Recreation

Fiction New Titles April 2011 (arrived in March)

Adventure

The omega theory Mark Alpert.
When their autistic son Michael--a genius descended from Albert Einstein--is abducted by a cult bent on the destruction of the world, science historian David Swift and quantum physicist Monique Reynolds must stop the cult members from recreating the Big Bang and destroying mankind.
End game Matthew Glass.
Set in 2018 when two seemingly unrelated incidents have brought the U.S. and China to the brink of war.
Blood and ashes Matt Hilton.
Joe Hunter is hired to find out the truth behind a car crash that wasn't an accident and soon finds himself protecting a family under siege as white supremacists try to hold the government to ransom.
In the king's name Alexander Kent.
1819 and Captain Adam Bolitho is on the HMS Outward bound for Freetown on the old slave coast of Africa.
Dragoons Garry Douglas Kilworth.
Ensign Early of the 24th Foot division in the thick of it during the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879 South Africa.
A heartbeat away Michael Palmer.
On the night of the State of the Union address, President James Allaire expects to give the speech of his career. But no one anticipates the terrifying turn of events that forces him to quarantine everyone in the Capitol building.
Games traitors play Jon Stock.
Second spy story featuring ex-M16 agent Daniel Marchant (following "Dead spy running") where the agent hero is in Marrakech opn the trail of Salim Dhar, the world's most wanted terrorist.

American Fiction

The wettest county in the world Matt Bondurant.
Based on the true story of his family, telling the story of three brothers running a moonshine business in West Virginia. Being filmed at the moment with Shia LaBoeuf, Tom Hardy and Amy Adams.
The illumination Kevin Brockmeier.
In the aftermath of a fatal car accident, a private journal of love notes written by a husband to his wife passes into the keeping of a hospital patient, and from there through the hands of five other suffering people, touching each of them uniquely.
You know when the men are gone Siobhan Fallon.
A collection of interconnected stories relate the experiences of Fort Hood military wives who share a poignant vigil during which they raise children while waiting for their husbands to return.
The search Suzanne Woods Fisher.
Third in the "Lancaster County Secrets" series about life in an Amish community.
Jane goes batty Michael Thomas Ford.
In this fang-tastic follow-up to "Jane Bites Back," Hollywood VIPs have descended upon Jane's sleepy town in upstate New York to film the movie version of her novel "Constance." Meanwhile, Byron insists on teaching Jane some new vampire tricks.
The promises she keeps Erin Healy.
Young singer with a terminal illness and an aging witch in search of immortality are linked in a Christian story of mortality and the meaning of eternal life.
The lover's dictionary David Levithan.
A love story told through dictionary entries. The first adult novel by the well regarded YA author.
The war room Bryan Malessa.
A coming of age story about a young boy's painful relationship with his family and its past, his father a German immigrant who had grown up in wartime..
Sing you home Jodi Picoult.
Marriage falls apart and women finds a same sex partner then wants to use embryo from her marriage in Jodi's latest social problem novel.
Swamplandia! Karen Russell.
The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline and it's being encroached upon by a flashy competitor, World of Darkness. It's up to a twelve year old girl to manage seventy gators in this tale of family and nature.
Everything ravaged, everything burned Wells Tower.
A man is booted out of his home after his wife discovers that the sweat-smudged footprint on the inside of his windscreen doesn't match her own. Teenage cousins, drugged by summer, meet with a reckoning in the woods. A boy runs off to the carnival after his stepfather bites him in a brawl. In the stories of Wells Tower, families fall apart and messily, hilariously try to reassemble themselves.
Caribou Island David Vann.
When the construction of their dream cabin on an isolated Alaskan island is interrupted by an early Arctic winter, Gary and Irene find their marriage unraveling as they become stranded with their daughter, Rhoda, who watches helplessly as her parents drift further apart.
Love in mid air Kim Wright.
A married woman meets a stranger on a plane and the encounter leads her to question her safe suburban marriage and find it wanting.

