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PW * "fascinating study of decision making … focus is on the ingenious experiments that psychologists have concocted to explore the vagaries of choice … Iyengar writes in a lucid, catchy style, very much in the Malcolm Gladwell vein of pop psychology cum social commentary, but with more rigor. The result is a delightful, astonishing take on the pitfalls of making up one's mind"; HB; on A1001 under title How We PW "a no frills resource that is both easy to understand & highly informative … in-depth Difficult personalities : a practical guide to analysis, including what the problem person managing the hurtful behavior of others (and does, why they do it, and strategies to help cope with that person in a positive, healthy way"; PAPW "a lifeline for those in the isolating depths of personal tragedy … these techniques are all about practicality. Realistic indeed, yet underlying the straightforward advice is an Ten things to do when your life falls apart, enlivening spiritual message … directs the the : an emotional and spiritual handbook reader toward transcendence & peace"; PA LJ * "explains that our consumer goods undergo extraction, production, distribution, consumption, & disposal processes that are trashing the planet Story of stuff, the : how our obsession with … An important work for consumers of all ages"; stuff is trashing the planet, our commun- PW "her suggestions for making stuff more ities, and our health - and a vision for durable, repairable, recyclable, & adaptable is HSPLS LIST SUGGESTIONS FY 2009
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PW "draws out the unintended consequences, inherent obstacles, as well as successful methods that lie beneath the surface of environmentally friendly products”; her discov-eries are disturbing … By going beyond exposé to analysis, Rogers gives a deeper assessment of environmental problems & solutions than the usual global warming investigative book"; HBPW "Taking his lead from Freakonomics Stein examines everyday, occasional, & inevitable life problems … With a sure grasp of the material & a game sense of humor, should interest a broad You Rich, Help You Find the One, and Avert audience of intellectually curious readers"; HB; LJ "takes readers on a journey to the most barren & desolate places on Earth to investigate the machinery of big science now being applied to find answers to these big questions in physics that remain unanswered … capturing the Edge of physics,the : a journey to Earth’s excitement of pursuing state of the art physics . Sure to appeal to general readers interested in science books"; HB; on A1001LJ "an exploration of the inner spirit of individual orangutans and the nature of the human-orangutan bond. General readers interested in the great apes will be captivated by the rich life histories of famous orangutans … Strongly HSPLS LIST SUGGESTIONS FY 2009
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PW * "professional environmentalists Smith & Lourie expose themselves to hazardous everyday substances, then measure the consequences … an amusing but unnerving narrative, refusing to sugarcoat any of the data, while maintaining a welcome sense of humor"; PW "book weaves useful facts & information with Cohen’s often comical, personal accounts of being a regular dad who is also a pediatrician … sense guide to your baby’s first year from a Cohen’s practical approach is sure to pacify and LJ * "explains different options and how they work … Essential for parents of newly diagnosed Healing our autistic children : a pediatrician’s children as a way to learn about medical treatments or as a guide to start treatment"; PA PW "an eclectic & appealing array of recipes, modified for the home cook … The brothers' originality really shines in the vegetable section … Lavish photographs complete this worth-while, appetizing collection that will delight cooks"; HBPW * "clear sighted wisdom … examine the new & hard to resist stresses placed on the modern day marriage with a compassionate focus on Married to distraction : restoring intimacy forgiveness & self reflection . practical, concrete and strengthening your marriage in an age advice for creating & saving healthy marriages"; HSPLS LIST SUGGESTIONS FY 2009
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LJ * "a very useful book. The short chapters with descriptive titles make it easy to navigate . Use your head to get your foot in the door : Highly recommended for job seekers & career job search secrets no one else will tell you changers at all experience levels"; HBB&T Forecast 2/10 "best selling author of How Not To Look Old explores how the correct colors, fabrics & styles can hide any unflattering body I’ll mature when I’m dead : Dave Barry’s LJ Prepub Alert "The author of The Perfect Storm follows another whirlwind: one platoon's 15-month tour of duty in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley. Lots on our current wars out there, but Junger is special"; HBPW "The early, relatively heroic days of the conflict in Afghanistan are memorialized in this engrossing if glamorized war saga … Blehms warts & all account of the U.S. military machine in action is full of tension, color, & real pathos"; HBLJ Prepub Alert "The publicity says this memoir by Laura Bush is intimate and startling. We'll HOT PICK (50 C.); LJ Prepub Alert "Trapped in a South Dakota town, Jack Reacher is asked by a local cop to protect the only witness who can help put away a brutal crime ring"; HB HSPLS LIST SUGGESTIONS FY 2009
