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Fiction, July 2007
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General Fiction
- Agee, Jonis
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Agee's novel tells the story of Jacques Ducharme, a frontier river pirate, and the five women whose lives he touches.
- Antrim, Taylor
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Journalist Antrim's debut offers a clear-eyed examination of hidden worlds whose complexities and rules can only be understood from inside: the insular ecosystem of boarding school, the thorny dynamics of fathers and sons, and the self-deluding excesses of blind ideological commitment.
- Blixt, David
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Chicago actor Blixt creates a novel of Shakespeare, Dante and a star-crossed scoundrel.
- Cabot, Meg
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Adorable big-mouth Lizzie Nichols takes on the Big Apple, in this funny and zany follow-up to the charming Queen of Babble.
- Carter, Stephen L.
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The author of The Emperor of Ocean Park returns to the New England university town where a murder begins to crack the veneer that has hidden the racial complications of the town's past and the secrets of a prominent family.
- Dickson, Athol
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In this sweeping novel from a 2006 Christy Award-winning author, unexplained healings threaten to overwhelm a small northeastern town unless the mystery behind the cure comes to light.
- Gayle, Stephanie
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This debut novel introduces one of the quirkiest, most memorable heroines ever to head south in search of adventure.
- Johnston, Paul
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For London-based novelist Matt Wells, a chain of emails from a devoted fan turns deadly when he discovers the correspondent has an agenda for murder. Johnston's first book in a series of psychological thrillers is full of clever twists and suspense.
- Kim, Young-Ha
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In the fast-paced, high-urban landscape of Seoul, C and K are brothers who have fallen in love with the same woman. Dreamlike and beautiful, the South Korea brought forth in this novel is cinematic in its urgency.
- Kraft, Eric Carol
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In Taking Off, the first installment of Eric Kraft’s beguiling trilogy, Peter Leroy built an aerocycle in his parents’ garage, working from designs he found in Impractical Craftsman magazine. Now Peter is ready to fly — and in On the Wing he tells the hilarious tale of his journey across a mid-century America populated by eccentrics, crackerbarrel philosophers and figments of the national imagination.
- Molina, Antonio Munoz
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A celebrated Spanish author explores identity and desire in an amusing novella that is part mystery, part comedy of manners.
- O'Brian, Patrick
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An archaeological expedition with a cargo of priceless jade is pursued across the Gobi Desert into the snows of Tibet.
- Perry, Tasmina
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Bestselling British author Perry provides beach readers everywhere with a sizzling, sexy novel about the four glamorous Balcon sisters: women with fame, clothes, cars — and killer instincts.
- Piperno, Alessandro
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Winner of the Campiello Prize for first novels, The Worst Intentions is an audacious, sumptuous saga about ritual and liberty, love and war, sex and betrayal, set in the opulent neighborhoods of contemporary Rome. Piperno's bestseller has been compared to the works of Philip Roth and Saul Bellow.
- Quick, Barbara
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Pairing the seductive appeal of a legendary composer with the coming of age of a violin prodigy, Quick's enthralling new novel recreates Vivaldi's Venice at the height of its splendor and decadence.
- Rao, Saira
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Debut novelist Rao takes readers into the mysterious world of the third branch of the U.S. government, where the leaders are not elected and can never be fired. With its biting wit and laugh-out-loud humor, this novel challenges the notion of how great lawyers — and judges — are made.
- Tropper, Jonathan
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The author of The Book of Joe tackles love, lust and loss in the suburbs in a novel that is by turns heartfelt and riotously funny. Tropper joins Nick Hornby and Tom Perrotta with his biting humor and insightful portrayal of families in crisis and men behaving badly.
- Vance, Lee
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"After the authorities accuse Peter Tyler, a kingpin at the Wall Street financial firm of Klein and Klein, of his wife's murder, Peter gets entangled in money scams, stolen art, a pharmaceutical giant and a brilliant, ruthless and byzantine act of vengeance." Publisher's Weekly
Mysteries
- Depoy, Phillip
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Recovering academic and folklorist Fever Devilin is hired to uncover the origin of a mysterious medallion with some connection to the Georgia Appalachians where he lives. It sounds simple enough, until the owner of the medallion is found murdered in Fever's house.
- Fforde, Jasper
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Literary sleuth Thursday Next is out to save literature in the fifth installment of Fforde's wildly popular series. Packed with word play, bizarre and entertaining subplots, and old-fashioned suspense, Thursday's newest adventure will be celebrated by fans and critics alike.
- Fossum, Karin
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In this dark novel from one of Europe's most successful crime writers, Inspector Konrad Sejer understands that good people can commit atrocious deeds, and that no one is altogether as innocent as he or she may appear.
- Konrath, J. A.
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Chicago police Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels faces her toughest adversary yet: a sicko who's poisoning the city's food supply. Can she catch him — and decide whether to accept boyfriend Lathams surprise proposal — without destroying both her reputation and her sanity?
- Muller, Marcia
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Sharon McCone is hired by her husband's security firm to track down "the ever-running man," a shadowy figure who has been leaving explosive devices at their various offices. He is dangerously close — and anyone connected to the firm seems to be within his deadly range.