British Fiction

Lying together Gaynor Arnold.
Collection of short stories from the author of the well praised "Girl in a blue dress" features characters seeking peace and order in their lives in settings that range from the 1940s to the present.
The champion Tim Binding.
Through the lives of two men - a happy and privileged middle class small town dweller and a loudmouth who shakes up that town hierarchy in his pursuit of money and status - the period from Thatcher to Blair is evoked.
The meeting point Lucy Caldwell.
Ruth follows her minister husband to Bahrain with their young daughter, thinking he is wantint to strengthen Christian ties in a Muslim country. Unfortunately she discovers he has a more sinister reason for going.
Bleakly Hall Elaine di Rollo.
Highly accomplished debut. Set just after World War I with characters connected by Bleakly Hall, a hydropathic establishment offering water treatment to its visitors.
Butterfly's shadow Lee Langley.
Inspired by the tragic story of Madame Butterfly and having Butterfly's baby sent to America.
To the moon and back Jill Mansell.
Hiding from a secret in her past, Ellie is looking for a fresh start when an old friend turns up to make her face the facts.
Cedilla Adam Mars-Jones.
Second novel in a planned trilogy - following "Pilcrow" - where the central character, suffering from a form of rheumatoid arthritis, enters the world of mainstream education.
Invisible river Helena McEwen.
Evie goes to art school in London, leaving her alcoholic father at home in Cornwall, but later he turns up to threaten her hard-won future.
Night waking Sarah Moss.
Historian Anna Bennett goes with her ecologist husband and children to a desolate Hebrides island where her life is intersected through letters by a midwife who had lived there 200 years ago.
Half of the human race Anthony Quinn.
London 1911 and a young woman is caught up in the world of the suffragettes. She meets a man who is a rising cricket star but she wants a freedom he cannot comprehend.
Daughters-in-law Joanna Trollope.
Rachel is the undisputed matriarch of her large family. She has devoted herself to her three sons all their lives. They are, of course, devoted to her and enjoy spending time at Rachel's ramshackle house near the coast of Suffolk. But when Luke, her youngest, gets married, Rachel realises that her control is slipping away.

Chinese titles

Mu ru zui hao Wu Guangchi zhu bian.
Huang mo mei gui : wo de ren sheng gu shi = Desert rose Liu Weijuan zhu.
Piao yi Zhongguo Han Han.
Yunmeng Cheng zhi mi Huang Yi zhu.
Jian zhu shi jian lou zhi hui Jiang Kuangwen bian zhu.
Ying long zang Jiu Yuan
Ren sheng ruo zhi chu xiang jian Meizihuangshiyu zhu.
Xfeng shao nu Ming Xiaoxi zhu.
Chuan Kenzo de nu ren Qian Mali.
Su Minfeng er ling yi yi tu nian yun cheng Su Minfeng.
Aoding de zhu fu = Odin's blessing Tianlaizhiyuan zhu.
Du shi feng shui shi Tingye zhu.
Xuan cao wei liao Tong fei fei.
Zhong wai li shi ming jiang zhi mi zuo zhe Wang Weifeng
Xiang wo zhe yang de yi ge nu zi Xixi.
Bai se qun xiang Xiao Yimo zhu.
Dong feng yu = East wind rain Yang Jian zhu.
Zhongguo ying di Wen Jiabao = China's best actor : Wen Jiabao Yu Jie zhu ; Bao Dan xu.
Hong hai yang Zhai Xiaoguang zhu.
Zhe yang shi he shei xi jiang Zhang Yihe.

Fiction from the rest of the World

Popular hits of the Showa era Ryu Murakami .
Hailed as his most irreverent novel yet, this is the story of six aimless youths and six very tough women who battle for control of a Tokyo neighbourhood.
The quiet twin Dan Vyleta.
Set in Vienna under the Third Reich six weeks into World War II where Doctor Beer becomes involved in the lives of the neighbours in his apartment block. Canadian author.

Korean titles

Kkut kkaji irollae? Kim Yon ... [et al.].
24-sigan 7-il Chim Puraun ; Ha chon gil omgim.
Misulp'um toduk : Noo Ch'ani changp'yon sosol Hong Song-yong omgim.
Sarajin naeil = Gone tomorrow Li Chaildu ; Pak Sulla omgim.
Hosuabi ch'um : Cho Chong-nae changp'yon sosol.
Myongsong Hwanghu : sarhae sakon chaesusa chiuni Cho Kang-t'a
Tongi Kim I-yong kukpon
Sosolgaui chugum = Body of evidence Poturisha Konwel
Akmaui nunmul = The devil's teardrop Chepuri Tibo
Fallen : ch'urakch'onsa Roren K'eit'u ; Hong Song-yong omgim.
An Yong-bok [chiuni Kwon O-dan].
Chonguk katun = Just like heaven Marc Levy.
Suyoil ui chonjaeng Geri D. Syumitu kul
Isullam chongyukchom Son Hong-gyu changp'yonsosol.
Ch'ossarang junghukun Yang So-hyon.
Chin Chae-son Yi Chong-gyu changp'yon sosol.
Tongi : Songgun Yongjo rul naun hugung kul Yi Chun-hyok.
Pulmyol : sosol An Chung-gun Yi Mun-yol.
Samak ui nunmul : onu Hangugin yongbyong iyagi = Desert tears Yun Ch'ung-hun.

