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The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark TwainISBN 0361031602 (0-361-03160-2)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall of Canada Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'Book summary:Few books capture both the simplicity and complexities of American life quite like these enduring "boyhood" classics by Mark Twain.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Take a lighthearted, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, seen through the eyes of a special boy named Tom Sawyer. It is a summertime world of hooky and adventure, pranks and punishment, villains and young love. [via]More editions of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer:
Alexandraby Valerie MartinISBN 0374102643 (0-374-10264-3)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus Giroux
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Alias: Athena Forceby Amy J. FetzerISBN 0373513208 (0-373-51320-8)
Softcover, Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
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The Alpine Quilt: An Emma Lord Mysteryby Mary DaheimISBN 0345477200 (0-345-47720-0)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books
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And Then You Dieby Michael DibdinISBN 0375421882 (0-375-42188-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Anil's Ghostby Michael OndaatjeISBN 0375410538 (0-375-41053-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anil's Ghost'Book summary:With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing.
The time is our own time. The place is Sri Lanka, the island nation formerly known as Ceylon, off the southern tip of India, a country steeped in centuries of cultural achievement and tradition--and forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of civil war and the consequences of a country divided against itself.
Into this maelstrom steps a young woman, Anil Tissera, born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human rights group to work with local officials to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island.
Bodies are discovered. Skeletons. And particularly one, nicknamed 'Sailor.' What follows is a story about love, about family, about identity, about the unknown enemy, about the quest to unlock the hidden past--all propelled by a riveting mystery.
Unfolding against the deeply evocative background of Sri Lanka's landscape and ancient civilization, Anil's Ghost is a literary spellbinder--the most powerful novel we have yet had from Michael Ondaatje. [via]More editions of Anil's Ghost:
The Athenian Murdersby Sonia Soto, Jose Carlos SomozaISBN 0374106770 (0-374-10677-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Billy Straightby Jonathan KellermanISBN 034549167X (0-345-49167-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Bitter Endby Christine KlingISBN 0345479041 (0-345-47904-1)
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Black Holeby Charles BurnsISBN 037542380X (0-375-42380-X)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Hole'Book summary:The first issues of Charles Burns's comics series Black Hole began appearing in 1995, and long before it was completed a decade later, readers and fellow artists were speaking of it in tones of awe and comparing it to recent classics of the form like Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan and Daniel Clowes's Ghost World. Burns is the sort of meticulous, uncompromising artist whom other artists speak of with envy and reverence, and we asked Ware and Clowes to comment on their admiration for Black Hole:
"I think I probably learned the most about clarity, composition, and efficiency from looking at Charles's pages spread out on my drawing table than from anyone's; his was always at the level of lucidity of Nancy, but with this odd, metallic tinge to it that left you feeling very unsettled, especially if you were an aspiring cartoonist, because it was clear you'd never be half as good as he was. There's an almost metaphysical intensity to his pinprick-like inkline that catches you somewhere in the back of the throat, a paper-thin blade of a fine jeweler's saw tracing the outline of these thick, clay-like human figures that somehow seem to "move," but are also inevitably oddly frozen in eternal, awkward poses ... it's an unlikely combination of feelings, and it all adds up to something unmistakably his own. "I must have been one of the first customers to arrive at the comic shop when I heard the first issue of Black Hole was out 10 years ago, and my excitement didn't change over the years as he completed it. I don't think I've ever read anything that better captures the details, feelings, anxieties, smells, and cringing horror of my own teenage years better than Black Hole, and I'm 15 years younger than Charles is. Black Hole is so redolently affecting one almost has to put the book down for air every once in a while. By the book's end, one ends up feeling so deeply for the main character it's all one can do not to turn the book over and start reading again." --Chris Ware
"Charles Burns is one of the greats of modern comics. His comics are beautiful on so many levels. Somehow he has managed to capture the essential electricity of comic-book pop-art iconography, dragging it from the clutches of Fine Art back to the service of his perfect, precise-but-elusive narratives in a way that is both universal in its instant appeal and deeply personal." --Dan Clowes 
Questions for Charles Burns
Amazon.com: Cartoonists are about the only people today who are working like Dickens did: writing serials that appear piece-by-piece in public before the whole work is done. What's it like to work in public like that, and for as long as a project like this takes?
Charles Burns: There were a number of reasons for serializing Black Hole. First of all, I wanted to put out a traditional comic book-- I'd never really worked in that comic pamphlet format before and liked the idea of developing a long story in installments. There's something very satisfying to me about a comic book as an object and I enjoyed using that format to slowly build my story. Serializing the story also allowed me to focus on shorter, more manageable portions; if I had to face creating a 368-page book all in one big lump, I don't know if Id have the perseverance and energy to pull it off.
Amazon.com: One thing that stuns me about this book is how consistent it is from start to finish. From the first frames to the last ones that you drew 10 years later, you held the same tone and style. It feels as though you had a complete vision for the book from the very beginning. Is that so? Or did things develop unexpectedly as you worked on it?
Burns: I guess there's a consistency in Black Hole because of the way I work. I write and draw very slowly, always carefully examining every little detail to make sure it all fits together the way I want it to. When I started the story, I had it all charted out as far as the basic structure goes, but what made working on it interesting was finding new ways of telling the story that hadn't occurred to me.
Amazon.com: Some of the very best of the recent graphic novels (I'm thinking of Ghost World and Blankets, along with Black Hole) have been about the lives of teenagers. Do you think there's something about the form that helps to tell those stories so well?
