New Books for July 2008
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Gabriel Allon is in Russia to learn more about the death of a journalist, but learns much about the spying game. |
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As Everly Lederer and KC Sites come of age in Cuba's Oriente Province, they witness the indulgences and betrayals of the grownups around them. |
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The world has changed. The mercantile kingdom of Charis has been victorious over their enemies who would exterminate them and the hostility of the church of God Awaiting. |
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In the last dark years of Franco's dictatorship, Minaya, a university student in Madrid, gets caught up in the student protests and must flee the police. |
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Colma, Calif., is the only city in America where the dead outnumber the living, for it's the site of the cemetery for the city of San Francisco, which holds many famous occupants. |
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No one questions the fact that dogs make great companions. What's often not recognized is the lessons one can learn from their dog. |
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Since his wife Angelina's death, Vinh Murphy has been unemployed, battling booze, blackouts, and living in shelters. His saving grace has been Hannah Whitfield, an old friend. |
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Sun Valley sheriff Walt Fleming is on a search-and-rescue mission for a friend in treacherous winter weather that uncovers a conspiracy involving the local veterinarian, a group of conservative survivalists, and some powerful politicians. |
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Riley Spartz is a clever, inquisitive TV reporter. In fact, she is perhaps too inquisitive for her own good. |
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In her most controversial novel to date, Oates tells the story of a murder through the eyes of the 19-year-old 'survivor' of a family torn apart by intense media scrutiny. |
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For hit man John Keller, his latest job involves flying to Des Moines, identifying and eliminating the target, and flying off again. He learned long ago to trust his instincts, and something about this job just doesn't feel right. |
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Sergeant Genis Aleu, a soldier in the foreign legion, has returned to Barcelona to fulfill his father's dying wish. Beneath Aleu's gruff and gritty appearance is Niso, the name he had as a young boy in an orphanage. |
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When prostitutes, runaways, and high-risk teens begin disappearing, it seems FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy, is the only one who notices. Perhaps that's the plan of the person responsible for their disappearances. |
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Five-term Florida Democrat Robert Wexler shares his insight into the workings of Congress which he refers to as a contact sport. |
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While on a ski weekend in the Swiss Alps, Dr. Jonathan Ransom and his wife Emma are caught in bad weather. When Emma falls and breaks her leg, Jonathan goes for help but returns to find her dead at the bottom of a crevasse. |
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Twenty-four hours after the mysterious death of a young man, there is no apparent motive, nor are there any clues or answers. One year later, singer-songwriter Sheridan Rosslare is still grieving. |
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Brady Bledsoe, a handsome, bright football player, is the lead contender for the Heisman trophy. It appears the dream he and his mother had for him to play in the NFL will become a reality. Unbeknownst to Brady, his mother has been harboring a secret. |
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Ovsanna Moore is a Hollywood siren, horror film legend, cut-throat producer, and a vampire. When those around her start dropping dead, she teams up with Peter King, a cop, to figure out why. |
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Cilla McGowan, a former child star, is a long way from Hollywood in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley and that's ok by her. A restorer of old houses, she's presently trying to rescue her grandmother's farmhouse from ruin. |
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This prequel to the 'Odd Thomas' novel follows fry cook Odd Thomas' race to solve the murder of a boy whose killer appears to be stalking a second child. |
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Chick Best is a middle-aged, self-absorbed, disaffected California dot.com millionaire whose most expensive possession is his trophy wife, Evelyn. He also has a drug-addled daughter, Melissa, 16, whose current boyfriend, Big Mac, is the leader of a biker gang and a drug dealer. |
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GRAPHIC NOVEL. One never knows what one will see on the streets of the Big Apple. Maybe it will be burning figures, or men in brightly colored costumes scaling glass and concrete walls, or creatures from space who are threatening to devour the world. |
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Bookstore owner and amateur sleuth Annie Darling and her P.I. husband, Max, are investigating the theft of a million-dollar coin collection. A few days later a woman leaves word for Max that she's hidden something in Franklin House, the antebellum home the Darlings are restoring. |
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In the early 1970s Corey Sifter, the son of working class parents, is befriended by the powerful Metarey family, whose patriarch is a kingmaker in the world of New York state politics. |
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Philmont Castle had it all: wealth, respect, and connections. Right up until the day he was murdered and his body was found on the grounds of a Harlem mansion. Writer Eddie Wesley, and his sweetheart, Aurelia Treene, get pulled into a 20-year search for answers. |
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Maxine Wiliams was a dedicated doctor with three great kids, a challenging career, and the perfect new man in her life. The fly in the ointment was Blake, her ex-husband, who wants her as a partner in a humanitarian project that could change countless lives. |
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Each of the three women came to the Maine summerhouse with a painful past they would like to rewrite. |
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The Dirty Girls are back, five years older and five times more fun, but sadly, not five times wiser. They each struggle with their life situations, hoping that all will come out just as it should in this story about friendship, sex, and love. |
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A group of scientists known as the Jasons has discovered a way to manipulate and enhance autistic children who show savant talents. Soon, strange side effects begin to emerge. |
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McMurtry writes about himself from his days as a bookless boy, to a fledgling writer and family man, to his present day success as one of America's most prominent 'bookmen' and of his lifelong passion for buying, selling, and collecting rare and antiquarian books. |
