Prepub Alert

Fiction
Armstrong, Kelley. Living with the Dead. Spectra: Bantam. Nov. 2008. 384p. ISBN 978-0-553-80664-9. $22.
In their ninth outing, the women of the Underworld wrestle with a killer intent on spilling their secret.
Baldacci, David. Divine Justice. Grand Central. Nov. 2008. 432p. ISBN 978-0-446-19550-8. $26.99; lrg. prnt. $28.99. Cassette/CD: Hachette Audio.
Having offed two guys who knew too much about his past, Oliver Stone is hiding—and his Camel Club is bereft.
Bechdel, Alison. The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For. Houghton. Nov. 2008. 384p. ISBN 978-0-618-96880-0. $25.
The best of the 11 Dykes volumes, along with 60 new strips yet to appear in book form. With a five-city tour.
Bolaño, Roberto. 2666. Farrar. Nov. 2008. 864p. ISBN 978-0-374-10014-8. $30; pap. ISBN 978-0-374-53155-3. $30.
Bolaño’s final masterpiece, featuring students, criminals, and other crazies in Santa Teresa (a stand-in for Juarez). With a three-volume paperback edition.
Burroughs, William S. & Jack Kerouac. And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks. Grove. Nov. 2008. 224p. ISBN 978-0-8021-1876-9. $24.
No, not a reprint. This collaboration, written when the authors were as yet unknown and fictionalizing friend Lucien Carr’s murder of David Kammerer, has never been published.
Chute, Carolyn. The School on Heart’s Content Road. Atlantic Monthly. Nov. 2008. 352p. ISBN 978-0-87113-987-0. $24.
Chute’s first novel in ten years—and her first Egypt, Maine, novel in 13 years—centers on a utopian community called the Settlement.
Cussler, Clive & Dirk Cussler. Arctic Drift: A Dirk Pitt® Novel. Putnam. Nov. 2008. 576p. ISBN 978-0-399-15529-1. $27.95. CD: Penguin Audio.
A silvery and slightly sinister mineral dating back to the search for the Northwest Passage is the only link NUMA director Dirk Pitt sees among a series of unsettling events. With a national tour.
Deaver, Jeffery. The Bodies Left Behind. S. & S. Nov. 2008. 288p. ISBN 978-1-4165-9561-8. $26. CD/eAudio: S. & S. Audio.
Deaver delivers a whole new cast of characters—and a ticking bomb.
Dickey, Eric Jerome. Dying for Revenge. Dutton. Nov. 2008. 320p. ISBN 978-0-525-95086-8. $25.95.
Wrapping up the story Dickey began last year with Sleeping with Strangers and Walking with Enemies. With a national tour.
Hamilton, Laurell K. Swallowing Darkness. Ballantine. Nov. 2008. 384p. ISBN 978-0-345-49593-8. $26. lrg. prnt. CD/Download: Random Audio.
Merry can keep the throne of faerie only if she produces an heir—and now she’s about to produce two.
Hardie, Titania. The Rose Labyrinth. Atria: S. & S. Nov. 2008. 400p. ISBN 978-1-4165-8460-5. $26.95.
Queen Elizabeth’s astrologer had a secret. As told by a third-generation white witch; with a six-city tour.
James, P.D. The Private Patient. Knopf. Nov. 2008. 368p. ISBN 978-0-307-27077-1. $25.95. lrg. prnt. CD/Download: Random Audio.
If there’s murder in a nursing home, call in Adam Dalgliesh.
Kellerman, Jonathan. Bones: An Alex Delaware Novel. Ballantine. Nov. 2008. 368p. ISBN 978-0-345-49513-6. $27. lrg. prnt. CD/Download: Random Audio.
A pile of corpses missing right hands. A storage box with the bones of six right hands. Alex Delaware has both hands full.
King, Stephen. Just After Sunset: Stories. Scribner. Nov. 2008. 400p. ISBN 978-1-4165-8408-7. $28. CD: S. & S. Audio.
Inspired by his stint as guest editor of Best American Short Stories 2007, King delivers his first collection in six years.
Koontz, Dean. Your Heart Belongs to Me. Bantam. Nov. 2008. 368p. ISBN 978-0-553-80713-4. $27. lrg. prnt.
The shadowy woman stalking heart transplant survivor Ryan Perry has one demand—she wants her heart back.
Lamb, Wally. The Hour I First Believed. Harper: HarperCollins. Nov. 2008. 800p. ISBN 978-0-06-039349-1. $29.95.
Lamb digs deeper here, examining issues of faith and the consequences of war.
Landvik, Lorna. ’Tis the Season! Ballantine. Nov. 2008. 304p. ISBN 978-0-345-49975-2. $22.
With the help of her former nanny and cowboy Cyril Dale, bad-girl heiress Caroline Dixon straightens herself out—in time for Christmas.
Montefiore, Simon. Sashenka.S. & S. Nov. 2008. 512p. ISBN 978-1-4165-9554-0. $27.
When Russia became the Soviet Union: with this saga, the noted biographer of Stalin switches to fiction.
Morrison, Toni. A Mercy. Knopf. Nov. 2008. 160p. ISBN 978-0-307-26423-7. $23.95; lrg. prnt. $24.95. CD/Download: Random Audio.
In the 1680s, as payment for a bad debt, Anglo-Dutch trader Jacob accepts a slave girl named Florens, whose anguished mother hopes she’ll have a better life. With a four-city tour.
O’Nan, Stewart. Songs for the Missing. Viking. Nov. 2008. 320p. ISBN 978-0-670-02032-4. $23.95. CD: Penguin Audio.
