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"A" is for Alibiby Sue GraftonISBN 0312938993 (0-312-93899-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: '"A" is for Alibi'Book summary:A is for Avenger: a tough - talking former cop, private investigator Kinsey Millhone has set up a modest detective agency in a quiet corner of Santa Teresa, California. A twice-divorced loner with few personal possessions and fewer personal attachments, she's got a soft spot for underdogs and lost causes. A is for Accusede: Thats why she draws desperate clients like Nikki Fife. Eight years ago Nikki was cinvicted of killing her philandering husband. Now she's out on parole and needs Kinsey's help to find the real killer. But after all this time, clearing Nikki's bad name won't be easy. A is for Alibi: If there's one thing that makes Kinsey Millhone feel alive, it's playing on the edge. When her investigation turns up a second corpse, more suspects, and a new reason to kill, Kinsey discovers that the edge is closer - sharper - than she imagined. [via]
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Advise and Consentby Allen DruryISBN 0380010070 (0-380-01007-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Alibiby Sandra BrownISBN 0375727922 (0-375-72792-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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All the Rageby F. Paul WilsonISBN 0312867964 (0-312-86796-4)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All the Rage'Book summary:Reading a Repairman Jack novel seems, at times, a guilty pleasure; it's astonishingly easy to inhale the pages, like eating potato chips. A firm-jawed Mr. Fixit hero with a cryptic past--crunch! Crimes that go beyond (way, waaay beyond) the norms of traditional law--smack! A liberal sprinkling of screwball comedy and nasty supernatural beings--now that's tasty! Good, crispy fun, indeed. But F. Paul Wilson's tight plotting and appealing characters manage to elevate potato chips to the realm of haute cuisine (or at least a satisfyingly solid meal), and his latest, All the Rage, is no exception.
Everything's rosy when Nadia Radzminsky takes a dream research job at GEM Pharmaceuticals: she'll be working for her professional idol, Dr. Luc Monnet; her fiancé is one of GEM's top salespeople; she's got all sorts of high tech toys to play with; and she'll get a million-dollar bonus if she can just figure out how to stabilize GEM's most promising molecule (dubbed, ominously enough for students of Norse mythology, Loki). But clouds quickly appear on the horizon in the form of Milos Dragovic, a Serbian mobster with a short fuse, a big wallet, and a profound interest in Loki's future. Nadia suspects Milos is blackmailing her boss, and she hires Jack to find out what's going on.
What Jack finds out isn't pretty: Loki is leading an underground life as Berzerk, a hot, new street drug that brings out the user's most aggressive behavior, frequently with deadly consequences. And Milos may be pushing Monnet around, but the good doctor isn't objecting too strongly to the payoff. But when Jack gets closer to the source of the mystery molecule, events take a very personal turn: Loki is derived from the blood of rakoshi, those otherworldly and decidedly vicious demons Jack had sworn to exterminate in Conspiracies. With his family threatened by both the rakoshi and the vengeful Serb, Jack must take on both the monster and the mob.
All the Rage has the necessary ingredients for success, including a snarkily amusing subplot involving a Brooklyn junkyard owner who's also out for Milos's blood (Jack has to keep toning down his client's eager revenge plots, and his substitution of industrial sludge for knives in one such plan is particularly amusing). Dedicated Wilson fans will rejoice in the new addition to the series, and neophytes will scramble to unearth the earlier installments. --Kelly Flynn [via]
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Americaby Stephen CoontsISBN 031298250X (0-312-98250-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'America'Book summary:Rear Admiral Jake Grafton, who has appeared in eight previous Coonts novels (most recently Cuba and Hong Kong), returns for another techno-thriller from one of the genre's top practitioners. The first couple of pages recount the disappearance of SuperAegis, a satellite that's the cornerstone of a new American-European-Russian antimissile defense system, on its first, much heralded trial. But Jake Grafton is only on that case for a few paragraphs before the stealth submarine U.S.S. America is hijacked on her maiden voyage. The sub quickly lives up to her reputation as the sneakiest undersea vessel in the world by seeming to vanish into the Atlantic. It takes a little while for Grafton to connect the dots between the two military blunders, by which time missiles fired from the America have devastated Washington, frying every electronic circuit in the city, and even burning the White House to the ground. Between looking for the rogue sub, searching for the satellite, and trying to get some answers about the team the CIA trained to steal a Russian sub (and then beached when the mission was canceled), Grafton's got his hands full.
