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361by Donald WestlakeISBN 0843953578 (0-8439-5357-8)
Softcover, Leisure Books
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Beautiful Lies : A Novelby Lisa UngerISBN 0739325809 (0-7393-2580-9)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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Birthrightby Nora RobertsISBN 0786253592 (0-7862-5359-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Bunniculaby James Howe, Deborah Howe, Alan DanielISBN 0689307004 (0-689-30700-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bunnicula'Book summary:This immensely popular children's story is told from the point of view of a dog named Harold. It all starts when Harold's human family, the Monroes, goes to see the movie Dracula, and young Toby accidentally sits on a baby rabbit wrapped in a bundle on his seat. How could the family help but take the rabbit home and name it Bunnicula? Chester, the literate, sensitive, and keenly observant family cat, soon decides there is something weird about this rabbit. Pointy fangs, the appearance of a cape, black-and-white coloring, nocturnal habits & it sure seemed like he was a vampire bunny. When the family finds a white tomato in the kitchen, sucked dry and colorless, well & Chester becomes distraught and fears for the safety of the family. "Today, vegetables. Tomorrow & the world!" he warns Harold. But when Chester tries to make his fears known to the Monroes, he is completely misunderstood, and the results are truly hilarious. Is Bunnicula really a vampire bunny? We can't say. But any child who has ever let his or her imagination run a little wild will love Deborah and James Howe's funny, fast-paced "rabbit-tale of mystery." (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
Canary Murder Caseby Otto Penzler, S. S. Van DineISBN 0839825544 (0-8398-2554-4)
Hardcover, Gregg Press
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Canary Murder Caseby S. S. Van DineISBN 0684164043 (0-684-16404-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Cat on a Blue Mondayby Carole Nelson DouglasISBN 0812534417 (0-8125-3441-7)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Cold Hitby Linda FairsteinISBN 0684848465 (0-684-84846-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cold Hit'Book summary:When Linda Fairstein describes the route Alexandra Cooper takes from the district attorney's office to NYPD headquarters, you know she's walked that way many times herself. "I took the shortcut over to One Police Plaza, cutting behind the Metropolitan Correctional Center and alongside the staggeringly expensive new federal courthouse, which made our digs, complete with oversized rodents and roaches that obviously thrived on Combat, look like judicial facilities in some third world country."
Like her fictional counterpart, Fairstein is a Manhattan assistant district attorney in charge of a sex-crimes unit. As she did in Final Jeopardy and Likely to Die, Fairstein mires her somewhat unlikely heroine (a beautiful 35-year-old blond with an Ivy League education, a house in Martha's Vineyard, and an affection for betting on quiz shows at cop bars) in a wealth of procedural detail. The "cold hit" of the title, for example, refers to a computer match between DNA samples from a recent rape case with evidence from an older crime.
With her trusty cop sidekicks Mike Chapman (who eats everything in sight and drops wisecracks like they're crumbs) and Mercer Wallace (who is a big fellow and can take a bullet meant for Alex without flinching), Cooper is working on two major cases--a serial rapist who has suddenly decided to come out of hiding and a couple of murders linked to the nasty underground world of fine-art sales. But she also has time to give her fellow sex-crime prosecutors advice on how to handle everything from a man shooting video up women's skirts at a Star Trek convention to a guy who takes his love for racehorses well past the legal limits. Once again, Fairstein has produced a story whose entertainment value is very high. --Dick Adler [via]
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A Cold Red Sunriseby Stuart M. KaminskyISBN 080410428X (0-8041-0428-X)
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The Complete Storiesby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0679417400 (0-679-41740-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Edgar Allan Poes gift for the macabrehis genius in finding the strangeness lurking at the heart of thingswas so extraordinary that he exerted a major influence on Baudelaire and French symbolism, on Freudian analysis, and also on the detective novel and the Hollywood movie. His psychologically profound stories of encounters with the marvelous, the uncanny, and the dreadful representin contrast to the optimism of writers like Emerson and Whitmanthe other, darker side of the nineteenth-century American sensibility.More editions of The Complete Stories:
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The Complete Tales of Mystery and Imagination ; The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym ; The Raven and Other Poemsby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0706415523 (0-7064-1552-3)
Hardcover, Octopus Books
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A Corpse in a Gilded Cageby Robert BarnardISBN 0816138745 (0-8161-3874-5)
Softcover, G.K. Hall
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Cursed in the Bloodby Sharan NewmanISBN 0812590201 (0-8125-9020-1)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cursed in the Blood'Book summary:The fifth in Sharan Newman's highly authentic and richly praised series, Cursed in the Blood finds Catherine LeVendeur venturing to the cold and tumultuous homeland of her husband--only to realize that vast differences between Edgar's family and her own.[via]
After making the pilgrimage to Compostela and giving birth to a son, Catherine LeVendeur is looking forward to an idyllic life at home in Paris. Yet her contentment is shattered when she and Edgar receive news from his family: Edgar's two oldest brothers have been ambushed and murdered, and he must return to Scotland to help avenge their deaths. At first, Edgar refuses to go, knowing what may await them in his war torn homeland. But Catherine believes in family loyalty and insists upon accompanying him with their baby.