Burns: That's an interesting question, but I don't know the answer. Perhaps it has more to do with the authors--the kind of people who stay indoors for hours on end in total solitude working away on their heartfelt stories... maybe that kind of reflection lends itself to being able to capture the intensity of adolescence.
Amazon.com: In the time you've been working on Black Hole, graphic novels have leapt into the mainstream. (I think--I hope--we're finally seeing the last of those "They're not just for kids anymore!" reviews.) What did you imagine for this project when you started it? What's it been like to see your corner of the world enter the glare of the spotlight?
Burns: When I started Black Hole I really just wanted to tell a long, well-written story. The themes and ideas that run throughout the book had been turning around in my head for years and I wanted to finally get them all out--put them down on paper once and for all. I've published a few other books and while they sold reasonably well, they didn't set the publishing world on fire. I was pretty sure I'd have some kind of an audience for Black Hole, but that was never a motivating factor in writing the book. And my corner of the world is still pretty dark. I guess I'll be stepping into the spotlight for a little while when the book comes out, but I imagine I'll slip back into my dark little studio when it all settles down again so I can settle back into work.More editions of Black Hole:
Black Oxenby Elizabeth KnoxISBN 0374114056 (0-374-11405-6)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Blue Shoes And Happiness: The New Novel in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Seriesby Alexander McCall SmithISBN 0375422722 (0-375-42272-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Body and Soilby Ralph M. McInernyISBN 0373260636 (0-373-26063-6)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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The Bonfire of the Vanitiesby Tom WolfeISBN 0374115346 (0-374-11534-6)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bonfire of the Vanities'Book summary:After Tom Wolfe defined the '60s in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers and the cultural U-turn at the turn of the '80s in The Right Stuff, nobody thought he could ever top himself again. In 1987, when The Bonfire of the Vanities arrived, the literati called Wolfe an "aging enfant terrible."
He wasn't aging; he was growing up. Bonfire's pyrotechnic satire of 1980s New York wasn't just Wolfe's best book, it was the best bestselling fiction debut of the decade, a miraculously realistic study of an unbelievably status-mad society, from the fiery combatants of the South Bronx to the bubbling scum at the top of Wall Street. Sherman McCoy, a farcically arrogant investment banker (dubbed a "Master of the Universe," Wolfe's brilliant metaphorical co-opting of a then-important toy for boys), hits a black guy in the Bronx with his Mercedes and runs--right into a nightmare peopled by vicious mistresses, thin wives like "social x-rays," slime-bag politicos, tabloid hacks, and Dantesque denizens of the "justice" system. If the Coen and Marx brothers together dramatized The Great Gatsby, Wolfe's Bonfire would probably be funnier. Many think his second novel, A Man in Full, is deeper, but Bonfire will never die down.
You might find it interesting to compare the film The Bonfire of the Vanities, a fascinating calamity perpetrated by the geniuses Brian De Palma and Tom Hanks, with The Right Stuff, one of the very best films of the '80s. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Border Crossingby Pat BarkerISBN 0374181152 (0-374-18115-2)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Burden of Proofby Scott TurowISBN 0374117349 (0-374-11734-9)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Caught Stealingby Charles HustonISBN 0345464788 (0-345-46478-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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A Certain Justice : An Adam Dalgliesh Mysteryby P. D. JamesISBN 0375401091 (0-375-40109-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Certain Justice : An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery'Book summary:It begins, dramatically enough, with a trial for murder. The distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge is defending Garry Ashe on charges of having brutally killed his aunt. For Aldridge the trial is mainly a test of her courtroom skills, one more opportunity to succeed--and she does. But now murder is in the air. The next victim will be Aldridge herself, stabbed to death at her desk in her Chambers in the Middle Temple, a bloodstained wig on her head. Enter Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team, whose struggle to investigate and understand the shocking events cannot halt the spiral into more horrors, more murders...
A Certain Justice is P.D. James at her strongest. In her first foray into the strange closed world of the Law Courts and the London legal community, she has created a fascinating tale of interwoven passion and terror. As each character leaps into unforgettable life, as each scene draws us forward into new complexities of plot, she proves yet again that no other writer can match her skill in combining the excitement of the classic detective story with the richness of a fine novel. In its subtle portrayal of morality and human behavior, A Certain Justice will stand alongside Devices and Desires and A Taste for Death as one of P.D. James's most important, accomplished and entertaining works. [via]More editions of A Certain Justice : An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery:
A Christmas Guestby Anne PerryISBN 0345483804 (0-345-48380-4)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books
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A Christmas Secretby Anne PerryISBN 0345485815 (0-345-48581-5)
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Contactby Evelyn VaughnISBN 0373513445 (0-373-51344-5)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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Coram Boyby Jamila GavinISBN 0374413746 (0-374-41374-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coram Boy'Book summary:Eighteenth-century England is the setting for Jamilla Gavin's sweeping saga of growing-up, struggle, tradition and corruption. From an acorn of an idea about a real-life good Samaritan of yesteryear, the author has crafted a satisfying, if occasionally painful, novel that spans the lives of several fortunate and unfortunate young people of the day.
The author has researched her backdrop very well, and the atmospheric sights and sounds of the time are both vivid and captivating. Readers will smell the dirty streets and close-living of urban London, revel in the summer splendour of the finest country houses and then flinch when the harshness of life for the poorest souls is revealed in uncomfortable detail.
