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New Materials List
Fiction: May, 2008
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Fiction: General Fiction | Mysteries | Science Fiction | Fantasy | Teen (inc. paperbacks)
Miscellaneous: Large Print Books | Paperbacks - Fiction | Paperbacks - Mysteries | Paperbacks - Fantasy |
Audio-Visual: Compact Discs | Audiobooks | Feature Film DVDs | Nonfiction DVDs
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Fiction
- Dream when you're feeling blue. Berg, Elizabeth
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Berg crafts a sentimental tale of life on the home front during World War II as experienced by the Heany sisters in Chicago.
- Kaaterskill Falls. Goodman, Allegra
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Elizabeth, devout wife and mother to an Orthodox Jewish family, finds that her business project in Kaaterskill, a summer resort town in upstate New York, is forbidden by rabbinical decree.
- The better angels. McCarry, Charles
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A reprint of Charles McCarry's prophetic 1979 novel, in which terrorists use airplanes as weapons.
- The future of love. Abbott, Shirley
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A cast of New Yorkers navigate their relationships and piece their lives back together after the shock of 9/11.
- Delusion. Abrahams, Peter
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Decades after witnessing her boyfriend's murder, Nell Jarreau is shaken and guilt-stricken when new evidence exonerates the man convicted by her testimony.
- Playing. Abrams, Melanie
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Abram's fast-moving debut novel explores a young female graduate student's sadomasochistic desires and her guilt over her baby brother's death years before.
- Funny boys. Adler, Warren
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The author of The War of the Roses turns his satiric talents to this tale of 1930s New York mobsters at a Catskills resort.
- Lady Lazarus. Altschul, Andrew Foster
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A psuedo-documentary about the daughter of two fictional rock and roll heroes who becomes a poet and draws a swarm of media attention to the subject of her first book: the suicide of her famous father.
- The Wentworths. Arnoldi, Katie
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A warped and wealthy Los Angeles family is exposed and unbalanced by intruders.
- The Darcy connection. Aston, Elizabeth
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When they reach marriageable age, intrigue and adventure are in store for Eliza and Charlotte, the two daughters of Elizabeth Darcy's friend Mrs. Collins.
- The whole truth. Baldacci, David
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A powerful defense contractor attempts to provoke a war to gain profit, and an intelligence agent labors to maintain safety in the world.
- You had me at good-bye. Bateman, Tracey Victoria
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Sparks fly when -- on a dare -- fired aspiring-editor Dancy Ames uses an assumed name to submit a manuscript to the man who fired her.
- The view from the seventh layer. Brockmeier, Kevin
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A collection of 13 stories from the author of The Brief History of the Dead.
- The winding ways quilt: an Elm Creek quilts novel. Chiaverini, Jennifer
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Chiaverini's popular series adds newcomers to the quilting circle.
- Seen it all and done the rest. Cleage, Pearl
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Fired from a theater production in Amsterdam, African-American actress Josephine Evans returns home to Atlanta.
- Hold tight. Coben, Harlan
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The Baye family struggles with its own troubles as a serial killer strikes fear into the surrounding community.
- The rain before it falls. Coe, Jonathan
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A memoir for the blind granddaughter of an Englishwoman's close chidlhood cousin develops into a tragic recounting of the way mothers abuse their daughters.
- Girls in trucks. Crouch, Katie
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A Southern debutante outshined by her beautiful older sister heads East for college and coming of age in the big city.
- The heartbreak pill. Delgado, Anjanette
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Erika invents a pill to take the edges off of a bad heartbreak.
- Mistress of the Revolution. Delors, Catherine
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Years after her forced marriage to an abusive older cousin, a widowed French noblewoman facing the guillotine turns to her first love.
- Pravda. Docx, Edward
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After their Russian mother dies, a pair of dissatisfied adult twins discovers that she had a son before defecting to marry their British father.
- The white king. Dragoman, Gyorgy
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A dark treatment of a boy's coming of age in the brual landscape of day-to-day lfe in the the eastern bloc of Europe.
- So brave, young, and handsome. Enger, Leif
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Adventure takes hold of an unassuming writer struggling to write a novel in the early 20th century American West.
