Child Care&ParentingCROWNThe Trouble with Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and Educators Must Do (Sept., $24.95) by Peg Tyre points to a decline in the education of American boys and suggests ways of dealing with the problem. 75,000 first printing.DIAMEDICA(dist. by PGW)The Resilient Child: Seven Essential Lessons for Your Child’s Happiness and Success (Sept., $14.95) by George S. Everly Jr. focuses on teaching stress management.DUTTONMother Warriors: A Nation of Parents Healing Autism Against All Odds (Sept., $24.95) by Jenny McCarthy recounts the author’s journey as an autism advocate and shares parents’ recovery stories.FIREFLYAmazing Baby (Oct., $40) by Desmond Morris provides a biological tour of a baby’s first two years.JOSSEY-BASSSparks: How Parents Can Ignite the Hidden Strengths of Teenagers (Sept., $24.95) by Peter L. Benson advocates viewing teens not as problems but as young men and women with unique developmental assets.ZONDERVANMultiple Blessings (Oct., $19.99) by Kate Gosselin and Beth Carson tells the story of one couple, parents of twins and sextuplets born three years apart.Contemporary Affairs
ARCADE
The Johns: The Men Who Buy and Sell Women (Feb., $26) by Victor Malarek follows The Natashas with an examination of the men who fuel the sexual enslavement of women.
BASIC BOOKS
America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy (Sept., $27.50) by Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft defines the international challenges facing the next U.S. president.
BEACON PRESS
Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants (Sept., $25.95) by David Bacon argues for new ways to consider and legislate immigration.
The Opinion Makers: An Insider Reveals How Media Polls Distort Elections and Manipulate Democracy (Sept., $24.95) by David W. Moore.
BLOOMSBURY PRESS
A Falling Off the Edge: Travels Through the Dark Heart of Globalization (Oct., $25) by Alex Perry journeys through the world’s most dangerous hot spots. 40,000 first printing.
BROOKINGS INSTITUTION PRESS
The Search for al Qaeda: Its Leadership, Ideology, and Future (Dec., $26.95) by Bruce Riedel provides a strategy for dealing with and defeating this menace.
COLUMBIA UNIV. PRESS
The Terrorist in Search of Humanity (Nov., $25) by Faisal Devji analyzes new forms of militancy.
CONTINUUM PUBLISHING
No Time to Think: How 24-Hour News Hijacks Our Brains and Puts Us at Risk (Oct., $22.95) by Howard Rosenberg and Charles Feldman measures the effects of the 24-hour news cycle.
COUNTRYMAN PRESS
(dist. by W.W. Norton)
Vanishing Borderlands: The Fragile Landscape of the U.S.-Mexican Border (Sept., $29.95) by John Annerino considers the flawed policy threatening this issue.
CROWN
The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower (Sept., $25.95) by Robert Baer looks at Iran’s unchecked growth. 100,000 first printing.
CROWN FORUM
The New Ann Coulter (Oct., $27.95) by Ann Coulter gathers new original commentary from the conservative correspondent. 1 million first printing.
DA CAPO PRESS
Big Boy Rules: In the Company of America’s Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq (Nov., $26) by Steve Fainaru follows a group of American security contractors in Iraq.
GRAND CENTRAL
Who Survives: How Ordinary People Overcome Extraordinary Challenges (Jan., $25.99) by Ben Sherwood explores stories of human survival.
HARMONY
The Inheritance (Jan., $24.95) by David Sanger examines the Bush administration’s impact on global politics. 100,000 first printing.
HARVARD UNIV. PRESS
Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: The Future of the Middle East (Nov., $27.95) by Gilles Kepel spotlights the flaws in dominant worldviews.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America (Sept., $26) by Paul Tough describes one man’s daring and transformative social experiment. 30,000 first printing.
Mrs. Astor Regrets (Dec., $28) by Meryl Gordon looks behind the gates of the house of Astor. 50,000 first printing.
HYPERION
The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small: Letters to Our Grandchildren (Sept., $19.95) by Marian Wright Edelman examines what has been and what should be done to ensure children’s safety. 100,000 first printing.
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV. PRESS
Fixing Global Finance (Nov., $24.95) by Martin Wolf examines international finance and offers solutions to its problems.
KAPLAN PUBLISHING
The Good, the Bad, and the Very Ugly (Oct., $24.95) by Lou Capozzi and Elizabeth Krupnick. Two PR power brokers reveal the darker side of corporate America by profiling the real world of CEOs.
LYONS PRESS
Green, Inc.: An Environmental Insider Reveals How a Good Cause Has Gone Bad (Sept., $24.95) by Christine MacDonald exposes the hypocritical inner workings of many green organizations.
Operation Hotel California: The Clandestine War Inside Iraq (Nov., $24.95) by Mike Tucker with Charles Faddis. The man who led a 2003 mission inside Iraq tells of the CIA’s secret plans for the invasion.
MCGRAW-HILL
The Innovator’s Prescription (Sept., $32.95) by Clayton Christensen et al. tackles the issue of health care innovation.
METROPOLITAN BOOKS
The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism (Sept., $23) by Andrew Bacevich takes a new approach to breaking America’s political gridlock.
NEW HORIZON PRESS
(dist. by PGW)
Courageous Journey: Walking the Lost Boys Path from the Sudan to America (Sept., $24.95) by Ayuel Leek Deng et al. recounts their harrowing trek from Darfur to the U.S.
NEW SOCIETY PUBLISHERS
(dist. by Perseus)
Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher’s Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling (Jan., $15.95) by John Taylor Gatto examines the transformation of schooling from a 12-year jail sentence to freedom to learn.
NYU PRESS
Test-Tube Families: Why the Fertility Industry Needs Legal Regulation (Feb., $29.95) by Naomi Cahn considers the laws regulating this industry.
OTHER PRESS
Madame Prosecutor: Confrontations with Humanity’s Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity (Jan., $27.95) by Carla Del Ponte with Chuck Sudetic chronicles a U.N. chief prosecutor’s career.
OXFORD UNIV. PRESS
The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One (Feb., $27.95) by David Kilcullen surveys war post-9/11.
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
India Express: The Future of the New Superpower (Sept., $26.95) by Daniel Lak analyzes India’s emergence as a major global player.
POTOMAC BOOKS
(dist. by Books Int’l)
The Cure for Our Broken Political Process: How We Can Get Our Politicians to Resolve the Issues Tearing Our Country Apart (Oct., $19.95) by Sol Erdman and Lawrence Susskind.
PROMETHEUS BOOKS
Will Terrorists Go Nuclear? (Sept., $26.95) by Brian Michael Jenkins considers methods to defuse the threat.
REGNERY
The Nugent Manifesto (Oct., $27.95) by Ted Nugent praises Americanism, God and guns, and deplores “pantywaist politicians.”
Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam Is Subverting America Without Guns or Bombs (Nov., $27.95) by Robert Spencer asserts that a silent but lethal movement is advancing on the U.S
RODALE
Where War Lives (Sept., $25.95) by Paul Watson describes conflicts from the front lines. 60,000 first printing.Author tour.
ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
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Progressive and Religious: How Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and Buddhist Leaders Are Moving Beyond Culture Wars and Transforming American Public Life (Sept., $22.95) by Robert P. Jones focuses on leaders who are building on traditional connections between religion and social justice.
RUTGERS UNIV. PRESS
Flatlined: Resuscitating American Medicine (Feb., $26.95) by Guy L. Clifton, M.D., proposes a solution to the health care crisis.
SPIEGEL & GRAU
We Have Nothing to Envy (Jan., $24.95) by Barbara Demick studies North Korea through the lives of six ordinary citizens. 60,000 first printing. Author tour.
STERLING
What Matters (Sept., $27.95) by David Elliott Cohen highlights current social issues through photo essays. Author tour.
ST. MARTIN’S
A Promise to Ourselves: Fatherhood, Divorce and Family Law (Sept., $25.95) by Alec Baldwin offers personal insights on coping with divorce.
They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It (Sept., $23.95) by Brigitte Gabriel warns that the West must stop the growth of radical Islam.
ST. MARTIN’S/THOMAS DUNNE
Poison Pills (Sept., $25.95) by Tom Nesi probes the untold story of Vioxx, the biggest pharmaceutical industry scandal of our time.
TEXAS A&M UNIV. PRESS
The Gods of Diyala: Transfer of Command in Iraq (Oct., $35) by Caleb S. Cage and Gregory M. Tomlin offers a soldier’s-eye view of the second phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
UNIV. OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine (Sept., $18.95) by Marion Nestle recounts the consumer recall and international safety crisis of imported goods.
UNIV. OF MICHIGAN PRESS
Chic Ironic Bitterness (Sept., $25.95) by R. Jay Magill Jr. reflects on irony in contemporary America.
UNIV. OF TEXAS PRESS
Exodus/Éxodo (Sept., $50) by Charles Bowden, photos by Julián Cardona, documents the issue of Mexican illegal immigration.
VERSO BOOKS
The Thin Blue Line: How Humanitarianism Went to War (Sept., $26.95) by Conor Foley explores how the doctrine of humanitarian intervention has been used to allow states to invade other nations.
VIKING
Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street (Jan., $27.95) by Michael Davis explains how the longest-running children’s show revolutionized the presentation of education on TV.
WILEY
The Case Against Israel’s Enemies (Oct., $25.95) by Alan Dershowitz argues that Hamas and other Palestinian terrorists are not Israel’s greatest threat.
YALE UNIV. PRESS
The Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous: Fighting to Save a Way of Life in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina (Sept., $24) by Ken Wells recounts one family’s experience during and after the storm.
Cookbooks, Wine & Entertaining
AGATE SURREY
(dist. by PGW)
Tastings: A Life in Wine (Nov., $26) by Anthony Terlato chronicles the life of the well-known oenophile.
AMERICAN EXPRESS
(dist. by Sterling)
Best of the Best, Vol. 11: The Best Recipes from the 25 Best Cookbooks of the Year (Sept., $29.95) by the editors of Food & Wine magazine draws from such books as Bobby Flay’s Mesa Grill Cookbook and Cook with Jamie by Jamie Oliver.
AMERICA’S TEST KITCHEN
The America’s Test Kitchen Family Baking Book (Oct., $35.95) by the editors of America’s Test Kitchen offers advice for baking at home. 100,000 first printing. 25-city tour.ANDREWS MCMEEL
The Art & Soul of Baking (Oct., $40) by Sur La Table and Cindy Mushet covers baking ingredients and equipment as well as more than 250 recipes.
ARTISAN
A Platter of Figs (Sept., $35) by David Tanis advocates eating at home instead of in restaurants.
Under Pressure, Sous Vide: The Art and Science (Oct., $75) by Thomas Keller demystifies this cooking technique.
BARRON’S
Wild, Wild East: Recipes and Stories from Vietnam (Sept., $29.99) by Bobby Chinn serves as a guide to the authentic cuisine.
BOREALIS BOOKS
Fried: Surviving Two Centuries in Restaurants (Sept., $22.95) by Steve Lerach weaves together restaurant legend and lore.
GEORGINA CAMPBELL GUIDES
(dist. by Interlink)
From Tide to Table: All You Need to Know About Buying, Preparing, and Cooking Irish Seafood (Nov., $25) by Georgina Campbell.
CHRONICLE BOOKS
Baking for All Occasions: A Treasury of Recipes for Every Celebration (Nov., $35) by Flo Braker presents more than 200 baked goods.
CICO BOOKS
(dist. by Ryland Peters & Small)
William Yeoward on Entertaining (Sept., $40) by William Yeoward outlines 21 table settings and menus.
CONRAN
(dist. by Sterling)
The Bibendum Cookbook (Nov., $29.95) collects classic recipes by Simon Hopkinson and seasonal recipes by Matthew Harris from this celebrated London eatery.
CUMBERLAND HOUSE
The Military Wives’ Cookbook (Oct., $19.95) by Carolyn Quick Tillery pays tribute to the women on the home front.
DK PUBLISHING
The Modern Baker (Sept., $40) by Nick Malgieri. The James Beard winner covers both sweet and savory baked goods. Author tour.
ECCO
Spain... A Culinary Road Trip (Nov., $34.95) by Mario Batali with Gwyneth Paltrow maps an eating tour of Spain. 150,000 first printing.
FLAMMARION
Decadent Desserts: Recipes from Chateau Vaux-le-Vicomte (Sept., $45) by Countess Cristina de Vogüé presents dishes from the site that was the inspiration for Versailles.
GIBBS SMITH
Great Chefs Cook Vegan (Sept., $35). Linda Long. Thomas Keller, Eric Ripert and Charlie Trotter are among those represented.
Food Festivals of Italy: Celebrated Recipes from 50 Food Festivals Across Italy (Oct., $35) by James O. Fraioli and Leonardo Curti.
DAVID R. GODINE
Elizabeth David’s Christmas (Oct., $25) by Elizabeth David combines essays with practical recipe suggestions.
GOOD BOOKS
Fix-It and Forget-It Big Cookbook: 1,400 Best Slow-Cooker Recipes (Oct., $29.95) by Phyllis Pellman Good culls favorites from the five-volume series.
HARCOURT
Raising Steaks: The Life and Times of American Beef (Oct., $26) by Betty Fussell sets out to corral our most iconic food. Author tour.
HARVARD COMMON PRESS
(dist. by NBN)
Wine Mondays (Oct., $24.95) by Frank McClelland and Christie Matheson explains how best to pair wine with food. 25,000 first printing.
