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February 2007 
X-Rated Bloodsuckers by Mario Acevedo (Rayo, Trade Paperback)
From Publishers Weekly
Hard-boiled action mixes with soft-core titillation in Acevedo's second novel featuring soldier—turned-vampire P.I. Felix Gomez (after 2006's The Nymphos of Rocky Flats), who's approached by porn actress Katz Meow to investigate the murder of her colleague Roxy Bronze. Before you can say XXX, Felix is off to California's San Fernando Valley and up to his fangs in intrigue implicating a vampire producer of adult films, a sham evangelist, a power-hungry local politician and the Araneum, the secret vampire hierarchy tasked with stamping out unorthodox human-vampire interactions. Felix endures the usual silver bullets and garlic, as well as several very human double crosses and miscalculations, before the story speeds to an unlikely conclusion that exposes a somewhat unconvincing villain. The novel's true appeal lies in its zippy banter and witty repartee on vampire lifestyle, particularly in Felix's ongoing partnership with Coyote, a low-rent vamp from the barrio. Acevedo has a natural flare for the hard-boiled idiom, and readers who enjoyed Felix's first adventure will find this follow-up equally entertaining. March 2007
Addison McGhee started life as Ada Sinmac Ghee in a depressing refugee camp, which might as well have been a million miles away from Hollywood. But when her family was resettled in a small Nebraska town and introduced to the wonder of television, Hollywood soon became her goal. Not long after high school she made her way to Tinsel Town and eventually worked her way up to becoming the next big thing. Emphasis on “next.” She was always on the verge of making it, never quite succeeding. She's about to give up when television tycoon Cal Gupton calls and offers her a talk show job in New York. Suddenly she really does make it—and she even falls in love along the way. So how does she end up in jail, awaiting a deportation hearing? 
The Kommandant's Girl by Pam Jenoff (Mira Books, Trade Paperback)
Nineteen year-old Emma Bau has only been married for three weeks when the Nazis invade her native Poland. After her Husband, Jacob, is forced to disappear underground as part of the resistance movement, Emma soon finds herself imprisoned in the ghetto with her parents. There she meets one of the resistance leaders and with his help, she is able to escape the ghetto and live under an assumed, non-Jewish identity.
Emma's already precarious situation is complicated by her introduction to Kommandant Georg Richwalder, a high-ranking Nazi official who insists that Emma come to work for him as his Assistant. In this position, Emma has the opportunity to provide information to the resistance movement and potentially help her still-imprisoned parents. To do so, however, she must become perilously close to the Kommandant, a troubled man with a dark secret whose romantic intentions are clear. Emma makes the difficult decision to become involved with the Kommandant and, as their relationship intensifies, she is forced to acknowledge her own undeniable feelings for him. Desperately, Emma wrestles with questions of loyalty and duty until at last she is able to locate information sought by the Resistance Movement regarding the Nazi liquidation of the ghetto. Spurred by this information, the Resistance undertakes the fateful bombing of a Nazi café, unleashing a chain of events that will change Emma's life, and the lives of those she loves, forever.
Based in part on actual events, The Kommandant's Girl is a compelling tale of love and courage in a dangerous and desperate time. Unique in voice and evocative in historical detail, the novel's widespread appeal stems not only from its eternally popular subjects of World War II and the Holocaust, but also from its timeless themes of hope, struggle and defiance in the face of overwhelming odds. May 2007 
MVP by James Boice (Scribner, Trade Paperback)
A McSweeney's “New Writer” with a hard edge, a sharp ear, and a propulsive style takes on sports, violence, and celebrity, in a novel that will appeal to readers of Bret Easton Ellis and Chuck Palahnuik.
“Woman gets screwed in hotel room, man is arrested for murder. Man murders woman in hotel room. Rapes girl in hotel room then kills her. Girl, paid and sent by casino owners to make him feel welcome and make him like them, is murdered by celebrity. Girl sleeps with celebrity, dies.”
With a story that could have been torn from the headlines, MVP takes a brutal, unblinking look at the ugliness that fuels our media-obsessed society, which churns out far too many scandals—real or alleged—by too many cardboard heroes.
Like Tiger Woods, superstar basketball player Gilbert Morris is part black, part Asian. Like Kobe Bryant, he is accused of rape; like O.J. Simpson he is arrested for murder. But that's just the prologue—MVP spirals out to tell Gilbert Marcus's life story. The only child of a difficult and demanding father, who raised him to achieve greatness, he had lived a life of excessive privilege and suffocating obligation. He achieved everything that his father wanted for him—and became a monster along the way.
