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Bad Blood

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 3:46:18 PST

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The Mistress of Spices

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 7:16:42 PST

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Magical, tantalizing, and sensual, "The Mistress of Spices is the story of Tilo, a young woman born in another time, in a faraway place, who is trained in the ancient art of spices and ordained as a mistress charged with special powers. Once fully initiated in a rite of fire, the now immortal Tilo--in the gnarled and arthritic body of an old woman--travels through time to Oakland, California, whe ...

Heaven's Keep

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 7:13:57 PST

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Book Description When a charter plane carrying Cork O'Connor's wife, Jo, goes missing in a snowstorm over the Wyoming Rockies, Cork must accept the terrible truth that his wife is gone forever. But is she? In Heaven's Keep, celebrated author William Kent Krueger puts his intrepid hero through the most harrowing mission of his life. Months after the tragedy, two women show up on Cork's ...

The Irresistible Henry House

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 7:13:37 PST

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It is the middle of the twentieth century, and in a home economics program at a prominent university, real babies are being used to teach mothering skills ...

The Devil's Star

Sun, 7 Nov 2010 3:55:22 PST

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Alcoholic detective Harry Hole has two missions: catch a serial killer obsessed with thenumber five, who cuts a finger off each victim and adorns her with a ...

The Language of Baklava

Sun, 7 Nov 2010 3:43:52 PST

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Diana Abu-Jaber’s vibrant, humorous memoir weaves together stories of being raised by a food-obsessed Jordanian father with tales of Lake Ontario shish kabob cookouts and goat stew feasts under Bedouin tents in the desert. These sensuously evoked repasts, complete with recipes, in turn illuminate the two cultures of Diana's childhood–American and Jordanian–while helping to paint a loving and comp ...

Indulgence In Death

Sun, 7 Nov 2010 3:43:37 PST

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Came a Cavalier

Sun, 7 Nov 2010 3:43:05 PST

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New Tricks

Sun, 7 Nov 2010 3:42:47 PST

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Andy Carpenter gains possession of an adorable Bernese puppy whose owner was brutally murdered. Few can rival Andy's affection for dogs, and he will do ...

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

Sun, 7 Nov 2010 3:41:41 PST

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The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse. On the eve of her ninth birthday, ...

Nemesis

Sun, 7 Nov 2010 3:41:15 PST

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Captured on closed-circuit television: A man walks into an Oslo bank, puts a gun to a cashier's head, and tells her to count to twenty-five.

Waiting for Normal

Sun, 7 Nov 2010 3:40:33 PST

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Leslie Connor has created an inspiring novel about one girl's giant spirit. waitingfor normal is a heartwarming gem.

White Crosses

Sun, 7 Nov 2010 3:40:09 PST

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Larry Watson's previous fiction evoking contemporary Western small-town life has won him awards, a dedicated readership, and unqualified critical praise. Now he has written a novel that envelops the rich emotional terrain of his beloved Montana in a mystery that is both unexpected and unforgettable.After a nighttime accident at the bottom of Sprull Hill in Bentrock, Sheriff Jack Nevelsen is compe ...

In Harm's Way

Sat, 9 Oct 2010 5:05:48 PST

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Forever Rose

Sat, 9 Oct 2010 5:05:04 PST

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A Bad Day for Pretty

Sat, 9 Oct 2010 4:42:03 PST

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This is the thrilling sequel to Littlefield's debut, the IMBA and "San Francisco Chronicle" bestseller "A Bad Day for Sorry.

Isle of Palms

Tue, 5 Oct 2010 1:57:47 PST

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Anna Lutz Abbot considers herself independent and happy, until one steamy summer when she must find a way to deal with the secrets of her unpredictable family-and her past.

The Kitchen House

Tue, 5 Oct 2010 1:56:28 PST

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Orphaned while onboard a ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia arrives on the steps of a tobacco plantation where she is to live and work with the slaves of the kitchen house. Under the care of Belle, the master's illegitimate daughter, Lavinia becomes deeply bonded to her adopted family, though she is set apart from them by her white skin. </p><p>Eventually, Lavinia is accepted ...

Bliss, Remembered

Tue, 5 Oct 2010 1:56:16 PST

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At the 1936 Berlin Olympics the beautiful Sydney Stringfellow begins an intense loveaffair with a German but the affair abruptly ends when political forces ...

