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(Last Updated: May 4, 2006 )
 

THE SECRET MEMOIRS OF JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS
by Ruth Francisco

Fictional memoir that lets us in on the private Jackie. A well imagined novel.

 

DANIEL ISN'T TALKING
by Marti Leimbach

Melanie Marsh is a transplanted American living in London with her British husband, Stephen, and their children when her son is diagnosed with autism.

 

CRIPPLE CREEK
by James Salli
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In spare, minimalist prose, James Sallis continues the story of John Turner, whom he introduced in his previous novel, Cypress Grove.

 

 

BEAUTIFUL LIES
by Lisa Unger

Ridley Jones life is turned upside down after she saves a toddler from being hit by a speeding truck and makes front page news.

 

THE RUINS OF CALIFORNIA
by Martha Sherrill

An insightful and enchanting coming of age story about Inez Ruin, a young girl growing up in Southern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. 

 

AFTERMATH
by Brian Shawver

Focuses on the aftermath of a vicious fight which leaves a prep school senior brain-damaged, mostly focusing on the restaurant manager who did not call the police and the mother of the damaged boy, who is not sure that her son didn't ask for it.

 

 

GENTLEMEN AND PLAYERS
by Joanne Harris

A riveting and stunningly complex novel of psychological suspense by the author of Chocolate.

 

THE RAINALDI QUARTET
by Paul Adam

In Cremona, Italy, a violin maker is murdered. When his devastated friends discover that the dead man was obsessed with finding an immensely valuable violin they decide to continue his quest.

 

THE TURQUOISE RING
by Grace Tiffany

A retelling of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice from the perspective of five unusual women.

 

 

FLORENCE OF ARABIA
by Christopher Buckley

Outraged by the execution of an Arab friend who had tried to escape her husband and seek asylum while in Washington, DC but was then forced home to her fate, Florence Farfaletti has a brainstorm. 

 

THE RABBIT FACTORY
by Marshall Karp

Introducing L.A. Detectives Mike Lomaz and Terry Biggs, the amusing cops in this multi-layered thriller.

 

WHERE THE TRUTH LIES
by Rupert Holmes

With its ironic and ambiguous title, this whodunit sets new standards for well developed, fast-paced writing, with complex mysteries within mysteries, and a setting which comes vibrantly alive both in time and place.

 

 

FAMILY AND OTHER ACCIDENTS
by Shari Goldhagen

Five years after their father dies of a heart attack, Jack and Connor Reed's mother dies of an aneurysm, and Jack, 25, returns to Cleveland to take care of 15-year-old Connor and to work in his late father's corporate law firm.

 

VODKA
by Boris Starling

From December 23, 1991, to May 9, 1992, the reader is taken on a wild roller coaster ride through a landscape reeling in the aftermath of the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the inception of privatization.

 

BLINDFOLD GAME
by Dana Stabenow

A terrorist bombing in Thailand, in October, 2004, is the prelude to this dramatic and exciting sea chase, as Coast Guard Lieutenant Commander Sara Lange finds herself engaged in much more dangerous activity than patrolling the Maritime Boundary Line between the US and Russia.

 

 

IF YOU COULD SEE ME NOW
by Michael Mewshaw

A compelling non-fiction story of adoption and its aftermath.

 

THE BEST LIGHT RECIPE
by Cook's Illustrated

Low-fat recipes that taste so good that you will choose to use them again and again.  After all, "a light recipe you make only once is not very helpful."

 

THE LAST CATO
by Matilde Asensi

After Dr. Ottavia Salina, a nun working as a paleographer at the Vatican, is asked to decipher tattoos on the dead body of an "enemy of the Church" from Ethiopia, she soon discovers the deceased was tied up with the Staurofilakes, an ancient order who have sought to protect the True Cross and now seem to be stealing slivers of it from around the world.

 

 

THE SECRET SUPPER
by Javier Sierra

Set in the late 15th century, this one revolves around a papal inquisitor's investigation into Leonardo da Vinci's alleged heresies and offers a new way of interpreting The Last Supper.

 

THE LAST TEMPLAR
by Raymond Khoury

The Knights Templar, a small monastic military order formed in the early 1100s to protect travelers to the Holy Land, eventually grew and became wealthy beyond imagination. In 1307, the French king, feeling jealous and greedy, killed off the Templars, and by 1311, the last master, Jacques de Molay, was burned at the stake. The whereabouts of the Templars' treasure--and their secrets--have been the subject of legend ever since.

 

NIGHTLIFE
by Thomas Perry

Police in several cities become convinced that a string of murders are related to one woman who may herself be a victim of the murderer.  But Detective Catherine Hobbes, the only woman involved in the investigation suspects that the blond hair at the crime scene is from the woman who committed the murder NOT a missing victim or potential witness.

 


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