Stephen Coonts describes the submarine at the center of the action so lavishly and lovingly that the U.S.S. America is much more real--and even more human--than any of his flesh-and-blood characters, including Grafton himself. The mysterious German financier who's at the bottom of it all doesn't get more than a walk-on; he's a cardboard villain, just like the brilliant female computer expert who sets up his crimes. But none of that matters if you like this kind of tale, which combines excitement and action with loads of information about computers, sonar, weapons systems, and stealth technology. America will surface quickly and take a commanding position on the summer bestseller lists. --Jane Adams [via]
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American Godsby Neil GaimanISBN 0380789035 (0-380-78903-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Gods'Book summary:American Gods is Neil Gaiman's best and most ambitious novel yet, a scary, strange, and hallucinogenic road-trip story wrapped around a deep examination of the American spirit. Gaiman tackles everything from the onslaught of the information age to the meaning of death, but he doesn't sacrifice the razor-sharp plotting and narrative style he's been delivering since his Sandman days.
Shadow gets out of prison early when his wife is killed in a car crash. At a loss, he takes up with a mysterious character called Wednesday, who is much more than he appears. In fact, Wednesday is an old god, once known as Odin the All-father, who is roaming America rounding up his forgotten fellows in preparation for an epic battle against the upstart deities of the Internet, credit cards, television, and all that is wired. Shadow agrees to help Wednesday, and they whirl through a psycho-spiritual storm that becomes all too real in its manifestations. For instance, Shadow's dead wife Laura keeps showing up, and not just as a ghost--the difficulty of their continuing relationship is by turns grim and darkly funny, just like the rest of the book.
Armed only with some coin tricks and a sense of purpose, Shadow travels through, around, and underneath the visible surface of things, digging up all the powerful myths Americans brought with them in their journeys to this land as well as the ones that were already here. Shadow's road story is the heart of the novel, and it's here that Gaiman offers up the details that make this such a cinematic book--the distinctly American foods and diversions, the bizarre roadside attractions, the decrepit gods reduced to shell games and prostitution. "This is a bad land for Gods," says Shadow.
More than a tourist in America, but not a native, Neil Gaiman offers an outside-in and inside-out perspective on the soul and spirituality of the country--our obsessions with money and power, our jumbled religious heritage and its societal outcomes, and the millennial decisions we face about what's real and what's not. --Therese Littleton [via]
The Art of Breaking Glassby Matthew HallISBN 0316339245 (0-316-33924-5)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Berlin Gameby Len DeightonISBN 0345471776 (0-345-47177-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Black Windby F. Paul WilsonISBN 031293064X (0-312-93064-X)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Bleeding Hearts: Library Editionby Ian RankinISBN 0316009121 (0-316-00912-1)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bleeding Hearts: Library Edition'Book summary:A master of modern mystery and the award-winning author of "Resurrection Man"pens a page-turning novel of assassins and double-crossing. [via]
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Bonecrackby Dick FrancisISBN 0330234471 (0-330-23447-1)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bonecrack'Book summary:At twenty to midnight Neil Griffon's home is broken into and he is roughly abducted by masked men. He has no idea who they are, or what they want. But when Neil wakes up, hours later, he quickly discovers that unless he cooperates his kidnappers will destroy his father's precious horses, racing stable and ultimately Neil himself. Returned to take charge of the stables, Neil can tell no-one about his ordeal. Vicious threats and horrible violence against his horses become a day-to-day reality and he is forced to comply with his blackmailer's wishes. Trapped in a war of attrition, Neil realises he must find a way to stop these criminals before his nerve gives out. After all, a choice between his integrity and his life is no choice at all... [via]
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Boy in the Waterby Stephen DobynsISBN 0312975228 (0-312-97522-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Break and Enterby Colin HarrisonISBN 0312979673 (0-312-97967-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Break and Enter'Book summary:By appearances Peter Scattergood leads a privileged life: a post as Assistant District Attorney, a loving wife, and a townhouse in Philadelphia's exclusive Society Hill. Assigned to an explosive homicide case--the murder of the mayor's nephew and the young man's beautiful mistress--the power and prestige he's always craved seem within his grasp.[via]
But soon Peter's illusion of success shatters. His wife walks out on their seven-year marriage and vanishes. The double-murder case casts a shadow of doubt on his most trusted peers. And, in a moment of weakness, Peter enters into an affair with a woman whose greatest skill is arousing suspicion.
