New Books for May 2009
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Forensic anthropologist David Hunter comes to Knoxville's legendary 'Body Farm' to escape the violence that nearly destroyed his life. |
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Finally, all the questions are answered about the hero, while he saves the universe in the process. |
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Cassandra, Lady Paget, has been banished, is destitute, and labeled a murderess. |
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Although the circumstances of Molly Marx's death are suspicious, she's newly arrived in the hereafter. |
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Following a horrific battle with Brainiac, Superman learns that the shrunken, bottled city of Kandor survived. |
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Abu Sharif's account of the inner workings of Arafat's regime, the PLO, and Fatah. |
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After witnessing a suicide on a Manhattan subway, Jack Reacher knows there's more to the story than what he saw. |
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While the Republican Convention will bring excitement to Minneapolis, police know it will attract people they would rather not have in their midst. |
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Zyiang tells about the the shenanigans, the mini-coups, and the entrenched prejudices of members of China's politburo. |
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King shares his life story, from his humble beginnings in Depression-era Brooklyn, to the present. |
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Inmate Jay Foley is a celebrity in prison. He's the most low-key bank robber in America and Cundo Rey says he's the only white guy he can talk to. |
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Johnny, 13, once had a happy family. Then his twin sister, Alyssa, went missing. Now his family was shattered. |
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The relationship between Thomas Flynn and his son Chris is finally moving in a positive direction following Chris' stint in a juvenile prison. |
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Jack Taylor ignores the letter that arrives in the mail with the names of a killer's victims on it. He has enough to do just staying sane. |
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Except for Sookie Stackhouse, folks in Bon Temps, La., know little about vamps--and nothing about weres: until now. |
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Leon Courtney gets pulled into the spy business just prior to the outbreak of World War I. |
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Following the brutal attack of a reporter and his wife, eyewitnesses point the finger at a neighbor who had died two weeks before. |
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This book contains author Robert Littell's magnificent account of poet Osip Mandelstam's most famous work. |
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Lex Luther, Superman's arch-enemy, is up to no good. |
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Something is happening in the usually sleepy backwater port town on the island of Malaz. |
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With John Connor as the voice of resistance, the remnants of humanity find themselves united against their enemy. |
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One year after Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch put things right in Resolution, all Virgil has on his mind is Allie French. |
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The exchange student had arrived from his totalitarian homeland to be welcomed by a Simpson-spinoff Midwestern host family. |
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Lydia Goetz, owner of A Good Yarn knitting shop in Seattle knows, like knitting, life is about beginnings and endings. |
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Not many years ago, Bryan James was a minor league baseball star on his way to the big leagues with a beautiful family. Then his wife was killed in a crash. |
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Lowe, known for her profiles of business leaders, turns her eye on one of the most important companies of the 21st century. |
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Readers are introduced to the author who transformed the particulars of his own life and the lives of his fellow Colombians into wondrous fiction. |
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In Caldwell, N.Y., there's a war raging between vampires and their slayers. |
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As a child, Libby Day witnessed the murder of her mother and two older sisters by her brother, Ben. |
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Mei, the first successful private detective in Beijing, faces her toughest challenge yet. |
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Carville is back with another rousing call-to-arms for the Democrats as they gear up to take back the White House. |
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Levy chronicles the life of this well-respected actor, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and family man. |
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