New Books - Q2 2010
A
- Lorraine Adams
- The Room and the Chair
- Leonard M. Adkins
- Images of America: Along Virginia’s Appalachian Trail
- David A. Adler (and Michael S. Adler; Ronald Himler, illus.)
- A Picture Book of John and Abigail Adams
- Arnold Adoff (and Kacy Cook, Eds.)
- Virginia Hamilton: Speeches, Essays, and Conversations
- Sandra Alonzo (and Nathan Huang, illus.)
- Riding Invisible: An Adventure Journal
- Elaine Marie Alphin
- An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank
- Gigi Amateau
- A Certain Strain of Peculiar
- Piers Anthony
- Climate of Change
- Kathi Appelt (and Kelly Murphy, illus.)
- Brand-New Baby Blues
- Peggy Archer (and Stephanie Buscema, illus.)
- Name That Dog!
- Jeannine Atkins
- Borrowed Names: Poems about Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C.J. Walker, Marie Curie, and Their Daughters
B
- Keith Baker
- LMNO Peas
- Donna Ballman
- The Writer’s Guide to the Courtroom: Let’s Quill All the Lawyers
- Sandra Balzo
- From the Grounds Up
- Aileen G. Baron
- Scorpion’s Bite
- Gordon Basichis
- The Guys Who Spied for China
- Marion Dane Bauer (and Elizabeth Sayles, illus.)
- The Very Little Princess
- Marion Dane Bauer (and Kristina Stephenson, illus.)
- Thank You for Me!
- Hal Zina Bennett
- Backland Graces: Four Novellas
- Write Starts: Prompts, Quotes and Exercises to Jumpstart Your Creativity
- Kelly Bennett (and Paul Meisel, illus.)
- Dad and Pop, an Ode to Fathers and Stepfathers
- Kelly Bennett (and David Walker, illus.)
- Your Daddy Was Just Like You
- Elizabeth Berg
- The Last Time I Saw You
- John Pratt Bingham
- God and Dreams: Is There a Connection?
- Betty G. Birney
- Summer According to Humphrey: Humphrey the Hamster, #6
- Peter Biskind
- Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America
- Tom Bissell
- Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
- Win Blevins
- Give Your Heart to the Hawks
- Shadows in the Cave
- Stone Song
- Zadayi Red
- Amy Bloom
- Where the God of Love Hangs Out
- Paulette Bogan
- Lulu The Big Little Chick
- Kathleen Long Bostrom
- Making Space for the Spirit: 100 Ways to Nurture Your Soul
- Daniel B. Botkin
- Powering the Future: A Scientist’s Guide to Energy Independence
- Fred Bowen (and Carles S. Pyle, illus.)
- No Easy Way: The Story of Ted Williams and the Last .400 Season
- William Boyd
- Ordinary Thunderstorms
- Katherine Briccetti
- Blood Strangers
- Orville Gilbert Brim
- Look at Me!: The Fame Motive from Childhood to Death
- Larry Dane Brimner
- Birmingham Sunday
- Stanley Burns
- Deadly Intent: Crime & Punishment: Photographs from the Burns Archive
- Newsart: Manipulated Photographs from the Burns Archive
- Ophthalmology: A Photographic History 1845–1945: Selections from the Burns Archive
- Carol Butler
- Do Hummingbirds Hum?
- Why Do Bees Buzz?
C
- Wayne Caldwell
- Requiem by Fire
- Laurie Calkhoven
- Daniel at the Siege of Boston 1776
- Sarah C. Campbell (with photos by the author and Richard P. Campbell)
- Growing Patterns
- Rebecca Campen
- The Comprehensive Guide to Skin Care
- F. Isabel Campoy (and Alma Flor Ada; Rosalma Zubizarreta, transl.; and Viví Escrivá, illus.)
- ¡Muu, Moo!: Rimas de animales/ Animal Nursery Rhymes
- Janine Canan (Transl.)
