June 2009
June 2009
Real Life and Liars by Kristina Riggles – Sometimes you find happiness where, and when, you least expect it. (June 2009) 
Some Things That Meant the World to Me by Joshua Mohr - Following a 30-year-old man named Rhonda suffering from depersonalization, Some Things That Meant the World to Me is a gritty and beautiful work that is creative and hypnotic, and should stand as an introduction of an original new voice to American literature. (June 2009)
Vanilla Ride by Joe R. Lansdale – In this Texas-sized thriller, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine—best friends, freelance troublemakers, and tough guys with good intentions—find themselves in the crosshairs of the Dixie Mafia. (June 30, 2009)
Bone China by Roma Tearne -An epic novel of love, loss and a family uprooted, set in the contrasting landscapes of war-torn Sri Lanka and immigrant London. (June 30, 2009) 
A Plague of Secrets by John Lescroart – (June 30, 2009)
Swim Suit by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro – Syd, a breathtakingly beautiful supermodel on a photo shoot in Hawaii, disappears. Fearing the worst, her parents travel to Hawaii to investigate for themselves, never expecting the horror that awaits them. (June 29, 2009)
Everything Matters: A Novel by Ron Currie, Jr – In infancy, Junior Thibodeaux is encoded with a prophesy: a comet will obliterate life on Earth in thirty-six years. Alone in this knowledge, he comes of age in rural Maine grappling with the question: Does anything I do matter? Vonnegut-like humor. (June 25, 2009)
Naamah’s Kiss by Jacqueline Carey – An all new saga set in her Carey’s brilliantly imagined Renasissance world. (June 24, 2009)
White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi With distinct originality and grace, and an extraordinary gift for making the fantastic believable, Helen Oyeyemi spins the politics of family and nation into a riveting and unforgettable mystery. – (June 2009)
Finger Lickin’ Fifteen by Janet Evanovich – (June 23, 2009)
Fall by Colin McAdam -A tremendous literary page-turner that perfectly captures the agonies and delights of adolescence, Fall is the exhilaration and angst of teenage love and friendship— and the ultimate transience of those feelings. (June 23, 2009)
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann – In the dawning light of the late summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. . . . It is August, 1974, and a tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter-mile in the sky. In the streets below, ordinary lives become extraordinary as award-winning novelist Colum McCann crafts this stunningly realized portrait of a city and its people. (June 23, 2009)
Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America by Robert Charles Wilson – (June 23, 2009)
The Doomsday Key by James Rollins – (June 23, 2009)
Mind Scrambler by Chris Grabenstein -John Ceepak and Danny Boyle are making the rounds in Atlantic City when Danny runs into his former crush, Katie. She’s working for a magician named Rock, and her life seems to be in better order than Boyle could have hoped for. But Ceepak and Boyle soon find themselves on another case when Katie is found strangled to death. (June 23, 2009)
The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon – In the turbulent and mysterious Barcelona of the 1920s, David Martin, a young novelist obsessed with a forbidden love, receives an offer from an enigmatic publisher to write a book like no other before — a book for which “people will live and die.” In return, he is promised a fortune and, perhaps, much more. (June 16, 2009) 
In the Kitchen by Monica Ali – Once again as in her previous novel, Ali brings readers into the a rich and fascinating London subculture, this time the intoxicating world of chefs and kitchen deniszens from every culture and class in London. (June 16, 2009)
A Short History of Woman by Kate Walbert - From a lecture delivered to suffragettes in Victorian England to a playdate on Manhattan’s Upper West Sde, this haunting novel chronicles four generations of women, their aspirations, the limits imposed on them and the sometimes startling choices they make in the world. (June 16, 2009)
Trouble by Kate Christensen – Josie is a Manhattan psychotherapist living a comfortable life with her husband and daughter—until she is struck with the sudden realization that she must leave her passionless marriage. At the same time, her college friend Raquel, a Los Angeles rock star, is being pilloried in the press for sleeping with a much younger man who happens to have a pregnant girlfriend. The two friends escape to Mexico City for a Christmas holiday of retreat and rediscovery of their essential selves. Sex has gotten these two bright, complicated women into interesting trouble, and the story of their struggles to get out of that trouble is totally gripping at every turn. (June 16, 2009)
$20 Per Gallon: How the Rising Cost of Gasoline Will Radically Change Our Lives by Christopher Steiner – (June 15, 2009)
The Sign for Drowning by Rachel Stolzman – Anna has grown up haunted by her younger sister’s death. In the life she constructs as a barrier against the emotional wreckage of her family tragedy, Anna settles comfortably into a career as a teacher of deaf children. But a challenge arrives—in the form of a young girl. Adrea’s disarming vulnerability and obvious need for love offer Anna the possibility of reconnecting with the world around her—if she has the courage to open her heart. (June 10, 2009)
Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga – Adiga provides both a chronological and geographical framework for this collection of stories, a prequel to his Man Booker–winning The White Tiger. (June 9, 2009) 
Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe – A spellbinding, beautifully written novel that moves between contemporary times and one of the most fascinating and disturbing periods in American history-the Salem witch trials. (June 9, 2009)
Roadside Crosses by Jeffrey Deaver – Second in the new Kathryn Dance series. Dance is the California Bureau of Investigation’s foremost kinesics — body language-expert. (June 9, 2009)
Seattle Noir edited by Curt Colbert – (June 1, 2009)
The Fate of Katherine Carr by Thomas Cook – Cook, the author of 21 novels, has been nominated for the Edgar seven times and won once (for The Chatham School Affair, 1996). His latest is as much an investigation into character as it is a cold-case mystery. (June 2009)
Die for You by Lisa Unger – Isabel Raine thought she had everything–a successful career, a supportive family, and a happy marriage to the man she loved. Then one ordinary morning, her husband, Marcus, picks up his briefcase, kisses her good-bye, and simply vanishes. (June 2009)
The Favorites by Mary Yukari Waters - Fourteen-year-old Sarah Rexford, half-Japanese and half American feels like an outsider when she visits her family in Japan. In the midst of her acculturation, Sarah learns of a family secret. During World War II, her grandmother was forced to give up one of her daughters for adoption. The child was adopted by the grandmother’s sister-in-law, and the siblings were brought up as cousins. Even in the present, the arrangement is never discussed. Sarah must learn the rules by which the mother, aunt and grandmother live. (June 2, 2009)
One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell - Latest from the Sex in the City author… (June 2, 2009)
April and Oliver by Tess Callahan – A devasting tragedy serves to reunite two friends from childhood in the emotionally compelling and sexually charged first novel from an exciting new voice in fiction… an excerpt published in Agni was subsequently nominated for the Pushcart Prize. (June 3, 2009)
Brimstone by Robert B. Parker – a western (June 2009)
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