- The painter from Shanghai. Epstein, Jennifer Cody
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The life of the provocative Chinese painter Pan Yuliang is fictionalized in this epic novel.
- The shadow year. Ford, Jeffrey
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Children on the verge of growing up spend their summer creating a model of their hometown in the basement, which eerily begins to resemble and even anticipate the events unfolding around them.
- Bulls Island. Frank, Dorothea Benton
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After a two-decade exile, a business deal compels successful New York executive "Betts" McGee to return to Bulls Island and the memories of her failed love affair with the scion of a wealthy Charleston family.
- Losing you. French, Nicci
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A divorced mother of two living on a semi-remote English island fights to keep her composure when her 15-year-old daughter does not come home from a slumber party.
- The death dealer. Graham, Heather
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Genevieve O'Brien and P.I. Joe Connolly are thrown together by a series of literary society homicides based on the works of Edgar Allen Poe.
- The importance of being Kennedy. Graham, Laurie
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Nora, an Irish immigrant nanny, narrates this fictionalized account of the Kennedy family.
- Critique of criminal reason. Gregorio, Michael
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Immanuel Kant is called into service to track down a serial killer in Prussia while the rest of the area anxiously awaits Napoleonic invasion.
- The forgery of Venus. Gruber, Michael
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A New York commercial artist is commissioned to travel to Venice to restore a ruined Tiepolo ceiling, and begins to doubt his sanity and even identity as the art he produces is clearly beyond his ability.
- Bound. Gunning, Sally
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A young girl loses her family on the sea journey from London and finds herself an indentured servant in the colonial New World.
- Fall of Frost. Hall, Brian
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A collage of imagined biographical scenes in the life of Robert Frost, depicting the tragedies and complexities in the soul of an American lyric poet.
- Daughters of the North. Hall, Sarah
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Set in a dystopian Europe of the near-future, a woman escapes her oppressive marriage and finds sanctuary in a commune of female resistance fighters.
- The finder. Harrison, Colin
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A beautiful Chinese woman must go on the run when she gets involved in a scheme to steal valuable information from corporations.
- The German bride. Hershon, Joanna
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Eva Frank flees Berlin to antebellum Santa Fe with her husband Abraham, who fails to deliver on the promises he made her.
- The third angel. Hoffman, Alice
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Hoffman uses London and themes of resilience and self-destruction to tie together stories about three women set in 1952, 1966, and 1999.
- The sorrows of an American. Hustvedt, Siri
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A brother and sister uncover the secrets of their father's life during the year after his death.
- Genghis: lords of the bow. Iggulden, Conn
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Genghis Khan leads his warriors across the desert as he sets out to unify the continent under his rule.
- Her little black book. Jackson, Brenda
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Courtney, who's approaching thirty without ever having met a marriage possibility, catches a break when her cousin passes along her little black book.
- Lost souls. Jackson, Lisa
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Against the wishes of her detective father, an aspiring true-crime writer goes undercover to research the disappearance of four female students at All Saints College in Baton Rouge.
- Roommates wanted. Jewell, Lisa
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When his marriage ends after only a month, a man seeks boarders in his oversized London house.
- Wolf totem. Jiang, Rong
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Chen Zhen moves to Inner Mongolia to live among the Mongols in a search for spirituality.
- Quicksand. Johansen, Iris
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Eve Duncan recruits the skills of Dr. Megan Blair to find her missing daughter.
- The outcast. Jones, Sadie
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In post-World War II London, a mother's death sets her grieving young son on a path towards social ostracism.
- Twisted. Kane, Andrea
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The search for a missing friend requires Sloane Burbank to reluctantly request help from her former lover, FBI agent Derek Parker.
- The genius. Kellerman, Jesse
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Threatening messages and a detective's unsettling revelation make a Manhattan art dealer regret his handling of a reclusive artist's disturbing collection.
- Unaccustomed earth. Lahiri, Jhumpa
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These eight stories from the author of Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake explore the divide that grows between immigrant parents and the children they raise in their new country.
- Hidden in Havana. Latour, Jose
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A tale of betrayal and cunning, where the best-laid plans can be derailed by greed and virtue.
