September 2009
September 2009
Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers – a playful and provocative novel about the discovery of the happiness gene. (September 2009) 
The Boy Next Door by Irene Sabatini - In Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, there is a tragedy in the house next door to Lindiwe Bishop–her neighbor has been burned alive. The victim’s stepson, Ian McKenzie, is the prime suspect but is soon released. Lindiwe can’t hide her fascination with this young, boisterous and mysterious white man, and they soon forge an unlikely closeness even as the country starts to deteriorate. (September 2009)Â
A Quiet Belief in Angels by R.J. Ellory – Growing up in rural Georgia during the 1940s, Joseph Vaughan finds himself at the center of a series of mutilations and killings of young girls. Just a teenager, Joseph becomes determined to protect his community from the killer, but he is powerless in preventing more murders—and no one is ever caught. Ten years later one of his neighbors is found hanging from a rope, surrounded by belongings of the dead girls; the killings cease, and the nightmare appears to be over. Desperate and plagued by everything he has witnessed, Joseph sets out to forge a new life in New York. But even there the past won’t leave him alone. (September 2009)Â
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown -Dan Brown’s new novel, the eagerly awaited follow-up to his #1 international phenomenon, The Da Vinci Code will once again feature Dan Brown’s unforgettable protagonist, Robert Langdon. (September 2009)
Blame by Michelle Huneven – In this gripping tale, Huneven charts the parameters of guilt and how a young, wisecracking intellectual becomes a shadow of her former self. (September 2009)
Twisted Tree by Kent Meyers – Hayley Jo Zimmerman is gone. Taken. And the people of small-town Twisted Tree must come to terms with this terrible event—their loss, their place in it, and the secrets they all carry. (September 2009)
Stardust by Joseph Kanon – -A tale of Hollywood glamour, post-war espionage, and family secrets. (September 2009) 
The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter – A comic, graceful parable of marriage and money troubles in which a well-meaning family man makes decisions that are seriously stupid-and entertaining and American. (September 2009)
The Price of Love and Other Stories by Peter Robinson- Ever since the publication of his first mystery featuring Detective Inspector Alan Banks, Peter Robinson has been steadily building a reputation for compulsively readable and perceptive novels that probe the dark side of human nature. Plumbing the territory that he has so successfully staked, The Price of Love and Other Stories includes two novellas and several stories featuring the Yorkshire policeman at his finest. (September 2009)
Love and Summer by William Trevor – The inimitable William Trevor returns with a story of suspicion, guilt, forbidden love and the possibility of starting over. (September 2009)
Dark Mirror by Barry Maitland – Newly promoted to Detective Inspector, Kathy Kolla of the Serious Crimes Unit is called in by the forensic pathologist regarding the recent sudden death of a London student from what he’s determined to be arsenic poisoning. Marion Summers had no reason to be in contact with arsenic and, though once common, arsenic is now very hard to get hold of. The more Kolla investigates, the more she discovers that certain other things about Summers are also unusual. (September 2009)Â
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Musicand Nightfall by Kashuo Ishigaro – One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character. (September 2009)
Dexter by Design by Jeff Lindsay- (September 2009)
Vampire a Go-Go by Victor Gischler – Gischler is a master of the class-act literary spoof, and his work has drawn comparison to that of Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, and Thomas Pynchon. Now, Gischler turns his attention to werewolves, alchemists, ghosts, witches, and gun-toting Jesuit priests in Vampire a Go-Go, a hilarious romp of spooky, Gothic entertainment. (September 2009)
The Lost Country by William Gay - Follows four people on the road: a young sailor hitchhiking to Tennessee from the West Coast, a one-armed con-man, a kid dodging the law, and an enigmatic young woman who has fled her sordid and abusive home life. Everybody’s looking for something — redemption, revenge, a moment of grace — and their separate paths will eventually intersect in the town of Ackerman’s Field, where these four disparate storylines will be inextricably drawn together. Southern Gothic. (September 2009)
The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny – When the body of an unknown old man turns up in a bistro in Agatha-winner Penny’s excellent fifth mystery set in the Quebec village of Three Pines, Chief Insp. Armand Gamache investigates. (September 2009)
