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| June 24, 2008 | ||
Quadraplegic Lincoln Rhyme and partner/paramour Amelia Sachs return to face a criminal whose ingenious staging of crimes is enabled by a terrifying access to information.... When Lincoln's estranged cousin Arthur Rhyme is arrested on murder charges, the case is perfect -- too perfect. Forensic evidence from Arthur's home is found all over the scene of the crime. At the behest of Arthur's wife, Lincoln grudgingly agrees to investigate the case. Soon Lincoln and Amelia uncover a string of similar murders and rapes with perpetrators claiming innocence and ignorance. (read review) |
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| June 22, 2008 | ||
Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate, if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true, if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish? A spellbinding tale of a mother's tragic loss and a criminal's last chance at finding salvation. Change Of Heart looks at the nature of organized religion and belief, and takes the reader behind the closely drawn curtains of America’s death penalty. (read review)
Sterling, NH is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens – until a student enters the local high school with an arsenal of guns and starts shooting, changing the lives of everyone inside and out. (read review) |
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| June 21, 2008 | ||
One early September night in Florida, a stripper brings her daughter to work. April's usual babysitter is in the hospital, so she decides it's best to have her three-year-old daughter close by, watching children's videos in the office, while she works. Except that April works at the Puma Club for Men. And tonight she has an unusual client, a foreigner both remote and too personal, and free with his money. Lots of it, all cash. His name is Bassam. (read review) |
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| June 20, 2008 | ||
The acclaimed writer A. M. Homes (This Book Will Save Your Life) was given up for adoption before she was born. Her biological mother was a twenty-two-year-old single woman who was having an affair with a much older married man with a family of his own. The Mistress’s Daughter is the ruthlessly honest account of what happened when, thirty years later, her birth parents came looking for her. (read review)
Did the seventeen-year-old Grand Duchess Anastasia survive the massacre of the Russian imperial family in 1918? Over the years, the possibility that the youngest of the tsar's four daughters might have escaped the killings has provided rich spawning ground for claimants. By far te best known of these was Anna Anderson, a mysterious young woman who appeared in Berlin in 1920. But who was Anna Anderson—and just how did she manage to convince so many people that she was the real Anastasia? (read review) |
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| June 18, 2008 | ||
Fresh from a six-month sojourn in Italy, Lady Julia returns home to Sussex to find her father's estate crowded with family and friends— but dark deeds are afoot at the deconsecrated abbey, and a murderer roams the ancient cloisters. With a captivating cast of characters in a remarkably imaginative setting, Silent in the Sanctuary is a marvelous sequel to the evocative Silent in the Grave. (read review) |
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| June 17, 2008 | ||
When recently widowed Maggie McElroy is called to China to settle a claim against her late husband's estate, she is blindsided by the discovery that he may have led a double life. Since work is all that will keep her sane, her magazine editor assigns her to profile Sam, a half-Chinese American who is the last in a line of gifted chefs tracing back to the imperial palace. As she watches Sam gear up for China's Olympic culinary competition by planning the banquet of a lifetime, she begins to see past the cuisine's artistry to glimpse its coherent expression of Chinese civilization. (read review)
If you think McDonald's is the most ubiquitous restaurant experience in America, consider that there are more Chinese restaurants in America than McDonalds, Burger Kings, and Wendys combined. New York Times reporter and Chinese-American (or American-born Chinese) Jennifer 8. Lee traces the history of Chinese-American experience through the lens of the food. The Fortune Cookie Chronicles speaks to the immigrant experience as a whole, and the way it has shaped our country. (read review) |
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| June 16, 2008 | ||
Arthur Camden's greatest talents are for packing and unpacking suitcases, making coleslaw, and second-guessing every decision in his life. When his business fails and his wife leaves him—to pursue more aggressive men—Arthur finds that he has none of the talents and finesse that everyone else seems to possess for navigating New York society. |
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| June 15, 2008 | ||
Tough, sexy, at times apparently pitiless, Petra Delicado is a new kind of cop in Spanish crime writing. As she battles with sexist colleagues, ruthless reporters, indifferent witnesses, hardened criminals, and houseplants that just won’t flower, she sometimes thinks her thirst for new challenges and perpetual change is more trouble than it’s worth. (read review) |
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| June 14, 2008 | ||
American radiologist Peter Ross just wanted a vacation. But when he meets the beautiful Angela Locke on a Spanish beach, he soon finds himself caught in a murderous crossfire between rival gangs seeking a precious artifact. From Barcelona to the rain-swept streets of Paris, from the towers of the Alhambra to its darkest catacombs, Peter Ross is an ordinary man in desperate circumstances: racing to uncover a secret lost for centuries, before he becomes its next victim. (read review) |
