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| OCT 16, 2007 | ||
 AWAY by Amy Bloom Publisher: Random House (August 2007) Reviewer: Poornima Apte Amazon readers rating:  from 47 reviews
The epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New York’s Lower East Side, to Seattle’s Jazz District, and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail toward Siberia. (read review) |
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| OCT 15, 2007 | ||
 A NAIL THROUGH THE HEART by Timothy Hallinan Publisher: William Morrow (June 2007) Reviewer: Amanda Richards Amazon readers rating:  from 15 reviews
Travel writer Poke Rafferty was good at looking for trouble––so good that he made a little money writing a few offbeat travel guides for the young and terminally bored. But that was before Bangkok stole his heart. Now the expat American is happily playing family with Rose, the former go–go dancer he wants to marry, and with Miaow, the wary street child he wants to adopt. Yet just when everything is beginning to work out, trouble comes looking for Poke in the guise of good intentions. (read review) |
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| OCT 14, 2007 | ||
 TOMORROW by Graham Swift Publisher: Knopf (September 2007) Reviewer: Mary Whipple Amazon readers rating: from 5 reviews
On a midsummer’s night Paula Hook lies awake; Mike, her husband of twenty-five years, asleep beside her; her teenage twins, Nick and Kate, sleeping in nearby rooms. The next day, she knows, will redefine all of their lives. (read review) |
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| OCT 13, 2007 | ||
 SLIDE by Ken Bruen & Jason Starr Publisher: Hard Case Crime (October 2007 in PB) Reviewer: Hagen Baye Amazon readers rating:  from 1 reviews
Max Fisher used to run a computer company; Angela Petrakos was his assistant and mistress. But that was last year. Now Max is reinventing himself as a hip-hop crack dealer and Angela’s back in Ireland, hooking up with a would-be record-setter…in the field of serial killing. A roller-coaster ride of suspense, mayhem and vicious fun from two award winning authors, in this follow up novel to Bust. (read review) |
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| OCT 12, 2007 | ||
 NIGHT WORK by Steve Hamilton Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur (September 2007) Reviewer: Eleanor Bukowsky Amazon readers rating: from 5 reviews
Joe Trumbull is not a man who scares easily. As a juvenile probation officer in Kingston, New York, he's half cop, half social worker to the most high-risk youth in the city. And when he's not pounding the streets, trying to keep his kids out of jail, he's pounding a heavy bag in the gym to stay in shape.But tonight Joe Trumbull is scared to death.It's been two years since his fiance, Laurel, was brutally murdered. Two years of grief and loneliness. On this hot summer night, he's finally going out on a blind date, his first date since Laurel's death. (read review and excerpt) |
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| OCT 10, 2007 | ||
 RATHA'S CREATURE by Clare Bell Publisher: Puffin (July 2007 in PB) Reviewer: Shanna Shadowfax Amazon readers rating:  from 38 reviews
Ratha and her clan are the Named, a band of intelligent wild cats whose society is based on herding deer. The Named have laws, language, traditions, and leaders. They also have enemies. The predatory raiders of the unNamed are driving them close to the edge of survival. Then Ratha, a mere yearling, discovers what she calls the “red tongue”—Fire. Her new weapon gives the Named a new defense, but it also rouses the ire of Meoran, the tyrannical clan leader. Soon Ratha finds herself in exile among the un-Named, but determined to survive. (read review and excerpt) |
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| OCT 9, 2007 | ||
 MEASURING THE WORLD by Daniel Kehlmann Publisher: Vintage (October 9, 2007 in PB) Reviewer: Kirstin Merrihew Amazon readers rating: from 11 reviews
Toward the end of the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world. One of them, the Prussian aristocrat Alexander von Humboldt, negotiates savanna and jungle, travels down the Orinoco, tastes poisons, climbs the highest mountain known to man, counts head lice, and explores every hole in the ground. The other, the barely socialized mathematician and astronomer Carl Friedrich Gauss, does not even need to leave his home in Göttingen to prove that space is curved. Terrifyingly famous and more than eccentric in their old age, the two meet in Berlin in 1828. Kehlmann conjures a brilliant and gently comic novel from the lives of two geniuses of the Enlightenment. (read review) |
