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| April 5, 2007 | ||
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| April 3, 2007 | ||
In the debut crime novel from the Booker Prize winning author, a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of a conspiracy among the city’s high Catholic society. Set in Dublin and Boston in the 1950s, this thrilling, atmospheric crime story is the first novel in the Quirke series. (read review) |
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| April 2, 2007 | ||
When the first planes go down -- in Europe, in California, in Asia -- authorities blame terrorists. All flights are grounded as world leaders try to figure out how the global assault has been coordinated. And when cars, ships, and factories stop running too, it becomes clear that the common link is oil. Somehow a microbe, genetically engineered to destroy petroleum, has infected the world supply. The world descends into a new dark age. (read review and excerpt) |
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| March 31, 2007 | ||
Robert Dugoni’s second novel, Damage Control, is another strong book about attorneys, this time with a strong female lead. Dana Hill is accustomed to stress: she's a successful attorney at a prestigious Seattle law firm, the mother of a young daughter, and the wife of a busy, self-involved man. But her carefully-balanced world is soon rent asunder. (read review and excerpt)
David Sloane is the best wrongful death attorney in San Francisco. He's a lawyer who can make juries do anything. But despite his professional success, he's plagued by a nightmare of a childhood he cannot consciously remember. When he receives a package from a White House confidant who then turns up dead by apparent suicide, the contents reveal a history he never could have imagined. (read review) |
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| March 25, 2007 | ||
Kip Largo was once the best in the business. A con man's con man. But then he spent five years in jail and lost everything except his sense of humor and a crummy little apartment. Then one day he meets Lauren Napier, wife of billionaire venture capitalist Ed Napier. She wants Kip to steal her husband's money for her, and in return, she'll cut him in on a sizeable chunk of the proceeds. Kip's been around long enough to know that when a beautiful woman wants something from you, all you're gonna get in return is a whole lot of trouble. (read review and excerpt) |
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| March 24, 2007 | ||
Jack Kerouac is best known through the image he put forth in his autobiographical novels. Yet it is only his private journals, in which he set down the raw material of his life and thinking, that reveal to us the real Kerouac. Brinkley has gathered a selection of journal entries from the most pivotal period of Kerouac’s life, 1947 to 1954. Here is Kerouac as a hungry young writer finishing his first novel while forging crucial friendships with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. (read review) |
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| March 20, 2007 | ||
Louis Proby is an old man now, sitting in his study in New Orleans awaiting what they say is a huge storm, Hurricane Katrina. As he watches the skies darken, he remembers his earlier life, as a watchful, curious young man filled with hunger and desire in Cypress Parish, the life that was washed away when the Mississippi River flooded in 1927. He remembers exactly how the Parish was sacrificed to those waters—because the city fathers said it was expendable. They said that flooding Louis’s home was necessary to save New Orleans. (read review) |
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| March 5-19, 2007 | ||
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| March 2, 2007 | ||
For ten years, Norma has been the voice of consolation for a people broken by violence. She hosts Lost City Radio, the most popular program in their nameless South American country, gripped in the aftermath of war. Every week, the Indians in the mountains and the poor from the barrios listen as she reads the names of those who have gone missing. Loved ones are reunited and the lost are found. Each week, she returns to the airwaves while hiding her own personal loss: her husband disappeared at the end of the war. (read review or excerpt) |
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| March 1, 2007 | ||
“I’m sick. I might die,” seven-year-old Estella confesses to her younger sister Connie, in the prologue of Kristy Kiernan’s debut novel. “I have eyecue. It’s bad. I have a lot of it.” As children, Connie and Estella were best friends-until Estella was discovered to be a math prodigy, which led to the sisters' estrangement. Now, years later, they are forced to reunite on the Gulf Coast of Florida as they pack up their childhood home and ready it for sale. (read review) |
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DANCING TO "ALMENDRA" 
from 3 reviews
CHRISTINE FALLS 
from 7 reviews
BLACK MONDAY 
from 9 reviews
DAMAGE CONTROL 
THE JURY MASTER 
THEN WE CAME TO THE END 
BILLY HAZELNUTS 
THE LAST SPYMASTER 
CON ED 
WINDBLOWN WORLD: THE JOURNALS OF JACK KEROUAC 1947-1954 
UNNATURAL HISTORY OF CYPRESS PARISH 
LOST CITY RADIO 
CATCHING GENIUS 
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