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Fiction, September 2008
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General Fiction
- Atkinson, Kate
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Atkinson's Jackson Brodie, hero of Case Histories and One Good Turn, returns in an intense new literary thriller where three lives come together in unexpected and deeply thrilling ways.
- Bayard, Louis
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Legendary police officer Vidocq has used his mastery of disguise and surveillance to capture some of the most notorious and elusive criminals of the Parisian underworld. Now, he may prove that the Dauphin still lives.
- Berger, John
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From A to X is a powerful exploration of how humanity affirms itself in struggle: imagining a community which, besieged by economic and military imperialism, finds transcendent hope in the pain and fragility, vulnerability and sorrow of daily existence.
- Bushnell, Candace
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In her fifth novel, Bushnell traces the lives and loves of the aspirational sophisticates in New York City, using the trendiest areas of Manhattan as the backdrop for the stories of five women living in the same swanky downtown apartment building.
- Cain, Chelsea
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With Heartsick, Cain introduced two compelling characters: serial killer Gretchen Lowell and her obsessed pursuer Portland Detective Archie Sheridan. Lowell and Sheridan's stories continue in this terrifying new sequel.
- Coleridge, Nicholas
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In this epic tale, the godchildren of a charismatic tycoon unite to confront secrets, betrayals and lies. With his trademark blend of wicked satire and impeccable writing, Coleridge has created a gloriously jaw-dropping portrait of the British upper crust.
- Kring, Sandra
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"Lucy McGowan is a 12-year-old genius with a photographic memory, an even more brilliant brother, Milo (IQ: 180), and a single mother, Tess, living in Chicago. What Lucy has that her brother doesn't is curiosity and people smarts, a quality that propels her to unearth the hidden relationships and buried secrets of her family." Publishers Weekly
- Larsson, Stieg
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In this European bestseller, a crusading journalist joins forces with a 24-year-old pierced and tattooed genius hacker to investigate a missing woman from one of the wealthiest families in Sweden.
- Loehfelm, Bill
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Because Staten Island bartender John Sanders Jr. was regularly physically abused as a child by his father, he reacts at first with indifference to the news that John Senior has been killed, execution style, by an unknown assailant. But the question of what happened pulls him into an examination of the murder, of his father's life, the lives of his dysfunctional family and his own life.
- Merullo, Roland
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What if Jesus suddenly appears and announces that he plans to run for president of the United States? Merullo's satirical novel about the state of American politics follows one man's campaign to show that politics as usual is no longer an acceptable option.
- Piazza, Tom
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From the award-winning author of Why New Orleans Matters comes a novel of two families, one white and one black, whose lives are torn apart by Hurricane Katrina, and then pieced back together again in ways they couldn't have imagined.
- Pyper, Andrew
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A newspaper critic joins a local writing circle only to discover that a fellow classmate may be involved in a series of murders.
- Self, Will
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When Tom Brodzinksi tries to give up smoking, he inadvertently sets off a chain of events that threaten to upset the tenuous balance of peace in a not-too-distant land.
- Sittenfeld, Curtis
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Sittenfeld tracks the life of bookish, naļve Alice Lindgren and the trajectory that lands her in the White House as first lady.
- Welsh, Irvine
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Welsh's new novel is a journey into the bright glamour of the Sunshine State and a seething underworld of utter darkness, in this shocking story about the corruption of the human soul and the possibilities of redemption.
Mysteries
- Arnaldur Indrišason
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In this new mystery from Gold Dagger Award-winner Indridason, the water level of an Icelandic lake falls suddenly, revealing a skeleton weighed down by a heavy device bearing Russian inscriptions. The investigation leads back to Iceland, murder and international espionage.
- Benn, James R.
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Billy Boyle awakens in a field hospital in Sicily with amnesia. In his pocket is a yellow silk handkerchief embroidered with the initial L. Gradually he remembers: he has been sent ashore in advance of the troops with this token from Lucky Luciano to contact the head of the Sicilian Mafia. But he must also thwart a murderous band of counterfeiters of Army scrip led by Vito Genovese.
- Brandreth, Gyles
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Brandreth pens the second witty installment in an authentic historical murder mystery series featuring detective Oscar Wilde and his partner-in-crime, Arthur Conan Doyle.
- Coel, Margaret
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From the author of the Wind River mysteries comes a novel featuring Catherine McLeod, an investigative reporter for a Denver newspaper, whose coverage of the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes filing a claim for 27 million acres of their ancestral lands has made her a target for assassination.
- Forbes, Elena
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After a woman's frozen body is discovered in Holland Park, bound and arranged in a strangely symbolic manner, detectives Mark Tartaglia and Sam Donovan are assigned the case.
- Galligan, John
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Ned Dog Oglivie, a self-described traveling drunk and trout hound who lives out of his asthmatic 1984 Cruise Master RV, has befriended a jailed bull rider's daughter, Jesse Ringer, and her black boyfriend, D'Ontario Sneed. Then, off a mountain road outside Livingston, Dog finds Jesse shot to death on the ground and Sneed unconscious in Jesse's sealed car. With a plot as entangled as a drunkard's fishing line, this Big Sky excursion into the wilds of human frailty snags the imagination.