HYPERION
Jamie at Home: Cook Your Way to the Good Life (Nov., $37.50) by Jamie Oliver serves as a companion book to his new Food Network show. 175,000 first printing.
INTERLINK
The Paris Neighborhood Cookbook: Danyel Couet’s Guide to the City’s Ethnic Cuisines (Sept., $35) by Danyel Couet visits a variety of kitchens, markets, shops and restaurants.
KEY PORTER BOOKS
(dist. by PGW)
Gordon Ramsay, Three-Star Chef (Sept., $65) by Gordon Ramsay serves up more fare from the TV chef. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.
KODANSHA INT’L.
Nobu Miami: The Party Cookbook (Nov., $39.95) by Nobu Matsuhisa and Thomas Buckley introduces finger foods and party dishes from the Florida restaurant.
LANNOO
(dist. by Antique Collectors’ Club)
Just Cooking: Kristof & Stefan Boxy (Sept., $75) spells out recipes from the culinary twins.
MEREDITH BOOKS
Dining In (Oct., $24.95) by Gerry Garvin. The TV One host suggests more than 150 recipes
Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book, Limited Edition 14th Edition (Nov., ring-bound $29.95) by Gayle Butler collects winners of the Prize Tested Recipe Contest.
MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESS
(dist. by Univ. of Chicago Press)
Come One, Come All: Easy Entertaining with Seasonal Menus (Oct., $29.95) by Lee Svitak Dean collects more than 150 simple recipes.
MONSOON BOOKS
(dist. by Tuttle)
Pairing Wine with Asian Food (Oct., $18.95) by Edwin Soon details which combinations to choose and which to avoid.
W.W. NORTON
Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table—A Collection of Essays from the New York Times (Nov., $24.95), edited by Amanda Hesser. Ann Patchett and Billy Collins are among the contributors.
OXMOOR HOUSE
Southern Living Cookbook: America’s Best Home Cooking (Sept., $34.95) by Southern Living magazine. Features some 1,300 recipes and 500 photos; includes CD-ROM. 155,000 first printing. 6-city author tour.
New Flavors for Vegetables: Classic Recipes Redefined, ...Appetizers..., ...Desserts... and ...Chicken... (Nov., $22.95 each) by Williams-Sonoma introduce a series demonstrating unexpected taste combinations. 30,000 each first printing.
PHAIDON PRESS
dist. by Hachette Book Group)
A Day at El Bulli (Oct., $49.95) by Ferran Adrià et al. takes the reader to what has been called the best restaurant in the world. Author tour.
CLARKSON POTTER
Giada’s Kitchen: New Everyday Favorites (Sept., $32.50) by Giada De Laurentiis cooks up more than 100 original recipes. 600,000 first printing.
Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics: How to Get Great Flavor from Simple Ingredients (Oct., $35) by Ina Garten focuses on fundamental techniques. 800,000 first printing.
Martha Stewart’s Cooking School: Lessons and Recipes for the Home Cook (Oct., $45) by Martha Stewart details step-by-step instructions. 450,000 first printing.
Rachael Ray’s Big Orange Book: Her Favorite All-New 30-Minute Meals, Veggie Meals, Holiday Menus, Dinners-for-One, Kosher Meals, Rollover Menus and Much, Much More! (Nov., $29.95) by Rachael Ray. 1 million first printing.
QUARRY BOOKS
The Gourmet’s Guide to Cooking with Wine: How to Use Wine to Take Simple Recipes from Ordinary to Extraordinary (Sept., $20) by Alison Boteler stresses that wine is an essential ingredient.
READER’S DIGEST BOOKS
Desserts (Oct., $30) by the editors of Reader’s Digest presents more than 250 recipes, from simple to exotic.
ROOKERY PRESS
(dist. by Overlook Press)
Piano, Piano, Pieno: Authentic Food from a Tuscan Farm (Oct., $40) by Susan McKenna Grant celebrates both Tuscany and the slow food movement.
RYLAND PETERS & SMALL
Andrew Jefford’s Wine Course (Sept., $29.95) by Andrew Jefford explores tastes, bouquets and colors of various wines.
SASQUATCH BOOKS
(dist. by PGW)
Cooking with Les Dames d’Escoffier: Recipes and Food Wisdom from the Women Who Shape the Way We Eat and Drink (Oct., $35), edited by Marcella Rosene with Pat Mozersky, collects wisdom from Alice Waters, Julia Child, Marcella Hazan et al.
SCRIBNER
Chef Jeff Cooks (Oct., $27) by Jeff Henderson coincides with the debut of The Chef Jeff Project on the Food Network. 125,000 first printing.
SELLERS PUBLISHING
500 Cocktails and 500 Pizzas and Flatbreads (Oct., $15.95 each) by Wendy Sweetser and Rebecca Baugniet, respectively, offer advice and recipes.
SIMON & SCHUSTER
The Best Life Diet Cookbook: More than 100 Delicious, Convenient, Family-Friendly Recipes (Jan., $24) by Bob Greene. Oprah will continue endorsing him this year and next. 350,000 first printing. 10-city author tour.
SIXTH & SPRING
(dist. by Sterling)
It’s 5 O’clock Somewhere: The Global Guide to Fabulous Cocktails (Oct., $19.95) by Colleen Mullaney promotes international libations.
STERLING
Windows on the World Complete Wine Course: 2009 Edition (Oct., $24.95) by Kevin Zraly adds 16 pages of quizzes to test wine knowledge.
STERLING/HEARST
Good Housekeeping The Great Christmas Cookie Swap Cookbook: 60 Big-Batch Recipes to Bake and Share (Nov., $12.95) by the editors of Good Housekeeping encourages culinary joy and camaraderie.
STEWART, TABORI & CHANG
Jacques Torres’ A Year in Chocolate: 80 Recipes for Holidays and Celebrations (Nov., $35) by Jacques Torres and Judith Choate covers every holiday from New Year’s Day to Christmas.
Sylvia Weinstock’s Sensational Cakes (Nov., $45) by Sylvia Weinstock includes basic recipes for cakes, fillings and icings.
ST. MARTIN’S
Carmine’s Family-Style Cookbook (Oct., $29.95) by Michael Ronis with Mary Goodbody provides an insider’s look at the popular New York City restaurant.
TAUNTON PRESS
Chanterelle: The Story and Recipes of a Restaurant Classic (Oct., $50) by David Waltuck and Andrew Friedman. An award-winning restaurateur shares his secrets. 40,000 first printing.
TEN SPEED PRESS
Alinea (Oct., $50) by Grant Achatz debuts recipes from the molecular gastronomy restaurant named by Gourmet as America’s best.
M.T. TRAIN
(dist. by Antique Collectors’ Club)
Comfort Me with Apples (Sept., $25) by John Train reinforces the one-a-day theory.
