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Fiction, February 2008
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General Fiction
- Barnes, Jonathan
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This extraordinary tale involves Edward Moon, stage magician and detective, his silent sidekick the Somnambulist, and a devilish plot to re-create the apocalyptic prophecies of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and bring the British Empire crashing down.
- Becka, Elizabeth
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Evelyn James is called to investigate two different murders of women in very high security penthouse suites. When her best friend Marissa, the DNA analyst, is attacked by the same man, things get personal.
- Cain, Tom
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The Accident Man ponders: If Princess Diana had been murdered, what sort of man would have killed her?
- Cameron, Julia
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From the writer who created The Artist's Way comes an enchanting and magical love story. Anna, a teacher by day and a medium by night, falls hard for her downstairs neighbor, a reserved concert pianist.
- Carey, Peter
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Raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, Che is the precocious son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late 1960s. Yearning for his famous outlaw parents, he bravely confronts his life, learning that nothing is what it seems.
- Carson, Ciaran
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A new translation brings Ireland's greatest epic tale alive for a new generation.
- Charyn, Jerome
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This comic novel reimagines the American Revolution with a one-eyed spy, a heroic whorehouse madam and a cunning George Washington.
- Choi, Susan
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Lee is a math professor at a second-tier university in the Midwest. When a mail bomb goes off in the office of the star computer scientist next door, Lee is slow to realize that students and colleagues have begun to suspect that he's the Brain Bomber, an elusive terrorist whose primary targets appear to be academic hotshots.
- Chupack, Ed
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These are the savage, heart-pounding memoirs of Treasure Island's Long John Silver — a pirate and a charming, unapologetic murderer in search of lost treasure.
- D'Souza, Tony
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Francisco D'Sai is a firstborn son of a firstborn son in a long line of proud Konkans. His mother and his uncle Sam feed Francisco's imagination with proud visions of India and Konkan history, in this novel filled with romance, comedy and masterful storytelling.
- Drew, Alan
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Powerful, emotional, and beautifully written, Drew's first novel brings to life two unforgettable families — one Kurdish, one American — and the sacrifice and love that bind them together.
- Fabre, Dominique
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Pierre, a lifelong Parisian waiter, watches people come and go, sizing them up with great accuracy and empathy. Pierre doesn't look outside too much; he prefers to let the world come to him. When the café goes under, Pierre finds himself at a loss. As we follow his stream of thought over three days, Pierre's humanity and profound solitude are revealed. Dominique Fabre won the Marcel Pagnol Prize for Fantmes in 2001. The Waitress Was New is his first book to appear in English.
- Helnwein, Mercedes
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In the offbeat spirit of such classics as What's Eating Gilbert Grape? comes a quirky, witty, road trip novel that travels the heartland of America to uncover an unlikely relationship between two adolescent outcasts, a fat kid and a Jesus freak.
- Holt, Anne
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All over Oslo, celebrities are turning up dead in the most macabre of situations. It's clear that the killer seeks some sort of retribution, but for what? New parents Adam Stubo and Johanna Vik are reluctantly drawn into the investigation.
- Matthews, Carole
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Forget diamonds, chocolate is a girl’s best friend! Matthews crafts a rich and satisfying novel of female friendship.
- Parker, T. Jefferson
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Los Angeles is gripped by the exploding celebrity of Allison Murietta, a modern-day Jesse James with the compulsion to steal, the vanity to invite the media along, and the conscience to donate much of her take to charity. Nobody ever gets hurt until a job ends with ten gangsters dead and a half million dollars worth of diamonds missing.
- Poster, Jem
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In the winter of 1881 John Stannard, a young architect, is in self-imposed exile in a remote English village, carrying out repairs to the parish church. Arrogant and insensitive to what he considers superstition and sentimental attachment to the past, he soon begins to inflict serious damage on the ancient building as well as on those with whom he comes into contact — most notably the beautiful, ambitious young local girl Ann Rosewell.
- Sewell, Kitty
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Sewell's atmospheric debut novel of suspense transports readers to the arctic Canadian wilderness, where a man makes one mistake but pays dearly for another.
- Sheers, Owen
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After the fall of Russia and the failed D-Day landings, a German counterattack lands on British soil. Within a month, half of Britain is occupied. Sheers's debut novel unfolds with the pace and intensity of a thriller.
- Shroff, Murzban F.
