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Fiction
Asensi, Matilde. Everything Under the Sky. Harper: HarperCollins. Sept. 2008. 448p. ISBN 978-0-06-145841-5. $25.95; Spanish-language ed: Rayo. ISBN 978-0-06-135330-7. $15.95.
Arriving in 1920s Shanghai to reclaim the body of her dead husband, Spanish painter Elvira is caught up in a hunt for the missing treasure of China's first emperor. Another artful thriller from Spain.
Bavaro, Mark. Rough & Tumble. St. Martin's. Sept. 2008. 320p. ISBN 978-0-312-37574-4. $24.95.
A former, much-heralded NFL tight end writes a first novel starring (predictably) a current, much-heralded NFL tight end facing a tough season: the star linebacker has just been beaten nearly to death. With an East Coast tour.
Bayard, Louis. The Black Tower. Morrow. Sept. 2008. 400p. ISBN 978-0-06-117350-9. $24.95. lrg. prnt.
Where is Marie Antoinette's son? Trust Vidocq to find out; real-life founder of the Sûreté in early 1800s France, he's considered the first modern detective. With a reading group guide.
Black, Lisa. Takeover. Morrow. Sept. 2008. 352p. ISBN 978-0-06-154445-3. $24.95.
When her fiancé is injured after being taken hostage with seven others during a Cleveland bank robbery, forensic scientist Theresa MacLean gets really close to the troublemakers by swapping places with him.
Burke, Alafair. Angel's Tip. Harper: HarperCollins. Sept. 2008. 320p. ISBN 978-0-06-156102-3. $23.95. lrg. prnt.
Never mind the case she's carefully built against a young hedge fund manager. NYPD detective Ellie Hatcher wonders whether a serial killer who chops off his victims' hair is actually responsible for the latest murder. With a national tour.
Buruma, Ian. The China Lover. Penguin Pr: Penguin Group (USA). Sept. 2008. ISBN 978-1-59420-194-3. $26.95.
Yamaguchi Yoshiko hid her Japanese identity in China, became a film star in U.S.-occupied Japan, pursued a career here as Shirley Yamaguchi, and returned to Japan as a TV host, meeting Arafat and founding the Japanese-Palestinian Friendship Association. Award-winning journalist Buruma shouldn't have any trouble making good fiction out of this.
Cain, Chelsea. Sweetheart. Minotaur: St. Martin's. Sept. 2008. 304p. ISBN 978-0-312-36847-0. $24.95. CD: Macmillan Audio.
Is Portland detective Archie Sheridan still Heartsick? Back after his debut case, he's just learned about the prison break of Gretchen Lowell, the serial killer with a hold on him.
Cohen, Stuart Archer. The Army of the Republic. St. Martin's. Sept. 2008. 448p. ISBN 978-0-312-38377-0. $24.95.

Even as James Sands hires Whitehall Security to defend his business empire, based on privatizing bankrupt municipal water supplies, the Army of the Republic prepares to challenge the evil alliance of government and big business. From the Alaska-based novelist of 17 Stone Angels.
Enright, Anne. Yesterday's Weather: Stories. Grove. Sept. 2008. 320p. ISBN 978-0-8021-1874-5. $24.
Short fiction about a tradition-conscious Ireland now as changeable as the weather; from the author of the Booker Award–winning The Gathering.
Hayder, Mo. Ritual. Atlantic Monthly. Sept. 2008. 416p. ISBN 978-0-87113-992-4. $24.
Police diver Flea Marley's discovery of a human hand leads to a hunt for the young man to whom it belongs. With an East Coast tour; reading group guide.
Hunter, Stephen. Night of Thunder: A Bob Lee Swagger Novel. S. & S. Sept. 2008. 400p. ISBN 978-1-4165-6511-6. $26.
Fresh from his film debut in Shooter, Bob Lee Swagger returns to chase down a villain at a NASCAR event. With a six-city tour.
Keillor, Garrison. Liberty: A Lake Wobegon Novel. Viking. Sept. 2008. 288p. ISBN 978-0-670-01991-5. $25.95.
The folks of Lake Wobegon are proud of colorful but dependable Clint Bunsen—until he decides to run for Congress. With a 12-city tour.
