New Books for January 2009
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The shaken men and women of Troubleshooters Inc. go up against the clandestine and mysterious organization called The Agency. |
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Kyle McAvoy grew up in his father’s small-town law office in York, Pennsylvania. He excelled in college and his future has limitless potential. |
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Aldridge James (AJ) Richardson is living the good life. He has a gorgeous town house in always-flavorful New Orleans and an MBA, but he's never had to work. |
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The inspiring story of a band of brothers who survives devastating hunger and disease only to face the rain and mud of the treacherous French battlefield. |
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Scientists use the phrase 'human factors in survival.' Translation: Why do some people live and others die? |
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In a fit of diva jealousy, Xiao Yanqiu, star of Moon Opera, disfigures her understudy with boiling water. |
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Just when it seemed life was spinning out of control, Giovanni rediscovered love, the antidote. |
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Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is looking forward to celerating his wedding anniversary at the remote Manoir Bellechasse. |
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Ifill surveys the American political landscape, shedding new light on the impact of Barack Obama's stunning presidential campaign. |
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Rogak shows us a man who, despite his dark and disturbing work, has become an American icon. |
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Alicia is accustomed to a lavish lifestyle and Phillip's small church salary doesn't begin to cover their expenses. |
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Natalie Landau, a museum curator with an expertise in Mesopotamian protective amulets and magical beliefs, has received a puzzling gift from her sister Dana |
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Drawing on interviews began in 1997 with the sons and daughters of slaves, Butler reveals how African Americans emerged from slavery with a deep commitment to the future. |
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Lola Cruz loves shoes, kung fu, and her job as an underling at Camacho and Associates, a private investigation firm in Sacramento. |
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A lawyer calls Dek Elstrom with a fast, $400 deal. A dead client has named Dek to execute her will. |
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The Battle of Britain was the most intense and pivotal struggle of World War II, fought by a handful of young men, some as young as 17. |
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This book is based on unparalleled access to figures within the Bush administration. |
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A brutally-wronged girl, mistakenly presumed dead. |
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Luther Malone, lifelong member of the secretive paranormal organization known as the Arcane Society, meets Grace Renquist. |
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Living in London while his wife serves as a military attache at the American Embassy, recently retired Santa Fe Police Chief Kevin Kerney gets a phone call that changes everything. |
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n the northern California town of Coventry, two teenage brothers go into the woods, but only one comes back. |
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Jack and Melissa finally adopt a baby of their own. An unexpected problem develops when the teenage father lays claim to his child. |
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The first disturbing reports reached Delta Force Lieutenant Colonel Charley Castillo in the form of backchannel messages: covert U.S. intelligence assets suddenly gone missing. |
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Lovable everyman Lew Fonesca, the Man Who Makes Things Work in Sarasota, is once again faced with cases that try his patience and test his sanity. |
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Jane promised her husband she would never work again, and settled in to live a happy, quiet life as the wife of a surgeon in Amherst, N.Y. |
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Skoval and the other ancient gods are under siege from a new generation of gods who are challenging them for the powers of creation. |
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Set in Hong Kong during the outbreak of World War II, and its aftermath ten years later, the story alternates between the lives of two vastly different women. |
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Lundin explains the four challenges to innovation that are found in every business and organization. |
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Truley and his sister, Courtney, are transplanted Mississippians who have made their fortunes in California, but they're due for a change. |
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President Will Lee is having a rough week. |
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A disgraced Scully is forced to resign from the LAPD, his wife is divorcing him, and his son won't talk to him. |
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Florida pet sitter Dixie Hemingway feels she has a new friend in Laura Halston. Disarmingly beautiful, Laura confesses she is in hiding from an abusive husband. |
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Teenage Joon is a Korean immigrant living in the Bronx of the 1980s. Her father has left the family and mental illness has rendered her mother nearly catatonic. |
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When FDR took his oath of office in March 1933, more than 10,000 banks had gone under following the Crash of 1929, a quarter of American workers were unemployed. |
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Ariane Emory PR is the genetic clone of one of the greatest scientists humanity has ever produced. She continues to search for the murderer of her progenitor |
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College senior Natalie Bloom is beautiful and ambitious, but also incredibly insecure and painfully uncomfortable with the subject of sex, let alone the act. |
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American adventuress Jade del Cameron has returned home to British East Africa to help the Perkins and Daley Zoological Company collect wild animals for zoos in the States. |
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Great armies are on the march, and a cunning new leader, Smoke Shield, has risen. |
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Stephanie Plum is back in town, along with her sidekick Lula, her Grandma Mazur, and an ever-widening cast of freaks, criminals, deranged felons, and lunatics looking for love. |
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Nick Jameson was not the right guy for Tess Newhart. He was caviar and champagne and she was Chinese takeout. |
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Beneath the Caribbean sea, a salvage diver hears a voice calling him from the wreckage of a 19th-century ship. |
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Shared nightmares, visions of blood and fire, and random violence plague longtime friends Gage, Fox, and Caleb, and the women bound to them by fate. |
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Burke's father figure, known as 'the Prof,' is in a coma in an off-the- books hospital. Pryce, a shadow-man with government connections, offers help and a new beginning |
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You can achieve enlightenment through practical, uplifting, and deeply relevant views of the Dalai Lama. |
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After a car accident puts Shauna in a coma and wipes out six months of her memory, she returns to her childhood home to recover, but her arrival is fraught with confusion. |
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Luciano, a street orphan who survives by his wits, is taken into the kitchen of the doge's palace to be the chef's apprentice. |
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A frantic e-mail for help from a long-ago lover shakes attorney Damon Pierce out of a complacent existence. |
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Ann Coulter presents a completely original, controversial, and always entertaining look at liberalism and the current state of the culture. |
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When Hugh Hefner quit his job at 'Esquire' to start a magazine called 'Playboy', he didn't just want to make money. He wanted to make dreams come true. |
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When Luke Skywalker and his comrades are lured to Mindor to face Lord Shadowspawn's Black Stormtroopers, they don't realize that the entire battle is a trap meant for them |
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The Middle East is the beginning and the end of U.S. foreign policy: events there influence our alliances, make or break presidencies, govern oil prices, and draw us into war. |
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The purported daughter of the future Queen Elizabeth I and her married guardian, Thomas Seymour, Elinor de Lacy was to be killed at birth, but a stealthy midwife secreted her away. |
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'Change We Can Believe In' outlines Barack Obama's vision for America as the 44th President of the United States. |
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McCullough's gripping sequel to Jane Austen's 'Pride & Prejudice' takes Austen's classic characters out of the confines of the drawing room. |
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Set in Centreville, VA., the author's hometown, the novel opens with Grayson Donald, 17, who has just hanged himself from a basketball hoop next to a playground. |
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Delia has matured into a beautiful girl and very popular in her senior year. |
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A social commentary, comedy, memoir, and practical, info-packed journey into beauty treatments including plastic surgery |
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Israel is seriously under attack from political, academic, religious, and military enemies, who are making vociferous threats against its continued existence. |
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