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October and beyond releases — Click on the cover for reviews.

Alpine Americas by Olaf Soot and Don Mellor (10/2008)
Any Given Doomsday by Lori Handeland (11/04/08)
The Believers by Zoe Heller (3/3/09)
The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly (10/14/08)
Scratch Beginnings by Adam W. Shepard (10/14/08)
Songs for the Missing by Stewart O’Nan (10/30/08)
The Tenth Case by Joseph Teller (10/01/08)
Testimony by Anita Shreve (10/08)

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September releases — Click on the cover for reviews.

The Darker Side by Cody Mcfadyen (9/30/08)
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken 9/10/08)
Farworld, Book 1: Water Keep by J. Scott Savage (9/12/08)
Getting the Girl: A Guide to Private Investigation, Surveillance, and Cookery by Susan Juby (9/30/08)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (9/16/08)
Guernica by Dave Boling (9/2/08)
The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent (9/3/08)
Home by Marilynne Robinson (9/2/08)
Imaginary Friends by John Marco and Martin H. Greenberg (9/2/08)
Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott (9/2/08)
My Name Is Number 4 by Ting-xing Ye (9/2/08)
Night Runner by Max Turner (9/9/08 in Canada)
Resistance by Agnes Humbert (9/02/08)
Ritual by Mo Hayder (9/15/08)
The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue (9/22/08)
The Servants by Michael Marshall Smith (9/9/08)
The Shadow of Malabron by Thomas Wharton (8/4/08)
Starclimber by Kenneth Oppel (9/2/08 in Canada)
When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson (9/24/08)

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August releases — Click on the cover for reviews.

The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff (8/5/08)
The Bible Salesman by Clyde Edgerton (8/11/08)
Bookweird by Paul Glennon (8/19/08)
Exit Lines by Joan Barfoot (8/12/08)
Faces of Fear by John Saul (8/12/08)
First Daughter by Eric Van Lustbader (8/19/08)
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson (8/5/08)
Jolted: Newton Starker’s Rules for Survival by Arthur Slade (8/11/08)
The Road Home by Rose Tremain (8/28/08)
Sweetsmoke by David Fuller (8/26/08)
Takeover by Lisa Black (8/5/08)
Tomato Girl by Jayne Pupek (8/26/08)
The White Mary by Kira Salak (8/5/08)

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July releases — Click on the cover for reviews.

Aberrations by Penelope Przekop (7/1/08)
Fractured by Karin Slaughter (7/29/08)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (7/29/08)
House and Home by Kathleen Mccleary (7/1/08)
The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry (7/29/08)
The Map Thief by Heather Terrell (7/29/08)
Mosquito by Roma Tearne (7/29/08)
Nightwalker by Jocelynn Drake (7/29/08)
Say Goodbye by Lisa Gardner (7/15/08)
The Seance by Iain Lawrence (7/8/08)
So Long at the Fair by Christina Schwarz (7/8/08)
Undiscovered Country by Lin Enger (7/3/08)

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June releases — Click on the cover for reviews.

America America by Ethan Canin (6/24/08)
The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer (6/1/08)
Gone by Michael Grant (6/24/08)
The House at Midnight by Lucie Whitehouse (6/3/08)
Island of Eternal Love by Daina Chaviano (6/12/08)
Loose Girl by Kerry Cohen (6/3/08)
The Loveliest Woman in America by Bibi Gaston (6/10/08)
Made in the U.S.A. by Billie Letts (6/19/08)
Mistress of the Sun by Sandra Gulland (6/3/08)
Moving Forward: Taking the Lead in Your Life by Dave Pelzer (6/24/08)
Mr. Fooster Traveling on a Whim by Tom Corwin and Craig Frazier (6/17/08)
The Murder Notebook by Jonathan Santlofer (6/3/08)
Queen of the Road by Doreen Orion (6/3/08)
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (06/12/08)
The Sister by Poppy Adams (6/17/08)
Summer Blowout by Claire Cook (6/3/08)
Vows of Silence by Susan Hill (6/17/08)
The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton (6/17/08)

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May releases — Click on the cover for reviews.

Apples and Oranges by Marie Brenner (5/13/08)
Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen (5/27/08)
Breath by Tim Winton (5/27/08)
A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif (5/20/08)
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway (5/15/08)
Comfort Food by Kate Jacobs (5/6/08)
The Crossroads by Chris Grabenstein (5/27/08)
The Eyes of a King by Catherine Banner (5/27/08)
The Fisher Boy by Anable (5/10/08)
Killing Rommel by Steven Pressfield (5/6/08)
Madapple by Christina Meldrum (5/13/08)
Newton and the Time Machine by Michael McGowan (5/13/08)
The Prince of Frogtown by Rick Bragg (5/6/08)
Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian (5/6/08)
The Space Between Before and After by Jean Reynolds Page (5/13/08)
Stone Creek by Victoria Lustbader (5/27/08)
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April releases — Click on the cover for reviews.

