December New Books

Fiction
Alone by Loren Estleman
Autobiography of Fidel Castro by Norberto Fuentes
Best African American Fiction 2010
Burning Desire by Relentless Aaron
Cobra Alliance by Timothy Zahn
Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil by Drew Karpyshyn
Days of Gold by Jude Deveraux
Deeper than the Dead by Tami Hoag
Delilah by India Edghill
The Devil's Alphabet by Daryl Gregory
The Disciple by Stephen Coonts
Faces in the Pool by Jonathan Gash
Faces of the Gone by Brad Parks
The Farmer's Daughter by Jim Harrison
Final Exam by Maggie Barbieri
Fired Up by Jayne Ann Krentz
Heavenstone Secrets by V.C. Andrews
Hidden Empire by Orson Scott Card
The Honor of Spies by W.E.B. Griffin
I, Sniper by Stephen Hunter
Jane Bites Back by Michael Thomas Ford
La's Orchestra Saves the World by Alexander McCall Smith
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword of Avalon by Diana L. Paxson
A Matter of Class by Mary Balogh
Mr. Monk in Trouble by Lee Goldberg
Muse and Reverie by Charles de Lint
Nanny Returns by Emma McLaughlin
Overnight Socialite by Bridie Clark
The Paris Vendetta by Steve Berry
Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
Sizzle by Julie Garwood
The Sting of Justice by Cora Harrison
Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
Tainted by Brooke Morgan
The 13th Hour by Richard Doetsch
Too Many Murders by Colleen McCullough
Too Much Money by Dominick Dunne
Total Eclipse of the Heart by Zane
Trial by Fire by J.A. Jance
U Is for Undertow by Sue Grafton
Village of the Ghost Bears by Stan Jones
Witch and Wizard by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet

Nonfiction
Allergen-Free Baker's Handbook by Cybele Pascal
Cleaving by Julie Powell
Cook Yourself Thin Faster
Dinosaur Odyssey by Scott D. Sampson
Drive by Daniel Pink
Elements of Investing by Burton G. Malkiel
Food Rules by Michael Pollan
Happy by Alex Lemon
Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, and Oliver Reed by Rober Sellers
High School Reunion Diet by David Colbert
Literary Life by Larry McMurtry
Make Miracles in Forty Days by Melody Beattie
The Marne 1914 by Holger H. Herwig
Pops: The Life of Louis Armstrong by Terry Teachout
Program by Kelly Traver
Rewilding the World by Caroline Fraser
Secrets of the Lost Symbol by Daniel Burstein
Start Over, Finish Rich by David Bach
Stones into Schools by Greg Mortenson
The Talented Miss Highsmith by Joan Schenkar
Talking about Detective Fiction by P.D. James
The Truth about Psychics by Sylvia Browne
War of 1812 in the Age of Napoleon by Jeremy Black
Wealth Watchers by Alice Wood

Uplifting Reads

A Child Called It by David J. Pelzer (362.7 PEL)
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (FIC DIC)
Gifted Hands by Ben Carson (617.48 CAR)
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years by Sarah L. & A. Elizabeth Delany (929.2 DEL)
Hind's Feet on High Places by Hannah Hurnard (248.4 HUR)
How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People (While They Are Still on this Earth) by Henry Alford (155.67 ALF)
Mama Made the Difference by T.D. Jakes (248.8 JAK)
Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes (FIC HAY)
Mother Teresa: Beyond the Image by Anne Sebba (271.97 TER)
Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner (323.6 GAR)
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand (798.4 HIL)
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb (FIC LAM)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (FIC SMI)
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom (378.12 SCH)

Recommended Fiction for Men

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (FIC CHA)
American Gods by Neil Gaiman (FIC GAI)
Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster (FIC AUS)
The Chase by Clive Cussler (FIC CUS)
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (FIC TOO)
Devil You Know by Mike Carey (FIC CAR)
Even Money by Dick Francis (FIC FRA)
Fiddlers: A Novel of the 87th Precinct by Ed McBain (M MCB)
Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem (FIC LET)
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon (FIC PYN)
Joe College by Tom Perrotta (FIC PER)
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby (FIC HOR)
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs (FIC BUR)
Rant by Chuck Palahniuk (FIC PAL)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (FIC MCC)
Shampoo Planet by Douglas Coupland (FIC COU)

November New Books

Nonfiction:

Abigail Adams by Woody Holton (973.44 ADA)