Now, Peter Scattergood is about to discover the desperate lengths he will go to uncover the terrible truth that lies with deadly patience somewhere between the mystery of his wife's disappearance and the dangerous secret at the heart of a shocking crime. 
The Chimney Sweeper's Boyby Barbara VineISBN 0375702938 (0-375-70293-8)
Softcover, Random House Large Print
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The Cloud Atlasby David MitchellISBN 0375507256 (0-375-50725-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cloud Atlas'Book summary:It's hard not to become ensnared by words beginning with the letter B, when attempting to describe Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell's third novel. It's a big book, for start, bold in scope and execution--a bravura literary performance, possibly. (Let's steer clear of breathtaking for now.) Then, of course, Mitchell was among Granta's Best of Young British Novelists and his second novel number9dreamwas shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Characters with birthmarks in the shape of comets are a motif; as are boats. Oh and one of the six narratives strands of the book--where coincidentally Robert Frobisher, a young composer, dreams up "a sextet for overlapping soloists" entitled Cloud Atlas--is set in Belgium, not far from Bruges. (See what I mean?)
Structured rather akin to a Chinese puzzle or a set of Matrioshka dolls, there are dazzling shifts in genre and voice and the stories leak into each other with incidents and people being passed on like batons in a relay race. The 19th-century journals of an American notary in the Pacific that open the novel are subsequently unearthed 80 years later on by Frobisher in the library of the ageing, syphilitic maestro he's trying to fleece. Frobisher's waspish letters to his old Cambridge crony, Rufus Sexsmith, in turn surface when Rufus, (by the 1970s a leading nuclear scientist) is murdered. A novelistic account of the journalist Luisa Rey's investigation into Rufus' death finds its way to Timothy Cavendish, a London vanity publisher with an author who has an ingenious method of silencing a snide reviewer. And in a near-dystopian Blade Runner-esque future, a genetically engineered fast food waitress sees a movie based on Cavendish's unfortunate internment in a Hull retirement home. (Cavendish himself wonders how a director called Lars might wish to tackle his plight). All this is less tricky than it sounds, only the lone "Zachary" chapter, told in Pacific Islander dialect (all "dingos'n'ravens", "brekker" and "f'llowin'"s) is an exercise in style too far. Not all the threads quite connect but nonetheless Mitchell binds them into a quite spellbinding rumination on human nature, power, oppression, race, colonialism and consumerism. --Travis Elborough [via]
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A Cold Heartby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0345452569 (0-345-45256-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Cold Heart'Book summary:In Cold Heart, the latest thriller from bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman, Dr. Alex Delaware picks up on clues missed even by his closest friend, LAPD detective Milo Sturgis. Leave it to this canny shrink to figure out that the only thing two otherwise unconnected murder victims have in common (they're both artists making comebacks after early career burnouts) may hold the key to their deaths. Even for Alex, this unlikely link is a stretch, especially since Baby Boy Lee was stabbed outside a nightclub and Julie Kipper was bludgeoned in the bathroom of an art gallery. But when a concert pianist dies on the eve of his greatest triumph, Alex is sure that the murders are not only the work of the same killer but also connected to the unsolved slayings of a Boston ballerina and an L.A. rock singer. By an even greater coincidence, two of the victims were tangentially involved with Alex's former lover, Robin Castagna, which provides the good doctor a few well placed paragraphs to ruminate on what went wrong in their romance as well as rescue her from the serial murderer who's targeted her as his next victim.
As usual, Kellerman manages to make even a far-fetched plot like this one ring true, but after 17 Alex Delaware mysteries, his series protagonist holds few surprises for the reader, who longs for something to shake Dr. D. out of his smooth complacency. Losing Robin didn't do it--maybe the new woman in Alex's life will. --Jane Adams [via]
Company Manby Joseph FinderISBN 0312939426 (0-312-93942-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre Dumas, David CowardISBN 0192833952 (0-19-283395-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Count of Monte Cristo'Book summary:Introduction by Lorenzo Carcaterra
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A popular bestseller since its publication in 1844, The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great page-turning thrillers of all time. Set against the tumultuous years of the post-Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumass grand historical romance recounts the swashbuckling adventures of Edmond Dantès, 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. As Robert Louis Stevenson declared, I do not believe there is another volume extant where you can breathe the same unmingled atmosphere of romance.