What happens after popular high school student Kim Larsen disappears. With a six-city tour.
Patterson, James. Cross Country. Little, Brown. Nov. 2008. 400p. ISBN 978-0-316-01872-2. $27.99; lrg. prnt. $29.99. Cassette/CD: Hachette Audio.
Alex Cross takes on the Nigerian underworld in Washington, DC.
Perry, Anne. A Christmas Grace. Ballantine. Nov. 2008. 208p. ISBN 978-0-345-50203-2. $18.
Tending to her dying aunt on Ireland’s west coast, Emily Radley finds a town wrung out over a terrible secret. Perry’s sixth Christmas novel.
Robb, J.D. Salvation in Death. Putnam. Nov. 2008. 352p. ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2. $25.95.
Det. Lt. Eve Dallas must dip into religion when a Catholic priest dies at a funeral mass.
Simkin, Daren. The Traveler. Farrar. Nov. 2008. 48p. ISBN 978-0-374-11639-2. $12.95.
Young Charlie packs up time in a suitcase and goes off to discover what’s worth living for. Updating The Little Prince.
Steel, Danielle. A Good Woman. Delacorte. Nov. 2008. 336p. ISBN 978-0-385-34026-7. $27. lrg. prnt.
When the sinking of the Titanic also sinks her family, Annabelle Worthington marries badly, then finds purpose by volunteering in a field hospital during World War I.

Nonfiction
Brands, H.W. Traitor to His Class: The Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Doubleday. Nov. 2008. 752p. ISBN 978-0-385-51958-8. $35. CD/Download: Random Audio.
From a University of Texas at Austin professor and biographer of Benjamin Franklin and Andrew Jackson.
Clark, Lloyd. Crossing the Rhine: Breaking into Nazi Germany 1944 and 1945—the Greatest Airborne Battles in History. Atlantic Monthly. Nov. 2008. 416p. ISBN 978-0-87113-989-4. $25.
Why Operation Market Garden—parachuting 35,000 British and U.S. troops into the Nazi-held Netherlands in September 1944—really was a good idea.
Dickey, Christopher. Securing the City. S. & S. Nov. 2008. 368p. ISBN 978-1-4165-5240-6. $26.
Newsweek’s Paris bureau chief and Middle East regional editor introduces us to the 500 officers and analysts who make up the NYPD’s antiterrorist division worldwide. With an eight-city tour.
Everett, Mark Oliver. Things the Grandchildren Should Know: A Memoir. Thomas Dunne Bks: St. Martin’s. Nov. 2008. 256p. ISBN 978-0-312-38513-2. $23.95.
The famed indie rocker (of the Eels) surmounts tragedy.
Ferguson, Niall. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World. Penguin Pr: Penguin Group (USA). Nov. 2008. 432p. ISBN 978-1-59420-192-9. $29.95.
How money made us. Catch this book by the busy Harvard/Oxford/Hoover Institute luminary before the PBS special airs in 2009.
Gladwell, Malcolm. Outliers: Why Some People Succeed and Some Don’t. Little, Brown. Nov. 2008. 304p. ISBN 978-0-316-01792-3. $27.99; lrg. prnt. $29.99. Cassette/CD: Hachette Audio.
He’ll make you Blink: it’s family and culture that determines whether you’ll be a success. With a seven-city tour.
Keller, Timothy. The Prodigal God: Christianity Redefined Through the Parable of the Prodigal Son. Dutton. Nov. 2008. 176p. ISBN 978-0-525-95079-0. $19.95. CD: Penguin Audio.
A number-one best-selling author and “Manhattan’s leading evangelist” (New York Times) discusses the true meaning of a key parable.
Kunhardt, Philip B., III & others. Looking for Lincoln: A Bicentennial Album. Knopf. Nov. 2008. 512p. ISBN 978-0-307-26713-9. $50.
The authors—fourth- and fifth-generation Lincoln scholars—consider Lincoln iconography.
Leary, Denis. Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy, and Stupid. Viking. Nov. 2008. 224p. ISBN 978-0-670-03160-3. $24.95. CD: Penguin Audio.
Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Leary gets mad. With a five-city tour.
Leibovitz, Annie. Annie Leibovitz at Work. Random. Nov. 2008. 208p. ISBN 978-0-375-50510-2. $35.
Leibovitz on 90 of her top images. With a six-city tour.
Meacham, Jon. American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. Random. Nov. 2008. 320p. ISBN 978-1-4000-6325-3. $30. CD/Download: Random Audio.
From Newsweek’s editor.
Nicolson, Adam. Quarrel with the King: The Story of an English Family on the High Road to Civil War. Harper: HarperCollins. Nov. 2008. 320p. ISBN 978-0-06-115431-7. $27.95.
The Pembroke family illuminates a crucial era in English history.
Northcutt, Wendy. The Darwin Awards Next Evolution: Chlorinating the Gene Pool. Dutton. Nov. 2008. 288p. ISBN 978-0-525-95085-1. $19.95.
Continuing a best-selling series on our stupidity.
Samuelson, Robert. The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Transformation of America’s Economy, Politics, and Society. Random. Nov. 2008. 288p. ISBN 978-0-375-50548-5. $27.
The longtime Washington Post and Newsweek financial columnist explains the damage inflation has wrought.
Stauffer, John. Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. Twelve: Hachette. Nov. 2008. 384p. ISBN 978-0-446-58009-0. $30. lrg. prnt.
More than a dual bio; Douglass and Lincoln as the ascendance of the self-made man.