For in the late 1700s your circumstance of birth meant everything. Toby and Aaron may both find themselves living at Captain Thomas Coram's Hospital for parentless children, but their histories are as far apart as they could possibly be. Toby has been rescued from a life of slave labour in a faraway country; Aaron is the illegitimate son of the heir to a large country estate. They are watched over by Mish--a simple soul who has been with them since their arrival. His devotion to them is absolute, but his motives are not altogether straightforward. Could this curious man really be Meshak, the son of a wicked child-killer who was hanged at the gallows for his crimes?
Coram Boy is a glorious web of changing fortunes and subtle intrigues. There is tragedy and corruption, hope and evil. Sometimes brutal and sometimes unceasingly bleak, the genre of historical fiction has rarely been this good. It's undoubtedly the kind of book that wins awards. (Age 12 and over) --John McLay [via]
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The Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre Dumas, Lorenzo CarcaterraISBN 0345483545 (0-345-48354-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Count of Monte Cristo'Book summary:Set against the tumultuous years of the post-Napoleonic era, The Count of Monet Cristo recounts the swashbuckling adventures of Edmond Dantes, a dashing young sailor falsely accused of treason. The story of his long imprisonment, dramatic escape, and carefully wrought revenge offers up a vision of France that has become immortal.
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Cross My Heartby Carly PhillipsISBN 0373771266 (0-373-77126-6)
Hardcover, Harlequin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cross My Heart'Book summary:Cross My Heart delivers fun, sexy romance as only Carly Phillips can! See what millions of readers have already discovered -- this New York Times bestselling author writes a perfect summer read.
Lacey Kincaid is a classic New York success story. As the owner of Odd Jobs, she's gone from rags to riches . . . sort of. Because Lacey's harboring a secret -- she was born Lillian Dumont, and spent her childhood with a silver spoon in her mouth, until the deaths of her wealthy parents and the evil schemes of an abusive uncle forced her to take drastic measures. She'd never planned to return to her former life or her abandoned identity -- but when her childhood sweetheart, Ty, resurfaces and urges her to claim her rightful inheritance, she decides that maybe being the Dumont heiress wouldn't be so bad. Lacey's uncle doesn't see it that way, though -- and he's willing to do anything to stop her.
Now, it's up to Ty to protect Lacey before that silver spoon becomes a silver bullet. But if they live through this, the future's looking bright for this downtown guy and his brand-new uptown girl! [via]
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The Crow Roadby Iain BanksISBN 0349103232 (0-349-10323-2)
Hardcover, Abacus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crow Road'Book summary:TV trade edition paperback, fine in specially printed TV dw (fine (as new)) [via]
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Dark Ladyby Richard North PattersonISBN 0345467485 (0-345-46748-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dark Lady'Book summary:Dashiell Hammett, a master of big city crime fiction, would have enjoyed Richard North Patterson's latest thriller, set in a fictional Midwestern city called Steelton. This burnt-out burg is located on the shores of Lake Erie--and is a place bitterly divided by politics. The construction of a $275 million baseball stadium threatens to be Steelton's downfall rather than its redemption.
Arthur Bright is the prosecutor of Erie County, but he wants to become mayor. His campaign attacks the new ballpark as a boondoggle, "a shameful diversion of public financing from such pressing needs as better schools, better housing, and safer streets." His protégé, Assistant County Prosecutor Stella Marz is 38, ambitious, and has been dubbed "the dark lady" by various defense lawyers. If Arthur wins the mayoral race, she intends to become prosecutor herself. But two murders involving drugs and twisted sex threaten her future.
First, Tommy Fielding, the project manager for Steelton 2000 (as the new home of the Steelton Blues will be called), is found dead in the company of a hooker--both apparently having overdosed on heroin. The fact that Fielding was gay and had never used drugs before bothers Stella and Chief Detective Nathaniel Dance. Their worries are soon pushed aside by another, more shocking murder--Jack Novak, a defense lawyer, is discovered hanging from his closet door, castrated and dressed in drag. Jack was once Stella's lover--and he was also one of Bright's largest contributors. For Stella, the murders are too close to home. "Maybe this is about me. But I have to see it through."
Dark Lady is shrouded by the dark clouds of deceit and greed, and the sleek structure of Steelton 2000 dominates the landscape like a Dr. Frankenstein's Castle with luxury boxes. --Dick Adler [via]
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A Deadly Scheduleby Roy HartISBN 0373262051 (0-373-26205-1)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Deadly Schedule'Book summary:When Inspector Douglas Roper first discovers the body of a well-to-do Englishwoman bludgeoned to death in his motel, he leaves the crime unsolved, but as he investigates a series of apparently unrelated crimes, he realizes they are the work of one diabolical killer. Reprint. AB. PW. [via]
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Death by Accidentby Bill CriderISBN 0373263430 (0-373-26343-0)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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Death by Hollywoodby Steven BochcoISBN 034546687X (0-345-46687-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death by Hollywood'Book summary:From the acclaimed co-creator of Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, and NYPD Blue, Death by Hollywood is a suspenseful, shocking, and darkly comic crime novel about a screenwriter, a billionaires wife, a murder, and, of course, a cop.
There used to be a writer by the name of Merle Miller, who wrote that people in Hollywood are always touching you not because they like you, but because they want to see how soft you are before they eat you alive
So begins this seductive and surprising novel by two-time Edgar Award-winning writer Steven Bochco, in which a down-on-his-luck screenwriter named Bobby Newman tries to turn a brutal murder into his next movie payday.
