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Fiction, August 2008
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General Fiction
- Auster, Paul
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Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget.
- Buchanan, Edna
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author launches a new series featuring former U.S. Marshall Michael Venturi, who quits the witness protection program to become a one-man freelance identity wizard.
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
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Considered one of the greatest dramatists of all time, Chekhov actually began his literary career as a crime and mystery writer. Sekirin brings together these psychological suspense stories in a premier collection that provides a fresh look into Chekhov's literary heritage.
- Davies, Adam
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A nail-biting thriller about deception, betrayal and ownership — in art and in love — Mine All Mine is also a quirky and hilarious romantic comedy.
- Harvey, Michael
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Harvey's sizzling follow-up to The Chicago Way opens with murder in contemporary Chicago and winds its way back to Mrs. O'Leary's cow and the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
- Kimmel, Haven
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The fourth novel by the best-selling author tells the terrifying story of a young woman who, after recovering a horrific, long-suppressed memory, discovers that much of her present-day life is a carefully constructed delusion.
- Koryta, Michael
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From Edgar Award finalist author Koryta comes a dark and mature novel of a young man trying to escape his past.
- Krasikov, Sana
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Krasikov's debut collection features stories of people who hold out hope, despite the odds, that life will be kind to them.
- Kyle, Barbara
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In the tradition of best-selling author Philippa Gregory comes a spellbinding, unforgettable historical novel set in the court of King Henry VIII.
- Lakhani, Anisha
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In this vibrant debut novel, a young teacher in an elite private school walks into a windfall — and a world she never could have imagined — when she becomes a homework tutor to the children of New York's super-rich.
- Martin, Esteban
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A riveting tale of intellectual suspense that seamlessly blends fiction with art, architecture and Christian history, The Gaudi Key is a masterful tale of suspense set in modern Barcelona.
- Melikan, Rose
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Charlotte Bronte meets Agatha Christie in this entertaining historical adventure novel about an intrepid young woman caught up in drama and danger during the Napoleonic wars.
- Pelecanos, George P.
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One afternoon in 1972, three teenagers drove into an unfamiliar neighborhood and six lives were altered forever. Thirty-five years later, one survivor of that day reaches out to another. But another survivor is now out of prison, looking for reparation in any form he can find it.
- Perez-Reverte, Arturo
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Seville, 1626. After serving with honor at the bloody siege of Breda, Captain Alatriste and his protégé, Inigo Balboa, have returned: battle-weary, short of cash and with few prospects for honest work. But the Spanish empire is as dangerous as ever, and it’s not long before Alatriste receives an intriguing offer of short-term employment — from the king himself.
- Picardie, Justine
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A haunting novel that illuminates the true story of Daphne du Maurier's fascination with the Brontés, Daphne is a marvelous story of literary fascination and possession.
- Radulescu, Domnica
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A young Romanian woman flees both Ceausescu's Romania and her lover, who she fears is an informant, for America — only to return later at the urging of her dying father.
- Rivas, Manuel
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The everyday lives of the memorable Galician characters may be harsh and filled with pain and solitude, but their situations are always redeemed by humor and tenderness in this collection of stories by prize-winning Spanish writer Manuel Rivas.
- Sakey, Marcus
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The author of The Blade Itself returns with this dazzling thriller in which a couple in search of the American Dream is drawn into a world of criminals, double-crossing and unspeakable revenge.
- Shaffer, Mary Ann
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As London is emerging from the shadow of World War II, writer Juliet Ashton discovers her next subject in a book club on Guernsey — a club born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi when its members are discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island.
- Subercaseaux, Elizabeth
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Clara Griffin, the beautiful wife of a successful architect, confronts a life-threatening illness while recording her thoughts and experiences in her journal in the guise of a novel. Her husband discovers the notebook and is stunned: How does she know that he had a mistress all these years? Could it be true that his wife had an affair with one of his colleagues? Is this just a fictional story — or his wife’s personal diary as she awaits death?
- Woodward, Gerard
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Shortlisted for the Whitbread Award, this first novel is the life of a family through 15 summer trips to Wales.
Mysteries
- Bannister, Jo
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Although she has been trying to put her work, running a one-woman detective agency, on hold while she cares for her new baby, Brodie soon learns that taking time off is not as easy as it sounds.
- Barnes, Linda
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Boston P.I. Carlotta Carlyle turns to the mystery in her own life — her on-again, off-again boyfriend Sam Gianelli — in this latest installment in Barnes' private eye series.
- Biddle, Cordelia
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When the daughter of one of Philadelphia's finest families disappears, Martha Beale once more joins forces with her secret beau, Thomas Kelman, to trace the heiress. But what appears to be a kidnapping takes a darker turn and complex clues implicate rich and poor alike.
- Crosby, Ellen
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Crosby's third tale of suspense set amidst the vines of Virginia wine country involves a 200-year-old bottle of Bordeaux that may just be a wine to die for.
- Finch, Charles
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In the small hours of the morning one fall day in 1866, a frantic widow visits detective Charles Lenox. Lady Annabelle’s problem is simple: her beloved son, George, has vanished from his room at Oxford. When Lenox visits his alma mater to investigate, he discovers a series of bizarre clues, including a murdered cat and a card cryptically referring to the September Society.