Once in Scotland, Catherine is surprised to learn that Edger's family is not what she imagined: His father, Waldeve, is a cold tyrant, and his remaining siblings are distant and secretive. Separated from Edgar during their efforts to uncover the truth, Catherine is expelled from his family's care. She becomes a stranger in a strange land, searching for refuge in a country ravaged by civil war at the same time she searches for her husband. Yet she knows that any haven she finds will only be temporary until she answers this question: Who among Waldeve's enemies hates his passionately enough to destroy his whole family--including, she fears, his infant grandson?More editions of Cursed in the Blood:
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Dancing with the Virgins: A Constable Ben Cooper Novelby Stephen BoothISBN 0743431006 (0-7434-3100-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dancing with the Virgins: A Constable Ben Cooper Novel'Book summary:"She was spread against the ground in a final arabesque, in a fatal pirouette or the last fling of an abandoned tango....A dead woman dancing. She looked like a dead woman, dancing."
Stephen Booth, one of the most acclaimed new voices in crime fiction, takes us to a remote region of northern England where a prehistoric ring of stones, the Nine Virgins, harbors a dark legend. With winter looming, a tenth figure soon joins the circle: the body of young cyclist Jenny Weston, whose limbs are carefully arranged in death to parody a woman dancing.Weeks earlier, another woman, Maggie Crew, was attacked nearby, her face savagely cut open. Is there a maniac on the loose, knifing women at random? Maggie may hold the answer, but she has no memory of the attack. The painful images are buried deep in her wounded psyche. It will take time and patience to convince Maggie to face the demons of her past.
But are the two crimes -- Jenny's murder and Maggie's assault -- linked by something other than geography? Was there a prior connection between the two women? Why was Jenny cycling alone on that cool November day? What precious object did she carry in a pouch around her waist? And what of other mysterious people in the region -- two drifters who practice strange rituals, a Peak Park ranger with a shameful secret, a desperate farmer whose own children fear him?
Detectives Ben Cooper and Diane Fry struggle to make sense of a motiveless murder and of their own relationship, which increasingly seems past repair. Where once there was attraction, now there is antagonism. But personal problems must wait. The moors have witnessed more bloodshed than either Ben or Diane realizes, andviolence is to beget more violence before Jenny's killer is found.
A brooding, stylish psychological thriller, deeply evocative of a very special place, "Dancing with the Virgins" confirms Stephen Booth's reputation as a gifted author of richly nuanced crime fiction. [via]
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Day of the Deadby J.A. JanceISBN 0688138233 (0-688-13823-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Dead Secretby Wilkie CollinsISBN 080959482X (0-8095-9482-X)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dead Secret'Book summary:Having previously tried my hand at short serial stories (collected and reprinted in _After Dark,_ and _The Queen of Hearts),_ I ventured on my first attempt, in this book, to produce a sustained work of fiction, intended for periodical publication during many successive weeks. The experiment proved successful both in this country and in America. Two of the characters which appear in these pages -- "Rosamond," and "Uncle Joseph" -- had the good fortune to find friends everywhere who took a hearty liking to them. A more elaborately drawn personage in the story -- "Sarah Leeson" -- was, I think, less generally understood. The idea of tracing, in this character, the influence of a heavy responsibility on a naturally timid woman, whose mind was neither strong enough to bear it, nor bold enough to drop it altogether, was a favorite idea with me, at the time, and is so much a favorite still, that I privately give "Sarah Leeson" the place of honor in the little portrait-gallery which my story contains. Perhaps, in saying this, I am only acknowledging, in other words, that the parents of literary families share the well-known inconsistencies of parents in general, and are sometimes unreasonably fond of the child who has always given them the most trouble. -- Wilkie Collins, _January, 1861_ [via]