Mystery

Running on empty Sandra Balzo.
First in a new series by the author of the Maggie Thorsen mysteries, set in a North Carolina resort town.
Truth lies bleeding Tony Black.
Four teenagers find a young girl's body in an Edinburgh alleyway and Inspector Rob Brennan is put on the case and what he finds blows both the case and his life wide open.
A red herring without mustard Alan Bradley.
In the third instalment, Flavia de Luce must clear a woman's name to prevent a terrible injustice.
A dark and stormy night Jeanne M. Dams.
Dorothy Martin and her ex-policeman husband are invited to a country house weekend where they are trapped in a storm. Just like in an old fashioned mystery!
Silent mercy Linda Fairstein.
When the burnt headless body of a young woman is found on the steps of a Baptist Church in Harlem, Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper is one of the first on the shocking scene.
Love you more Lisa Gardner.
Boston homicide detective D.D. Warren and the case of the young woman who killsher abusive husband but where is their missing child.
Sleep like the dead Alex Gray.
Everyone is searching for Billy Brogan and his sister, Marianne. Marianne's ex-husband Kenneth Scott is gunned down in his home and two men are found dead in Billy's West End flat.
The body in the Thames Susanna Gregory.
The latest mystery featuring Thomas Chaloner hunting down criminals in Restoration London.
Lasting damage Sophie Hannah.
Psychological thriller in which a woman finds a house on the Net, clicks on the Virtual Tour button and finds herself looking at a violent murder. When her husband checks the same scene he finds nothing!
Falling more slowly Peter Helton.
Introduces DI Liam McLusky, settling in to Bristol and on the case of a man trying to revenge himself on the world for reasons unknown.
First Frost James Henry.
Resurrects R.D. Wingfield's cop Jack Frost for a prequel set in 1981 when a girl goes mising and a series of bank robberies shock the country.
Hardcastle's obsession Graham Ison.
Latest in the World War I series featuring Detective Inspector Hardcastle has a bomb destroying a house in which a body is found.
Iron Lake William Kent Krueger.
A hated judge is found dead in suspicious circumstances in a town in Minnesota with an Indian casino and a young Ojibwa Indian leaves home in a hurry. Former sheriff Cork O'Connor investigates if there is a connection.
Rebellion James McGee.
Hawkwood, the Regency James Bond, returns in another gripping action tale.
The Saturday big tent wedding party Alexander McCall Smith.
12th in the Ladies Detective Agency series.
The nomination William G. Tapply.
Suspense thriller that deals with a former Vietnam War hero, now a judge, whose nomination for the Supreme Court isn't certain so he hires a hit man to sort things out.
Aftermath Peter Turnbull.
The latest Hennessey and Yellich story has five corpses found in a kitchen garden and all the victims appear to have little in common.
Heaven is high Kate Wilhelm.
Eugene, Oregon, attorney Barbara Holloway sets off to Belize to help a Haitian woman prove her identity. But what Holloway knows is only the tip of the iceberg in what turns out to be one of her most complex, compelling, and dangerous cases yet.
The orchid affair Lauren Willig.
Lauren Gray is excited to be part of the Selwick spy school until she finds out she has to be governess to the children of Napoleon's chief of police. When she gets there she finds things in that house that are quite suspicious.
The highly effective detective crosses the line Richard Yancey.
Teddy Ruzak, the earnest detective, is faced with an impossible dilemma when a vicious psychopath targets his beloved Gal Friday. Can he save her without sacrificing everything he believes in?

New Zealand Fiction

Miranda Bay Susan Tarr.
Miranda, a smart, raucous and bolshy young woman, splurges her entire inheritance on a pile of sagging architecture in the Bay of Islands, sight unseen, simply because it bears her name. One step ahead of bankruptcy, the now not-so-proud owner of the old Miranda Bay Sanatorium must turn her mistake into a profitable beach resort or lose everything.

