June Releases

Place your holds now on these upcoming releases:

Fiction:
City of the Snakes by Darren Shan
The Kingdom by Clive Cussler
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Hit List by Laurell K. Hamilton
Full Black by Brad Thor
Summer Rental by Mary Kay Andrews
Best Staged Plans by Claire Cook
One Summer by David Baldacci
Carte Blanche by Jeffery Deaver
Folly Beach by Dorothea Benton Frank
Sisterhood Everlasting by Ann Brashares
Witches of East End by Melissa de la Cruz
Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich
Fallen by Karin Slaughter
Star Wars: Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn
Learning by Karen Kingsbury
Merciless by Diana Palmer

Nonfiction:
The New Ann Coulter by Ann Coulter
Poisoned Legacy: The Human Cost of BP's Rise to Power by Mike Magner
The Big Fight: My Life In and Out of the Ring by Sugar Ray Leonard
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Fall of a Serial Imposter by Mark Seal

Orange Prize

The Orange Prize shortlist has been announced.  The Orange Prize, celebrating it's 16th year, honors the best fiction written by a woman.

Room by Emma Donoghue

The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna

Great House by Nicole Krauss

The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht

Annabel by Kathleen Winter

Grace Williams Says It Out Loud by Emma Henderson

 

The winner will be announced June 8, 2011.

Pulitzer Prizes

The Pulitzer Prizes were announced earlier this week. 

Fiction:

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

History:

The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner

Biography:

Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow

 

What We're Reading

NPR considers this week's new books in What We're Reading.

Ticket to Paradise

In honor of National Library Week (April 10-16, 2011):

The Library Card As a Pop-Culture Fiend's Ticket to Geek Paradise.

Book Roundup

From USA Today, Nonfiction Books with a Scientific Bent.

Indie Next

Check out the latest recommendations from independent booksellers in the April Indie Next list.

What We're Reading

NPR highlights new books in this week's What We're Reading.

May Releases

Place your holds now on these upcoming releases:

Fiction:
Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris
Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
Sixkill by Robert B. Parker
The Devil's Light by Richard North Patterson
Buried Prey by John Sandford
Those in Peril by Wilbur Smith
A Time for Patriots by Dale Brown
Thunder of Heaven by Tim LaHaye
The Final Storm by Jeff Shaara
The Jefferson Key by Steve Berry
Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Conviction by Aaron Allston
Trader of Secrets by Steve Martini
Dreams of Joy by Lisa See

Nonfiction:
If You Ask Me (And Of Course You Won't) by Betty White
From This Moment On by Shania Twain
Familyhood by Paul Reiser
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson

What We're Reading

NPR highlights new books in this week's What We're Reading.

Best of the Month

Amazon's editors make their selections for the best books of March.

National Book Critics Circle Awards

The winners of the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced last week.

Fiction:

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

Biography:

How to Live: Or, A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell

General Nonfiction:

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

Autobiography:

Half a Life by Darin Strauss

What We're Reading

NPR spotlights new books in What We're Reading.

Indie Next

Check out the recommendations from independent booksellers in the March Indie Next List.

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos

Eye of the Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to Freedom by Rubin "Hurricane" Carter

The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear by Seth Mnookin

Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books by William Kuhn

Lethal Warriors: When the New Band of Brothers Came Home, Uncovering the Tragic Reality of PTSD by David Phillips

April Releases

Place your holds now on these upcoming releases:

Fiction:
I'll Walk Alone by Mary Higgins Clark
Miles to Go by Richard Paul Evans
Secret Life of Damian Spinelli by Dianne Miller
Crunch Time by Diane Mott Davidson
Ghost Story by Jim Butcher
No Rest for the Wicked by David Baldacci, et. al.
Elizabeth I by Margaret George
The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer

44 Charles Street by Danielle Steel
The Sixth Man by David Baldacci
Chasing Fire by Nora Roberts
Save Me by Lisa Scottoline
Mobbed by Carol Higgins Clark
The Silver Boat by Luanne Rice
Eve by Iris Johansen
Treason at Lisson Grove by Anne Perry
Born of Shadows by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Bel-Air Dead by Stuart Woods
My New American Life by Francine Prose

Nonfiction:
Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama
Through My Eyes by Tim Tebow
The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs by Jim Rasenberger
Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being by Martin Seligman
A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: The Race to Kill the BP Oil Gusher by Joel Achenbach
First Contact: Scientific Breakthroughs in the Hunt for Life Beyond Earth by Marc Kaufman

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

The nominations for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize have been announced.  The prize honors books in the following categories:  Current Interest, Fiction, First Fiction, Graphic Novel, History, Mystery/Thriller, Poetry, Science & Technology, and Young Adult Literature.  The winners will be announced April 29, 2011.

Fiction Finalists:

Nashville Chrome by Rick Bass
Something is Out There: Stories by Richard Bausch
A Visit From the Good Squad by Jennifer Egan
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Day for Night by Frederick Reiken

Books Into Films

From NPR, Your 2011 Books-Into-Films Lineup.