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Dead Watchby John SandfordISBN 0786286245 (0-7862-8624-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Death of a Cad: A Hamish Macbeth Mysteryby M. C. BeatonISBN 0804102252 (0-8041-0225-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Death of a Dustmanby M. C. BeatonISBN 0756776910 (0-7567-7691-0)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis Stevenson, Ron Tiner, John GrantISBN 0794502385 (0-7945-0238-5)
Softcover, Edc Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self. [via]
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Hardcover, Random House Inc - Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde: ISBN 0785731490 (0-7857-3149-0)
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Eater of Souls: A Lord Meren Mysteryby Lynda S. RobinsonISBN 0802732941 (0-8027-3294-1)
Hardcover, Walker & Company
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Exit Sherlock Holmesby Robert Lee HallISBN 0684148498 (0-684-14849-8)
Hardcover, Scribner
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Fete Fataleby Robert BarnardISBN 0816142173 (0-8161-4217-3)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Fire and Iceby Dana StabenowISBN 0786219033 (0-7862-1903-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Flashpointby Linda BarnesISBN 078686317X (0-7868-6317-X)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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Frequent Flyerby Kinky FriedmanISBN 0688081665 (0-688-08166-5)
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The Fugitive Queenby Fiona BuckleyISBN 074345748X (0-7434-5748-X)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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The Fugitive Queen: An Ursula Blanchard Mystery at Queen Elizabeth I's Courtby Fiona BuckleyISBN 074323751X (0-7432-3751-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Girl With the Long Green Heartby Lawrence BlockISBN 0843955856 (0-8439-5585-6)
Softcover, Dorchester Pub Co Inc
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The Good German : A Novelby Joseph KanonISBN 0805064222 (0-8050-6422-2)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Holesby Louis SacharISBN 0747546487 (0-7475-4648-7)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Holes'Book summary:"If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy." Such is the reigning philosophy at Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention facility where there is no lake, and there are no happy campers. In place of what used to be "the largest lake in Texas" is now a dry, flat, sunburned wasteland, pocked with countless identical holes dug by boys improving their character. Stanley Yelnats, of palindromic name and ill-fated pedigree, has landed at Camp Green Lake because it seemed a better option than jail. No matter that his conviction was all a case of mistaken identity, the Yelnats family has become accustomed to a long history of bad luck, thanks to their "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather!" Despite his innocence, Stanley is quickly enmeshed in the Camp Green Lake routine: rising before dawn to dig a hole five feet deep and five feet in diameter; learning how to get along with the Lord of the Flies-styled pack of boys in Group D; and fearing the warden, who paints her fingernails with rattlesnake venom. But when Stanley realizes that the boys may not just be digging to build character--that in fact the warden is seeking something specific--the plot gets as thick as the irony.
It's a strange story, but strangely compelling and lovely too. Louis Sachar uses poker-faced understatement to create a bizarre but believable landscape--a place where Major Major Major Major of Catch-22 would feel right at home. But while there is humor and absurdity here, there is also a deep understanding of friendship and a searing compassion for society's underdogs. As Stanley unknowingly begins to fulfill his destiny--the dual plots coming together to reveal that fate has big plans in store--we can't help but cheer for the good guys, and all the Yelnats everywhere. (Ages 10 and older) --Brangien Davis [via]
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Hour of the Hunterby J.A. JanceISBN 0688096301 (0-688-09630-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The brilliant psychopath Andrew Carlisle spent only six years in prison for the brutal torturemurder of a young girl of the Tohono O'otham tribe. The testimony of Diana Ladd -- a teacher on the reservation -- put Carlisle behind bars, and now she can't ignore the dark, mystical signs that say a predator has returned to prowl the Arizona desert. Because no matter where Diana and her young son hide . . . he will find them.
