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Fiction, July 2008
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General Fiction
- Al-Azzawi, Fadhil
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Al-Azzawi pens this magical, comic and ultimately profound story of Kirkuk, Iraq, and looks at life there 50 years ago.
- Baulenas, Lluis-Anton
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"Set in Franco Spain in 1949, Barcelona novelist and playwright Baulenas's revenge tale of Legionnaire Sgt. Gení's Aleu is drenched in desolation, fear and cruelty." Publishers Weekly
- Cabot, Meg H.
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Rumor has it that the Queen of Babble is getting married — or is she? Find out in the third installment in the delightfully charming series.
- Carey, Mike
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Following in the footsteps of Neil Gaiman and Jim Butcher, comic book writer Carey presents his second hip supernatural thriller featuring freelance exorcist Felix Castor.
- Cassella, Carol Wiley
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A compelling, complex and riveting debut by a real-life anesthesiologist, Oxygen is at once a lyrically written medical adventure and a heartfelt drama in the tradition of Chris Bohjalian's Midwives and Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper.
- Connors, Charlotte
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Full of sass, grit and good old-fashioned faith, How Dolly Parton Saved My Life is a hilarious and poignant look at friendship with a distinctly Southern flair.
- Dufresne, John
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In the tragicomic mode of his bestselling Louisiana Power & Light comes Dufresne's hilarious and tenderhearted novel about a son's attempts to save his dysfunctional family.
- Gortner, C. W.
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One of history's most enigmatic women tells the haunting, passionate story of her tumultuous life. From the somber majesty of Renaissance Spain to the glittering courts of Flanders, France and Tudor England, Juana of Castile reveals her life and secrets.
- Greenland, Seth
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From the author of The Bones comes this witty and sexy satire about how contemporary American culture defines right and wrong, good and bad.
- Hallinan, Timothy
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Writer Poke Rafferty is ready to let go of his adventure travel books and the dangerous lifestyle that goes with them, and settle down in Bangkok with his fiancée and his newly adopted daughter. But trouble isn't ready to let go of Poke. Enter the one person Poke least wants to see in the entire world — a person whose emotional hold on Poke is absolute. With him come a box of rubies, a wad of fraudulent identity papers and one of the most dangerous gangsters in China.
- Klavan, Andrew
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Sustained by a deep religious faith, Jason Harrow has built a stable family and become a pillar of principle and patriotism. Then the phone rings, and a woman with whom he once shared a life of violence and desire claims her daughter is missing — and Jason is the one man who can find her.
- Kushner, Rachel
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Kushner's ambitious debut is a wise and riveting novel set in the American community in Cuba during the years leading to Castro's revolution.
- McLarty, Ron
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McLarty pens a funny and heartwarming novel about a down-on-his-luck writer who finally finds success and love.
- O'Flynn, Catherine
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Long-listed for the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and The Guardian First Book Award, What Was Lost is a tender and sharply observant debut novel about a missing young girl.
- Rimington, Stella
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The new installment in Rimington's series of frighteningly authentic (Chicago Tribune) espionage thrillers features the fiercely intelligent, ambitious MI5 officer Liz Carlyle.
- Salem, J. J.
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Hot, sexy and chic, Salem's Tan Lines is an addictive story about the passions, triumphs and heartbreaks of three women told with a sly intelligence and luscious prose.
- Shakespeare, Nicholas
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Torn by tragedy from his early life on a remote farm in Tasmania, Alex Dove has returned years later to start over. A chance encounter with quiet, alluring Merridy Bowman — a young woman similarly haunted by a tangled and catastrophic history — results in marriage. But when a shipwreck off the shore thrusts a troubled, possibly criminal teenage castaway into their world, Alex and Merridy's tenuously forged happiness is suddenly at grave risk.
- Slaughter, Karin
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When Atlanta housewife Abigail Campano comes home unexpectedly one afternoon, she walks into a nightmare. A broken window, a bloody footprint on the stairs and, most devastating of all, the horrifying sight of her teenage daughter lying dead on the landing, a man standing over her with a bloody knife. The struggle which follows changes Abigail’s life forever.
- Winfield, Jess
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Seemingly separated in time and place, the lives of Willie Shakespeare Greenberg, a struggling UC Santa Cruz grad student, and would-be playwright William Shakespeare begin to intersect in curious ways, from harrowing encounters with the law (and a few ex-girlfriends) to dubious experiments with mind-altering substances
Mysteries
- Bowen, Rhys
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Bowen's hilarious mystery features penniless aristocrat Lady Georgie, a feisty new heroine to delight a legion of Anglophile readers.
- Burke, James Lee
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Detective Dave Robicheaux returns in another adventure — only this time, he travels from New Iberia Parish to the wilds of Montana.
- Crombie, Deborah
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Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James must connect murders past and present to catch a ruthless killer in this latest entry in the award-winning mystery series.
- Darnton, John
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A newspaper editor is found dead at the New York Globe and when NYPD detective Priscilla Bollingsworth investigates, she finds a whole slew of potential suspects.
- Genelin, Michael
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Jana Matinova, a commander in the Slovak police force, liaises with colleagues across Europe as they track the mastermind of an international criminal operation involved in human trafficking. Her investigation takes her from Ukraine to Strasbourg, from Vienna to Nice, in a hunt for a ruthless killer and the beautiful young Russian woman he is determined either to capture or destroy.
