The October 2010 Indie Notables Flier & Shelf-Talkers

The October Indie Notables title recommendations are now featured on a downloadable flier and shelf-talkers on BookWeb.org.

The October Notables fiction list includes a remarkable tale of the power of faith, based on the lives of the author’s own missionary grandparents, in City of Tranquil Light (Holt); a taut psychological thriller about an act of passion and its untold consequences in Man in the Woods (Ecco); and a dazzling debut exploring the isolation that results from the inability to communicate in The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai (St. Martin’s Press).

In nonfiction, Marlo Thomas opens the door to her life as the daughter of a famous comedian in Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny (Hyperion); a familiar presidential assassination is explored anew in My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy (Free Press); and fascinating examples of the truth indeed being stranger than fiction are revealed in The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head: A Psychiatrist’s Stories of His Most Bizarre Cases (Morrow).

Mystery fans will welcome the first in a promising new series, Blood of the Prodigal: An Amish-Country Mystery (Plume), rejoice in the return of antihero James Stark in Kill the Dead: A Sandman Slim Novel (Eos), and thrill to the third adventure of “retired” art thief Michael St. Pierre in The Thieves of Darkness (Atria).