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The House of Green Turfby Ellis PetersISBN 0792715829 (0-7927-1582-9)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer
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Incredulity of Father Brownby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0816136807 (0-8161-3680-7)
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Jinx High: A Diana Tregarde Investigationby Mercedes LackeyISBN 0765313197 (0-7653-1319-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jinx High: A Diana Tregarde Investigation'Book summary:[via]Fay Harper looks like any other teenage girl--any other Queen Bee, that is. She's blond, and beautiful, and very, very popular--the kind of popular that attracts boys like honey. Fay and her gang take a lot of risks, but so far they've managed to get away with everything. It's as if they are magically protected.Summoned to Tulsa by an old friend whose son has fallen in with Fay's crowd, Diana Tregarde, practicing witch and successful romance novelist, quickly finds herself in hot water. The new girl at school, Monica Carlin, has come under sorcerous attack, but Diana cannot identify, or stop, the power-wielder. To make matters worse, there is an ancient being sleeping under Tulsa, a being who might be woken by the magic battles taking place in the city. What will happen then, even Diana cannot predict.More editions of Jinx High: A Diana Tregarde Investigation:
A Kiss Before Dyingby Ira LevinISBN 0747548161 (0-7475-4816-1)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
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The Long Divorceby Edmund CrispinISBN 0837138205 (0-8371-3820-5)
Hardcover, Greenwood Press
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Lootby Aaron J. ElkinsISBN 0688159273 (0-688-15927-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Lullabyby Ed McBainISBN 0743470745 (0-7434-7074-5)
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Lying in Wait: A J.P. Beaumont Mysteryby Judith A. JanceISBN 0688020135 (0-688-02013-5)
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A Maiden's Graveby Jeff DeaverISBN 0783816219 (0-7838-1621-9)
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Man Who Could Not Shudderby John Dickson CarrISBN 0821717030 (0-8217-1703-0)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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Middle Of Nowhere: Library Editionby Ridley PearsonISBN 0786889608 (0-7868-8960-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Middle Of Nowhere: Library Edition'Book summary:A brutal attack that leaves a young woman paralyzed is horrifying enough, but when it happens to one of Seattle police lieutenant Lou Boldt's own officers, and all the suspects wear the same uniform as the victim, it's much worse. The SPD has been struck by a not-very-mysterious case of the "blue flu," a labor dispute that's turned cop against cop. Frustrated by the work slowdown in the department, Boldt is working almost on his own, except for forensic psychologist Daphne Matthews and detective John LaMoia, familiar characters in Pearson's popular series (The Pied Piper, The First Victim). Despite not-so-veiled warnings from some of his colleagues, Lou is determined to unmask Maria Sanchez's attacker, even if it turns out to be a fellow cop. And if that's not enough, the piano-playing lieutenant with a devoted wife--and a lingering yen for his coworker Daphne--has to deal with a crime wave that's increasing every day as the blue flu fells more of the force.
Investigating a string of robberies, Lou and Daphne follow the evidence to a telemarketing operation in a Colorado prison and question an inmate who may have used inside information to set up the robberies for his brother in Seattle to carry out. When the inmate dies, his brother goes after Lou, who isn't sure who to blame when violence hits too close to home--the brother or the striking policemen. Middle of Nowhere isn't Pearson's best outing: the plot is thinner than usual and the pacing somewhat slower, although the detailed explanation of how to catch a criminal using new telecommunications technology is fascinating. Still, Lou Boldt is an always interesting character whose inner conflicts are well drawn and whose essential decency makes up for a lot. His understated romance with Daphne deepens in every new adventure; the real mystery is what's going to happen to the two of them. --Jane Adams [via]
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Murder at the Feast of Rejoicing: A Lord Meren Mysteryby Lynda S. RobinsonISBN 0802732747 (0-8027-3274-7)
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Murder in the White House: A Novelby Margaret TrumanISBN 0816131716 (0-8161-3171-6)
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Murder on Embassy Row: A Novelby Margaret TrumanISBN 081613765X (0-8161-3765-X)
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Nature Girlby Carl HiaasenISBN 0739326260 (0-7393-2626-0)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nature Girl'Book summary:Honey Santanaimpassioned, willful, possibly bipolar, self-proclaimed queen of lost causes has a scheme to help rid the world of irresponsibility, indifference, and dinnertime sales calls. Shes taking rude, gullible Relentless, Inc., telemarketer Boyd Shreave and his less-than-enthusiastic mistress, Eugeniethe fifteen-minute-famous girlfriend of a tabloid murdererinto the wilderness of Floridas Ten Thousand Islands for a gentle lesson in civility. What she doesnt know is that shes being followed by her Honey-obsessed former employer, Piejack (whose mismatched fingers are proof that sexual harassment in the workplace is a bad idea). And he doesnt know hes being followed by Honeys still-smitten former drug-running ex-husband, Perry, and their wise-and-protective-way-beyond-his-years twelve-year-old-son, Fry. And when they all pull up on Dismal Key, they dont know theyre intruding on Sammy Tigertail, a half whitehalf Seminole failed alligator wrestler, trying like hell to be a hermit despite the Florida State coed whos dying to be his hostage . . .
