New Books for March 2009
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Detective Rick Bentz thought he was hallucinating when he opened his eyes in a hospital room and saw his wife Jennifer standing in the doorway. |
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Milo used to be a tourist, an undercover agent with no home, no identity, who has since retired. |
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Following the destruction by fire of Glastonbury Abbey, who some believe to be King Arthur's sacred Isle of Avalon, two skeletons are found. |
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Jocelyn Minton is torn between two worlds. She grew up in an affluent home, but is now married to a common laborer. |
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More than 100 years after a runaway slave named Joanna traveled the Underground Railroad to Elm Creek Farm, Sylvia recovers letters written by Joanna. |
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Beautiful, elusive, and refined, Etta Place captivated the nation at the turn of the last century as she dodged the law with the Wild Bunch. |
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Having traipsed from France to the Holy Land and outwitted Napoleon, American expatriate Ethan Gage has seen enough danger for a lifetime. |
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Something is amiss in the Amish home of Grace Byler. |
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Ellie Avery is stressed to the max. |
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Leachman discusses her life and career on stage, screen, and in films, as a singer, dancer, and actress. |
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A life can be changed forever in a minute's time. That's what new lawyer Jessica Monaghan discovers. |
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Lingonberry Knudsen, called Berry, is a young divorcee and pizza parlor owner with an extraordinarily kind heart. |
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There's nothing fancy about New York P.I. Leonid McGill. He's just trying to keep a roof over the head of his family. |
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In Wideland, Okla., folks just trying to live their lives and take care of their families in the early 20th century. |
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Chico Santana is broke and brokenhearted after his wife Ramona leaves him. |
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Astrid Bell has known most of her roommates for years, but while they have a history together, each of them also has a past. |
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The Intersolar Commonwealth is in turmoil as the journey into the Void draws near. |
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Pressly recalls her journey from Kinston, N.C. to Hollywood. |
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It's 1864 and, once again, Inspector William Monk, now of the Thames River Police, must face a dangerous foe. |
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Encountering a series of savage murders, Celeste Temple, Cardinal Chang, and Dr. Abelard Svenson discover that their enemies are on the move. |
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In the mid-1980s, Gilman and her friend Chloe fantasized about being modern-day Kerouacs and traveling the country. |
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James R. Osgood, U.S. publisher for Charles Dickens, is rightfully concerned when word is received that the author has died. |
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Casey Marshall is quite content with her life. That is, until she's struck by a car. |
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A wild tour of a generation that, in the face of mainstream American conformity, became known for its determined uprootedness. |
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Reporter Tim Gaynor went into the underbelly of the border and to the heart of illegal immigration. |
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At the ends of the universe, Wonder Woman falls victim to the Black Horizon. |
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America's Founding Fathers deliberated from May 25 to Sept. 17, 1787, resulting in the forging of our constitution. |
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Talk show host Blue Reynolds' facade is blown when a secret she's been harboring for years is revealed. |
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When her husband dies suddenly in a car crash, Jo Mackenzie packs up her two boys and moves to her small seaside hometown. |
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MySpace is a six billion dollar company that has transformed popular culture and is the envy of media conglomerates world wide. |
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Eric Bear has put his troubled past behind him, or so he thought. |
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When the U.S. Secretary of State's plane crashes on the way to a summit meeting in Libya, the CIA hires Juan Cabrillo to search for her. |
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Drawing upon unparalleled resources, Coughlin traces the origins of an obscure cleric whose name has become linked with religious extremism. |
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When Melody Grace McCartney was six years old, she and her parents witnessed an act of violence so brutal that it changed their lives forever. |
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In an effort to break out of the confines of life as a woman, Rosa Barr travels to the Crimean battlefield. |
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Before there was Hilary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and Madeleine Albright, there was Frances Perkins, FDR's secretary of labor in 1933. |
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In 1990, two men dressed as policemen broke into the Isabella Steward Gardner Museum in Boston and walked out with a dozen masterpieces |
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Frank and April Wheeler had always lived on the assumption that greatness was just around the corner. |
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Ted Kennedy, like his brothers before him, is one of the most powerful men in American politics. |
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Using information from new interviews and newly available documents, Mann examines Ronald Reagan's role in the end of the Cold War. |
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A successful memoirist returns home to Baltimore to see if she can find a new angle for her next book. |
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While riding her horse in a race through the South Carolina Lowcountry, Theodosia Browning finds her arch nemesis dead. |
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As darkness falls each night, the corelings rise. They are demons who well up from the ground like hellish steam, taking on fearsome form and substance. |
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There is a battle going on for the hearts, minds, and souls of the people of the Middle East. |
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Dylan Creed was known as rodeo's bad boy. But, when the daughter he rarely saw was abandoned by her mother, Dylan had to head home |
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This book redefines the way America views success, retirement, and living a significant life. |
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Nuclear interdiction expert James Deutsch and his tormented Muslim wife, Nabila, struggle to stop an impending nuclear attack on an American city. |
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Alex and Ben have been distant brothers for years. The silence is broken when the inventor of a technology Alex has financially backed is murdered. |
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Before following his father into battle, he had been like any other Kurdish boy. |
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After returning from her successful hunt for the scrolls written by Mary Magdalene, journalist Maureen Pascal receives a mysterious package. |
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Freya Morris is summoned back to Gimli, a remote Icelandic-Canadian village where her grandmother is dying. |
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It all begins with a pretend curbside kidnapping but quickly goes terribly wrong. |
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Superman and the people of his home planet, Krypton, knew all about the cold callous alien named Brainiac. |
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From childhood, willful, intelligent Saira Qader broke the boundaries between her family's traditions and her desire for independence. |
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When Jacqueline Novogratz outgrew a favorite blue sweater and donated it, little did she know that she would see it again on a young boy...in Africa. |
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An array of essays offers a fresh look at contemporary families. |
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