- French, Tana
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Six months after the events of In the Woods, Detective Cassie Maddox is still trying to recover. Then she's called to the scene of his new case: a young woman found stabbed to death in a small town outside Dublin. The dead girl's ID says her name is Lexie Madison — the identity Cassie used years ago as an undercover detective — and she looks exactly like Cassie.
- Goldenbaum, Sally
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Not long after Isabel Chambers opens up a knitting shop in a sleepy fishing town, a diverse group of women begins congregating each week to form the Seaside Knitters. When several strange incidents occur in the apartment above the shop, the Seaside Knitters smell something fishy.
- Granger, Ann
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It's 1864 and Lizzie Martin is leaving London for the south coast of England to be the companion of Lucy Craven, a teenager who lives in seclusion with her aunts and has recently lost an infant daughter to illness. While Lucy proves a bit moody, she hardly seems deranged, and the girl's aunts are clearly withholding something. Tensions come to a head when a man is found dead in the garden, stabbed with a knife from the aunts' home.
- Hogan, Michael
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A wealthy woman is dead in Hartford, Connecticut, and the cause of death is anyone's guess. Was it suicide? Murder? Natural causes? The cause will determine the payout of her estate, and there are as many possibilities as there are suspects.
- Larsson, Åsa
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A grisly torture-murder, a haunting northern Sweden backdrop, and a dark drama of twisted sexuality collide in a tale of menace, hope, longing and darkness.
- Maron, Margaret
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Unchecked urbanization has begun to eclipse the North Carolina countryside. In the shadows, corrupt county commissioners make profitable deals with new developers. A murder will pull Judge Deborah Knott and Dwight Bryant into the middle of this bitter dispute and force them to confront some dark realities.
- Ramsay, Frederick
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Southern sheriff Ike Schwartz and FBI agent Karl Hedrick must investigate the mystery of a murder in the "stranger room," a place of protection for a family expecting trouble, in a historic house that is being restored by its owner.
- Reichs, Kathy
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Reichs — best-selling author, forensic anthropologist and producer of the television hit Bones — returns to Charlotte, North Carolina, in her 11th Temperance Brennan novel where Tempe encounters a deadly mix of voodoo and devil worship.
- Sansom, Ian
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Israel Armstrong, one of literature's most unlikely detectives, returns for more adventure in this third novel in the Mobile Library series. The hunt for a missing book mobile leads him on a twisting trail through the countryside in pursuit of a convoy of dreadlocked New Age travelers.
- Wall, Carolyn D.
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This may be the coldest winter on record in Kentucky, but that doesn't keep the elusive Hunt Club from tracking silver-faced wolves on Olivia's strip of mountain. It falls to her and Will'm to figure out why as the hunters turn their sights on them, too, in this searing and surprising debut novel.
- Walters, Michael
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A serial killer is loose on the streets of Ulan Bataar, Mongolia, and Nergui, the former head of the Serious Crimes squad, is no closer to catching the killer and will accept any help he can get. Drew McLeish, a senior British CID officer, is sent out to lend his expertise to the investigation.
Horror/Science Fiction/Fantasy
- Bear, Greg
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Do you dream of a city at the end of time? In a time like the present, in a world that may or may not be our own, three young people dream of a doomed, decadent city of the distant future: the Kalpa. The young heroes, each assigned to protect a fragment of the universe's history, must survive long enough to pass that knowledge onto the new universe that is being born.
- Bova, Ben
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Jamie Waterman has discovered that an intelligent race lived on Mars 65 million years ago. Now the exploration of Mars is under threat of extinction, as the ultraconservative New Morality movement gains control of the U.S. government and cuts off all funding for the Mars program.
- Buckell, Tobias S.
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Fourteen-year-old Timas lives in one of the domed cities that float 100,000 feet above the surface of a planet plagued by corrosive rain, crushing pressure and deadly heat. But to make a living, Timas is lowered to the surface in an armored suit to scavenge what he can.
- Nevins, Thomas
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In a world where Big Brother runs amok, a powerful political party known as the Conglomerates has emerged, vowing to enforce economic martial law at any cost. In his debut, Nevins chronicles a brave new world where one family struggles to survive.
- Niven, Larry
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Covert agent Sigmund Ausfaller is Earth's secret weapon, humanity's best defense against all conspiracies — real and imagined. Who better than a brilliant paranoid to expose the devious plots of others?
- Resnick, Michael D.
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In the imaginary Manhattan of Resnick's John Justin Mallory series, Halloween is the biggest holiday of the year. On this night when ghosts and goblins are out celebrating, detective Mallory must stalk the vampire who has threatened his assistant, Winnifred Carruthers, and killed her nephew.
- Ringo, John
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In the second decade of the 21st century, the world is struck by two catastrophes: a new mini-ice age and a plague to dwarf all previous experiences. An American Army officer struggles to prevent the fall of his homeland — despite others' efforts to stop him.
- Thompson, Eldon
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To protect his people from the demonic Illysp, Torin, king of Alson, made the ultimate sacrifice. Now, as his best friend and his former love seek to salvage the shattered lands beyond their borders, a treacherous assault costs them their most powerful weapon — the fabled Crimson Sword. Hopelessly outmatched, Pentania's citizens must fight to flee their conquered homeland or else perish.