One day, while spying on his Hollywood Hills neighbors through his $4,000 Bushnell XR90 electronic telescope, Bobby sees a beautiful woman making love to a handsome Latin actor named Ramon. When their pillow talk takes a turn for the ugly, Bobby watches in horror as the woman bludgeons her lover to death with his own acting trophy. Deciding to write about it instead of reporting it to the cops, Bobby insinuates himself into Detective Dennis Farentinos murder investigation, forging an unusual friendship with the cop that turns out to be more complex than either of them had bargained for. Before long, Bobby has dragged the detective, his estranged wife, his lover, and his agent into a Hollywood funhouse hall of mirrors, where only the most manipulative player will survive.
Savvy, funny, sexy, and streetwise, Death By Hollywood is the tale Steven Bochco couldnt tell on television. It is the work of an ingenious storyteller, certain to enthrall readers from beginning to end. [via]More editions of Death by Hollywood:
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A Death in White Bear Lake: The True Chronicle of an All-american Townby Barry SiegelISBN 0345487176 (0-345-48717-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Death in White Bear Lake: The True Chronicle of an All-american Town'Book summary:"We want to talk to you about my brother who was murdered twenty-one years ago--can we come in?" The veneer of tranquility in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, began to crack the day Jerry Sherwood and her son showed up at the police station to inquire about her first-born son, Dennis--adopted by Lois and Harold Jurgens and dead before his fourth birthday. The autopsy report ruled peritonitis was the cause, but the startling photos of the boy suggested murder.
How could the Jurgens kill a small child and get away with it? Determined to find answers, detectives Ron Meehan and Greg Kindle tracked down old witnesses and rebuilt the case brick by brick until they exposed the demons that drove an adopted parent to torture and eventually murder a helpless child. Just as compelling, they investigated why so many people watched and did absolutely nothing. A vivid portrait of an all-American town that harbored a killer, A Death in White Bear Lake is also the absorbing story of two detectives who refused to give up until they had the killer cold.
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Diamond Maskby Julian MayISBN 0345470346 (0-345-47034-6)
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The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico 1517-1521by Bernal Diaz Del CastilloISBN 0374503842 (0-374-50384-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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East Beachby Ron ElyISBN 0373262272 (0-373-26227-2)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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The Emperor of Ocean Parkby Stephen L. CarterISBN 0375413634 (0-375-41363-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenicaby David RohdeISBN 0374253420 (0-374-25342-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Forbidden Zoneby Michael LesyISBN 0374157561 (0-374-15756-1)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Forensic Detective: How I Cracked the World's Toughest Casesby Robert Mann, Miryam Ehrlich WilliamsonISBN 0345479424 (0-345-47942-4)
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The Genesis Codeby John CaseISBN 0345483537 (0-345-48353-7)
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The Ghost of Fossil Glenby Cynthia C. DeFeliceISBN 0374317879 (0-374-31787-9)
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Hate Crime: The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texasby Joyce KingISBN 0375421327 (0-375-42132-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hate Crime: The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas'Book summary:On June 7, 1998, James Byrd, Jr., a forty-nine-year-old black man, was dragged to his death while chained to the back of a pickup truck driven by three young white men. It happened just outside of Jasper, a sleepy East Texas logging town that, within twenty-four hours of the discovery of the murder, would be inextricably linked in the nations imagination to an exceptionally brutal, modern-day lynching.
In this superbly written examination of the murder and its aftermath, award-winning journalist Joyce King brings us on a journey that begins at the crime scene and extends into the minds of the young men who so casually ended a mans life. She takes us inside the prison in which two of them met for the first time, and she shows how it played a major role in shaping their attitudesracial and otherwise. The result is a deeply engrossing psychological portrait of the accused and a powerful indictment of the American prison systems ability to reform criminals. Finally, King writes with candor and clarity about how the events of that fateful night have affected heras a black woman, a native Texan, and a journalist given the agonizing assignment of covering the trials of all three defendants. More than a spectacular true-crime debut, Hate Crime is a breathtaking work of reportage and a searing look at how the question of race continues to shape life in America. [via]More editions of Hate Crime: The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas:
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The Human Factorby Graham GreeneISBN 0370300432 (0-370-30043-2)
Hardcover, Bodley Head
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Human Factor'Book summary:From the author of THE COMEDIANS and DOCTOR FISCHER OF GENEVA OR THE BOMB PARTY, a novel in which a leak is traced back to a small sub-section of the SIS, and Maurice Castle decides it is time to retire and live peacefully with his wife. In the VINTAGE CLASSICS series. [via]
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In Their Footstepsby Tess Gerritsen, Amanda Stevens, Kay DavidISBN 037383621X (0-373-83621-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Their Footsteps'Book summary:In Their Footstepsby New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen
For Beryl Tavistock, the place to ask questions about the scandal surrounding her parents' deaths is on Paris's rain-slick streets. But the answers are proving that old secrets die hard. Caught in an increasingly deadly search for the truth, she enters a world where danger is spliced with desire -- a world where them an she's just met, ex-CIA agent Richard Wolf, seems very much at home. But in this world, friends can be enemies and enemies can be killers . . .
Amanda Stevens
Bedroom Window
Recently separated, Kaitlin is enjoying the view from her new bedroom window. But she soon learns a stranger may be enjoying the view into her room even more . . .
Kay David
24 Hours
During a bank robbery Sarah is held hostage with the man who betrayed her, and her life will change forever in the next twenty-four hours . . . [via]
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The Insider : A Novelby Stephen FreyISBN 0345480368 (0-345-48036-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Insider : A Novel'Book summary:New York Times bestselling author Stephen Frey writes thrillers of "ruthless financial terror" (Chicago Tribune), intricately plotted, fast-paced novels where "Grisham meets Ludlum on Wall Street" (USA Today). Now Frey has written his most exciting novel yet, taking us even deeper into the volatile world of raw ambition, million-dollar deals, and wide-eyed dreamers willing to risk everything for a profit.
