New Books at the Country Bookshelf

Books to look forward to in 2010

Here is a list of books to look forward to in the coming months.

And, yes, you can pre-order them at any time; just call, email or stop in, and we’ll make sure to reserve your copy the moment it arrives.

The dates listed are the most current information we have from the publisher but may change without notice.

June

• The Passage by Justin Cronin
• June 15th – A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

May

• May 11th - The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis

April

• April 23rd – Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
• April 20th – The Double Comfort Safari Club by Alexander McCall Smith

March

• March 30th – Solar by Ian McEwan

March 18th

March 16th

     Fiction

• The Informer by Craig Nova
• The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
• Hunted: A House of Night Novel by P. C. & Kristin Cast

    Non-fiction

• Wild Horse Annie and the Last of the Mustangs by David Cruise & Alison Griffiths
• Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch
• Backing into Forward by Jules Feiffer
• Married to Distraction by Edward M. Hallowell & Sue George Hallowell
• The Green Hour: A Daily Dose of Nature for Happier, Healthier, Smarter Kids by Todd Christopher

March 15th

• Fang: A Maximum Ride Novel by James Patterson

March 4th

Fiction

• The Heights by Peter Hedges
• The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni
• A Thousand Cuts by Simon Lelic
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Nonfiction

• Jesus: A Biography from a Believer by Paul Johnson

Children’s & Young Adult

• The Heart and the Bottle by Oliver Jeffers
• Long Shot by Mike Lupica (paper)

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March 2nd

Fiction

• Brooklyn by Colm Toibin (paperback – staff pick)
• Snowbound by Richard S. Wheeler (Montana author)
• Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
• The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart by Mathias Malzieu
• House Rules by Jodi Picoult
• Walking to Gatlinburg by Howard Frank Mosher
• One Good Dog by Susan Wilson
• Long Time Coming by Robert Goddard (paper)
• Grave Goods by Ariana Franklin (paper)
• By Heresies Distressed by David Weber (paper)
• The Dogs of Rome by Conor Fitzgerald
• The Ask by Sam Lipsyte

Non-fiction

• Silk Parachute by John McPhee
• The Pacific by Hugh Ambrose
• Animal Factory by David Kirby
• Son of Hamas by Mosab Hassan Yousef
• Imperfect Endings by Zoe Fitzgerald Carter
• Cro-Magnon by Brian Fagan
• The Man Who Ate His Boots by Anthony Brandt
• The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves by Siri Hustvedt
• Bald Coot and Screaming Loon: Adventures in the Curious, Mysterious & Remarkable World by Birds by Niall Edworthy
• How to Live Well with Early Alzheimer’s by Deboral Mitchell (paper)
• Fifty Miles from Tomorrow byWilliam L. Iggiagruk Hensley (paper)
• Things I’ve Been Silent About by Azar Nafisi (paper)
• Acedia & Me by Kathleen Norris (paper)
• Joyful Wisdom by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (paper)

Children’s & Young Adult

• My 13th Season by Kristi Roberts
• Fancy Nancy Poet Extraordinaire! by Jane O’Connor
• The Mud Fairy by Amy Young

GENERAL MARCH

The Surrendered by Chang-Rae Lee

The Devil’s Star by Jo Nesbo

Burning Bright by Ron Rash

So Much for That by Lionel Shriver

February

 
February 24th - Black Hills by Dan Simmons
February 23rd – Reality Hunger by David Shields
February 23rd – The Infinities by John Banville
February 16th – The Man from Beijing by Henning Mankell
February 16th – Horns by Joe Hill
February 9th – A Dark Matter by Peter Straub
 February 9th - Union Atlantic by Adam Haslett

February 2nd

Occupied City by David Peace (hardcover fiction)
Point Omega by Don DeLillo (hardcover and audiobook cd)
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake (hardcover fiction)
Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich (hardcover fiction)
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James (paperback fiction)
Conspirata by Robert Harris (hardcover fiction)
Secrets of Eden by Chris Bohjalian (hardcover fiction)
Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour by Lynne Olson (hardcover nonfiction)
The Information Officer by Mark Mills (hardcover fiction)
The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason (hardcover fiction)
The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine (hardcover fiction)
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See (paperback fiction)
Honolulu by Alan Brennert (paperback fiction)
Prayers for Sale by Sandra Dallas (paperback fiction)
Ghosts of Wyoming by Alyson Hagy (paperback fiction)
Nothing Right by Antonya Nelson (paperback fiction)
Aurelie: A Faerie Tale by Heather Tomlinson (paperback fiction)
Classical Chinese Poetry: An Anthology translated and edited by David Hinton (paperback poetry)
The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure & Human Evolution by Denis Dutton (paperback nonfiction)

January 26th

• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (paperback fiction)
• Passing Strange by Martha A. Sandweiss (paperback nonfiction)
• Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay (mass market paperback fiction)
• Lost City of Z by David Grann (paperback nonfiction)
• The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman (paperback)
• Power of Soul by Zhi Gang Sha (paperback nonfiction)
• The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers by Thomas Mullen (hardcover fiction)
• Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin (hardcover nonfiction)
• Mark Twain: Man in White by Michael Shelden (hardcover nonfiction)
• Doomwyte by Brian Jacques (mass market paperback in Redwall series)
• Garfield Weighs In by Jim Davis (paperback)

January 21st

• Wild Child by T. C. Boyle (new literature)
• Big Chickens Go to Town by Leslie Helakoski (children’s picture book)
• Bunny Days by Tao Nyeu (children’s picture book)

January 19th

• The Burning Land by Bernard Cornwell
• The Tyranny of Dead Ideas by Matt Miller
• The Patience Stone by Atiq Rahimi (winner of Le Prix Goncourt 2008)

January 12th

Fiction

• Treasure Hunt by John Lescroart (hardcover)
• Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin (hardcover)
• The First Rule by Robert Crais (A Joe Pike Novel) (hardcover)
• The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova (hardcover)
• Lark & Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips (paperback)
• Where the God of Love Hangs Out by Amy Bloom (hardcover)
• The Unbearable Lightness of Scones by Alexander McCall Smith (44 Scotland Street Novel) (paperback)
• Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman (paperback)
• Brothers by Yu Hua (paperback) (shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize)
• The Godfather of Kathmandu by John Burdett (hardcover)
• American Rust by Philipp Meyer (paperback)

Non-Fiction

• A Jury of Her Peers: Celebrating American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx by Elaine Showalter (paperback)
• Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation by Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. (hardcover)

January 7th

• Americans in Paris: Life & Death Under Nazi Occupation by Charles Glass (hardcover nonfiction)

• Michael Townsend’s Amazing Greek Myths of Wonder and Blunders (juvenile graphic novel)

• Who Was Franklin Roosevelt? by Margaret Frith (juvenile biography)

January 5th

• Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert (author of Eat, Love, Pray)
• Unfinished Desires by Gail Godwin
• Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
• Thereby Hangs a Tail by Spencer Quinn (A Chet and Bernie Mystery)
• The Girl with the Glass Feet by Ali Shaw
• An Irish Country Girl by Patrick Taylor
• 10 Bad Dates with DeNiro: A Book of Alternative Movie Lists edited by Richard T. Kelly

January

• The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris

•  The Red Door by Charles Todd

As always, many new books arrive here that never receive lauds on this page, only because they do not have strict on-sale dates or because they do not arrive before their on-sale dates, NOT because we don’t love them or because they are any less wonderful in any way.  Don’t hesitate to call us to hold a copy of anything listed here or to check if we have received any book not listed.