- The paper marriage. Law, Susan Kay
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Approaching 40 and childless, with a husband in a coma for the last 12 years, Ann McCray finds herself drawn to new neighbor Tom.
- Lavinia. Le Guin, Ursula K.
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Le Guin embroiders character, motivation and emotion around the literary figure of Lavinia, the king's daughter and destined wife of Aeneas of Virgil's Aeneid.
- South of Shiloh: a thriller. Logan, Chuck
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When a man is killed at a Civil War re-enactment, his widow takes it upon herself to find his murderer.
- Twenty wishes. Macomber, Debbie
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Meeting at Anne Marie's bookstore on Blossom Street, four widows find hope by making a life-fulfilling wish list and work to complete them.
- The sound of language. Malladi, Amulya
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Cultural tension permeates Malladi's story of the friendship between an Afghan widow and a Danish beekeeper.
- Draining the sea. Marcom, Micheline Aharonian
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A former American soldier moves through his daily life in Los Angeles, unable to suppress his memories of the Guatemalan Civil War.
- Trauma. McGrath, Patrick
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A psychiatrist who specializes in post-traumatic stress disorder grapples with his own disturbing memories.
- Devil's peak. Meyer, Deon
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When his eight-year-old son's killers escape before sentencing, a South African father seeks revenge against everyone who threatens the children of Cape Town.
- Hokus pokus. Michaels, Fern
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The exiled members of the Sisterhood receive word that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court will expose one of their U.S. contacts if they don't agree to handle her blackmailing former son-in-law.
- The philosopher's apprentice. Morrow, James
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Tutors hired to work with two different children in the Florida Keys uncover a bizarre fertility experiment.
- The house at Riverton. Morton, Kate
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Grace recalls the prominent British family she worked for as a young girl when she is asked to serve as a fact-checker for a movie about the family.
- Things I want my daughters to know. Noble, Elizabeth
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A dying mother leaves words of wisdom in letters to each of her four daughters.
- Wild nights! stories about the last days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway. Oates, Joyce Carol
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A collection of short stories depicting the imagined death scenes of a selection of major writers.
- The warriors. Olsen, Mark Andrew
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Dylan and Abby head a mission to prevent a spiritual war of an unimaginable magnitude.
- Strange as this weather has been. Pancake, Ann
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An Appalachian family struggles against a collapsing economy and an environment ruined by coal-mining.
- The Truth Commissioner. Park, David
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What if the truth and reconciliation commission that healed the wounds of South Africa's troubled past came to Northern Ireland to recover the buried secrets of that endless civil war?
- Anthem of a reluctant prophet. Proulx, Joanne
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A 17-year-old 's correct prediction of his best friend's death brings news crews to his front door, but he doesn't tell anyone that the prophecies have continued.
- The Third Circle. Quick, Amanda
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Leona and Thaddeus meet when trying to steal the same relic, but a dead prostitute and a trap complicate things.
- Searching for paradise in Parker, PA. Radish, Kris
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Addy Lipton must decide whether to give her marriage another try after spending an empowering summer without her neglectful husband Lucky.
- The age of dreaming. Revoyr, Nina
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Jun Nakayama, a famous silent film star, discovers how deeply anti-Japanese racism can run despite his attempts to make himself palatable to the American imagination.
- Guilty. Robards, Karen
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Danger stalks a prosecutor with a hidden and troubled past when one of her cohorts from an adolescent crime shows up as a defendant in court.
- Trouble the water. Seitz, Nicole A.
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After attempting suicide on St. Anne's Isle off the South Carolina coast, a troubled woman is nursed back to physical and spiritual health by a group of Gullah nannies.
- Love and the incredibly old man. Siegel, Lee
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A ghostwriter attempts to write the biography of a conquistador-costumed man who claims to be the 540-year-old Ponce De Leon, discoverer of the Fountain of Youth.
- Willing. Spencer, Scott
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Down and out writer Avery Jankowsky decides to base a book on the high-end sex tour his Uncle Ezra recommends.
- A carrion death: introducing Detective Kubu. Stanley, Michael
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This is the debut of a new mystery series set in Botswana.