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Legal suspense, Butch Karp series; HB; KoloaEve Dallas series, PA original - But Borders.com says was part of Robb/Roberts' novel Remember When; PA; on A10022ND TIER, PLAN A (24 c.); one of the author's Westerns; LJ Prepub Alert "Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are back, facing down the town's new sheriff, Amos Callico. Parker is keeping the iconic Western alive - almost single handedly"; HBLJ "deftly adopts the conventions of treasure hunting novels to craft a thrilling, spy laden, history rich page turner"; PW "A legendary library forms the tantalizing background of this winning thriller … two complicated, appealing characters complement the satisfying, conspiracy laden plot that smoothly moves throughout Europe at suspense; HB; Koloa2ND TIER, PLAN A (24 c.); Lincoln Rhyme literary fiction; PW Spring Announcements "This contemporary Sense and Sensibility like tale portrays two sisters - one a CFO, the other a doctoral student in philosophy"; HB; Koloa HSPLS LIST SUGGESTIONS FY 2009
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2ND TIER, PLAN A (24 c.); first in a new series; PW Spring Announcements "chronicles the comings and goings in a crumbling London mansion block. 100,000 first printing"; HB Lomax & Biggs mystery series; HB; Koloa Maggie O'Dell series; HB; KoloaPW Spring Announcements "After his wife dies, Kilraven is afraid to risk his heart, until now. Stackhouse/True Blood #10, vampire series; HB suspense thriller; HB; Koloafantasy; Volume Two of the Rain Wilds technothriller; LJ Pre[ub Alert "In Brown's latest, America and China are in an escalating arms in space race. For all technonuts"; HB; Koloa mystery; PW Spring Announcements "follows a man who returns to Dublin after 22 years to find out what happened to an old love"; HB; Koloa HSPLS LIST SUGGESTIONS FY 2009
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2ND TIER, PLAN A (24 c.); HB2ND TIER, PLAN A (24 c.); thriller; LJ Prepub Alert "his is a tough case for Agent Pendergast; his wife has been murdered"; HB2ND TIER, PLAN A (24 c.); PW Spring Announcements "Three women become friends when their lives are torn apart by crisis. 750,000 first printing";LJ Prepub Alert "Weiner just keeps getting bigger"; HBthriller; PW Spring Announcements "10th suspenser in the Scott Harvath series. 650,000 2ND TIER, PLAN B (27 c.); horror, 1st in the Sci-fi; PW * "outstanding 2nd half of 2009’s The Quiet War … sketch a grand and sometimes appalling picture of human possibility. Together, these two books tell a magnificent story"; PA2ND TIER, PLAN A (24 c.); mystery; LJ Prepub Alert "The conclusion to the trilogy that includes The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Dave Robicheaux mystery series; HB; Koloa HSPLS LIST SUGGESTIONS FY 2009
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LJ Prepub Alert "members of a peace symposium are held captive in Pakistan, Sonia Laghari emerges as their leader. Even as her ex-soldier son plans a rescue … Another good Gruber thriller, tapping into current fears"; HB; KoloaPW Spring Announcements "After his wife's death, Michael Everett receives a letter from her Maj. Vin Cooper (Air Force special agent) thriller series; PW * "rip roaring 3rd novel to feature the tough, wisecracking Cooper … The exciting, violent ending promises more thrills to come"; HBLJ Prepub Alert "Likely to be another Giffin hit"; PW "disappointing on all counts … Longtime fans will enjoy the cameos, but newcomers will be better off with one of Giffin's earlier, better HB; KoloaLJ Prepub Alert "A leak about an American defense contractor in Iran leads to a spy's torture & death & the jailing of the journalist who published the story. Now DeMarco must find the journalist's source. Lawson is building; watch this HSPLS LIST SUGGESTIONS FY 2009
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paranormal romance; PW * "a riveting thrill ride that will keep her readers enthralled … The fast paced story stands alone & will easily draw new Legal suspense, military setting; HB; Koloa fantasy; Darkglass Mountain: Book Three; HB; Koloa2ND TIER, PLAN A (24 c.); LJ Prepub Alert "a sequel to Presumed Innocent. Rusty Sabich's wife has met a questionable death, which (once more) puts Rusty up against prosecutor Tommy naval military technothriller; HB; Koloa2ND TIER, PLAN B (27 c.); LJ Prepub Alert "teenaged slave Zarité is purchased by young Toulouse Valmorain, who manages the family plantation on St. Domingue. Then fate intervenes. Allende's 1st novel in four years; 250,000 1st printing"; HBIngram "a new novel set on Tuckernuck, a tiny island off the coast of Nantucket. Four women head to Tuckernuck for a retreat, hoping to escape their troubles. Intead, they find only drama, secrets, and life changing revelations"; Hilderbrand, Elin Arthur ; 07/10 9780316043878 HSPLS LIST SUGGESTIONS FY 2009