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jessie Coulson, Richard Arthur PeaceISBN 0192833839 (0-19-283383-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:Crime and Punishment is one of the most important novels of the nineteenth century. It is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes to set himself outside and above society. The novel is marked by Dostoevsky's own harrowing experience in penal servitude, and yet contains moments of wild humor. This new edition of the authoritative and readable Coulson translation comes with a challenging new introduction and notes that elucidate many of the novel's most important--and difficult--aspects. [via]
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Dirty DozenISBN 0304359289 (0-304-35928-9)
Softcover, Cassell
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Dragon's Clawby Peter O'DonnellISBN 0285637088 (0-285-63708-8)
Softcover, Souvenir Pr Ltd
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Dust to Dustby Tami HoagISBN 0375430784 (0-375-43078-4)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dust to Dust'Book summary:Minneapolis has more than its share of interesting cops (Lucas Davenport of the John Sandford thrillers, for one), and Tami Hoag's homicide dicks, Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska, join the club in this thoughtful and surprisingly moving novel of dirty cops and cover-ups. Internal Affairs investigator Andy Fallon is a suicide--or is he? The word around the department is that Andy, son of Iron Mike Fallon, an old hero of Sam's, killed himself because Mike turned his back on him when Andy told him he was gay. Or maybe it was because a lover dumped him, or even (snicker, snicker) a perverted sexual practice gone wrong. That's the gossip, but Sam feels he owes it to Mike to investigate.
Sam is a familiar type in this genre, and his self-awareness is almost painful at times. "You're a stereotype. The tragic hero," he's told by Amanda Savard, the strong-but-vulnerable Internal Affairs lieutenant whose determination to keep the Fallon case closed foreshadows her personal history. "The twice-divorced, smoking, drinking workaholic," Sam agrees. "I don't know what's heroic about that. It reeks of failure to me, but maybe I have unrealistic standards." But Sam's droll sense of humor is matched by his deeply ingrained crap detector. When Iron Mike apparently kills himself too, you can almost feel its needle vibrate. Then Sam and Nikki open another closed case, this one almost two decades old, and find the connections that threaten to unravel past crimes and future promises. Hoag is a writer very much in command of her craft: the pacing excels, the characters are complex and interesting, and the details well worked out. Readers will look forward to another Kovac and Liska adventure. --Jane Adams [via]
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Eaters of the Dead : The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan, Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in A. D. 922by Michael CrichtonISBN 0345354613 (0-345-35461-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eaters of the Dead : The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan, Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in A. D. 922'Book summary:Michael Crichton takes the listener on a one-thousand-year-old journey in his adventure novel Eaters Of The Dead. This remarkable true story originated from actual journal entries of an Arab man who traveled with a group of Vikings throughout northern Europe. In 922 A.D, Ibn Fadlan, a devout Muslim, left his home in Baghdad on a mission to the King of Saqaliba. During his journey, he meets various groups of "barbarians" who have poor hygiene and gorge themselves on food, alcohol and sex. For Fadlan, his new traveling companions are a far stretch from society in the sophisticated "City of Peace." The conservative and slightly critical man describes the Vikings as "tall as palm trees with florid and ruddy complexions." Fadlan is astonished by their lustful aggression and their apathy towards death. He witnesses everything from group orgies to violent funeral ceremonies. Despite the language and cultural barriers, Ibn Fadlan is welcomed into the clan. The leader of the group, Buliwyf (who can communicate in Latin) takes Fadlan under his wing.