Reality Check

Tue, 5 Oct 2010 1:55:58 PST

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The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 3:07:53 PST

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When Kenny Watson’s brother, Byron, gets to be too much trouble, the Watson family heads south to Birmingham to visit Grandma, the one person who can shape him up. And they happen to be in Birmingham when Grandma’s church is bombed.

Between Sisters

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 3:03:07 PST

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Hannah returns to a minor character, Meghann from "Distant Shores," and explores her life in-depth as Meghann and her sister, Claire, confront the past in order ...

The Redbreast

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 3:02:40 PST

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Detective Harry Hole embarrassed the force, and for his sins he's been reassigned to mundane surveillance tasks. But while monitoring neo-Nazi activities in Oslo, Hole is inadvertently drawn into a mystery with deep roots in Norway's dark past—when members of the nation's government willingly collaborated with Nazi Germany. More than sixty years later, this black mark won't wash away, and disgra ...

Between Friends

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 3:02:18 PST

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A provocative new novel about birth, death, and the stuff in between, from theaward-winning author of Catching Genius.

Never Let Me Go

Tue, 7 Sep 2010 6:15:22 PST

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Girl in translation

Sat, 4 Sep 2010 3:55:19 PST

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Into the Beautiful North

Sat, 4 Sep 2010 3:55:08 PST

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Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US when she was young. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only man who has left town. In fact, there are almost no men in the village - they've all gone north. While watching The Magnificent Seven, Nayeli decides to go north herself and recruit seven men - her own ' ...

Arctic Chill

Fri, 3 Sep 2010 6:35:32 PST

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On an icy January day the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The discovery of a stab wound in his stomach extinguishes any hope that this was a tragic accident. Erlendur and his team embark on their investigation with little to go on but the news that the boy's Thai ...

Bud, Not Buddy

Fri, 3 Sep 2010 6:35:16 PST

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It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him: 1. He has his own suitcase filled with his own important, secret things. 2. He's the author of Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself. 3. His momma never told him who his father was, bu ...

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 3:19:54 PST

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Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. "As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddled against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around. We were about to ...

Mockingjay

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 3:19:26 PST

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The Hunger Games, Vol. 3 Can Katniss Everdeen win the final fight against the Capitol? Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what's worse, President Snow has made it clear tha ...

Red Knife

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 6:39:29 PST

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The newest book in William Kent Krueger's award-winning Corcoran O'Connor series finds the charismatic private investigator caught in the middle of a racial gang war that's turning picturesque Tamarack County, Minnesota, into a bloody battlefield. When the daughter of a powerful businessman dies as a result of her meth addiction, her father, strong-willed and brutal Buck Reinhardt, vows revenge ...

Still Missing

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 6:37:49 PST

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The Blackberry Tea Club

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 5:56:55 PST

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Mid-life crisis is not a crisisit is a passage into joy. This was the essential truth discovered by the four women of a certain age, founding members of the Blackberry Tea Club, which began as late-night conversations while sipping blackberry tea with a little kick added. Those conversations about children, men, jobs, weight, clothes, food, travel, gossip, politics, medicine, healing, spirituali ...

This is Water

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 5:54:56 PST

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How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. After his death, it became a treasured piece of writing reprinted in The Wall Street Journal and the London Times, commented o ...

The Forgotten Garden

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 5:53:48 PST

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Kate Morton's second novel is a rich and satisfying mystery set in England andAustralia of a woman's search for her identity.

Dangerously Funny

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 5:22:06 PST

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"Dangerously Funny" presents a rollicking history of the rise and fall of the wildly influential '60s TV show, and it's lasting influence on the cultural ...

The good times are all gone now

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 4:44:24 PST

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A soul-searching memoir of growing up in a company town

The Mapping of Love and Death

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 4:43:27 PST

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In the latest mystery in the "New York Times" bestselling series, Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death--an investigation that leads her to a long-hidden affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse. August 1914. Michael Clifton is mapping the land he has just purchased in California's beautiful Santa Ynez Valley, certain that oil lies beneath its surface. But ...

Before I Fall

Thu, 5 Aug 2010 3:26:23 PST

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Mennonite in a Little Black Dress

Thu, 5 Aug 2010 3:26:01 PST

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Salmon River Country

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 0:29:57 PST

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Award-winning photographer Mark Lisk and writer Stephen Stuebner team up to present a colorful view of Salmon River Country and some of the hardy people who ...

