The Early Word: New Books for the Week of May 11, 2009 - Page 2

NON-FICTION

Hunger: A Story of Food, Desire, and Ambition
By John Delucie

Patrick Swayze: One Last Dance
By Wendy Leigh

The King of Vodka: The Story of Pyotr Smirnov and the Upheaval of an Empire
By Linda Himelstein

Seeds of Terror: How Heroin Is Bankrolling the Taliban and Al Qaeda
By Gretchen Peters

To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan
By Nicholas Schmidle

Where Did You Sleep Last Night?: A Personal History
By Danzy Senna

Bottom of the Ninth: Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball from Itself
By Michael Shapiro

Tales of Wonder: Adventures Chasing the Divine, an Autobiography
By Huston Smith

Unfinished Business: What the Dead Can Teach Us about Life
By James Van Praagh

Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream
By Leonard Zeskind

FICTION

Alexandria (Marcus Didius Falco Series #19)
By Lindsey Davis

The Last Child
By John Hart

Love and Obstacles
By Aleksandar Hemon

Marine One
By James Huston

Road Dogs
By Elmore Leonard

The Soldiers of Halla (Pendragon Series #10)
By D. J. MacHale

Cemetery Dance
By Douglas Preston

Wicked Prey (Lucas Davenport Series #19)
By John Sandford

Kiss of Life
By Daniel Waters

Chosen One
By Carol Lynch Williams

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