Hardcover
The Forgotten Waltz - Fiction
W. W. Norton & Company | 9780393072556 | Published October 3, 2011
Gina Moynihan remembers her affair with "the love of her life," Seán Vallely, while awaiting the arrival of Seán's fragile, 12-year-old daughter, Evie --- the complication, and gravity, of this second life.
Cain - Fiction
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 9780547419893 | Published October 4, 2011
In this, his last novel, Jose Saramago daringly reimagines the characters and narratives of the Bible through the story of Cain. Condemned to wander forever after he kills Abel, he is whisked around in time and space.
Falling Together
William Morrow | 9780061670879 | Published October 4, 2011
A remarkable friendship ended abruptly, only to be resurrected in great need years later at a college reunion. This launches three formerly devoted companions and reluctant family members alike on a sobering, enlightening journey across the world and through the past.
Headstone: A Jack Taylor Novel - Fiction, Mystery
Mysterious Press | 9780802126009 | Published October 4, 2011
An elderly priest is nearly beaten to death and a special-needs boy is brutally attacked. Evil has many guises and Jack Taylor has encountered most of them. But nothing before has ever truly terrified him until he confronts an evil coterie named Headstone, who have committed a series of random, insane, violent crimes in Galway, Ireland.
Lionheart - Fiction, Historical Fiction
A Marian Wood Book/Putnam | 9780399157851 | Published October 4, 2011
Sharon Kay Penman has written a powerful story about the accomplished and controversial son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine --- Richard, Coeur de Lion --- set against the rich textures of the Holy Land.
Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings - History, Nonfiction
Ballantine Books | 9780345521330 | Published October 4, 2011
Murder Unleashed - Fiction, Mystery
Ballantine Books | 9780345511836 | Published October 4, 2011
Jeep, Mags, Baxter and King are back for another Wild West adventure --- this time to save a community of abandoned Reno houses --- in the bighearted second book of the newest bestselling canine mystery series from Rita Mae Brown.
Robert Ludlum's The Ares Decision: A Covert-One Novel -Action Adventure, Fiction
Grand Central Publishing | 9780446699082 | Published October 4, 2011
Covert-One's top operative, army microbiologist Colonel Jon Smith, is sent to investigate an attack in Uganda, and finds evidence of a parasitic infection that for centuries has been causing violent insanity and then going dormant. This time, though, it's different.
Shock Wave: A Virgil Flowers Novel - Fiction, Thriller
Putnam Adult | 9780399157691 | Published October 4, 2011
The superstore chain PyeMart has its sights set on a Minnesota river town, but two very angry groups want to stop it: local merchants fearing for their businesses, and environmentalists predicting ecological disaster. The protests don't seem to be slowing the project, though, until someone decides to take matters into his own hands.
The Cat's Table
Alfred A. Knopf | 9780307700117 | Published October 4, 2011
From Michael Ondaatje: a stunning new novel --- by turns poignant and electrifying --- about the magical, often forbidden, discoveries of childhood and a lifelong journey that begins unexpectedly with a sea voyage.
The Dovekeepers - Fiction, Historical Fiction
Scribner | 9781451617474 | Published October 4, 2011
In 70 CE, 900 Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on a mountain in the Judean desert, Masada. . .two women and five children are believed to have survived. Based on this, Alice Hoffman weaves a tale of four extraordinary women, each of whom has come to Masada by a different path.
The Great Leader - Fiction
Grove Press | 9780802119704 | Published October 4, 2011
On the verge of retirement, Detective Sunderson begins to investigate a hedonistic cult. At first, the self-declared Great Leader seems merely a harmless oddball, but as Sunderson and his 16-year-old sidekick dig deeper, they find him more intelligent and sinister than they realized.
The Lost Angel - Fiction, Thriller
Atria Books | 9781451632798 | Published October 4, 2011
In approximately 72 hours, a little known Middle Eastern terrorist group plans to bring about the end of the world. Convinced that they are the descendents of angels, they believe they are on the verge of at last being returned to heaven.
The Night Strangers - Fiction, Thriller
Crown | 9780307394996 | Published October 4, 2011
In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut. The home's new owners are Chip and Emily Linton and their twin 10-year-old daughters, who hope to rebuild their lives there after Chip, an airline pilot, has to ditch his 70-seat regional jet in Lake Champlain due to double engine failure. The body count? 39.
The Visible Man - Fiction
Scribner | 9781439184462 | Published October 4, 2011
Austin, Texas therapist Victoria Vick has been contacted by a man who believes his situation is unique. But as he reveals himself to her slowly and cryptically, she becomes convinced that he suffers from a complex set of delusions --- he is a scientist who has been using cloaking technology from an aborted government project to render himself nearly invisible.
The Voyage of the Rose City: An Adventure at Sea -Memoir, Nonfiction
Spiegel & Grau | 9780812982435 | Published October 4, 2011
An honestly written story of a boy’s coming into manhood at sea, THE VOYAGE OF THE ROSE CITY is a taut, thrilling tale of the adventure of a lifetime.
When She Woke - Dystopian, Fiction, Thriller
Algonquin Books | 9781565126299 | Published October 4, 2011
WHEN SHE WOKE is a fable about a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an America of a not-too-distant future --- where the line between church and state has been eradicated and convicted felons are no longer imprisoned and rehabilitated but chromed and released back into the population to survive as best they can.
Black Light - Fiction,Supernatural, Thriller
Mulholland Books | 9780316196710 | Published October 5, 2011
Private eye and exorcist Buck Carlsbad knows something big is coming --- a super high-tech bullet train running express across a stretch of unforgiving desert known for the most deadly paranormal events in history.This is a place where Buck almost died a few years ago, and where he swore he would never return.
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