Lodge, David. Deaf Sentence. Viking. Sept. 2008. 304p. ISBN 978-0-670-01992-2. $25.95.
A retired linguistics professor devastated by progressive hearing loss finds his life rocked off base when a young woman needs his assistance.
MacKinnon, Amy. Tethered. Shaye Areheart: Harmony. Sept. 2008. 272p. ISBN 978-0-307-40896-9. $24.
After taking in a little girl abandoned at her funeral parlor, undertaker Clara Marsh is compelled to investigate the murder of another girl, never identified, whose body she prepared for burial. A highly touted debut.
Meltzer, Brad. The Book of Lies. Grand Central. Sept. 2008. 320p. ISBN 978-0-446-57788-5. $25.99; lrg. prnt. $27.99. CD: Hachette Audio.
Young Mitchell Siegel started thinking about creating Superman after his father died of gunshot wounds in 1932. Decades later, Cal Harper's father is shot with a gun traced back to that murder—by a gunman tattooed with the markings of Cain. With a 15-city tour.
Peters, Elizabeth. The Laughter of Dead Kings. Morrow. Sept. 2008. 336p. ISBN 978-0-06-124624-1. $25.95. lrg. prnt. CD: HarperAudio.
An enormous treasure has vanished from Egypt's Valley of the Kings, and Vicky Bliss wonders if her boyfriend has returned to his thieving ways. With a one-day laydown on August 19 (despite the official September publication date).
Prose, Francine. Goldengrove. Harper: HarperCollins. Sept. 2008. 272p. ISBN 978-0-06-621411-5. $24.95. lrg. prnt. CD: HarperAudio.
Prose reportedly drops her satiric edge in this novel of a 13-year-old who forms a dangerous liaison with her drowned sister's boyfriend. With a national tour.
Robinson, Marilynne. Home. Farrar. Sept. 2008. 336p. ISBN 978-0-374-29910-1. $25. CD: Macmillan Audio.
Dutiful daughter Glory returns to care for her dying father, the Rev. Robert Boughton—as does his wild but still beloved son, Jack. Boughton is a close friend of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Gilead's John Ames, so readers will know and appreciate the territory. With a national tour; reading group guide.
Roth, Philip. Indignation. Houghton. Sept. 2008. 256p. ISBN 978-0-547-05484-1. $26.
Marcus Messner's father is so anxious about the well-being of his darling son that Marcus is compelled to flee 1950s Newark, NJ, and attend college in a place that seems truly foreign—Ohio. With a national laydown on September 16.
Santiago, Fabiola. Reclaiming Paris. Atria: S. & S. Sept. 2008. 320p. ISBN 978-1-4165-5112-6. $24.95.
Marisol breaks free of her obsession with her birthplace, Havana—“the Paris of the Caribbean”—by going to Paris itself. With a four-city tour.
Smith, Haywood. Wedding Belles. St. Martin's. Sept. 2008. 352p. ISBN 978-0-312-32973-0. $24.95. CD: Macmillan Audio.
What, her daughter is planning to become the third wife of her father's buddy, Wild Man Wade? Georgia Baker calls in her friends to help stop the ceremony. With a national tour.
Sparks, Nicholas. The Lucky One. Grand Central. Sept. 2008. 224p. ISBN 978-0-446-57993-3. $24.99; lrg. prnt. $26.99. Cassette/CD: Hachette Audio.
The photo of a smiling woman he has never met proves to be one man's lucky charm. With a ten-city tour.
Stephenson, Neal. Anathem. Morrow. Sept. 2008. 928p. ISBN 978-0-06-147409-5. $29.95. lrg. prnt.
Scholars safe behind the walls of a 3400-year-old monastery are called upon to leave their sanctuary and help a world on the edge of doom. With a one-day laydown on September 9; with an 11-city tour.

Nonfiction
Baer, Robert. The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower. Crown. Sept. 2008. 304p. ISBN 978-0-307-40864-8. $25.95.
Former CIA operative Baer (Sleeping with the Devil) shows us just how powerful Iran really is. With a four-city tour.
Baker, Stephen. The Numerati. Houghton. Sept. 2008. 288p. ISBN 978-0-618-78460-8. $26.
The Numerati? They're the mathematicians and computer scientists who, as we click on web pages and use our credit cards, collect the data needed to profile us—and invade our privacy. From BusinessWeek journalist Baker; with a ten-city tour.
