October 2009
These bestsellers are coming to your library in October.
(See November Sneak Peeks below) . Click on the link to go directly to the Minuteman catalog and reserve the book now to avoid a long wait. Hint: When you are in the Minuteman catalog, click on the book jacket for a summary.

 FICTION
Invisible by Paul Auster
A Fatal Feast by Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain
True Blue by David Baldacci
I Am Not a Psychic! by Richard Belzer
Death Message by Mark Billingham
Breaking the Rules by Barbara Taylor Bradford
The Children’s Book by A. S. Byatt
Crossers by Philip Caputo
Tragic Magic (A Scrapbooking Mystery) by Laura Childs
Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly
The Gates by John Connolly
The Christmas Lamp by Lori Copeland
The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwall
Necessary as Blood by Deborah Crombie
The Widow’s Revenge by James D. Doss
The Hadrian Memorandum by Allan Folsom
To Try Men’s Souls: A Novel of George Washington and the Fight for American Freedom by Newt Gingrich
Once in a Blue Moon by Eileen Goudge
Home for Christmas by Andrew M. Greeley
Grave Secret by Charlaine Harris
Mama Dearest by E. Lynn Harris
Merry, Merry Ghost by Carolyn G. Hart
Black Friday by Alex Kava
Other Men’s Horses by Elmer Kelton
Shades of Blue by Karen Kingsbury
Gwenhwyfar: The White Spirit by Mercedes Lackey
Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
Family Album by Penelope Lively
Matchless: A Christmas Story by Gregory Maguire
Rogue Warrior: Seize the Day by Richard Marcinko and Jim DeFelice
The Vintage Caper by Peter Mayle
The Price of Malice by Archer Mayor
Abandoned by Cody McFadyen
Stained Glass by Ralph McInerny
The Double-Jack Murders by Patrick F. McManus
A Creed Country Christmas by Linda Lael Miller
Imager’s Challenge by L. E. Modesitt
Locked In by Marcia Muller
Cat Striking Back by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
The Body in the Sleigh by Katherine Hall Page
The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
The Monster in the Box by Ruth Rendell
A Deep Dark Secret by Kimberla Lawson Roby
The Ghost King by R.A. Salvatore
House of Reckoning by John Saul
The Council of the Cursed by Peter Tremayne
The Golden Shrine by Harry Turtledove
Dirty Old Men (and Other Stories) by Omar Tyree
The Christmas Secret by Donna VanLiere
Windfall by Penny Vincenzi
Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction by Kurt Vonnegut
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls

 FICTION by new novelists
Hummingbirds by Joshua Gaylord
The Christmas Cookie Club by Ann Pearlman

NON FICTION
Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy by Lidia Bastianich and Tanya Bastianich Manuali
Animal Magnetism: My Life with Creatures Great and Small by Rita Mae Brown
You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas by Augusten Burroughs
Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul by Deepak Chopra
Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has…  by Barbara Ehrenreich
America’s Prophet: Moses and the American Story by Bruce S. Feiler
What the Dog Saw: and Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
Reading Jesus: A Writer’s Encounter with the Gospels by Mary Gordon
Cheating Death: The Doctors and Medical Miracles That Are Saving Lives… by Sanjay Gupta
The American Civil War: A Military History by John Keegan
True Compass: A Memoir by Edward Moore Kennedy
Betrayal: The Life and Lies of Bernie Madoff by Andrew Kirtzman
How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood by William J. Mann
Permission Slips: Every Woman’s Guide to Giving Herself a Break by Sherri Shepherd
Saving Cinnamon: The Amazing True Story of a Missing Military Puppy . . . by Christine Sullivan
K2; Life and Death on the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain by Ed Viesturs and David Roberts
Moon River and Me: A Memoir by Andy Williams

November Sneak Peeks - Fiction and NonFiction
When the Game Was Ours by Larry Bird and Earvin Johnson with Jackie MacMullan
The Quilter’s Holiday: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel by Jennifer Chiaverini
Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton
The Wrecker by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott
Ford County: Stories by John Grisham
Under the Dome by Stephen King
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Wishin’ and Hopin’: A Christmas Story by Wally Lamb
I, Alex Cross by James Patterson
Kindred in Death by J.D. Robb