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| JUN 20, 2007 | ||
When Jane moves back to the sleepy Maine fishing community where she was born, it’s to escape the seamy crime scenes and unsavory characters that crossed her path in Miami. Surely whatever crimes are committed in touristy, idyllic Green Haven won’t involve anything as nasty as what she saw in Florida. It’s a bit of a shock, then, when Nick Dow, the town drunk, turns up dead, and it’s not the simple accident that everyone assumes it to be. Jane soon discovers that Dow wasn’t even a drunk -- it was all an act. But why? (read review) |
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| JUN 18, 2007 | ||
When her older sister runs away to marry a rodeo cowboy, Alice Winston is left to bear the brunt of her family's troubles -- a depressed, bedridden mother; a reticent, overworked father; and a run-down horse ranch. As the hottest summer in fifteen years unfolds and bills pile up, Alice is torn between dreams of escaping the loneliness of her duty-filled life and a longing to help her father mend their family and the ranch. A breathtaking and beautiful novel set on a horse ranch in small-town Colorado. (read review and excerpt) |
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| JUN 17, 2007 | ||
A young woman hired to keep the books at a down-at-the-heels nightclub is taken under the wing of the infamous Gloria Denton, a mob luminary who reigned during the Golden Era of Bugsy Siegel and Lucky Luciano. Notoriously cunning and ruthless, Gloria shows her eager young protégée the ropes... (read review) |
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| JUN 16, 2007 | ||
A sophisticated crime story of contemporary Ireland, The Midnight Choir teems with moral dilemmas as Dublin emerges as a city of ambiguity: a newly scrubbed face hiding a criminal culture of a terrible variety. Small-time criminals have become millionaire businessmen, the poor are still struggling to survive, and the police face a world where the old rules no longer apply. (read review) |
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| JUN 14, 2007 | ||
Volk, a battle-hardened veteran of Russias brutal war in Chechnya, he prowls Moscows grim alleyways, a knife concealed in his prosthetic foot at all times, he is both a major player in the black market and a covert agent for the Russian military. By his side is Valya, an exotic beauty charged with protecting her lover from his unsavory associates. Valya is the most dangerous weapon in Volks arsenal. Together they are commissioned to steal a long-lost da Vinci painting called Leda and the Swan from St. Petersburgs Hermitage Museum. (read review and excerpt) |
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| JUN 13, 2007 | ||
Set against the uncompromising landscape of East L.A., Abani follows a struggling artist named Black, whose life and friendships reveal a world far removed from the mainstream. Through Black’s journey of self- discovery, Abani raises essential questions about poverty, religion, and ethnicity in America today. (read review) |
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| JUN 11, 2007 | ||
Gail Lim, a producer of radio documentaries in present-day Vancouver, finds herself haunted by events in her parents’ past in war torn Asia, a past which remains a mystery that fiercely grips her imagination. A novel about the legacies of loss, about the dislocations of war and the redemptive qualities of love. (read review and excerpt)
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| JUN 10, 2007 | ||
In a very creative novel, the life of legendary photographer Edward S. Curtis is the basis for this resonant exploration of history and family, landscape and legacy. Narrated in the first person by a reimagined writer named Marianne Wiggins. (read review) |
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| JUN 9, 2007 | ||
An epic novel of life in Renaissance Italy. Escaping the sack of Rome in 1527, with their stomachs churning on the jewels they have swallowed, the courtesan Fiammetta and her dwarf companion, Bucino, head for Venice, the shimmering city born out of water to become a miracle of east-west trade: rich and rancid, pious and profitable, beautiful and squalid. (read review) |
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| JUN 7, 2007 | ||
Seeds of a new corn plant are stolen from Oxford University's botany lab, and the professor, Alastair Scott, and his Russian assistant, Tanya Petrovskaya, are missing. Alarms ring in London and Washington, where intelligence officials know that Scott was working on a supergene that could allow control over the world's entire food supply. The British government calls in Arthur Hemmings from the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. To his coworkers, Hemmings is just another researcher in the herbarium, but for many years he has been a secret service agent, an outwardly rumpled but dashing covert adventurer. (read review and excerpt) |
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| JUN 6, 2007 | ||
It has been years since the mayhem was unleashed in Privileged Information. Now Michael McClelland, the brilliant, determined killer introduced in White’s first novel, has left the Colorado State Mental Hospital—and he’s coming after psychologist Alan Gregory’s family. The timing couldn’t be deadlier; like a cornered animal, Alan is in a deeply vulnerable state, facing severe doubts about his professional life, his marriage, and his own psyche. And McClelland holds the most powerful weapons of all: secrets from Alan’s past. (read review) |
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| JUN 5, 2007 | ||
At Harvard in the early 1950s, three seemingly mismatched freshmen are thrown together: Sam, who fears that his fine New England name has been tarnished by his father’s drinking and his mother’s affairs; Archie, an affable army brat whose veneer of sophistication was acquired at an obscure Scottish boarding school; and Henry, fiercely intelligent but obstinate and unpolished, a refugee from Poland via a Brooklyn high school. As roommates they enter a world governed by arcane rules, where merit is everything except when trumped by pedigree and the inherited prerogatives of belonging. From the author of About Schmidt. (read review) |
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| Jun 3, 2007 | ||
Lively's new novel spans the fates of three generations of women, while exploring their interconnected lives, and the caprices of fate. But it’s her eloquent kaleidoscopic treatment of time and space that elevates this novel to something quite beautiful. (read review)
Making It Up is Penelope Lively’s answer to the oft-asked question, “How much of what you write comes from your own life?” What if Lively hadn’t escaped from Egypt, her birthplace, at the outbreak of World War II? What would her life have been like if she’d married someone else? From a hillside in Italy to an archaeological dig, the author explores the stories that could have been hers, fashioning a sublime dance between reality and imagination that confirms her reputation as a singular talent. (read review) |
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| June 1 to June 2 , 2007 | ||
| Gone to NYC for Book Expo 2007! | ||
SLIPKNOT 
from 1 reviews 
THE GOD OF ANIMALS 
QUEENPIN 
from 1 reviews 
THE MIDNIGHT CHOIR 
VOLK'S GAME 
THE VIRGIN OF FLAMES 
CERTAINTY 
THE SHADOW CATCHER 
IN THE COMPANY OF THE COURTESAN 
DAY OF THE DANDELION 
from 3 reviews 
DRY ICE 
MATTERS OF HONOR 
CONSEQUENCES 
MAKING IT UP 
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