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Fiction, March 2009
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General Fiction
- Bell, James Scott
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Two bodies in an isolated canyon. A fortune in diamonds missing. The love of money is the root of many kinds of evil, and for Liz Towne those roots grow deep. Deep enough to lead to murder. But is Liz too clever for her own good?
- Calvo, Javier
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Calvo brings together a cast of intriguing characters in a haunting tale full of scandalous behavior and dangerous crimes in his English-language debut novel set in Barcelona.
- Celorio, Gonzalo
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Professor Juan Manuel Barrientos prefers footsteps to footnotes. Fighting a hangover, he manages to keep his appointment to lead a group of students on a walking lecture among the historic buildings of downtown Mexico City. When the students fail to show up, however, he undertakes a solo tour that includes more cantinas than cathedrals.
- D'Amato, Brian
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A mind-bending, time-bending, zeitgeist-defining novel about the days leading up to December 21, 2012 — the day the Maya predicted the world would end.
- Fallada, Hans
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This never-before-translated masterpiece is based on a true story. It presents a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis and tells the sweeping saga of one working-class couple who decides to take a stand when their only son is killed at the front.
- Franklin, Ariana
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Adelia returns once again as Franklin combines the best of modern forensic thrillers with the detail and drama of medieval fiction in this enthralling historical novel, the third in the Mistress of the Art of Death series.
- Humphreys, Helen
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The Frozen Thames contains 40 vignettes based on events that actually took place each time the river froze between 1142 and 1895.
- Kane, Ben
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Set in the late Roman Republic, in the first century B.C.E., The Forgotten Legion is a tale of the greatest empire of the ancient world from the perspective of those on the lowest rungs of its society.
- Korzenko, Julie
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Chastised for not cooperating with the oil company giant New World Petroleum, zoologist Cassidy Lowell is reassigned from the jungles of the Niger Delta to Yellowstone National Park, where wolves are disappearing. Jake Anderson, Special Forces operative, is working within the shadows of Cassidy's organization, Zoological Environmental Bio Research Agency. His mission? To determine the threatening connection between ZEBRA and NWP.
- Lathan, Sharon
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The first in a series that follows Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy from their wedding day into married life — inspired by the Keira Knightley/Matthew MacFayden movie.
- Lippman, Laura
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Author Cassandra Fallows has achieved remarkable success by baring her life on the page. Her two widely popular memoirs continue to sell briskly, acclaimed for their brutal, unexpurgated candor about friends, family, lovers — and herself. But now, after an unsuccessful stab at fiction, Cassandra believes she may have found the story that will enable her triumphant return to nonfiction.
- McNeil, Gil
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When her husband dies in a car crash — not long after announcing he wants a divorce — Jo Mackenzie packs up her two rowdy boys and moves from London to a dilapidated villa in her seaside hometown. There, she takes over her beloved Gran's knitting shop — a quaint but out-of-date store in desperate need of a facelift. After a rough beginning, Jo soon finds comfort in a "Stitch and Bitch" group; a collection of quirky, lively women who share their stories, and their addiction to cake, with warmth and humor.
- Rock, Peter
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In the tradition of Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild, Rock's My Abandonment, inspired by a true story, offers a riveting and unsettling account of a girl and her father who live off the grid in the forest park outside Portland, Oregon.
- Samson, Lisa
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Destined for a life as a religious sister, Mary-Margaret Danaher can hardly believe it when the Spirit tells her she must marry the troubled boy who befriended her as a child, forsaking the only life she ever wanted for a man she will never love.
- Sanchez Pinol, Albert
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A brilliant tongue-in-cheek pulp African adventure with echoes of Heart of Darkness and King Solomon's Mines, Pandora in the Congo is, at its heart, a literary exploration of imagination, reminding readers that there is rarely one version to any story and always more than meets the eye.
- Sher, Ira
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In this gorgeously written book, Sher chronicles a surreal road trip and uses the Singer Sewing Company as a metaphor for the erosion of America.