TUTTLE
The Korean Table: From Barbecue to Bibimbap (Sept., $27.95) by Taekyung Chung et al. teaches how to create Korean meals without fuss.
UNIV. OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Corkscrewed: Adventures in the New French Wine Country (Nov., $24.95) by Robert Camuto journeys to ecologically minded wineries in France.
UNIV. OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS
Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue (Nov., $30) by John Shelton Reed et al. explores recipes, traditions and people who have influenced the slow food dish.
UNIV. OF PITTSBURGH PRESS
The Good Life at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater: Cook Elsie Henderson Remembers the Kaufmanns and Their Spectacular House Built Above the Waterfall ( Sept., $24.95) by Suzanne Martinson contains recipes, menus and behind-the-scenes stories.
UNIV. PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI
New Orleans Cuisine: Fourteen Signature Dishes and Their Histories (Feb., $28), edited by Susan Tucker, dishes up the Crescent City’s culinary mystique.
WESTWINDS PRESS
(dist. by IPS)
Oregon: The Taste of Wine (Nov., $24.95) by Janis Miglavs takes a photographic tour of vineyards and wineries.
WILEY
The Bon Appétit Fast Easy Fresh Cookbook (Oct., $34.95) by Barbara Fairchild follows up on The Bon Appétit Cookbook.
How to Cook Everything, 2nd Edition (Nov., $35) by Mark Bittman provides new information, recipes and illustrations.
WILEY/BETTY CROCKER
Betty Crocker 30-Minute Meals for Diabetes (Sept., $19.95) by the Betty Crocker editors ranges from breakfasts to main meals and desserts.
WILEY/PILLSBURY
Pillsbury Best of the Bake-Off Contest Cookbook: Recipes from America’s Favorite Cooking Contest (Oct., $29.95) by the Pillsbury editors highlights the best of the best.
Fiction/First Novels & Collections
ALGONQUIN BOOKS
Between Here and April (Sept., $23.95) by Deborah Copaken Kogan ponders Elizabeth Burns’s sudden obsession with her childhood friend’s disappearance. 5-city author tour.
BRIDGE WORKS
Chest Pains (Feb., $23.95) by Janet Nichols Lynch. A failed musician turned college music instructor overcomes a midlife crisis and loss of religious faith.
FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX
The Traveler (Nov., $12.95) by Daren Simkin, illus. by Daniel and Daren Simkin, narrates one boy’s search for the perfect life. 50,000 first printing.
GRAND CENTRAL
The Little Giant of Aberdeen County (Jan., $24.99) by Tiffany Baker relates how Truly Plaice—part behemoth, part witch, part Cinderella—comes to terms with her unusual life.
HARCOURT
The Toss of a Lemon (Sept., $26) by Padma Viswanathan envisions the life of a Brahmin woman amid social and political upheaval. 75,000 first printing. Author tour.
HYPERION
Sweetsmoke (Sept., $24.95) by David Fuller centers on a slave working on a Virginia tobacco plantation during the Civil War. 125,000 first printing.
KNOPF
The Gone-Away World (Sept., $24.95) by Nick Harkaway demonstrates how love and friendship survive in a future rife with pirates, mimes, greed and ninjas. 100,000 first printing. Author tour.
LITTLE, BROWN
The Heretic’s Daughter (Sept., $24.99) by Kathleen Kent. A mother and daughter confront persecution during the Salem witch trials.
Beat the Reaper (Jan., $24.99) by Josh Bazell. The New Jersey mob goes after a young ER doctor in the witness protection program.
MACADAM/CAGE
Dream City (Sept., $22) by Brendan Short. In 1930s Chicago, a man pursues a lifelong quest to collect every Big Little Book in existence. Author tour.
MORROW
Ghost Radio (Oct., $25.95) by Leopoldo Gout. A radio host’s ghost-story call-in show opens a doorway into the paranormal. 50,000 first printing.
NOVELLO FESTIVAL PRESS
(dist. by John F. Blair)
Where the Lake Becomes the River (Oct., $22.95) by Kate Betterton examines the impact of the civil rights movement on a Mississippi artist.
OLD STREET PUBLISHING
(dist. by Consortium)
Passenger (Jan., $17.95) by Billie Cowie delineates a man’s relationship with the twin sister living inside him.
OTHER PRESS
A Map of Home (Sept., $24.95) by Randa Jarrar charts an Egyptian-Palestinian woman’s life in the 1980s and 90s.
PARMENIDES PUBLISHING
Pythagorean Crimes (Sept.; $24.95, $14.95 paper) by Tefkros Michaelides merges crime fiction with mathematics in a tale of two friends and the secrets that bind them.
PERMANENT PRESS
Baby Jesus Pawn Shop (Nov., $28) by Lucia Orth depicts Ferdinand Marcos’s Manila through the eyes of a Filipino dissident and his lover, the wife of an American intelligence specialist.
The Night Battles (Dec., $26) by M.F. Bloxam. A troubled historian returns to Sicily to confront her long-buried past.
PUBLISHINGWORKS
(dist. by Revolution Booksellers)
Terminal Neglect (Sept., $24.95) by Michael Rushnak. This medical thriller portrays corrupt pharmaceutical corporations and the villains who run them.
RIVERHEAD
Miles from Nowhere (Jan., $21.95) by Nami Mun. A teenage Korean immigrant living in the Bronx in the 1980s leaves home to fend for herself. Author tour.
SCRIBNER
Downtown Owl (Sept., $24) by Chuck Klosterman spins a narrative of smalltown life. 100,000 first printing.
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIV. PRESS
(dist. by Texas A&M Univ. Press)
The End of the Straight and Narrow (Oct., $22.50) by David McGlynn gathers nine stories that explore how religious faith affects daily life.
SPIEGEL & GRAU
American Rust (Feb., $23.95) by Philipp Meyer centers on two young men who unwittingly commit murder in a dying Pennsylvania steel town. 40,000 first printing. Author tour.
ST. MARTIN’S
Rough and Tumble (Sept., $24.95) by Mark Bavaro. The former NFL tight end fictionalizes the brutal world of professional football.
UNBRIDLED BOOKS
In Hovering Flight (Sept., $24.95) by Joyce Hinnefeld. A grieving 30-something connects with her late mother’s friends to explore the past.
VIKING
The Piano Teacher (Jan., $TBA) by Janice Y.K. Lee alternates between the lives of two women in Hong Kong whose destinies are linked by events of WWII and its aftermath.
Fiction/General & Short Stories
AKASHIC BOOKS
The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx (Oct., $22.95) by Arthur Nersesian. Book Two of the Five Books of Moses series offers an alternate history of New York. Author tour.
ALGONQUIN BOOKS
American Savior: A Novel of Divine Politics (Sept., $24.95) by Roland Merullo depicts Jesus running for president to combat hate. 50,000 first printing.