The Arthurian Omen by G. G. Vandagriff (4/2/08)
Belly of the Whale by Linda Merlino (4/1/08)
Belong to Me by Marisa De Los Santos (4/1/08)
Bulls Island by Dorothea Benton Frank (4/8/08)
Chloe Anne by Valerie Oblath (4/4/08)
Daughters of the North by Sarah Hall (4/1/08)
The End of East by Jen Sookfong Lee (4/29/08)
The Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber (4/01/08)
The Girl with No Shadow by Joanne Harris (4/1/08)
The House at Riverton by Kate Morton (4/22/08)
Janeology by Karen Harrington (4/1/08)
Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay (3/3/08)
Laughing without an Accent by Firoozeh Dumas (4/29/08)
The Mayor’s Tongue by Nathaniel Rich (4/17/08)
Months and Seasons by Christopher Meeks (4/7/08)
My Beautiful Idol by Pete Gall
Outlander by Gil Adamson (4/15/08)
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich (4/29/08)
The Resurrectionist by Jack O’Connell (4/8/08)
The Story of Forgetting by Stefan Merrill Block (4/1/08)
The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer (4/29/08)
Things I Want My Daughters to Know by Elizabeth Noble (4/8/08)
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale (4/15/08)
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (4/1/08)
When Answers Aren’t Enough by Matt Rogers (4/1/08)
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (4/22/08)
Winter Haven by Athol Dickson (4/1/08)

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March releases — Click on the cover for reviews.

Another Thing to Fall by Laura Lippman (3/11/08)
Barnacle Love by Anthony De Sa (3/18/08 in Canada)
Black Ships by Jo Graham (3/10/08)
Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult (3/4/08)
Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana by Anne Rice (3/4/08)
Compulsion by Jonathan Kellerman (3/25/08)
Dervishes by Beth Helms (3/4/08)
Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell (3/11/08)
Empress of Asia by Adam Lewis Schroeder (3/18/08)
A Foreign Affair by Caro Peacock (3/25/08)
The Girl in Saskatoon by Sharon Butala (3/30/08)
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan (3/4/08)
No One Heard Her Scream by Jordan Dane (3/25/08)
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (3/25/08)
Outcast by Sadie Jones (3/11/08)
Procession of the Dead by D. B. Shan (3/3/08 in UK/Canada)
The Ravine by Paul Quarrington (3/11/08)
Sitting Practice by Caroline Adderson (3/11/08)
Tarnished Beauty by Cecilia Samartin (3/18/08)
The Translator by Daoud Hari (3/18/08)

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February releases — Click on the cover for reviews.

Before Green Gables by Budge Wilson (2/21/08)
The Bleeding Dusk by Colleen Gleason (2/5/08)
Breathless in Bombay by Murzban F. Shroff
Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah (2/5/08)
A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz (2/12/08)
Friend of the Devil by Peter Robinson (2/26/08)
Have You Found Her by Janice Erlbaum (2/12/08)
Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen by Susan Gregg Gilmore (2/12/08)
Losing It by Valerie Bertinelli (2/25/08)
The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff (2/5/08)
Quirks and Quarks Guide to Space by Jim Lebans (2/19/08)
Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella (2/26/08)
Resistance by Owen Sheers (2/19/08)
Ringside, 1925: Views from the Scopes Trial by Jen Bryant (2/12/08)
The Secret Scroll by Ronald Cutler (2/1/08)
The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes (2/5/08)
Springtime on Mars by Susan Woodring (2/29/08)
The Triumph of Deborah by Eva Etzioni-Halevy (2/26/08)
Valentines by Ted Kooser (2/1/08)

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January releases — Click on the cover for reviews.

Anatomy of a Deception by Lawrence Goldstone (1/29/08)
Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis (1/29/08)
Atomic Lobster by Tim Dorsey (1/22/08)
Becky by Lenore Hart (1/8/08)
Dear John by Norma L. Betz (1/26/08)
Detective Story by Imre Kertesz (1/22/08)
Keeper and Kid by Edward Hardy (1/08/08)
Leftovers by Laura Wiess (1/1/08)
The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan (1/8/08)
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (1/1/08)
River by Lowen Clausen (1/15/08)
The Secret Between Us by Barbara Delinsky (1/22/08)
Ships without a Shore: America’s Undernurtured Children by Anne Pierce (1/28/08)
The Winter Rose by Jennifer Donnelly (1/8/08)

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