Without warning, the chieftain is ordered to haul his warriors back to Scandinavia to save his people from the "monsters of the mist." Ibn Fadlan follows the clan and must rise to the occasion in the battle of his life.--Gina Kaysen [via]
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El ultimo caton / The Last Catoby Matilde AsensiISBN 030720944X (0-307-20944-X)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El ultimo caton / The Last Cato'Book summary:El último Catón, publicada en 2001, supuso todo un descubrimiento para los lectores españoles, que se ha ampliado a los europeos, también a Estados Unidos y, muy pronto, a Rusia. Cientos de miles de personas han quedado cautivadas por estas páginas llenas de aventuras peligrosas y trepidantes en busca de la Vera Cruz, la cruz en la que murió Jesús. Pionera en su género, El último Catón aúna el interés siempre vivo por las religiones, el valor de las reliquias, las sociedades secretas y las obras de la literatura universal como La Divina Comedia, de Dante Alighieri, con el legado de figuras que revolucionaron el pensamiento, como Galileo. Una monja paleógrafa que trabaja en el Archivo Secreto del Vaticano, un arqueólogo de Alejandría y un capitán de la Guardia Suiza vaticana se someterán a siete pruebas basadas en los siete pecados capitales, que pondrán en juego sus vidas y les harán descubrir secretos escondidos en Roma, Ravena, Jerusalén, Atenas, Estambul, Alejandría y Antioquía. Asensi, con su habitual maestría en la combinación de conocimientos y divulgación insertados en una trama imprevisible, nos ofrece una novela de múltiples lecturas. [via]
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The Elger Sanctionby TrevanianISBN 0345317378 (0-345-31737-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Faithful Spyby Alex BerensonISBN 0345478991 (0-345-47899-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Fourth Kby Mario PuzoISBN 0345476735 (0-345-47673-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fourth K'Book summary:A PRESIDENTIAL DYNASTY. AN ARAB TERRORIST ATTACK. DEMOCRACY UNDER SIEGE. Mario Puzo envisioned it all in his eerily prescient 1991 novel, The Fourth K.
President Francis Xavier Kennedy is elected to office, in large part, thanks to the legacy of his forebearsgood looks, privilege, wealthand is the very embodiment of youthful optimism. Too soon, however, he is beaten down by the political process and, disabused of his ideals, he becomes a leader totally unlike what he has been before.
When his daughter becomes a pawn in a brutal terrorist plot, Kennedy, who has obsessively kept alive the memory of his uncles assassinations, activates all his power to retaliate in a series of violent measures. As the explosive events unfold, the world and those closest to him look on with both awe and horror. [via]More editions of The Fourth K:
Goneby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0345452623 (0-345-45262-3)
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The Hellfire Clubby Peter StraubISBN 0345477278 (0-345-47727-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Hostsby F. Paul WilsonISBN 0312878664 (0-312-87866-4)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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Hot Sixby Janet EvanovichISBN 0312976275 (0-312-97627-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hot Six'Book summary:Never mind who did the deed with New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum at the end of High Five. Five months later, that night's only a dim, cherished memory, and Stephanie's freezing her butt off on a Trenton bridge trying to keep her friend Carol--caught shoplifting some crotchless panties she was too embarrassed to buy--from committing suicide.
Truth is, I didn't for a minute think she'd jump. For one thing, she was wearing a four-hundred-dollar jacket from Wilson Leather. You just don't jump off a bridge in a four-hundred-dollar jacket. It isn't done. The jacket would get ruined. Carol was from the Chambersburg section of Trenton, just like me, and in the Burg you gave the jacket to your sister, then you jumped off the bridge.
When Stephanie finally talks Carol down and makes it in to work at Vincent Plum Bail Bonds, it's only to find that her libido-boosting pal Ranger, the professional bounty hunter and sometime hit man, has disappeared. A building owned by black-market arms dealer Alexander Ramos has burned down, with Ramos's son Homer lying inside, dead from a gunshot wound. Ranger, who was caught on film there by video cameras, is wanted for questioning. Stephanie's boss Vinnie wants her to find him, but Stephanie, who knows she won't find Ranger if he doesn't want to be found, refuses. Soon everyone, from her cop boyfriend Joe Morelli to the two Laurel and Hardy wannabes who suddenly start following her around Trenton in a badass black Lincoln, thinks she's hot on Ranger's trail.And Stephanie's got other things to worry about. For one thing, Grandma Mazur's moved in with her, and so has Bob, a golden retriever who's only partly house trained. Then Ranger starts popping up at odd times of the night, with instructions for Stephanie to keep an eye on another Ramos son, Hannibal. Add to that one homicidal maniac, a couple more dead bodies, Stephanie's usual bad car karma, and the zit from hell, and you've got yourself one fine Stephanie Plum adventure. Will Stephanie triumph? You can bet a jelly doughnut on it. And there's another great cliffhanger waiting at the end. --Barrie Trinkle [via]
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House of Leavesby Mark Z. DanielewskiISBN 0375703764 (0-375-70376-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'House of Leaves'Book summary:Had The Blair Witch Project been a book instead of a film, and had it been written by, say, Nabokov at his most playful, revised by Stephen King at his most cerebral, and typeset by the futurist editors of Blast at their most avant-garde, the result might have been something like House of Leaves. Mark Z. Danielewski's first novel has a lot going on: notably the discovery of a pseudoacademic monograph called The Navidson Record, written by a blind man named Zampanò, about a nonexistent documentary film--which itself is about a photojournalist who finds a house that has supernatural, surreal qualities. (The inner dimensions, for example, are measurably larger than the outer ones.) In addition to this Russian-doll layering of narrators, Danielewski packs in poems, scientific lists, collages, Polaroids, appendices of fake correspondence and "various quotes," single lines of prose placed any which way on the page, crossed-out passages, and so on.