- Steinhauer, Olen
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In the vein of John le Carré and Graham Greene, this contemporary international thriller follows Milo Weaver as he is drawn into a conspiracy that links riots in the Sudan, an assassin committting suicide and an old friend whos been accused of selling secrets to the Chinese.
- Wa(i)ties, Martyn
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When the savagely beaten body of a Muslim student is discovered in a rundown area of Newcastle, blame falls on the far right National Unity Party — but for once they appear to be innocent. Joe Donovan, the hero of Waites' trilogy of thrillers, is called in to investigate.
Mysteries
- Argula, Anne
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Quinn, a sharp-tongued private investigator in Seattle who’s been busy waving goodbye to her philandering husband while fanning her hot flashes with her other hand, has just bumped into a case that threatens to expose the compassionate heart beneath her hard-boiled exterior.
- Arellano, Robert
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Inspired by 50 years of Cuban literary noir, Havana Lunar intertwines an insider testimony on the collapse of socialist Cuba with a psychological mystery.
- Ault, Sandi
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Wild Indigo and Wild Inferno introduced rough and ready Bureau of Land Management agent Jamaica Wild. Now, as the icy chill of winter looms, Jamaica stumbles across a frozen corpse and a hate crime with disturbing roots in the history of the Pueblo.
- Charles, Kate
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Curate Callie Anson must balance the clergy and the paparazzi, as a child's high profile death brings her parish under scrutiny.
- Dunn, Carola
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Manna from Hades is a confounding case of daring theft, double-cross and a wily older woman confronted by a case of murder most foul.
- Goodwin, Jason
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Yashim, the eunuch detective who first appeared in The Janissary Tree, returns in this historical mystery set in 1840 Istanbul as he investigates a missing Bellini masterpiece.
- Gruley, Bryan
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In the dead of a Michigan winter, pieces of a snowmobile wash up near the crumbling, small town of Starvation Lake — the same snowmobile that went down with Starvation's legendary hockey coach years earlier. But everybody knows Coach Blackburn's accident happened five miles away on a different lake. As rumors buzz about mysterious underground tunnels, the evidence from the snowmobile says one thing: murder.
- Perry, Anne
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"Set in 1864, Perry's outstanding 16th novel to feature William Monk (after Dark Assassin) finds Monk suffering from a series of hard knocks, including memory loss. Now superintendent of the Thames River Police Force, Monk is on the verge of closing the books on Jericho Phillips, a particularly nasty villain who specializes in child pornography. Monk and his team catch Phillips, but what appears to be an airtight murder case springs leaks and ends with the accused's acquittal. Convinced that he got the right man, despite the jury's verdict, Monk devotes himself to setting the record straight." Publishers Weekly
- Roman, A. E.
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With the wisecracking P.I. Chico Santana and a cast of colorful characters, this debut breathes new life into the New York City detective novel.
- Solana, Teresa
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Another day in Barcelona, another slimy politician's wife is suspected of infidelity. Luis Font discovers a portrait of his wife in an exhibition that leads him to conclude he is being cuckolded by the artist. Concerned only about the potential political fallout, he hires twins Eduard and Pep, private detectives with a supposed knack for helping the wealthy with their "dirty laundry." The case turns ugly when Font's wife is found poisoned by a marron glacé from a box of sweets delivered anonymously.
- Sundstrand, David
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When Seth Parker kills two poachers in the Mojave Desert for shooting burros, he becomes a wanted man in detective Frank Flynn's jurisdiction. Because of Flynn's intimate knowledge of the desert, he anticipates Parker's next moves, but is one step behind.
- Viel, Tanguy
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A master of style and suspense explores moral dilemmas, in this story of marriage, murder and double-crosses.
- Walker, Martin
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Walker pens the first in a wonderful new series that follows the exploits of Benoit Courreges, affectionately nicknamed Bruno, the chief of police in a small French village in the South of France where the rituals of the café still rule.
- Walters, Michael
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In Ulan Bataar, the head of Mongolia's largest and most powerful crime empire is finally about to get his comeuppance. But it seems that the wealthy Muunokhoi has friends in high places.
