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| May 8, 2007 | ||
Filled with evocative descriptions of Cambridge, England past and present, of seventeenth-century glassmaking, alchemy, the Great Plague, and Sir Isaac Newton’s scientific innovations, Ghostwalk centers around a real historical mystery that Rebecca Stott has uncovered involving Newton’s alchemy. In it, time and relationships are entangled—the present with the seventeenth century, and figures from the past with the love-torn twenty-first century woman who is trying to discover their secrets.(read review and excerpt) |
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| May 5, 2007 | ||
Their captain's insane vision of a Northwest Passage has kept the crewmen of Terror trapped in Arctic ice for two years without a thaw. But the real threat to their survival isn't the ever-shifting landscape of white, the provisions that have turned to poison before they open them, or the ship slowly buckling in the grip of the frozen ocean. The real threat is whatever is out in the frigid darkness, stalking their ship, snatching one seaman at a time or whole crews, leaving bodies mangled horribly or missing forever. (read review) |
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| May 3, 2007 | ||
"There was no sign of life. But not for a second did Pascoe admit the possibility of death. Dalziel was indestructible. Dalziel is, and was, and forever shall be world without end, amen. Everybody knew that. Therein lay half his power. Chief constables might come and chief constables might go, but Fat Andy went on forever." (read review) |
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| April 30, 2007 | ||
In the summer of 1959, as Castro clamps down on Cuba and its first wave of exiles flees to the States to wait out what they hope to be his short-lived reign, Emma Gant, fresh out of college, begins her career as a reporter. (read review) |
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| April 26, 2007 | ||
Originally published in 1954, Black Friday is one of David Goodis' leanest, meanest melancholy thrillers. Goodis is considered one of the greatest American crime writers. (read review) |
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| April 23, 2007 | ||
The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives are on the line with every decision. In his new book, Atul Gawande explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable. (read review)
On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be wrong -- with catastrophic consequences. In this myth-shattering book, Jerome Groopman pinpoints the forces and thought processes behind the decisions doctors make. (read review) |
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| April 21, 2007 | ||
Fear of the Dark is the third installment of Walter Mosley’s series about his odd couple characters, Paris Minton and Fearless Jones, and their dealing with the reality of being Black men in Los Angeles of the 1950’s. (read review and excerpt) |
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| April 20, 2007 | ||
During one month in the autumn of an election year, scores of movie-business strivers are focused on one goal: getting a piece of an elusive, but surely huge, television saga. The one that opens with Huns sweeping through Mongolia and closes with a Mormon diviner in the Las Vegas desert; the sure-to-please-everyone multigenerational TV miniseries about diviners, those miracle workers who bring water to perpetually thirsty (and hungry and love-starved) humankind. (read review) |
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| April 19, 2007 | ||
A comedy filled with a delightful cast of characters and Mortimer’s unique and entertaining take on a life of crime. Life couldn’t be better for Lucinda Purefoy—college educated, with a steady boyfriend and a job offer in advertising. With all this good fortune, isn’t it appropriate for her to give something back to society? Armed with only good intentions, she joins Social Carers, Reformers and Praeceptors (SCRAP, for short), a misguided organization that recruits women to becomes guides, philosophers, and friends to ex-convicts coming out of prison. (read review)
While defending a mind-numbingly dull theft charge, Rumpole finds that the new terrorist laws have hamstrung his beloved courts. Meanwhile, a Pakistani doctor has been imprisoned without charge or trial under suspicion of aiding al Qaeda in its plans for a terrorist attack. With the doctor’s wife begging him to help her husband, the Great Defender is determined to bring the case before a jury. (read review) |
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GHOSTWALK
from 2 reviews 
THE TERROR 
DEATH COMES FOR THE FAT MAN 
from 11 reviews 
QUEEN OF THE UNDERWORLD 
from 25 reviews 
BLACK FRIDAY: AND SELECTED STORIES 
from 2 reviews 
BETTER: A Surgeon's Notes on Perfomance 
from 7 reviews 
FEAR OF THE DARK 
THE DIVINERS 
from 18 reviews 
QUITE HONESTLY 
RUMPOLE AND THE REIGN OF TERROR 
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