- Grabien, Deborah
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The last thing the members of Hall of Fame rock and roll band Blacklight need to hear is that ruthless tabloid biographer Perry Dillon is planning a tell-all history of their group. Opening night at Madison Square Garden encores with a corpse in their lead guitarist's dressing room, leaving Blacklight in the middle of a media frenzy.
- Haines, Kathryn Miller
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The second suspenseful and atmospheric World War II mystery starring aspiring actress Rosie Winters brings wartime New York City beautifully to life.
- Howell, Dorothy
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Witty, smart and always chic-to-die despite a less than glam checking account balance, Haley Randolph has it all — Gucci, Prada, Chanel, Coach, Burberry — and she'd kill for the newest Louis Vuitton handbag. It seems she's not the only one. When someone's passion for designer purses leads to murder, Haley goes shopping for a killer to clear her name.
- Lecard, Marc
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In this fast-paced crime story — sure to appeal to fans of Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen — an eccentric thug attempts to extort a brilliant scientist over a bit of nano-technology.
- Malliet, G. M.
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"Detective Chief Inspector St. Just and Detective Sergeant Fear of the Cambridgeshire constabulary conduct a lively investigation that underscores how the lack and the love of money might be at the root of society's ills." Publishers Weekly
- Thomas, Will
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Victorian enquiry agent Cyrus Barker and his apprentice Thomas Llewelyn must save London from an invasion of the Sicilian mafia.
Horror/Science Fiction/Fantasy
- Abraham, Daniel
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Otah Machi, ruler of the city of Machi, has tried for years to prepare his people for a future in which the magical andat, entities that support their commerce and intimidate all foes, can no longer be safely harnessed. But his efforts are too little, too late.
- Bear, Elizabeth
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Kit Marley, playwright and spy in the service of Queen Elizabeth, has been murdered. His true gift to Her Majesty was crafting plays infused with a subtle magic that maintained her rule. He performed this task on behalf of the Prometheus Club, a secret society of nobles engaged in battle against sorcerers determined to destroy England. Assuming Marley's role is William Shakespeare — but he is unable to create the magic needed to hold the Queen's enemies at bay.
- Bova, Ben
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Ben Bova takes a sardonic look at the humorous possibilities of future technology.
- Brust, Steven
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Fresh from the collapse of his marriage, and with the criminal Jhereg organization out to eliminate him, Vlad decides to hide out among his relatives in faraway Fenario. But the longer he stays there, the stranger it becomes. No one will tell him where to find his relatives. Vlad is going to have to do his sleuthing amidst an alien people: his own.
- Cooper, Brenda
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The colony planet of Fremont was supposed to be free of all genetically altered beings. So when Chelo, her brother Joseph, and others were abandoned on Fremont, they were not welcome. Joseph managed to escape, but Chelo was left behind, in this latest work in the Silver Ship saga.
- Harrison, Kim
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To save herself and her vampire roommate, former bounty hunter Rachel Morgan must confront an ancient evil and dark secrets she has hidden even from herself.
- Knight, E. E.
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Freedom is on the march as the rebellion against the Kurian Occupation of Earth takes the offensive. David Valentine has recruited an ad hoc company of former Quisling soldiers and puts them through a trial by fire with a successful raid against an enemy armory. But nothing could prepare Valentine's fighters for what awaits them at the end of their journey.
- Kress, Nancy
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Tessa Sanderson, ex-FBI agent, has moved to a sleepy Maryland town to escape her tragic past. When the town's beloved dogs begin viciously attacking pet owners, federal CDC agents determine that the dogs are carrying a mutated flu affecting the aggression center of their brains. Tessa offers to help round up and quarantine the dogs, even though some unconvinced locals are preparing to protect their pets by any means necessary. But she has another reason for getting involved — someone has been sending her threatening emails in Arabic claiming responsibility for the virus, and Tessa is resolved to go deep undercover to expose this deadly conspiracy.
- Novik, Naomi
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It is a grim time for the dragon Temeraire. On the heels of his mission to Africa, seeking the cure for a deadly contagion, he has been removed from military service — and his captain, Will Laurence, has been condemned to death for treason. For Britain, conditions are grimmer still: Napoleon's resurgent forces have breached the Channel and successfully invaded English soil. Can master and dragon be reunited to rally Britain's scattered forces?
- Patterson, James
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Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer with the Panoply. His beat is the multi-faceted utopian society of the Glitter Band. His current case: investigating a murderous attack against one of the habitats that leaves nine hundred people dead. But then his investigation uncovers something even more potentially dangerous — a covert plot by an enigmatic entity seeking nothing less than total control of the Glitter Band.
- Stross, Charles
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Freya Nakamichi 47 is a femmebot, one of the last of her kind. With no humans left to pay for the pleasures she provides, she agrees to transport a mysterious package from Mercury to Mars. Unfortunately, there are some humanoids who will stop at nothing to possess the contents of the package.
- Wilkins, Kim
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When an ancient gold bear is found walled up in a dilapidated St. Petersburg bathhouse, researcher Daniel St. Clair and his frosty colleague Em Hayward set out for the university in Arkhangelsk to verify its age. Along the way they are mysteriously set adrift. Lost and exhausted they turn north, sinking even deeper into the secrets and terrors of the Russian landscape.