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Fiction, March 2007
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General Fiction
- Abouet, Marguerite
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Set in late 1970s Ivory Coast, Aya tells the story of its nineteen-year-old heroine, the studious and clear-sighted Aya, her easygoing friends Adjoua and Bintou, and their meddling relatives and neighbors. An unpretentious and gently humorous story of an Africa we rarely see — spirited, hopeful, and resilient — Aya won the 2006 award for Best First Album at the Angoulême International Comics Festival.
- Abrahams, Peter
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Sometimes the dead live on in your dreams — at least that's true for Roy Valois. His wife, Delia, died 15 years earlier while working for a private think tank and he has never forgotten her. When Roy gets access to Delia's morgue files, the more confusing his wife's past becomes. Delia's former colleagues deny ever knowing her, the building that housed the think tank has supposedly served as the offices for another organization for decades, and Roy can't find any records of its existence. Who was Delia? Who did she work for? How did she really die? Did she really die?
- Boyne, John
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In this carefully crafted novel, Boyne juxtaposes history and the buzz of the modern world, weaving together portraits of 1920s Hollywood, the French Revolution, the Wall Street Crash and other landmark events into one man's story of murder, love and redemption.
- Duncan, Sarah
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From the author of Adultery for Beginners comes this sexy and satisfying modern romance — with a hint of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Anna Carmichael is accomplished, young, beautiful — and divorced. The men she meets, however, do nothing to simplify her life.
- Edge, Arabella
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From the author of The Company comes a novel inspired by the life of Romantic painter Thodore Gericault and his masterpiece painting, "Raft of the Medusa."
- Holeman, Linda
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Moving between the tents of the Afghan plains to the tropical mansions of India to the dirty streets of London, this novel tells the story of a 19th-century woman who, cursed by a jealous tribeswoman, travels to Victorian England in her desperate quest for survival.
- Houston, James
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From the author of Snow Mountain Passage, this emotional and compassionate novel, set both in modern times and in the late 19th century, tells the compelling story of a California woman who became a consort and confidante of the last king of Hawaii.
- Judah, Sophie
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This fiction debut is a collection of stories about everyday life within a community of Indian Jews as its ancient culture confronts the modern world.
- Kellogg, Marne Davis
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Kick Keswick, once a jewel thief living an exciting double life, has now retired in simple luxury to the south of France. But when an old enemy resurfaces, threatening to expose the countless fake jewels Kick had carefully substituted during her years of secret theft, she is ready to act.
- Lecard, Marc
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After Johnnie reels in the biggest catch of his life — his best friend's Vinnie's head — he finds that Mafia thugs, bounty hunters and Vinnie's girlfriend are after him. Fans of Carl Hiaasen and Elmore Leonard will enjoy Lecard's darkly comic debut.
- Mason, Alane Salierno
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From the editors of Words Without Borders, an online magazine for international literature, comes this cutting edge anthology of more than 20 literary discoveries from around the globe, each published in English for the first time.
- Mason, Daniel
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From the author of The Piano Tuner comes a haunting new story, set in an unnamed country, about a young girl's journey in search of her brother.
- McGowan, Anthony
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There is a London you might not know. A London of dingy pubs and brutal alleyway encounters; a seething metropolis populated by weasel-faced burglars, psychotic doormen and professional killers with cold hearts and cruel intentions. It's a place Matthew Moriarty knows only too well. Jobless, hopeless, and half-crippled by a beating, Moriarty is at rock bottom, left with only a dwindling supply of prescription painkillers for company — and when he accepts a lucrative offer to track down a missing friend, things get a whole lot worse.
- McMurtry, Larry
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In this sequel to Duane's Depressed, McMurtry crafts an intimate portrait of an eccentric, aging oil man struggling to come to terms with the death of his wife.
- Parker, T. Jefferson
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Matt Stromsoe has come a long way since his wife and son were killed in an explosion that was meant for him. But the more he uncovers and the closer he gets to the killer, events conspire against him. Stromsoe's old nemesis proves that prison is no safeguard against the worst kind of revenge.
- Picoult, Jodi
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Sterling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens — until the day its complacency is shattered by a shocking act of violence. In the aftermath, the town's residents must not only seek justice in order to begin healing but also come to terms with the role they played in the tragedy.
- Restrepo, Laura
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Aguilar, a former literature professor who now delivers dog food in order to survive, returns from a trip to find his beloved wife, Agustina, has transformed into someone terrified and terrifying.
- Scottoline, Lisa
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A young law professor must unravel a conspiracy to see justice done.
- White, Stephen
Psychologist Alan Gregory confronts the sociopathic killer who, 15 years after the mayhem began, has walked away from a mental hospital and is hungry for revenge.
Mysteries
- Bass, Jefferson
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In the debut crime novel from the Booker Prize-winning author, a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of a conspiracy among the city's high Catholic society.
- Black, Cara
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When a mysterious phone call leads Leduc to an infant, the search for the mother is on. Two murders and an abortive bombing keep Aimee running until, in the sewers beneath the Seine, she finds the woman she has been looking for, and discovers that the man she has fallen for is a ruthless criminal.