ALLISON & BUSBY
(dist. by IPM)
The Sword of Revenge: Republic II (Sept., $29.95) by Jack Ludlow. Two men fulfill their destinies in the dangerous days of the Roman republic.
ALMA BOOKS
(dist. by Trafalgar Square/IPG)
Dear Everybody (Sept., $19.95) by Sally Storey traces a short life through a man’s unsent letters.
AMERICAN UNIV. IN CAIRO PRESS
(dist. by IPM)
Khan al-Khalili (Oct., $24.95) by Naguib Mahfouz presents the first English translation of an early novel by the Nobel laureate.
ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS
(dist. by Consortium)
The Great Weaver from Kashmir (Oct., $26) by Halldór Laxness, trans. by Philip Roughton, charts a poet’s journey from Iceland to unsettled post-WWI Europe.
ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS
(dist. by PGW)
The School on Heart’s Content Road (Nov., $24) by Carolyn Chute. The author’s return to Egypt, Maine, finds a group of people living on the margins of society. 35,000 first printing.
ATRIA BOOKS
Extreme Measures (Oct., $27.95) by Vince Flynn. Counterterrorist Hank Casey learns that the U.S. government is about to betray him. 10-city author tour.
Midnight: A Gangster Love Story (Oct., $26) by Sister Souljah. A hustler tries to survive the violent and dangerous streets of Brooklyn. Author tour.
BALLANTINE
The Keepsake (Sept., $26) by Tess Gerritsen. Dr. Maura Isles discovers that mummified remains are those of a recent murder victim. 7-city author tour.
The Fire (Oct., $26) by Katherine Neville follows Alexandra and Haidee’s battle for control over the fate of human civilization. 12-city author tour.
Bones (Oct., $27) by Jonathan Kellerman. Following a grisly trail of bones, Alex Delaware tracks a devious killer.
The Charlemagne Pursuit (Dec., $26) by Steve Berry. Charlemagne’s tomb yields a manuscript that sets off a deadly international quest. 10-city author tour.
BANTAM
The Letters (Sept., $22) by Luanne Rice and Joseph Monninger. This epistolary novel mirrors a couple’s difficult emotional journey. 200,000 first printing.
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’Amour: The Crime Stories, Vol. Six (Oct., $24), by Louis L’Amour gathers 33 yarns. 100,000 first printing.
Your Heart Belongs to Me (Nov., $27) by Dean Koontz. After his heart transplant, Ryan is stalked by the heart’s previous owner. 900,000 first printing.
The Treasure (Dec., $25) by Iris Johansen places characters from Lion’s Bride in a historical epic. 250,000 first printing.
BERKLEY
Dark Curse: A Carpathian Novel (Sept., $24.95) by Christine Feehan revisits the paranormal.
BERKLEY PRAISE
The Blessed: A Novel of the Gifted (Sept., $23.95) by Lisa T. Bergren concludes the trilogy that began with The Begotten and The Betrayed.
BIBLIOASIS
(dist. by Northwestern Univ. Press)
Three Balconies: Stories and a Novella (Sept., $24.95) by Bruce Jay Friedman showcases the Oscar-nominated screenwriter’s imagination.
BLOOMSBURY USA
Guernica (Sept., $26) by Dave Boling presents the Basque town before, during and after its destruction. 50,000 first printing.
BORDERLAND BOOKS
(dist. by Univ. of wisconsin Press)
Goodbye, Wisconsin(Sept., $26) by Glenway Wescott gathers stories by the late expatriate novelist.
BUNIM & BANNIGAN
(dist. by IPS)
Final Judgment (Oct., $20) by Eliot Asinof. As events in the life of a famous author play out, this politically charged work delivers a reproof of the Bush presidency. 25,000 first printing.
CANONGATE U.S.
The Fire Gospel: The Myth of Prometheus (Jan., $20) by Michel Faber details Theo Griepenkerl’s discovery of the fifth Gospel in a looted museum in Iraq.
COLLINSDESIGN
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Sept., $14.95). Calef Brown illustrates F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tale of a man who is born old and ages backward.
COUNTERPOINT
(dist. by PGW)
The Flying Troutmans (Oct., $24) by Miriam Toews follows Hattie’s journey in search of her niece and nephew’s estranged father.
DAFINA
The Man Around the Corner (Feb., $24) by Carl Weber. James Black, a church trustee and womanizer, meets the woman of his dreams.
DALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS
Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction (Oct., $34.95), edited by Alvaro Uribe, trans. by Olivia Sears, collects stories from noted authors.
DELACORTE
A Good Woman (Oct., $27) by Danielle Steel. A 19-year-old girl’s life changes forever with the sinking of the Titanic. 750,000 first printing.
Crossroads (Nov., $26) by Belva Plain. Greed, betrayal and corporate intrigue surface in a New England town. 125,000 first printing.
DIAL
Lima Nights (Dec., $25) by Marie Arana examines obsession and its aftermath, when a Lima, Peru, man leaves his wife after meeting a 16-year-old Peruvian Indian girl.
DOUBLEDAY
Untitled (Jan., $27.95) by John Grisham. 2.8 million first printing.
Basketball Jones (Jan., $21.95) by E. Lynn Harris. Blackmail enters the picture when a married NBA star is discovered to be keeping a male lover. 200,000 first printing. Author tour.
DUTTON
Lulu in Marrakech (Oct., $25.95) by Diane Johnson. Tragic consequences ensue when a CIA operative probes donations to radical charities.
FAITHWORDS
Engaging Father Christmas: A Novella (Oct., $13.99) by Robin Jones Gunn. A woman searching for love finds much more in the arms of a certain Father Christmas.
FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX
Home (Sept., $25) by Marilynne Robinson. Love, death and faith figure in this story of a prodigal son’s return to Gilead. 200,000 first printing. Author tour.
Sea of Poppies (Oct., $26) by Amitav Ghosh. Amid colonial upheaval, Indians and Westerners sail to China’s 19th-century opium wars. 60,000 first printing.
2666 (Nov.; $30, two-volume slipcased paper $30) by Roberto Bolaño. Diverse characters intersect in a fictional city on the U.S.-Mexico border. 65,000 first printing.
FORGE
Rogue Warrior: Dictator’s Ransom (Oct., $24.95) by Richard Marcinko and Jim DeFelice depicts a life-threatening mission in North Korea.
An Irish Country Christmas (Nov., $24.95) by Patrick Taylor. Two doctors in the quaint village of Ballybacklebo are kept busy tending the eccentric residents.
Midnight (Jan., $24.95) by Whitley Strieber explores the realistic possibility of terrorist-driven nuclear warfare.
GRAND CENTRAL
The Book of Lies (Sept., $25.99) by Brad Meltzer. A modern-day father and son are set on the trail of the weapon that Cain used to kill Abel.
The Lucky One (Sept., $24.99) by Nicholas Sparks. A man’s brush with death guides him to the love of his life.