A startling and exciting new voice in fiction, James Boice has published stories in a number of literary magazines, including Like Water Burning and The Shore. He was featured in the McSweeney's New Writers Issue in 2003 and nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2005. MVP will bring him to the attention of the wide audience that he so richly deserves.
Publishers Weekly Starred Review
James Boice
This stunning debut from Boice opens with Gilbert, a pro basketball star, raping and murdering a young woman in a Las Vegas resort. Boice then circles back to an account of Gilbert's warped life, largely spent beneath the demanding thumb of Gilbert's washed-up ballplayer father, Mervin, who sees in Gilbert a chance to capture the greatness that eluded him. Thus, Gilbert endures a regimen of awful health food (Mervin: "Death begins in the colon!") and endless drills (running alongside his father's car in the dark while Mervin throws coins at his head). Gilbert jumps straight from high school to the pros, where he racks up championships and MVP awards and secures global superstardom while still just an insecure (yet grossly narcissistic) man-child who is both seduced and tormented by the sex-and celebrity-obsessed culture he sits atop. Changing fortune brings a tanking team, a nationally televised humiliation, and money and marital problems, and the cracks in Gilbert's psyche begin to spread ominously. When Boice revisits that night in the Vegas hotel room, Gilbert's path from a lonely, sensitive boy to the monster choking an unnamed girl is clear, convincing and shocking. With its bristling intelligence and crystalline prose, this provocative novel secures Boice's status as a player to watch. (May)
Entertainment Weekly Review: A-
Basketball star Gilbert Marcus, the refined son of an ex-jock, enters the pros straight from high school, gets a rival teammate traded after three straight titles, and is accused of a violent crime while committing adultery. Sound familiar? MVP is a brutally incisive roman a clef. Boice may not be an insider, but he seems to have opinions about Kobe Bryant. His jarring stream-of-consciousness prose clicks once you realize he's given his narcissistic protagonist the deranged neuroses of a Bret Easton Ellis character. His portrait of Marcus is a frightening trip through the misogynistic, homophobic mind of a professional athlete. July 2007
Theo Parker got married, bought a haunted house, and lost his wife all on the same day.
It was Lily's dream to renovate and reopen Monroe House, the run-down bed and breakfast in the resort town of Cambria, and they had used her inheritance to buy it. But on their wedding day, Theo takes his eyes off the road to gaze at his beautiful wife, and an oncoming car kills Lily and her dream instantly, leaving Theo in a coma.
Six months later, a bitter and guilt-ridden Theo limps up to the door of Monroe House—the only thing he has left in the world. There he meets Eleanor, the mousy, awkward young property manager who has been living in the house. He soon learns that they aren't the only ones calling it home: Eleanor has been experiencing inhuman noises, horrifying dreams, and inexplicable power failures, and is convinced that something evil lurks there. She and Theo set out to understand and conquer what haunts Monroe House, and in the process bring their own souls back to life.
Visit the official The Haunting of Cambria website.  
Never Enough by Angela Winters (DaFina, Trade Paperback)
With four grown children and a multi-billion-dollar empire to oversee, Janet Chase has been the perfect partner to her husband Steven, Founder and CEO of Chase Beauty. But lately, her well-ordered world seems to be falling apart....
Daughter-in-law Kimberly has had enough of living in the Chase mansion and enough of Janet's reminders that she doesn't belong. Kimberly sees only one solution: get rid of Janet. And the only way to do it is by unearthing a skeleton from deep within Janet's closet...
It's almost been a year since Carter Chase walked into Avery Jackson's beauty salon intending to buy her out for his father's company...and fell madly in love with her instead. It didn't matter to him that Avery was already engaged. A fiancé was something Carter could make disappear. And he had, though now it meant hiding a shameful secret from Avery, one that could destroy their future...
Carter's kisses set Avery on fire, but it's more than physical. He was there for her when her fiancé broke her heart. Avery couldn't be happier—or more willing to ignore the voice inside, warning her to make sure she really knows this man who has swept her off her feet...
Exiled to Europe after a high-profile scandal, twenty-three year old Haley Chase has returned home to cause new trouble. This time it involves a dangerously sadistic new beau...