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Shroff's vibrant narratives in this collection of 14 stories set in contemporary Bombay feature a range of beautifully drawn characters in fascinating situations: from the laundrywallas' water shortage problems, to the doomed love affair of a schizophrenic painter and his Bollywood girlfriend, to the wandering thoughts of a massagewalla at Chowpatty Beach, to the heart-warming relationship of a carriage driver and his beloved horse.
- Swift, Sue
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A decade ago the parents of half-French, half-Algerian Ani Sharif were murdered while she attended a girls' school in Algiers. Wanting to enact vengeance, but not knowing how, she obtains undercover work for the United States Security Agency, who knows her background makes her perfect for espionage work.
Mysteries
- Akunin, Boris
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In Special Assignments, Erast Fandorin, nineteenth-century Russia’s suavest sleuth, faces two formidable new foes: one steals outrageous sums of money, the other takes lives.
- Gunn, Elizabeth
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Ambitious Tucson police detective Sarah Burke, still smarting from a painful divorce, tries to concentrate on a body found in a parking lot. The case takes a bizarre turn when Sarah's young niece, neglected by her substance-abusing mother, disappears.
- Mina, Denise
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Slip of the Knife features Paddy Meehan, one of the most praised heroines since Kathy Reich's Temperance Brennan. Paddy is no stranger to murder — as a reporter she lives at crime scenes — but nothing has prepared her for this visit from the police.
- Scottoline, Lisa
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A young woman searches for her missing rival from high school and gets more than she bargained for in this latest thriller from the author of Daddy's Girl
- Webb, Betty
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While scouting locations for a film documentary in Arizona, private investigator Lena Jones discovers the mutilated body of a young girl. As the death toll mounts, Lena is tempted to implement some frontier justice of her own.
- White, Jenny
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Nineteenth-century Istanbul thrills in this page-turner about a conspiracy to steal an ancient reliquary whose secret could change the world.
Horror/Science Fiction/Fantasy
- Asprin, Robert
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Skeeve has decided to come out of his self-imposed retirement and get back into the problem-solving biz. He confidently expected to walk in and take his rightful place as the head of M.Y.T.H., Inc. He didn't expect to have to face off against Aahz for the job. Will the legendary partnership survive the battle, or will this be the end of a beautiful friendship?
- Banks, Iain
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The Culture is a far-future society of seemingly limitless resources and infinite technological possibilities. Yet the Culture is far from perfect, and it is still subject to brutal wars, political upheaval and intrusions from beyond the edges of known space.
- Farrell, S. L.
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Over the centuries, the city of Nessantico spread its influence in all directions, subsuming and converting the majority of other religions and lesser gods within the Holdings. Always strong, always magnificent, always seductive and desirable, Nessantico gathered to itself all that was intellectual, all that was rich, all that was powerful. There was no city in the known world that could rival it — but there were many who envied it.
- Harrison, Kim
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To save the lives of her friends, Rachel did the unthinkable: she willingly trafficked in forbidden demon magic. Now her sins are coming home to haunt her.
- Martinez, A. Lee
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Even in Empire city, a town where weird science is the hope of tomorrow, it's hard for a robot to make his way — even for a hulking machine designed to bring humankind to its knees.
- McDermott, J. M.
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Zhan has been sent to find her grandfather, a man accused of killing not only Zhan's family, but every man, woman and child in their village. What she finds is a shell of a man and a web of deceit that will test the very foundations of a world she thought she understood.
- Melko, Paul
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A new voice in science fiction makes his debut with this novel about what happens after 90 percent of humanity leaves Earth, and the remaining humans recover from this trauma with a vigorous space program.
- Rardin, Jennifer
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The Raptor, the CIA's longtime nemesis, is back. Jaz Parks and her vampire boss Vayl are asked to join her brother David's special ops team to take him down. But when her spirit guide tells her that she's being led to the wrong man, and she starts asking the wrong questions, her life — and her job — are threatened.
- Taylor, Travis
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Gateway HD 36951 lies in ruins. All survivors slaughtered. A single, truncated message sent back to Earth and the A.S.S. Vorpal Blade — nuclear submarine converted to warp-drive space ship — is sent to investigate. But the ferocious, voracious enemy Dreen wait for no man or other carbon-based lifeform, and the Blade and her crew are soon the only hope for an alien species pushed to the brink of extinction.
- Van Name, Mark L.
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Science fiction writers, including Hugo winner David D. Levine, explore such diverse technologies as computing, communications, genetics, biology and nanotechnology in stories that take readers where no human has gone before — but where many might one day go.