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Fiction, December 2007
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General Fiction
- Ashford, Lindsay
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Investigative psychologist, Megan Rhys, is called in to help the police with the murder of a young mother who has been brutally murdered and a pentagram carved in her forehead. While the media-obsessed police chief wants to call it a satanic ritual, Megan keeps an open mind and starts investigating the details of the victim's life — and the lives of the other victims as the murders increase. Ashford's second novel was shortlisted for the 2006 Theakstons Old Peculier Prize, open to any British crime fiction published for the first time in paperback.
- Cook, Dave F.
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David Fuller Cook lives near the Eno River, North Carolina, and his love for the river has led him to preserve its oral history. Reservation Nation tells the story of the conflict between the Uwharrie Indians and the white man's lifestyle.
- Harper, Tom
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August, 1098. After countless battles and sieges, the surviving soldiers of the First Crusade are at last within reach of their ultimate goal: Jerusalem. But rivalries fester, and while the Crusaders delay, new enemies are massing against them in the Holy Land.
- McCullough, Colleen
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McCullough presents her seventh novel in her popular Roman series. Packed with battles on land and sea, politics, conspiracy, love affairs, murders and a dazzling array of historical personages, this is historical fiction at its very best.
- Moore, Christopher G.
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When his surveillance of a major drug piracy ring ends in definitive video evidence, it looks like Vincent Calvino's fortunes are about to turn. But when the client dies of a heart attack and Calvino finds the body of a murdered massage girl downstairs, the authorities get suspicious of the foreigner who happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
- Morgan, Jude
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In 1827, Harriet Smithson, a beautiful and talented Irish actress, joins an English Shakespeare company where she falls in love with a young composer. But his love becomes obsession, and their lives will be transfigured and destroyed by genius, inspiration and madness. Symphony portrays the real-life marriage of Smithson and the French composer Hector Berlioz
- Nesbo, Jo
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Police Detective Harry Hole has made a terrible mistake. An embarrassment in the line of duty has pulled him off his usual beat. Reassigned to mundane surveillance tasks, he reluctantly agrees to monitor neo-Nazi activities in Oslo. But as Hole is drawn into an underground world of illegal gun trafficking, brutal beatings and sexual extortions, he soon learns that he must act fast to prevent an international conspiracy from unfolding. In 2004, The Redbreast was voted the "Best Norwegian Crime Novel Ever Written" by members of Norwegian book clubs.
- Norato, Lisa
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Marcella Tartaglia is a diligent, ambitious young associate at Gracious Living magazine with top-of-the-masthead dreams. Bridget Jones meets The Devil Wears Prada in Norato's debut romance.
- Poyer, David
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United States Navy officer and Medal of Honor winner Dan Lenson's mission is to observe an international military exercise involving the navies of South Korea, Japan, Australia and America. Acting as both adviser and adversary to a ruthless South Korean task force commander, Dan must stop a wolfpack of unidentified submarines, armed with nuclear weapons, which is trying to elude Allied surveillance and penetrate the Sea of Japan. Is it the start of an invasion — or an elaborate feint, to divert attention from a devastating attack?
- Sacco, Joe
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Fantagraphics Books presents the definitive, expanded, hardcover collection of Sacco's landmark of comics journalism. In addition to the original, 288-page graphic novel, The Special Edition includes a host of unique supplemental material never-before-published, including many of Sacco's original background notes, sketches, photographic reference and much more.
- Sickels, Noelle
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Northern New Jersey is the locale for The Medium, a tale set against a backdrop of home front sacrifices and romances during World War II and featuring a dynamic young heroine who must come to grips with her exceptional ability to foresee the future.
- Smith, Ali
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Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But in Whitbread winner Ali Smith’s lyrical, funny, mash-up of Ovid's most joyful gender-bending metamorphosis story, girl meets boy in so many more ways than one.
- Wander, Fred
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In 1938, Wander left his mother and sister behind in Vienna and fled to France, where later he was put on a train to Auschwitz. This novel, originally published in 1970, tells the stories of his fellow inmates and demonstrates that the survival of a single man is a collaborative enterprise.
- Weisberg, Joseph
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Two embattled spies go to extraordinary lengths to keep their informants out of harm's way in this dramatic portrait of modern espionage.
Mysteries
- Cohen, Gabriel
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In the chill of winter, Detective Jack Leightner's investigation takes him on a whirlwind tour of hidden parts of New York Harbor and the graving docks of the old Brooklyn Navy Yard.
- George, Kathleen
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In the humid dog days of a Pittsburgh summer weekend, Richard Christie, Head of Homicide, faces not one, but two mysterious murders. The victims — a polite woman and an angelic child — do not seem to be connected in any obvious way. Christie is short-handed, the clues don't stack up, and he's got a rookie detective, Colleen Greer, to look out for. Kathleen George's novels have been praised for their subtle rendering of character and relationships — whether those relationships are among detectives or in the families of criminals.