The Gate House (Oct., $27.99) by Nelson DeMille. John Sutter, the protagonist of The Gold Coast, returns after 10 years to Long Island—and trouble.
Robert Ludlum’s The Infinity Affair (Oct., $23.99) by James H. Cobb. Ecological sabotage leads to the discovery of the origin of all life on Earth.
Divine Justice (Nov., $26.99) by David Baldacci. Oliver Stone and the Camel Club are back with a vengeance.
GRAYWOLF PRESS
To Siberia (Oct., $22) by Per Petterson, trans. by Anne Born, centers around a brother and sister caught up in Nazi resistance in Denmark.
GROVE PRESS
Yesterday’s Weather (Sept., $24) by Anne Enright collects stories by the author of The Gathering and What Are You Like?50,000 first printing. 5-city author tour.
The English Major (Oct., $24) by Jim Harrison. A 60-something divorced man sets out on a road trip across America. 50,000 first printing.
HARCOURT
The Eleventh Man (Oct., $26) by Ivan Doig follows the members of a Montana football team who end up fighting in WWII. 75,000 first printing.
Death with Interruptions (Oct., $24) by José Saramago. When death decides to take a holiday, people realize that eternal life has its downside. 75,000 first printing.
Friendly Fire (Nov., $26) by A.B. Yehoshua, trans. by Stuart Schoffman. A long-married couple must separate—he staying in Israel, she traveling to Africa—to attend to family matters.Author tour.
HARPER
Golden Grove (Sept., $24.95) by Francine Prose explores the ramifications of love and loss. 100,000 first printing.
Chicago(Oct., $25.95) by Alaa al Aswany assembles a cast of Americans and Arabs in a story of love, sex and ambition. 50,000 first printing.
Agincourt (Jan., $25.95) by Bernard Cornwell revisits England’s great military victory. 150,000 first printing.
Bella Rosa (Feb., $25.95) by Adriana Trigiani. Valentine Roncalli strives to save a decades-old family business. 200,000 first printing.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
Indignation (Sept., $26) by Philip Roth. In 1951, a New Jersey youngster heads for an Ohio college to escape his father, who seems to have gone mad. 100,000 first printing.
A Guide to the Birds of East Africa (Sept., $22) by Nicholas Drayson explores the follies of people and politicians in Kenya.
HQN BOOKS
A McKettrick Christmas (Nov., $16.95) by Linda Lael Miller. Lizzie McKettrick assists a handsome doctor as he ministers to avalanche victims.
HYPERION
One Fifth Avenue (Sept., $24.95) by Candace Bushnell portrays lives and loves in New York City. 350,000 first printing.
KENSINGTON
What We Remember (Oct., $24) by Michael Thomas. Seattle DA James McCloud faces secrets and lies when the father who disappeared years ago turns up dead.
KNOPF
The Widows of Eastwick (Oct., $24.95) by John Updike. On a lark, Alexandra, Jane and Sukie return to the site of their evil deeds. 200,000 first printing. 6-city author tour.
The Private Patient (Nov., $24.95) by P.D. James. Cmdr. Adam Dalgliesh must investigate another murder. 300,000 first printing.
A Mercy (Nov., $23.95) by Toni Morrison plants its roots in the American past. 300,000 first printing. 4-city author tour.
Heart and Soul (Feb., $25.95) by Maeve Binchy. Dr. Clara Casey reluctantly decides to run a rehab heart clinic. 300,000 first printing.
LITTLE, BROWN
Testimony (Oct., $25.99) by Anita Shreve. Videotaped sexual acts scandalize a New England boarding school.
MACADAM/CAGE
The Lost Country (Oct., $25) by William Gay. Four people on the road converge in a town where their lives will be inextricably linked. Author tour.
MILKWEED EDITIONS
(dist. by PGW)
Driftless (Sept., $24) by David Rhodes portrays a struggle for survival in a small American town.
MIRA
A Cedar Cove Christmas (Oct., $16.95) by Debbie Macomber. Mary’s baby’s father disappears when she is five months pregnant.
MORROW
Anathem (Sept., $29.95) by Neal Stephenson. A man raised with scientists, philosophers and mathematicians in a 3,400-year-old monastery is sent out into the secular world. 250,000 first printing.
Hardly Knew Her (Oct., $23.95) by Laura Lippman collects 16 short stories and one new novella. 50,000 first printing.
The Given Day (Oct., $29.95) by Dennis Lehane. This family epic is set at the end of WWI. 400,000 first printing.
The Black Tower (Sept., $24.95) by Louis Bayard centers on Eugène François Vidocq, a criminal who transformed himself into the world’s first and greatest detective. 75,000 first printing.
W.W. NORTON
The Glass of Time (Oct., $24.95) by Michael Cox. Intrigue, betrayal and murder confound a servant in 19th-century England.
OVERLOOK PRESS
Child of All Nations (Sept., $22.95) by Irmgard Keun. Prior to WWII, a young German refugee wanders with her parents throughout Europe.
PANTHEON
The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday (Sept., $22.95) by Alexander McCall Smith. Isabel Dalhousie investigates a doctor accused of scientific fraud. 8-city author tour.
I See You Everywhere (Oct., $24) by Julia Glass spans 25 years in the lives of two sisters—Louisa, a conscientious student, and the younger, Clem, a rebel. 13-city author tour.
PEGASUS BOOKS
(dist. by W.W. Norton)
The Tragedy of Macbeth, Part II: The Seed of Banquo (Oct., $24) by Noah Lukeman. This sequel to the Scottish play pits Macduff’s son against witches and Macbeth’s long-lost daughter.
PELICAN PUBLISHING
Christmas Stories from the South’s Best Writers (Sept., $15.95), edited by Charline R. McCord and Judy H. Tucker, includes work by Robert Olen Butler and 10 others.
POCKET BOOKS
Finishing Touches (Feb., $24) by Hester Browne. A young woman sets out to transform a failing finishing school. 75,000 first printing.
PUTNAM
Heat Lightning (Sept., $26.95) by John Sandford features Minnesota BCA investigator Virgil Flowers. 500,000 first printing.
Scarpetta (Oct., $26.95) by Patricia Cornwell. Kay Scarpetta leaves Charleston to examine a psychiatric patient in New York’s Bellevue Hospital. 1.5 million first printing.
Arctic Drift: A Dirk Pitt Novel (Nov., $27.95) by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler. A potential breakthrough discovery may reverse global warming. 1.25 million first printing.
Salvation in Death (Nov., $25.95) by Nora Roberts writing as J.D. Robb. Poisoned wine fells a priest. 600,000 first printing.
QUARTET BOOKS
(dist. by Interlink)
By the Rivers of Babylon (Sept., $24.95) by Khalid Kishtainy depicts the Jewish community’s suffering in Iraq.