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood – The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power. (September 2009) 
The Anthologist by Nicholas Baker – Narrated by Paul Chowder — a once-in-a-while-published kind of poet who is writing the introduction to a new anthology of poetry. He’s having a hard time getting started because his career is floundering, his girlfriend Roz has recently left him, and he is thinking about the great poets throughout history who have suffered far worse and deserve to feel sorry for themselves. He has also promised to reveal many wonderful secrets and tips and tricks about poetry, and it looks like the introduction will be a little longer than he’d thought. What unfolds is a wholly entertaining and beguiling love story about poetry. (September 2009)
Spooner by Pete Dexter – This is the story of the lifelong tie between the two men, poles apart, of Spooner’s troubled childhood, troubled adolescence, violent and troubled adulthood and Calmer Ottosson’s inexhaustible patience, undertaking a life-long struggle to salvage his step-son, a man he will never understand. (September 2009)
Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem (September 2009)
Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates (September 2009)
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger - (September 2009)
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville – A stunning follow-up to her Commonwealth Writers’ Prize-winning book, The Secret River, Grenville’s The Lieutenant is a gripping story about friendship, self-discovery, and the power of language set along the unspoiled shores of 1788 New South Wales. (September 2009)Â
The Little Death by P.J. Parrish – (September 2009)
The Promised World by Lisa Tucker – A riveting story of suspense about a literature professor whose carefully constructed life is shattered after the death of her twin brother and the unraveling of the secret world they shared. (September 2009)
The Law of Nines by Terry Goodkind – (September 2009)
A Change of Altitude by Anita Shreve (September 2009)
The Million Dollar Demise by R.M. Johnson – Follow up to last year’s The Million Dollar Deception (September 2009)Â
Dragon House by John Shors - Novel of the street children of contemporary Vietnam. (September 2009)
New World Monkey by Nancy Mauro – A witty, dark, and cunningly crafted literary debut. (September 2009)
The Coral Thief by Rebecca Stott – (September 2009)
Hot House Orchid by Stuart Woods – A brand-new page-turning Holly Barker novel. (September 2009)
Evil for Evil by James R. Benn – Fourth Bill Boyle War War II adventure novel (September 2009)
The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws by Margaret Drabble (September 2009)
The Golden City by John Twelve Hawks (September 2009)
The Price of Malice by Archer Mayor - New Joe Gunther novel. (September 2009)
Beneath the Bleeding by Val McDermid - Â (September 2009)
Poisonville by Massimo Carlotto – A noir thriller par excellence-there’s murder, moral ambiguity, and a protagonist less than heroic. In this #1 bestselling noir novel, however, the killer is not an individual but an entire system.
(September 2009)
The Lost Art of Gratitude by Alexander Mccall Smith – Sixth novel to feature Scottish philosopher Isabel Dalhousie. (September 2009)Â
Risk by Colin Harrison – George Young never thought of himself as a detective, but that’s pretty much his vocation–an attorney for a top insurance firm, it’s his job to pin down suspicious claims. But Mrs. Corbett, the rich, eccentric wife of the firm’s founder, has it in mind to put George’s skills to a peculiar assignment. (September 2009)
All My Enemies by Barry Maitland (September 2009)
Past Imperfect by Julian Fellowes -Nearly forty years later, the narrator hates Damian Baxter and would gladly forget their disastrous last encounter. But if it is pleasant to hear from an old friend, it is more interesting to hear from an old enemy, and so he accepts an invitation from the rich and dying Damian, who begs him to track down the past girlfriend whose anonymous letter claimed he had fathered a child during that ruinous debutante season. (September 2009)
Evil at Heart by Chelsea Cain – Gretchen Lowell is still on the loose. These days, she’s more of a cause célèbre than a feared killer, thanks to sensationalist news coverage that has made her a star. Her face graces magazine covers weekly and there have been sightings of her around the world. Most shocking of all, Portland Herald reporter Susan Ward has uncovered a bizarre kind of fan club, which celebrates the number of days she’s been free. (September 2009)
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