New Books for February 2009
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Archer re-imagines the life of George Mallory, the brilliant Bloomsbury hanger-on who famously said that he wanted to climb Mt. Everest 'because it is there.' |
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Restless and disaffected, Jonas Tallent, Lucifer Cynster's brother-in- law, happily leaves the ballrooms of London and returns to Devon to manage his family's estate. |
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Not all expectant parents are fortunate enough to be blessed with a healthy baby. |
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Lori loves her English village of Finch, but she's wishing for something exciting to spice up her routine. |
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Johnson, brings readers the parable of a young man who lives unhappily in a valley until he meets an old man who lives on a peak |
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Lilith is born into slavery, and even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they and she will come to both revere and fear. |
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This book is a darkly comic debut thriller introducing David Spandau, a Hollywood private eye |
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As a witch and bounty hunter, Rachel has taken her fair share of hits and crossed the line as well. |
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Chief Medical Examiner Morris and Officer Coltraine had started a serious relationship, and from all accounts the two were headed for a happy future together until her murder. |
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Things are getting strange in Paradise, Massachusetts. |
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A young, rising senator claims it was a hunting accident. The illegal Mexican's sister-in-law claims it was murder. |
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Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot is given an apparent suicide case, but she can't understand why such a successful and well-liked man would take his own life. |
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Gooch brings to life O'Connor's significant friendships with Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Hardwick, and James Dickey among others. |
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Delphine Toussaint is a philanthropist whose passion is for world peace. A chance meeting brings her together with Cratus, and the two develop a striking bond. |
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Sheriff Dan Rhodes suspects an ulterior motive when he is asked to join the Clearview Barbershop Chorus. |
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Ignoring the dire warnings of a local Eskimo group, scientists unearth a mythical creature. |
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Dr. Clara Casey has been offered the thankless job of establishing a underfunded clinic and agrees to take it on for a year. |
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Coco fled the legendary Barrington name and family for a quieter life in Southern California. |
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Trying to slim down to fit into a dress she plans to wear to her mother's novel launch party, Hannah Swensen heads to the Heavenly Bodies health club. |
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A mysterious message on the Internet invites English-speaking humans to take part on an inter-planet trip. |
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Trevor Paglen is a scholar in geography, an artist, and a provocateur. His research into areas that officially'don't exist' leads him on a globe-trotting adventure. |
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Lord Greyson Sheffield accused Francesca Walcott of being a fraud, driving her into exile in the Scottish Highlands. |
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Molly learns that her sister Robin has suffered a massive heart attack. At the hospital, the Snow family receives a grim prognosis. |
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Inside Alaska's biggest national park, a gold mining company has started buying up land. |
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Written as a third-person narrative, Tom Verducci offers a behind-the- scenes look at the Yankees organization from top to bottom. |
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Bernie, the one with the booze on his breath, is a human being. His partner Chet, and the narrator of the book, is a dog. |
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Kyle attends the funerals of his father's old friends simply to make him feel closer to the father he didn't know. |
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Veteran journalist Jay Morgan hears rumors that a mysterious bearded foreigner, preaching Holy War, has appeared in Kosovo. |
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Pocket, an orphan raised by nuns and now jester and trusted confidant of the king, father to three beautiful, smart, and occasionally dangerous daughters. |
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Elizabethan beauty Anne Whateley reveals intimate details of her dangerous, daring life and her great love, William Shakespeare. |
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The summer of 1978, Vicki, ten, disappears, transforming the face of her tight-knit neighborhood. |
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The human mind is a strange and imperfect thing. We stick with hunches when we shouldn't; our stories change when we retell them. |
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Born to an art dealer and his pianist wife, Max Berenzon is forbidden from entering the family's business. |
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The Magical Loerber Brothers had a popular cabaret act in the old Weimar days. |
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Doriel's longing for his parents and their secrets haunt him, leaving him unable to experience the most basic joys in life. |
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While Bruce Wayne drops out of sight, The Club of Villains begins a crime spree through the streets of Gotham City |
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Charlie Hood patrols vast stretches of the new American West, not on horseback, but in his cruiser. The outlaws may not carry six-shooters, but they're strapped all the same. |
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Mick Prentice abandons his family to join the strikebreakers in the 1984 national miners' strike and is labeled a scab. A young woman reports him missing 23 years later. |
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District Attorney Alex Cooper finds a woman assaulted in a Manhattan Upper East apartment. The woman won't talk, than another woman is found dead in the same apartment |
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Frank Lloyd Wright's triumphs and defeats were always tied to the women he loved. |
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Our reluctant serial killer launches his own cyber-service. |
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The responsibility of saving the family business from ruin falls on the shoulders of 33-year-old Valentine Roncalli. |
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Dr. Thea Sperelakis, diagnosed as a teen with Asperger's syndrome, left the states to work with the poor, embattled patients of Doctors Without Borders. |
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The JLA has discovered that several members of the 31st century super-team The Legion of Super-Heroes are in the present. |
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These vignettes present a stunning array of possible worlds awaiting us after death. |
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By day, Mercy Thompson is a car mechanic in Eastern Washington. By night, she explores her preternatural side. |
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Following the success of his recent collections, Ray Bradbury has once again pulled together a stellar group of stories sure to delight readers of all ages. |
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Part-time student Chloe is busy planning her friend's wedding, working for her parents, and helping boyfriend chef with a TV competition. |
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When Kate and Stuart Kinzler buy a run-down, historic house in Ann Arbor, Mich., they're looking for a decent remodeling investment |
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Security Advisors are unelected, unconfirmed by Congress, and unaccountable to anyone but the president they serve. |
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A calculating killer who calls himself The Teacher is killing New York City's powerful and arrogant people. |
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The Sisters have barely caught their breath from their last mission when Charles and Myra disappear in the dead of night. |
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Russian writer Alexander Kurbsky has gotten fed up with the Putin government, and decides he wants to disappear into the West. |
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After spending 12 years in India, the Duke of Dovedale returns to his family estate in England to avenge the murder of his mentor during the 1803 battle of Assaye. |
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After a boating tragedy ends her fairy-tale romance with Adan, Delia discovers that she is carrying his child. |
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In the nineteenth century, Dr. Victor Frankenstein brought his notorious creation to life, but a horrible turn of events forced him to abandon it and slip away from the public eye. |
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The Civil War was far from over at the beginning of 1864. Lincoln was facing a re-election battle while some Northern democrats were ready to talk peace with the Confederacy. |
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It is a world of apparitions, of disappearances and unnatural phenomena, of betrayal and blackmail and black-hearted villains, and murder. |
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A young female intelligence officer is thrust into a drama with stakes of global importance whose origins date back to World War II. |
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A human secret agent and her hired kzin companion infiltrate a planet newly occupied by the kzin, and discover that humans were on the planet before. |
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Maxine Taylor and her daughter Drew are poised and ready to interview the celebrities coming up the red carpet. |
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After 200 years, the Crusades are over. Leaving the Christian empire in the East in ruins, Will and the survivors return to the West. |
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An epic debut novel of doctors and patients, temptation and redemption, home and exile |
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The Grey sisters have always been close, and their mother's death brings them closer. |
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Who is Mrs. Fantastic? And how will her return into Reed's life rock comicdom's First Family? |
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First-person essays describe the moment in a relationship when you know it isn't going to work. |
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Leo Runcible is a brilliant, civic-minded liberal Jew living in the rural WASP town of Marin County, Calif. |
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The book delves into the stories of four great thinkers who all personally struggled with democracy--Plato, Alexis de Tocqueville, Leo Strauss, and Hannah Arendt. |
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