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Fiction, January 2007
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General Fiction
- Abbot, Megan
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From Edgar Award-nominated novelist Abbott comes an imaginative new novel about the mysterious murder of an actress that remains unsolved today.
- Amis, Martin
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In 1946, two brothers and a Jewish girl fall into alignment in pogrom-poised Moscow. The fraternal conflict then marinates in Norlag, a slave labor camp above the Arctic Circle, where a tryst in the coveted House of Meetings will haunt all three lovers long after the brothers are released.
- Andrzejewski, Jerzy
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At the height of the Nazi extermination campaign in the Warsaw Ghetto, a young Jewish woman, Irena, seeks the protection of her former lover, a young architect, Jan Malecki. By taking her in, he puts his own life and the safety of his family at risk. Over a four-day period, Tuesday through Friday of Holy Week 1943, as Irena becomes increasingly traumatized by her situation, Malecki questions his decision to shelter Irena in the apartment where he, his pregnant wife and his younger brother reside.
- Begley, Louis
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From the author of About Schmidt and Wartime Lies, comes a portrait of friendship and a meditation on loyalty and honor. At Harvard in the early 1950s, three seemingly mismatched freshmen are thrown together. As roommates they enter a world governed by arcane rules, where merit is everything except when trumped by pedigree and the inherited prerogatives of belonging.
- Brandeis, Gayle
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Peppered with wry wit and Walt Whitman, Self Storage is a treasure hunter's tale of compassion, coming of age and transforming the life you've got into the life you want.
- Browne, Jill Connor
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In Jackson, Mississippi, Mary Bennett, Patsy, Gerald and Jill are high school classmates whose daily routine is paced like a shuffle through the local red dirt — until the arrival of a redheaded newcomer banishes monotony forever. With her luxurious mane and voluptuous figure, Tammy Myers aspires to join the silver-spooners, who make things happen in their lives. When Jill convinces Tammy and the others that money might buy a certain kind of good time and that true friendship has no price tag, the "Sweet Potato Queens" are born. "If it ain't fun, we ain't doin' it," runs their official club motto, and the Queens are true to their word.
- Chandra, Vikram
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Set in present-day Mumbai, this work tells the story of a notorious Hindu gangster and a police inspector whose lives unfold and eventually intersect with cataclysmic consequences.
- Clarke, Richard A.
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America's counterterrorism expert presents the global village — an intricately intertwined network of technology that binds together the world's economies, governments and communication systems. Now a sophisticated group is seeking to "disconnect the globe."
- Cook, Thomas H.
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Following the death of her schizophrenic son, Diana refuses to accept the authorities' conclusion that his death was accidental. She begins to send her brother David faxes and e-mails about ancient murders, and David soon fears for his own family's safety as the seductive qualities of Diana's manic energy become impossible to ignore.
- Darwin, Emma
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In an English country manor, two unlikely souls, divided by time, will be united by tragedy, memory and love. Teenaged Anna Ware discovers a bundle of letters written in 1819 by a war veteran, and as she unravels his mysteries, she is creating a heartbreaking secret of her own.
- Frey, Stephen W.
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Make-or-break decisions involving millions of dollars are all in a day’s work for Christian Gillette, chairman of Everest Capital, New York’s most renowned private equity firm. He’s taken on the toughest, most powerful and often most dangerous adversaries and prevailed — all the while honing his skill for being cool under fire. But now Gillette will be put to the ultimate test. He’s offered the chance to seal a deal unlike any other, one that goes beyond boardrooms, balance sheets and even Everest itself — one that will leave its mark on history.
- Gardner, Lisa
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Ex-sniper Bobby Dodge from Gardner's Alone returns in this thriller about a woman who is thrust into the center of a 20-year-old crime with terrifying repercussions.
- Griffin, W. E. B.
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Delta Force Major Charley Castillo returns in the third adventure in Griffin's Presidential Agent series. The growing UN/Iraq oil-for-food scandal leads Castillo and his team to Uruguay, where the man they are seeking is murdered right before their eyes. The murderers leave just enough of a trail for Castillo to pick up the scent.
- Grippando, James
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Miami attorney Jack Swyteck takes on a homeless man as a client, and absolutely nothing is as it seems in this tale.
- Haig, Brian
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Ripped from today's headlines, this novel finds Army lawyer Sean Drummond caught between duty to Washington's elite and the soldiers in Iraq after he's sent to investigate the suicide of one of the most influential defense officials.
- Hoffman, Alice
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Arlyn Singer believes in destiny and in love — but fate played a trick on her the night John Moody knocked on her door to ask for directions. Arlyn and John are complete opposites, but are drawn together even when it becomes clear that they will bring each other nothing but grief. Sam, their son, is a brilliant artist given to self-destruction. Blanca, their daughter is a beautiful loner who struggles valiantly to save her brother. Will, the grandson, is the one left to put together the legacy of pieces of an emotional and mysterious puzzle.
- Hood, Ann
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After the sudden loss of her only child, Stella, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle in Providence, Rhode Island, as a way to fill the empty hours and lonely days, not knowing that it will change her life.
- Johansen, Iris
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Atlanta-based forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is lured to the Colombian compound of a notorious criminal to identify a skull he has found. Eve has agreed to a devil's bargain to save an innocent family, but also for another reason — the man in the jungle has promised to give Eve the key to unlocking the darkest and most painful mystery of her past.
- Kasischke, Laura
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On Valentine’s Day, Sherry finds an anonymous note in her mailbox: be mine. As the notes continue, Sherry becomes more and more charged by the idea that she can inspire such feelings. Her twenty-year marriage is routine and she feels old, aimless and empty now that her son is in college. When she discovers who her admirer is, she begins a wildly passionate affair with him. But her son’s childhood friend is witness to the affair, her best friend is strangely silent, and her husband is playing a disturbing game of titillation and encouragement. Soon events spiral out of Sherry’s control, threatening not only her marriage but also her son and her home.
- Krentz, Jayne Ann
The author of Falling Awake and All Night Long takes readers beyond the everyday boundaries of the mind — and the heart — in a novel of paranormal power, deception and danger.
- Landay, William
The infamous serial murder case that gripped an entire nation explodes to life in this crime thriller from Landay, a former district attorney whose award-winning debut Mission Flats had critics praising him as "the new Grisham."- Lowenthal, Michael
Through the eyes of one fictional "charity girl", this novel explores a time when patriotic fervor and fear led to devastating consequences. During World War I, the U.S. government went on a moral and medical campaign, quarantining and incarcerating young women who were thought to have venereal diseases.- Mailer, Norman
Mailer's first novel in a decade is a saga about a profoundly dysfunctional Austrian family, the nature of the evil that runs in its veins, and a little boy named Adolf Hitler who inherits its twisted legacy.- Marks, John
Written in the form of diary entries, e-mails, therapy journals and other artifacts of early 21st century American professional-class life, Fangland manages both to be a frightening vampire novel in the grand tradition and biting commentary on the way we live and work now.- Marx, Patricia
The story of a neurotic, young, largely unemployed television writer and her tortured love affair with her narcissist boyfriend.- Matar, Hisham
In 1979 Libya, nine-year-old Suleiman endures his mother's increasingly disturbing bedside stories full of old family bitterness. His father is away on business (again), and Suleiman is soon caught up in a world he cannot hope to understand in this novel that offers a stunning depiction of a child confronted with the private fallout of a public nightmare.- Moore, Christopher
Waking up after a fantastic night unlike any he's ever had, C. Thomas Flood discovers the woman of his dreams is a vampire, and — surprise — he's one now, too. Making their relationship work is the least of their problems. A dangerous faction of old longteeth is bent on wiping out new vampires.- Mosley, Walter
Marking a new territory for the bestselling author of Devil in a Blue Dress, this new novel is the story of one man's dark, funny, soulful and outrageously explicit sexual odyssey in search of a new way of life.- Patterson, Richard North
A lawyer must defend the woman he loves against a charge of conspiring to assassinate the prime minister of Israel.- Perez-Reverte, Arturo
Prez-Reverte continues his chronicle of a swordsman-for-hire, as Captain Alatriste takes up his blade and rejoins his elite Cartagena regiment as they take part in the battles and siege of Breda.- Sakey, Marcus
In this debut thriller, a young Chicago professional learns that the more he has, the more he has to lose.- Simmons, Dan
Simmons transforms the true story of two ice ships that disappeared in the Arctic Circle during the Sir John Franklin Expedition in 1845 into a thriller worthy of Stephen King or Patrick O'Brian.- Swofford, Anthony
Swofford follows up Jarhead with a novel about the legacy of a youth spent inside the stark confines of a U.S. military base in Japan — and the profane, neon netherworld just outside it, where the Japanese underworld lurks.- Tademy, Lalita
From the author of Cane River comes the intertwining story of two families and their struggles during the tumultuous years that followed the Civil War.- Toibin, Colm
From the author of The Master, winner of the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, comes a meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships.- Unger, Lisa
Just as Ridley Jones, first introduced in Beautiful Lies, begins to move on with her life, a seemingly mundane act — picking up a few prints at a photo lab — puts her at the nexus of a global network of crime.- Vida, Vendela
On the day of her father's funeral, twenty-eight-year-old Clarissa Iverton discovers that he wasn't her biological father after all. Her mother disappeared fourteen years earlier, and now Clarissa is alone and adrift. She finds her birth certificate, which leads her from New York to Helsinki, and then north of the Arctic Circle, to mystical Lapland, where she believes she'll meet her real father. There, under the northern lights of a sunless winter, Clarissa comes to know the Sami, the indigenous population, and seeks out a local priest, the one man who may hold the key to her origins.
Mysteries
- Fairstein, Linda A.
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Alexandra Cooper is in court for what promises to be an unusual trial. The defendant is a young businessman charged with murdering his wife. He was out of town the day of the killing, but Cooper plans to prove that he hired a hit man. Then, in the middle of the trial, an explosion rocks the city. Is it terrorism? Political retribution? An accident? When a connection is made between the tunnel workers and the defendant, Alexandra Cooper finds herself in the underbelly of the city.
- Frazer, Margaret
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The sixteenth mystery in the Edgar-nominated series finds Dame Frevisse assisting her cousin Alice in burying her husband, the hated Duke of Suffolk.
- Fulmer, David
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The author of the Storyville series introduces Joe Rose — rambler, gambler and professional thief — who finds himself caught in a three-sided puzzle that involves a black-hearted police officer called "the Captain", the pimp and crapshooter Little Jesse Williams, and a wicked beauty named Pearl Spencer in Atlanta, the richest, busiest metropolis in the 1920s South.
- McIntyre, Hope
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Intrepid ghostwriter Lee Bartholomew returns to New York to plan her mother's wedding and solve the murder of an ambitious competitor in this follow-up to How to Seduce a Ghost.
- O'Connor, Carol
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A mutilated body is found on the ground in Chicago, a dead hand pointing down Adams Street, also known as Route 66 — a road of many names and now of many deaths. Word that children's grave sites are being discovered along the Mother Road brings parents of missing children and NYPD Detective Kathy Mallory, on the trail of a serial child killer.
- Smith, Martin Cruz
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Smith brings back Arkady Renko, the brilliant Russian detective introduced in the landmark bestseller Gorky Park. Renko returns to Moscow to uncover a case of murder, political intrigue and war profiteering — all stemming from an apparition appearing on the city's subways.
- Stabenow, Dana
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Returning to her popular series featuring Alaskan P.I. Kate Shugak, Stabenow pens a shocking tale about a man who gets away with murder — or does he?
- Tesh, Jane
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After solving her first big murder case in the small town of Celosia, North Carolina, former beauty queen Madeline Maclin hopes at last to be taken seriously as a private investigator. Madeline is hired to find Kirby Willet, an eccentric inventor who left boxes of his belongings, including one filled with money, at Frannie Thomas’ house. Meanwhile Voltage Films director, Josh Gaskins, is in town to direct the horror film, "Curse of the Mantis Man", about Celosia's mythical beast. Celosia is also hopping with the Pageantoids, rabid fans from Madeline's days as a beauty queen, who have come to Celosia to produce more pageants. When Gaskins is murdered, Madeline uncovers several suspects and is forced to make — and investigate — some hard bargains.
- Thomas, Donald
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Crossing historical fact with detective fiction, the cache of the celebrated detective's private papers is once again opened, bringing Holmes and Watson out of retirement to investigate the most notorious mysteries in the annals of true crime.
- Todd, Charles
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A love triangle turned deadly sends Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge to Hampton Regis, a small harbor town that simmers with secrets. Accused of beating the husband of a woman who jilted him, Rutledge's former trenchmate takes her hostage to escape arrest, and he demands Rutledge prove his innocence.
Horror/Science Fiction/Fantasy
- Asher, Neal L.
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Ian Cormac, a legendary Earth Central Security agent, is hunting an interstellar dragon — little knowing that, far away, his competition has resurrected an horrific killing machine named "Mr. Crane" to assist in a similar hunt encompassing whole star systems.
- Baker, Kage
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In the Company you're either a God or a Pawn, but sometimes you have to be both. These eight stories, reprinted for the first time, delve further into the history and exploits of the Company and its operatives. Gods and Pawns is the eighth book in the Company series.
- Baxter, Stephen
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Set during the days when the Romans conquered the Celts, this first volume in a four-book series is an alternate historical epic about The Prophecy. Inscribed in Latin, The Prophecy has resided in the hands of a single family for generations, revealing secrets about the world that is to come; for those capable of deciphering its signs and portents, the future of Earth is in their hands.
- Birmingham, John
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In the conclusion to the Axis of Time trilogy (after Designated Targets and Weapons of Choice) a temporally displaced 21st century naval battle group changes the outcome of World War II, both militarily and socially.
- Dick, Philip K.
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One of Dick's earliest books and the only novel not previously published, Voices from the Street is the story of Stuart Hadley's descent into depression and madness, and out the other side.
- Faust, Minister
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A self-help book for superheroes, this satire of caped crusaders hides a deeper critique of individual treatment versus social injustice. Dr. Eva Brain-Silverman analyzes heroes and their various mental hangups.
- Fowler, Karen Joy
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James Tiptree, Jr. was the pseudonym of Alice Bradley Sheldon, whose lasting contributions to the gender-bending genre are honored with this annual award, now in its 15th year. Previous winners include Karen Joy Fowler, Ursula K. Le Guin, M. John Harrison, Kelly Link, Joe Haldeman and Joanna Russ.
- Friedman, C. S.
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A female witch must pay for magic with her own finite life force which trickles away with every spell. The nearly immortal male Magisters tap a different source that no woman has ever found until young Kamala, hardened by life as a child prostitute, insists on an apprenticeship and becomes an unheard-of female Magister.
- Haydon, Elizabeth
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In the sixth book of the Symphony of Ages series two portents signal that war is coming, the likes of which the world has never known.
- Hendee, Barb
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Desperate to free his mother from a caste of ruthless elven assassins, Leesil joins his beloved Magiere, the sage Wynn and their canine protector, Chap, on a difficult journey through mountains and harsh winter. Should they survive the hardships of wilderness, they still face the perils of the mysterious Elven Territories in this fifth book of the Noble Dead saga.
- Kiernan, Caitlin R.
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They are the Children of the Cuckoo. Stolen from their cribs and concealed in shadows to be raised by ghouls, they are now changelings in service to the creatures who rule the world Below and despise the world Above. Any human contact is strictly forbidden and punishment is swift and severe for those who disobey.
- Lukyanenko, Sergei
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The follow-up to Night Watch, this second book in Lukyanenko's Russian fantasy series continues the dramatic battle between good and evil, light and dark, day and night, in modern-day Moscow.
- Martin, George R. R.
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Onetime underground journalist Sandy Blair has traveled far from his radical roots in the 1960s — until the bizarre and brutal murder of a millionaire rock promoter draws him back. As Sandy sets out to investigate the crime, he finds himself on a magical mystery tour of the pent-up passions of his generation. A new messiah has resurrected the once legendary rock band Nazgul, but with an apocalyptic new beat that is a requiem of demonism, mind control and death only Sandy may be able to change in time.
- Newcomb, Robert
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In the sequel to Savage Messiah, Prince Tristan has the most magical potential in the land of Eutracia but has never been trained. Tristian and his twin sister Shailiha are prophesied to combine the Vigors and the Vagaries of the Craft.
- Park, Paul
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The third novel set in an alternate reality German-occupied "Roumania", Miranda Popescu was once hidden away by her aunt before finding she was a princess adopted by commoners. Returned to her home reality she is in danger of being used as a pawn in a political game.
- Pratt, Tim
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Hart & Boot & Other Stories collects thirteen stories of love, death and monsters. The title story was chosen by Michael Chabon for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories, 2005.
- Weber, David
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With mind control and hidden high technology, the human rulers of Safehold built a religion designed to keep society medieval forever. Centuries have passed, and in a hidden chamber an android awakens a rebirth set in motion centuries before — a rebirth that will provide the only remaining humans with their last chance to learn the truth and rejoin the universe.
- Zahn, Timothy
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Set between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, Daric LaRone and four other Imperial storm troopers are on the run after killing a superior officer and find themselves unexpected allies of Han Solo and friends.