| June 2008 Advance Title List | |||||||
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| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN | Price | Placement | Category | |
| Feasting on Asphalt | Brown, Alton | Abrams | 9781584796817 | $27.50 | Travel | Travel | |
| Off the Deep End: The Probably Insane Idea That I Could Swim My Way Through a Midlife CrisisóAnd Qualify for the Olympics | Carter, W. Hodding | Algonquin | 9781565125643 | $21.95 | Father's Day | Memoir | |
| Settled Science | Glidewell, Floyd J. | Atals/Madison Publishing | 9780980007602 | $22.95 | Ad-Incld 1/2 | Science | |
| A Case of Systemic Corruption in Maryland | Patermaster, Jack | Atlas | 9780976380320 | $24.95 | Ad-TopShelf | Legal | |
| Willi Gets A History Lesson | Rudolph, Dr. Ellen | Atlas/EKR Publications | 9780979134807 | $24.00 | Ad-Incld 1/2 | History | |
| Just Laugh About It | Baron, Sid | Atlas/Exxel Publishing | 9780970346902 | $14.95 | Ad-Incld 1/2 | Self-Help | |
| Osiris Revelations | Marshall, A.J. | Atlas/M Press Books | 9780955188602 | $9.99 | Ad-Incld 1/2 | Science Fiction | |
| America's Dying Democracy | Porter, Steven | Atlas/Phantom Publications | 9780962537264 | $14.99 | Ad-Incld 1/2 | Political Science | |
| Keys to Paradise | Umoru, Dr. Mahmoud | Atlas/Umoru Investment | 9781425990565 | $14.00 | Ad-Incld 1/2 | Fiction | |
| Queen of Babble in the Big City | Cabot, Meg | Avon | 9780060852016 | $13.95 | Ad-Incld 1/2 | Fiction | |
| Not Another Bad Date | Gibson, Rachel | Avon | 978006118047 | $7.99 | Romance | Romance | |
| Odd Hours | Koontz, Dean | Bantam | 9780553807059 | $27.00 | Std review | Fic/Susp | |
| The Wedding Officer | Capella, Anthony | Bantam Discovery | 9780553384635 | $12.00 | Ad-1/2col | Fiction | |
| The Assassin's Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln | Larson, Kate Clifford | Basic | 9780465038152 | $26.00 | Civil War | History | |
| Winter's Tale | Helprin, Mark | BBC Audiobooks | 9781602833449 | $44.95 | Audio | Audio | |
| Lottery | Patricia Wood | Berkley | 9780425222201 | $14.00 | Ad-1/4col | Fiction | |
| Spare Change | Parker, Robert B. | Berkley | 9780425221921 | $9.99 | Ad-Paperbacks | Fiction | |
| How to Knit a Wild Bikini | Rideway, Christie | Berkley | 9780425221938 | $7.99 | Ad-Paperbacks | Fiction | |
| With Every Breath | Kurland, Lynn | Berkley | 9780515144703 | $7.99 | Romance | Romance | |
| High Noon | Roberts, Nora | Berkley/Jove | 9780515144680 | $7.99 | Ad-Paperbacks | Fiction | |
| Never Fear | Frost, Scott | Berkley/Jove | 9780515143195 | $9.99 | Ad-Paperbacks | Fiction | |
| The Art of Keeping Secrets | Henry, Patti Callahan | Berkley/New American Library | 9780451223951 | $14.00 | Ad-1/4 col | Fiction | |
| China Lake | Gardiner, Meg | Berkley/Obsidian | 9780451224552 | $7.99 | Ad-Paperbacks | Mystery | |
| Wid & Hexy | Thompson, Vicki Lewis | Berkley/Onyx | 9780451412584 | $7.99 | Ad-Paperbacks | Fiction | |
| Obsession | Robards, Karen | Berkley/Signet | 9780451222732 | $7.99 | Ad-Paperbacks | Fiction | |
| Lover Enshrined | Ward, J.R. | Berkley/Signet | 9780451222725 | $7.99 | Ad-Paperbacks | Fiction | |
| Losing It | Bertinelli, Valerie | Blacksone Audio | 9780743572149 | $35.95 | Ad-Incld Full | Biography | |
| Babylon Babies | Dantec, Maurice G. | Blackstone Audio | 9781433211928 | $24.95 | Ad-Incld Full | Fiction | |
| Black Wave | Silverwood, John & Jean | Blackstone Audio | 9781433249662 | $24.95 | Ad-Incld Full | Biography | |
| 1434 | Menzies, Gavin | Blackstone Audio | 9781433214646 | $29.95 | Ad-Incld Full | History | |