Hungry to leave his dead-end banking job and to play in the big leagues, Jay West lands a coveted position with the powerful investment firm of Donovan & Lloyd, working for the influential, charismatic Oliver Mason, a deal-maker with the Midas touch, a fierce ally who handpicked Jay for the job. With the incentive of a million-dollar bonus at the end of the year, Jay strives to make his mark, unaware that he is stepping into an elaborate trap--baited with the seductive promise of power and influence.
Jay soon suspects that Oliver's stellar track record is more than a result of hard work or good luck. The man seems to have everything--not just fast cars and a luxurious home in Connecticut, but a violent temper, a strained marriage, and a boundless hunger for money and prestige. The stakes are raised when a trusted coworker is brutally murdered and the beautiful Sally Lane joins the team, a mysterious blonde with the ability to coax secrets out of others--while seductively keeping her own.
With a conspiracy of deceit and corruption beginning to close around him, Jay races to untangle the sordid lies that have quickly and too conveniently blackened his name. Trusting no one and remaining one step ahead of both the law and his unknown adversaries, Jay must rely on his own cunning and wits to stay in the game--and to stay alive.
With breakneck pacing from the opening bell, The Insider is a multilayered, action-packed thriller of wealth and the lust for it, heated passion and ruthless competition, survival and power--no matter the cost.
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Just Dare Me...by Stephanie BondISBN 0373792867 (0-373-79286-7)
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Killjoyby Julie GarwoodISBN 0345486447 (0-345-48644-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Killjoy'Book summary:When it comes to gripping novels of unrelenting suspense, Julie Garwood is in a class by herself. In the course of her career, she has mastered the art of creating characters who live and breathe in compelling, page-burning stories that never fail to surprise. As her legion of fans can attest, she strikes the perfect balance between excitement and insight, action and heart. Now, in this breathless new novel, Garwood has written her most electrifying thriller to date.
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Avery Delaney has always tried to put the past far behind her. Abandoned by her rapacious, conniving mother when she was only three days old, Avery was raised by her grandmother and beloved aunt Carolyn. Then, when she was eleven, she witnessed her grandmothers violent death, before Avery herself was shot and left for dead. Miraculously she survived. The man responsible is serving time in a Florida prison. This traumatic experience propels Avery into a life of law and order.
Her razor-sharp mind and ability to gather data and decipher evidence has made Avery an expert crime analyst for the FBI. But soon she will have to use every one of her adroit skills on a case that hits painfully close to home.
Averys workaholic aunt, Carolyn Salvetti, is certain her (hopefully soon-to-be ex) husband sent her the gold embossed reservation to the posh Utopia Spa in the mountains of Colorado. At first she is resistant, but then figures it will be a welcome respite from the cutthroat advertising business, not to mention a networking extravaganza. Plus she persuades her niece to join her for the two weeks of luxury and decadence.
But Carolyn never makes it to Utopia. Under false pretenses, she is taken to an isolated retreat by a handsome stranger with a dazzling smile, suave demeanor, and the darkest of motives. His name is Monk, a hired assassin. Now, with scant clues and fewer resources, Avery must track down and save Carolynand outmaneuver a brilliant killer who is part of an elaborate plot of madness and lethal vengeance.
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The Last of Her Kindby Sigrid NunezISBN 0374183813 (0-374-18381-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last of Her Kind'Book summary:[via]The Last of Her Kind introduces two women who meet as freshmen on the Columbia campus in 1968. Georgette George does not know what to make of her brilliant, idealistic roommate, Ann Drayton, and her obsessive disdain for the ruling class into which she was born. She is mortified by Ann's romanticization of the underprivileged class, which Georgette herself is hoping college will enable her to escape. After the violent fight that ends their friendship, Georgette wants only to forget Ann and to turn her attention to the troubled runaway kid sister who has reappeared after years on the road. Then, in 1976, Ann is convicted of murder. At first, Ann's fate appears to be the inevitable outcome of her belief in the moral imperative to "make justice" in a world where "there are no innocent white people." But, searching for answers to the riddle of this friend of her youth, Georgette finds more complicated and mysterious forces at work. As the novel's narrator, Georgette illuminates the terrifying life of this difficult, doomed woman, and in the process discovers how much their early encounter has determined her own path, and why, decades later, as she tells us, "I have never stopped thinking about her."More editions of The Last of Her Kind:
Lee Miller: A Lifeby Carolyn BurkeISBN 0375401474 (0-375-40147-4)
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The Madman's Taleby John KatzenbachISBN 0345464826 (0-345-46482-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Madman's Tale'Book summary:Its been twenty years since Western State Hospital was closed down and the last of its inmates reintegrated into society. Francis Petrel was barely out of his teens when his family committed him to the asylum, after his erratic behavior culminated in a terrifying outburst. Now middle-aged, he leads an aimless, solitary life housed in a cheap apartment, periodically tended to by his sisters, and perpetually medicated to quiet the chorus of voices in his head. But a reunion on the grounds of the shuttered institution stirs something deep in Franciss troubled mind: dark memories he thought he had laid to rest, about the grisly events that led to Western State Hospitals demise.
