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James Ellroy |
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BLOOD’S A ROVER (Knopf, Sept. 2009)
The long-awaited concluding volume of the trilogy that began with the bestselling AMERICAN TABLOID. A dark picture of corruption and politics in the late 1960s and early 1970s. |
Record
Like
Rivages
Ullstein
Agra
Atlas
Mondadori
Bungei Shunju
Ediciones B
Bra Böcker
Random House Century
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Brazil
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Holland
Italy
Japan
Spain
Sweden
U.K.
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THE HILLIKER CURSE (serialized in Playboy, beginning April 2009)
In a follow-up to his bestselling memoir, MY DARK PLACES, Ellroy talks about his relationship with women and how that has influenced his life and his writing. |
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| T.J. English |
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HAVANA NOCTURNE: How the Mob Owned Cuba – And Then Lost It to the Revolution (William Morrow)
The first non-fiction book to tell the full story of the 1960s infiltration of American organized crime into every area of Cuban life. |
China Times
Saggiatore
La Table Ronde
Debate
Karneval Forlag
Mainstream
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China
Italy
France
Spain
Sweden
U.K.
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Thomas E. Kennedy |
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IN THE COMPANY OF ANGELS (Bloomsbury U.S. and U.K.)
A teacher, tortured in Chile, finds a new life in Copenhagen through the help of a caring psychiatrist and the love of a woman. |
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Eugenia Kim |
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THE CALLIGRAPHER’S DAUGHTER (Henry Holt, Aug. 2009)
A rich family saga set in Korea during the first half of the 20th century. |
Trivaks-Matar
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Israel
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Raymond Moody MD with
Paul Perry |
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PARANORMAL: A Memoir of My Life Studying Death
The bestselling author of LIFE AFTER LIFE tells the story of his life’s quest to understand the near-death experience. |
Bertelsmann
Corbaccio
Pergaminho
Rider
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Germany
Italy
Portugal
U.K.
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SOUL SURVIVOR (Guideposts, forthcoming)
At the moment of a loved one’s passing, friends and family sometimes report seeing visions of a world beyond. Dr. Moody explores this phenomenon in his new book. |
Rider
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U.K.
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| Stuart Neville |
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THE GHOSTS OF BELFAST (Soho Press, Oct. 2009) + COLLUSION (sequel)
A dark, violent first novel set in today’s Belfast, Ireland. James Ellroy calls this “one of the best first novels I’ve read in years.” |
Rivages
Kodansha
Urano
Harvill Secker
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France
Japan
Spain
U.K.
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| Jack O'Connell |
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THE RESURRECTIONIST (Algonquin)
(Note: Translation rights in Germany and Japan are controlled by the publisher)
A mesmerizing novel about a boy in a coma, a band of circus freaks, and a father desperate to save his son, by a writer who has been variously compared to Thomas Pynchon and Edgar Allan Poe. |
Rivages
Oldcastle/No Exit
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France
U.K.
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| Richard Russo |
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BRIDGE OF SIGHS (Knopf)
The acclaimed novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of EMPIRE FALLS follows the lives of two friends, one a grocer in a dying New England town, the other a world-famous artist residing in Venice. |
People's Literature
La Table Ronde
A.W. Bruna
Kelly Kiado
Editora Civilizacaso
Univers
Alfaguara
Chatto and Windus
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China
France
Holland
Hungary
Portugal
Romania
Spain
U.K
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THAT OLD CAPE MAGIC (Knopf, Aug. 2009)
Russo is at his best in this short novel about two weddings and the father of one of the brides |
Chatto and Windus
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U.K.
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| James Thompson |
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SNOW ANGELS (Penguin Putnam, Winter 2010) + DEAD OF WINTER (sequel)
In the debut novel of a series set in Finland, a small town detective married to an American woman solves a brutal murder. |
WSOY
Gawsewitch
Rowohlt
Roca
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Finland
France
Germany
Spain
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Joseph Wambaugh |
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HOLLYWOOD CROWS (Little,Brown/Warner)
Wambaugh’s L.A. cops and criminals as only the master can deliver them. |
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Editions du Seuil
Lübbe
Einaudi
Hayakawa
Belacqua
Ordupplaget
Quercus
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Brazil
France
Germany
Italy
Japan
Spain
Sweden
U.K.
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HOLLYWOOD MOON (Little, Brown/Warner, Dec. 2009)
The third novel in Wambaugh’s acclaimed Hollywood trilogy. |
Ordupplaget
Quercus
Editions du Seuil
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Sweden
U.K.
France
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| Michael White |
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THE BEAUTIFUL ASSASSIN (William Morrow, Winter 2010)
The most famous Russian sniper of World War II--a woman--comes to America on a P.R. tour, and mysteriously disappears. |
Quercus
Albin Michel
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U.K.
France
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