| What Happened: Inside The Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception | McClellan, Scott | Blackstone Audiobooks | 9781433214349 | $29.95 | Audio | Audio | |
| Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It | Royte, Elizabeth | Bloomsbury | 9781596913714 | $24.99 | Std review | Nonfiction | |
| Out of Chaos: China 2026 C.E. | Wong, Wei | BookSurge | 9780976380726 | $14.95 | Ad-TopShelf | Fiction | |
| The Tenth Gift | Johnson, Jane | Crown | 9780307405227 | $25.95 | Ad-1/4col | Fiction | |
| An Incomplete & Inaccurate History of Sport | Mayne, Kenny | Crown | 9780307396150 | $24.95 | Father's Day | Sports | |
| The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikesóand Why | Ripley, Amanda | Crown | 9780307352897 | $24.95 | Std review | Psych/Self-Help | |
| The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine | Wallace, Benjamin | Crown | 9780307338778 | $24.95 | Std review | History | |
| The Golf Book | Bradley, Nick | DK | 9780756633905 | $40.00 | Ad-Incld Full | Sports | |
| Grill It! | Schlesinger, Chris/Willoughby, John | DK | 9780756617417 | $25.00 | Ad-Incld Full | Cooking | |
| Butterfly | Marent, Thomas | DK | 9780756633400 | $30.00 | Ad-Incld Full | Nature | |
| The Real Deal Guide to Pregnancy | Lenkert, Erika | DK | 9780756633868 | $16.95 | Ad-Incld Full | Parenting | |
| Baby's First Year | Karmel, Annabel | DK | 9780756637231 | $15.00 | Ad-Incld Full | Parenting | |
| Food 2.0 | Ayers, Charlie | DK | 9780756633585 | $23.00 | Cooking | Cooking | |
| The Golf Book | Summers, David ed. | DK | 9780756633905 | $40.00 | Father's Day | Sports | |
| DK EyewitnessTop 10: Chicago | Dunford, Martin | DK | 9780756632366 | $12.00 | Travel | Travel | |
| Accidentally on Purpose: A One-Night Stand, My Unplanned Parenthood, and Loving the Best Mistake I Ever Made | Pols, Mary, F. | Ecco | 9780061256929 | $24.95 | Std review | Memoir | |
| Breath | Winton, Tim | Farrar, Straus | 9780374116347 | $23.00 | Std review | Fiction | |
| 8 Simple Rules for Marrying My Daughter: And Other Reasonable Advice from the Father of the Bride (Not That Anyone Is Paying Attention) | Cameron, W. Bruce | Fireside/Simon & Schuster | 9781416558910 | $23.00 | Father's Day | Humor | |
| General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse | Glatthaar, Joseph T. | Free Press | 9780684827872 | $30.00 | Civil War | History | |
| Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama that Unfolded in the Skies over America on 9/11 | Spencer, Lynn | Free Press | 9781416559252 | $26.00 | Std review | Politics/Current Events | |
| Always By My Side: A Fatherís Grace and a Sports Journey Unlike Any Other | Nantz, Jim | Gotham | 9781592403615 | $28.50 | Father's Day | Sports/ Memoir |
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| The Monster of Florence | Preston, Duglas with Spezi, Mario | Grand Central | 9780446581196 | $25.99 | Std review | True Crime | |
| Hollywood Crows | Wambaugh, Joseph | Hachette | 9781600241536 | $39.95 | Audio | Audio | |
| A Fatal Waltz | Alexander, Tasha | Harper | 9780061174223 | $23.95 | Std review | Fic/Hist | |
| Dead Silver | McMahon, Neil | Harper | 9780061340765 | $24.95 | Whodunit? | Fic/Mys | |
| Little House on the Prairie | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | Harper Audio | 9780061563058 | $14.95 | Children's audio | Children's Chapter | |
| Chicken Soup of the Father & Son | various | HCI | 9780757306709 | $14.95 | Ad-TopShelf | Inspirational | |