Now that we've reached the post-postmodern era, presumably there's nobody left who needs liberating from the strictures of conventional fiction. So apart from its narrative high jinks, what does House of Leaves have to offer? According to Johnny Truant, the tattoo-shop apprentice who discovers Zampanò's work, once you read The Navidson Record,
For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how.
We'll have to take his word for it, however. As it's presented here, the description of the spooky film isn't continuous enough to have much scare power. Instead, we're pulled back into Johnny Truant's world through his footnotes, which he uses to discharge everything in his head, including the discovery of the manuscript, his encounters with people who knew Zampanò, and his own battles with drugs, sex, ennui, and a vague evil force. If The Navidson Record is a mad professor lecturing on the supernatural with rational-seeming conviction, Truant's footnotes are the manic student in the back of the auditorium, wigged out and furiously scribbling whoa-dude notes about life.Despite his flaws, Truant is an appealingly earnest amateur editor--finding translators, tracking down sources, pointing out incongruities. Danielewski takes an academic's--or ex-academic's--glee in footnotes (the similarity to David Foster Wallace is almost too obvious to mention), as well as other bogus ivory-tower trappings such as interviews with celebrity scholars like Camille Paglia and Harold Bloom. And he stuffs highbrow and pop-culture references (and parodies) into the novel with the enthusiasm of an anarchist filling a pipe bomb with bits of junk metal. House of Leaves may not be the prettiest or most coherent collection, but if you're trying to blow stuff up, who cares? --John Ponyicsanyi [via]
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Softcover, Random House Inc - House of Leaves : A Novel: ISBN 0375410341 (0-375-41034-1)
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I Know What You Did Last Summerby Lois DuncanISBN 0316195464 (0-316-19546-4)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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In the Electric Mist With Confederate Deadby James Lee BurkeISBN 038072121X (0-380-72121-X)
Softcover, Avon Books
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The restless specters wait in the shadows for cajun cop Dave Robicheaux -- as he hunts a serial butcher who is preying on the less-then-innocent young. For these spirits are the guardians of Robicheaux's darkest torments -- and they hold the key to his ultimate salvation...or a final, fatal downfall.
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In Their Footstepsby Tess Gerritsen, Amanda Stevens, Kay DavidISBN 037383621X (0-373-83621-X)
Softcover, Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
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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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Judge & Juryby James Patterson, Andrew GrossISBN 0316013935 (0-316-01393-5)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Judge & Jury'Book summary:Andie DeGrasse, an aspiring actress and single mom, is not your typical juror. Hoping to get dismissed from the pool, she tells the judge that most of her legal knowledge comes from a bit part curling around a stripper's pole in The Sopranos. But she still ends up as juror #11 in a landmark trial against a notorious mob boss.
The case quickly becomes the new Trial of the Century. Mafia don Dominic Cavello, known as the Electrician, is linked to hundreds of gruesome, unspeakable crimes. Senior FBI agent Nick Pellisante has been tracking him for years. He knows Cavello's power reaches far beyond the courtroom, but the FBI's evidence against the ruthless killer is iron-clad. Conviction is a sure thing.
As the jury is about to reach a verdict, the Electrician makes one devastating move that no one could have predicted. The entire nation is reeling, and Andie's world is shattered. For her, the hunt for the Electrician becomes personal, and she and Pellisante come together in an unbreakable bond: they will exact justice-at any cost.