- Helton, Peter
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Chris Honeysett, an artist and private investigator, takes on a surveillance job to pay for repairs to his roof and finds himself faced with abduction, blackmail and murder.
- Jones, Merry
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In this fourth installment of the Zoe Hayes mystery series, it is the final days before Zoe's wedding to beloved Detective Nick Stiles. Then a jogger turns up dead on her back patio, and Zoe finds evidence that at least one of her future in-laws is not who he seems to be.
- Littlewood, Ann
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When zookeeper Iris Oakley's husband is found dead in the lion exhibit, a mix of grief and anger keep Iris from questioning the assumptions around his death — until a series of other accidents lead her to suspect what really happened to him.
- Mankell, Henning
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Filling in the missing pieces of the best-selling Kurt Wallander mystery series, The Pyramid tells the story of Wallander's beginnings through five gripping short mysteries.
- Martinez, Guillermo
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The Argentinean author of The Oxford Murders returns with a gripping tale of revenge and rivalry that poses the question: can words really kill?
- McDonald, Craig
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Hector Lassiter is a legendary crime novelist who writes what he lives and lives what he writes. But Hector frequently goes a step beyond, drawing friends and lovers into the tawdry and turbulent territory of his fiction. Now, the large-living pulp author has at last met his match in the ultimate performance artist: a phantom killer committed to the art of murder, who leaves a string of macabre tableaux modeled on famous works of surrealist painting and photography.
- Rankin, Ian
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Detective Inspector John Rebus is trying to tie up some loose ends before his retirement when a new case lands on his desk: a dissident Russian poet has been murdered in what looks like a mugging gone wrong.
- Wimberley, Darryl
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Jack Romaine finds himself an unwilling recruit for a Cincinnati gangster on the trail of stolen money, and finds himself amidst the "carnies" during offseason.
Horror/Science Fiction/Fantasy
- Baker, Kage
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Gard is the only Yendri who has fought back against the conquering Riders. House of the Stag tells of his rise to power, vengeance, unlikely redemption, and his maturation into a loving father — as well as lord and commander of demon armies.
- Czerneda, Julie E.
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On the distant world of Cersi, Omaray Aryl Sarc and her supporters have been exiled from the rest of their people. Finding refuge in the mountains, they work to rebuild the ruined village of Sona, even as they try to discover what happened to the original Sona Clan. But Sona has a history among all three of Cersi's races — a history that may soon threaten the future of Aryl's newly- founded clan.
- Erikson, Steven
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In Darujhistan, the city of blue fire, it is said that love and death shall arrive dancing. It is summer and the heat is oppressive, but for the small round man in the faded red waistcoat, discomfiture is not just because of the sun.
- Farland, David
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At the end of Worldbinder Fallion Orden, son of Gaborn, was imprisoned on a strange and fantastic world that he created by combining two alternate realities. Only Fallion has the power to mend the worlds, but at the heart of a city that is a vast prison, he lies in shackles. The forces of evil are growing and will soon rage across the heavens. Now, Fallion's allies must risk everything in an attempt to free him from the wyrmling horde.
- Hammond, Warren
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In this hardboiled science fiction thriller, Juno, having been booted off the police force, is barely getting by as a low-level bagman and photographer for the scandal rags. But it gets worse: his wife is in critical condition at the hospital and Juno doesn't have the money to pay her bills. Desperate for cash, Juno agrees to help his ex-partner, Maggie Orzo, solve a difficult case.
- Lackey, Mercedes
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In the second installment in The Enduring Flame series, Tiercel, a budding High Mage, and Harrier, a reluctant Knight-Mage, develop greater power — and learn of the evils of war after they see the devastation caused by the fanatical armies of the Wild Mage Bisochim.
- Martin, George R. R.
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In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance once again — beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has enemies, and many have set out to find her. Yet, as they gather, one young man embarks upon his own quest for the queen, with an entirely different goal in mind.
- Martinez, A. Lee
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The wizard Margle the Horrendous takes special pride in never killing his enemies. Instead, he transforms them into various accursed forms and locks them away in his castle. His halls are filled with his collection of fallen heroes and defeated villains, along with a few ordinary folk.
- Niven, Larry
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After being thrown out the window of his luxury apartment, science fiction writer Allen Carpentier wakes to find himself at the gates of hell. As he struggles to escape, he's taken through new, puzzling, and outlandish versions of sin — recast for the present day.
- Stephenson, Neal
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In this follow-up to his historical Baroque Cycle trilogy, which fictionalized the early 18th century scientific revolution, Stephenson conjures a far-future Earth-like planet, Arbre, where scientists, philosophers and mathematicians — a religious order unto themselves — have been cloistered behind convent walls.
- Stirling, S. M.
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Rudi MacKenzie continues his trek across the land that was once the United States of America. His destination: Nantucket, where he hopes to learn the truth behind The Change that rendered technology across the globe inoperable.