- Under the Azure: Poems by Francis Jammes
- Zoe FitzGerald Carter
- Imperfect Endings: A Memoir
- Jerome Charyn
- The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson
- Blaize Clement
- Raining Cat Sitters and Dogs
- Carolyn Cohagan
- The Lost Children
- Rachel Cohn
- Very Lefreak
- Nadine Cohodas
- Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone
- Joanna Cole (and Bruce Degen, illus.)
- The Magic School Bus and the Climate Challenge
- Julie Compton
- Rescuing Olivia
- Ted Conover
- The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today
- Mark R. Conte
- Delilah
- Of Flesh and Stone
- Elisha Cooper
- Farm
- Michael L. Cooper
- Up Close: Theodore Roosevelt
- Art Corriveau
- How I, Nicky Flynn, Finally Get a Life (and a Dog)
- Lyn Cote
- Her Abundant Joy
- Nina Crews
- Sky-High Guys
- Wilbur Cross
- Andrew Jackson and the Young in Heart
- Disaster at the Pole
D
- Linda Dahl
- Gringa in a Strange Land
- J. Allan Danelek
- 2012: Extinction or Utopia
The Great Airship of 1897 - Ellen Datlow (and Terri Windling, Eds.; Charles Vess, illus.)
- The Beastly Bride
- Sharon Davies
- Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America
- Christine de Lailhacar
- Salt Prints
- Sherri Swanson Defesche
- Reunion on the Rainbow Bridge: My Parents’ Past Lives and the One They Shared with Me
- Joanne Dobson
- Death Without Tenure
- Emil Draitser
- Stalin’s Romeo Spy: The Remarkable Rise and Fall of the KGB’s Most Daring Operative
- Susanne Dunlap
- Anastasia’s Secret
- Olivier Dunrea
- Ollie’s Easter Eggs
E
- Debby Dahl Edwardson
- Blessing’s Bead
- Delia Ephron
- The Girl with the Mermaid Hair
- Kathryn Erskine
- Mockingbird
F
- Kim Fay
- A Culinary Journey Through Vietnam
- Jules Feiffer
- Backing Into Forward: A Memoir
- Kate Feiffer (and Laura Huliska-Beith, illus.)
- The Wild, Wild Inside
- Timothy Ferris
- The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature
- Nancy Bo Flood
- Warriors in the Crossfire
- Douglas Florian
- Poetrees
- Patricia Foulke (and Robert Foulke)
- A Visitor’s Guide to Colonial & Revolutionary New England
- A Visitor’s Guide to Colonial & Revolutionary Mid-Atlantic America
- A Visitor’s Guide to the Colonial & Revolutionary South
- Joan Frank
- In Envy Country
- SuEllen Fried (and Blanche Sosland)
- Banishing Bullying Behavior: Transforming the Culture of Pain, Rage, and Revenge
G
- Rita Garcia-Williams
- One Crazy Summer
- Jennifer Gilmore
- Something Red
- Peter Gleick
- Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water
- Richard Goldstein
- Helluva Town: The Story of New York City During World War II
- Beatrice Gormley
- Poisoned Honey: A Story of Mary Magdalene
- Deborah Grabien
- Dark’s Tale
- Donna Grant
- Uptown
- Joanne Greenberg
- Miri, Who Charms
- Sheldon Greene
- Prodigal Sons
- Sheila Greenwald
- Watch Out, World Rosie Cole Is Going Green!
- Barbara Gregorich
- She’s on First
- James Grippando
- Money to Burn
- Michael Gross
- Rogue’s Gallery: The Secret History of the Lust, Lies, Greed and Betrayals That Made the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Olga Grushin
- The Line
H
- Parnell Hall
- The Puzzle Lady vs. The Sudoku Lady
- Stephen S. Hall
- Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience
- Anders Halverson
- An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World
- Kristin Hannah
- Winter Garden
- Lois V. Harris
- Charlie Russell: Tale-Telling Cowboy Artist
- Brian Hart
- Then Came the Evening
- Carolyn Hart
- Laughed ‘Til He Died
- Robin Lee Hatcher
- Fit to Be Tied
- Libby Hathorn (and Leon Coward, illus.)