- Bruen, Ken
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Ireland, awash with cash and greed, no longer turns to the Church for solace or comfort. But the decapitation of Father Joyce in a Galway confessional horrifies even the most jaded citizen. Maverick PI Jack Taylor, devastated by a recent personal loss, has always believed himself to be beyond salvation. But a new job offers a fresh start, and an unexpected partnership makes him hope that his one desperate vision of family might yet be fulfilled.
- Gorman, Edward
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In America's heartland, Sam seeks justice for a black college student who's found dead in a car trunk at the drive-in, while thousands gather in the nation's capital for the March on Washington with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
- Hockensmith, Steve
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Crime-solving cowboys Big Red and Old Red ride again in a follow-up to Holmes on the Range.
- James, Peter
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Tom Bryce did what any decent person would do. But within hours of picking up the CD that had been left behind on the train seat next to him, and attempting to return it to its owner, he is the sole witness to a vicious murder. Then his young family is threatened with their lives if he goes to the police. But supported by his wife, Kellie, he makes a statement to the murder inquiry team. From that moment, the killing of the Bryce family becomes a mere formality — and a grisly attraction. Kellie and Tom's deaths have already been posted on the internet; you can log on and see them on a website. They are looking good dead.
- Nesser, Hakan
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A new case for Chief Inspector Van Veeteren — the complicated history of a nearly perfect murder. On a sunny August day a man is released from prison. On a rainy April day children at play find his corpse. The fact that the dead man is Leopold Verhaven only becomes clear after some time because the mutilated corpse is without its head, legs and feet. Who would be interested in killing this man, a double murderer who spent 24 years in prison?
- Parshall, Sandra
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Tom Bridger thought he had escaped his mountain community's prejudice when he left to work for the Richmond, Virginia, police department. When a family tragedy brings him back home and into his father's job as sheriff's deputy, he discovers that his father was not the man he idolized.
- Paton Walsh, Jill
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Imogen Quy, an inquisitive amateur sleuth, takes it upon herself to uncover the truth behind a research fellow's mysterious death in this literate and compelling mystery.
- Richard, T. Dawn
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When 67-year-old May Bell List reads about the death of Gerty Peach from a heart attack, she can't accept that the woman who ran in a race two weeks ago died from natural causes. She decides to do something about what the police choose to ignore.
- Ripley, Mike
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Roy Angel is slowly adjusting to the pressures of working at Rudgard & Blugden Confidential Investigations, although his Raymond Chandler training manuals still haven't reconciled him to going to work every day. It would seem that Angel could take it easy with his latest case however; finding the retired Mr. Ellrington's long lost loves shouldn't be too demanding, should it?
- Shaber, Sarah R.
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Shaber's newest entry in an academic series follows Simon Shaw, forensic historian, who encounters his oldest corpse yet. When his friend, archeologist David Morgan, is murdered, Simon is convinced that David was caught between factions wanting control of the bones.
- Shefchik, Rick
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Multiple murders at the Masters golf tournament, in sportswriter Shefchik's fiction debut.
Horror/Science Fiction/Fantasy
- Alexander, Alma
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This first novel in an epic fantasy trilogy follows Thea, whose lack of magical ability has been a severe disappointment to those who expected her to be one of the great mages. Now, at the Wandless Academy, she finds a critical role for her worldweaving abilities in the face of a deadly threat.
- Anderson, Poul
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The wide-ranging imagination and exciting storytelling of Anderson brings many different worlds to vivid life in a great volume of his best stories.
- Bryan, Kathleen
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Fantasy author Judith Tarr creates a new pseudonym and begins an epic of the war between Order and Chaos in the first volume in the War of the Roses series.
- Dickson, Gordon R.
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Dickson's novels depicting the future of the human race have been the grand epics of science fiction. His assistant Wixon has finished the long-awaited book, working from Dicksons' copious notes.
- Harrison, Kim
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The author of the sexy Hollows series makes her hardcover debut with this new supernatural adventure featuring the bewitching bounty hunter, Rachel Morgan.
- Lebbon, Tim
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Lebbon concludes his fantasy with this exploration of the power of vengeance and an unlikely band of heroes struggling to take down the evil that threatens to destroy their world.
- McIntosh, Fiona
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Set in the famed harem of an exotic palace and infused with forbidden love, treachery, betrayal and possession, this is the first novel in a sweeping new epic fantasy trilogy from the author of Bridge of Souls.
- McKillip, Patricia A.
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For the first time in one volume, McKillip offers two of her classic tales — The Sorceress and the Cygnet and The Cygnet and the Firebird — which delve into the fate of the Ro family and an otherworld rich in myth and mayhem, magic and adventure.
- Odom, Mel
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The secret to protecting the civilized world from an ancient threat may lie in the pages of three books. The Quest for the Trilogy weaves three separate quests into one as a young historian races against the clock to protect not just his world, but all others as well.
- Roberts, Adam (Adam Charles)
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A new breed of adventurer has slipped the bonds of gravity and begun a fresh life in orbit, free from interference by government, free from the petty concerns of earth in this epic space opera of family revenge and the birth of a nation.
- Robson, Justina
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The Quantum Bomb of 2015 changed everything. The fabric that kept the universe's different dimensions apart was torn and now the people of earth exist in uneasy company with inhabitants of the elfin, elemental and demonic realms.
- Williams, Tad
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While King Olin is held in captivity in Hierosol, Olin's young twins, Princess Briony and Prince Barrick Eddon, struggle to survive in exile on separate but equally perilous paths.