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The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia
The Vanishing of Katharina Linden
Blitzcat
Only You Can Save Mankind
Nice and Mean
Cruisers Book 1
The City of Ember
Crispin: The End of Time
Lost Goat Lane
Amelia Rules! Volume 1: The Whole World's Crazy
Middleworld
How I, Nicky Flynn, Finally Get a Life
Crunch
Countdown
As Simple as It Seems
Wolf Brother
Lob
Sparks
The Ogre of Oglefort
The Pickle King


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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

NPR's Summer Books 2009

Best Fiction For Every Kind Of Summer Day
Recommended by Glen Weldon

Cecil and Jordan in New York, by Gabrielle Bell -- short stories
The Family Man, by Elinor Lipman
Genesis, by Bernard Beckett
The Manual of Detection, by Jedediah Berry
Woodsburner: A Novel , by John Pipkin

The Five Best Novels Of Summer
Recommended by Jessa Crispin

Castle: A Novel, by J. Robert Lennon
Dark Places: A Novel, by Gillian Flynn
Follow Me: A Novel , by Joanna Scott
The Good Parents, by Joan London
The Scenic Route: A Novel, by Binnie Kirshenbaum

For Summer Sleuths: Best Mystery, Crime Novels
Recommended by Maureen Corrigan

Awakening, by S.J. Bolton
Black Noir: Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction by African-American Writers, edited by Otto Penzler
The Scarecrow, by Michael Connelly -- #2 in series, added #1, The Poet (Jack McEvoy, #1)
The Shanghai Moon (Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Novels), by S.J. Rozan
The Way Home , by George Pelecanos

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