- Myers, Amy
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Curiosity over a memorial plaque in an old Kentish church sets wheelchair-bound ex-cop Peter Marsh and his daughter Georgia on a long and dangerous trail that will lead them not only into the world of art fakes in 1950s Paris, but further back still to the legends of King Arthur, Sir Gawain and their connections with Dover Castle.
- Rendell, Ruth
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The award-winning author brings another terrifically paced, richly-drawn novel of suspense and psychological intrigue centering on murder within a family.
- Tallman, Shirley
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The serenely self-assured 19th-century lawyer Sarah Woolson is still trying to get her life together when she is suddenly involved in a complicated murder plot involving ghosts, gypsies and City Hall — all while facing off with a fellow lawyer.
- Underwood, Blair
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In this hot and steamy mystery, Tennyson is an actor struggling to hang on to his career and redeem his sex-for-pay history that estranged him from his family — especially his father, a decorated LAPD captain who raised Tennyson to call him "sir." Now, in the wake of his father's sudden stroke, Tennyson has to save himself from taking the fall for a murder. In the process he discovers his hidden talents — the hard way.
- Wimberley, Darryl
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Special Agent Barrett Raines and local television reporter Sharon Fowler become unlikely allies when a senator's daughter is found dead in her father's mansion, in this thought-provoking addition to this Gulf noir series.
Horror/Science Fiction/Fantasy
- Anderson, Kevin J.
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A. E. van Vogt left a partial draft and an outline for the sequel to his most famous novel, Slan, now finished by Kevin J. Anderson. Slans are a race of superior mutants in the far future, smarter and stronger than Homo sapiens and able to read minds — yet they are a persecuted minority, survivors of terrible genocidal wars, who live in hiding from the mass of humanity. Slan Hunter tells of this towering conflict in the far future, when a new war among the races of mankind bursts out and humanity struggles to survive.
- Baxter, Stephen
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Three centuries have passed since Rome fell, as The Prophecy foretold. Now The Prophecy's scroll is in the hands of a young girl, the last surviving member of the family who received The Prophecy. She lives in tranquility, disguised as a boy among the monks on the isle of Lindisfarne — until the Vikings come, destroying the final copies of the scroll. But it remains in her memory, and when William of Normandy, who history will call the Conqueror, rises to power, once more the fate of the land rests on actions inspired by those age-old words.
- Bear, Elizabeth
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Several years ago, Matthew the Magician ended an age-old war. It only cost him everything — and everyone — he knew and loved. Turning against his mentor, Jane Andraste, in the realm of Faerie left him physically crippled and his power shattered. But Matthew remains the protector of New York City. So when he finds a young woman brutally murdered by a Fae creature, he must bring her killer to justice before Jane uses the crime to justify more war — and before he confronts an even larger threat in the greatest Adversary of all.
- Bull, Emma
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Tombstone, Arizona in 1881 is the site of one of the richest mineral strikes in American history, where veins of silver run like ley lines under the earth, a network of power that belongs to anyone who knows how to claim and defend it. Above the ground, power is also about allegiances. A magician can drain his friends' strength to strengthen himself, and can place them between him and danger. The one with the most friends stands to win the territory.
- Dozois, Gardner
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Widely regarded as the essential book for every science fiction fan, The Year's Best Science Fiction collects work by Michael Swanwick, Geoff Ryman, Allen Steele, Nancy Kress, Robert Reed, Michael Cassott, Charles Stross and many other bright talents.
- Flint, Eric
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This anthology is a selection of the best science fiction and fantasy stories that have appeared in the online magazine Jim Baen's Universe.
- Kadrey, Richard
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Spyder Lee is a happy man who lives in San Francisco and owns a tattoo shop. One night an angry demon tries to bite his head off before he's saved by a stranger. The demon infects Spyder with something awful — the truth. He can suddenly see the world as it really is: full of angels and demons and monsters and monster-hunters, a world full of black magic and mysteries. These are the Dominions, parallel worlds full of wonder, beauty and horror.
- Lynch, Scott
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Escaping from the attentions of the Bondsmagi Locke Lamora, the erstwhile Thorn of Camorr and Jean Tannen have fled their home city. Taking ship they arrive in the city state of Tal Varrar where they are soon planning their most spectacular heist yet; they will take the luxurious gaming house, The Sinspire, for all of its countless riches.
- Roberson, Chris
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1808. While Europe burns and the Napoleonic Wars set the world aflame, the HMS Fortitude patrols the sea lanes of the South Pacific, harrying enemies of the British Crown. The Fortitude's captain sets his sights on a Spanish galleon weighted down with a fortune in gold and spices, but Lieutenant Hieronymus Bonaventure thinks the prize not worth the risk.
- Turtledove, Harry
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Alternate history master Turtledove brings his ten-book saga of a Confederate Civil War victory to a close, outfought by the United States and their German allies the Confederates finally surrender, ending WWII. Now the Southern states must be brought back into the Union after four wars and 80 years of independence.