The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:50:25 PST

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The Carnegie Medal and Whitbread Book of the Year-winning author of the His DarkMaterials trilogy presents a controversial reassessment of the life of Jesus ...

Daughters of the Witching Hill

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:49:59 PST

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A tale inspired by the Pendle witch hunt of 1612 finds the granddaughter of a folkhealer targeted by an ambitious local magistrate who plays neighbors and ...

The Girl She Used to Be

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:46:40 PST

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Cristofano artfully explores the meaning of identity and home, heroes and villains, inthis story of a woman who loses herself, then finds herself again in the ...

Paper Daughter

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 4:24:41 PST

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Imbued with a love for journalism by a father who is subsequently killed, Maggie Chen interns at a Seattle newspaper and vows to clear her father's name of ...

Bringing Jon Home

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 4:17:48 PST

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Bringing Jon Home: The Wilderness Search for Jon Francis is my first hand account of the long and complex wilderness search for our son Jon, and the story of Jon's remarkable life, sudden disappearance, and inspiring legacy. On Saturday morning, July 15, 2006, Jon Francis, climbed to the summit of the Grand Mogul, in the Sawtooth Mountain Range of Central Idaho. He never returned. Law enforcement ...

Blood Game

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 4:17:13 PST

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Eve Duncan returns in this thriller that pits her against the most evil mind she has ever encountered--a ruthless killer who taunts her with his every move and ...

Bad Girl Creek

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 4:12:14 PST

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The author of Hank & Cloe returns with a moving story of four wounded women who healtheir hearts by opening a flower farm together, where they rediscover the ...

The Lonely Polygamist

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 1:22:54 PST

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Golden Richards, husband to four wives, father to twenty-eight children, is having the mother of all midlife crises. His construction business is failing, his family has grown into an overpopulated mini-dukedom beset with insurrection and rivalry, and he is done in with grief: due to the accidental death of a daughter and the stillbirth of a son, he has come to doubt the capacity of his own heart ...

Sh*t My Dad Says

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 1:06:26 PST

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After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, the 29-year-old author moves in with his73-year-old dad, whose straightforward, expletive-laden advice and ...

Revere Beach Boulevard

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 0:50:54 PST

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The Kids Are All Right

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 0:30:53 PST

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The kids are not only all right; they're back together.

Welcome to Harmony

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 0:26:42 PST

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Sizzling Sixteen

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 0:24:46 PST

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Trenton, New Jersey, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has inherited a lucky” bottle from her Uncle Pip. Problem is, Uncle Pip didn’t specify if the bottle brought good luck or bad luck. . . . BAD LUCK: Vinnie, of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds, has run up a gambling debt of $786,000 with mobster Bobby Sunflower and is being held until the cash can be produced. Nobody else will pay to get Vinnie back, le ...

State by State

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 0:24:17 PST

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Editors Sean Wilsey and Matt Weiland have turned to 50 of the finest, funniest, and foremost writers in America to create a state by state celebration of their country: Jonathan Franzen on New York, Louise Erdrich on North Dakota, Dave Eggers on Illinois, Ann Patchett on Tennessee, Jhumpa Lahiri on Rhode Island - the list goes on. At turns poignant and hysterical, and uniformly insightful, these ...

On Folly Beach

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 0:21:34 PST

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The Summer Book

Sun, 4 Jul 2010 5:39:33 PST

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Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Sun, 4 Jul 2010 5:38:55 PST

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One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two teens—both named Will Grayson—are about to cross paths. As their worlds collide and intertwine, the Will Graysons find their lives going in new and unexpected directions, building toward romantic turns-of-heart and the epic production of history’s most fabulous high school musical. Hilarious, poignant, and deeply insightful, John Green and ...

Every Last One

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 8:03:06 PST

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An everyday suburban family is shattered by the unanticipated consequences of seemingly casual decisions, in a latest work by the Pulitzer-winning author of the ...

Change Your Brain, Change Your Body

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 8:01:17 PST

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Counsels readers on how to tap the potential of the mind-body connection to improve overall health, outlining 18 strategies for such areas as improving ...