RANDOM HOUSE
The 19th Wife (Sept., $26) by David Ebershoff combines historical fiction with a modern-day mystery dealing with the Mormon Church. Ad/promo. 15-city author tour.
American Wife (Sept., $26) by Curtis Sittenfeld. In 2000, an ordinary woman who becomes the First Lady must face difficult personal issues. 10-city author tour.
The Whiskey Rebels (Sept., $26) by David Liss. In 1792 Philadelphia, a disgraced spy’s unlikely mission leads him to Alexander Hamilton.
Shanghai Girls (Feb., $25 by Lisa See. In the mid-1930s, two young women in China are betrothed to two men from Los Angeles.
SCRIBNER
Fine, Just the Way It Is (Sept., $25) by Annie Proulx gathers stories set in Wyoming. 150,000 first printing.
A Most Wanted Man (Oct., $28) by John le Carré fictionalizes the German intelligence agencies fighting the war on terror. 300,000 first printing.
Just After Sunset (Nov., $28) by Stephen King collects stories that have appeared in the New Yorker, Playboyand elsewhere. 1.25 million first printing.
SIMON & SCHUSTER
Grace (Oct., $19.95) by Richard Paul Evans. Hope, love and faith propel the bestselling author’s new holiday novel. 10-city author tour.
The Quilter’s Kitchen (Oct., $19.95) by Jennifer Chiaverini continues the quilt series and introduces the new chef, Anna.
SKYHORSE PUBLISHING
(dist. by W.W. Norton)
Our Lady of Greenwich Village (22.95) by Dermot McEvoy. What happens when the Blessed Virgin appears to a GOP congressman?
SMALL BEER PRESS
(dist. by Consortium)
The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories (Oct., $24) by Joan Aiken.
SOURCEBOOKS
To Catch the Lightning: A Novel About American Dreaming (Oct., $25.95) by Alan Cheuse draws on the true story of Edward Curtis, who wished to photograph every Indian tribe in America. Author tour.
ST. MARTIN’S
Being Elizabeth (Sept., $26.95) by Barbara Taylor Bradford. Love and duty collide as a woman runs a powerful business dynasty.
Dark Summer (Oct., $25.95) by Iris Johansen. A devoted veterinarian headlines this thriller.
A Wallflower Christmas (Oct., $16.95) by Lisa Kleypas continues the Wallflower series.
ST. MARTIN’S/THOMAS DUNNE
Godchildren (Sept., $25.95) by Nicholas Coleridge. The godchildren of a charismatic tycoon unite to confront betrayals and lies.
SYRACUSE UNIV. PRESS
The Day My Mother Changed Her Name (Sept., $19.95) by William Kaufman. Autobiographical stories merge the Jewish experience with universal themes.
THRESHOLD EDITIONS
The Christmas Sweater (Nov., $19.95) by Glenn Beck. A dying mother’s gift teaches a young boy the true meaning of giving. 350,000 first printing.
TOUCHSTONE
The Other Queen (Sept., $25.95) by Philippa Gregory. The story of Mary, queen of Scots, from three points of view.
TWELVE
Supreme Courtship (Sept., $25.99) by Christopher Buckley. The U.S. president nominates a popular TV judge for the Supreme Court. 125,000 first printing.
UNIV. OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Spirits in the Grass (Sept., $25) by Bill Meissner juxtaposes baseball, Native American history and religion.
VIKING
Liberty: A Lake Wobegon Novel (Sept., $25.95) by Garrison Keillor. The good, loving residents react to Clint Bunsen’s ambition to run for Congress. 12-city author tour.
Songs for the Missing (Nov., $23.95) by Stewart O’Nan. When a popular high school student disappears, the residents of her small town struggle to maintain hope. 6-city author tour.
Fiction/Mystery & Suspense
ALLISON & BUSBY
(dist. by IPM)
Murder on the Brighton Express: A Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck Mystery (Sept., $29.95) by Edward Marston. Colbeck investigates a derailment on the Brighton Express.
ATRIA BOOKS/STREBOR
Inner City Judge (Sept., $24) by Greg Mathis. Real-life TV host Judge Mathis imagines himself involved in a horrific crime when the body of a black female is discovered in a Detroit alley.
BANTAM
Too Close to Home (Sept., $22) by Linwood Barclay. Secrets from the past surface when a high school student becomes the prime suspect in his parents’ murder.
Blood Sins (Dec., $25) by Kay Hooper. The FBI Special Crimes Unit investigates a rash of murders in which all clues point to the enigmatic Church of the Everlasting Sin.
Deeper than the Dead (Dec., $26) by Tami Hoag. Two children may hold the key to the identity of the “See No Evil Killer.”
BASIC CIVITAS
The Right Mistake: The Further Philosophical Investigations of Socrates Fortlow (Oct., $23) by Walter Mosley revisits the street philosopher after a 10-year hiatus.
BERKLEY PRIME CRIME
Blood Memory (Sept., $24.95) by Margaret Coel stars Catherine McLeod, a Denver Journal investigative reporter.
Fleece Navidad: A Knitting Mystery (Oct., $23.95) by Maggie Sefton. The sixth installment of this series revisits Kelly Flynn and her eclectic knitting circle.
Warning at One (Nov., $21.95) by Ann Purser continues the adventures of Lois Meade, a cleaning lady in a small English village.
CROWN/SHAYE AREHEART
Tethered (Sept., $24) by Amy MacKinnon plunges a young mortician into danger when she links a dead body to an ongoing murder investigation. 75,000 first printing.
DELACORTE
Fade Away (Sept., $22) by Harlan Coben. The third Myron Bolitar thriller appears for the first time in hardcover. 85,000 first printing.
Faefever (Oct., $23) by Karen Marie Moning. In the third Fever title, Sidhe-seer MacKayla Lane embarks on a hunt for an ancient book of magic. 100,000 first printing.
DUTTON
Dying for Revenge (Nov., $25.95) by Eric Jerome Dickey concludes the trilogy centered around hit man Gideon. Author tour.
ECW PRESS
(dist. by IPG)
Darwin’s Nightmare (Oct., $24.95) by Mark Knowles. A career criminal’s one good deed sets off a violent and destructive chain of events.
FORGE
The Archbishop in Andalusia (Nov., $25.95) by Andrew M. Greeley. The prelate John Blackwood Ryan is tasked by a Spanish cardinal with preventing a murder.
Boca Knights (Feb., $24.95) by Steve Forman pits former Boston cop Eddie Perlmutter against a Russian crime ring and neo-Nazis.
FROG BOOKS
(dist. by Random House)
Blackbird, Farewell (Oct., $25.95) by Robert Greer brings investigator C.J. Floyd into a professional sports underworld rife with drugs, point shaving and murder.
HARCOURT
The Goliath Bone (Oct., $25) by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins is the first posthumous Mike Hammer novel.