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He was 14 in 1927 when he hopped a boxcar in Texas headed for Hollywood to become an actor. She was 10 in 1947, as she dreamed of a real home with a real family, on a farm far from the streets of Los Angeles. |
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When Chloe's friend Gerard offers the loan of his villa in Spain for some much needed R&R, she accepts. There's just one problem. Gerard forgot that he'd also offered the use of the villa to Hugh, a workaholic, and his family. |
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Nobody reigns over the undead with more savvy than Betsy Taylor, Vampire Queen, and new suburban bride. All is not bliss in her marriage however. |
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When the Shadow Monarch rises up to seek an ancient power long forgotten, Konowa Swift Dragon, a disgraced elf officer of the Calahrian Imperial Army, is forced to return from exile to thwart the threat with the Iron Elves regiment. |
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In one parallel world an atomic war broke out in 1967. Crosstime Traffic has been given the assignment of finding out what on earth, or on the many earths, went wrong. |
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Looking back, P.I. Mac Reilly wishes he would have minded his own business! Little did he know what a mess he would get into when he came to the rescue of a distraught woman holding a gun in the doorway of a beach house. |
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The Queen of England has a plan. If she can place Lady Georgie in a playboy Prince's path, perhaps he'll finally marry. Unfortunately, queens never take money into account and Georgie has very little, which is why she moonlights as a maid-in-disguise. |
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The offer of money for renovations to the cash-strapped Our Lady of Hope monastery by the local diocese comes with strings attached. In return the monastery must house Sister Jo, a loud, boisterous, opinionated, inappropriate, impulsive, novice nun. |
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Hannah Bryson, a marine architect, is thrilled when she's assigned to create a schematic of a Russian nuclear submarine which has been purchased by the United States for display in a museum. |
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What was supposed to be a rescue mission turned into a life and death situation for FBI agents Savich and Sherlock. Flying to the aid of Agent Jack Royce and his passenger, Washington psychiatrist Timothy MacLean they soon realize it was no accident. |
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Criminal defense attorney C.J. Dunn is an expert at spinning her clients' image in the media. That's what makes her the perfect lawyer to deflect police interest in Rick Slater, head of security for a U.S. Congressman from Miami. |
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Going home-to-home to evacuate people from an encroaching brush fire in the Los Angeles' hills, police and fire department personnel find a days-old corpse in one of the homes. Clutched in his lap is a photo album containing pictures of seven women taken only moments after they were killed. |
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Sarah Armstrong, a single mother, and one of the few female Texas Rangers in history, has had to work hard to get where she is. She must work long hours to capture a killer who loves to pose the bodies of his victims in grotesque ways. |
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How does one cope when one's home, livelihood, and loved ones are at risk? That's something Nigel Cowper, Simon Beaumont, Flora Fielding, and Joel Strickland are faced with in the last days of the glittering 80s when boom turns to bust. |
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Attorney Trish Maguire has some tough decisions to make, both professionally and personally. She can't understand why her boss would accept a case defending the corrupt WorldWaste Management Company. |
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Navy SEAL turned covert Homeland Security operative, Scot Harvath is called into action in the war on terror, where the stakes are higher than they have ever been before. |
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Detective Dave Robicheaux is out of his element this time as the story finds him in the wilds of Montana where Clete Purcel has to confront ghosts from his past. |
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There's no one Drea won't double-cross, including her lover, a crime lord. After she flees with a suitcase full of money, he sends an assassin to dispose of her. After a brief death, Drea returns to life determined to bring down the ones who marked her for death. |
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Tucker Sinclair and Eugene, a Dick Tracy wannabe, have been hired to help make a chocolate shop flourish. Then one night, Tucker discovers the shop open, truffles strewn across the floor, and the body of a cleaning lady lying next to a bloody green feather. |
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When a private detective working in Wilmington, N.C., is found dead, poisoning is suspected. Upon further examination at a pathologist's office, her body sets off radiation alarms, leading authorities to believe it's somehow connected to a supposedly heavily-guarded nuclear power plant nearby. |
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The narrator of this unforgettable journey is Enzo, a dog, a philosopher with a nearly human soul. His owner is up-and-coming race car driver Denny Swift, who has taught Enzo much about the human condition and the racing world. |
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GRAPHIC NOVEL. The Mighty Avengers are assembled and they're the greatest team ever, but their gathering is reason for many unanswered questions like: who picked them and why? |
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While handsome, charismatic Paddy de Courcy is the toast of Irish politics in Dublin, within his chest beats the heart of a rat. Just ask Lola, Grace, Marnie, or Alicia, four of the many women he's charmed and then left behind. |
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Throughout his presidency, George W. Bush has politicized sex. Now, U.S. Congresswoman DeGette weighs in on the absurdity of that. |
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Months earlier, Tim Wallace's wife had died in a boating accident and police suspected that Tim killed her, although they had no evidence. On New Year's Eve, while sitting in a neighborhood bar, a drunken stranger asked Tim if he could keep a secret. |
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Ehrenreich takes a look at the cruelest decade in memory in which those with wealth could buy congressmen, while the working class could barely buy lunch, and the wealthy had cosmetic surgery, while the poor went without health care for their children. |
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P.I. Sarah Booth Delaney packs up her business and heads to Hollywood where she hopes to realize her dream of stardom on the big screen. She aces the screen test and lands the role opposite Graf Mileau, a former lover. Sara's dream come true has a price. |
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