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PW * "superlative fiction debut takes familiar suspense elements and whips them into nonstop action that veers and twists from one ferocious gun battle, double cross, & betrayal to the next … Thriller fans will be eager to see more from 2ND TIER, PLAN B (27 c.); LJ Prepub Alert "Girl meets boy, girl supports boy as he struggles to make it as a rock star, then girl gets dumped for a supermodel. A revenge story from the author of The Devil Wears Prada"; HB2ND TIER, PLAN B (27 c.); LJ Prepub Alert "John Corey, special agent for the Anti-Terrorist Task Force, again faces murderous Libyan Asad suspense; PW * "absorbing series launch … The connections among these troubled families are slow to reveal themselves, but once Staub’s brilliant characterizations & top notch narrative skills grab hold, they don’t let go"; PA 2ND TIER, PLAN B (27 c.); Detective D. D. 2nd novel from the author of the bestseller The Lace Reader; HB; KoloaPW "accomplished sophomore novel … There's nothing unique about the premise - woman in crisis goes home and discovers herself by exhuming the past - but Crouch handles it deftly; her dialogue is snappy, the situations darkly funny … just enough mystery to keep the pages HSPLS LIST SUGGESTIONS FY 2009
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LJ Prepub Alert "After his best-selling The Tourist, Budapest, Hungary-based Steinhauer pits Milo Weaver against suspicious bosses as the former spy tries to regain his old CIA job"; HB; KoloaPW * " outstanding thriller … skillfully shows how even the most innocent action can seem suspicious. The surprising twists & appealing characters rank this among the author's best"; fantasy; HB; KoloaMaine game warden; LJ "well written debut is also a taut thriller … will appeal to fans of C.J. Box"; HB; on A1002PW * "Atmospheric, complex, & intense, Kiernan's debut fantasy, set in a sort of alternate 15th century Europe … The beginning of what promises to be a powerful trilogy with YA crossover appeal, this epic starts strong & doesn't falter one iota"; PAPW Spring Announcments "A police chief attempts to solve the murders of an entire Amish family. 150,000 first printing"; 2nd in the new mystery Kate Burkholder series (1st was Sworn to Silence); HB; KoloaHOT PICK (100 c.); new protagonist takes over his father's security and detective business; PW Spring Announcements " tracks a former CIA agent investigating an NFL gambling scandal"; HSPLS LIST SUGGESTIONS FY 2009
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PW "delivers a slow moving historical antiromance in her bleak 13th novel. In the early 1880s … the gruesome monotony of marriage is portrayed in a repellant but fascinating fashion"; Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery series; HB; Koloainternational suspense; LJ Prepub Alert "An art restorer is murdered and a recently discovered Rembrandt spirited away, so it doesn't matter whether Gabriel Allon wants to get out of the business. He's on the hunt. Dependable Silva"; Revenge of the Sisterhood series?; HB; Koloa PW * " impressive epic fantasy debut … Mercial has constructed an inspired new world where unexpected plot twists bedevil strong, clearly visualized characters, in a story that glints with intelligence & hums with life"; HB2ND TIER, PLAN A (24 c.); LJ Prepub Alert "Russian assassin Leonid Arkadin hunts Jason Bourne, and Bourne hunts Arkadin"; HB2ND TIER, PLAN B (27 c.); PW Spring Announcements "Paul Madriani tracks an extremist bent on destroying the entire Supreme HSPLS LIST SUGGESTIONS FY 2009
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HOT PICK (50 c.); romantic suspense; LJ Prepub Alert "Having survived a serial killer who shot her cop fiancé and his K-9 partner to death, Fiona Bristow now lives sedately on an island near Seattle and runs a dog-training school"; HB HOT PICK (100 c.); Stephanie Plum series; HB 2ND TIER, PLAN B (27 c.); PW Spring Announcements "Det. Isaac Bell returns in a new historical thriller"; LJ Prepub Alert "Pre - WWI, an American battleship gun designer dies, & investigator Isaac Bell (The Wrecker) senses it's not suicide"; HBHOT PICK (50 C.); Prey series; LJ Prepub Alert "Investigator Lucas Davenport's surgeon wife was witness to a robbery gone wrong at the hospital pharmacy & is now targeted for murder"; HBcrime thriller, not the Jane Whitefield series; LJ Prepub Alert "Strip club owner Manco Kapak has been robbed. Wacked-out mystery for wacked- HSPLS LIST SUGGESTIONS FY 2009
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suspense; PW Spring Announcements "sequel to Executive Privilege"; HB; KoloaPW Spring Announcements "This dark reimagining of All About Eve presents a comical Lindsey, Johanna Pocket ; 06/10 9781439101070 suspense; HB; Koloa3rd in a new police procedural series; PW Spring Announcements "A Chicago cop must face his past after witnessing a shooting on an el platform. 100k 1st printing"; PW *; HB Inspector Lynley series; LJ Prepub Alert "Lynley is still on leave but is called in to investigate a murder in a remote cemetery"; HB; Koloa HOT PICK (50 c.); LJ Prepub Alert "Yale professor Edward Kender's father is undergoing chemotherapy when a key drug runs dry. A little undercover investigation shows that the shortage has been induced—and it's netting the company billions. Relevant"; HBsuspense; LJ Prepub Alert "A small town, major criminals, supernatural suggestions, and edgy detective Charlie Parker—seems like another

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