- Dirty money. Stark, Richard
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Master criminal Parker tries to retrieve the proceeds of the armoured car heist that went sour in Nobody Runs Forever (2004).
- The cure for modern life. Tucker, Lisa
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A homeless boy and his little sister halt the lives of Big Pharma executives Matthew Connelly and his bitter ex-girlfriend.
- Certain girls. Weiner, Jennifer
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Candace Shapiro, heroine of the previous Good In Bed, contends with her daughter's teen rebellion and balances family and a writing career with characteristic humor.
- Captivity. Wesselmann, Debbie Lee
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A primatologist who was raised in an experimental setting with a foster-sibling chimp battles to retrieve chimpanzees sent unadapted into the wild.
- Our story begins: new and selected stories. Wolff, Tobias
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A collection of new and classic short stories by a writer who specializes in everyday drama in the tradition of Flannery O'Connor and Alice Munro.
- The ten-year nap. Wolitzer, Meg
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Four women who left careers for marriage and motherhood revisit their choices ten years later.
Mysteries
- Nightshade. Albert, Susan Wittig
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After 16 years, herb shop owner China Bayles finally gets answers about her father's suspicious death in a car crash.
- Frill kill. Childs, Laura
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New Orleans scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand and her friend Ava try to clear a sexy male Tarot reader accused of murdering a fashion model.
- Dragonwell dead. Childs, Laura
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Mark Congdon drops dead after sipping sweet tea at the Ramble in this eighth installment of The Tea Shop series.
- Where are you now?. Clark, Mary Higgins
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Fed up with the one-minute annual Mother's Day call that serves as the only sign her older brother Charles is still alive and well, Carolyn finally decides to solve the mystery of his disappearance 10 years earlier.
- The fourth man. Dahl, Kjell Ola
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An Oslo police detective becomes a murder suspect following his involvement with a thug's sister.
- A paragon of virtue. Ditfurth, Christian von
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A historian and a police commissioner team up to discover why, over a period of several years, the wife and children of a respected Hamburg businessman were slain in separate incidents. This is the debut of a new series.
- Barrington Street blues: a mystery. Emery, Anne
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A rich man and a poor man are found dead of gunshot wounds outside a seedy bar on Barrington Street. The police declare it a murder-suicide, but bluesman/lawyer Monty Collins suspects it's a double murder.
- Days of atonement. Gregorio, Michael
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Still living in French-occupied Lotingen, Prussian magistrate Hanno Stiffeniis looks into the disappearance of a Prussion military man's wife and the shocking murders of his small children.
- The sudoku puzzle murders. Hall, Parnell
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Cora Felton, ghost writer of puzzles, is in the process of writing a sudoku book when a murder victim is discovered with a Puzzle Lady crossword and a Sudoku in his pocket.
- Death walked in: a death on demand mystery. Hart, Carolyn G.
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Max and Annie Darling investigate a murder tied to a missing cache of rare Double Eagle coins.
- Mummy dearest. Hess, Joan
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While on their honeymoon in Luxor, Egypt, Claire Malloy finds herself caught up in an unconventional mystery.
- The price of blood: an Irish novel of suspense. Hughes, Declan
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A priest gives Dublin P.I. Ed Loy little more than a name when he hires him to find a jockey.
- Goodbye Sister Disco. Hunt, James Patrick
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St. Louis police detective George Hastings is on the case following the murder of a young lawyer and the kidnapping of his wealthy fiancee.
- The girl of his dreams. Leon, Donna
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Brunetti goes undercover to investigate a preacher who may be fleecing his flock when he must put that investigation aside when a child is found floating in a canal.
- The headhunters. Lovesey, Peter
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Chichester CID inspector Henrietta "Hen" Mallin investigates the separate deaths of two women found on the beach.
- The miracle at Speedy Motors. McCall Smith, Alexander
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Precious Ramotswe looks for the family of a client who doesn't know her real name.
- The body in the gallery: a Faith Fairchild mystery. Page, Katherine Hall
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Faith's friend, Patsy, asks her to take over working at the cafe in the art museum, but Faith soon learns that Patsy has an ulterior motive.
- Miss Julia paints the town. Ross, Ann B.
