New Books for June 2009
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Syd, a beautiful supermodel on a photo shoot in Hawaii, disappears. Fearing the worst, her parents travel to Hawaii to investigate |
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Teresa 'Toots' Amelia Loudenberry has crammed a lot of living and eight husbands into a rewarding life. |
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Complications rise, loyalties are tested, cliffhangers are resolved, and donuts are eaten, as Ranger goes undercover. |
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Navy SEAL turned covert Homeland Security operative Scot Harvath is called to action once again. |
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Generations ago the greatest magician of them all broke a sacred oath, nearly destroying his people's magic. |
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Jodi Picoult takes Wonder Woman on a collision course with her long-missing people, the Amazons. |
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Titusville Sheriff Ethan Merriweather pulls out all the stops to find a missing little girl in the northeastern Virginia wilderness. |
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Following the disappearance of a young wife and mother from the suburbs, the cops soon arrest her husband. |
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Lady Rebecca Marshall's mother is happy when Rebecca becomes a maid of honor at the court of Queen Victoria. |
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Joe and the entire Pickett family are shaken when Jason Kiner tells them that a young woman called and left a message. |
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Retired banker Paul Sturgis, a bachelor, lives alone in his London flat. |
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What happens when evil wins? That's the question Superman, Batman, and The Justice League must face. |
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After receiving a grisly souvenir in the mail from a vampire serial killer in Las Vegas, Anita Blake must warn authorities there what they're dealing with. |
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Lacy Gallatin, the youngest of the Gallatin sisters, is a woman with a mission: to find her father's killer. |
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Ashley J. Williams is transported to the world of Zena and Gabrielle. Autolycus bears more than a passing resemblance to Ash. |
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Just as there is a forensic lab for solving suspicious human deaths, there is also one dedicated to wildlife. |
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Being forced out of his job as a newspaperman for the 'Los Angeles Times,' Jack McEvoy decides to go out with a bang. |
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Bestselling novelist Cullen 'Cubby' Greenwich leads an idyllic life. |
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The mysterious Arkadin is still on Jason Bourne's trail. |
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It began innocently enough with a blog posted by a troubled teenager about a tragic car crash. |
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Dresden uses his powers to help the Chicago police investigate cases beyond their comprehension. |
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After a plane lands at JFK Airport and then suddenly goes dark, Dr. Eph Goodweather eventually goes in to investigate. |
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As a teenager, Gracie worshipped her stepbrother, Jason. When her mother passed away, he assured her that she would be cared for. |
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Cam Richter, yearning for a more peaceful life than that of a detective, purchases a 700-acre plantation in North Carolina. |
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Tolkien’s extensive retelling in English narrative verse of the epic Norse tales of Sigurd the Völsung and The Fall of the Niflungs. |
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A Sister's work is never done, especially when there are wrongs to right and underdogs to defend. |
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In Antarctica, as a journalist begins her report, a massive, shimmering sphere of light suddenly appears in the sky. |
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Hope Dunne, a top photographer, has known the joys of marriage and motherhood and the heartbreak of loss. |
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Sisters May and Pearl live in Shanghai, China in the mid-1930s--a time of glamour and wealth for their city. |
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Every family has a hidden story--even the perfect ones like Seattle D.A. James McClouds's. |
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In this memoir, Huston explores family secrets, family bonds, and shares how she found her balance on the shifting sands of conflicting loyalties. |
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In this collection of moving short stories, Updike revisits the haunts of his childhood from the vantage point of old age. |
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