New Books for August 2008
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Heiress Genoa Greeves was shocked as a teenager when her favorite teacher was murdered execution style: a crime that went unsolved. |
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi knows all about power and its effects. |
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Chelsea Hart's body is found in East River Park, her wavy blond hair hacked off. Detective Ellie Hatcher's prime suspects are the privileged men who were last seen partying with the college student. |
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Sports agent Myron Bolitar once had a promising career as an athlete until an accident forced him to the sidelines. |
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Freddoso explores the reality behind the rhetoric, the plans behind the promises, and the faults behind the facade. |
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The self-confessed liar narrator, Towner Whitney, comes from a long- line of women who can read the future in lace patterns. |
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Blake Johnson, dispatched by the president of the United States to report on the state of a still-troubled Kosovo, meets Major Harry Miller, who is doing the same for the British Prime Minister. |
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Captain Alatriste and his protege, Inigo Balboa, having just returned from battle, are tired, broke, and with few prospects of work. |
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As demons and once-men swarm the ravaged landscape of the former United States, a small band of elves and a ragtag group of human children and their protectors flees northward. |
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In 1985, Nelson Mandela earned his freedom from prison and after winning the presidency, set about to unite his country before it collapsed into chaos. |
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When impoverished poet Robert Wallis accepts a commission from eccentric coffee merchant Samuel Pinker to categorize the elusive tastes of coffee, he never imagines the assignment will completely alter his life. |
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GRAPHIC NOVEL. What price will Anita pay in order to save her friend's life and solve the Vampire Murders? |
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'New York Times' bestselling author Jerome Corsi analyzes the life and career of Barack Obama. |
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The human brain evolved to play and listen to music in six fundamental forms--for knowledge, friendship, ceremony, joy, comfort, and love. |
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The heist of the century has taken place in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, and Vicky Bliss' boyfriend, 'Sir John Smythe,' is a prime suspect. |
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Two years ago, Caitlin O'Riordan was found dead in the Badlands, a desolate urban area of broken lives, derailed dreams, and shattered hopes. |
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In his newest medical thriller about medical tourism, Cook features a plot blending the best of cutting-edge medical technology and the political storm encircling the medical field. |
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The narrator tells the story of how, through a dislocation in time, his son, Frank, a famous American rock and roll star of the 1970s, finds himself in 1897 Vienna. |
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Boston P.I. Carlotta Carlyle is now working on a case for herself. First she's trying to figure out what her fiance, Sam Gianelli, has done to earn himself a secret indictment for murder |
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Elizabeth Deravenel sits on the throne of the Deravenel business empire as its managing director. It's her task to steer the company clear of takeovers and intrigues, while rumors and betrayal swirl around her. |
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The sacred relic has always been guarded by an ancient religious brotherhood, with architect Antonio Gaudi being the most recent in that long line. |
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Jack McClure, an ATF agent, is still grieving the death of his daughter, Emma, which he blames himself for. Then he gets a call from an old friend, Edward Carson, who will soon be the next President of the United States. |
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Clara Marsh spends her solitary life among the dead, preparing their last baths and bidding them farewell. A neglected little girl, Trecie, playing in the funeral parlor, disrupts Clara's structured existence. |
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Desbois documents his task of identifying and examining all the sites where Jews were exterminated by Nazi mobile units in the Ukraine. |
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The young American woman is on a world tour with her famous musician husband, with whom she shares a fragile relationship. Following an argument, she gets off the train and flees to Venice. |
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The only thing that saved young Juan Martez from the hangman's noose following the Aztec uprising in 1810 was his skills with gunpowder. A Spanish gun maker buys the orphan to help make munitions. |
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Though Alison McKenzie is fine being a Plain Jane, her mother Anne believes that beauty is the key to success. |
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Through access to Gen. David H. Petraeus and soldiers on the ground in the Iraq war, West presents the first book to tell the story of the last phase of the Iraq war. |
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This work, which combines fiction and memoir, offers a meditation on parents and children and war and memory. |
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Following decades of a happy marriage to Cam, it had come to an end with his death. To console herself, Lilly decides to take a road trip to the Maine coast where she and Cam had met |
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Tommy Chong takes readers on a journey through the smoke-hazed days from the duos first meeting, to their split in the mid-1980s. |
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While allied with both the police department and the district attorney's office, Batman continues to bring justice and hope to Gotham City, with one man daring to mock his mission. |
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Michael Venturi is a former U.S. Marshall with the Witness Protection Program. However, he's also fighting guilt over two children who went missing in a town where he had relocated a protected hit man with a fondness for little girls. |