The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory by David Plouffe (324.973 PLO)

Bon Jovi: When We Were Beautiful (782.42166 BON)

Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith (824.914 SMI)

Churchill by Paul Johnson (941.084 CHU)

Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer (613.262 FOE)

Going Rogue by Sarah Palin (979.8 PAL)

Here's the Deal, Don't Touch Me by Howie Mandel (792.7 MAN)

High Society: The Life of Grace Kelly by Donald Spoto (793 KEL)

How Capitalism Will Save Us by Steve Forbes (330.122 FOR)

The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily by Nancy Gladstone (945.705 JOA)

The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the Birth of Modern China by Hannah Pakula (951.042 CHI)

Last Words by George Carlin (792.7 CAR)

Life after Death by Dinesh D'Souza (236.2 DSO)

Lit by Mary Karr (811.54 KAR)

The Memory Quilt by T.D. Jakes (FIC JAK)

Moosewood Restaurant Cooking for Health (641.5636 MOO)

One Simple Act by Debbie Macomber (241.4 MAC)

Open by Andre Agassi (796.342 AGA)

Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis by Al Gore (577 GOR)

Paul McCartney by Peter Ames Carlin (782.42166 MCC)

Rachael Ray's Book of Ten by Rachael Ray (641.555 RAY)

Secrets of the Short Game by Phil Mickelson (796.352 MIC)

The Sellout: How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System by Charles Gasparino (332.042 GAS)

Thank Heaven by Leslie Caron (791.43 CAR)

When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin by Mick Wall (782.42166 LED)

When the Game Was Ours by Larry Bird and Earvin "Magic" Johnson (796.323 BIR)

Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog by Lisa Scottoline (813.54 SCO)

Fiction:

A Blue and Gray Christmas by Joan Medlicott (FIC MED)

Breathless by Dean Koontz (FIC KOO)

Broken Jewel by David L. Robbins (FIC ROB)

A Christmas Blizzard by Garrison Keillor (FIC KEI)

The Cloud Pavilion by Laura Joh Rowland (M ROW)

Destroyer of Worlds by Larry Niven (SF NIV)

Dial H for Hitchcock by Susan Kandel (M KAN)

First Lord's Fury by Jim Butcher (FIC BUT)

The Fleet Street Murders by Charles Finch (M FIN)

Ford County: Stories by John Grisham (FIC GRI)

The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan (FIC JOR)

Generation A by Douglas Coupland (SF COU)

The Gift by Cecelia Ahern (FIC AHE)

A Good Fall: Stories by Ha Jin (FIC JIN)

Haiku by Andrew Vachss (FIC VAC)

Holiday Grind by Cleo Coyle (M COY)

Hollywood Moon by Joseph Wambaugh (M WAM)

Home in Time for Christmas by Heather Graham (FIC GRA)

The Humbling by Philip Roth (FIC ROT)

I, Alex Cross by James Patterson (FIC PAT)

Ice by Linda Howard (FIC HOW)

Kindred in Death by J.D. Robb (M ROB)

Knit the Season by Kate Jacobs (FIC JAC)

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (FIC KIN)

Midnight Fugue by Reginald Hill (M HIL)

The Mirror and the Mask by Ellen Hart (M HAR)

Morning Show Murders by Al Roker (M ROK)

New York by Edward Rutherfurd (FIC RUT)

No Less than Victory by Jeff Shaara (FIC SHA)

The Original of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov (FIC NAB)

Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton (FIC CRI)

A Rumpole Christmas by John Mortimer (M MOR)

Saved and Single by Sheila Copeland (FIC COP)

Shades of Blue by Karen Kingsbury (FIC KIN)

Too Much Happiness: Stories by Alice Munro (FIC MUN)

Typhoon by Charles Cumming (FIC CUM)

Under the Dome by Stephen King (FIC KIN)

What Remains of Heaven by C.S. Harris (M HAR)

Winter of Secrets by Vicki Delany (M DEL)

A Wish for Christmas by Thomas Kinkade (FIC KIN)

The Wrecker by Clive Cussler (FIC CUS)

Biographies under 200 Pages

For those of you who like brief books, you might want to check out these biographies under 200 pages.