James Patterson spins an all-out heart-pounding legal thriller that pits two people against the most vicious and powerful mobster since John Gotti. Judge & Jury is a stunning feat by "one of America's most influential authors" (New York Times). [via]More editions of Judge & Jury:
A Judgement in Stoneby Ruth RendellISBN 0375704965 (0-375-70496-5)
Softcover, Black Lizard Books
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Judgment on Deltchevby Eric AmblerISBN 0375726756 (0-375-72675-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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The Killing Kindby John ConnollyISBN 0340771216 (0-340-77121-6)
Softcover, Hodder & Stoughton
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Loo Sanctionby TrevanianISBN 0345317386 (0-345-31738-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The scene is London, where Jonathan Hemlock is blackmailed into performing another "sanction" -- a top-secret political assassination -- in a nerve-wracking web involving dirty dealings among high-ranking British government officials and a British counterespionage group. Once again Hemlock's life hangs in the balance -- but this time the game is deadlier, the penalty for failure more grotesquely lethal than ever before! [via]
Manhattan Nocturneby Colin HarrisonISBN 031299303X (0-312-99303-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Marching Seasonby Daniel SilvaISBN 0375500898 (0-375-50089-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Mephisto Club: A Novelby Tess GerritsenISBN 0345476999 (0-345-47699-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mephisto Club: A Novel'Book summary:Evil exists. Evil walks the streets. And evil has spawned a diabolical new disciple in this white-knuckle thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen.PECCAVIThe Latin word is scrawled in blood at the scene of a young woman's brutal murder: I HAVE SINNED. It's a chilling Christmas greeting for Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli, who swiftly link the victim to controversial celebrity psychiatrist Joyce O'Donnell-Jane's professional nemesis and member of a sinister cabal called the Mephisto Club.On top of Beacon Hill, the club's acolytes devote themselves to the analysis of evil: Can it be explained by science? Does it have a physical presence? Do demons walk the earth? Drawing on a wealth of dark historical data and mysterious religious symbolism, the Mephisto scholars aim to prove a startling theory: that Satan himself exists among us. With the grisly appearance of a corpse on their doorstep, it's clear that someone-or something-is indeed prowling the city. The members of the club begin to fear the very subject of their study. Could this maniacal killer be one of their own-or have they inadvertently summoned an evil entity from the darkness? Delving deep into the most baffling and unusual case of their careers, Maura and Jane embark on a terrifying journey to the very heart of evil, where they encounter a malevolent foe more dangerous than any they have ever faced . . . one whose work is only just beginning. [via]
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The Murder Artistby John CaseISBN 0345464729 (0-345-46472-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Passage of Armsby Eric AmblerISBN 0375726780 (0-375-72678-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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A Philosophical Investigationby Philip KerrISBN 0374231761 (0-374-23176-1)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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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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Polish Officerby Alan FurstISBN 0375758275 (0-375-75827-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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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)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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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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Prodigal Daughterby Jeffrey ArcherISBN 0312997140 (0-312-99714-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Radical Cureby Olivia GatesISBN 0373513941 (0-373-51394-1)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Serviceby Erskine Childers, David TrotterISBN 0192833472 (0-19-283347-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Seventh Scrollby Wilbur SmithISBN 0312287569 (0-312-28756-9)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Street Dreamsby K'wan FoyeISBN 0312333064 (0-312-33306-4)
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The Summer of Katyaby TrevanianISBN 0345314867 (0-345-31486-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Suspectby Michael RobothamISBN 0307275477 (0-307-27547-7)
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The Tale of the Body Thiefby Anne RiceISBN 034538475X (0-345-38475-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tale of the Body Thief'Book summary:It's been said that Vladimir Nabokov's best novels are the ones he wrote after starting a failed novel. Anne Rice wrote The Body Thief, the fourth thrilling episode of her Vampire Chronicles, right after she spent a long time poring over that most romantic of horror novels, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, to research a novel Rice abandoned about an artificial man. Perhaps as a result of Shelley's influence, The Body Thief is far more psychologically penetrating than its predecessors, with a laser-like focus on a single tormented soul. Oh, we meet some wild new characters, and Rice's toothsome vampire-hero Lestat zooms around the globe--as is his magical habit--from Miami to the Gobi desert, but he's in such despair that he trades his immortal body to a con man named Raglan James, who offers him in return two days of strictly mortal bliss.
