New Books for September 2009
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Adam One, leader of the God's Gardeners, has long predicted the Waterless Flood. |
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Gabaldon continues the story of the eighteenth-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his twentieth-century time-traveling wife, Claire Randall. |
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Ellroy introduces a myriad of slick-talking characters that are either under cover, under surveillance or under pressure. |
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Geraldine had only planned on staying in Kenya for a year when she traveled there with her husband Peter. |
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When Isabel takes Charlie to a two-year-old's birthday party, she's reunited with Minty Auchterlonie, a woman from her past. |
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After Aaron Kruller finds his mother's body, two prime suspects are investigated by police: her estranged husband, Delray, and her longtime lover, Eddy Diehl. |
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Yancey has fallen in love with a sexy man who changes the direction of her life. It remains to be seen whether it's for the better. |
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Armstrong takes a look at what religion was like in the past and examines the trajectory of faith in modern times. |
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Glenn Beck knows what it's like to be stereotyped. What he wants readers to know is that, behind stereotypes are often untruths. |
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When the body of a stranger is found murdered in the village bistro, Inspector Gamache is called in to solve the case. |
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Few people paid attention to the man drifting in the waters off lower Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001. |
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Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and her friend and collaborator Lucy are at Appsworth Hall doing research for their next book. |
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To mark the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War, this graphic history is a reminder that we have yet to learn the hard lessons of war. |
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Some years after the war in Iraq and Afghanistan has ended, Los Angeles lays in radioactive ruin. |
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Kyrian of Thrace, ruler of the night, has just been handcuffed to his worst nightmare: accountant Amanda Deveraux. |
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Golway shares the 50 most important speeches of all time--their context, history, and meaning for our world. |
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Ivory, a rare Carpathian female, has been protected all her life by her brothers. |
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Kennedy's life story presented in his own words. |
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Harrier Gillain, Tiercel Rolfort, and Shaiara, the young leader of a desert tribe, are their world's main defense against evil. |
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Part travel story, part spiritual quest and part induction into feminine passages, this memoir told in two voices. |
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Robert Langdon is summoned to deliver a lecture in the U.S. Capitol Building. Within minutes of his arrival, the night takes a bizarre turn. |
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The past comes smashing back into attorney Jason Kolarich's life when a childhood friend is charged with murder |
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Troy Davis is the sheriff in Cedar Cove, Wash., where he's trying to understand why his intended bride, Faith Beckwith, ended their relationship. |
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Diamant's most powerful novel yet imagines the lives of four women in Atlit, a holding camp for 'illegal' immigrants in Israel in 1945. |
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Grace Byler, 21, is longing to find her mother, who left the family three weeks earlier and never returned. |
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Sikoryak parodies such classics as Camus's Stranger, and Wilde's Dorian Gray using comic book and comic strip art and style. |
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Captain Alatriste and his protege Inigo, are like fish out of water in 17th-century Madrid. |
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In 1923, Charlie Wallowingbull and a group of Arapahos from the Wind River Reservation were recruited to appear as extras in a silent film. |
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Veronica Miller, 17, was still angry with her father, who had divorced her mother and moved to North Carolina three years earlier. |
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Max is 15 when he has a near death experience, during which he has a vision that reveals the names of 12 unique individuals. |
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Rudi Mackenzie is in search of the source of the world-altering event that has come to be known as The Change. |
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Brothers and adversaries Gabriel and Michael have finally crossed over to all six realms of existence. |
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When a long-lost section of Krypton is resurrected on Earth, a culture clash results in violence. |
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In Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, there has been a tragedy in the house next door to Lindiwe Bishop. |
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The Fargo's are exploring the Great Pocomoke Swamp in Delaware when they stumble across a World War II German U-boat. |
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Tassie Keltjin, 20, daughter of a Midwest farmer, has come to a university town to attend classes. |
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Through the eyes of the infamous Collyer Brothers, readers are taken from the early part of the 20th century through the 1980s. |
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Bess Crawford was in England to relay the message of a dying soldier to his brother Jonathan. The message was: "Tell Jonathan that I lied." |
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Fela was brought from Africa to Puerto Rico in the 1800s to work as a seamstress at a sugar plantation. |
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Sisters Dahlia, Iris, Violet, and Rose have always shared a complicated relationship, even now that they are grown with children of their own. |
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Mark Darrow owed a lot to Lionel Farr, a professor at Caldwell, where Mark became an excellent student and, later, a superb trial lawyer. |
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In Rankin's first foray into the world of comics, he introduces readers to John Constantine, of 'Hellblazer' fame. |
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Serial killer Gretchen Lowell is still on the loose following Detective Archie Sheridan's last ploy to catch her. |
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Ned Talbot, a second generation bookmaker, is counting his losses after the Royal Ascot race. |
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Everybody loves a wedding: especially Myra, Annie, Kathryn, Alexis, Yoko, Nikki, and Isabelle--the women of the Sisterhood. |
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Gideon, an international assassin, is now one of the most feared and hunted hired guns in the world. |
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This is Koontz' story of the dog that changed his family forever. |
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This book shares the life and times of Baum and the tale of Oz as you've never heard it before. |
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