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| May 30, 2007 | ||
For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant, gritty, soulful, and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. For sixty years they have been left alone, neglected and half-forgotten in a backwater of history. Now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, but homicide detective Meyer Landsman of the District Police has enough problems without worrying about the upcoming Reversion. (read review and excerpt) |
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| May 29, 2007 | ||
The Broken Shore is in the same crime genre as the author's Jack Irish novels, but the protagonist here is a Victoria police detective named Joe Cashin, who has moved to the countryside where he grew up, on the southern coast of Port Phillip Bay near Melbourne. Temple writes a dynamic kind of literary thriller that ultimately defies classification. (read review) NOTE: May 22nd book description for Michael Connelly's The Overlook has been corrected, see below. Sorry! |
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| May 28, 2007 | ||
Originally printed under a pseudonym 40 years ago, it is a gritty grifter's tale, well worth the reprint ... (read review) |
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| May 27, 2007 | ||
The story of an ordinary man whose extraordinary commitment to his wife will take him on a harrowing journey of adventure, sacrifice, and redemption to the mystery of love itself—and to a showdown with the darkness that would destroy it forever. What would you do for love? Would you die? Would you kill? (read review) |
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| May 26, 2007 | ||
Gordon Seegerman is a reluctant public defender by day and the Barry-obsessed singer in a Manilow cover band by night. When a routine misdemeanor case exposes corruption among his city's most prominent citizens, Seegerman finds himself having to act like a real lawyer for the first time in his life. (read review) |
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| May 24, 2007 | ||
Set in 1980 Tokyo. Lisa Countryman is a woman of complex origins. Half-Japanese, adopted by African American parents, she returns to Tokyo, ostensibly to research her thesis on Japan's "sad, brutal reign of conformity." When she vanishes, Tom Hurley, who is half-Korean and half-white, is assigned to her case at the American embassy, as is local cop Kenzo Ota, who is 100 percent Japanese but deemed an outsider. 2005 Edgar Award Winner. (read review) |
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| May 22, 2007 | ||
In his first case since he left the LAPDs Open Unsolved Unit for the prestigious Homicide Special squad, Harry Bosch is called out to investigate a murder that may have chilling consequences for national security. A doctor with access to a dangerous radioactive substance is found murdered in the trunk of his car. Retracing his steps, Harry learns that a large quantity of radioactive cesium was stolen shortly before the doctors death. (read review) |
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| May 19, 2007 | ||
From a helicopter high above the empty California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night…. In Chicago, a woman learns that an elite team of ex–army investigators is being hunted down one by one.... And on the streets of Portland, Jack Reacher—soldier, cop, hero—is pulled out of his wandering life by a code that few other people could understand, as he is plunged like a knife into the heart of a conspiracy that is killing old friends. (read review) |
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| May 18, 2007 | ||
November 1979, the height of Northern Ireland’s Troubles. Kathleen Moran’s son Sean has just been transferred to the hypersecure H-block in Belfast’s notorious Maze prison, where he soon emerges as a young but important force in the extreme protest, known as the Blanket, that political prisoners are staging there. John Dunn is also newly arrived at the prison, having taken on the job of guard—a brutal but effective way to support a house and a girlfriend, the domestic dream. In the weeks leading up to Christmas... (read review) |
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| May 15, 2007 | ||
Libya, 1979. Nine-year-old Suleiman’s days are circumscribed by the narrow rituals of childhood: outings to the ruins surrounding Tripoli, games with friends played under the burning sun, exotic gifts from his father’s constant business trips abroad. But his nights have come to revolve around his mother’s increasingly disturbing bedside stories full of old family bitterness. And then one day Suleiman sees his father across the square of a busy marketplace, his face wrapped in a pair of dark sunglasses. Wasn’t he supposed to be away on business? Why did he lie? A stunning depiction of a child confronted with the private fallout of a public nightmare. (read review) |
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| May 13, 2007 - Happy Mother's Day | ||
At the age of eighty-eight, Agatha McGee has grudgingly moved out of her house on River Street and into the Sunset Senior Apartments. She’s not happy about giving up her independence. Meanwhile two of her close friends pass away, her nephew Frederick is drifting into depression, and a kidnapped little girl has suddenly appeared on her doorstep. Latest entry to Jon Hassler's Staggerford series, in paperback. (read review) |
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| May 11, 2007 | ||
From bomb ravaged London to elegant English country estates, Lieutenant Elizabeth “Liza” Marantz and her partner, Major Sam Taggart, a troubled former New York City homicide detective, investigate the suspicious deaths of two female colleagues who were involved in sexual relationships with powerful Allied commanders. Occurring on the eve of D-Day, Liza’s investigations uncover more than one conspiracy, and the very success of the war may rest in her hands. (read review) |
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| May 10, 2007 | ||
"In September 2005, just a few weeks after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, author Mary Morris went on an unusual journey. With the recent death of her father, and with her daughter Kate leaving for college, Morris made a decision to do a remarkable thing. Morris, who frankly admits she isn’t a “boat person” arranges for the purchase of a tatty houseboat named The River Queen..." (read review) |
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THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN'S UNION 
from 29 reviews 
THE BROKEN SHORE 
from ? reviews 
LUCKY AT CARDS 
THE HUSBAND 
from 205 reviews 
MISDEMEANOR MAN 
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN 
THE OVERLOOK 
BAD LUCK AND TROUBLE 
THIS HUMAN SEASON 
IN THE COUNTRY OF MEN 
THE NEW WOMAN 
THE DEADLY EMBRACE 
THE RIVER QUEEN 
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