Will Honey be able to make a mensch of a greedhead ? Will Fry be able to protect her from Piejackand herself? Will Sammy achieve his true Seminole self? Will Eugenie ever get to the beach? Will the Everglades survive the wild humans? All the answers are revealed in the delectably outrageous mayhem that propels this novel to its Hiaasen-of-the-highest-order climax. [via]More editions of Nature Girl:
Necklace and Calabash: A Chinese Detective Storyby Robert Hans Van GulikISBN 0684106205 (0-684-10620-5)
Hardcover, Scribner
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One-Man Showby Michael InnesISBN 0824049942 (0-8240-4994-2)
Hardcover, Taylor & Francis
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Petty Treason: A Sarah Tolerance Mysteryby Madeleine RobinsISBN 0765343061 (0-7653-4306-1)
Softcover, Tor Books
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A Plague On Both Your Houses: The First Chronicle Of Matthew Bartholomewby Susanna GregoryISBN 0751516953 (0-7515-1695-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Plague On Both Your Houses: The First Chronicle Of Matthew Bartholomew'Book summary:A Plague on Both Your Houses introduces physician Matthew Bartholomew, whose unorthodox but effective treatment of his patients frequently draws accusations of heresy from his more traditional colleagues. Besides his practice, Bartholomew teaches medicine at Michaelhouse, part of the fledgling University of Cambridge. In 1348, the inhabitants of Cambridge live under the shadow of a terrible pestilence that has ravaged Europe and is traveling relentlessly towards England. Bartholomew, however, is distracted by the sudden and inexplicable death of the Master of Michaelhouse, a death University authorities do not want investigated. His pursuit of the truth leads him into a complex tangle of lies and intrigue that forces him to question the innocence of his closest friends, even his family. And then the Black Death finally arrives.[via]More editions of A Plague On Both Your Houses: The First Chronicle Of Matthew Bartholomew:
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Pompeiiby Robert HarrisISBN 0812974611 (0-8129-7461-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pompeii'Book summary:All along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empire's richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas, enjoying the last days of summer. The world's largest navy lies peacefully at anchor in Misenum. The tourists are spending their money in the seaside resorts of Baiae, Herculaneum, and Pompeii. But the carefree lifestyle and gorgeous weather belie an impending cataclysm, and only one man is worried. The young engineer Marcus Attilius Primus has just taken charge of the Aqua Augusta, the enormous aqueduct that brings fresh water to a quarter of a million people in nine towns around the Bay of Naples. His predecessor has disappeared. Springs are failing for the ?rst time in generations. And now there is a crisis on the Augusta's sixty-mile main line-somewhere to the north of Pompeii, on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius. Attilius-decent, practical, and incorruptible-promises Pliny, the famous scholar who commands the navy, that he can repair the aqueduct before the reservoir runs dry. His plan is to travel to Pompeii and put together an expedition, then head out to the place where he believes the fault lies. But Pompeii proves to be a corrupt and violent town, and Attilius soon discovers that there are powerful forces at work-both natural and man-made-threatening to destroy him. With his trademark elegance and intelligence, Robert Harris, bestselling author of Archangel and Fatherland , re-creates a world on the brink of disaster. [via]
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A Rabbit-Tale of Mysteryby Deborah Howe, James HoweISBN 0689838638 (0-689-83863-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery'Book summary:This immensely popular children's story is told from the point of view of a dog named Harold. It all starts when Harold's human family, the Monroes, goes to see the movie Dracula, and young Toby accidentally sits on a baby rabbit wrapped in a bundle on his seat. How could the family help but take the rabbit home and name it Bunnicula? Chester, the literate, sensitive, and keenly observant family cat, soon decides there is something weird about this rabbit. Pointy fangs, the appearance of a cape, black-and-white coloring, nocturnal habits & it sure seemed like he was a vampire bunny. When the family finds a white tomato in the kitchen, sucked dry and colorless, well & Chester becomes distraught and fears for the safety of the family. "Today, vegetables. Tomorrow & the world!" he warns Harold. But when Chester tries to make his fears known to the Monroes, he is completely misunderstood, and the results are truly hilarious. Is Bunnicula really a vampire bunny? We can't say. But any child who has ever let his or her imagination run a little wild will love Deborah and James Howe's funny, fast-paced "rabbit-tale of mystery." (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Remember Me, Ireneby Jan BurkeISBN 0743444507 (0-7434-4450-7)
