New Books for June 2008
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Vampire hunter Anita Blake finds herself at the center of a full-blown scandal when she tries to do a favor for Jason, her werewolf lover. |
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She was a porn queen with a goal. She wanted to set a new world record for consecutive sex acts on film, or die trying. It was no one's intention to make a snuff movie. |
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Kennedi Mason has wonderful news for her husband Blake. It's something he's always dreamed about and wanted. When Blake arrives home with an announcement of his own, she allows him to go first and is shocked into silence by what she hears. |
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How could it be that a quiet, single girl who rarely left her bedroom at the family's villa had been murdered? That's what Marshal Guarnaccia had to find out. |
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Fana Wolden, 17, is an immortal who can read minds. When her best friend, a mortal, is imprisoned by Fana's family, Fana helps her escape and together they run away to join the Underground Railroad. |
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Jason Harrow had worked hard to put his past behind him. Then one phone call from a woman with whom he'd once shared a life of violence and desire, brought the past back to haunt him. |
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Boone Daniels loves to surf. When he's not surfing, he works as a P.I. to keep himself in fish tacos and wet suits. Finding himself particularly strapped for cash one day he passes up the chance to ride some colossal waves in order to help a gorgeous, bossy lawyer. |
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Jeff W. Jackson and his wife Zee's year-round-home, the Vineyard, is beautiful, but also fraught with danger. It begins with a surprising phone call from a long-ago pal, Clay Stockton, who wants to visit. |
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While the land of Tencendor is gone, a few Sunsoars remain, and a new foe walks the world. |
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Edgar Sawtelle, a mute who speaks by signing, lives with his parents on a farm in Wisconsin where they raise and train a fictional breed of dog. The turmoil begins when Edgar's uncle, Claude, returns. |
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Award-winning journalist Bob Greene takes readers on an unforgettable American journey of music, memories, and universal longing that began in the 1990s and took him into the world of the great early rock bands, to ice cream stands and midnight diners. |
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Not all fairy godmothers are created equal. Take for instance Aleksia, the Ice Fairy and the queen of the Northern Lights. She's not the cuddly, soft kind of godmother, but the kind that has a way of making you realize what a bad idea it was to want what you wished for in the first place. |
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Bugliosi, prosecutor in the case against mass-murderer Charles Manson, offers a thought-provoking, well-researched, and clearly presented case outlining why George W. Bush should be put on trial for murder after leaving office. |
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This collection of true accounts from Preston takes readers into military laboratories, hospitals, and jungles around the world, allowing them to see things they never imagined. |
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Jack Branch has returned to Great Oaks, his father's Mississippi Delta estate, in order to teach a class on historical evil at the local high school. He's shocked to discover that his student, Eddie, is the son of the Coed Killer, a notorious local murderer. |
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NYPD sketch artist Nate Rodriguez is plagued by nightmarish visions. Trying to make sense of them, he turns to putting pencil to paper. What he discovers is that the visions he's drawing have an uncanny resemblance to inexplicable murder/suicides both past and present. |
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Could it be true? Could China actually have provided the spark that set the Renaissance ablaze? Menzies makes that argument and backs it with historical information. |
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In this re- examination of the 1963 Bay of Pigs face-off between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., Dobbs describes a wild ride that was shaped by improvisation, guesswork and blind luck. |
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Imriel and Sidonie have come forward to publicly confess their love for one another and to watch as the news ignites turmoil throughout the land. |
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Five weeks after burying the girl Colleen and Newell Cerak thought was their daughter following a horrific traffic accident involving four other Taylor University students, they learned that their daughter may actually have survived. |
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Humorist Richard Liebmann-Smith ponders the question: what if outlaws Frank and Jesse James were the ne'er-do-well younger brothers of psychologist William James and novelist Henry James? |
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GRAPHIC NOVEL. In this new adventure, Peter Parker (a.k.a. Spider Man) has put the past behind him and sets forth on a 'Brand New Day.' |
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Kopelman continues the story about the puppy he and his Marine comrades rescued in Iraq and talks about the lessons the dog has taught him about everyday life. |
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The Harvard-trained 37-year-old doctor was very aware of how the brain worked. But when a blood vessel exploded in her brain, causing her to lose her ability to walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life, she got to experience the process of healing from the patients' perspective. |
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Iglesias, one of eight U.S. Attorneys dismissed by the Department of Justice for 'performance related' reasons, tells the story from his vantage point. |
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Rodrigo Ramirez, the itinerant farm laborer, is an imposter. He's working undercover for the DEA, hoping to bust a cartel operating south of the border on Gloryanne Barnes' farm. |
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Nameless assured Mitchell Krochek that he would find his missing wife, Janice, a gambling addict. She had run away before and Mitch had always taken her back. |
