Recreation

Fiction New Titles February 2011 (arrived in January)

Adventure

Dead or alive Tom Clancy
Second tale featuring Jack Ryan Jr. has our hero taking on a vicious killer terrorist who is masterminding attacks on western civilisation.
The outlaws W.E.B. Griffin
Charlie Castillo's secret unit has disbanded when a package arrives, bearing photos of barrels of biohazard materials. Lates in the Presidential Agent series.
Dead zero Stephen Hunter.
Marine Corps master sniper Bob Lee Swagger travels to the remote deserts and caves of Afghanistan to track down a renegade Marine who is using extreme measures to complete a mission.
The Gordian knot Bernhard Schlink
Translator working in France is asked to take over a local agency and all goes well until the secretary he falls for disappears and he has to flee to America to track her down, stuck between the CIA and the KGB and out of his depth.

The choice Suzanne Woods Fisher.
First in a series set in the world of a young Amish woman torn between following the man she loves--or joining the community of faith that sustains her
The waiting Suzanne Woods Fisher.
Second in the Lancaster County Secrets series.
Lord of misrule Jaimy Gordon.
At the rock-bottom end of the sport of kings sits the ruthless and often violent world of cheap horse racing, where trainers and jockeys, grooms and hotwalkers, loan sharks and touts all struggle to take an edge, or prove their luck, or just survive.
Nothing happens until it happens to you : a novel T.M. Shine.
Sharp satirical first novel about our time a man who's been laid off after 18 years in a job and has no choice but to try anything, no matter how humbling or embarrasing.

Australian fiction

The Shelly Beach writers' group June Loves.
What do you do when your husband dumps you for his P.A., your company goes broke and your nearly published novel is cancelled? You end up in a small seaside community where you find a new life and eventually love.
The lightkeeper's wife Karen Viggers.
Mary, a family matriarch, is readying herself for her death and going on a journey of redemption to her beloved island and lighthouse.

British Fiction

The bride that time forgot Paul Magrs.
Gothic black comedy featuring bed & breakfast owner Brenda and her friend Effie, guardians of the gateway to Hell in downtown Whitby!
C Tom McCarthy.
Extraordinary tale of the short intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man who surges into the electric modernity of the early 20th century, in rapture to the technologies that will eventually overtake him. One of 2010's Booker shortlist.
Snowdrops A.D. Miller.
An English lawyer looks back on the events of post-Soviet Moscow where the money flowed, corruption was rife and no questions were asked. Debut novel by the Moscow correspondent for The Economist from 2004 to 2007.
Do no harm Carol Topolski.
For those who aren't afraid of things really creepy comes this story of a gynaecologist with a dark secret.
How to be married Polly Williams.
Sadie Drew fears she's the world's worst wife and when her husband gets a top high pressure job things turn worse so she has to turn herself into a perfect wife.

Chinese titles

Xiang qin bu xiang ai Bai Mulin zhu.
Tui na = Knead Bi Feiyu zhu.
Zhu guang sheng yan Cai Sufen.
Hai shen jia zu Chen yu hui zhu.
Sha gui Gan Yaoming.
Zhu que Ge Liang.
Hui hua Han Lizhu zhu.
Qiong tan cha na Hudie zhu.
Wang jiang nan Hudie zhu.
Xia tang hou Hudie zhu.
You xiong chu mo = Mr. Bear Hudie.
Bu Feiyan chuan qi zhi du hong yan Jiao Wuna zhu.
Dan shen bu dan fei Lian Yali.
Yin seng Ma Mingqian zhu.
Gao bai Cou Jiamiao zhu
Tu shu shi zhi hai Entian Lu.
Tong ju bu tong chuang Shu Ge zhu.
He an Su Tong ju.
Na nian wo suo xi huan de nan hai Wu Danru zhu.
Dong nan ren de nu ren zui xing fu Wu Ruoquan.
Yi xing tian xia. Shang, Xun yi qiu dao Xiao Hongci zhu
Ling jian. yuan yi Zheng Feng zhu.
Qiu hun da lu she Zheng Huajuan zhu.
Chu xia he hua shi qi de ai qing Zhu Tianxin zhu.

