Know what's coming out before the competition with our industry insider information. en-us http://www.libraryjournal.com/community/Prepub+Alerts/47124.html?nid=3300 2009 Reed Business Information. Subject to its http://www.libraryjournal.com/info/260304.html Terms of Use. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:20:44 MST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6705636.html?nid=3300 Yes, we have thrillers—from the likes of Mary Higgins Clark and Martha Grimes—but with Pearl Abraham’s American Taliban and Ian McEwan’s Solar, fiction gets topical. In nonfiction, check out the good science titles and cheeky memoirs by Wendy Burden and Anna Fields. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:11:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6704001.html?nid=3300 Balzo, Sandra. From the Grounds Up. Severn House. Mar. 2010. 192p. ISBN 978-0-7278-6830-5. $27.95. In Balzo's fifth coffeehouse mystery, owner Maggy Thorsen partners with a real estate agent to rebuild the café, but someone has plans to stop them. Black, Cara. Murder in the Palais Royal. Soho Crime. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6703853.html?nid=3300 Fiction Allen, Sarah Addison. The Girl Who Chased the Moon. Bantam. Mar. 2010. 304p. ISBN 978-0-553-80721-9. $25. CD: Random Audio. After her mother's death, 17-year-old Emily goes to live with her grandfather in Mullaby, NC, where the dead drop little notes and the wallpaper remakes itself daily. Originally previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 1/09, and no doubt worth waiting for. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6700357.html?nid=3300 Fiction Aciman, André. Eight White Nights. Farrar. Feb. 2010. 400p. ISBN 978-0-374-22842-2. $26. A man and a woman meet at a Christmas party and tentatively approach each other over the next seven days. Expect insightful writing from the Out of Egypt memoirist, who proved himself in fiction with the recent debut Call Me by Your Name. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6698501.html?nid=3300 When Mayor Shinn, chief executive of River City, admonished his daughter to "watch your phraseology," he was not only contributing to our American lexicon and acting as yet another comic foil in The Music Man, but he was also tendering sagacious advice to every would-be orator. The American rhetorical canon is replete with heroes and heels for whom speechifying is as delicate as a gossamer thre... Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6698499.html?nid=3300 Ault, Sandi. Wild Penance: A Wild Mystery. Berkley Prime Crime. Feb. 2010. 304p. ISBN 978-0-425-23232-3. $24.95. Jamaica Wild witnesses what may be a ritual killing related to a secret ancient religion in the fourth in this Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning series (after Wild Sorrow). Clare, Alys. Mist Over the Water. Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6698263.html?nid=3300 Poignant. Imaginative. Passionate. Original. These are some of the words LJ’s reviewers used to describe the first novels forthcoming this fall and winter. We haven’t been able to review them all yet, but we are providing a listing here, grouped by type, so that librarians can start planning their purchases. Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6695147.html?nid=3300 Fiction Bauer, Belinda. Blacklands. S. & S. Jan. 2010. 224p. ISBN 978-1-4391-4944-7. $24. Young teenager Steven Lamb wants to find the body of his uncle Billy, who disappeared when he was about Steven's age. Shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger Award, with rights sold to five countries. Grab it to stay au courant. Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6678567.html?nid=3300 "Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth, and they stopped building the city" (Gen. 11:7–8). A biblical epigraph introducing a free reference database review, though perhaps antithetical to the separation of church and library, is uniquely appro... Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6678565.html?nid=3300 Barbieri, Maggie. Final Exam. Minotaur: St. Martin's. Dec. 2009. 352p. ISBN 978-0-312-37677-2. $24.99. Alison Bergeron finds drugs in a missing student's dorm and gets her detective boyfriend on the case. The fourth in New York-based Barbieri's "Murder 101" cozy series, which has been optioned for TV by Kristin Davis. Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6677282.html?nid=3300 Fiction Austen, Jane & Seth Grahame-Smith (text), adapted by Tony Lee; with Cliff Richards (illus.). Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Del Rey: Ballantine. Jan. 2010. 114p. ISBN 978-0-345-52068-5. pap. $14.99. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a hit as big—and visually suggestive—as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies deserves graphic treatment. Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6675625.html?nid=3300 December 2009 Mystery releases, from Loren D. Estleman's Frames to Betty Webb's Desert Lost. Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6674927.html?nid=3300 When we first launched E-Reference Ratings in last year's Reference Announcements issue (LJ 11/15/08), we promised to update it frequently to help you stay on top of the growing universe of e-resources. In this third update to the feature—following the addition of Travel & Tourism and Genealogy this past March—Bruce Connolly, head of public services at the Union College Schaffer... Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6674924.html?nid=3300 Fiction Dunne, Dominick. Too Much Money. Crown. Dec. 2009. 320p. ISBN 978-0-609-60387-1. $25. CD: Penguin Audio. In this follow-up to People Like Us, published 20 years ago, readers get to meet and greet familiar characters like Lil Altemus and Ruby and Elias Renthal while trying to guess who killed a billionaire magazine publisher. Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6674531.html?nid=3300 Although the recession continues to permeate every pore of American business, it doesn't seem to have hit art book publishing—yet. Against all expectations, high-end scholarly publications, exhibition catalogs, and monographs on individual artists are still being produced in staggering numbers, particularly by major North American museums. Here's an advance version of the print article, complete with web-only listings. Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6669021.html?nid=3300 When Deep Throat sagaciously advised Bob Woodward in 1976's All The President's Men that in order to untangle the Gordian knot of Watergate he should "follow the money," more than an iconic movie quote was imprinted on our collective political consciousness. The tagline underscores the inextricable intersection of money and politics and implicitly suggests the importance of fully understanding ... Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6669018.html?nid=3300 Boston Noir. 270p. ed. by Dennis Lehane. ISBN 978-1-933354-91-0. Phoenix Noir. 304p. ed. by Patrick Millikin. ISBN 978-1-933354-85-9. ea. vol: Akashic. Nov. 2009. pap. $15.95. Crime fiction master Lehane and Poisoned Pen Bookstore bookseller and critic Millikin lend their curatorial eyes to these two series anthologies. Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6668188.html?nid=3300 FICTION Ahern, Cecilia. The Gift. HarperCollins. Nov. 2009. 320p. ISBN 978-0-06-170626-4. $19.99. Holiday fiction, with Scrooge as a high-powered executive. No one can match Dickens's original, but the author of P.S. I Love You has sway. With a 100,000-copy first printing. Auster, Paul. Invisible. Holt. Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6663767.html?nid=3300 FICTION Alexie, Sherman. War Dances. Grove.Oct. 2009. 256p. ISBN 978-0-8021-1919-3. $23. Alexie's writing is like the swooping owl featured in one of the stories in this collection—encounter it once, and you'll never forget it. I've already promoted this work in LJ's BookSmack! e-newsletter as a featured galley giveaway at BEA, but I'm glad to plug it again. Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6660926.html?nid=3300 If your patrons are looking for government information, this column is for you. Facts On File is launching U.S. Government Online, an attractive database offering news articles, essays, primary source documents, maps, and tons of multimedia. Columbia Books announced the publication of The Original U. Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST