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Rogue by Danielle Steel
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Publisher: Delacorte Press
Date: June 24, 2008
ISBN-10: 0385340257 ISBN-13: 978-0385340250 Romance
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Being married to Blake had been an amazing adventure for Maxine.
Brilliant, charismatic, and wholly unpredictable, Blake Williams made
millions and grabbed headlines as a dot-com entrepreneur. His only
shortcoming was as a husband-first his work and then his never-ending
quest for fun kept him constantly on the move, far away from Maxine and
his family. For five years Blake and Maxine have worked out an odd but
amicable divorce, with friendly though infrequent visits, a yacht he
lends her every summer, and three children they both adore. Blake
enjoys his globe-trotting lifestyle-dating a succession of beautiful,
famous, and very young women-while Maxine raises their kids in
Manhattan and pursues her passion, working as a psychiatrist, a
world-renowned expert on childhood trauma and adolescent suicide. Then
everything changes.
For Maxine it starts when she falls in love
with Dr. Charles West, a man who is everything Blake is not-mature,
grounded, and present. For Blake it begins when a devastating
earthquake strikes near one of his palatial foreign homes and he sees
hundreds of orphaned children in need of shelter. Now Blake wants
Maxine in his life again-as a partner in a humanitarian project that
could change countless lives. For Maxine the choice is clear. But
Blake's sudden transformation-from carefree playboy to compassionate,
responsible grown-up-raises questions she's never managed to
answer...and some she's afraid to ask. After all, Maxine is on the
cusp of a new life, about to marry Charles, and almost certain that
Blake Williams, aka the Rogue, is a man capable of doing
anything-except change...
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The Last Oracle by James Rollins
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Publisher: William Morrow
Date: June 24, 2008
ISBN-10: 0061230944 ISBN-13: 978-0061230943 Thriller
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In
Washington, D.C., a homeless man dies in Commander Gray Pierce's arms,
shot by an assassin's bullet. But the death leaves behind a greater
mystery: a bloody coin found clutched in the dead man's hand, an
ancient relic that can be traced back to the Greek Oracle of Delphi.
As
ruthless hunters search for the stolen artifact, Gray Pierce discovers
that the coin is the key to unlocking a plot that dates back to the
Cold War and threatens the very foundation of humanity.
An
international think tank of scientists known as the Jasons has
discovered a way to bioengineer autistic children who show savant
talents-mathematical geniuses, statistical masterminds, brilliant
conceptual artists-into something far greater and far more frightening,
in hopes of creating a world prophet for the new millennium, one to be
manipulated to create a new era of global peace . . . a peace on their
own terms.
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The Deceived by Brett Battles
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Publisher: Delacorte Press
Date: June 24, 2008
ISBN-10: 0385341571 ISBN-13: 978-0385341578 Suspense
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Brett Battles won rave reviews for his debut novel, The Cleaner,
which introduced hero Jonathan Quinn. A freelance operative and
professional "cleaner," Quinn knows better than to get emotionally
involved in any of his jobs. But in this superb powerhouse of suspense,
Quinn's latest job is different. A friend and old colleague has been
murdered. A woman has gone missing. And for Jonathan Quinn, this time
it's personal.
Anonymity. Trust. Professionalism. In his
world, Jonathan Quinn has a few rules. He'll get rid of bodies that
have to disappear; nothing ever gets traced back to him. But when Quinn
is called to a busy Los Angeles port where a shipping container has
just come in from the sea, it's clear his rules have been violated.
Inside the crate is a dead man-a man who once saved Quinn's life. And
while no one knows how CIA agent Steven Markoff died, Quinn has to do
more than clean. He has to find Markoff's girlfriend, Jenny. To tell
her that Markoff is dead. To find out why-and why someone sent
Markoff's body to him.