Fiction from the rest of the World

Lipstick in Afghanistan Roberta Gately.
If you liked Khaled Hosseini's bestseller "A thousand splendid suns" why not try this excellent debut novel about a young nurse posted to an aid clinic in Afghanistan where she meets a brave young woman who has memories of such things as wearing lipstick during the fireedom of pre-Taliban days.
Miral Rula Jebreal
A heartbreaking novel dissecting the Palestinian conflict that is based on a true story. The film adaptation starring Freida Pinto, Hiam Abbass, Willem Dafoe, Vanessa Redgrave and Omar Metwally debuted at Venice Film Festival in 2010.
Sarajevo Marlboro Miljenko Jergovic
A remarkable début collection of stories. Jergovic is a child of Sarajevo who remained in the city throughout the war.
The life of an unknown man Andrei Makine
An extraordinary story of love and endurance during the Siege of Leningrad lies at the heart of a novel about Russia past and present, and the human condition.

French Fiction

Cercle litteraire des amateurs d'epluchures de patates : roman Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows ; traduit de l'americain par Aline Azoulay- Pacvon.

Mystery

He lover of death Boris Akunin
The latest Erast Fandorin mystery has our hero encountering many sinister Moscow characters including a femme fatale nicknamed "Death" because of the life expectancy of her lovers.
Palace of justice Susanne Alleyn.
Aristide Ravel, the enigmatic and charming freelance investigator for the Paris police, combs through the pre-Revolutionary atmosphere of distrust and anxiety when a ruthless killer begins terrorizing the city.
Oscar Wilde and the nest of vipers Gyles Brandreth.
The fourth of Gyles Brandreth`s series of Victorian murder mysteries opens in the spring of 1890 at a glamorous reception hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Albemarle. All London`s haut monde is there, including the Prince of Wales, who counts the Albemarles as close friends. Although it is the first time Oscar and Bertie have met, Oscar seems far more interested in Rex LaSalle, a young actor, who disarmingly claims to be a vampire
Undercover Keith Bulfin.
Novel based on the life of Keith Bulfin, a Melbourne stockbroker drawn into a world of drug smuggling and violence in Mexico.
To have and to kill Mary Jane Clark.
Launches a new series featuring Piper Donovan, a would-be actress who loves back home and lends a hand in the family bakery. When a client at the bakery dies, Piper and an FBI agent friend investigate.
Follow the money Peter Corris.
Cliff Hardy has been conned by an unscrupulous financial adviser and he is following a money trail that takes him into Sydney's underbelly of big money, bent deals, big yachts and bi villains.
The sentry Robert Crais.
Revisits ex-cop and current soldier of fortune Joe Pike.
Death without tenure Joanne Dobson.
When her rival for a tenured spot in the English Department is found dead from an overdoes of Peyote buttons, Karen is first on the list of suspects.
A dead man's tale James D. Doss.
Struggling with hard times on his Colorado ranch, Charlie Moon becomes involved in a potentially lucrative wager between his best friend, police chief Scott Parish, and self-proclaimed psychic investor Samuel Reed, who bets that Parish will not be able to prevent Reed's imminent murder.
The left-handed dollar Loren D. Estleman.
Hardboiled detective Amos Walker is hired to help free a mobster who once tried to kill Barry Stackpole, Walker's only true friend.
Blood count Robert Goddard.
Years ago a surgeon performed a life saving operation on a Serbian gangster who is now on trial for war crimes, The gang family blackmail the surgeon into finding the illegal family fortune.
Wicked words J.G. Goodhind.
Bath hotelier Honey Driver on a new case when an unpopular hotel reviewer is found dead stuffed inside a giant teddy at the bottom of an open grave.
Off the record Dolores Gordon-Smith.
Latest in the Jack Haldean series is set in the Royal Twenties where murder occurs when a professor who has created a radical new gramophone meets a leading manufacturer.
Merely players J.M. Gregson.
The new DCI Percy Peach mystery - Adam Cassidy is one of Brunton’s most famous residents. He plays the lead role in a successful TV detective show. It is now his time for a crack at Hollywood and he doesn’t care who he has to betray in order to fulfil his dream. Meanwhile, DCI Percy Peach is in danger of being drawn into the local anti-terrorism initiative. What he needs is a high-profile murder case to sink his teeth into – and he may be about to get what he wishes for . . .
A dog's life Gerald Hammond.
A novelist takes pity on a woman who has been living in the woods but when he is brutally attacked her relatives start bothering him and then a local man is murdered.