- Wilbon, Mary
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One Last Kiss is a deep look at the mean streets of Newark through the eyes of those who are the last bastions of true Adam Smith capitalism selling their wares right on the street. Fans will especially adore the amateur sleuth transvestites Dijonnaise and Buffet.
- Wiprud, Brian M.
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Morty Martinez's job is looking for stashes of cash left out of wills, kept out of banks and hidden away for decades. When Morty hits upon the biggest score of his life, he must operate quickly to safeguard his riches — and his life.
Horror/Science Fiction/Fantasy
- Beagle, Peter S.
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The stories in this new contemporary fantasy collection show a mature, darker side of the author of The Last Unicorn, in modern parables of love, death and transformation shadowed with melancholy.
- Brett, Peter V.
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As darkness falls, each night the corelings rise — demons who well up from the ground like hellish steam, taking on fearsome form and substance. For hundreds of years the demons have terrorized the night, slowly culling the human herd that shelters behind magical wards–symbols of power whose origins are lost in myth and mystery, and whose protection is terrifyingly fragile. Now, with hope for the future fading, three young survivors of vicious demon attacks will dare the impossible, stepping beyond the crumbling safety of the wards to risk everything in a desperate quest to regain the secrets of the past.
- de Lint, Charles
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On the Day of the Dead, the Solona Music Hall is jumping. That's where Altagracia Quintero meets John Burns, just two weeks too late.
- Farrell, S. L.
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The second novel in the Nessantico Cycle continues the epic tale of an empire at its height, yet poised on the brink of what could be a devastating descent into ruin. It is a story of murder and magic, of deception and betrayal, of Machiavellian politics, star-crossed lovers and a realm facing war on every front.
- Hamilton, Peter F.
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Long ago, a human astrophysicist, Inigo, began dreaming scenes from the life of a remarkable human being named Edeard, who lived within the Void, a self-contained micro-universe at the heart of the galaxy. Inigo's inspirational dreams, shared by hundreds of millions throughout the galaxy-spanning gaiafield, gave birth to a religion — Living Dream. But when the appearance of a Second Dreamer seemed to trigger the expansion of the Void — an expansion devouring everything in its path — the Intersolar Commonwealth was thrown into turmoil.
- Hartley, A. J.
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Will Hawthorne, a medieval actor and playwright, flees the authorities only to find himself inextricably bound to a group of high-minded adventurers on a deadly mission. In the course of Will's uneasy alliance with his new protectors, he has to get his pragmatic mind to accept selfless heroism (which he thinks is absurd) and magic (which he doesn't believe in).
- Irvine, Alexander
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One hundred years from now, entrepreneurs and politicians faced with rampant overcrowding in the nation's penal system turn to a controversial new method of cutting costs: life-term buyouts. In theory, buyouts offer convicted murderers the chance to atone for their crimes by voluntarily allowing themselves to be put to death by the state in exchange for a one-time cash payment, shared among their heirs and victims, based on a percentage of what it would have cost taxpayers to house and feed them for the rest of their natural lives. It's a win-win situation. At least that's what Martin Kindred believes.
- Lewis, J. F.
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Eric has lost his strip club, his Mustang and even Marilyn, the elderly love of his (mortal) life. Even his body was obliterated. In short, they almost got him. But when you're a vampire, "almost" is a very important word. With a little magical help from his friends, Eric is restored to corporeal form. But salvation comes at a high price, forcing Eric to venture into his own worst nightmare, Vampire High Society, to uncover the truth about the origin of his powers.
- Moorcock, Michael
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Has there ever been a hero — or anti-hero — to match Elric of Melniboné, last emperor of an ancient civilization sunk into decadence and inhuman cruelty? Elric the albino, weary of life and enamored of death, bearer of the soul-devouring black sword Stormbringer, cursed to betray all he loves and to save that which he despises. In the unending battle between the forces of Law and Chaos, he is the wildest card of all.
- Williams, Walter Jon
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To the player, the Alternate Reality Game has no boundaries. You can be standing in a parking lot or a shopping center. A pay phone near you will ring, and on the other end will be someone demanding information. You'd better have the information handy.