It begins in 1979, when twenty-one-year-old Petrel descends into the state-run purgatory of an overcrowded, understaffed Massachusetts mental hospital. Surrounded by inmates roaming the halls like drugged zombies and raving behind locked doors, well-meaning orderlies, jaded nurses, and patronizing doctors, Francis finds friendship with a motley assortment of fellow patients: a would-be Napoleon, a wise ex-firefighter, and a man obsessed with battling imagined devils. But theres nothing imaginary about the young nurse found sexually assaulted and brutally murdered late one night after lights-out.
The police suspect an inmate, while patients whisper about visions of a white-shrouded angel. But the striking and mysterious prosecuting attorney who arrives to investigate has her own chilling theoryabout the grim, telltale signature left on the victims body, a string of unsolved sex killings, and a very real devil who, by chance or design, has come to turn a madhouse into a slaughterhouse.
Now, with the past creeping back to haunt his thoughts, and nothing but a pencil and the bare walls of his bleak apartment, Francis surrenders to the overwhelming need to tell the story of those nightmarish days. But because the crime was never solved, its a story doomed to remain unfinished. Until, like Franciss long-buried recollections, the killer resurfaces . . . with a vengeance.
A tour de force narrative journey through the eerily unpredictable mind of an utterly unusual hero, The Madmans Tale will keep even the most astute thriller reader uncertain, unnerved, and unable to resist the tantalizing twists and turns of this fiendishly suspenseful shadow show. [via]-
Magic Timeby Doug MarletteISBN 0374200017 (0-374-20001-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Magic Time'Book summary:[via]A prize-winning Southern master storyteller weaves a riveting tale of love, mystery and justiceWhen the Pulitzer Prizewinning cartoonist Doug Marlette last turned to fiction, Valerie Sayers rejoiced in The Washington Post Book World: The Bridge [is] a great storyexuberant, proud, myth-challengingand Marlette has a great, Dickensian time with the telling. Pat Conroy saluted The Bridge as the finest first novel to come out of North Carolina since Look Homeward, Angel. Studs Turkel called it enthralling. Kaye Gibbons marveled at its extraordinary grace [and] humor. And the Southeast Booksellers Association gave The Bridge the 2002 Book Award for Fiction.Marlettes new novel, Magic Time, is a spellbinding stew of history, murder, courtroom drama, humor, love, betrayal, and justice. Moving between New York City and the New South of the early 1990s, with flashbacks to Mississippis cataclysmic Freedom Summer of 1964, Magic Time tells the story of New York newspaper columnist Carter Ransom, a son of Mississippi, who had the great fortune and terrible luck of falling in love that summer of 64 with a New Yorkborn civil rights worker who wound up being killed alongside three coworkers. Carters father, the local judge, presided over the first trial of the murders. But now theres evidence that the original trial was flawed, even fraudulent. And the question, among many others, is whether the good judge was knowingly involved in a cover-up.Magic Time is that rare thing: a page-turner whose driving plot line is matched by the depth of its moral vision.More editions of Magic Time:
The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living : A Novelby Martin ClarkISBN 0375407251 (0-375-40725-1)
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Moghul Buffetby Cheryl BenardISBN 0374211795 (0-374-21179-5)
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Monsterby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0375408681 (0-375-40868-1)
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Nightmare Town : Storiesby Dashiell Hammett, Kirby McCauley, Martin H. Greenberg, Ed Gorman, William F. NolanISBN 0375401113 (0-375-40111-3)
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No Country For Old Menby Cormac McCarthyISBN 0375406778 (0-375-40677-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'No Country For Old Men'Book summary:Set in our own time along the bloody frontier between Texas and Mexico, this is Cormac McCarthys first novel since Cities of the Plain completed his acclaimed, best-selling Border Trilogy.
Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin, and more than $2 million in cash. Packing the money out, he knows, will change everything. But only after two more men are murdered does a victims burning car lead Sheriff Bell to the carnage out in the desert, and he soon realizes how desperately Moss and his young wife need protection. One party in the failed transaction hires an exSpecial Forces officer to defend his interests against a mesmerizing freelancer, while on either side are men accustomed to spectacular violence and mayhem. The pursuit stretches up and down and across the border, each participant seemingly determined to answer what one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
A harrowing story of a war that society is waging on itself, and an enduring meditation on the ties of love and blood and duty that inform lives and shape destinies, No Country for Old Men is a novel of extraordinary resonance and power. [via]More editions of No Country For Old Men:
The Pactby Jennifer SturmanISBN 0373250797 (0-373-25079-7)
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The Paperchaseby Marcel TherouxISBN 0349114986 (0-349-11498-6)
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Perfect Nightmareby John SaulISBN 0345467329 (0-345-46732-9)
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A Philosophical Investigationby Philip KerrISBN 0374231761 (0-374-23176-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Philosophical Investigation'Book summary:A powerful, thought-provoking thriller set in London in 2013 with a difference that takes the reader on a terrifying journey into the head of a serial killer and to the heart of murder itself. Kerr has produced an unusual work of suspense which puts him at the front ranks in the genre. Movie rights optioned by Paramount Pictures. [via]
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The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selectedstoriesby James M. Cain, Robert PolitoISBN 037541438X (0-375-41438-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selectedstories'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)These three classics from the master of the noir novel, along with five otherwise unavailable short stories, are electric with the taut narrative voice, the suspense, and the explosive violence and eroticism that were James M. Cains indelible hallmarks.The Postman Always Rings Twice, Cains first novelthe subject of an obscenity trial in Boston, the inspiration for Camuss The Strangeris the fever-pitched tale of a drifter who stumbles into a job, into an erotic obsession, and into a murder. Double Indemnitywhich followed Postman so quickly, Cains readers hardly had a chance to catch their breathis a tersely narrated story of blind passion, duplicity, and, of course, murder. Mildred Pierce, a work of acute psychological observation and devastating emotional violence, is the tale of a woman with a taste for shiftless men and an unreasoned devotion to her monstrous daughter. All three novels were immortalized in classic Hollywood films. Also included here are five masterful stories Pastorale, The Baby in the Icebox, Dead Man, Brush Fire, The Girl in the Storm that have been out of print for decades. [via]
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The Power Brokerby Stephen FreyISBN 0345480619 (0-345-48061-9)
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The Power of the Dogby Don WinslowISBN 0375405380 (0-375-40538-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Power of the Dog'Book summary:From Don Winslow ( A writer so good you almost want to keep him to yourself Ian Rankin), an electrifying new novel of love and revenge, politics and influence, corruption and honor. Moving at breakneck speed, it tells a riveting, sometimes harrowing story set in the shifting nexus of power among the Latin American drug cartels, the American mob, and the U.S. government.