The Fixer Upper

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 8:00:36 PST

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Anthropology of an American Girl

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 8:00:23 PST

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Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2010: Eveline Auerbach, the heroine of Anthropology of an American Girl, observes at one point that "pain becomes its own story." That may be the best way to begin talking about Hilary Thayer Hamann's arresting and provocative coming-of-age novel, set against the twilight years of Eveline's adolescence and the dawn of the 1980s--a decade made all the more infa ...

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 7:59:54 PST

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The Dash of Dr. Todd

Thu, 3 Jun 2010 6:21:02 PST

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The Fifth Generation

Thu, 3 Jun 2010 6:20:22 PST

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The Woman Next Door

Thu, 3 Jun 2010 6:13:56 PST

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Includes a discussion with Barbara Delinsky and an excerpt from her superb new novel, "The Summer I Dared".

Hannah's List

Wed, 2 Jun 2010 5:51:46 PST

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On the anniversary of his wife's death, Dr. Michael Everett receives a letter inwhich she, making one last request, implores him to marry again and asks him to ...

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

Wed, 2 Jun 2010 5:51:25 PST

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Amazon Best Books of the Month, March 2010: In her witty and wise debut novel, newcomer Helen Simonson introduces the unforgettable character of the widower Major Ernest Pettigrew. The Major epitomizes the Englishman with the "stiff upper lip," who clings to traditional values and has tried (in vain) to pass these along to his yuppie son, Roger. The story centers around Pettigrew's fight to keep ...

Breakfast with Buddha

Wed, 2 Jun 2010 5:50:41 PST

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The Red Pyramid

Wed, 2 Jun 2010 5:50:24 PST

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Brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane unites his children, Sadie and Carter, for a"research experiment" at the British Museum, hoping to set things right for ...

Does My Head Look Big In This?

Wed, 2 Jun 2010 5:50:02 PST

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Sixteen-year-old Amal makes the decision to start wearing the hijab full- time and everyone has a reaction. Her parents, her teachers, her friends, people on the street. But she stands by her decision to embrace her faith and all that it is, even if it does make her a little different from everyone else. Can she handle the taunts of "nappy head," the prejudice of her classmates, and still attr ...

The 9th Judgment

Mon, 17 May 2010 0:06:27 PST

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A young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their car in the garage of a shopping mall. There are no witnesses, ...

Talk, talk, sweet Charlotte

Tue, 4 May 2010 3:26:56 PST

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Thunder Bay

Mon, 3 May 2010 22:19:31 PST

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This question takes Cork on a journey through time as he unravels the story of Meloux"s 1920s adventure in the ore-rich wilderness of Canada, where his...

Selling Your Father's Bones

Mon, 3 May 2010 22:14:33 PST

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An award-winning travel writer follows the 1,700-mile path of the Nez Perce tribe's 1877 flight from the U.S. Army, Western lands that today bear the scars ...

A Murderous Procession

Mon, 3 May 2010 22:13:33 PST

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Adelia is back in this thrilling fourth installment of the Mistress of the Art of Death series. In 1176, King Henry II sends his daughter Joanna to Palermo ...

Dairy Queen

Mon, 3 May 2010 22:10:21 PST

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When you don’t talk, there’s a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said. Harsh words indeed, from Brian Nelson of all people. But, D.J. can’t help admitting, maybe he’s right. When you don’t talk, there’s a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said. Stuff like why her best friend, Amber, isn’t so friendly anymore. Or why her little brother, Curtis, never opens his mouth. Why her mom has ...

The Big Burn

Mon, 3 May 2010 22:04:53 PST

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In THE WORST HARD TIME, Timothy Egan put the environmental disaster of the Dust Bowl at the center of a rich history, told through characters he brought to ...

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Sat, 24 Apr 2010 7:32:24 PST

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Dr. Alfred Jones is a henpecked, slightly pompous middle-aged scientist at the National Centre for Fisheries Excellence in London when he is approached by a mysterious sheikh about an outlandish plan to introduce the sport of salmon fishing into the Yemen. Dr. Jones refuses, but the project, however scientifically absurd, catches the eye of British politicians, who pressure him to work on it. His ...

Born to Rock

Sat, 24 Apr 2010 7:27:53 PST

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Leo Caraway - president of the Young Republicans club, 4.0 GPA, future Harvard student - had his entire future perfectly planned out. That was, until the X factor. As in Marion X. McMurphy, aka King Maggot, the lead singer of Purge, the most popular, most destructive band punk rock has ever seen. As in Leo's biological father. At first, Leo is horrified to find out his real father is punk rock' ...

