March 2008

March’s roundup of New in Paperback fiction titles includes POWER PLAY by Joseph Finder, in which executives from an airline company are taken hostage on a corporate retreat --- and the only person who can save them is the one low-level employee who was not originally included on the trip; BAD LUCK AND TROUBLE, the 11th thriller from Lee Child to feature Jack Reacher, whose past collides dramatically with his present when he receives a call for assistance from a member of his former military police investigative unit; BACK ON BLOSSOM STREET, Debbie Macomber’s third novel set on a quiet Seattle street where friendship and knitting go hand in hand; SLIVER OF TRUTH, a follow-up to Lisa Unger’s BEAUTIFUL LIES, in which Ridley Jones is swept into a whirlpool of deceit and danger as she struggles to discover the truth about her father and herself; and NO! I DON’T WANT TO JOIN A BOOK CLUB by Virginia Ironside, a funny yet poignant story about embracing life beyond middle age.

Among our nonfiction highlights are MARLEY & ME, John Grogan’s heartwarming story of a wondrously neurotic dog who ultimately taught him and his family what really matters in life; THE MISTRESS’S DAUGHTER, an absorbing memoir in which noted fiction writer A. M. Homes recounts the unexpected discovery of her birth parents in her early 30s; and MY FATHER’S SECRET WAR, an intimate account of Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Lucinda Franks coming to know her own father after years of estrangement.

FICTION:

ACCEPTANCE Susan Coll Picador ISBN: 9780312426965 • Reading Group Guide	ACTS OF LOVE Emily Listfield Washington Square Press ISBN: 9781416558743
ALL MORTAL FLESH: A Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Mystery Julia Spencer-Fleming St. Martin's Minotaur ISBN: 9780312933982 • Read a Review	ALL SAINTS Liam Callanan Dial Press Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780385336970 • Reading Group Guide
AT SOME DISPUTED BARRICADE Anne Perry Ballantine Books ISBN: 9780345456595 • Read a Review	THE BACK NINE Billy Mott Vintage ISBN: 9780307277862 • Read a Review
BACK ON BLOSSOM STREET Debbie Macomber Mira ISBN: 9780778325352 • Reading Group Guide	BAD LUCK AND TROUBLE: A Jack Reacher Novel Lee Child Dell ISBN: 9780440243663 • Read a Review
THE COMMUNIST’S DAUGHTER Dennis Bock Vintage ISBN: 9781400096091	A FAR COUNTRY Daniel Mason Vintage ISBN: 9781400030392 • Read a Review
FINN Jon Clinch Random House Trade Paperbacks ISBN: 9780812977141 • Read a Review	FLAWLESS Joshua Spanogle Bantam ISBN: 9780440242291 • Read a Review
THE GOD OF ANIMALS Aryn Kyle Scribner ISBN: 9781416533252	THE GOOD HUSBAND OF ZEBRA DRIVE Alexander McCall Smith Anchor ISBN: 9781400075720 • Read a Review
HEART-SHAPED BOX Joe Hill Harper ISBN: 9780061147944 • Read a Review	HEARTSTOPPER Joy Fielding Pocket Books ISBN: 9781416527015 • Read a Review
THE LAND OF MANGO SUNSETS Dorothea Benton Frank Avon ISBN: 9780060892395 • Read a Review	THE LYING TONGUE Andrew Wilson Washington Square Press ISBN: 9780743293983 • Read a Review
MEDICUS: A Novel of the Roman Empire Ruth Downie Bloomsbury USA ISBN: 9781596914278 • Read a Review	NO! I DON’T WANT TO JOIN A BOOK CLUB: Diary of a Sixtieth Year Virginia Ironside Plume ISBN: 9780452289239 • Reading Group Guide
THE OTHER SIDE OF YOU Salley Vickers Picador ISBN: 9780312426798 • Reading Group Guide	POWER PLAY Joseph Finder St. Martin's Paperbacks ISBN: 9780312347505 • Read a Review
ROMA: The Novel of Ancient Rome Steven Saylor St. Martin's Griffin ISBN: 9780312377625	THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES Roberto Bolano Picador ISBN: 9780312427481
THE SECRET OF LOST THINGS Sheridan Hay Anchor ISBN: 9780307277336 • Reading Group Guide	SLIVER OF TRUTH Lisa Unger Three Rivers Press ISBN: 9780307338495 • Read a Review
TRAVELER Ron McLarty Penguin ISBN: 9780143112884 • Read a Review	THE UNQUIET John Connolly Pocket Star ISBN: 9781416531388 • Read a Review
VINNIE’S HEAD Marc Lecard St. Martin’s Minotaur ISBN: 9780312378677 • Read a Review	WE SHALL NOT SLEEP Anne Perry Ballantine Books ISBN: 9780345456618 • Read a Review
WHAT’S SO FUNNY?: A Dortmunder Novel Donald E. Westlake Grand Central Publishing ISBN: 9780446401159 • Read a Review	WHEN THE LIGHT GOES Larry McMurtry Simon & Schuster ISBN: 9781416534273 • Read a Review
ZOLI Colum McCann Random House Trade Paperbacks ISBN: 9780812973983
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NONFICTION:
THE ECHOING GREEN: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World Joshua Prager Vintage ISBN: 9780375713071 • Read a Review	THE FATHER OF ALL THINGS: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam Tom Bissell Vintage ISBN: 9781400075430 • Read a Review
HOW DOCTORS THINK Jerome Groopman, M.D. Mariner Books ISBN: 9780547053646 • Read a Review	MARLEY & ME: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog John Grogan Harper Paperbacks ISBN: 9780060817091 • Read a Review
MISSISSIPPI SISSY Kevin Sessums Picador ISBN: 9780312341022	THE MISTRESS’S DAUGHTER: A Memoir A. M. Homes Penguin ISBN: 9780143113317 • Read a Review • Reading Group Guide
MY FATHER’S SECRET WAR: A Memoir Lucinda Franks Miramax ISBN: 9781401309336 • Read a Review	MYSTERIES OF THE MIDDLE AGES: And the Beginning of the Modern World Thomas Cahill Anchor ISBN: 9780385495561
NIXON AND MAO: The Week That Changed the World Margaret MacMillan Random House Trade Paperbacks ISBN: 9780812970579	WHAT THIS CRUEL WAR WAS OVER: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War Chandra Manning Vintage ISBN: 9780307277329
THE WIZARD OF MENLO PARK: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World Randall E. Stross Three Rivers Press ISBN: 9781400047635

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