Body line Cynthia Harrod-Eagles.
The latest Bill Slider mystery.
Cruel ever after Ellen Hart.
The shock that Minneapolis restaurateur Jane Lawless is in for when Chester Garrity, her ex-husband, returns to a city that he swore he’d never see again is nothing compared to Chester’s own. After their divorce many years ago, he took off with his inheritance to travel the world, leaving Jane with enough seed money to open her first restaurant, which worked out well for Jane but less so for Chester.Now he’s back and penniless, or as he would prefer to say, between fortunes.
Devil's Rock Gerri Hill.
Lesbian detectives investigate the serial murders of college students in a university town.
Secrets to the grave Tami Hoag.
A town is horrified when a woman is murdered and a child is found with her. A child advocate is called in.
1222 Anne Holt
Hanne Wilhelmsen, wheelchair-bound detective, is stranded in a remote Norwegian village where murder occurs as a group of people gather in a hotel.
Violent exposure Katherine Howell.
4th tale from former paramedic featuing Detective Ella Marconi has a paramedic called to a domestic incident where a woman is murdered and her partner goes missing.
Voyeur Daniel Judson.
Former Manhattan private investigator Remer agrees to look into the disappearance of Mia Ferrera, the last person who got close to him.
The seal king murders Alanna Knight.
The year is 1861 and Constable Faro is heading back to Orkney to enjoy some home comforts, armed with a private investigation into the death of an ex-colleague's relative, champion swimmer Dave Claydon, who had drowned in mysterious circumstances. Was his death an accident or is there a sinister connection with missing artefacts recovered from an Armada galleon sunk off Spanish Cove?
Damage John Lescroart.
His career derailed by the vengeful billionaire Curtlee family for his part in convicting one of their number for murder, former homicide detective Abe Glitsky learns that the killer has won a retrial at the same time a star witness has been murdered.
Shatter the bones Stuart MacBride.
Logan McRae in darkest dirtiest Aberdeeen and the case of the kidnapping of a mother-daughter sining duo. Not for those who like quiet refined mystery novels.
Scream Nigel McCrery.
Synesthete detective DCI Mark Lapslie on the trail of a sadistic killer.
Dandy Gilver and an unsuitable day for a murder Catriona McPherson.
Another in her series that evokes the Golden Age of English mysteries.
The inner circle Brad Meltzer.
Tale of deception and lies at the highest level of American government where an archivist comes across a priceless artefact which the President seems to have hidden.
The Sherlockian Graham Moore.
1893 and Conan Doyle kills off Sherlock Holmes only to find himself investigating a real crime with his friend Bram Stoker. 2010 and a Holmes scholar finds the journal Conan Doyle created and is later murdered.
The border lords T. Jefferson Parker.
Charlie Hood revists the violent and treacherous world of America's southern borders.
Tick, tock James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge.
NYC's number one detective Michael Bennett has a big problem - Son of Sam, The Werewolf of Wisteria and The Mad Bomber are all back.
Between summer's longing and winter's end Leif Persson
The apparent suicide of a young American student in Stockholm leads to a complex web of itnernational espionage, treachery and, ultimately, to the famous murder of Swedish P.M. Olof Palme.
Threats at three Ann Purser.
Lois Meade investigates a murder that Detective Cowgill believes is connected to a suspicious fire and a heated dispute over the local village hall.
Reapers Frederick Ramsay.
The second in his Botswana mystery series is set at the time of the South African World Cup where the game ranger of the Chobe National Park investigates a murder which is linked to a web of bribery and corruption.
Miss Minchin dies Betty Rowlands.
Sukey Reynolds investigates a so-called accidental death then a murder occur and it seems linked.
The death instinct Jed Rubenfeld.
1920s and a colourful tale of a NYPD officer and a young women who has worked with Marie Curie are up against a conspiracy that takes them to Vienna and Sigmund Freud.
A lonely death Charles Todd.
It's 1920. Three men are dead, all garroted, all war veterans. When a piece of evidence, kept from the public, suggests a much stronger link between the victims and the unknown, it's up to World War I battered survivor, Scotland Yard Detective Ian Rutledge to find the killer.
From blood Edward Wright.
Woman whose life has derailed into petty criminal behaviour becomes consumed by guilt when a house fire kills her father and injures her mother which means she has to delve into the family past to find out why.