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The nameless narrator tells the story of an automobile accident in which he is horribly burned over 90 percent of his body and, in his eyes, looks like a monster. |
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When Ranjit Subramania works out an elegant proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, he's hailed as a genius. But fame also brings him to the attention of a shadowy United Nations outfit called Pax per Fidem. |
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It appears the case of a one-legged homeless man found shot will go unsolved. There are no witnesses and no weapon. Chief Inspector Espinosa doesn't give up easily, however. |
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At 50, Pippa Lee is the devoted wife of a man 30 years her senior. However, when her husband decides they need to move into a retirement village, Pippa rebels at the perceived changes it would mean to her life. |
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GRAPHIC NOVEL. The fifth volume of this full-color anthology features short stories by some of the hottest creators in the field. |
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There is little doubt that American culture is eroding, becoming artificial, polluted, and dangerous. Why are Americans so disillusioned? |
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It could be a career-making case for Detectives Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli when four bodies are found in the woods around Grizzly Falls, Mont. |
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Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov is a caring Russian policeman who has survived pogroms and politburos. Now, he's in Siberia investigating a murder at a diamond mine. |
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On his first mission to Mars, Jamie Waterman discovered proof that intelligent life had lived on the red planet 65 million years ago. |
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In 1875, Anna Eliza Young, Mormon prophet and leader Brigham Young's final wife, has separated from him and has been expelled from her church. She's now on a crusade to end polygamy. |
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With audacity, analytic brilliance and wit, Frank offers a jaw- dropping investigation of conservative misrule. |
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Three young people living in present day Seattle dream of a far-future decaying cityscape and can't remember anything about their own pasts. |
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Based on true events, and written in three entwined parts, Picardie delves into the life of Daphne du Maurier and her obsession with the Bronte's and the scandal that has haunted their estate. |
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The story of a mother and son who rent shares in their summer cottage leading to a summer neither of them will ever forget. |
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Sisters Ginny and Vivian have been estranged for more than 40 years but there's about to be a reunion. |
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A small band of very powerful men in industry and politics in the West are on a mission to find and destroy escaped terrorist leader Abu Qasim and his inner circle. |
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Retired baseball scout Jack Barrett thinks he's found his ticket back to the big time when he attends a minor league game with his daughter and spots Mikey Clement. |
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In a world of magic and revolution, secrets lurk under the rigid conventions of high society. |
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Theroux, a travel writer, returns to regions he visited three decades earlier, to discover how much these areas have changed. |
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Although she's a sleep-deprived mother of a newborn, nothing stops Arizona Sheriff Joanna Brady from doing her job. That's good because there's been a shooting and a tragic auto accident that need to be investigated further. |
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Roche Savage is a psychiatrist with an over-the-top sexuality that would frighten off any gentle, reserved woman, so he avoids them. |
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Gailyn Campano, caught in a violent, abusive marriage, knew what it was like to be a victim. Perhaps that feeling was what caused her to snap when she returned home one day to find an intruder holding her daughter hostage. |
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Eliza Blake had seen a lot during her career as a KEY News morning personality, but nothing could have prepared her for the kidnapping of her daughter Janie, seven. |
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Acheron Parthenopaeus, the god of final fate and the leader of the Dark-Hunters, answers to no one and no one questions him. No one, except a woman on a forbidden quest. |
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To regain his identity as David Webb, Jason Bourne accepts an invitation from his mentor, Dominic Specter, to join the linguistics department at Georgetown University. |
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Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, his new Padawan Asohka, and his Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, are on a mission to rescue the kidnapped son of Jabba the Hut. |
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The scene the detectives are presented with in the deserted artist's studio in Rome is that of two bodies lying in the shadow of a haunting Caravaggio masterpiece. |
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Thirty-five years after three teens drove into an unfamiliar District of Columbia neighborhood and six lives were altered forever, one survivor of that day reached out to another, opening a door that could lead to salvation. |
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Morris and McGann are back with a fresh list that will equally apall, just in time for the 2008 election. |
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In 1985, a member of the Forbes family bought a bottle of 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux for $156,000 at an auction at Christie's, said to have been owned by Thomas Jefferson. But rumors about the bottle soon arose. |
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Senator Robert McCrutchen and controversial author David Etheridge had shared a past that the senator wanted desperately to keep under wraps. |
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After fulfilling a dream of moving his family to Florence in 2000, Preston was appalled to discover that the olive grove his 14th-century home sat on was the scene of a double-murder. |
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