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Tailspin by Catherine Coulter
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Publisher: Putnam Adult
Date: June 24, 2008
ISBN-10: 0399155031 ISBN-13: 978-0399155031 Romance / Suspense
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FBI Special Agent Jackson Crowne is flying his Cessna over the
Appalachians, with a very important passenger: renowned psychiatrist
Dr. Timothy MacLean; their destination is Washington, D.C. Upon their
arrival, the FBI will protect the doctor-and ascertain just who wants
him dead.
But they don't make it.
In San Francisco,
married FBI Special Agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock take an
early morning phone call from their supervisor, Jimmy Maitland.
Maitland received a Mayday from Jackson in the mountains near Parlow,
Kentucky, and sends Savich and Sherlock to see what's happened.
Agent Crowne is able to bring his plane down in a narrow valley and
haul the unconscious Dr. MacLean from the burning wreckage before it
explodes. Their crash is witnessed by Rachael Abbott, a young woman on
the run after the mysterious death of her father. When Savich and
Sherlock arrive on the scene, they find Jackson and Rachael in the
Parlow clinic and Dr. MacLean comatose in the local hospital, prognosis
unknown. What they do know frightens them: Dr. MacLean was recently
diagnosed with frontal lobe dementia, and in the months prior to the
crash his behavior had become erratic and alarmingly uninhibited, his
ability to maintain doctor-patient confidentiality badly compromised.
With a patient list made up of Washington movers and shakers, MacLean's
role as a keeper of secrets is jeopardized as well. Is there someone
out there so desperate that they'd kill the doctor for what he knows?
It is up to Jackson, Savich, and Sherlock to find out-no matter the
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The Queen of Babble Gets Hitched by Meg Cabot
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Publisher: William Morrow
Date: June 24, 2008
ISBN-10: 006085202X ISBN-13: 978-0060852023 Chick Lit
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Things are looking up at last for Lizzie Nichols. She has a career
she loves in the field of her choice (wedding gown restoration), and
the love of her life, Jean-Luc, has finally proposed. Life's become a
dizzying whirl of wedding gown fittings-not necessarily her own-as
Lizzie prepares for her dream wedding at her fiancé's château in the
south of France.
But the dream soon becomes a nightmare as
the best man-whom Lizzie might once have accidentally slept with...no, really, just slept-announces his total lack of support for the
couple, a sentiment the maid of honor happens to second; Lizzie's
Midwestern family can't understand why she doesn't want to have her
wedding in the family backyard; her future, oh-so-proper French in-laws
seem to be slowly trying to lure the groom away from medical school and
back into investment banking; and Lizzie finds herself wondering if her
Prince Charming really is as charming as she once believed.
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The Sand Castle by Rita Mae Brown
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Publisher: Grove Press
Date: July 8, 2008
ISBN-10: 0802118704 ISBN-13: 978-0802118707 Literary Fiction
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Since the publication of Rubyfruit Jungle in 1973, Rita Mae Brown has
been a major American literary voice and a best-selling author. In The
Sand Castle,
she revisits some of her most unforgettable characters: sisters Juts
and Wheezie Hunsenmeir, and Juts's precocious young daughter, Nickel.
It's
August, 1952, and seven-year-old Nickel sets off for a day at the
seashore with her mother, aunt, and cousin Leroy. Everyone's excited
when they reach Chesapeake Bay--everyone except for Leroy, who is
recently motherless and frightened of the world around him. Nickel
delights in tormenting her cousin, but, as the group lounges on the
beach and begins work on a magnificent sand castle, the sisters try to
coax him out of his shell by telling stories about their own childhood
trips to the shore. But Nickel's taunting of Leroy escalates, and the
family history between her mother and aunt rises to the surface--and
then a crab bites Leroy, and they must all come together. Only years
later can Nickel see that day for what it truly was--a life-changing
lesson about family and the pleasure and heartbreak that comes with it. |
Beijing Coma by Ma Jian
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date: May 27, 2008
ISBN-10: 0374110174
ISBN-13: 978-0374110178 Literary Fiction
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Dai Wei has been unconscious for almost a decade. A
medical student and a pro-democracy protestor in Tiananmen Square in
June 1989, he was struck by a soldier's bullet and fell into a deep
coma.