Spanning the years from the rise of the Mexican drug Federación in the 1970s to the Iran-Contra affair in the 1980s to the vicious drug wars of the 1990s, the action ranges from Manhattans Hells Kitchen and the halls of Washington to the streets of Tijuana and the deserts of the American Southwest.
The players: a DEA agent, a drug lord, a call girl, a hit man, a priest. Caught up in the war on drugs, willingly or not, each is trying to escape the sins of the past while negotiating the treacherous currents of the present. Their seemingly disparate livestaking shape on one side of the law or the other, or straddling bothslowly converge as they struggle to overcome, in any way possible, the power of the dog.
From the jungles of Latin America to the vicious netherworld of the CaliforniaMexico border, this is the war on drugs you havent seenits devastations and deliriums, its alliances and betrayals, its pawns and kings.
A masterpiece of epic storytelling, The Power of the Dog is Don Winslow at the very top of his form. [via]More editions of The Power of the Dog:
Robbed Blindby Roy HartISBN 0373262892 (0-373-26289-2)
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Sabbathday Riverby Jean Hanff KorelitzISBN 0374253234 (0-374-25323-4)
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Sacred Sinsby Nora RobertsISBN 0375430660 (0-375-43066-0)
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Saving Faithby David BaldacciISBN 0375408665 (0-375-40866-5)
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Saving Fish from Drowningby Amy TanISBN 034546401X (0-345-46401-X)
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Seascape With Dead Figuresby Roy HartISBN 037326268X (0-373-26268-X)
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Service Of All The Dead: An Inspector Morse Novelby Colin DexterISBN 0345483618 (0-345-48361-8)
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The Sleeping Beautyby Jacqueline NavinISBN 0373291787 (0-373-29178-7)
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Sniper: Inside the Hunt for the Killers Who Terrorized the Nationby Sari Horwitz, Michael E. RuaneISBN 034547662X (0-345-47662-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sniper: Inside the Hunt for the Killers Who Terrorized the Nation'Book summary:Sniper is the behind-the-scenes story of one of the most frightening rampages to occur in U.S. historyand how it was stopped.
For more than three weeks, the nation watched in disbelief as Washington, D.C., and its surrounding suburbs were held hostage by anonymous gunmen shooting innocent civilians at random. Sniper is the denitive account of those alleged gunmen, John Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, and the massive manhunt that ended with their capture by a heavily armed SWAT team in an early-morning raid at an interstate highway rest stop.
Two Washington Post reporters, Sari Horwitz and Michael E. Ruane, retrace the steps of Muhammad and Malvo from their rst meeting on the island of Antigua to Malvos deant confession in a Virginia jail. Drawing on exclusive reporting about that confession, internal police documents, and a wide range of law-enforcement sources, Horwitz and Ruane track in remarkable detail the murderous trail Muhammad and Malvo are accused of having followed to the Washington area and reconstruct the eerie way in which the two moved invisibly around the nations capital in the midst of one of the largest police investigations in U.S. history.
Horwitz and Ruane also take you inside the police command center where local and state police, joined by the federal governments most experienced crime ghters, worked desperately to stop the killings, unaware that a fundamental errorinvestigators were wrongly xated on a white vanwas allowing Muhammad and Malvo to slip through the dragnet. We meet FBI negotiators, veteran detectives, forensics experts, prosecutors, and politicians who faced perhaps the biggest challenge of their careers as they confronted frustrating setbacks, logistical nightmares, and the overwhelming pressure of a high-stakes investigation. In a fast-paced narrative that outdoes even the most acclaimed television cop shows, Sniper recounts the extraordinary police work that enabled investigators to quickly exploit the clues handed to them by Muhammad and Malvo that nally led to their arrest.
Part gripping drama, part real-life portrait of law enforcement at work, Sniper is also a cautionary tale about the vulnerability of American society in an age of terrorism.
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Stolen Kissesby Julie KennerISBN 0373691696 (0-373-69169-6)
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The Substitute Sisterby Lisa ChildsISBN 0373228341 (0-373-22834-1)
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To Die forby Linda HowardISBN 0345476255 (0-345-47625-5)
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Troubling a Starby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0374377839 (0-374-37783-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Troubling a Star'Book summary:After a year in New York City and a summer with her grandfather, Vicky Austin returns to the rural connecticut village she grew up in-- and feels totally out of place. then she meets Adam Eddington's Great-aunt serena, who reminds her of her beloved grandfather, and she begins to find a comfortable, if not exciting, routine to her days. At Christmas, Serena gives Vicky a trip to Antarctica, to visit Adam. Vicky can't believe her luck.[via]
But the trip is not what Vicky imagined it would be. First of all, she doesnt know where she stands with Adam. He's pulled back, saying they are just friends. But weren't they more than that, Vicky thinks. And Vicky's fellow passengers are not what they seem or they are more than she knows. Finally, even Aunt Serena's motives are suspect, as Vicky discovers a journal that belonged to Adam's famous uncle who disappeared many years earlier.