- Vietnam Reflections
- Roy Hayes
- The Last Days of Las Vegas
- Colin D. Heaton and Anne-Marie Lewis (and James E. Livingston)
- Noble Warrior: The Life and Times of Maj. Gen. James E. Livingston
- Charlotte Herman (and Kathryn Mitter, illus.)
- First Rain
- Patricia Hermes
- Emma Dilemma, the Nanny, and the Secret Ferret
- Susanna Leonard Hill (and Ana Martin Larrañaga, illus.)
- Freight Train Trip!: A Lift the Flap Adventure
- Tami Hoag
- Deeper than the Dead
- Alice Hoffman
- Green Witch
- Chuck Hogan
- Devils in Exile
- A. E. Hotchner
- : Paul and Me: 53 Years of Adventures and Misadventures with My Pal, Paul Newman
- Dean Hughes
- Missing in Action
- Johanna Hurwitz (Ed.)
- I Fooled You: Ten Stories of Tricks, Jokes, and Switcheroos
J
- Marthe Jocelyn
- Folly
- Alaya Johnson
- Moonshine
- Angela Johnson
- Sweet, Hereafter
- Cathy Johnson
- Watercolor Tricks & Techniques
- Dinah Johnson (and R. Gregory Christie, illus.)
- Black Magic
- LouAnne Johnson
- Muchacho
- Marilyn Johnson
- This Book Is Overdue: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
- Maureen Johnson
- Scarlett Fever
- Stephen Johnson
- My Little Red Fire Truck
- Franklin Campbell Jones
- The Cultural Proficiency Journey: Moving Beyond Ethical Barriers Toward Profound School Change
- J. Sydney Jones
- Requiem in Vienna
- Jacqueline Jules (and Miguel Benítez, illus.)
- Zapato Power: Freddie Ramos Takes Off
K
- G. Brian Karas
- Young Zeus
- Larry Karp
- The Ragtime Fool
- Bobbi Katz (and Jane Manning, illus.)
- Nothing But a Dog
- Michele Keith
- Designers Here and There: Inside the City and Country Homes of America’s Top Decorators
- Elin Kelsey
- Watching Giants: The Secret Lives of Whales
- Thomas E. Kennedy
- In the Company of Angels
- Robert Klara
- FDR’s Funeral Train: A Betrayed Widow, a Soviet Spy, and a Presidency in the Balance
- Scott Korb
- Life in Year One: What the World Was Like in First-Century Palestine
- Steven Kroll (and S. D. Schindler, illus.)
- The Tyrannosaurus Game
- Joanna L. Krotz
- The Guide to Intelligent Giving
- Frances Kuffel
- Angry Fat Girls: Five Women, Five Hundred Pounds and a Year of Losing It . . . Again
- Maxine Kumin (and Alison Friend, illus.)
- What Color Is Caesar?
- Paul Kuttner
- An Endless Struggle: Reminiscences and Reflections
L
- Anne Lamott
- Imperfect Birds
- Sarah Marwil Lamstein (and Carol Benioff, illus.)
- Big Night for Salamanders
- Laurie Lawlor (and Ethan Long, illus.)
- Muddy as a Duck Puddle: And Other American Similes
- Eric Lax
- Faith, Interrupted: A Spiritual Journey
- Jim Lehrer
- Super
- John Lescroart
- Treasure Hunt
- Rika Lesser
- Mozart’s Third Brain
- Questions of Love: New and Selected Poems
- Debbie Levy
- The Year of Goodbyes
- Robert Lipsyte
- Center Field
- Sam Lipsyte
- The Ask
- John Litweiler
- Mojo Snake Minuet
- Jeffrey Long
- Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experience
- Pamela Lowell
- Spotting for Nellie
- Mike Lupica
- The Batboy
- Lisa Lutz
- The Spellmans Strike Again
M
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- Marilyn Macdonald (and Ann Ingalls; Giselle Potter, illus.)
- The Little Piano Girl: The Story of Mary Lou Williams, Jazz Legend
- JoAnn Early Macken (and Susan Gaber, illus.)