Arnold Schwarzenegger by Louise Krasniewicz (796.41 SCH)
Dashiell Hammett: A Daughter Remembers by Jo Hammett (813.54 HAM)
Dwight D. Eisenhower by Tom Wicker (973.921 EIS)
F. Scott Fitzgerald by Edward J. Rielly (813.52 FIT)
J.K. Rowling by Connie Ann Kirk (823.914 ROW)
Kubrick by Michael Herr (791.43 KUB)
Marcel Proust by Edmund White (843.912 PRO)
Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned the Political Establishment Upside Down by Kaylene Johnson (979.8 PAL)
Stephen King by Albert Rolls (813.54 KIN)
Zachary Taylor by John S.D. Eisenhower (973.63 TAY)

Popular Biographies

Enjoy biographies? Check out one of these:

Age Is just a Number by Dara Torres (797.21 TOR)
Always Looking Up by Michael J. Fox (790.43 FOX)
A-Rod by Selena Roberts (796.357 ROD)
Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World's Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her by Robin Gerber (338.76 HAN)
Books by Larry McMurtry (813.54 MCM)
Call Me Ted by Ted Turner (384.555 TUR)
Cobain Unseen by Charles R. Cross (781.66 COB)
Dillinger's Wild Ride by Elliott J. Gorn (364.1523 DIL)
Don't Mind if I Do by George Hamilton (791.43 HAM)
Doris Day by David Kaufman (791.43 DAY)
Growing Up Again by Mary Tyler Moore (362.196 MOO)
Harry S. Truman by Robert Dallek (973.918 TRU)
Hope's Boy by Andrew Bridge (362.733 BRI)
John Lennon by Philip Norman (782.42166 LEN)
Julie Andrews by Richard Stirling (791.402 AND)
A Little Bit Wicked by Kristin Chenoweth (792.028 CHE)
Looking for Lincoln by Philip B. Kunhardt (973.7 LIN)
Michael Jackson by J. Randy Taraborrelli (782.42166 JAC)
Michelle Obama by Elizabeth Lightfoot (328.73 OBA)
Obama: The Historic Journey by Jill Abramson (973.932 OBA)
Resilience by Elizabeth Edwards (973.931 EDW)
Stephen King by Albert Rolls (813.54 KIN)
The Time of My Life by Patrick Swayze (791.43 SWA)
To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells by Mia Bay (323 WEL)
True Compass by Edward M. Kennedy (973.92 KEN)
The Yankee Years by Joe Torre (796.357 TOR)

Historical Novels: 18th - 19th Century

These novels are set in the 18th or 19th Centuries.

The Alchemist's Daughter by Katharine McMahon (FIC MCM)
The Color of Death by Bruce Alexander (M ALE)
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende (FIC ALL)
The Devil's Company by David Liss (FIC LIS)
Domino by Ross King (FIC KIN)
Grace in Thine Eyes by Liz Curtis Higgs (FIC HIG)
The Great Stink by Clare Clark (FIC CLA)
Jack Absolute by C.C. Humphreys (FIC HUM)
The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl (FIC PEA)
Life Mask by Emma Donoghue (FIC DON)
Lord John and the Hand of Devils by Diana Gabaldon (FIC GAB)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (FIC SEE)
The Unknown Shore by Patrick O'Brian (FIC OBR)

Historical Novels: 16th - 17th Century

These novels are set in the 16th-17th Centuries.

The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory (FIC GRE)
The Book of Splendor by Frances Sherwood (FIC SHE)
The Devil's Queen by Jeanne Kalogridis (FIC KAL)
Inés of My Soul by Isabel Allende (FIC ALL)
Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf (FIC MAA)
The Master of All Desires by Judith Merkle Riley (FIC RIL)
Poison by Kathryn Harrison (FIC HAR)
Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Vanora Bennett (FIC BEN)
Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant (FIC DUN)
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (FIC DUM)
The Winter Queen by Jane Stevenson (FIC STE)

Historical Novels: 15th Century or Earlier

These books are set in the 15th Century or earlier.

Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell (FIC COR)
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant (FIC DUN)
The Book of Unholy Mischief by Elle Newmark (FIC NEW)
Dancing with Demons by Peter Tremayne (M TRE)
The Family by Mario Puzo (FIC PUZ)
Hangman Blind by Cassandra Clark (M CLA)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (FIC HUG)
The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier (FIC CHE)
The Queen's Gambit by Diane A.S. Stuckart (M STU)
The Reeve's Tale by Margaret Frazer (M FRA)
The Secret Supper by Javier Sierra (FIC SIE)
The St. John's Fern by Kate Sedley (M SED)
A Stolen Tongue by Sheri Holman (FIC HOL)