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Ripley under Waterby Patricia HighsmithISBN 0679748091 (0-679-74809-1)
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Riptideby Catherine CoulterISBN 0786226412 (0-7862-2641-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Riptide'Book summary:Rebecca Matlock is in the thick of politics, enjoying her work as a speechwriter for the governor of New York, who's facing a reelection campaign. What she's not enjoying are the menacing phone calls from a stranger who refers to himself as "your boyfriend" and warns her that he will kill the governor if she doesn't stop sleeping with him. Although Becca has never had a sexual relationship with her boss, she is increasingly frightened by the phone calls. The police, who were initially sympathetic to her plight, make it clear that they regard her as a hysteric, even after the stalker murders an innocent bystander to convince her that he means business. Becca seeks refuge in Riptide, an isolated community on the Maine coast, but terror continues to dog her. The skeleton of a woman who may be the missing wife of a college friend is unearthed in the basement of her new house; the stalker tracks her to her chosen refuge; and she is sought by the police and the FBI following an assassination attempt on the governor.
With the appearance of Adam Carruthers, a stranger who says he's her guardian angel but doesn't tell her who sent him, the plot makes a dramatic right turn that requires a willing suspension of disbelief. It seems that Becca's father, a high-ranking intelligence officer, went underground when she was a baby in order to protect his family from reprisals by a Soviet agent whose wife he had accidentally killed. Now it's payback time, as Thomas Matlock calls in his own intelligence community to neutralize the threat on his daughter's life. All the attendant testosterone speeds up the action and propels it toward a shoot-'em-up conclusion, but it also sacrifices a clearer portrayal of Becca's feelings about her father's deception and abandonment. At the same time, the switch from a damsel-in-distress story to a high-velocity espionage thriller relegates the skeleton in Becca's basement to a secondary plot point that is resolved a bit too tidily. Catherine Coulter is short on character development and explication, but she weaves a suspenseful web of danger and intrigue, and for her many admirers, the fact that there seem to be two novels trying to coexist in one book may not be too much of a good thing. --Jane Adams [via]
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Serpent Gateby Michael McGarrityISBN 0684850761 (0-684-85076-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Serpent Gate'Book summary:Mountainair, New Mexico. The very name conjures up the clean air, the foothills, the gorgeous mountains of the Southwest. Some would say this is God's country. It's also Kevin Kerney's, especially when crimes like rape and cop murder intrude on the outwardly idyllic natural setting.
It was opening night of the annual town rodeo six months ago when Patrolman Paul Gillespie left the calf-roping finals, headed toward the police station, and was killed by person or persons unknown. Nobody much is talking, at least not to Kerney, but Kerney suspects that one man, Robert Cordova, a schizophrenic, saw something that memorable night. Why, for instance, does Cordova seem obsessed with rape, and what about his ramblings on the subject of Serpent Gate? And what roles, if any, should the possibly imaginary Addie and veterinarian Nita Lassiter play in Kerney's investigation?
Murder and its aftermath, which are reflected on a small scale in Mountainair, play themselves out against a much glitzier backdrop in upmarket Sante Fe, where priceless art disappears from the governor's offices and a beautiful young woman dies a quick and violent death in a millionaire's mansion. While monitoring Mountainair, Kerney, now deputy chief of the State Police, returns to Santa Fe to take on an old nemesis.
Restless, thinking perhaps too often of a woman who is, for him, off-limits, Kerney accepts the challenge. With his love of the land, his knowledge of police tactics and the criminal mind, his raw courage and tenaciousness, Kerney heads toward a showdown with his enemy.
