Sneak Preview

Posted October 17 – 20, 2007 by Gayle
I thought I’d give you a Sneak Preview of books that are coming out in the next few months. Before I started renting Netflix, I used to go to video stores and I loved seeing their boards which listed films coming out in the next few months. It was always hard for me to decide what I wanted to see in the moment but looking ahead there were always films I had been waiting to see. So, I thought I’d whet your appetites for books that I’m excited about that are due out next year. This will be an ongoing list and certainly not inclusive as I have nearly finished the spring buying season buys and can’t go back and find the catalogs from publishers I bought from weeks ago. So, this list is just that, a list of books to anticipate and watch for on our shelves.

COOKBOOKS
These two are from Food Network Chefs:

February 2008

  • The Food You Crave by Ellie Krieger

March 2008

  • Robin to the Rescue by Robin Miller

NON-FICTION

November 2007

  • 10 Rules of Writing by Elmore Leonard

January 2008

  • Memo to the President Elect by Madeleine Albright

February 2008

  • A Mystical Haggadah: Passover Meditations, Teachings and Tales (just in time for Passover)
  • Wallace Stegner & the American West by Philip Fradkin
  • Why Mars & Venus Collide by John Gray
  • Kitchen Readings: Untold Stories of Hunter S. Thompson by Michael Cleverly
  • The Great Awakening by Jim Wallis

March 2008

  • Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku
  • Necessary Revolution: How Individuals and Organizations Can Work Together to Create a Sustainable World by Peter Senge
  • Jumbo: This Being the True Story of the Greatest Elephant in the World by Paul Chambers

April 2008

  • Moyers on Democracy by Bill Moyers (can we draft him for President??)
  • The Open Road: Global Journey of the XIVth Dalai Lama by Pico Iyer
  • The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World by Dalai Lama & Howard Cutler
  • Ladies of Liberty by Cokie Roberts

FICTION

November 2007

  • Interactive Fender Bible (includes full-length DVD featuring rare models) by Dave Hunter
  • 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill

December 2007

  • The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming by Lemony Snicket

January 2008

  • How the Dead Dream by Lydia Millet
  • The Delivery Man by Joe McGinniss Jr.
  • Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink (he wrote The Reader, one of my favorite books)
  • The Appeal by John Grisham (another legal thriller)
  • Life Class by Pat Barker
  • Senator’s Wife by Sue Miller

February 2008

  • The Reserve by Russell Banks
  • Names on a Map by Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
  • Now You See Him by Eli Gottlieb
  • McSweeney’s Issue 26 Edited by Dave Eggers
  • Remembering the Bones by Frances Itani

March 2008

  • Our Story Begins: New & Selected Stories by Tobias Wolff
  • Philosopher’s Apprentice by James Morrow
  • World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler

April 2008

  • Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (She wrote Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake)
  • The Miracle at Speedy Motors by Alexander McCall Smith (the latest in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series

POETRY

March 2008

  • Fire to Fire by Mark Doty

April 2008

  • The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door by Robert Bly