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	Been Here a Thousand Years  •  Mariolina Venezia  •  Marina Harss LITERATURE •  2009 •  HARD COVER  • 272 PAGES • NEW This sweeping novel portrays five generations of the complicated, headstrong Falcone family and their small Basilicata hill town, touching on a century and a half of Italy's tumultuous history along the way. Published in Italian as Mille Anni Che Sto Qui. (ITA24, $24.00)
	Fordlandia, The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City  •  Greg Grandin HISTORY •  2009 •  HARD COVER  • 416 PAGES Professor of Latin American history and journalist, Grandini captures the folly and arrogance of Ford's misbegotten rubber plantation in this gripping tale of culture clash and capitalism gone awry in the Amazon. The richest man in the world in 1927, Ford wanted not only to grow rubber but also to export America itself. (AMZ118, $27.50)
	English  •  Wang Gang LITERATURE •  2009 •  HARD COVER  • 320 PAGES During the darkest days of the Cultural Revolution, a twelve-year-old boy in China's remote northwest region discovers a different world when a young English teacher from Shanghai enters his life and shows him the transporting power of language. (CHN549, $24.95)
	Bruno, Chief of Police  •  Martin Walker MYSTERY •  2009 •  HARD COVER  • 288 PAGES Convincingly set in rural France, this gripping whodunit, Perigord style, has a charming detective, irresistible female police officer, a complex and timely crime, and a marvelous sense of the cafes, markets, bakeries and people of the region. Walker borrows elements from Sarlat and Bergerac and smaller towns like St Cyprien and Belves, Les Eyzies and Siorac, Eymet and Sainte Alvere, Tremolat and Le Bugue and Le Buisson in creating St. Denis. A journalist, historian and director of the Global Business Policy Council, Walker (America Reborn, The Cold War: A History) divides his time between Washington D.C. and the Perigord. (FRN811, $24.95)
	La Bella Lingua  •  Dianne Hales CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2009 •  HARD COVER  • 320 PAGES • NEW Inebriated with the sounds of Italian, lovesick for its phrases and enamored of its earthy idioms, Diane Hales, "a sensible woman of sturdy Polish stock," dives into the Italian of the piazze, literature, movies and streets in this charming memoir, travelogue and cultural primer. Brava, Signora! (ITA26, $24.95)
	The Angel's Game  •  Carlos Ruiz Zafon  •  Lucia Graves LITERATURE •  2009 •  HARD COVER  • 544 PAGES The much-anticipated second novel by Zafon, a prequel of sorts to The Shadow of the Wind, follows a young writer in 1920s Barcelona whose encounter with a mysterious French editor thrusts him into a mysterious adventure filled with books, secrets, love and tragedy. Once again, Zafron's gothic vision captures the haunted city of a bygone era. (SPN377, $26.95)

	Beowulf on the Beach, What to Love and What to Skip in Literature's 50 Greatest Hits  •  Jack Murnigham   • REFERENCE  •  Yes, Ulysses is a funny book and Odysseus was a hero. Jack Murnighan reveals how to enjoy great literature in this entertaining, irreverent guide to 50 wide-ranging works from Homer and Proust to Beloved and the Bible. (GEN501, $15.00)
	Bond of Union, Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire  •  Gerard Koeppel   • HISTORY  •  Koeppel traces the politics, drama and impact of the building of the Erie Canal in this lively new history of the 1825 waterway that connected the Great lakes to New York City. (NYS80, $27.95)
	Empires of the Silk Road  •  Christopher I. Beckwith   • HISTORY • NEW  •  In this bold history, Beckwith rescues Central Asia from the periphery of world affairs with flair and scholarship, showing the sweep of empire, trade and cultural life over the millennia. (CAS171, $35.00)
	Murderers in Mausoleums  •  Jeffrey Tayler   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • NEW  •  Taylor's riveting account of a three-month, 7,000-mile odyssey from Moscow to Beijing, though mighty Kazakhstan, across the Silk Road to Kashgar, Urumqi and onto Beijing, illuminates the red-hot geopolitics of Central Asia. (CAS168, $24.00)
	A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World  •  Tony Horwitz   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  What happened in America after Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue? In this latest outing, Tony Horwitz (Blue Latitudes) takes us on a thrilling and eye-opening adventure in Pre-Mayflower America. It's not so much Roanoke, Jamestown and Plymouth that interest him (though they are included too), it's the places associated with forgotten explorers, many of them Spanish, like Erik the Red (Vinland gets the first chapter), Henry Hudson, Verrazano, De Soto, Cabeza de Vaca, Cortes and Balboa. Horwitz rescues whole chapters of early America from the dustbin of history in this rich mix of wit, scholarship and modern-day adventure. (NAM51, $18.00)
	Authentic Confucius, A Life of Thought and Politics  •  Annping Chin   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Yale historian Annping Chin's original and engaging brief portrait of Confucius, his teachings and legacy reveals what is known about the man, his encounters in the rough-and-tumble of politics, and quest to live a joyful and authentic life. (CHN436, $14.95)
	Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All  •  Christina Thompson   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  In this endearing, offbeat memoir, Christina Thompson effortlessly alternates tales of mostly disastrous early encounters with the Maori (she's an anthropologist) and the story of the love of her life, Seven, the Maori she married. (NZL96, $15.00)