Romance

Walk on the wild side Natalie Anderson.
Doctor, diamond in the rough Lucy Clark.
Do not disturb Anna Cleary.
Princess from the past Caitlin Crews.
Flora's defiance Lynne Graham.
Three weddings and a baby Fiona Harper.
The last summer of being single Nina Harrington.
Love lies weeping Anne Herries.
Cedar Bluff's most eligible bachelor Laura Iding.
Friends to forever Nikki Logan.
Single dad's triple trouble Fiona Lowe.
The devil wears Kolovsky Carol Marinelli.
Midwife, mother, Italian's wife Fiona McArthur.
The wedding charade Melanie Milburne.
Crown prince, pregnant bride! Raye Morgan.
The reluctant duke Carole Mortimer.
Interview with a playboy Kathryn Ross.
His unknown heir Chantelle Shaw.
Beauty and the brooding boss Barbara Wallace.
The nanny and the CEO Rebecca Winters.
The inherited bride Maisey Yates.

Saga & Historical

The ground is burning Samuel Black.
In the autumn of 1502 three notorious men meet at an Italian castle. The centre of the intrigue is Dorotea, a young woman who was abducted by one of the men.
Betsy's return Wanda E. Brunstetter.
Relive the glory of a Pennsylvania canal town through the eyes of those who ministered to the needs of the workers. Betsy Nelson reluctantly returns to her childhood home to care for her failing father, a faithful minister who served the town for years.
Impatient with desire Gabrielle Burton.
In the spring of 1846, Tamsen Donner, her husband, George, their five daughters, and eighty other pioneers headed to California on the California-Oregon Trail in eager anticipation of new lives out West
Fields of ice Arabella Edge.
Tells the dramatic story of Franklin's third and final expedition to the North-West Passage through the eyes of the ship's cook, Canot.
Perhaps tomorrow Jean Fullerton.
East End saga where a young widow struggles to keep her family's coal business going and avoid the attentions of a greedy businessman who has designs on both the coalyard and herself.
Fire the sky W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear.
Second in the "Contact: the battle for America" series about Native American and European first contact.
Night road Kristin Hannah.
Happily married mother of twins finds her life changed after an accident that leaves her family broken and a community in turmoil.
The woman he loved before Dorothy Koomson.
Roslyn has a nice life with handsome husband a big home by the sea. She wonders about his late first wife and ends up uncovering family secrets.
Madame Tussaud Michelle Moran.
Spanning five years, from the budding revolution to the Reign of Terror, "Madame Tussaud" brings us into the world of an incredible heroine whose talent for wax modeling saved her life and preserved the faces of a vanished kingdom.
Heartwood Belva Plain.
Though Iris Stern considers herself a modern woman, with a successful academic career and a happy marriage, she still holds steadfast to her old-fashioned sensibilities. But as the mother of three adult children, each with their own lives and burdens to bear, she often finds those sensibilities called into question when confronted with the choices her children have made.
Beyond the storm E.V. Thompson.
When a fierce storm pounds the shores of 19th century Cornwall a young girl is found washed up and barely alive on the rocks of a remote cove.

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror

The heroes Joe Abercrombie.
Over three bloody days of battle, the fate of the North will be decided. But with both sides riddled by intrigues, follies, feuds and petty jealousies, it is unlikely to be the noblest hearts, or even the strongest arms that prevail. Three men. One battle. No heroes.
In fire forged Edited by David Weber
This collection of stories includes an all-new Honor Harrington adventure, set in her younger years, along with stories by Jane Lindskold and Timothy Zahn.
Steampunk II. Steampunk reloaded Ann & Jeff VanderMeer.
An anthology of short stories by various authors set in alternate Victorian eras populated by steam-powered robots, mad scientists, and futuristic heroes.
Rising tides Taylor Anderson.
The fifth in the Destroyermen alternate world military series.
The sea thy mistress Elizabeth Bear.
Sequel to the fantasy tale "All the windwracked stars" picks up the story fifteen years after Muire went into the sea and became the Bearer of Burdens.
Blackveil Kristen Britain.
Fourth book of the "Green Rider" fantasy series.
A kingdom besieged Raymond E. Feist.
Discover the fate of the original black magician, Pug, and his motley crew of agents safeguarding the world of Trigia as prophecy becomes truth in the first book of the last ever Midkemian trilogy.
Forest moon rising P.R. Frost.
Fourth in the Tess Noncoire fantasy series.
Intrigues Mercedes Lackey.
Second book of the fantasy series, Collegium Chronciles, in which a young orphan is chosen by one of the magical Companion Horses of Valdemar to be trained as a Herald.
The habitation of the blessed Catherynne M. Valente.
Brother Hiob, on missionary work in the Himalayan wilderness, discovers a village guarding a miraculous tree whose branches sprout books instead of fruit. These books chronicle the history of the kingdom of Prestor John, and Hiob becomes obsessed with the tales they tell.