New Fiction
June 2009
Below is a selected list of new fiction titles added to the Belvedere-Tiburon Library's collection over the past month. Items may be requested and held for you for $0.50 using the "REQUEST" button on catalog pages.
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Far Bright Star by Robert Olmstead Published 2009 by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Hardcover, English. Find this book in our catalog Jacket Notes: Set in 1916, "Far Bright Star" follows Napoleon Childs, an aging cavalryman, as he leads an expedition of inexperienced soldiers into the mountains of Mexico to hunt down Pancho Villa and bring him to justice. Though he is seasoned at such missions, things go terribly wrong and the patrol is brutally attacked.... more...   The Walking People by Mary Beth Keane Published 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) Hardcover, English. Find this book in our catalog Jacket Notes: Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in the west of Ireland until she found herself on a ship bound for New York, along with her sister Johanna and a boy named Michael Ward.... more...   Crossing the Hudson by Peter Stephan Jungk Published 2009 by Other Press Paperback, English. Find this book in our catalog Jacket Notes: "Crossing the Hudson" is a profound meditation on a Jewish family and its past, especially differences between the generation of European intellectual refugees who arrived in the United States during the Second World War and the children of that generation.... more...   The Stalin Epigram by Robert Littell Published 2009 by Simon & Schuster Hardcover, English. Find this book in our catalog Jacket Notes: The legendary spy novelist and bestselling author presents a luminous historical novel that chronicles the famous Russian poet Osip Mandelstam's defiance of Stalin's regime, his subsequent exile, and tragic death. Based on a riveting historical episode, "The Stalin Epigram" is a fictional rendering of the life of Osip Mandelstam, perhaps the greatest Russian poet of the twentieth century -- and one of the few artists in Soviet Russia who daringly refused to pay creative homage to Joseph Stalin.... more...   Seducing an Angel by Mary Balogh Published 2009 by Delacorte Press Hardcover, English. Find this book in our catalog Jacket Notes: Balogh confirms her position as a veritable treasure, a matchless storyteller who makes our hearts melt with delight ("Romantic Times"), with her latest work that continues the adventures of the Huxtable siblings of Regency England. "In a time unlike any other, a family you'll never forget .... more...   Assegai by Wilbur Smith Published 2009 by Thomas Dunne Books Hardcover, English. Find this book in our catalog Jacket Notes: The eagerly awaited sequel to Smith's thrilling Egyptian series, "Assegai"--set in 1913 British East Africa--is a stunning, heart-pounding, journey into the lost world of the Pharaohs. Wilbur Smith has won acclaim worldwide as the master of the historical novel.... more...   A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick Published 2009 by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Hardcover, English. Find this book in our catalog Jacket Notes: Set in rural Wisconsin in 1909, Ralph Truitt stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she's not the "simple, honest woman" that Ralph is expecting.... more...   Rogue Forces by Dale Brown Published 2009 by William Morrow & Company Hardcover, English. Find this book in our catalog Jacket Notes: The "New York Times"-bestselling master of military suspense devises an ingenious, page-turning thriller with a chillingly plausible scenario ripped from today's headlines. The clash of civilizations will be won . . . by the highest bidder. What happens when America's most lethal military contractor becomes uncontrollably powerful? His election promised a new day for America .... more...   Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea Published 2009 by Little Brown and Company Hardcover, English. Find this book in our catalog Jacket Notes: Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US to find work. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only man who has left town. In fact, there are almost no men in the village--they've all gone north.... more...   The Woman Who Would Be Pharaoh: A Novel of Ancient Egypt by William Klein Published 2009 by Kunati Inc. Hardcover, English. Find this book in our catalog Jacket Notes: Ranging from the flood plains of the Nile to the snow-covered passes of the Taurus Mountains, this historical novel is set in the tumultuous period of the waning 18th Egyptian Dynasty, and follows Ankhesenamun, the newly widowed wife of the murdered Tutankhamun.... more...