| The Success Principles for Teens | Canfield, Jack | HCI | 97807573007272 | $14.95 | Ad-TopShelf | Inspirational | |
| Staging Your Comeback | Hopkins, Christopher | HCI | 9780757306341 | $22.95 | Ad-TopShelf | Self-Help | |
| An Artist's America | Albert, Michael | Henry Holt | 9780805078572 | $17.95 | Children's roundup | Children's Picture | |
| NPR Funniest Driveway Moments | Krulwich, Robert | Highbridge Audio | 9781598876246 | $22.95 | Ad-TopShelf | Humor | |
| Car Talk: Field Guide to the North American Wacko! | Magliozzi, Ray & Tom | Highbridge Audio | 9781598875898 | $29.95 | Ad-TopShelf | Humor | |
| Buster Goes to Cowboy Camp | Fleming, Denise | Holt | 9780805078923 | $16.95 | Children's Meet the Author | Children's Picture | |
| The Slavesí War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves | Ward, Andrew | Houghton Mifflin | 9780618634002 | $28.00 | Civil War | History | |
| Dear American Airlines | Miles, Jonathan | Houghton Mifflin | 9780547054018 | $22.00 | Std review | Fiction | |
| All Shook Up | Pearsall, Shelley | Knopf | 9780375836985 | $15.00 | Children's Review | Children's Chapter | |
| The Downhill Lie: A Hackerís Return to a Ruinous Sport | Hiaasen, Carl | Knopf | 9780307266538 | $22.00 | Father's Day | Golf | |
| The Prince of Frogtown | Bragg, Rick | Knopf | 9781400040407 | $25.00 | Interview | Memoir | |
| The Sister | Adams, Poppy | Knopf | 9780307268167 | $23.95 | Std review | Fiction | |
| One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Krushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War | Dobbs, Michael | Knopf | 9781400043583 | $27.95 | Std review | History | |
| The Other | Guterson, David | Knopf | 9780307263155 | $24.95 | Well Read | Fiction | |
| Northern California | Langenscheidt | 9780841603141 | $17.95 | Travel | Travel | ||
| Treasury of Storybook Classics, Volume 2 | Listening Library | 9780739363416 | $11.95 | Children's audio | Children's Picture | ||
| Anne of Green Gables | Montgomery, L.M. | Listening Library | 9780739367209 | $19.95 | Children's audio | Children's Chapter | |
| The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848 | Dugard, Martin | Little, Brown | 9780316166256 | $29.99 | Civil War | History | |
| When You Are Engulfed in Flames | Sedaris, David | Little, Brown | 9780316143479 | $25.99 | Meet the Author | Humor | |
| Brown Bear & Friends | Martin, Jr., Bill | Macmillan Audio | 9781427203243 | $14.95 | Children's audio | Children's Picture | |
| The Cricket in Times Square | Macmillan Audio | 9781427204455 | $14.95 | Children's audio | Children's Picture | ||
| Chernobyl Murders | Beres, Michael | Medallion Press | 9781933836294 | $25.95 | Ad-TopShelf | Fiction | |
| The Season of Strangers | Martin, Kat | MIRA | 9780778325543 | $7.99 | Ad-1/4sq | Fiction | |
| All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House | Giffels, David | Morrow | 9780061362866 | $25.95 | Father's Day | Memoir | |
| Blue Smoke and Murder | Lowell, Elizabeth | Morrow | 9780060829858 | $24.95 | Romance | Romance | |
| The Art of Keeping Secrets | Henry, Patti Callahan | NAL | 9780451223951 | $14.00 | Q&A | Fiction | |
| Novel Destinations: Literary Landmarks from Jane Austen's Bath to Ernest Hemingway's Key West | Schmidt, Shannon McKenna and Rendon, Joni | National Geographic | 9781426202773 | $25.00 | Behind the Book | Travel | |
| Firebrand of Liberty: The Story of Two Black Regiments That Changed the Course of the Civil War | Ash, Stephen V. | Norton | 9780393065862 | $25.95 | Civil War | History | |