As soon as the hospital authorities discovered that he had been
an activist, his mother was forced to take him home. She allowed
pharmacists access to his body and sold his urine and his left kidney
to fund special treatment from Master Yao, a member of the outlawed
Falun Gong sect. But during a government crackdown, the Master was
arrested, and Dai Wai's mother-who had fallen in love with him-lost her
mind.
As the millennium draws near, a sparrow
flies through the window and lands on Dai Wei's naked chest, a sign
that he must emerge from his coma. But China has also undergone a
massive transformation while Dai Wei lay unconscious. As he prepares to
take leave of his old metal bed, Dai Wei realizes that the rich,
imaginative world afforded to him as a coma patient is a startling
contrast with the death-in-life of the world outside. At
once a powerful allegory of a rising China, racked by contradictions,
and a seminal examination of the Tiananmen Square protests, Beijing Coma is
Ma Jian's masterpiece. Spiked with dark wit, poetic beauty, and deep
rage, this extraordinary novel confirms his place as one of the world's
most significant living writers.
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
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Publisher: Bond Street Books
Date: June 10, 2008
ISBN-10: 0385664788 ISBN-13: 978-0385664783
Grief-stricken
and bewildered, Edgar tries to prove Claude played a role in his
father's death, but his plan backfires--spectacularly. Forced to flee
into the vast wilderness lying beyond the farm, Edgar comes of age in
the wild, fighting for his survival and that of the three yearling dogs
who follow him. But his need to face his father's murderer and his
devotion to the Sawtelle dogs turn Edgar ever homeward.
David
Wroblewski is a master storyteller, and his breathtaking scenes--the
elemental north woods, the sweep of seasons, an iconic American barn, a
fateful vision rendered in the falling rain--create a riveting family
saga, a brilliant exploration of the limits of language, and a
compulsively readable modern classic. |
The Book of Getting Even by Benjamin Taylor
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Publisher: Steerforth
Date: May 20, 2008
ISBN-10: 1586421433 ISBN-13: 978-1586421434 Literary Fiction
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Son of a rabbi, budding astronomer Gabriel Geismar is on his way from
youth to manhood in the 1970s when he falls in love with the esteemed
and beguiling Hundert family, different in every way from his own. Over
the course of a decade-long drama unfolding in New Orleans,
Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, and the Wisconsin countryside, Gabriel
enters more and more passionately and intimately into the world of
his elective clan, discovering at the inmost center that he alone must
bear the full weight of their tragedies, past and present. Yet The Book of Getting Even is
funny and robust, a novel rich in those fundamentals we go to
great fiction for: the exploration of what is hidden, the
sudden shocks, the feeling at last of life laid bare.
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The Appeal by John Grisham
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Publisher: Doubleday
Date: January 29, 2008 ISBN-10: 0385515049 ISBN-13: 978-0385515047 Legal Thriller
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In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking
verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into
a small town's water supply, causing the worst "cancer cluster" in
history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose
nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it.
Who are the nine? How will they vote? Can one be replaced before the case is ultimately decided?
The
chemical company is owned by a Wall Street predator named Carl Trudeau,
and Mr. Trudeau is convinced the Court is not friendly enough. With
judicial elections looming, he decides to try to purchase himself a
seat on the Court. The cost is a few million dollars, a drop in the
bucket for a billionaire like Mr. Trudeau. Through an intricate web of
conspiracy and deceit, his political operatives recruit a young,
unsuspecting candidate. They finance him, manipulate him, market him,
and mold him into a potential Supreme Court justice. Their Supreme Court justice.
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Shadow of Power by Steve Martini
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Publisher: William Morrow
Date: May 27, 2008
ISBN-10: 006123088X ISBN-13: 978-0061230882 Legal Thriller
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Terry Scarborough is a legal scholar and provocateur who craves
headline-making celebrity, but with his latest book he may have gone
too far. In it he resurrects forgotten language in the U.S.