Lestat has always had a faulty impulse-control valve, and it gets him in truly intriguing trouble this time. On the plus side, he gets to experience romance with a nun and orange juice--"thick like blood, but full of sweetness." But Lestat is horrified by an uncommon cold, and his toilet training proves traumatic. He's also got to catch Raglan James, who has no intention of giving up his dishonestly acquired new superpowered body. Lestat enlists the help of David Talbot, a mortal in the Talamasca, a secret society of immortal watchers described in Queen of the Damned.
The swapping of bodies and supernatural stories is choice, and there's even a moral: never give a bloodsucker an even break. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Those Who Hunt the Nightby Barbara HamblyISBN 0345361326 (0-345-36132-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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"Hambly's examination of vampirism is beautifully detailed, with a fine realistic background and strong sense of atmosphere...Will give Anne Rice a run for her money."--Publishers Weekly [via]
The Tiger in the Wellby Philip PullmanISBN 0375825479 (0-375-82547-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Tooth and Nailby Ian RankinISBN 0312958781 (0-312-95878-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Turn of the Screwby Henry James, Tim LustigISBN 0192834045 (0-19-283404-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories'Book summary:Whether viewed as a subtle, self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture, filled with echoes of sexual and social unease, or simply as "the most hopelessly evil story we have ever read," The Turn of the Screw is probably the most famous of ghostly tales and certainly the most eerily equivocal. This new edition includes three rarely reprinted ghost stories from the 1890s, "Sir Edmund Orme," "Owen Wingrave," and "The Friends of the Friends," as well as relevant extracts from James's notebooks and journals. [via]
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Turn of the Screwby Peter G. Beidler, Henry JamesISBN 0312080832 (0-312-08083-2)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Turn of the Screw'Book summary:Henry James' short novels provide an overview of his entire career and serve as an excellent introduction to his singular art and imagination. This collection includes The Turn of the Screw, Daisy Miller, The Beast in the Jungle, An International Episode, The Aspern Papers and The Altar of the Dead. Major course adoption potential. [via]
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The Turn of the Screw: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticismby Peter G. Beidler, Henry JamesISBN 0312406916 (0-312-40691-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Turn of the Screw: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism'Book summary:This volume presents the text of the New York Edition of Jamess classic 1898 short novel along with critical essays that read The Turn of the Screw from contemporary reader-response, psychoanalytic, gender, and Marxist perspectives. An additional essay demonstrates how several critical perspectives can be combined. As in the first edition, the text and essays are complemented by biographical and critical introductions, bibliographies, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms. Two of the six essays are new to the second edition, as is a selection of cultural documents and illustrations.[via]More editions of The Turn of the Screw: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism:
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Witch Huntby Ian RankinISBN 0316010383 (0-316-01038-3)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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She is an ingenious assassin, with as many methods as identities; a master of disguise with an instinct for escape. She is Witch, and she makes for alluring prey. Wanted by the world's elite police agencies, she is doggedly pursued by three very different detectives - one woman and two men. Two are at the beginning of their careers, one is staking a lifetime's experience on tracking Witch down, and all three display a professional determination that veers dangerously close to obsession. [via]
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The Witching Hourby Anne RiceISBN 0345367898 (0-345-36789-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Witching Hour'Book summary:In this engrossing and hypnotic tale of witchcraft and the occult spanning four centuries, we meet a great dynasty of witches--a family given to poetry and incest, to murder and philosophy, a family that over the ages is haunted by a powerful, dangerous and seductive being. [via]
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The Xanadu Talismanby Peter O'DonnellISBN 028563643X (0-285-63643-X)
Softcover, Souvenir Press Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Xanadu Talisman'Book summary:In this classic return we see Modesty both at her most feminine and at her toughest. Trapped in an earthquake disaster with a dying man, she makes a promise that is to lead her and her faithful friend Willie Garvin into the most perilous crisis of their careers. Their quest takes them from Tangier to Paris, from the Riviera to Corsica, and finally to a stronghold in the heart of the Atlas Mountains, their every move observed and manipulated by El Mico, the most notorious and dangerous criminal genius in the Mediterranean. Unknown to Modesty, she holds a secret that El Mico covets above all else, and she is brought to a final confrontation with death in the stronghold of Xanadu. As in all the Modesty Blaise stories, this book is peopled with a host of eccentric characters: the engaging Dr. Giles Pennyfeather, Modesty's devoted friend, and her opponents Little Krell, a prodigy in combat, the Silk brothers, juvenile adults who deal in death, and the astonishing Nanny Prendergast. [via]
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