| The Garden of Last Days | Dubus, Andre, III | Norton | 9780393041651 | $24.95 | Interview | Fiction | |
| Mind's Eye | Nesser, Hakan | Pantheon | 9780375425035 | $22.95 | Whodunit? | Fic/Mys | |
| Playing with the Enemy | Moore, Gary W. | Penguin | 9780143113881 | $15.00 | Ad-1/4col | Sports | |
| United Tweets of America | Talbott, Hudson | Penguin | 9780399245206 | $17.99 | Children's roundup | Children's Picture | |
| Hospital: Man. Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God and Diversity on Steroids | Salamon, Julie | Penguin Press | 9781594201714 | $25.95 | Std review | medicine | |
| Letter from Point Clear | McFarland, Dennis | Picador | 9780312427917 | $14.00 | Book Clubs | Fiction | |
| Second Chance | Green, Jane | Plume | 9780452289444 | $15.00 | Ad-Incld 1/4col | Fiction | |
| Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict | Rigler, Laurie Viera | Plume | 9780452289727 | $14.00 | Book Clubs | Fiction | |
| How To Build A House | Reinhardt, Dana | Random House | 9780375844539 | $15.99 | Children's Interview | Teen | |
| The Spies of Warsaw | Furst, Alan | Random House | 9781400066025 | $25.00 | Std review | Fic/Susp | |
| Compulsion | Kellerman, Jonathan | Random House AudioBooks | 9780739307236 | $44.95 | Audio | Audio | |
| The Miracle at Speedy Motors | Smith, Alexander McCall | Recorded Books | 9781428185401 | $29.99 | Audio | Audio | |
| The Rough Guide to Traveling with Babies and Young Children | de Francisco, Fawzia Rasheed | Rough Guides | 9781843537045 | $15.99 | Travel | Travel | |
| The Invention of Hugo Cabret | Selznick, Brian | Scholastic | 9780545003636 | $29.95 | Children's audio | Children's Picture | |
| Go, Go America | Yaccarino, Dan | Scholastic | 9780439703383 | $17.99 | Children's roundup | Children's Picture | |
| Night Keepers | Anderson, Jessica | Signet | 9780451224378 | $7.99 | Romance | Romance | |
| Summer on a Plate | Pump, Anna | Simon & Schuster | 9781416542858 | $23.00 | Cooking | Cooking | |
| The Broken Window | Deaver, Jeffery | Simon & Schuster | 9781416549970 | $26.95 | Whodunit? | Fic/Mys | |
| Vita Nuova | Nabb, Magdalen | Soho | 9781569474938 | $24.00 | Whodunit? | Fic/Mys | |
| The Masters: 101 Reasons to Love Golf's Greatest Tournament | Green, Ron Sr. | Stweart Tabori & Chang | 9781584796947 | $18.95 | Father's Day | Sports | |
| Time Out Chicago: Eating & Drinking 20008 | Time Out | 9780979398438 | $11.99 | Travel | Travel | ||
| The Court of the Air | Hunt, Stephen | Tor | 9780765320421 | $25.95 | Std review | SF/Fantasy | |
| She Always Wore Red | Hunt, Angela | Tyndale | 9781414311708 | $13.99 | Ad-TopShelf | Fiction | |
| Hallam's War | Rosen, Elisabeth Payne | Unbridled Books | 9781932961492 | $25.95 | Ad-1/2horiz | Fiction | |
| Recognizing and Surviving Heart Attacks and Strokes: Lifesaving Advice You Need Now | Turner, Glenn O. | University of Missouri Press | 9780826217943 | $17.95 | Ad-UnivPr | Health | |
| Explorer: The Life of Richard E. Byrd | Rose, Lisle A. | University of Missouri Press | 9780826217820 | $34.95 | Ad-UnivPr | Biography | |
| Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It | Keller, Julia | Viking | 9780670018949 | $25.95 | Civil War | Nonfiction | |
| The City of Thieves | Benioff, David | Viking | 9780670018703 | $24.95 | Std review | Fiction | |
| I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman | Ephron, Nora | Vintage | 9780307276827 | $12.95 | Book Clubs | Nonfiction | |
| 660 Curries | Iyer, Raghavan | Workman | 9780761137870 | $22.95 | Cooking | Cooking | |