Driven to desperation by a family out of control, Janet may be her own worst enemy in a world where no indulgence, addiction or desire is out of reach...
Never Enough
In Winters's entertaining latest View Park novel, the Chase family plunges to new lows of deviousness. Patriarch Steven Chase, CEO of an ever-expanding upscale beauty chain, wishes to keep his grown sons on a tight leash and within the family company. However, Kimberly, wife of eldest son Michael, is intent on bringing down her mother-in-law, and younger son Carter goes to dangerous lengths to hide a dark secret from his fiancée. Add to the mix Steven's two grown daughters: Leigh, a do-gooder doctor whose idealism frustrates her mother, and Haley, a spoiled club kid who gets involved with a dangerous club owner, and trouble is never far away. As the plots converge, Steven stands to lose his mini-empire and family. Though the characters function as embodiments of their faults, the pacing is fast and the drama unrelenting. (July) October 2007
In the novel Undoing I Do, narrator Claire McCloud relives moments of a once-promising marriage. These moments—ecstatic, mundane, intimate, and surprisingly funny—give way to a single, explosive moment when Claire is left alone to create her future. Claire is a truly multi-layered heroine: an artist, musician, wife and mother. Her experiences interlock and unlock what went wrong. Looping back and forth in time like a mobius strip, her side of the story is always upbeat, even when elegiac. Finding humor in most situations is her expertise; her two children are her inspiration. Looking at her life from many angles—most of them sharp—Claire reshapes the pieces in the puzzle of lost love. And her story—like love itself—is seductive and compelling. As her identity crumbles along with her relationship to artist Tobin Kleinherz, her German husband, she whirls around to re-examine the debris, hoping to pull a new self from the wreckage.
Novelist Anastasia Royal has created a soul-baring story with honesty, humor, a healthy dose of libido, and an inventive, lyrical style.
Redbook Magazine, p 64
Undoing I Do by Anastasia Royal [Book]
In this poignant novel, Royal tells of a marriage gone wrong, a hostile divorce, and the pain of single motherhood so beautifully that you won't know whether to cry for her character's broken heart or swoon over the lyrical prose.
If only it were as difficult to fall in love as it is to fall out of it, then perhaps the bitter recriminations and personal vendettas that often lead to devastating divorce would never occur. In the case of Claire and Tobin, the halcyon days of their courtship naturally resulted in a storybook marriage that would take them from Europe to America, produce two beautiful children, launch satisfying careers, and establish them in a home of their own. Then one day Tobin walked out, and though the clues were there all along the petty bickering, the selfish demands Claire was genuinely shocked to learn that the love of her life didn't love her after all. Her emotional anguish is total, debilitating, heart wrenching to behold, and Royal limns the raw depths of Claire's suffering with both disarming candor and delicate subtlety. Poignant, painful, lyrical, Royal's treatment of this lamentably common condition is astonishingly uncommon in the sheer force of its sympathetic honesty.— Carol Haggas Copyright 2007 Booklist
“Few have picked up the pieces of broken love with more élan than Claire McCloud, divorce-casualty, struggling mom, and a let-it-all-hang-out iconoclast who will shock and delight you...shaping so iridescent a tale from divorce's dark matter takes a special writing gene, and evidently, Anastasia Royal has whole strands of it.”
— Arthur Plotnik, Author of Spunk & Bite:
“Calling Anastasia Royal's stunning and supple roman a clef a 'first novel' is like calling the Hope Diamond a shiny little rock. As savage and sharp as it is lovely, with as many facets as life itself, Undoing I Do is a perfect gem of a book. Told with a surgeon's eye for detail, the narrative employs all manner of prose and poetry to slice through the telling episodes of a marriage coming undone. It tackles big themes, and at times put me in mind of Nabokov's Pale Fire, but the things that linger most are the tiny sensual details. A new, important voice in literature is born.”
— Jay Bonansinga, National Best-Selling Author of Twisted,
Visit the official Undoing I Do website. December 2007 
Shattered by Jay Bonansinga (Pinnacle Books, Mass Market Paperback Original)
Shattered tells the story of a Midwestern serial killer who feels the heat from the FBI closing in, and decides to take drastic action. In an unprecedented act of paranoia, the murderer hires a freelance contract killer to vanquish the biggest threat from law enforcement—ace profiler Ulysses Grove. But this is only the beginning of a bizarre cat and mouse game that will leave readers breathless.