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Rosie, a housekeeper for Ina Merriweather, suddenly finds herself and her daughter Abigail, 15, out on the street, when Ina abruptly casts her out. Abigail felt especially betrayed because she and Ina's daughter, Lila, were good friends. |
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Archaeologists Kathleen and W. Michael Gear spent 30 years researching the story behind this fascinating novel about the alternate story of the life of Jesus. |
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In this delightful memoir, Patricia and Walter Wells share their experiences -the good, the bad, and the funny- offering a charming and evocative account of their beloved home and some of the wonderful people they have met along the way. |
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Although their approach to justice is unusual, Annie, Alexis, Nikki, Isabelle, Kathryn, Yoko, and Myra, better known as The Sisterhood, have stuck together through everything, including living as fugitives. |
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Alexander the Great may have ruled the greatest empire of the ancient world, but his mother, Olympias, ruled him. Tarr weaves a fantasy about the priestess who became a Queen and mother to an empire. |
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Melanie Stryder's body has been taken over by a species that invades human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, but she refuses to fade away. Wanderer, the alien who now resides inside her body never expected Melanie to refuse to relinquish possession of her mind. |
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It's non-stop action, comic mayhem, hot sexual tension, plenty of junk food, exploding cars, pot roast with the Plum family, and a viewing at the Burg's premier funeral home. |
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Nickel Hunsenmeier, seven, was traveling to the seashore with her mother, her aunt, and cousin Leroy, who had recently lost his mother, and had retreated into himself.. As the day passed, Nickel tormented Leroy and the weight of family history between her mother and aunt rose to the surface. |
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The human remains were unearthed by a truffle-hunting dog and its owner. It was up to Chief Inspector Wexford to discover who the poor soul was and who secretly buried him/her in the secluded patch of English countryside. |
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After Sir Anthony Malory's daughter is kidnapped a ransom note is delivered to the wrong address, where Boyd Anderson opens it and decides to find the girl. |
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In a book written with no agenda other than to record his experiences and insight, McClellan shares his perspective on the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina, Washington bipartisanship, and offers a candid look at George W. Bush. |
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Oscar Cabral, an overweight, introvert who dreams of becoming the Dominican JRR Tolkien, and finding love, has not had an easy life thanks to a curse placed on the Cabral family generations ago as a result of Oscar's grandfather's refusal to turn over his daughter to Dominican dictator Trujillo. |
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Lutie McFee, 15, learned long ago to avoid attachments after the death of her mother and her father left her and her brother with Floy, his ex-girlfriend. There's not much to do in the god-forsaken town of Spearfish, S.D., so Lutie shoplifts for kicks. |
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Jana Matinova, a Czechoslovak policewoman, had watched helplessly as the regime destroyed her husband, their love for one another, and her daughter's respect for her. In spite of this, it never stopped her from being a seeker of justice. |
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Paul Alexander documents the real and unvarnished story of George W. Bush's former deputy chief of staff and chief political advisor. |
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Lincoln Rhyme and his partner Amelia Sachs, face their toughest perp yet: the mysterious '522,' who commits vicious crimes and then plants ironclad evidence that implicates innocent men, including Rhyme's own cousin, Arthur. |
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Times have been tough for Anne Dunne and her children since the death of her husband. That's why she hopes that a sailing vacation will bring everyone together again. Only one hour out of port, however, everything is going wrong. |
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Fleeing an abusive boyfriend in Australia, Cameron Paradise, 24, has found her way to LA and a job at a private fitness club with plans to eventually open her own. She is so determined that she has no time for romance. That is, until Ryan Lambert comes along. |
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The Soviet Union under Stalin purports to be a paradise for workers. Leo Demidov, a prominent officer in the state security force, has spent his career suppressing crimes of thought, dissent, and counterrevolution. Then the impossible happens: a serial killer is on the loose. |
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Readers are reintroduced to Juan Cabrillo, who they first met in 'Flood Tide,' when Dirk Pitt needed some help with an assignment. Juan is captain of a ship called the 'Oregon,' which is decked out with state- of-the-art intelligence-gathering equipment and can go where no warship can. |
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In a collection of essays, David Sedaris takes readers from one bizarre experience in his daily life to the next, evoking various emotions, but always laughter. |
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Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole, guns-for-hire, have arrived in the small town of Resolution where Hitch takes a job as a lookout at the Blackfoot Saloon and not only protects the ladies who work the back rooms, but stands up to an enforcer sent down from the O'Malley copper mine. |
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In 1943, with the war raging, Argentina is officially neutral, but home to every kind of spy, sympathizer and military official imaginable. Cletus Frade, a Marine pilot recruited by the OSS, has been asked to set up his own official-but-really-OSS airline in Argentina. |
