New Books for December 2008
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When the major Chicago daily Sophie works for demands that she write an expose on her roguish father, she quits, going to work at a small local newspaper. |
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Lucky Tyler attracted trouble and women like a lightning rod. But the night he stepped in to rescue a mysterious redhead in a seedy bar, he got more than he bargained for! |
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Jack Swyteck doesn't talk about his family; especially about the fact his dad was once governor of Florida. Whenever dad, Harry, needs help, Jack is ready. |
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Ann Rule brings her understanding of the sociopath to this riveting true-crime collection. |
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All clues to the recent rash of murders point to the Church of the Everlasting Sin and its leader, the Reverend Adam Deacon Samuel. |
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Brought to Rhode Island from her native Ireland to nurse ailing millionaire Sean O'Riley, Caer Donahue is living a life few can imagine. |
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When Kay Scarpetta examines an injured patient on a psychiatric prison ward, the story he has to tell is the most bizarre she has ever heard. |
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NUMA director Dirk Pitt has reason to believe there's a connection between a potential breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming and a series of unexplained deaths. |
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Before Nina opened her one-woman law practice in South Lake Tahoe, she was living with her young son and working as a paralegal at a law firm while attending law school at night. |
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The Despair has plagued the earth for five years. Most of the world's population has died by its own hand, and the few survivors struggle to remain alive. |
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It's 1961 and Las Vegas is the place to be. Eddie Gianelli, pit boss at the Sands Casino, considers the Rat Pack his friends. |
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In 1946, an alien virus that rewrites human DNA was accidentally unleashed in the skies over New York City. It killed 90 percent of those it infected. |
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Gunslinger Roland Deschain has seen the death of his lover Susan Delgado. And the Big Coffin Hunters who burned her at the stake are now in pursuit. |
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Sarah Palin is making history as the first woman ever to serve on a Republican presidential ticket. |
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Ali's contractor's faithless wife is slaughtered in her own front yard, and no one is surprised the cops declare her husband, Bryan, their prime suspect. |
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A collection of five fairy tales about the world of wizarding that reveal moral lessons and commentary by Professor Dumbledore. |
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As young girls, sisters Selene and Thea escaped from slavery with the help of a mysterious assassin named Kadar. |
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When Boston's revolutionary leader, Samuel Bradstreet, dies suddenly on the day Jameson is to paint his portrait, Bradstreet's slaves are accused of murder. |
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Tavi of Calderon, now recognized as Princeps Gaius Octavian and heir to the crown, has achieved a fragile alliance with Alera's oldest foes, the savage Canim. |
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Leather, looks, and luck--put them all together, they spell Longshot! The non-mutant X-Man's first trip to Earth is reprinted here in its entirety. |
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In the year 2060, sophisticated investigative tools can help catch a killer, but there are some questions even the most advanced technologies cannot answer. |
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Theo Griepenkerl, a Canadian linguistics scholar with little to lose, is sent to Iraq in search of artifacts that have survived the destruction of the war. |
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Interstellar antiquities dealer Alex Benedict gets a cryptic message from celebrated writer Vicki Greene. She has no memory of her past life. |
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It was the summer of her Chevette, of J.P. and letting her hair grow. It was also the summer when popular high school student Kim Larsen disappeared. |
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The goal is to bring about a shift in consciousness, or in Tolle's words, an awakening. |
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Lewis guides us through five of the most violent and costly upheavals in recent financial history. |
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From one of the most frequently visited restaurants in Savannah, The Lady and Sons, comes this collection of down-home Southern family favorites. |
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Understanding photosynthesis is not only the key to the earth's history, it is also vital to confronting the current climate crisis. |
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The chieftains of Sevenwaters have long been custodians of a vast and mysterious forest. Human and Otherworld dwellers have existed there side by side, sharing a wary trust. |
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Honoring those who improve our gene pool by inadvertently removing themselves from it, this book shows how uncommon common sense still is. |
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In the North Atlantic west of Ireland, the destinies of two ships fuse. |
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David Ottaway has chronicled the 'special relationship' between the United States and Saudi Arabia over the course of more than three decades at the 'Washington Post.' |
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