Publishers Weekly (10/8/07)
Shattered
Bonansinga's third outing with FBI profiler Ulysses Grove is a first-rate suspense thriller, as compelling as it is frightening. Grove is living with his wife, Maura, and their infant son, Aaron, in northern Virginia when he receives his latest assignment, tracking down a serial killer who offs his victims in pairs before systematically eviscerating them. As he continues his brutal rampage, with Grove doggedly in pursuit, the killer turns his sights on Grove's family—and the villain's preternatural powers may just lead him to their front door. Fortunately for Grove, he's got supernatural aid of his own in his mother's psychic visions; even more fortunate is the way Bonansinga never lets the intensity flag while balancing believable characters, forensic science, hard-nosed detective work and paranormal flourishes. Grove proves to be one of the most genuine, flesh-and-blood suspense—thriller protagonists out there, and the foe Bonansinga pits against him is truly chilling. (Dec.)
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Hex Marks the Spot by Madalyn Alt (Berkley, Mass Market Paperback)
While her boss becomes entranced with a beautiful armoire at the countywide craft bazaar, Maggie can't help noticing the Amish craftsman who made it. Though his clothes may be plain, he himself is more handsome than a man sporting a jawline-only beard has any right to be. And he seems pretty aware that the ladies love his...furniture. But when the hunky craftsman turns up dead with a strange hex symbol near his corpse, Maggie wonders if the craft involved is the witchy kind. |
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March 2007 
Bullwinkle On Business: Motivational Secrets of a Chief Executive Moose by John Hoover Ph.D. (St. Martin's Press, Hard Cover)
While business gurus such as Warren Benis, Ken Blanchard, Jim Collins, Steven Covey, Spencer Johnson, John Maxwell, and Jack Welch have long had the stage to themselves, they will soon have to make room for a new authority, one with a big nose, antlers and a sidekick who soars...
As you'll recall, the mighty moose never worked alone. That's why Bullwinkle On Business also stars Rocket J. (Rocky) Squirrel, Boris Badenov, Natasha Fatale, Mr. Peabody and Sherman. With the Cold War behind them, Rocky and Bullwinkle have left public sector espionage to become private sector executives. Bullwinkle is a CEO no less. Moose and squirrel are no longer combatants of Boris and Natasha; they are free-market competitors. Boris and Natasha, still laboring under the cruel yoke of Fearless Leader (also now a CEO), are no longer comrades, but colleagues. Public sector to private sector, communism to capitalism...it's a difficult transition for everyone involved and it's hard to tell who's bungling it more, the Eastern enterprise or the Western enterprise.
Because of their place in the public's heart, these characters demonstrate some of the most ridiculous and diabolical behaviors of senior executives while keeping the tone light and humorous. Thank goodness Mr. Peabody, Sherman, and the way-back machine are handy to explain the significance and enduring meaning from the main characters' antics. The characters deliver a new and insightful program to reinvigorate any enterprise in ten lessons, in a uniquely effective and memorable way.
Who else would Jay Ward Productions, Bullwinkle Studios, and Classic Media entrust to bring Rocky and Bullwinkle out of retirement for business publishing purposes than Dr. John (How to Work for an Idiot) Hoover. Dr. John's formidable publishing, executive, and academic credentials are eclipsed only by his natural humor, satire, and sacred-moose-slaying iconoclasm used in the service of business insight.
Bullwinkle On Business: Motivational Secrets of a Chief Executive Moose will feature handy checklists of do's and don'ts. With Rocky's help, Bullwinkle is transformed from a bungling executive moose into the Moosylvanian Master of Motivation. His new mantra becomes: “Build the People who Energize Your Enterprise.”
John Hoover, Ph.D. is a business humorist, human development and organizational communications consultant, and author. His book, How to Work for an Idiot, published in November 2003 by Career Press, has been as high as #10 Amazon.com and on BarnesandNoble.com in sales, and appeared on The Wall Street Journal's, Business Week's, and Publisher's Weekly's bestseller lists. There over 70,000 copies in print and the books just keep selling.
Bullwinkle: Refreshing Take on Business Follies
April 2007
A chilling chronicle of major nuclear incidents around the globe, spanning more than sixty years
Our atomic history spans more than sixty years—and most of it isn't pretty:
March 1958: A U.S. Air Force B-47 accidentally drops an atomic bomb on the town of Mars Bluff, South Carolina.