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For seven days every seven years, madness descends on the small town of Hawkins Hollow. As the nightmare unfolds, three men bound by blood and three women bound by ancestry to a demon have pledged their souls and hearts to stop it. |
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Within hours of arriving in Despair, Colo., Jack Reacher begins to make the connection between the town and a war that's killing Americans thousands of miles away. Because of this, citizens not only want him gone, but dead. |
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Drawing from more than seven years of research, Rushdie brings readers a historical novel set in Renaissance Florence and the court of the Emperor of the great Mughal Empire. |
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This wickedly clever, bracingly funny novel postulates the reason for the mysterious 1988 plane crash that ended the life and dictatorship of Pakistan's General Zia. |
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Europe's global dominance came about largely due to the blunders of British statesmen like Winston Churchill, according to Buchanan. Written for the 70th anniversary of the Munich Agreement, he cites the decline and fall of the West through British and Churchillian blunders. |
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Harris continues the story begun in 'Chocolat' as Vianne Rocher and her daughter Anouk, now living in Paris, have assumed new identities. Calling herself Yanne Charbonneau, Vianne opens a chocolate shop, and lives a life of peace and anonymity. |
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Once upon a time Lexi Laney and Clare Hart had been best friends who shared adventures all over Nantucket Island, especially at their secret hideaway, Moon Shell Beach. At 19, Lexi eloped, leaving behind a broken friendship with Clare and lots of anger and resentment from others. |
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GRAPHIC NOVEL. Three of archaeologist Indiana Jones' most important discoveries are recounted in this volume. It includes the long out-of-print stories 'Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis,' 'Thunder in the Orient,' and 'Indiana Jones and the Arms of Gold.' |
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Author Terry Scarborough is a legal scholar who loves controversy. His latest offering, which claims that the U.S. Constitution and some writings of Thomas Jefferson support racial discrimination, stirs up more than controversy. It could be what gets him killed. |
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Liberal Fascism offers a startling new perspective on the theories and practices that define fascist politics. Replacing conveniently manufactured myths with surprising and enlightening research, Goldberg reminds us that the original fascists were really on the left. |
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There is nothing more important to Bella than her vampire boyfriend Edward Cullen. When she cuts her finger, she is surprised at the ravenous vampires that suddenly surround her. |
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Much has happened in Cannie Shapiro's life. Writing science fiction under a pen name, she and her husband, Peter, are raising her teenage daughter. Peter has decided he wants to have a baby, and the family's first choice for a surrogate is Cannie's flamboyant kid sister. |
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When it comes to killers, no one takes a back seat to a group called The Reapers. They're the best at their trade. Louis, a confidante of private detective Charlie Parker, is among that group. Unfortunately, now his past has come back to haunt him. |
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As part of the observance of what would have been Ian Fleming's 100th birthday, Sebastian Faulks brings James Bond lovers a new novel featuring the sexy secret agent and his latest adventures. |
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General Patrick McLanahan knows his 'Aerospace Battle Force' has many critics, including Russia, the United Nations, and the American press. When newly elected President Joseph Gardner directs Congress to cut off funding and to dismiss him, he's not surprised. |
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While it's elk season in the Rockies, it's obvious to Game Warden Joe Pickett that a different kind of hunter is on the prowl when the body of a hunter is found, strung up and gutted. The only clues are a spent cartridge and a poker chip found lying next to the body. |
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It began with a mysterious fire that killed her aunt, followed by a furor in the Western art world raised by a dozen family paintings, and culminated with a threat on Jill Breck's life that sent her to Zach Balfour for protection. |
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D.A. Monique Lamont, sends state investigator Win Garano to Watertown to 'come up with a drama' to help her public relations' campaign. Win suspects a deeper agenda. |
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In Los Angeles a handful of lost souls capture the attention of readers through James Frey in his first novel. |
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The almost 30-somethings Emmy, Leigh, and Adriana have been best friends since college and living in New York City, they have seen their share of career foils and romantic foibles. One night at dinner, the trio makes a pact that within a year, each will change the thing that most challenges her.. |
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On the event of their 35th wedding anniversary, Gwyn and Gabe Huntington decide to throw a party. To say that it will be memorable is an understatement because they've decided to divorce and want their friends and family to celebrate with them. |
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Brendan McCarthy was a mountain climber challenging himself when one misstep cost him his sight and nearly everything he held dear. Then a special dog named Nelson came into his life and pulled him out of the depths of depression and self-pity, showing him how to see what really mattered. |
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This illustrated time-line of history highlights the accomplishments of over 900 women throughout American history. |
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Covering spelling, capitalization, plurals, hyphens, abbreviations, and foreign phrases, Bryson's guide is an indispensable companion for all who care enough about our language not to maul, misuse, or distort it. |
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