August 2008

August's roundup of New in Paperback titles includes THE CHOICE by Nicholas Sparks, a tale about love found and lost, and the choices we hope we'll never have to make; BRIDGE OF SIGHS, a moving novel about small-town America from Richard Russo, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of EMPIRE FALLS; Ishmael Beah's A LONG WAY GONE, the riveting true story of a former child soldier who, by the age of 13, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts; PROTECT AND DEFEND, another explosive political thriller from Vince Flynn featuring CIA operative Mitch Rapp; THE SECRET CARDINAL by Tom Grace, which takes ex-Navy Seal Nolan Kilkenny from the inner circle of the Vatican in Rome to a life-or-death mission to rescue a Jesuit priest from a heavily-fortified Chinese prison; MATRIMONY, in which Joshua Henkin tackles the complex relationships of marriage, friendship, and parents and children over the course of more than a decade; and CONFESSIONS OF A PREP SCHOOL MOMMY HANDLER by Wade Rouse, a touching, sometimes sad but also funny glimpse into the world of the wealthy by a down-to-earth narrator in way over his head.

FICTION:

BAD MONKEYS
Matt Ruff
Harper Perennial


• Read a Review ISBN: 9780061240423 BLONDE FAITH
Walter Mosley
Grand Central Publishing


• Read a Review ISBN: 9780446617901

BREAKFAST FOR BUDDHA
Roland Merullo
Algonquin Books


• Read a Review ISBN: 9781565126169 BRIDGE OF SIGHS
Richard Russo
Vintage


• Reading Group Guide
• Read a Review ISBN: 9781400030903

THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO
Junot Diaz
Riverhead Trade


• Read a Review ISBN: 9781594483295 THE CAREFUL USE OF COMPLIMENTS: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel
Alexander McCall Smith
Anchor


• Read a Review ISBN: 9781400077120

THE CHOICE
Nicholas Sparks
Grand Central Publishing


• Read a Review ISBN: 9780446698337 CRITICAL
Robin Cook
Berkley


• Read a Review ISBN: 9780425222881

DEATH OF A MURDERER
Rupert Thomson
Vintage


• Read a Review ISBN: 9780307278746 DEEPER
Jeff Long
Pocket


• Read a Review ISBN: 9781416516880

EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
David Ellis
Berkley


• Read a Review ISBN: 9780425222911 FATAL REVENANT: The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
Stephen R. Donaldson
Ace Trade


• Read a Review ISBN: 9780441016051

GETTING RID OF MATTHEW
Jane Fallon
Voice/Hyperion


• Read a Review ISBN: 9781401340797 THE GHOST
Robert Harris
Pocket Star


• Read a Review ISBN: 9781416551829

INTERRED WITH THEIR BONES
Jennifer Lee Carrell
Plume


• Read a Review ISBN: 9780452289895 MAD DASH
Patricia Gaffney
Three Rivers Press


• Read a Review ISBN: 9780307382122

MATRIMONY
Joshua Henkin
Vintage


• Reading Group Guide
• Read a Review ISBN: 9780307277169 NO TIME FOR GOODBYE
Linwood Barclay
Bantam


• Read a Review ISBN: 9780553590425

THE PIRATE'S DAUGHTER
Margaret Cezair-Thompson
Random House Trade Paperbacks


• Read a Review ISBN: 9780812979428 PONTOON: A Novel of Lake Wobegon
Garrison Keillor
Penguin


• Read a Review ISBN: 9780143114109

PROTECT AND DEFEND
Vince Flynn
Pocket


• Read a Review ISBN: 9781416505037 RED SEA
Emily Benedek
St. Martin's Paperbacks


• Read a Review ISBN: 9780312354923

RHETT BUTLER'S PEOPLE
Donald McCaig
St. Martin's Paperbacks


• Read a Review ISBN: 9780312945787 RIGHT LIVELIHOODS: Three Novellas
Rick Moody
Back Bay Books


• Read a Review ISBN: 9780316166355

THE SECRET CARDINAL
Tom Grace
Vanguard Press


• Read a Review ISBN: 9781593154844 STRANGERS IN DEATH
J.D. Robb
Berkley


• Read a Review ISBN: 9780425222898

THE STREET OF A THOUSAND BLOSSOMS
Gail Tsukiyama
St. Martin's Griffin


• Read a Review ISBN: 9780312384777 SWEET REVENGE
Diane Mott Davidson
Avon


• Read a Review ISBN: 9780060527341

THEM
Nathan McCall
Washington Square Press


• Read a Review ISBN: 9781416549161 TOKYO YEAR ZERO
David Peace
Vintage


• Read a Review ISBN: 9780307276506

THE TOURISTS
Jeff Hobbs
Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9780743290968 WAITING TO SURFACE
Emily Listfield
Washington Square Press
ISBN: 9781416537854

THE WATER'S LOVELY
Ruth Rendell
Vintage


• Read a Review ISBN: 9780307388018

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NONFICTION:

AGENT ZIGZAG: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
Ben Macintyre
Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 9780307353412 AMERIGO: The Man Who Gave His Name to America
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780812972986

CARLISLE VS. ARMY: Jim Thorpe, Dwight Eisenhower, Pop Warner, and the Forgotten Story of Football's Greatest Battle
Lars Anderson
Random House Trade Paperbacks


• Read a Review ISBN: 9780812977318 CONFESSIONS OF A PREP SCHOOL MOMMY HANDLER: A Memoir
Wade Rouse
Three Rivers Press


• Read a Review ISBN: 9780307382719

CRASHING THROUGH: The Extraordinary True Story of the Man Who Dared to See
Robert Kurson
Random House Trade Paperbacks


• Read a Review ISBN: 9780812973686 LENIN, STALIN, AND HITLER: The Age of Social Catastrophe
Robert Gellately
Vintage
ISBN: 9781400032136

LETTERS TO A YOUNG TEACHER
Jonathan Kozol
Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 9780307393722 A LONG WAY GONE: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah
Farrar, Straus and Giroux


• Reading Group Guide
• Read a Review ISBN: 9780374531263

THE REAL ALL AMERICANS
Sally Jenkins
Broadway
ISBN: 9780767926249 TWELVE MIGHTY ORPHANS: The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Mites Who Ruled Texas Football
Jim Dent
St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 9780312384876

UM…: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean
Michael Erard
Anchor
ISBN: 9781400095438 THE WORLD WITHOUT US
Alan Weisman
Picador


• Read a Review ISBN: 9780312427900

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