January 1978: The Russian spy satellite Cosmos 954, carrying a nuclear reactor, fails to attain orbit and falls back to Earth.
March 1979: A series of mishaps causes a nuclear reactor on Three Mile Island to overheat.
April 1986: The Russian Chernobyl-4 Reactor explodes, releasing radioactive materials throughout the area.
With compelling detail and eyewitness testimony, Clyde W. Burleson illustrates the human drama and the nuclear problem with fourteen incidents throughout the U.S. and abroad, and discusses just how much effort it takes to right the world when an accident occurs.
Today, with gas prices skyrocketing, nuclear power is being billed as the savior to our energy crisis. In the United States, thirteen new reactors have been proposed and, worldwide, sixty-five are on order. This book calls our attention to the awe-inspiring power of nuclear energy when something goes wrong and outlines what individuals and nations must do to limit the damage from disasters that surely will occur.
Clyde W. Burleson is a marketing consultant and writer. He has written fourteen books, and his work has been produced for Showtime, the Discovery Channel, and the History Channel. He lives in Houston, Texas.
Thunder's Mouth Press
Distributed by Publishers Group West
$15.95
ISBN-13: 978-1-56025-996-1 May 2007 
Ten Prayers God Always Says Yes to: Divine Answers to Life's Most Difficult Problems by Anthony DeStefano (Doubleday, Hard Cover)
Ten Prayers God Always Says Yes to: Divine Answers to Life's Most Difficult Problems is a guidebook on how to pray effectively. Each short, powerful prayer addresses a particular problem people commonly face in life—from accepting the existence of God to trying to make ends meet; from getting through terrible suffering to coping with everyday stress; from overcoming fear to finding your God—given destiny. Presented with a certainty and vigor that is sure to pique the interests of even those who are not spiritually inclined, these prayers will help readers find solutions to life's most difficult situations and provide meaningful and inspiring answers to the vexing questions we have about the purpose of our time on Earth.
In a world awash with superficial self-help books and deceptive gimmicks, Ten Prayers God Always Says Yes to: Divine Answers to Life's Most Difficult Problems is the real thing. Using hundreds of scriptural references to support his claims, Anthony writes in a simple, straightforward and uplifting manner that makes the most profound theological matters understandable to all. Boldly challenging readers to “read a few of the chapters and say a few of the prayers,” Anthony “guarantees” that before they even get to the end of the book, they will see their lives begin to change before their eyes. In the words of the Author, “this is a spiritual treasure chest that is available to everyone...This book is about prayers that work—really truly work.”
Ten Prayers God Always Says Yes to: Divine Answers to Life's Most Difficult Problems
Reviewed 2007-03-12
Books on prayer are legion, most often focusing on why we should pray and how to do it correctly. DeStefano, Author of A Travel Guide to Heaven, offers readers a refreshing look at this evergreen topic by focusing on 10 prayers God “always” answers. “Why don't people take advantage of prayers that work—One big reason is that they are so caught up in prayers that don't always work,” says DeStefano. He offers readers this guarantee: “before you even get to the last page of this book, your life will begin to change before your eyes.” Prayers include “God, show me that you exist,” “God, forgive me,” “God, give me courage” and “God, lead me to my destiny.”
DeStefano uses the Christian Bible as the foundation for his work, not offering quick fixes but instead expounding on the need for true repentance, right motives and genuine commitment. More conservative camps will most likely cluck at what they see as DeStefano's lack of firmness about salvation as a prerequisite to both heard and answered prayer, but a careful reading shows that the Author understands faith, not selfishness, is the foundation for these prayers. His cheerful style and heartfelt faith make this an optimistic look at a timeless subject. (May) 
Precious Blood by Sam Adams (Pinnacle, Mass Market Paperback)
They did for it kicks.
Precious Blood
A Criminal on the Loose
In the heart of Kentucky's mining country, in a tiny town where alcohol was against the law and no one locked their doors, everyone knew Jerome Boggs was a bad seed. Even so, no one suspected how rotten he was...
A Willing Woman
A stone's throw from a church, in a neatly kept single-wide trailer, police found the body of a young man murdered execution style. And in the bedroom they found Tim Cook's innocent 4-year-old, 32-pound son T.J. lying amongst his toys—with two fatal bullet wounds in his chest and tears still in his eyes...
And a Marriage Made to Murder.