- Waiting Out the Storm
- Ann Malaspina
- The Underground Railroad
- Carolyn Marsden
- Take Me with You
- Wendy Mass
- Finally
- Henry S. Maxfield
- Another Spring
- A Dangerous Man
- Justice Justice
- Legacy of a Spy
- To The Survivors
- The Weltschmerz Plan
- Robin Maxwell
- O, Juliet
- Anne Mazer (and Ellen Potter; Matt Phelan, illus.)
- A Young Writer’s Handbook
- David McConnell
- The Silver Hearted
- John McPhee
- Silk Parachute: Essays
- J. Patrice McSherry (and John Ehrenberg, Jose Ramon Sanchez, and Caroleen Sayej)
- The Iraq Papers
- Marion Meade
- Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney
- Randy Susan Meyers
- The Murderer’s Daughters
- Melissa Milgrom
- Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy
- Edward Miller
- Fireboy to the Rescue!
- Tom Miller
- Revenge of the Saguaro: Offbeat Travels Through America’s Southwest
- Bob Morris
- Baja Florida
- James McGrath Morris
- Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power
- Toni Morrison (and Slade Morrison; Sean Qualls, illus.)
- Little Cloud and Lady Wind
- Greg Mortenson
- Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Walter Mosley
- Known to Evil
- Kermit Moyer
- The Chester Chronicles
- Edward Myers
- Far from Gringo Land
- Walter Dean Myers
- Lockdown
- Walter Dean Myers (and Alix Delinois, illus.)
- Muhammad Ali: The People’s Champion
N
- Donna Jo Napoli (and Kadir Nelson, illus.)
- Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya
- Elizabeth Noble
- The Girl Next Door
- Michael Norman
- On Deadly Ground
- Walter Nugent
- Progressivism: A Very Short Introduction
O
- Daniel Okrent
- Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
- Susan Oleksiw
- Under the Eye of Kali
- L.L. Owens
- Christmas
- Cinco de Mayo
- Frenemies
- Dealing with Friend Drama
- Hanukkah
P
- Nell Irvin Painter
- The History of White People
- Daniel Paisner (and Mika Brzezinski)
- All Things at Once
- Liz Palika
- Puppy Love
- T. Jefferson Parker
- Iron River
- Charles Pellegrino
- The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back
- Kathleen T. Pelley (and S.D. Schindler, illus.)
- Magnus Maximus, A Marvelous Measurer
- Robert Perkinson
- Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire
- Julie Anne Peters
- By the Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead
- Christine Petersen
- Fantastic Fossils
- Groovy Gems
- Mighty Minerals
- Outrageous Ores
- Rockin’ Rocks
- Super Soils
- Nathaniel Philbrick
- The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
- Barbara Pokras and Fran Pokras Yariv
- Feeding Mrs. Moskowitz and The Caregiver: Two Stories
R
- Diana M. Raab (Ed.)
- Writers and Their Notebooks
- Chris Raschka (and Vladimir Radunsky, illus.)
- Hip Hop Dog
- Francis Ray
- If You Were My Man
- Dwayne Raymond
- Mornings with Mailer: A Recollection of Friendship
- Ken Robbins
- For Good Measure
- Thomas Rockwell (and David McPhail, illus.)
- Emily Stew: With Some Side Dishes
- Ana Maria Rodriguez
- Secret of the Bloody Hippo, and More
- Roger Rosenblatt
- Making Toast: A Family Story
- David Rosenfelt
- Down to the Wire
- Karen Rostoker-Gruber (and Vincent Nguyen, illus.)
- Bandit’s Surprise
- Marisabina Russo
- A Very Big Bunny
S
- Harvey Sachs
- The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824
- Joan Schenkar
- The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith
- Pat Schories
- When Jack Goes Out
- Monika Schröder
- The Dog in the Wood
- Leda Schubert (and Andrea U’Ren, illus.)
- Feeding the Sheep
- Sean Senechal
- Dogs Can Sign, Too
- Joni Sensel
- The Timekeeper’s Moon
- James Shapiro
- Contested Will
- Steve Sherman (and Julia Older)
- Appalachian Odyssey
- Erica Silverman (and Betsy Lewin, illus.)
- Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa: Spring Babies
- Seymour Simon
- Global Warming
- Marilyn Singer (and Josée Masse, illus.)
- Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse
- Don Skiles
- Blue Rhapsody
- Cherry Blossoms
- Jane Smiley: Private Life
- Lee Smith
- Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger
- James Solheim (and Simon James, illus.)
- Born Yesterday: The Diary of a Young Journalist
- Tatjana Soli
- The Lotus Eaters
- Stephen Solomita
- Mercy Killing
- Eileen Spinelli (and Anne Kennedy, illus.)
- Miss Fox’s Class Earns a Field Trip: Miss Fox’s Class, #3
- Mark Alan Stamaty
- Shake, Rattle & Turn That Noise Down!: How Elvis Shook Up Music, Me and Mom
- Domenic Stansberry
- Naked Moon
- Jane Taylor Starwood
- Long Island Wine Country
- Steven L. Stern
- Wretched Ruins
- Marci Stillerman
- Something Terrible Happened on Kenmore
- Jeff Stone
- Dragon: The Five Ancestors
- Carren Strock
- A Writer’s Journey: What to Know Before, During, and After Writing a Book
- Caroline Stutson (and J. Klassen, illus.)
- Cats’ Night Out
- Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen (and Linzie Hunter, illus.)
- A Small Brown Dog with a Wet Pink Nose
- Stephen R. Swinburne (and Mary Peterson, illus.)
- Ocean Soup: Tide-Pool Poems
- Stephen R. Swinburne
- Whose Shoes?: A Shoe for Every Job
- Wiff and Dirty George: The Z.E.B.R.A. Incident
T
- Linda Tancs
- Understanding Copyright Law: A Beginner’s Guide
- Janelle Taylor
- Cherokee Storm
- Joel Thurtell
- Up the Rouge! Paddling Detroit’s Hidden River
- Ronald Tierney
- Death in North Beach
- Atala Dorothy Toy
- We Are Not Alone: A Complete Guide to Interdimensional Cooperation
- Lisa Tracy
- Objects of Our Affection: A Memoir and Meditation on Why We Americans are So Attached to Our Things
- Angus Trumble
- The Finger
- Jon Turk
- The Raven’s Gift: A Scientist, a Shaman and Their Remarkable Journey Through the Siberian Wilderness
- Glennette Tilley Turner (Ed.)
- Billy the Barber’s Mirror: An Untold Lincoln Story
- The Amazing Adventures of Sea Captain Harry Dean
V
- Douglas Valentine
- The Strength of the Pack: The Personalities, Politics and Espionage Intrigues that Shaped the DEA
W
- Jack Weatherford
- The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
- Katharine Weber
- True Confections
- Ellen Weiss (and Jerry Smath, illus.)
- The Taming of Lola: A Shrew Story
- Ellen Weiss (and Mel Friedman; Marsha Winborn, illus.)
- Porky and Bess
- Tim Wendel
- High Heat: The Secret History of the Fastball and the Improbable Search for the Fastest Pitcher of All Time
- Eugenia Lovett West
- Overkill
- Hilda White
- Solange’s Boy
- Robert K. Wilcox
- The Truth About the Shroud of Turin
- Frank Wildman
- Change Your Age
- Linda Williams
- 5 Steps to a 5: AP Environmental Science
- Vicki Oransky Wittenstein
- Planet Hunter: Geoff Marcy and the Search for Other Earths
- Stuart Woods
- Kisser
- Lucid Intervals
- Herman Wouk
- The Language God Talks: On Science and Religion
- Shelly Wu
- The Definitive Book of Chinese Astrology
Y
- Dan Yaccarino
- Lawn to Lawn
- Jane Yolen (and Jim Burke, illus.)
- All Star!: Honus Wagner and the Most Famous Baseball Card Ever
- Jane Yolen (and Mike Cavallaro, illus.)
- Foiled
- Jane Yolen (and photos by Jason Stemple)
- An Egret’s Day
- Pamela Samuels Young
- Buying Time
Z
- Jane Breskin Zalben
- Baby Shower
- Gabrielle Zevin
- The Hole We’re In