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| June 13, 2008 | ||
In the latter half of the 21st century, the United States has devolved into a depleted continent of Balkanized nations: Redwood, Sierra, Olympia, Rocky Mountain, and others, all ruled by local chiefs or warlords. Rica Marin makes her living as a mercenary. Sent to Sierra to spy on the powerful Coleman "casino" clan, she insinuates herself into the heart of the family only to realize that for once, she might have chosen the wrong side in a political situation that could make or break the future of the no-longer-united America. (read review) |
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| June 11, 2008 | ||
A stunningly inventive, deeply moving fiction debut: stories that take us from the slums of Colombia to the streets of Tehran; from New York City to Iowa City; from a tiny fishing village in Australia to a foundering vessel in the South China Sea, in a masterly display of literary virtuosity and feeling. (read review) |
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| June 10, 2008 | ||
Two lonely towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher never turns back. It's not in his nature. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets is big trouble. So in Lee Child’s electrifying new novel, Reacher—a man with no fear, no illusions, and nothing to lose—goes to war against a town that not only wants him gone, it wants him dead. (read review) |
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| June 9, 2008 | ||
On the wild, lonely coast of Western Australia, two thrillseeking and barely adolescent boys fall into the enigmatic thrall of veteran big-wave surfer Sando. Together they form an odd but elite trio. The grown man initiates the boys into a kind of Spartan ethos, a regimen of risk and challenge, where they test themselves in storm swells on remote and shark-infested reefs, pushing each other to the edges of endurance, courage, and sanity. But where is all this heading? (read review) |
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| June 8, 2008 | ||
Before cell phones that fit in the palm of your hand and slim laptops that fit snugly into briefcases, computers were like strange, alien vending machines. They had cryptic switches, punch cards and pages of encoded output. But in 1975, a young engineering wizard named Steve Wozniak had an idea: What if you combined computer circuitry with a regular typewriter keyboard and a video screen? The result was the first true personal computer, the Apple I, a widely affordable machine that anyone could understand and figure out how to use. (read review) |
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| June 6, 2008 | ||
It seems like mutual good luck for Abigail Taylor and Dara MacLeod when they meet at St. Andrews University and, despite their differences, become fast friends. Years later they remain an unlikely pair. Now each seems to have found "true love"—another stroke of luck?—Abigail with her academic boyfriend, Sean, and Dara with a tall, dark violinist named Edward, who literally falls at her feet. But soon after Dara moves into Abigail's downstairs apartment, trouble threatens both relationships, and their friendship. Compulsively readable and literary. (read review) |
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| June 5, 2008 | ||
Master criminal Parker takes another turn for the worse as he tries to recover loot from a heist gone terribly wrong. (read review) |
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| June 3, 2008 | ||
A child of World War II, Peter Debauer grew up with his mother and scant memories of his father, a victim of war. Now an adult, Peter embarks upon a search for the truth surrounding his mother's unwavering--but shaky--history and the possibility of finding his missing father after all these years. From the author of The Reader. (read review) |
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| June 2, 2008 | ||
In the remote outback of Western Australia during World War II, a lonely child, Perdita, emotionally adrift, becomes friends with a deaf and mute boy, Billy, and an Aboriginal girl, Mary. Perdita and Mary come to call one another sister and to share a very special bond. They are content with life in this remote corner of the globe, until a terrible event lays waste to their lives. (read review) |
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| June 1, 2008 | ||
Crane aims to convey something fresh in literature: utter sincerity. With a trademark mix of hyperreality, humor, and heartfelt emotion, You Must Be This Happy to Enter asks readers to connect with the loopy ways of her characters. Because even though they're occasionally severed from reality, they still seem to know something you don't about keeping upbeat in a strange and crumbling environment. (read review) |
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| May 31, 2008 | ||
Emotionally vulnerable after a shooting incident, Ana has just returned to the job when she learns that a fellow agent has been murdered by a group of hard-core anarchists operating behind the façade of FAN (Free Animals Now). Dispatched to the FBI’s infamous undercover school to learn the art of deceit, Ana takes on the identity of a down-on-her-luck animal lover determined to save the wild mustangs of the West. (read review) |
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THE BROKEN WINDOW 
from 10 reviews
CHANGE OF HEART 
from 49 reviews
NINETEEN MINUTES 
STRAWBERRY FIELDS 
THE GARDEN OF LAST DAYS 
THE MISTRESS'S DAUGHTER 
A ROMANOV FANTASY: LIFE AT THE COURT OF ANNA ANDERSON 
from 3 reviews
SILENT IN THE SANCTUARY 
THE LAST CHINESE CHEF 
THE FORTUNE COOKIE CHRONICLES 
A GENTLEMEN'S GUIDE TO GRACEFUL LIVING 
DEATH RITES 
ZERO COOL 
BLACKJACK 
from 7 reviews
THE BOAT 
NOTHING TO LOSE 
BREATH 
iWoz 
THE HOUSE ON FORTUNE STREET 
DIRTY MONEY 
HOMECOMING 
SORRY 
YOU MUST BE THIS HAPPY TO ENTER 
JUDAS HORSE 
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