June 2009 Hot Picks

Sag Harbor
by Colson Whitehead, Doubleday, $24.95
Colson Whitehead takes a tour down nostalgia lane in this brilliant and rollicking tale of two brothers who summer in Sag Harbor, Long Island in the 1980's.

Appetite
by Erika K. Kendrick, One World/Ballantine, $14
Erika K. Kendrick weaves an eye-popping tale about an up-and-coming soap opera star, who winds up in the gossip pages after a night of drinking and wild sex with a man who turns out to be her co-star!

One World/Ballantine

Let's Get It On
by Jill Nelson, Amistad, $24.99
Jill Nelson sizzles and pops with a story about three women who open a spa for women on a yacht three miles off Martha's Vineyard. The major services spa offers sex with men who are trained to satisfy women.

Amistad

Sisters & Husbands
by Connie Briscoe, Grand Central/Hachette, $24.99
Connie Briscoe returns after 'Sisters and Lovers' with the story of Beverly whose fear of commitment has kept her from tying the knot. But now she believes she has met the one. Will she make it to the altar?

Grand Central/Hachette

Ghetto Superstar
by Nikki Turner, One World/Ballantine, $14
Nikki Turner, the popular street lit writer, reveals the gritty underworld of the music industry with her streetwise character Fabiola Mays, who refuses to sacrifice her integrity to achieve success.

One World/Ballantine

The Long Fall: The First Leonid McGill Mystery
by Walter Mosley, Riverhead Books, $25.95
Private detective Leonid McGill promises to thrill with his bumbling, yet successful detective techniques in this keen Manhattan murder mystery.

Riverhead Books

My Sister's Ex
by Cydney Rax, Three Rivers Press/Crown Publishing, $14
What would you do if your ex started to date your sibling? Well, Rachel Merrell has a fit when she finds out her ex-fiancé is dating her half-sister, Marlene Draper. And sparks fly in this August release.

Three Rivers Press/Crown Publishing

Children of the Waters
by Carleen Brice, One World, $14
Carleen Brice weaves an engaging story about the coming together of family after years of secrets, estrangements and bitter resentments.

One World

Friends and Fauxs
by Tracie Howard, Broadway, $13.99
Tracie Howard tells the story of Gillian Tillman who learns that her millionaire producer husband is a person of interest the death of her friend, Paulette. Trouble lurks on every page of this hot July release.

Broadway

Peer Pleasure
by Danita Carter, Atria, $15
Young adults are sure to be entertained between hitting the waves and turning the pages of this urban Gossip Girls tale about sibling rivalry, and hip-hop and hunky child stars at one of New York City's most exclusive and moneyed high schools.

Atria