-6]. $25.95. lrg. prnt. CD: HarperAudio.
Maupin revisits his beloved Michael Tolliver, now 55 and still looking for love in San Francisco. With an eight-city tour.

Patterson, James & Michael Ledwidge. The Quickie. Little, Brown. Jul. 2007. 400p. ISBN 0-316-11736-6 [ISBN 978-0-316-11736-4]. $27.99; lrg. prnt. $29.99. Cassette/CD: Hachette Audio.
More than her marriage is at stake when NYPD cop Lauren Stillwell’s plans to get even with her cheatin’ spouse go dangerously awry.

Penney, Stef. The Tenderness of Wolves. S. & S. Jul. 2007. 352p. ISBN 1-4165-4074-1 [ISBN 978-1-4165-4074-8]. $25.
Just proclaimed winner of this year’s Costa Book of the Year award, once the Whitbread Prize, this debut tracks a teenager’s disappearance in 19th-century Canada’s snowy north after murder has been committed in his settlement.

Quick, Barbara. Vivaldi’s Virgins. HarperCollins. Jul. 2007. 304p. ISBN 0-06-089052-5 [ISBN 978-0-06-089052-0]. $24.95.
Young musician Anna Maria dal Violin enthralls her foundling home’s maestro, who just happens to be famed composer Antonio Vivaldi. Reading group guide.

Rendell, Ruth. The Water’s Lovely. Crown. Jul. 2007. 352p. ISBN 0-307-38136-6 [ISBN 978-0-307-38136-1]. $25.95; lrg. prnt. $28.95. CD: Random Audio.
When the murderer is a child, the family feels the effects forever.

Seiffert, Rachel. Afterwards. Pantheon. Jul. 2007. 336p. ISBN 0-375-42260-9 [ISBN 978-0-375-42260-7]. $24.95.

Alice and Joseph are in love, but he can’t speak of his past as a soldier in Northern Ireland until Alice’s father shares painful memories of his own service in 1950s Kenya. Seiffert’s first work, The Dark Room, won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.

Underwood, Blair with Tananarive Due & Steven Barnes. Casanegra: A Tennyson Hardwick Story. Atria: S. & S. Jul. 2007. 320p. ISBN 0-7432-8731-2 [ISBN 978-0-7432-8731-9]. $25.
Will former gigolo Tennyson Hardwick, now a struggling actor, take the fall for a murder he didn’t commit? Ask Emmy nominee Underwood. With a seven-city tour.

Nonfiction

Calloway, Colin G. The Shawnees and the War for America. (Library of American Indian History). Viking. Jul. 2007. 208p. ISBN 0-670-03862-8 [ISBN 978-0-670-03862-6]. $19.95.
Perdue, Theda & Michael D. Green. The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears. (Library of American Indian History). Viking. Jul. 2007. 208p. ISBN 0-670-03150-X [ISBN 978-0-670-03150-4]. $19.95.
The first two volumes in an important new series.

Coetzee, J.M. Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000–2005. Viking. Jul. 2007. 320p. ISBN 0-670-03865-2 [ISBN 978-0-670-03865-7]. $25.95.
Only a novelist as gifted as Coetzee could give us such sharp reading on Beckett, Roth, and more.

Flannery, Tim. Chasing Kangaroos: A Continent, a Scientist, and a Search for the World’s Most Extraordinary Creature. Grove. Jul. 2007. 272p. ISBN 0-8021-1852-6 [ISBN 978-0-8021-1852-3]. $24.
Having given us a real fright about global warming in The Weather Makers, Australian author Flannery hops right to it and tells us everything we wanted to know about kangaroos.

Frank, Richard B. MacArthur: A Biography. Palgrave Macmillan. Jul. 2007. 224p. ISBN 1-4039-7658-9 [ISBN 978-1-4039-7658-1]. $21.95.
MacArthur shows up as the fifth in Gen. Wesley Clark’s “Great Generals” series.

James, Sara & Ginger Mauney. The Best of Friends: Two Women, Two Continents, and One Enduring Friendship. Morrow. Jul. 2007. 352p. ISBN 0-06-077948-9 [ISBN 978-0-06-077948-1]. $24.95. lrg. prnt.
James is an award-winning correspondent, and Mauney has settled into Etosha National Park, befriending baboons. But the real story here is their 30-year friendship.

Symmes, Patrick. The Boys from Dolores: Fidel Castro’s Classmates from Revolution to Exile. Pantheon. Jul. 2007. 464p. ISBN 0-375-42283-8 [ISBN 978-0-375-42283-6]. $26.95.
Journalist/author Symmes (Chasing Che) reconsiders Castro’s Cuba by tracking down the boys who attended the Colegio de Dolores with Castro in the 1940s. With a six-city tour.

Thubron, Colin. Shadow of the Silk Road. HarperCollins. Jul. 2007. 384p. ISBN 0-06-123172-X [ISBN 978-0-06-123172-8]. $25.95.
Who better to guide you along the Silk Road than travel writer and award-winning novelist Thubron.

Tucker, Michael. Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy. Atlantic Monthly. Jul. 2007. 272p. ISBN 0-87113-962-6 [ISBN 978-0-87113-962-7]. $24.
Pay a visit to the Italian home of actor Tucker and his wife, actor Jill Eikenberry.