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| OCT 8, 2007 | ||
 ORPHEUS LOST by Janet Turner Hospital Publisher: W. W. Norton (October 9, 2007) Reviewer: Mary Whipple Amazon readers rating: from 3 reviews
Leela is a mathematician who has escaped her Southern hometown to study in Boston. She meets an Australian musician, Mishka, and from the moment she first hears him play his music grips her; they quickly become lovers. Then one day Leela is picked up off the street and taken to an interrogation center somewhere outside the city. There has been an explosion in the subway; terrorism is suspected. The interrogator —an old childhood friend— now reveals to her that Mishka may not be all he seems. (read review and excerpt) |
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| OCT 7, 2007 | ||
 CONSOLATION by Michael Redhill Publisher: Little, Brown & Co (January 2007) Reviewer: Poornima Apte Amazon readers rating: from 4 reviews
From the award-winning author of Martin Sloane and Fidelity comes a riveting Toronto story of two families in two different centuries--one searching for the past, the other creating a record of it. (read review) Rosie shares with us her piquant and utterly engaging views on life and love, marriage and mating, desire and destiny as she tackles the sometimes thorny business of making her way through life. Taking her cues from the Brothers Grimm, Rosie - a thoroughly modern Little Red Riding Hood - tells us of love and desire, men and women, heartache and happiness. With wit, simplicity and directness, Rosie offers her clear-eyed, slyly funny and rueful take on life, love and everything in between. (read review) |
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| OCT 6, 2007 | ||
 HICK by Andrea Portes Publisher: Unbridled Books (May 2007) Reviewer: Guy Savage Amazon readers rating: from 18 reviews
Young Luli knows losers—her "aging Brigitte Bardot" mother, Tammy, and her father, Nick, go at each other every night at the Alibi, the watering hole in hometown Palmyra, Neb. Tammy runs away one morning, and Nick soon follows, leaving Luli alone at home with the Smith and Wesson .45 her Uncle Nipper gave her. Pistol in tow, she hitches rides heading west to Vegas. (read review) From the heartlands of the 1880s Upper Midwest comes a morality tale of survival and destiny told in the convincing language of a patriarch’s journal, evoking a real sense of the time and place. Gerhardt Praeger, a farmer of some education and plenty experience, understands the mixture of hard work, ingenuity, ethic, grace and steadiness of spirit needed to hold his settler family and neighboring community together while homesteading the hard territory of the Dakotas. But a new neighbor, the bold Beidermann, who seems at times almost larger than life, stirs both his curiosity and envy, and tests Praeger’s moral beliefs. (read review) |
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| OCT 5, 2007 | ||
 THE PESTHOUSE by Jim Crace Publisher: Nan A. Talese (May 2007) Reviewer: Tony Ross Amazon readers rating: from 19 reviews
Jim Crace is a writer of spectacular originality and a command of language that moves a reader effortlessly into the world of his imagination. In The Pesthouse he imagines an America of the future where a man and a woman trek across a devastated and dangerous landscape, finding strength in each other and an unexpected love. (read review) |
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| OCT 4, 2007 | ||
 PATRIOT ACTS by Greg Rucka Publisher: Bantam (August 2007) Reviewer: Eleanor Bukowsky Amazon readers rating: from 3 reviews
It begins with a shocking betrayal, a brutal ambush, and the murder of a friend. Atticus Kodiak is about to discover that he’s been falsely identified as one of The Ten–a short list of the world’s most wanted assassins. And to survive, he’s going to have to become exactly what they’re accusing him of being: a stone-cold killer. (read review) |
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| OCT 3, 2007 | ||
 PEONY IN LOVE by Lisa See Publisher: Random House (June 2007) Reviewer: Amanda Richards Amazon readers rating: from 46 reviews
Lisa See’s haunting new novel, based on actual historical events, takes readers back to seventeenth-century China, after the Manchus seize power and the Ming dynasty is crushed. Steeped in traditions and ritual, this story brings to life another time and place–even the intricate realm of the afterworld, with its protocols, pathways, and stages of existence. (read review) |
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