Constitution-and hints at a missing letter of Thomas Jefferson's-that
threatens to divide the nation.
Then, during a publicity
tour, Scarborough is brutally murdered in a San Diego hotel room, and a
young man with dark connections is charged. What looks like an
open-and-shut case to most people doesn't to defense attorney Paul
Madriani. He believes that there is much more to the case and that the
defendant is a pawn caught in the middle, being scapegoated by
circumstance.
As the trial spirals toward its conclusion,
Madriani and his partner, Harry Hinds, race to find the missing
Jefferson letter-and the secrets it holds about slavery and scandal at
the time of our nation's founding and the very reason Scarborough was
killed. Madriani's chase takes him from the tension-filled courtroom in
California to the trail of a high court justice now suddenly in hiding
and lays bare the soaring political stakes for a seat on the highest
court, in a country divided, and under the shadow of power.
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The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
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Publisher: Viking Adult
Date: June 12, 2008 ISBN-10: 0670019402 ISBN-13: 978-0670019403 Literary Fiction
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As a young woman, Roseanne McNulty was one of the most beautiful and
beguiling girls in County Sligo, Ireland. Now, as her hundredth year
draws near, she is a patient at Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital, and
she decides to record the events of her life.
As Roseanne
revisits her past, hiding the manuscript beneath the floorboards in her
bedroom, she learns that Roscommon Hospital will be closed in a few
months and that her caregiver, Dr. Grene, has been asked to evaluate
the patients and decide if they can return to society. Roseanne is of
particular interest to Dr. Grene, and as he researches her case he
discovers a document written by a local priest that tells a very
different story of Roseanne's life than what she recalls. As doctor and
patient attempt to understand each other, they begin to uncover
long-buried secrets about themselves.
Set against an Ireland besieged by conflict, The Secret Scripture
is an epic story of love, betrayal, and unavoidable tragedy, and a
vivid reminder of the stranglehold that the Catholic Church had on
individual lives for much of the twentieth century.
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Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich
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Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date: June 17, 2008 Language: English ISBN-10: 0312349513 ISBN-13: 978-0312349516 Mystery
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Personal vendettas, hidden treasure, and a monkey named Carl will
send bounty hunter Stephanie Plum on her most explosive adventure yet.
The Crime: Armed robbery to the tune of nine million dollars.
Dom Rizzi robbed a bank, stashed the money, and did the time. His family couldn't be more proud. He always was the smart one.
The Cousin: Joe Morelli
Less
than a week after Dom's release from prison, Joe Morelli has shadowy
figures breaking into his house and dying in his basement. He's getting
threatening messages, Loretta is kidnapped, and Dom is missing.
The Cupcake: Stephanie Plum
Stephanie
and Morelli have a long-standing relationship that involves sex,
affection, and driving each other nuts. She's a bond enforcement agent
with more luck than talent, and she's involved in this
bank-robbery-gone-bad disaster from day one.
The Conclusion: Only the fearless should read Fourteen.
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Cold in Hand by John Harvey
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Publisher: William Heinemann
Date: April 1, 2008 ISBN-10: 0434016942 ISBN-13: 978-0434016945 On Valentine's Day, Lynn Kellogg was shot and survived. The teenage girl standing next to her was less fortunate.
Recently
promoted to Detective Inspector in the city's Major Crime Unit, Lynn's
rescue of a badly-beaten fifteen-year old from eastern Europe links her
to an international investigation into people trafficking and gun
smuggling, and teams her up with SOCA - the Serious and Organized Crime
Agency - for the first time. Just when everything seems to be
progressing smoothly, things start to go wrong, leaving Lynn with
serious doubts about the integrity of the SOCA officers in charge. And
when DI Charlie Resnick rouses himself from near-retirement to lend a
hand, he finds he's blocked at every turn.
Finally, it needs the
intervention of Jack Kiley, former cop and soccer player turned private
eye, before a way can be found through a miasma of murder and betrayal
with mortal danger at each and every turn.
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