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s by Stephanie Coontz

 

Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All by Paul A. Offit, M.D.

A Chance to Make History: What Works and What Doesn't in Providing an Excellent Education for All by Wendy Kopp

Andrew Johnson by Annette Gordon-Reed

Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life by Nicholas Phillipson

American Library Association Notable Books

The American Library Association Notable Books Council announced its selections for the 2011 Notable Books for Adults List.  Since 1944, the goal of the Notable Books Council has been to make available to the nation’s readers a list of 25 very good, very readable, and at times very important fiction, nonfiction, and poetry books for the adult reader.

In addition to the Notable Books List, the American Library Association announced the 2011 Reading List, a list recognizing the best books in eight genres. 

Indie Next

Check out the recommendations from independent booksellers in the February Indie Next List.

March Releases

Place your holds now on these upcoming releases:

Fiction:

Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
River Marked by Patricia Briggs
Night Season by Chelsea Cain
The Jungle by Clive Cussler
Love You More by Lisa Gardner
The Omen Machine by Terry Goodkind
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party by Alexander McCall Smith
Breaking the Rules by Suzanne Brockmann
Night Road by Kristin Hannah
The Land of Painted Caves by Jean M. Auel
Lover Unleashed by J.R. Ward
The School of Night by Louis Bayard
Watch Me Die by Erica Spindler
Sticky Fingers by Nancy Martin
Mystery by Jonathan Kellerman

Nonfiction:

Fire on the Horizon: The Untold Story of the Gulf Oil Disaster by Tom Shroder
Untied: A Memoir of Family, Fame, and Floundering by Meredith Baxter
The Savage City by T.J. English

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

There is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America by Philip Dray

Young Mr. Obama: Chicago and the Making of a Black President by Edward McClelland

Nixon Off the Record: His Candid Commentary on People and Politics by Monica Crowley

The Death of the Liberal Class by Chris Hedges

Tournament of Books

The lineup for the seventh annual Tournament of Books has been released.  The March Madness-style competition officially begins March 7, 2011.

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalization by Gordon Brown

Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans by Wendell Potter

The Boy: A Holocaust Story by Dan Porat

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder

Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World's Prosperity Depends On It by Zachary Karabell

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 by H.W. Brands

 

The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era by Michael Mandelbaum

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S. C. Gwynne

Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

Leadership and Crisis by Bobby Jindal

Books to Look For

From The Daily Beast, 2011's Most Anticipated Books.

Winter Books Calendar

USA Today's interactive 2011 Winter Books Calendar is up!  The calendar allows you to search by title, author, month of release, or you can simply browse through the titles.  Highlights include new titles from Jodi Picoult (Sing You Home), Joyce Carol Oates (A Widow's Story: A Memoir), Belva Plain (Heartwood, her final book and sequel to Evergreen), Alexander McCall Smith (The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party), and Jean Auel (The Land of Painted Caves, the long-awaited finale to the Earth's Children series).

Costa Book Awards

The Costa Book Awards, one of the most prestigious literary prizes honoring UK and Irish writing, were recently announced.

Fiction Award:

The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell

 

Biography Award:

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss by Edmund De Waal

For a list of previous Costa winners click here.

Indie Next

Check out the recommendations from independent booksellers in the January Indie Next list.

Best of the Month

Amazon's editors select their picks for the best books of January.

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

A Complicated Man: The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Know Him by Michael Takiff

Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power by Robert D. Kaplan

Shock of Gray by Ted C. Fishman

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen by Kwame Anthony Appiah

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

February Releases

Place your holds now on these upcoming releases:

Fiction:
First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones
Fatal Era by J.A. Jance
Deep Black: Death Wave by Stephen Coonts
The Tudor Secret by C.W. Gortner
Though Not Dead by Dana Stabenow
The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse
Fadeaway Girl by Martha Grimes
Agent X by Noah Boyd
The Secret Soldier by Alex Berenson
Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
The Oracle of Stamboul by Michael David Lukas
Heartwood by Belva Plain
A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley
A Heartbeat Away by Michael Palmer
Red Wolf by Liza Marklund
Finding Jack by Gareth Crocker
Treachery in Death by J.D. Robb
Gideon's Sword by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Pale Demon by Kim Harrison
Night Vision by Randy Wayne White
Now You See Her by Joy Fielding
When the Killing's Done by T.C. Boyle
Vicious Cycle by Terri Blackstock
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

Nonfiction:
Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, a Father and Son's Story by Patrick Cockburn & Henry Cockburn
Spousonomics: Using Economics to Master Love, Marriage, and Dirty Dishes by Paula Szuchman & Jenny Anderson
The Amen Solution: The Brain Healthy Way to Lose Weight and Keep it Off by Daniel G. Amen, M.D.
A Widow's Story: A Memoir by Joyce Carol Oates
The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan by Bing West