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Kathleen George
Pittsburgh homicide detective, Richard Christie, faces two mysterious murders during a hot and humid summer.
Antony and Cleopatra
Colleen McCullough
The author of The Thorn Birds turns to the immortal story of two star-crossed lovers.
Beginner’s Greek
James Collins
A comedy of manners featuring a love-at-first-sight meeting between Peter and Holly.
Blasphemy
Douglas Preston
The world’s biggest supercollider probes what happened at the very moment of creation — what is discovered must be hidden from the world at all costs.
Bleeding Kansas
Sara Paretsky
Two Kansas families are linked by their pioneer pasts, but are threatened by the dark family secrets that may tear them apart.
Blood Dreams
Kay Hooper
A psychopath who seems to have stepped out of a living nightmare confronts Bishop and his FBI Special Crimes Unit.
The Crazy School
Cornelia Read
The bizarre underside of an elite private school is revealed in a mystery featuring ex-debutante Madeline Dare.
Day
A.L. Kennedy
Five years after World War II, Alfie Day, RAF airman and former POW, revisits those years by working as an extra on a POW film.
Diablerie
Walter Mosley
Ben Dibbuk enjoys an uneventful life until he is accused by an unknown woman as being a stalker and then finds that his wife is having him investigated.
Diary of a Bad Year
J. M Coetzee
The Nobel Prize winning author returns with the writings of Señor C. who has been asked to write his thoughts on the state of the world.
The Elephanta Suite
Paul Theroux
Three novellas tell the stories of Westerners transformed by their sojourns in India.
Harriet and Isabella
Patricia O’Brien
Harriet, the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Isabella, a prominent suffragist, are the sisters of Henry Ward Beecher who become bitterly divided during his trial for adultery in 1875.
The Hearts of Horses
Molly Gloss
A heartwarming story of a determined young woman with a gift for “gentling” wild horses.
Hide and Seek
Fern Michaels
The women of the Sisterhood are now fugitives with a price on their heads.
The House of Lanyon
Valerie Anand
A bitter feud between two families in fifteenth century England has extended ramifications.
Last Call
James Grippando
Criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck learns that the sins of the past never die, especially in Miami.
Maynard & Jennica
Rudolph Delson
A highly original tale of romance and narrative fancy.
Night Train to Lisbon
Pascal Mercier
Raimund Gregorius teaches classical languages at a Swiss lycée, but a chance encounter with an enigmatic Portuguese woman changes his life. A European bestseller.
The Painter of Battles
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Andres Faulques, a famous war photographer, has retired on the coast of Spain, when the man featured in a long-ago photograph appears with the intention of killing him.
People of the Book
Geraldine Brooks
An intellectual adventure recounts the dramatic stories surrounding an ancient manuscript that originated in 15th century Seville, Spain.
The Senator’s Wife
Sue Miller
The author of While I Was Gone returns with the story of two women and a portrait of two marriages.
Shadow Music
Julie Garwood
Love, murder, adventure and mystery are found in medieval Scotland.
Signed Mata Hari
Yannick Murphy
Margaretha Zelle, better known as Mata Hari, tells the story of her past life during her time in a Parisian prison.
Souls of Angels
Thomas Eidson
Isadora Lugo, who has been serving as Sister Ria in India, returns to the Los Angeles of the 1880’s when she learns that her father has been convicted of murder.
There’s No Place Like Here
Cecelia Ahern
Sandy Shortt is obsessed with finding lost things, including finding people who have vanished from their loved ones.
The Venetian Betrayal
Steve Berry
Cotton Malone, former U.S. Justice Department agent and now a rare-book dealer, is drawn into an intense geopolitical chess game over the quest for the grave of Alexander the Great.
The Worst Thing I’ve Done
Ursula Hegi
Three friends are caught in tumultuous relationships when Annie decides to raise her infant sister when her parents are killed on her wedding day.
Zugzwang
Ronan Bennett
Zugzwang is a term in chess used to describe the position in which a player is reduced to utter helplessness — describing the position of the Dr. Spethmann in this literary thriller.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
December New Fiction
The Abduction
Mark Gimenez
The kidnapping of his ten-year-old granddaughter Gracie, brings Ben Brice, a veteran drowning his memories of Vietnam with alcohol, back from the New Mexico wilderness to help save her, but dark family secrets could threaten the child's survival.
Teaching human sexuality from a perspective that information and pleasure are top priorities, divorced mom Ruth Ramsey butts heads with the local soccer coach, a divorced former addict who became an evangelical Christian after hitting rock bottom.
Having set aside her own life in her support of her parents, husband, and children, Helen Knightly confronts the realities of the choices that were imposed upon her during a harrowing twenty-four-hour period of death and revelation.
At the behest of his sister, Otto Ringling finds himself reluctantly accompanying her guru, an enigmatic Mongolian monk, on a trip through Middle America to their childhood home, introducing his passenger to some American "fun" along the way.
A descendant of royalty and one of the largest landowners in Hawaii, Matthew King struggles to deal with his out-of-control daughters--ten-year-old Scottie and seventeen-year-old Alex--as well as his comatose wife, whom they are about to remove from lifesupport.
In the decade before the Islamic Revolution, 12-year-old Yaas navigates family and social life in Tehran.
The author’s latest adventure features a steam locomotive found in a Montana lake that holds the remains of three people who died 44 years before.
Cheating at Canasta
A collection of stories featuring themes of missed opportunities and the inevitability of change.
Double Cross
James Patterson
A Free Life
Ha Jin
In the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, the Wu family sets out on a journey through America in search of a sense of belonging.
Gentlemen of the Road
The noted literary stylist presents a riff on the legendary adventure novels, with a tale of two 9th century men of fortune.
The Ghost
Power, politics, corruption and murder combine in a thriller which features a ghostwriter who winds up dead.
The Heir
Family drama features Edward Deravenel as he tries to keep a family and a business together during the influenza pandemic of 1918.
After thirty-eight years, Father Tim Kavanagh returns to his childhood home of Holly Springs, Mississippi.
In a Pickle: A Family Farm Story
Jerry Apps
The small Midwestern town of Link Lake is confronted with change and upheaval with the arrival of H. H. Harlow Pickle Company.
The Long Walk Home
Set in a small mountain town in Wales, backpacker Alec Hudson and Fiona Edwards, owner of a bed-and-breakfast, find that their lives will be changed forever.
Mr. Knightley's Diary: A Novel
Catherine MacDonald travels to India to look for her brother, who had been reported drowned in the monsoon floods of 1821.
Pirate Freedom
In a tale of time travel, Father Christopher becomes a pirate captain hundreds of year before his birth.
Protect and Defend
Vince Flynn
The author’s latest political thriller features Iran and the consequences of a preemptive strike by Israel.
The Quiet Girl
A famous circus clown, Kasper Krone, is recruited by an order of nuns who ask him to safeguard group of children with mystical capablities.
A marriage implodes during the course of a day with devastating consequences.
Tipperary
Frank Delaney
The fascinating period of Irish history of the early 20th century is illuminated through the lives of Charles O’Brien and April Burke.
Revenge, conspiracy, and murder bring the Camel Club face-to-face with their greatest threat.
Swan Island
Ella’s happy childhood in Swan Island is abruptly ended when her father dies, leaving the family bankrupt.
The Way Life Should Be
Two centuries after the completion of the gothic cathedral in Kingsbridge, as depicted in Pillars of the Earth, the priory and cathedral are again the center of this novel of the 14th century.
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