Serpent Gate brilliantly confirms the literary power of one of the most talked-about new voices in the crime-writing arena. Both spellbinding entertainment and a deeply moving portrait of the American Southwest, the novel is sure to win author Michael McGarrity many new fans. [via]
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Slight Mourningby Catherine AirdISBN 0754085368 (0-7540-8536-8)
Hardcover, Chivers North Amer
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Smoke in the Windby Peter TremayneISBN 0747264341 (0-7472-6434-1)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Some Die Eloquentby Catherine AirdISBN 0708906311 (0-7089-0631-1)
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0679734767 (0-679-73476-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: ISBN 0803292406 (0-8032-9240-6)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: ISBN 0721408842 (0-7214-0884-2)
Hardcover, Ladybird Books Ltd - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: ISBN 0789420694 (0-7894-2069-4)
Hardcover, Dk Pub - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: ISBN 0679734767 (0-679-73476-7)
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Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Richard DuryISBN 0748615180 (0-7486-1518-0)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:This story of a double-life in which the protagonist by day worked as a respectable doctor and by night roamed the back alleys of old-town London, was first published as a 'shilling shocker' in 1886 and became an instant classic. In the first six months of publication 40,000 copies were sold, and it remains one of the best tales ever written about the divided self. The story opens with Mr Utterson the lawyer learning of an inexplicable attack on a young girl by a certain Mr Hyde, who he knows to be a protege of his old friend Henry Jekyll. Deciding to discover more about the matter, he questions those who might know something and finally manages to speak to Hyde himself. Though it sounds like the beginning of a detective story, the reader is already aware that things are deeper than they might appear: those who meet Hyde feel an irrational hatred and are unable to describe him in any detail. And the language of the text itself seems to be hiding something: vague, ambiguous, at times opaque and full of repetitions. Something is going on here, but we're not sure what it is.In the end, after Hyde has committed a murder, a distressed Jekyll locks himself in his study; but when Utterson breaks down the door, he finds not Jekyll but the dead body of Hyde. He also discovers a document which, along with another already acquired from the last two chapters, explains many things -- but not all. This new edition contains a substantial introduction, with the story of composition (amid difficulties), first publication and early reception, followed by a survey of the main critical interpretations of this much-discussed work, a brief study of its language, and an overview of the most important derivative works: stage plays, films, comic books, graphic novels, and retellings of various kinds. Key Features: / The most complete, scholarly edition of Jekyll and Hyde -- with full introduction, notes, etc. / The story of the composition and publication reveals new details -- of interest to RLS biographers / Summarises the many various critical approaches to Jekyll and Hyde / Explanatory notes cover archaic and Scots words, the origins and meanings of characters' names, and comment on cultural and literary allusions [via]
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Sweet and Lowby Emma LathenISBN 0816162611 (0-8161-6261-1)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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Swing, Swing Togetherby Peter LoveseyISBN 0786244089 (0-7862-4408-9)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Swing, Swing Together'Book summary:One of the late-Victorian murder mysteries investigated by Sgt Cribb. In a case which links Jerome K.Jerome with Jack the Ripper, Harriet Shaw takes a midnight dip in the Thames, near Henley, and witnesses a killing. She and Cribb follow a trail upriver to Oxford, where a second drowning occurs. [via]
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To Wear the White Cloak : A Catherine Levendeur Mysteryby Sharan NewmanISBN 0812584341 (0-8125-8434-1)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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Uncivil Seasonsby Michael MaloneISBN 0671875280 (0-671-87528-0)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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An Unholy Allianceby Susanna GregoryISBN 0751519359 (0-7515-1935-9)
Softcover, Little Brown Uk
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Up Jumps the Devilby Margaret MaronISBN 0786208821 (0-7862-0882-1)
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Vanish With the Roseby Barbara MichaelsISBN 0816156603 (0-8161-5660-3)
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The Wisdom of Father Brownby Gilbert Keith ChestertonISBN 0809598027 (0-8095-9802-7)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wisdom of Father Brown'Book summary:"And the young woman of the house," asked Dr. Hood, with huge and silent amusement, "what does she want?" "Why, she wants to marry him," cried Father Brown, sitting up eagerly. "That is just the awful complication." "It is indeed a hideous enigma," said Dr. Hood. "This young James Todhunter," continued the cleric, "is a very decent man so far as I know; but then nobody knows very much. He is a bright, brownish little fellow, agile like a monkey, clean-shaven like an actor, and obliging like a born courtier. He seems to have quite a pocketful of money, but nobody knows what his trade is. Mrs. MacNab, therefore (being of a pessimistic turn), is quite sure it is something dreadful, and probably connected with dynamite. [via]
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You're Missin' a Great Game: From Casey to Ozzie, the Magic of Baseball and How to Get It Backby Whitey Herzog, Jonathan PittsISBN 0684853140 (0-684-85314-0)
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