Baldwin, Alec with Mark Tabb. A Promise to Ourselves: Fatherhood, Divorce, and Family Law. St. Martin's. Sept. 2008. 224p. ISBN 978-0-312-36336-9. $24.95.
Drawing on his own, much-publicized experiences, actor Baldwin argues for a change in laws governing divorce and custody. With a 200,000-copy first printing.
Blum, Howard. American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, Movie-Making and the Crime of the Century. Crown. Sept. 2008. 352p. ISBN 978-0-307-34694-0. $24.95. CD: Random Audio.
The “crime of the century” was the October 1, 1910, explosion in the offices of the Los Angeles Times, intended as an attack on 100 cities, that led to serious conversation about the limits of liberty.
Carr, David. The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own. S. & S. Sept. 2008. 336p. ISBN 978-1-4165-4152-3. $26.
How Carr made it from drug addict to New York Times reporter, dealing with cancer and single fatherhood along the way. With an eight-city tour; there's already film interest.
Conant, Jennet. The Irregulars: The Baker Street Spies in Wartime Washington. S. & S. Sept. 2008. 416p. ISBN 978-0-7432-9458-4. $27.
Among the “irregulars” whom Churchill sent to Washington, hoping they would sway isolationist America, was charming RAF pilot Roald Dahl. With an eight-city tour.
Ellis, Charles D. The Partnership: A History of Goldman Sachs. Penguin Pr: Penguin Group (USA). Sept. 2008. 464p. ISBN 978-1-59420-189-9. $35.
A strategy consultant to Goldman Sachs for more than 30 years, Ellis is well positioned to give us the firm's history.
Frankel, Valerie. Thin Is the New Happy: A Memoir. St. Martin's. Sept. 2008. 256p. ISBN 978-0-312-37392-4. $23.95.
One of St. Martin's big fall titles—about a woman who got several sizes smaller by simply tossing out her bad body image.
Fromkin, David. The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners. Penguin Pr: Penguin Group (USA). Sept. 2008. 224p. ISBN 978-1-59420-187-5. $25.95.
Great Britain's Edward VII and U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt as buddies? They built a strong bond, even outmaneuvering Kaiser Wilhelm II at the conference of Algeciras in 1906. From Council of Foreign Relations stalwart Fromkin.
Gartner, John. In Search of Bill Clinton: A Psychological Biography. St. Martin's. Sept. 2008. 400p. ISBN 978-0-312-36976-7. $25.95.
A vanished father. An abusive stepfather. A flirty mother. Hot Springs nightlife. Psychologist Gartner tries to get at what really shaped Bill Clinton.
Gellman, Barton. Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency. Penguin Pr: Penguin Group (USA). Sept. 2008. 384p. ISBN 978-1-59420-186-8. $27.95. CD: Penguin Audio.
A special projects reporter at the Washington Post, Pulitzer Prize winner Gellman probes the Cheney vice presidency. No early reviews; this is embargoed.
Goodwin, Robert. Crossing the Continent, 1527–1540: The Story of the First African-American Explorer of the American South. Harper: HarperCollins. Sept. 2008. 320p. ISBN 978-0-06-114044-0. $25.95.
Two centuries before Lewis and Clark, three Spanish noblemen tromped across America, accompanied by Esteban, a slave born in Africa. Hence, the first known African American was an explorer.
Heatley, David. My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down. Pantheon. Sept. 2008. 128p. ISBN 978-0-375-42539-4. $24.95.
You've seen his art on the New York Times op-ed page and on the cover of The New Yorker. Now read his debut graphic autobiography.
Hennessey, Jonathan (text) & Aaron McConnell (illus.). The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation. Hill & Wang: Farrar. Oct. 2008. 160p. ISBN 978-0-8090-9487-5. $35; pap. ISBN 978-0-8090-9470-7. $16.95.
What better (or more fun) way to understand the U.S. Constitution than through this graphic presentation?
Juhasz, Antonia. The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry—and What We Must Do To Stop It. Morrow. Sept. 2008. 336p. ISBN 978-0-06-143450-1. $26.95.
Not just an oil expert, Juhasz is an activist—she compares the power of oil companies today with Standard Oil's in the early 1900s and proposes a plan to break it. With a three-city tour.