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Miss Julia struggles to save a historic courthouse while an array of misadventures interfere.
- The secret adventures of Charlotte Bronte. Rowland, Laura Joh
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When a mysterious young woman is murdered in London, Charlotte Bronte doubles as a sleuth.
- Separated at death. Rusch, Sheldon
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Illinois State investigator Elizabeth Hewitt faces a killer who specializes in decapitating estranged married couples.
- Santa Fe dead. Woods, Stuart
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A woman accused of hiring a hitman to kill her attorney husband escapes policy custody, and then targets her husband's girlfriend.
Science Fiction
- The boundless deep. Brallier, Kate
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Mystery and romance come together in this story of a young graduate student's attempt to solve a 163-year-old Nantucket murder that haunts her dreams.
- The dreaming void. Hamilton, Peter F.
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1,000 years after the events of the trilogy's prequel, Judas Unchained, Inigo begins to have revelatory dreams about the Void, an enormous black hole thought to contain the secrets of existence.
- The automatic detective. Martinez, A. Lee
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Mack Megaton attempts to search for his family in mutant-filled Empire City.
- Deluge. McCaffrey, Anne
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Twin selkies from Petaybee set out to rescue a wrongfully incarcerated friend, with the help of space-faring deep-sea otters and a telepathic cat.
- Singularity's ring. Melko, Paul
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Genetically engineered to function as a single human unit, the teenage pod called Apollo Papadopulos goes on the run while a struggle erupts for control of the ring-like space station surrounding Earth.
- Infected. Sigler, Scott
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A disease that turns people into murderers inflicts the United States.
- Galaxy blues. Steele, Allen M.
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Jules Truffant buys amnesty from a prison sentence by signing on as a shuttle pilot for a space freighter assigned to setting a probe squarely in the path of a black hole.
- In the courts of the Crimson Kings. Stirling, S. M.
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Stirling sets his follow-up to The Sky People on Mars, giving it all the punch of a story in the tradition of Bradbury or Burroughs.
- The stone gods. Winterson, Jeanette
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Winterson uses the same heroine -- Billie Crusoe -- in stories about three different apocalyptic scenarios.
Fantasy
- Small favor: a novel of the Dresden files. Butcher, Jim
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In the 10th installment of the popular Dresden Files, the wizard detective must return a favor by taking on the case of a missing human mobster.
- Wrath of a mad god. Feist, Raymond E.
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The worlds of Midkemia and Kelewan face possible destruction in the third and final installment of the Darkwar saga.
- The lost ones. Golden, Christopher
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Oliver Bascombe is tricked into killing the king of Yucatazca and must free himself and his comrades from a royal dungeon in a land beyond the Veil.
- The resurrectionist. O'Connell, Jack
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Sweeney stops at nothing to bring his beloved son back from a coma, from taking him to a special clinic known for "resurrecting" patients to attempting to retrieve his son via the power of love and imagination.
- Steward of song. Stemple, Adam
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This sequel to Singer of Souls follows the Stewart family and their dealings with various mystical realms.
Teen (inc. paperbacks)
- Bleach. [Vol.] 4, Quincy Archer hates you. Kubo, Tite (Graphic Novel)
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- Bleach. [Vol.] 20, End of hypnosis. Kubo, Tite (Graphic Novel)
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- Bleach. [Vol.]19, The black moon rising. Kubo, Tite (Graphic Novel)
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- Fruits basket. Volume 19. Natsuki, Takaya (Graphic Novel)
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- You know where to find me. Cohn, Rachel
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- Airman. Colfer, Eoin
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- Snakehead. Horowitz, Anthony
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- What happened. Johnson, Peter
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- Red spikes. Lanagan, Margo
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- The disreputable history of Frankie Landau-Banks. Lockhart, E.
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- Poseur. Maude, Rachel
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- The missing girl. Mazer, Norma Fox
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- Game. Myers, Walter Dean
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- Life as we knew it. Pfeffer, Susan Beth
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- Unwind. Shusterman, Neal
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- Massie: a Clique novel. Harrison, Lisi (Paperback)
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- You know you love me: a Gossip Girl novel. Von Ziegesar, Cecily (Paperback)
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