- Grafton, Sue
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In what may be her most unsettling novel to date, Sue Grafton's T is for Trespass is also her most direct confrontation with the forces of evil. Beginning with the day-to-day life of a private eye, Grafton shifts from the voice of Kinsey Millhone to that of Solana Rojas, introducing readers to a chilling sociopath. Rojas is not her birth name. It is an identity she cunningly stole, an identity that gives her access to private caregiving jobs. The true horror of the novel builds with excruciating tension as the reader foresees the awfulness that lies ahead. The suspense lies in whether Millhone will realize what is happening in time to intervene.
- Martin, P. D.
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When an elite group of serial killers form The Murderers Club, they communicate online and use a secure Web site to watch footage of their captured victims. FBI profiler Sophie Anderson and Detective Darren Carter begin investigating the killings after one of the victims escapes.
- Mosley, Walter
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Is there anyone who doesn't wonder now and again about how differently their life could have turned out? Ben Dibbuk is married to the beautiful Mona, has a lovely daughter and a well-paid job in NYC — but he's been locked in this dream for more years than he can say. Nothing can prepare Ben for his chance meeting with Star, a mysterious woman at a launch for the hip magazine Diablerie, because Star claims to share a gruesome secret that Ben just can't remember. Has Star spun a diabolical web of lies, or could it be that something terrible really did happen back in June 1979?
- O'Hehir, Diana
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With her genre-bending mix of literary and crime fiction, O'Hehir plots a mystery as intricate as the inner workings of the mind.
- Pattison, Eliot
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Former Beijing investigator Shan becomes our Don Quixote. "Set against a background that is alternately bleak and blazingly beautiful, this is at once a top-notch thriller and a substantive look at Tibet under siege." Publisher's Weekly
- Rankin, Ian
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Bombs are exploding in the streets of London, but life seems to have planted more subtle booby traps for Miles Flint. Miles is a spy. His job is to watch and to listen, then to report back to his superiors, nothing more. He wants, just for once, not to botch a case. Having lost one suspect — with horrific consequences — Miles becomes too involved with another, a young Irishwoman. But Miles is given one last chance for redemption — a trip to Belfast, which quickly becomes a flight of terror, murder and shocking discoveries. But can the voyeur survive in a world of violent action? Fans of Rankin's Inspector Rebus series will welcome the U.S. publication of his second novel, a stand-alone spy thriller from 1988.
- Scott, Justin
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When Newbury Connecticut's 300- year-old village cemetery is invaded by a gaudy, half-million dollar mausoleum, Ben Abbott is not happy.
- Soule, Maris
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It's bad enough that a man died in P.J. Benson's dining room, but when her neighbors tell her they've had genetically altered ladybugs stolen and potentially lethal beatles may now be hidden on her property, P.J.'s life turns chaotic.
Horror/Science Fiction/Fantasy
- Anderson, Kevin J.
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In the aftermath of a devastating war, a forgotten terror awakens in this latest installment of The Saga of the Seven Suns, a galaxy-spanning epic packed with politics, war, family intrigues and star-crossed lovers.
- Butcher, Jim
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After two years of bitter conflict with the hordes of invading Canim, Tavi of Calderon realizes that a peril far greater than the Canim exists — the terrifying Vord. Now, Tavi must find a way to overcome the centuries-old animosities between Aleran and Cane if an alliance is to be forged against their mutual enemy.
- Cochrane, Julie
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The sequel to Cally's War features the return of Cally O'Neal's sister Michelle, the first human Sohon Mentat, in a novel about life, love and covert operations among the universe's ultimate dysfunctional family.
- Coe, David B.
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In the world of the Winds of the Forelands series, across the sea in the Southlands, a mysterious plague is heightening tensions among three groups: the Qirsi, who wield life-draining magic; the Mettai, who cast spells with blood and earth; and the nonmagical Eandi.
- Elrod, P. N.
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Werewolves, vampires and Elvis populate this collection of all new and original supernatural wedding stories from such award-winning authors as Sherrilyn Kenyon, Charlaine Harris, L.A. Banks and Jim Butcher.
- Howard, Madeline
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More than a century has passed since the struggle between the wizards and the mages ended in their mutual destruction, and more than 40 years since the Empress Ouriana became the Divine Incarnation of the Devouring Moon. Appointing 12 deadly sorcerers as her priests, she rules the land in darkness unending. Yet there is a small chance for hope, if one foreordained princess can survive. But she has vanished behind enemy lines, and even a brave band of heroes may not be able to reach her in time.
- Parker, K. J.
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The third book of the The Engineer Trilogy follows an embittered hero who takes up arms against his enemies using the only weapons he has left to him: his ingenuity and his passion.
- Resnick, Mike
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The Teddy R. is turned into a mercenary ship, hiring out to the highest bidder. But the life of a mercenary is not always predictable, and eventually circumstance pits Captain Wilson Cole and the Teddy R. against his right-hand woman. Soon the fragile trust that has grown between these two legends is put to the test.
- Spencer, Wen
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Faced with genocide at the hands of the alien Nefrim, humans search for a miracle. That miracle may be Captain Mikhail Volkov, who discovers a secret that might save the human race.
- Wellington, David
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Six months have passed since Laura Caxton nearly died at the hands of a pack of vicious vampires. Now, she's being called to a recently unearthed tomb holding the skeletons of 99 vampires — and one coffin that is ominously empty.