Lawlis, Frank. The Stress Answer: Train Your Brain To Conquer Depression and Anxiety in 45 Days. Viking. Sept. 2008. 288p. ISBN 978-0-670-01973-1. $24.95.
How to get your brain in training to beat stress, with techniques drawing on the latest in neuroplasticity. From the best-selling author of The ADD Answer.
Moore, Michael. Untitled. Grand Central. Sept. 2008. 272p. ISBN 978-0-446-53224-2. $26.99; lrg. prnt. $28.99. CD: Hachette Audio.
Back to writing books after five years, Moore proclaims that Left and Right, Blue and Red aren't so far apart as we think on crucial issues like taxes, immigration, and social security. With a 15-city tour.
Myron, Vicki with Bret Witter. Dewey: A Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World. Grand Central. Sept. 2008. 208p. ISBN 978-0-446-40741-0. $19.99; lrg. prnt. $21.99. CD: Hachette Audio.
Discovered as a kitten in the night drop box of the Spencer, IA, public library, Dewey helped new head librarian Myron endure heartache, pulled the town together, attracted visitors from hundreds of miles away, and even appeared in a Japanese documentary.
Pearlman, Jeff. Boys Will Be Boys: The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty. Harper: HarperCollins. Sept. 2008. 288p. ISBN 978-0-06-125680-6. $25.95.
How the Dallas Cowboys became three-time Super Bowl champions—and what happened next.
Pennington, Ty. Good Design for a Good Life: The Three Room Makeover. S. & S. Sept. 2008. 256p. ISBN 978-0-7432-9474-4. pap. $25.
Having caught everyone's attention on Trading Spaces and, more recently, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Pennington is here to make your home work for you. With a whopping 800,000-copy first printing.
Roiphe, Anne. Epilogue. Harper: HarperCollins. Sept. 2008. 256p. ISBN 978-0-06-125462-8. $24.95. lrg. prnt.
Prolific novelist Roiphe on grieving after the death of her husband of 39 years and rediscovering life after her daughters snuck an ad for her into a literary journal's personals.
Rosenberg, Michael. War As They Knew It: Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler and America in a Time of Unrest. Grand Central. Sept. 2008. 320p. ISBN 978-0-446-58013-7. $26.99.
The 1960s rivalry between Ohio State and the University of Michigan, as told by the sports columnist of the Detroit Free Press.
Servan-Schreiber, David, M.D. Anticancer, a New Way of Life. Viking. Sept. 2008. 304p. ISBN 978-0-670-02034-8. $24.95.
Over 15 years ago, Servan-Schreiber, a founding member of Doctors Without Borders and a professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, was diagnosed with brain cancer. Here he uses his own research and experiences to explain how one can beat back the disease. Already a best seller in France, Germany, and Canada.
Somers, Suzanne. Breakthrough: Life-Altering Secrets from Today's Most Cutting-Edge Doctors. Crown. Sept. 2008. 464p. ISBN 978-1-4000-5327-8. $25.95.
Don't get old, get with the program offered by the top doctors Somers interviews.
Tough, Paul. Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest To Change Harlem and America. Houghton. Sept. 2008. 304p. ISBN 978-0-618-56989-2. $26.
New York Times Magazine editor Tough on activist Canada's biggest project to date: a multimillion-dollar organization called the Harlem Children's Zone that serves 7000 youngsters.
Tyre, Peg. The Trouble with Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and Educators Must Do. Crown. Sept. 2008. 320p. ISBN 978-0-307-38128-6. $24.95.
Tyre expands on her Newsweek cover story, “The Boy Crisis,” a National Education Writers Association Award winner.
Wert, Jeffry D. Cavalryman of the Lost Cause: A Biography of J.E.B. Stuart. S. & S. Sept. 2008. 416p. ISBN 978-0-7432-7819-5. $30.
Wert gallops from Gen. James Longstreet to another wild and woolly Confederate officer.
Wolf, Naomi. America: A User's Manual. S. & S. Sept. 2008. 240p. ISBN 978-1-4165-9056-9. pap. $13.95.
Billed as a refresher course on America's values, this manual follows Wolf's The End of America, a Booksense Book of the Year finalist in 2007. With a six-city tour.