New Zealand Fiction

The moment of change Jennifer Manson.
28 year old Ocean has been running her whole life - away from something, searching for something - not even she knows. Arriving in Picton after a long journey and embraced by the dark, dramatic hills of the Marlborough Sounds, she senses the wild merry-go-round of her life is finally spinning to a stop.
Shaking 1960 David McGill.
A coming-of-age story of sex, booze, rock 'n' roll and conscience set in the turmoil of the "No Maoris, No Tour" protests, the Hastings Blossom Festival Riot and Elaine Miscall winning the Eastbourne Mardi Gras beauty contest. Students pushing personal and public boundaries in election year are shadowed by authorities who tilt pranks and free expression into wild parties and violent death.
Riding the hurricane Paulette Rae.
Having led a sheltered life, Cassie finds herself alone in a strange city for the first time. Half way between a daughter on the verge of starting her own adult life, and a husband she cannot go back to, Cassie is torn between two worlds. Having decided she belongs to neither of these, she meets the colourful Louise and her son Nick, who quickly help her discover what she needs to make a new life for herself in Christchurch.
The constant losers Alex Wild.
21st century Auckland and the cellphone generation as two students begin their relationship in print then develop it through a series of chaotic encounters.

Russian titles

Rozhdennaia vo ldu Nora Roberts.
Mangal, kazan, gril', barbecyu : prostye rechepty vkusnykh blyud Ravshan Abdullin.
Klad Napoleona Natalia Aleksandrova.
Zhivye vitaminy Anna Bogdanova.
Amerikanets ili ochen' skrytnyi dzhentel'men Martin But.
Kroshki TSakhes : roman Elena Chizhova.
Chapaev Vladimir Daines.
Chernyi i zelenyi Dmitrii Danilov.
Samye effekitvnye lechebnye diety N. Danilova,
Lebedinoe ozero Ikhtiandra : roman Daria Dontsova.
Stal'noi Lev. Za rodinu! Za Trotskogo! Ivan Evgrashin.
Kogda ty byla rybkoi, golovastikom - ya-- : i drygie razmishleniya o vsyakoi vsyachine Martin Gardner.
Berlinskaia fleita : rasskazy, povesti Anatolii Gavrilov.
Gariki na kazhdyi den Igor Guberman.
Luchshaia rol' vtorogo plana Elena Kholmogorova.
Derevnia durakov Natalia Kliuchareva.
Pro menia : pochemu mne ne skazali? Elena Kolina.
Uvolit sekretarshu! Galina Kulikova.
Ognennyi dozhd' Leopol'do Lugones.
Otkroveniia liudoeda Devid Medsen.
Est! Anna Matveeva.
Baryshnia Irina Muraveva.
Lechimslia doma : retsepty narodnoi meditsiny Anastasiia Semenova.
Na dvukh tronakh ; Falshivyi drug, nastoiashchii vrag Marina Serova.
Dvoinaia zhizn' Charli Sent-Klauda Ben Shervud.
Rannie ovovshchi na vashem uchastke : sovemy io vyraschivaniyu i ukhodu L.M. Shulgina.
Monoklon Vladimir Sorokin.
Liubov, piraty i--- : [sbornik] Eduard Topol.
Chelovek v sisteme : kniga o tom, chto odinochestva ne sushchestvuet-- M. Veller.
Moskva - Apokalipsis M. Veller.
Asti Spumante : pervoe delo grafini Apraksinoi IUliia Voznesenskaia.
Blagodariu za liubov IUliia Voznesenskaia.
Stan molozhe! : programma vosstanovleniya zhiznennykh Norman Uoker.
Shyr : [rasskazy] Oleg Zobern.

Saga & Historical

Empire of silver Conn Iggulden.
Fourth in the Conqueror series. Genghis Khan is dead and the armies gather to see which of his sons has the strength to be the head of the Mongol Empire.
His last duchess Gabrielle Kimm.
First novel by English schoolteacher. The story of teenage Lucrezia de Medici whose marriage to a Duke is a troubled one.
Queen hereafter Susan Fraser King.
11th C. Scotland where Queen Margaret does good works while war rages and transforms herself from devout yet savvy queen when she marries King Malcolm Canmore.
A corner of the heart Jessica Stirling.
Set in 1930s England where an East End girl with ideas of her own makes a surprising journey from the back streets of Shadwell to the salons of Mayfair.
Mr. Shakespeare's bastard Richard B. Wright.
In a manor house in Oxfordshire, an ailing housekeeper by the name of Aerlene Ward feels the time has come to confess the great secret that has shaped her life, she is the illegitimate daughter of William Shakespeare. A story of the lovely Elizabeth seduced by a struggling young writer from Stratford and her plain but clever daughter.

