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| MAR 11, 2009 | ||
When the Cuban Revolution triumphed in 1959, Usnavy was just a young man and eagerly signed on for all of its promises. But as the years have passed, the sacrifices have outweighed the glories, and he's become increasingly isolated. (read review) |
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| MAR 10, 2009 | ||
So who would want an inventor, a patent attorney and a patent office official dead? What do they have in common? Fault Line centers on a conspiracy that has spun out of the shadows and onto the streets of America, a conspiracy that can be stopped by only three people– three people with different worldviews, different grievances, different motives. To survive the forces arrayed against them, they’ll first have to survive one another. (read review) |
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| MAR 9, 2009 | ||
A beautiful, startling and wholly original novel, infused with magic, lush language, and surprises on every page. (read review)
It’s Christmas Eve 1931. On the way to see a client, Maisie Dobbs witnesses a man commit suicide on a busy London street. The following day, the prime minister’s office receives a letter threatening a massive loss of life if certain demands are not met—and the writer mentions Maisie by name. (read review)
Boone Daniels lives to surf. Every morning he’s out in the break off Pacific Beach with the other members of The Dawn Patrol: four men and one woman as single-minded about surfing as he is. Or nearly. They have “real j-o-b-s”; Boone works as a PI just enough to keep himself in fish tacos and wet suits—and in the water whenever the waves are “epic macking crunchy.” But Boone is obsessed with the unsolved case of a young girl named Rain who was abducted back when he was on the San Diego police force. (read review) |
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| MAR 7, 2009 | ||
Inspired by fifty years of Cuban literary noir, from Cold Tales by Virgilio Piñera to Reinaldo Arenas' Before Night Falls, Robert Arellano's Havana Lunar intertwines an insider testimony on the collapse of socialist Cuba with a psychological mystery. (read review)
Classic reprints from: Ambrose Bierce, Frank Norris, Mark Twain, Jack London, Dashiell Hammett, Fletcher Flora, Bill Pronzini, Marcia Muller, Joe Gores, Janet Dawson, Oscar Peñaranda, Seth Morgan, Craig Clevenger, and others. (read review) |
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| MAR 6, 2009 | ||
We met Simon Serailler first in The Various Haunts of Men and got to know him better in The Pure in Heart. Susan Hill is not afraid to tackle difficult themes, always prepared to face up to the dark realities in everyday lives-and even the terrors of the real world. Her third crime novel, The Risk of Darkness, perhaps even more compulsive and convincing than its predecessors, explores the crazy grief of a widowed husband, a derangement that turns into obsession and threats, violence and terror. (read review) |
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| MAR 4, 2009 | ||
When the apparently mild-mannered retired teacher Domenico Stasi learns that a former student of his is being held as a suspected terrorist he seeks her out to assure himself of her innocence, to convince himself that his teachings have not contributed to the creation of a monster. But she proudly declares her guilt. What’s more, she entrusts him with a task that initially seems a child’s game but soon becomes much more serious. But is everything what it appears to be? Who is Domenico Stasi: killer, victim, or hapless fall guy? (read review) |
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| MAR 3, 2009 | ||
A gorgeous debut novel set in England between the wars. It is the story of an aristocratic family, a house, a mysterious death and a way of life that vanished forever, told in flashback by a woman who witnessed it all and kept a secret for decades. (read review) |
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| MAR 2, 2009 | ||
A soaring feat of storytelling about the immigrant experience and the ghosts that haunt families from one generation to another. When Erik Davidsen and his sister, Inga, find a disturbing note from an unknown woman among their dead father’s papers, they believe he may be implicated in a mysterious death. The Sorrows of an American tells the story of the Davidsen family as brother and sister uncover its secrets and unbandage its wounds in the year following their father’s funeral. (read review) |
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| MAR 1, 2009 | ||
The second book in the new Detective Michael Bennett series. A calculating killer who calls himself The Teacher is taking on New York City, killing the powerful and the arrogant. His message is clear: remember your manners or suffer the consequences. (read review) Also see second review of A GRAVE IN GAZA by Matt Beynon Rees - as reviewed by Jana Perskie. |
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| Feb 28, 2009 | ||
Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships--rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. The fortunes of one of Bingtown's oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship Vivacia. (read review)
In the second breathtaking volume of Robin Hobb's The Liveship Traders Trilogy, a new tide of glory and terror sweeps forward the story of the Vestrit clan, their liveship Vivacia, and all who strive to possess her. (read review)
In the powerful conclusion to The Liveship Traders Trilogy, Robin Hobb weaves the spellbinding story of a once-thriving city on the brink of ruin, a glorious and mythic species on the edge of extinction, and the Vestrit clan, whose destiny is intertwined with both.... (read review) |
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| Feb 26, 2009 | ||
These wonderfully imagined tales of possible afterlives - at once funny, wistful, and unsettling – are rooted in science and romance and awe at our mysterious existence: a mixture of death, hope, computers, immortality, love, biology, and desire that exposes radiant new facets of our humanity. (read review) |
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| Feb 25, 2009 | ||
Anytown, England. Jeremy Shepherd has reached post-ambition, giving up the trappings of his London life (flash job, flash cars, even flashier girlfriends) and moved back to his home town and his parents’ house. By day, he is a low-level civil servant, chained to his desk and content to idle away the hours filing and answering emails. There isn’t a lot to do in a small town, but the English are very resourceful and Jeremy quickly finds a hobby that deli vers lots of fresh air and exercise. (read review)
A giant strides this land. A giant who builds robots, invents religions, and kisses like a dream. From the rocky coast of New England to the golden hayfields of Stockton, California, he searches for America's greatest treasures. But for a dude who has it all, he sure seems sad a lot of the time what's up with that? And what exactly does he plan to do with all of those wonderful treasures? Is there someone, a beautiful lady named Glorious Jones perhaps, who has asked him to gather the bounty of America in order to prove his love for her? (read review) |
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FAULT LINE
THE LITTLE GIANT OF ABERDEEN COUNTY
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AMONG THE MAD
DAWN PATROL
HAVANA LUNAR
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THE RISK OF DARKNESS
FIRST EXECUTION
THE HOUSE AT RIVERTON
THE SORROWS OF AN AMERICAN 
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RUN FOR YOUR LIFE
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THE ISLE OF DOGS
AWESOME 
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