Caught

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 8:54:29 PST

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense comes a fast-paced, emotion-packed novel about guilt, grief and our capacity to forgive ...

The Missing

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 8:54:08 PST

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The Missing is the story of a man fighting to redeem himself, of parents coping with horrific loss with only a whisper of hope to sustain them, of others for ...

This Book is Overdue!

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 8:53:05 PST

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Buried in info? Cross-eyed over technology? From the bottom of a pile of paper and discs, books, e-books, and scattered thumb drives come a cry of hope: Make way for the librarians! They want to help. They're not selling a thing. And librarians know best hot to beat a path through the googolplex sources of information available to us, writes Marilyn Johnson, whose previous book, The Dead Beat, br ...

The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 2:36:20 PST

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From Dagger Award–winning and internationally bestselling author Alan Bradley comes this utterly beguiling mystery starring one of fiction’s most remarkable sleuths: Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders. This time, Flavia finds herself untangling two deaths—separated by time but linked by the unlikeliest of threads. ...

An Echo in the Bone

Tue, 6 Apr 2010 2:46:20 PST

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In the wake of a devastating fire in the mountains of North Carolina, Highlander Jamie Fraser and his English wife find themselves homeless and without family, in the midst of the gathering storm of revolution. And thanks to his time-travelling wife's information, he knows what the coming spring of 1778 will bring. But then Jamie's illegitimate son, William, arrives in North Carolina, a young off ...

Secrets of Eden

Tue, 6 Apr 2010 2:44:51 PST

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Heather survived a childhood that culminated in her own parents' murder-suicide, soshe identifies deeply with Alice’s daughter, Katie, offering herself as a ...

Copper River

Tue, 6 Apr 2010 2:44:37 PST

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Two-time Anthony Award-winning author William Kent Krueger has "moved to the head of the crime fiction class" (Chicago Sun-Times) with his gripping series featuring Sheriff Cork O'Connor. In Copper River, Cork is running for his life -- and straight into a murderous conspiracy involving teenage runaways.Desperately avoiding the clutches of professional hit men who have already put a bullet in his ...

Tinkers

Tue, 6 Apr 2010 2:44:25 PST

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Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. An old man lies dying. Confined to bed in his living room, he sees the walls around him begin to collapse, the windows come loose from their sashes, and the ceiling plaster fall off in great chunks, showering him with a lifetime of debris: newspaper clippings, old photographs, wool jackets, rusty tools, and the mangled brass works of antique clocks. ...

Making Toast

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:23:47 PST

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When his daughter, Amy - a gifted doctor, mother, and wife - collapsed and died from an asymptomatic heart condition, Roger Rosenblatt and his wife, Ginny, left their home on the South Shore of Long Island to move in with their son-in-law, Harris, and their three young grandchildren, six-year-old Jessica, four-year-old Sammy, and one year-old James, known as Bubbies. Long past the years of nappie ...

Starvation Lake

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:52:51 PST

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"A Touchstone book."

The Girl Who Chased The Moon

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:52:30 PST

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In her latest enchanting novel, New York Times bestselling author Sarah Addison Allen invites you to a quirky little Southern town with more magic than a full Carolina moon. Here two very different women discover how to find their place in the world—no matter how out of place they feel. Emily Benedict came to Mullaby, North Carolina, hoping to solve at least some of the riddles surrounding he ...

Day After Night

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:49:27 PST

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"What did you think ? " said Leonie. "People will be people in Eretz Yisrael, too. Just because we're in Palestine doesn't mean it's any different. ...

Hell Gate

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 7:24:30 PST

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Head of the Sex Crimes Unit of the district attorney's office in Manhattan for decades, Linda Fairstein is America's most visible legal expert on sexual ...

Roses

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 8:33:40 PST

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Spanning the 20th century, the story of Roses takes place in a small East Texas town against the backdrop of the powerful timber and cotton industries, ...

The Piano Teacher

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 8:32:56 PST

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Rough Country

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 8:31:35 PST

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It's a joy to announce that John Sandford is still doing everything right," wrote the Cleveland Plain Dealer about the second adventure of Minnesota Bureau ...