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror

Counterfeit magic Kelley Armstrong.
Witch detectives Paige Winterbourne and Savannah Levine investigate murders at a supernatural fight club in California.
Pump six and other stories Paolo Bacigalupi.
The eleven stories in Pump Six chart the evolution of Paolo Bacigalupi's work, including the Hugo nominated "Yellow Card Man" and the Sturgeon Award-winning story "The Calorie Man," both set in the world of his novel The Windup Girl.
Hull zero three Greg Bear.
A narrator finds himself in a mysterious existence on a starship.
Star Wars, fate of the Jedi. Vortex Troy Denning.
Follows the Sith and Skywalker's quest to discover the origins of Abeloth.
Pariah Bob Fingerman.
After a zombie plague infects most of the world, the residents of a New York City apartment, who have escaped infection, fight among themselves until they spy an uninfected teenage girl outside.
A hard day's knight Simon R. Green.
11th in the Nightside fantasy series.
Entangled Graham Hancock.
When a drug overdose causes Leoni, a troubled teen from twenty-first-century Los Angeles, to have a near-death experience, her soul is lifted from the modern world and flung into a parallel time 24,000 years in the past.
Hellhole Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.
First in a planned epic sci-fi series about Hellhole, a planet ravaged by natural disasters.
The silent land Graham Joyce.
A young couple are caught in an avalanche during a ski-ing holiday in the French Alps. They struggle back to the village and find it deserted. As the days go by they wait for rescue, then try to leave. But each time they find themselves back in the village.
What the night knows Dean Koontz.
A teenage killer is in a secure wing at a state hospital and the detective who interviews him feels haunted as another killing spree starts.
Bridge of souls Fiona McIntosh.
Third volume of the fantasy series, "The quickening."
The bards of Bone Plain Patricia A. McKillip.
A scholar is researching Bone Plain, studied for the last 500 years but never able to be located as a real place. His archaeologist father and the king's youngest daughter set out to find it.
The coming of the Terraphiles, or, Pirates of the Second Aether!! Michael Moorcock.
The veteran science fiction author comes up with a surprise: a Doctor Who novel.
Mysteries of the Diogenes Club Kim Newman.
The third in his series about the Diogenes Club whose agents solve crimes too strange for the British police, protecting the realm from occult threats…
Temeraire Naomi Novik.
As Napoleon's tenacious infantry rampages across Europe and his armada lies in wait for Nelson's smaller fleet, the war does not rage on land and water alone. Squadrons of aviators swarm the skies - a deadly shield for the cumbersome canon-firing vessels. Raining fire and acid upon their enemies, they engage in a swift, violent combat with flying tooth and cllaw.
The Japanese Devil Fish Girl and other unnatural attractions Robert Rankin.
Zany tale of a sideshow proprietor who needs a sensational new attraction and finds his new attraction will cause friction among those from other planets.
Of love and evil : the songs of the seraphim : a novel Anne Rice.
Toby O'Dare, former government assassin, is summoned by the angel Malchiah to fifteenth-century Rome--the city of Michelangelo and Raphael, of Leo X and the Holy Inquisition--to solve a terrible crime of poisoning and to uncover the secrets of an earthbound restless spirit, a diabolical dybbuk.
Citadel John Ringo.
Second in Troy Rising series. The 2 trillion ton battlestation created by an eccentric billionaire has allowed Earth to recapture the solar system and enter the galactic empire. War is just beginning.
Star wars. Red harvest Joe Schreiber.
Unlike those other Jedi sidelined to the Agricultural Corps, Hestizo Trace possesses one extraordinary Force talent: a gift with plants. Suddenly her quiet existence among greenhouse and garden specimens is violently destroyed by the arrival of an emissary from Darth Scabrous who seeks the final ingredient in an ancient Sith formula that promises to grant Darth Scabrous his greatest desire: immortality.
Troubled waters Sharon Shinn.
Set in a new fantasy world where the elements rule.
Atlantis and other places Harry Turtledove.
A famous naturalist seeks a near-extinct species of bird found only on the rarest of lands in "Audubon in Atlantis." A young American on a European holiday finds himself storming an enchanted German castle in "The Catcher in the Rhine." The philosopher Sokrates plays a key role in the Athenian victory over the Spartans in "The Daimon." This and more in a lively new collection.
Out of the dark David Weber.
A master sergeant prowling the back country of the Balkans and a firearms instructor and former Marine find themselves at the centre of a growing network of resistance against an invading force of alien, carnivorous Shongari intent on annihilating the human race.
Mr. Monster Dan Wells.
In the Dexter tradition wikth fantasy added as the title character handles family problems, romance, FBI agents and serial killers.
Shadowheart Tad Williams.
4th volume of the Shadowmarch fantasy series has the royal twins Barrick and Briony forced to flee thbeir homeland and reclaim the kingdom.