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| "Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America." - President Barack Obama 1-20-09 | ||
| Feb 3, 2009 | ||
There isn’t much crime in Stoneleigh, Massachusetts. It’s a college town, a mountain getaway for the quietly rich, where the average burglar alarm is set off by wildlife. So when Edward Inman, owner of Stoneleigh Sentinel Security, gets a late-night alarm from the home of Doyle Cutler, one of his wealthiest clients, Edward thinks nothing of it—until a local student claims that she was sexually assaulted that same night at Cutler’s house. (read review) |
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| Feb 2, 2009 | ||
A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel—an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother’s death in childbirth and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. (read review) |
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| Jan 31, 2009 | ||
A playful dog finds a bone at the outset of this mystery set in São Paulo, Brazil. Chief Inspector Mario Silva of the federal police based in Brasilia and his team of investigators are called in. The bone is human and the investigators soon unearth a clandestine cemetery. Someone has secretly disposed of the bodies of unknown human beings, often interred in family groups... The motive for these mass murders is completely contemporary and completely appalling. (read review and INTERVIEW with author) |
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| Jan 30, 2009 | ||
An abandoned baby is found in the clubhouse at Fenway Park. The nurses at Deaconess name him Ted Williams, what else? A promising minor league pitcher goes missing. A player agent is caught up in a web of blackmail. A woman's body turns up in the Back Bay fens. Enter Rocky Patel, Boston Homicide Detective First Grade, ordered to connect the dots. And joining him out of left field, an anonymous blogger who knows too much. (read review) |
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| Jan 29, 2009 | ||
When an unidentified body is found in the peaceful town of Brattleboro, local police and the Vermont Bureau of Investigation both appear at the scene. But before investigator Joe Gunther can begin to gather evidence of murder, a family emergency sends him to his hometown, where the lives of his mother and brother have suddenly been threatened. (read review)
The story of paramedic Ollie Cross's first year on the job in mid-'90s New York. It is a ground's eye view of life on the streets: the shoot-outs, the bad cops, unhinged medics, the hopeless patients, the dark humor in bizarre circumstances, and one medic's struggle to balance his desire to help against his own growing callousness. Poetic, noir. (read review) |
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| Jan 27, 2009 | ||
Past and present intertwine in this stand-alone novel set in the coal mining town of Fife, Scotland. A taut psychological drama and brilliant exploration of loyalty and greed. (read review) Just heard this news: Pulitzer winning and prolific author John Updike died today at the age of 76 of lung cancer at a hospice near his home in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts. "It is with great sadness that I report that John Updike died this morning," said Nicholas Latimer of Alfred A. Knopf, a unit of Random House. "He was one of our greatest writers, and he will be sorely missed." |
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| Jan 25, 2009 | ||
Preston Clearwater has been a criminal since stealing two chain saws and 1600 pairs of aviator sunglasses from the Army during the Second World War. Back on the road in post-war North Carolina, a member of a car-theft ring, he picks up hitch-hiking Henry Dampier, an innocent nineteen-year-old Bible salesman. Clearwater immediately recognizes Henry as just the associate he needs... (read review) |
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| Jan 24, 2009 | ||
A rich, wonderfully alive novel, Lark and Termite is set during the 1950s in West Virginia and Korea. It is a story of the power of loss and love, the echoing ramifications of war, family secrets, dreams and ghosts, and the unseen, almost magical bonds that unite and sustain us. (read review) |
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| Jan 22, 2009 | ||
Award-winning screenwriter Malla Nunn delivers a stunning and darkly romantic crime novel set in 1950s apartheid South Africa, featuring Detective Emmanuel Cooper -- a man caught up in a time and place where racial tensions and the raw hunger for power make life very dangerous. (read review) |
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| Jan 20, 2009 - President Obama, YEAAAH! | ||
On a hot summer afternoon in 1972, three teenagers drove into an unfamiliar neighborhood and six lives were altered forever. |
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| Jan 19, 2009 - Martin Luther King Day | ||
The ideological autobiography of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka. The two dozen essays that constitute this book were written during a five-year span--a turbulent and critical period for African Americans and whites. The Cuban Revolution, the Birmingham bombings, Robert Williams's Monroe Defense movement, the Harlem riots, the assassination of Malcolm X . . . each changed the way Jones/Baraka looked at America. This progressive change is recorded with honesty, anger, and passion in his writings. (read review) |
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| Jan 18, 2009 | ||
What is the promise of the wolf? Never Consort With Humans. Never Kill a Human Unprovoked. Never Allow a Mixed-Blood Wolf to Live. At least that's what the wolves of the Wide Valley believe. Until a young wolf dares to break the rules -- and forever alters the relationship between wolves and the humans who share their world. (read review) |
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| Jan 17, 2009 | ||
Assembled from two separate books written by Che's father, this is a vivid and intimate account of the formative years of an icon. Ernesto Guevara Lynch describes the people and personal events that shaped the development of his son's revolutionary worldview, from his childhood in a bourgeois Argentinian home to the moment he joined Castro to train for the invasion of Cuba in 1956. (read review) |
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| Jan 16, 2009 | ||
Our favorite curmudgeonly British barrister takes on nothing less than the New Labour government when their ridiculous new Anti- Social Behavior Orders (ASBO) land a Timson child in front of the bench for playing soccer on a posh London street. However, Rumpole quickly discovers that the complainant is hiding some nefarious secrets of her own. (read review) Note: JOHN MORTIMER died today at the age of 85 years old. He had been ill for some time. We shall miss his wit. |
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