Soon police were hunting down Jerome Boggs and unraveling a stunning story of depravity. With a ring from Wal-Mart and a cheap motel room, Jerome Boggs had wed his 18-year-old wife to a diabolical plan for murder. Now the only question was: What punishment could possibly fit their crimes?
Polls reveal that over 75 percent of Americans believe there was a conspiracy behind Lee Harvey Oswald; some even believe Oswald was entirely innocent. In this absorbing and historic book—the first ever to cover the entire case—Vincent Bugliosi shows how we have come to believe such lies about an event that changed the course of history.
The brilliant prosecutor of Charles Manson and the man who forged an iron-clad case of circumstantial guilt around O. J. Simpson in his best-selling Outrage, Bugliosi is perhaps the only man in America capable of “prosecuting” Oswald for the murder of President Kennedy. His book is a narrative compendium of fact, forensic evidence, reexamination of key witnesses, and common sense. Every detail and nuance is accounted for, every conspiracy theory revealed as a fraud upon the American public. Bugliosi's irresistible logic, command of the evidence, and ability to draw startling inferences shed fresh light on this American nightmare. At last we know what really happened. At last it all makes sense. The book contains 32 pages of illustrations.
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy is also available at Amazon.com as an Abridged Audio Book.
Who Killed Kennedy? One Man's Answer
Vincent Bugliosi Discusses his New Book about the JFK Assassination June 2007  The Secret Psychology of How We Fall in Love by Dr. Paul Dobransky with L.A. Stamford (Plume, Hard Cover)
As hot as relationship books have been in the past few years, the world has yet to see anything similar to the breakthrough system Dr. Paul Dobransky reveals in The Secret Psychology of How We Fall in Love This book presents a patented, clinically proven dating program that can literally change the way women deal with romance
At the core of Dr. Dobransky's revolutionary program is the notion that women have been targeting the wrong parts of the body when trying to appeal to a man. They'll try to win his heart (make him fall in love and commit) or his “privates”, when in fact, the only real way to find and keep Mr. Right is by winning his brain—or rather, his three brains. Dr. Dobransky shows how, by appealing to each of these “brains” in order, a relationship can work for a lifetime. The Secret Psychology of How We Fall in Love, Dr. Dobransky prescribes a nine-step program for identifying Mr. Right, weeding out Mr. Wrong (instantly, instead of wasting months or years), and building a love story for the ages.
Visit www.drpauldobransky.com to learn more about Dr. Paul Dobransky. July 2007 
The Culture Code by Dr. Clotaire Rapaille (Broadway/Doubleday, Trade Paperback)
Why do we make friends easily but find it difficult to keep them for a long time? Why do we have such a strong work ethic? Why does personal appearance mean so much to us? Why are our kitchens and bathrooms and cars getting bigger? Why do we choose the leaders we do? Why do we buy what we buy, eat what we eat, and who we love?
The Culture Code explains the idea behind the answer to all these questions: that there lies, hidden below the surface, a force common to all of us—a Cultural Unconscious, capable of shaping all of our decisions and driving our behavior.
What lies behind our fascination with the female navel? Is there such a thing as Mr. Right? Why do we go home for Thanksgiving? Why do we “work” on our tans? What does physical beauty really mean to us? The answers are often surprising and always illuminating.
Publishers Weekly Review
French-born marketing consultant and psychoanalyst Rapaille takes a truism—different cultures are, well, different—and expands it by explaining how a nation's history and cultural myths are psychological templates to which its citizens respond unconsciously. Fair enough, but after that, it's all downhill. Rapaille intends his theory of culture codes to help us understand “why people do what they do,” but the “fundamental archetypes” he offers are just trumped-up stereotypes. He often supports jarring pronouncements (“The Culture Code for perfection in America is DEATH”) with preposterous generalizations and overstatements, e.g., Japanese men “seem utterly incapable of courtship or wooing a woman.” Writing with the naïveté of someone who has learned about the world only through Hollywood films, he seems unaware that every person living within a nation's borders doesn't necessarily share the same cultural biases and references. Rapaille's successful consulting career is evidence that he's more convincing in the boardroom than he is on the page. Amid the overheated prose and dubious factoids, it's easy to overlook the book's scattered marketing proposals and employee-management tips.
“This book is just plain astonishing! Filled with profound insights and ideas that have enormous consequences for today's organizations. If you want to understand customers, Constituencies, and crowds, this book is required reading.”
— Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, August 2007 
Love, Lies, and Murder by Gary C. King (Kensington, Mass Market Paperback)
October 2007 
Miss Fido Manners: The Complete Book of Dog Etiquette by Charlotte Reed (Adams Media, Trade Paperback)
According to the American Pet Manufacturer's Association (APPMA), there are 47 million households with dogs. Nine out of ten pet owners surveyed say they consider their dog a member of the family. Miss Fido Manners: The Complete Book of Dog Etiquette ensures that the dog-owning family is not a dysfunctional one!
Charlotte Reed provides pet owners with tips for behaving at home and on the street, dining in and dining out, traveling with their pet, the do's and don'ts of pet parties and more, in a fun, humorous, and easy-to-follow format. More than a dog-training book, Miss Fido Manners explains how a pet owner can conduct his/her behavior to influence a dog in a way that allows both parties to enjoy one another's company. The book's additional features include tip boxes, illustrations, real-life examples, and helpful resources indispensable to the socially aware pet owner. 
Because You Loved Me by M. William Phelps (Kensington, Trade Paperback)
This Fall Phelps will embark on the story behind the murder of Jeanne Dominico, the Nashua, N. H., woman killed Aug. 6, 2003, by Willimantic resident William “Bill” Sullivan.
Sullivan, at 18, was convicted of murdering Dominico, 43, the mother of his then 16-year-old girlfriend, Nicole Kasinskas, whom he met online.
Phelps said, “One of the most compelling aspects of the story for him is the love triangle. From one perspective, you have a mother and daughter who friends and family say loved each other deeply, and, from the other, a sociopath boyfriend whose selfishness, jealousy and rage tore all their lives apart.”
Sullivan, a Willimantic resident, was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to murder after a July 2005 trial for brutally stabbing and bludgeoning Dominico to death in her home. He saw her as standing between him and her daughter. Sullivan is serving life in prison without the chance of parole.  Five O'Clock Lightning: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and the 1927 New York Yankees, The Greatest Baseball Team Ever
The Definitive Account of a Legendary Ball Club
Drawing on oral histories, long-buried letters, and other archival material, Harvey Frommer tells the fascinating story of the greatest season of baseball's greatest team, offering the facts and stats that fans love, revealing the colorful and sometimes controversial details of the lives of the players as well as what happened to them after the storied season.
“Baseball's greatest team as recounted by baseball's greatest author.”
— Seth Swirsky, Baseball Letters and Something to Write Home About
“Harvey Frommer brings the perceptive eye of an historian to what was arguably the most feared batting order of all time. Add to that his contagious enthusiasm for classic baseball and you have a most enjoyable book.”
— Roger Kahn
“The 1927 Yankees may or may not have been the best team ever, but surely this is the best book about that wonderful concentration of talent.”
— George F. Will
“A great eye for detail and a wonderful ability to bring his characters to life.”
— Jonathan Eig, Author of Luckiest Man
“Engrossing and entertaining look at a mythical baseball team.”
— Leigh Montville, The Big Bam
“Home run. Sweet look back.”
— Dan Shaughnessy, Senior Year
Harvey Frommer (New York, NY, and Lyme, NH) is a celebrated oral historian and sports author who has written almost 40 sports books, including A Yankee Century (0-425-19177-X) and Red Sox vs. Yankees (1-59670-058-0), and has appeared on numerous television and radio programs. Cited in the Congressional Record and the New York State Legislature as a sports historian, he is Professor Emeritus, City University of New York, and a Professor at Dartmouth College in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program.
ISBN-10: 0-471-77812-5 November 2007 
The Biblical World: An Illustrated Atlas by Jean-Pierre Isbouts, Foreword by Bruce Chilton (National Geographic Books, Hard Cover)
December 2007 
Perfect Pleasure: Beyond the One Hour Orgasm, by Dr. Leah Schwartz, Satoko Kitamuro and Walter Maksym (Griffin/St. Martin's Press, Trade Paperback)
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Cover Girl Confidential by Beverly Bartlett (5 Spot, Trade Paperback)
MVP
The Haunting of Cambria by Richard Taylor (Tor Books, Hard Cover)
Undoing I Do by Anastasia Royal (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, Hard Cover)
Nuclear Afternoon: True Stories of Atomic Disasters by Clyde Burleson (Thunder's Mouth Press, Trade Paperback)
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi (W. W. Norton, Hard Cover)