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Week of January 16, 2012

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The Angel Esmeralda : Nine Stories
by Don DeLillo


Collects nine stories written between 1979 and 2011 that chronicle three decades of American life from the perspective of a range of characters, including a pair of nuns in the South Bronx and two astronauts orbiting the Earth.

 

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Nothing Can Make Me Do This
by David Huddle


Can we ever truly know another person, however well- loved? Brainy, decent, funny, and likeable, the members of Horace Houseman's family and his closest friend possess quirky and compelling interior lives that they reveal to no one else.

 

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77 Shadow Street
by Dean Koontz


The affluent occupants of luxury apartments, housed in a two-hundred-year-old mansion with a checkered past, enter into a terrifying waking nightmare when the haunted house reawakens, leaving no one safe from its grip.

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Double Dexter
by Jeff Lindsay


Forensic analyst and nighttime vigilante Dexter Morgan discovers that he is being followed by a killer who is copying his methods, an adversary whom Dexter seeks to outmaneuver using his trademark knack for extricating himself from trouble.

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Robert Ludlum's The Ares Decision
by Kyle Mills


Microbiologist Colonel Jon Smith is sent with his fellow Covert-One operatives to discover why an American special forces team was savagely attacked and decimated by the normally peaceful residents of a farming village in northern Uganda.

 

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The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares
by Joyce Carol Oates


A volume of six stories and novellas by the National Book Award-winning author of We Were the Mulvaneys includes the title story, in which the disappearance of a sweet blonde-haired child is linked to her mother's indiscretions, a too-obvious schoolteacher and an older student with a fascination for a Native American legend.

 

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Sleepwalker
by Karen Robards


Trying to deny their mutual attraction, a policewoman and a thief find themselves on the run from killers who want them both dead.

 

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The Silver Lotus
by Thomas Steinbeck


While expanding his trading empire, Captain Jeremiah Macy Hammond faces pirates, storms and illness as he crosses the Pacific opening new markets in Hawaii, Mexico and China. There he falls in love with Lady Yee the daughter of a wealthy Cantonese merchant family.

 

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Outrage
by Robert K. Tanenbaum


New York District Attorney Roger 'Butch' Karp faces one of his most challenging and dramatic cases when his wife Marlene Ciampi learns that his office has indicted the wrong man for murder.

 

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Supervolcano : Eruption
by Harry Turtledove


Survivors of a supervolcanic eruption in Yellowstone Park must rise from the ashes of the apocalyptic catastrophe to continue civilization.

 

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I Am Half-sick of Shadows
by Alan Bradley


Colonel de Luce, in desperate need of funds, rents his beloved estate of Buckshaw over to a film company. They will be shooting a movie over the Christmas holidays with a famous and reclusive star. She is widely despised, so it is to no one's surprise when she turns up murdered. With the snow raging outside and Buckshaw locked in, the house is full of suspects. But Flavia de Luce is more than ready to solve the wintry country-house murder.

 

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D.C. Dead
by Stuart Woods


Evaluating his life in New York as a Woodman & Weld partner after a shocking loss, Stone Barrington is summoned by the President to Washington, D. C. and assigned to a special ops mission that reunites him with his former partner, Holly Barker.

 

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Power Play
by Ben Bova


Aggressively recruited by an ambitious senatorial candidate, university astronomer Jake Ross is directed to promote a new innovation for cheap energy, a situation that is complicated by the technology's undetermined hazards and the extreme tactics used by both political rivals.

 

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Books : A Living History
by Martyn Lyons


In this sumptuously illustrated history of the book, Lyons covers a millennia of changes, from ancient Mesopotamian carvings to Gutenberg's innovations in printing, through the computer age and the advent of the Internet and e-readers.

 
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Remedy and Reaction : The Peculiar American Struggle Over Health Care Reform
by Paul Starr


Recounts the history of health care policy in the United States, and argues that the country became entrapped through policies that satisfied enough of the public and so enriched the health-care industry as to make the system difficult to change.
 
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Murder in the First-class Carriage : The First Victorian Railway Killing
by Kate Colquhoun


In July 1864, Thomas Briggs boarded a first-class carriage on the 9:45 pm Hackney service of the North London railway. At Hackney, blood was discovered in the seat cushions as well as on the floor, windows, and sides of the carriage. A bloodstained hat was found on the seat along with a broken link from a watch chain. The race to identify the killer and catch him as he fled on a boat to America was eagerly followed by the public on both sides of the Atlantic.
 

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A Book of Miracles : Inspiring True Stories of Healing, Gratitude, and Love
by Bernie S. Siegel with Andrea Furst


The best-selling author shares a treasury of inspiring true stories about patients who have pursued physical, spiritual and psychological healing through his programs, from the tale of a girl whose baby brother inspired her recovery from anorexia to an account by a woman whose recovery from cancer occurred when she discovered self-empowerment.

 

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Sweet Invention : A History of Dessert
by Michael Krondl


Sweet Invention : A History of Dessert captures the stories of sweet makers past and present from India, the Middle East, Italy, France, Vienna, and the United States, as author Michael Krondl meets with confectioners around the globe, savoring and exploring the dessert icons of each tradition.

 

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The Glorious Pasta of Italy : 100 Recipes for Maccheroni, Pappardelle, Ravioli, and Many More
by Domenica Marchetti


Celebrating pasta in all its glorious forms, author Domenica Marchetti draws from her Italian heritage to share a uniquely personal collection of more than 100 timeless and modern rustic recipes.

 

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What to Ask the Person in the Mirror : Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential
by Robert S. Kaplan


In What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, professor and business leader Robert Kaplan presents a process for asking the big questions that will enable you to diagnose problems, change course if necessary, and advance your career. By asking these questions, you can tackle the inevitable challenges of leadership as you craft new strategies for staying on top of your game.

 

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Joseph Roth : A Life in Letters
translated and edited by Michael Hofmann


The tumultuous and calamitous life of the Austrian writer best known for The Radetzky March is described through translations of the author's own letters that recall his father's and wife's mental illnesses, numerous mistresses and travel to Paris.

 

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Running Away to Home : Our Family's Journey to Croatia in Search of Who We Are, Where We Came From, and What Really Matters
by Jennifer Wilson


Documents the experiences of a family that set aside their unfulfilling, over-scheduled lives in the American Midwest for a sabbatical in a tiny Croatian mountain village, where for several months they reconnected with the author's family, herded sheep and lived according to local customs.

 

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A Line in the Sand : The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914-1948
by James Barr


The author uses recently declassified French and British government documents to describe how the two countries secretly divided the Middle East during World War I and the effect these 'mandates' had on local Arabs and Jews.

 

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Elusive Destiny : The Political Vocation of John Napier Turner
by Paul Litt


This work reveals the inner workings of Liberal Party politics in their heyday as charted through the meteoric rise and fall of John Napier Turner. Drawing on extensive interviews, including several with John Turner himself, this engrossing work highlights Turner's time as Minister of Justice and Finance, exposing his deep clashes with Trudeau over language rights, social spending, and Quebec.

 

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New York diaries, 1609 to 2009
edited by Teresa Carpenter


Draws on library archives, historical societies and private estates in a year-long tribute to New York that is comprised of diary entries selected from four centuries of writings by famous city natives, visitors and artists.

 
 
 

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