As Vicky becomes more and more caught up in a mystery involving drugs, nuclear waste, and international espionage, she discovers that her assumptions about the world are hopelessly naive and that life, hers included, is as fragile as the ecosystem of Antarctica, the world's most remote continent.More editions of Troubling a Star:
Twistedby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0345465261 (0-345-46526-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Twisted'Book summary:Hollywood homicide detective Petra Connor has helped psychologist Alex Delaware crack tough cases in the past. And in Jonathan Kellermans New York Times bestseller Billy Straight she took the lead in the desperate hunt for a teenage runaway stalked by a vengeful murderer. Now the complex and wryly compassionate Petra is once again at the center of the action, in a novel of cunning twists and page-turning suspense.
Lifeless bodies sprawl in a dance-club parking lot after a brutal L.A. drive-by. Of the four seemingly random victims, one stands out: a girl with pink shoes who cannot be identifiedand who, days later, remains a Jane Doe. With zero leads and no apparent motive, its another case destined for the cold fileuntil Petra decides to follow her instincts and descends into a world of traveling grifters and bloodthirsty killers, pursuing a possible eyewitness whose life is in mortal danger.
Finding her elusive quarryaliveisnt all Petra has on her plate: departmental politics threatens to sabotage her case, and her personal life isnt doing much better. If all that wasnt enough, Isaac Gomez, a whiz-kid grad student researching homicide statistics at the station house, is convinced hes stumbled upon a bizarre connection between several unsolved murders. The victims had nothing in common, yet each died by the same method, on the same datea date thats rapidly approaching again. And that leaves Petra with little time to unravel the twisted logic of a cunning predator whos evaded detection for yearsand whose terrible hour is once more at hand.
Why is it so hard to put down a Kellerman thriller? asks Publishers Weekly. Its simple: the nonstop action leaves you breathless; the plot twists keep you guessing; the themes . . . are provocative. Those in need of still further proof that Kellerman has shaped the psychological mystery novel into an art form (Los Angeles Times Book Review) need look no further than Twisted. [via]
The Twisted Rootby Anne PerryISBN 0375408576 (0-375-40857-6)
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Under the Knifeby Tess GerritsenISBN 0373221363 (0-373-22136-3)
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The Vintner's Luckby Elizabeth KnoxISBN 0374283923 (0-374-28392-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Vintner's Luck'Book summary:"A week after midsummer, when the festival fires were cold, and decent people were in bed an hour after sunset, not lying dry-mouthed in dark rooms at midday, a young man named Sobran Jodeau stole two of the freshly bottled wines to baptize the first real sorrow of his life."
The year is 1808, the place Burgundy, France. Among the lush vines of his family's vineyard, Jodeau, 18 years old and frustrated in love, is about to come face to face with a celestial being. But this is no sentimental "Touched by an Angel" seraph; as imagined by Elizabeth Knox in her wildly evocative and original novel, Xas is equipped with a glorious pair of wings ("pure sinew and bone under a cushion of feathers") and an appetite for earthly pleasures--wine, books, gardening, conversation, and, eventually, carnal love.
The fateful meeting between man and angel occurs on June 27. After an evening during which Sobran spills all his troubles and Xas gently advises him, the angel promises to return on the same night next year to toast Sobran's marriage. Thus begins a friendship that will last for 55 years, spanning marriages, wars, births, deaths, and even the vast distances between heaven, earth, and hell. In addition to the wonderfully flawed Sobran and his mysterious angel, Knox brilliantly limns secondary characters who are deeply sympathetic--from Sobran's unstable wife, Celeste, and his troubled brother, Leon, to his dear friend and confidante, the Baroness Aurora. Love, murder, madness, and a singular theology that would make a believer out of the most hardened atheist all add up, in The Vintner's Luck, to a novel that will break your heart yet leave you wishing for more. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Warlord's Sonby Dan FespermanISBN 0375414738 (0-375-41473-8)
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwandaby Philip GourevitchISBN 0374286973 (0-374-28697-3)
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The "stories" in this book's subtitle are both the author's, as he repeatedly visits this tiny country in an attempt to make sense of what has happened, and those of the people he interviews. These include a Tutsi doctor who has seen much of her family killed over decades of Tutsi oppression, a Schindleresque hotel manager who hid hundreds of refugees from certain death, and a Rwandan bishop who has been accused of supporting the slaughter of Tutsi schoolchildren, and can only answer these charges by saying, "What could I do?" Gourevitch, a staff writer for the New Yorker, describes Rwanda's history with remarkable clarity and documents the experience of tragedy with a sober grace. The reader will ask along with the author: Why does this happen? And why don't we bother to stop it? --Maria Dolan [via]
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What the Lady Wantsby Jennifer CrusieISBN 0373256442 (0-373-25644-2)
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Wildfireby Lynn EricksonISBN 0373705646 (0-373-70564-6)
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Winning Can Be Murderby Bill CriderISBN 0373263546 (0-373-26354-6)
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Yesterday Comes Tomorrowby Rebecca FlandersISBN 0373832478 (0-373-83247-8)
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