New Books for October 2009
Click on the call number to see if the book is available for check-out. Annotations provided by McNaughton Book Services.
 |
Mason 'Mace' Perry had been a cop on the D.C. police force until she was kidnapped and framed for a crime she didn't commit |
 |
In 1954, an anxious boy, 12, mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear |
 |
Toby O'Dare is a dead man walking; he's fallen from grace and lives under a series of aliases. |
 |
The uncertainty of the world in the Middle East makes it essential that we understand the complex nature of Saudia Arabia. |
 |
Despite Dr. Kay Scarpetta's busy schedule, she has offered her services to New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. |
 |
Three days before Christmas, Gracie Phipps encounters Minnie Maude Mudway, alone, and determined to find her friend Charlie. |
 |
It's been two years since Hope Jensen was reunited with her biological mother and she still has a feeling of completeness. |
 |
Levitt and Dubner return with a second even more provocative book which will challenge the way we think once again. |
 |
These 14 never-before-published stories date from the years before Vonnegut began his ascent to international stardom. |
 |
Malalai Joya has a price on her head in Afghanistan where she publicly denounced her country's warlords. |
 |
Los Angeles entertainment lawyer Danny Roth has an amazing collection of vintage wines, which he proudly shows off to a writer for the 'LA Times'. |
 |
Assistant D.A. and single mom Alexa Hamilton has just been handed the kind of case that makes careers. |
 |
Just before Christmas 1988, 12 women gather for a cookie exchange, some wine, food, and some holiday cheer. |
 |
Doctor Light is missing, and her former Justice League teammates intend to find the man responsible and make him pay. |
 |
Eve Duncan returns in a thriller that pits her against the most evil mind she has ever encountered |
 |
Lackey places her own spin on Marion Zimmer Bradley's ancient tale of King Arthur as seen through the eyes of his queen. |
 |
The woman who fled New York and adopted the initial M as her new name was a supermodel whom men loved, and women adored. |
 |
Detective Harry Bosch has responded to what appears to be a robbery gone bad. |
 |
When Inspector Wexford was a young policeman working on his first murder case, he noticed Eric Targo and became suspicious of him. |
 |
Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is not your typical southern belle. She can read minds and she has a thing for vampires. |
 |
Sarah McKinley is the proud new owner of a historic Florida mansion, dismissing the stories of past residents vanishing. |
 |
London's East Side is the backdrop for the disappearance and murder of a young mother. |
 |
A knock on Spenser's office door can only mean one thing: a new case. |
 |
After Poppy is abandoned by her true love, she's caught up in a scandal that makes it necessary for her to marry Harry Rutledge. |
 |
Flynn returns with a pulse-pounding tale of espionage, covert intelligence, and counter-terrorism. |
 |
Sarah Crane grew up in a foster home after being seriously injured by her alcoholic father. |
 |
The wizards at Ankh-Morpork's Unseen University aren't known for their athletic ability. |
 |
Life as Simon Axler knew it was over. The one time leading actor had lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. |
 |
When an Imperial prison barge breaks down in space, its only hope seems to be the seemingly abandoned 'Star Destroyer' found drifting in space. |
 |
Although Maeve Leahy is an accomplished professor, she lives a guarded life. |
 |
Stoker and Holt team up to bring readers the true sequel to Bram Stoker's classic novel. |
 |
The millennials, a team of ancient and beautiful vampires in London, are hoping to keep history from repeating itself. |
 |
Book six in 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.' |
 |
Following a battle between two powerful Demons, a mystical connection joining Xanth and our world has been severed. |
 |
Polly Deschamps is a lonely, divorced mother when she meets and becomes smitten with architect Marshall Marchand. |
 |
Samuel Johnson and his dog are trick-or-treating three days early when they observe strange events at 666 Crowley Avenue. |
 |
This collection of short fiction includes several stories featuring the compelling Yorkshire Inspector Banks. |
 |
After being shot in the head, P.I. Sharon McCone lies in her hospital bed completely paralyzed, but alert. |
 |
Tom and Julian, sons of author Olive Wellwood, discover Philip Warren, sketching lifelike pictures. |
 |
Following a fight at home, Max flees on a boat and finds himself on the island of the Wild Things where he becomes their king. |
 |
Ben Erskine had been a man who had made a reputation for himself by the time he was 20. Then, he became an indifferent husband and a cruel father. |
 |
The Dalai Lama offers readers the hope of living a happy life even in the most challenging of times. |
 |
A construction foreman finds two stabbed and bludgeoned corpses nestled in a newly-erected mansion in pricy Bel Air |
 |
Jillian Maxwell, 12, is by all appearances, the perfect child with the perfect life. |
 |
The Spellplague has ravaged Faerun, catching Drizzt and his companions in the chaos. |
 |
Jeannette Walls' grandmother, Lily Casey Smith, was by anyone's standards, a remarkable woman. This is her story. |
 |
After returning from a visit with a client at Statesville, V.I. Warshawski is shocked to find her office looking like a cyclone hit it. |
 |
Annie thinks she loves Duncan. Duncan loves Annie, and then doesn't. He really loves Tucker Crowe. |
 |
The holiday season is a busy time for Hannah Swensen's bakery but she loves it. |
 |
Albom explores life through a unique journey: his search for the right words to eulogize a Man of God. |
 |
Seven years ago Stoney Calhoun woke up in a VA hospital with no memories and a series of unexplained talents. |
 |
What if King Tut didn't die of disease or from an accident, but was actually murdered? |
 |
Up until now, Virgil Flowers has enjoyed an active social life. But, the new case he's working on won't give him much chance for that. |
 |
A group of friends from Lake Wobegon travel to Italy to honor a young soldier who died during the Italian campaign of 1943-44. |
 |
When Elsepth Noblin died of cancer, she left her London apartment to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina, 20. |
 |
After letting terrorist Teddy Fay slip through her fingers for a second time, the CIA advised Special Agent Holly Barker to take some vacation time. |
 |
Agatha Raisin can't seem to stop obsessing about her ex-husband, James, who is about to be married. |
 |
When Dennis Thomas' wife disappeared, he pleaded unsuccessfully for help from the police. |
 |
To keep boredom at bay as they perform their jobs of updating a dictionary, Billy and Mona engage in innocent office flirtation and amateur sleuthing. |
 |
As if the Alaskan wilderness isn't dangerous enough, there's also a pack of rogue werewolves on the loose. |
Official Web site of the University of California, San Diego
University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093
(858) 534-2230
Copyright ©2009-2010 Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.