	Dreaming in Hindi, Coming Awake in Another Language  •  Katherine Russell Rich   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • NEW  •  Katherine Russell Rich skewers the hilarity and challenges of taking on not just a new language but also a new culture is this spirited tale of life in Udaipur. (IDA565, $26.00)
	Lost on Planet China  •  J. Maarten Troost   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Lost on Planet China finds the irrespressible J. Maarten Troost dodging deadly drivers in Shanghai; eating Yak in Tibet; deciphering restaurant menus (offering local favor-ites such as Cattle Penis with Garlic); and visiting with Chairman Mao (still dead, very orange). He's not just funny, he's a guide to mixed-up modern China. (CHN496, $14.95)
	Socialism Is Great!, A Worker's Memoir of the New China  •  Lijia Zhang   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A student who joined the Tiananmen Square protest, Lijia Zhang traces her coming of age in Nanjing in the 1980s in this spirited memoir. (CHN501, $15.00)
	The Island That Dared  •  Dervla Murphy   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  Our favorite Irish grandmother traipses off to Cuba in this latest adventure, now-grown daughter Rachael and granddaughters in tow. (CBA115, $39.95)
	Twenty Chickens for a Saddle  •  Robyn Scott   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Haphazardly schooled by her free-spirited mother and left to roam the bush, Robyn Scott writes with warmth and candor of her unconventional upbringing in Botswana, including her grandpa Ivor (personal pilot to the first president of Botswana), physician father's work, unfortunate pets, siblings and adventures. (SAF203, $15.00)
	Why I Came West, A Memoir  •  Rick Bass   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Nature writer Bass describes settling in the remote Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana, painting an appreciative portrait of his new home while advocating a common-sense approach to conservation. (USW582, $14.95)
	City of Thieves  •  David Benioff   • LITERATURE  •  David Benioff (screenwriter for The Kite Runner and Wolverine) turns his grandfather's stories of surviving the infamous Siege of Leningrad into a wise and touching novel of coming of age that's hard to put down. Seventeen-year-old Lev and his charismatic buddy Koly are sent our by their German captors to bring back a dozen eggs, just the start of a gripping odyssey. (RUS380, $15.00)
	How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone  •  Sasa Stanisic   • LITERATURE  •  Stanisic's powerful, vivid novel shows the calamity of war in the Balkans through the eyes of a young Bosnian refugee from Visegrad. (BOS32, $14.00)
	Stealing Athena  •  Karen Essex   • LITERATURE  •  We recommend this book before a visit to the dazzling New Acropolis Museum, which opens Saturday June 20, 2009. Karen Essex tells the story of the contested Elgin Marbles through the lives of two women: Mary Niset, wife of the Earl of Elgin, British Ambassador to Constantinople and that of Aspasia of Miletus, consort to Pericles, leader of classical Athens. (GRE385, $15.00)
	Telex from Cuba  •  Rachel Kushner   • LITERATURE  •  Kushner re-imagines the world of her mother in this astonishingly wise first novel set in the American enclave in 1950s Cuba. Riveting. (CBA111, $16.00)
	The Lazarus Project  •  Aleksandar Hemon   • LITERATURE  •  A tale historical sweep, contemporary insight and dazzling originality, cutting between events in Chicago in 1908 and the Balkans of today. (BLK128, $16.00)
	The Price of Blood  •  Declan Hughes   • MYSTERY  •  All bets are off for the biggest racing event of the winter season, the Leopardstown Christmas Festival, as private detective Ed Loy pursues a twisted killer on the final leg of a reckless master plan. (IRE256, $13.99)
	The Reavers  •  George MacDonald Fraser   • LITERATURE  •  After twelve gloriously scandalous Flashman novels, the incomparable George MacDonald Fraser gives us a totally hilarious tale of derring-do from the turn of the 17th century (sort of) in the wild Borderlands of Scotland. (GBR755, $14.95)
	The Road Home  •  Rose Tremain   • LITERATURE  •  Tremain's affecting novel, winner of the 2008 Orange Prize, charts the course of one broken-hearted man from Eastern Europe in London. (GBR790, $14.99)
	The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet  •  Reif Larsen   • LITERATURE • NEW  •  This brilliant, boundary-leaping debut novel by Reif Larson turns 12-year-old genius map-maker T.S. Spivet's attempts to understand the ways of the world into a road novel l like no other. Festooned with diagrams, maps, drawings and rather remarkable marginalia, the book traces the journey of Spivet from his home on a Montana ranch to the halls of the Smithsonian Institution (he won an award). We found it helpful to note that Larsen thanks Lois Hetland, "my seventh grade teacher, for teaching me (almost) everything I know." His novel captures the exhilaration of adolescence. (USA374, $27.95)
	Wolf Totem  •  Jiang Rong   • LITERATURE  •  Defiant, unyielding, feared, hunted and revered, the great Mongolian wolf is the heart and center of Jiang Rong's epic tale of a young man from Beijing and his surprising encounters on the Mongolian steppe. A stirring epic, allegory and elegy for a vanished way of life, the novel won the first Man Asia Prize. (CHN471, $15.00)

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