HARPER
Angel’s Tip (Sept., $23.95) by Alafair Burke probes the underworld of New York City’s nightclub scene. 50,000 first printing.
HENRY HOLT
Eclipse (Jan., $26) by Richard North Patterson focuses on the international intrigue of oil politics in Africa.
KENSINGTON
Antiques Flee Market (Oct., $22) by Barbara Allan. The latest entry in the Trash ’n’ Treasure series follows Brandy Borne into a new adventure.
KNOLL
His Warranty Expired When He Did (Dec., $23) by A.T.R. begins a series in which retired sculptor Lexington Concord Bissle VI and his assistant become sleuths.
LITTLE, BROWN
The Brass Verdict (Oct., $26.99) by Michael Connelly teams defense attorney Mickey Haller with LAPD detective Harry Bosch to solve a Hollywood lawyer’s murder. 750,000 first printing. 10-city author tour.
Cross Country (Nov., $27.99) by James Patterson tracks detective Alex Cross to Africa as he attempts to avenge an old friend’s murder. 1.5 million first printing.
Run for Your Life (Feb., $27.99) by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge pits Det. Mike Bennett against a killer who’s targeting Manhattan’s social elite. 1.25 million first printing.
MCCLELLAND & STEWART
The Brutal Heart (Sept., $32.99) by Gail Bowen. Joanne Kilbourn takes on the case of a murdered call girl who was blackmailing her high-profile clients.
MORROW
All the Colors of Darkness (Jan., $24.95) by Peter Robinson. When a group of children discover a body hanging from a tree, suicide begins to look like murder
NAL/OBSIDIAN
Murder, She Wrote: A Slaying in Savannah (Oct., $21.95) by Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain. The indefatigable Jessica investigates a decades-old Georgia murder.
Mr. Monk Is Miserable (Dec., $21.95) by Lee Goldberg. TV’s famously phobic private detective tackles a new case.
NATION BOOKS
(dist. by Perseus)
Salvation Boulevard (Sept., $24.95) by Larry Beinhart. This thriller examines the intersection of religion, politics and war.
THOMAS NELSON
Sinner (Sept., $24.99) by Ted Dekker ponders the different faces of religion when racially motivated lynchings threaten to tear the country apart.
Kiss (Jan., $24.99) by Ted Dekker and Erin Healy. A woman’s mysterious new powers of memory threaten her father’s presidential campaign.
NEW PRESS
The Pyramid: And Four Other Kurt Wallander Mysteries (Sept., $26.95) by Henning Mankell presents stories that track Wallander’s evolution from a 21-year-old rookie into an experienced detective. 50,000 first printing.
OCEANVIEW PUBLISHING
(dist. by Midpoint Trade)
Stuff Dreams Are Made Of (Sept., $24.95) by Don Bruns. Best pals James Lessor and Skip Moore become undercover Holy Rollers when a suspicious Rev. Preston Cashdollar comes to town.
OVERLOOK PRESS
The Man in the Picture (Sept., $15) by Susan Hill. A professor reveals the secret behind a painting that entraps its viewers.
POISONED PEN PRESS
A Question of Death (Oct., $24.95) by Kerry Greenwood collects stories centered on the author’s 1920s heroine, Phryne Fisher.
Blacklight Blue (Nov., $24.95) by Peter May. Forensic investigator Enzo MacLeod attempts to solve a cold case to protect his family’s well-being.
QUIRK BOOKS
Dracula’s Heir: An Interactive Mystery (Oct., $24.95) by Sam Stall moves Bram Stoker’s tale ahead 10 years, adding removable clues that enable readers to solve the puzzle.
SCRIBNER
The Devil’s Punchbowl (Dec., $26.95) by Greg Iles. This Southern gothic thriller marks the return of prosecutor turned author Penn Cage. 500,000 first printing.
SIMON & SCHUSTER
Night of Thunder (Oct., $26) by Stephen Hunter. Marine Corps master sniper Bob Lee Swagger faces his most diabolical enemy to date. 6-city author tour.
SOHO CONSTABLE
Hold My Hand (Oct., $25) by Serena Mackesy upends Bridget’s life as a manor house caretaker when Rospetroc House’s secrets surface.
Blood Wedding (Dec., $25) by Philip Brooke. A Muslim girl’s death snares sub-inspector Max Romero into a dangerous antiterrorist operation.
SOHO CRIME
The Samaritan’s Secret (Feb., $24) by Matt Beynon Rees. Millions of dollars in Palestinian aid funds are at stake when a member of an ancient Samaritan community is murdered.
ST. MARTIN’S/MINOTAUR
Sweetheart (Sept., $24.95) by Chelsea Cain furthers the showdown between serial killer Gretchen Lowell and journalist Archie Sheridan. 200,000 first printing.
The Catch (Oct., $24.95) by Archer Mayor. Vermont Bureau of Investigation head Joe Gunther uncovers a drug-running operation.
A Spoonful of Poison (Oct., $24.95) by M.C. Beaton. Amateur sleuth Agatha Raisin comes to the rescue when a local church fete turns deadly.
Once Were Cops (Dec., $22.95) by Ken Bruen exposes a psychopathic Irish cop’s dark side when he is teamed with a troubled NYPD cop.
ST. MARTIN’S/MINOTAUR/THOMAS DUNNE
The Draining Lake (Oct., $24.95) by Arnaldur Indridason plunges three inspectors into a murderous tale of Cold War espionage.
Bamboo and Blood (Dec., $23.95) by James Church. Inspector O uncovers a major conspiracy while tracking the killer of a North Korean diplomat’s wife.
TOUCHSTONE
Cruel Intent (Dec., $25.95) by J.A. Jance. When Ali Reynolds hires a contractor to help remodel her home, the last thing she expects is a suspected killer.
VANGUARD PRESS
(dist. by Perseus)
The Spy Who Came for Christmas (Oct., $15.95) by David Morrell combines a spy thriller with an inspirational holiday story. 70,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Author tour.
VIRAGO
(dist. by Trafalgar Square/IPG)
The Virago Book of Ghost Stories (Oct., $25.95) by Richard Dalby gathers chilling tales by such notable writers as Edith Wharton, A.S. Byatt, Ruth Rendell and more.
WIZARDS OF THE COAST DISCOVERIES
Cross County (Sept., $21.95) by Tim Waggoner. The county sheriff must solve a grisly murder that harks back to a series of killings years ago.
YMAA PUBLICATION CENTER
(dist. by NBN)
Tengu, the Mountain Goblin: A Connor Burke Martial Arts Thriller (Oct.; $22.95, paper $12.95) by John Donohue. Burke and Yamashita become embroiled in an international plot as they pursue a foe with al-Qaeda links.
Fall 2008 Hardcovers (Part 2)
Jun 30, 2008
A version of this article appeared in the 06/30/2008 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline:
