New Books for August 2009
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As brothers turn against each other in the Civil War, two women sacrifice everything but their friendship. |
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Desperate to regain her husband's waning attention, Annette Good Davis decides a total makeover could do the trick. |
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Cross shares the astonishing details of one man's bold pursuit of justice in the face of racism and violence. |
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Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan finds that she's confined to a enclosed space with her hands and feet bound. |
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Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus are back again. Both were hopeful of being able to take it easy, but no such luck. |
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Hunter Lee, 35, a litigator, has had enough of the rat race. Sure, it made him rich, but it also cost him his marriage. |
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It was hoped that the completion of the road network of Honce would increase commerce. But, that has not happened. |
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Most of the U.S. has become an Islamic republic and time is running out for the remainder of the country. |
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A few months ago MacKayla had been living a quiet life. All that ended with the murder of her sister in a Dublin alley. |
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When the world was young, twins were born. One brought light to a dark world: the other--darkness and disgust. |
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Someone is after Alexander Rahl and he don't know who or why. |
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Katz ponders questions many dog owners have wondered about: Do animals have souls? Do they make moral choices? |
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This first book in a new series from Gregory brings readers the story of the Plantagents who live high and love passionately. |
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Luke and Ben Skywalker are in The Maw looking for clues to what caused Jacen Solo's downfall to the dark side. |
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In a small town on the Mexican border two brothers have been at odds with one another for far too long. |
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Mistaya 'Misty' Holiday has been sent to attend a prestigious girls' boarding school and is none too pleased with the idea. |
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When an Atlanta businessman is shot and killed, it appears to be a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. |
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Once thrown out of Moscow University for 'indulging his entrepreneurial spirit,' Alex Konevitch was now worth millions. |
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Leopold Bloom is the son of a high school science teacher father and a high-school principal mother. |
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Luisa is at work on her new novel, a suspense centering on the death of a child at an elite private day school. |
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This novel conveys the brutally repressive rules of Wahhabi Islam. |
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When Tim Blake's daughter, Sydney, 17, doesn't return home from her parttime job as a hotel clerk, Tim is alarmed. |
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A first-person account of life under the tyranny of a madman who claimed to be an avenger. |
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Undercover agent Gideon Yarbro has built quite a reputation for stopping outlaws in their tracks. Now, he must stop a wedding. |
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There's a cosmic battle raging between good and evil in the DC universe. |
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Verdita Ortiz-Santiago, 11, who lives in Puerto Rico, longs for change. |
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Harper Blaine was just your average small-time P.I. until she died for two minutes. |
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Gabrielle is a psychotherapist and she's been assigned the most notorious teen murderer in the country. |
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Once an archaeologist, Jonathan Marcus was now an attorney as the result of an accident at an illegal dig. |
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In this fictional memoir, Martin recreates the seamy theatre world of the 1970s in New York City. |
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Quentin Coldwater's life is suddenly changed when he's admitted to a secret, exclusive college of magic. |
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In the tomb of one of Yale University's oldest secret societies, the man in charge launches his own agenda. |
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Duane Moore has returned to Thalia, Texas, to recover from a near-fatal heart attack. |
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As Matt struggles to master the tango, a killer stalks the dance floor, leaving bodies in his wake. |
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Conrad and Joanna Harrison hope that a fresh start in a rural turn-of-the-century former birthing house will help. |
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Doc Sportello hasn't seen his ex-girlfriend in quite sometime. |
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On Oct. 13, 1307, King Philip IV sent his armies to arrest every Templar in France. |
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Miranda, daughter of the sorcerer Prospero, has eternal youth through the water of life. |
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It has been more than 30 years since New York City medical examiner Jack Stapleton's college graduation. |
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This is a hands-on guide to greening the workplace while maintaining the financial bottom line. |
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Rice takes readers to the sun-kissed isle of Capri where one of her most memorable characters travels to find the mother she longs for. |
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Doctors without Borders' Dr. Jonathan Ransom is now working in a hospital in the remote jungles of Laos. |
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Fang Kattalakis is the brother of two powerful members of the Omegrion: the ruling council that enforces the laws of the Were-Hunters. |
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Much has happened as a battle escalates between Jessica, and her daughter, Alia. |
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With the Obama administration now in the White House, Malkin takes a look at Obama's cabinet, who she describes as a rogue's gallery. |
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Murray tells the story of libraries and of the changing form and function from era to era. |
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Sisters Linny and Van, daughters of Vietnamese immigrants, are quite different. |
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Griffin had been happily married for 30 years with a lovely family and a great job. |
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Andy Carpenter, a dog lover, is representing a Bernese mountain dog puppy whose owner has been murdered. |
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Marine biologist Elizabeth McKay has spent nearly ten years cracking the code of humpback whale communication. |
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Raised in a house where ghosts dwell in mirrors, Meridia, 16, is desperate to escape. |
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Hartmann, host of 'Air America,' offers a wake-up call to western capitalist culture. |
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The hit 'NBC-TV' series takes the comic world by storm. |
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Wizard Raistlin Majere has traveled to Neraka where, ostensibly, he plans to work for Takhisis. |
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When two men decide to rob the stash house of one of Philadelphia's biggest drug lords, they don't count on getting caught. |
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Each of the stories focuses on two of the deadliest motives for crime: lust and greed. |
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Detective Regan Pescoli is stunned when the Star Crossed Killer she has been tracking for months captures her. |
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David Loogan is trying to lead an anonymous life in hopes of escaping a violent past he wants to forget. |
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KEY News morning TV personality Eliza Blake is excited when she and her crew are invited to a historic estate in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. |
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Eve and Alexandra's children must pick up where their mothers left off. In a family rife with secrets. |
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Jamie Waterman is named commander of a second Martian expedition and he must not fail, for there are still great secrets to be uncovered. |
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Turtledove, master of the alternative history novel, sets his sights on the days of World War II. |
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