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The Lost Saints of
Tennessee
by Don DeLillo
After losing his twin to a drowning accident and his wife to divorce,
Zeke Cooper leaves his mother and two daughters behind in Tennessee
and travels to Virginia horse country, where he considers his
responsibility to repair his fractured family. |
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A Devil is Waiting
by Jack Higgins
When a political visit to London is threatened by a fanatical
mullah who promises to bless anyone who will assassinate the President,
Sean Dillon, General Charles Ferguson and the rest of the 'Prime
Minister's private army' work with new intelligence recruit Sara
Gideon, who discovers that the threat is linked to an even more
menacing plot. |
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Down the Darkest
Road
by Tami Hoag
1980s California FBI agent Vince Leone taps into the powers of
science-based forensic techniques to unveil dark secrets and stop
a killer who is terrorizing the citizens of Oak Knoll. |
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The Hunter
by John Lescroart
When an anonymous tip reveals that his birth mother was murdered
and her killer never identified, San Francisco private investigator
Wyatt Hunt engages in a chilling cat-and-mouse game to track down
the surviving members of his biological family, a case that reveals
clues about a dire secret.
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Damascus
by Joshua Mohr
The passions, frustrations, and quirks of the patrons of Damascus,
a dive bar in San Francisco's Mission District, come tumbling
into the open when the bar's proprietor Owen decides to host an
unconventional art show.
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Cell 8
by Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström
Six years after a 17-year-old death-row inmate dies unexpectedly
of heart disease, his case is disturbingly linked to that of a
man using a false identity who has been arrested for attacking
a fellow ferry passenger.
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The Winter Palace
by Eva Stachniak
A reimagining of the early years of Catherine the Great traces
the story of a naive German duchess as observed by young Barbara,
a servant who watches her mistress's elevation and rises to become
one of Russia's most clever royal spies. |
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Murder in Lascaux
by Betsy Draine and Michael Hinden
The cave of Lascaux may be closed to the public, but five scholars
a day are allowed inside, and Nora Barnes has finagled an appointment.
During their tour another visitor is murdered. When the local
inspector pegs Nora and Toby as suspects, they embark on a mission
to solve the crime.
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The Territory
by Tricia Fields
West Texas police chief Josie Gray tackles adversaries on both
sides of the law when she is caught between a violent drug cartel
and a tiny community of locals who are determined to take the
law into their own hands. |
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Raylan
by Elmore Leonard
After discovering his quarry naked in the bathtub, doped up and
missing his kidneys, Federal Marshall Raylan Givens becomes involved,
both literally and figuratively, in a case involving the harvesting
of organs for sale on the black market where this time the bad
guys are girls. |
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The Retribution
by Val McDermid
There is one serial killer who has shaped and defined police profiler
Tony Hill's life. One serial killer whose evil surpasses all others.
One serial killer who has the power to chill him to the bone:
Jacko Vance. And now Jacko is back in Tony's life -- even more
twisted and cunning than ever before. |
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All I Did Was Shoot
My Man
by Walter Mosley
When Zella Grisham is accused of both shooting her boyfriend and
stealing more than six million dollars from the Rutgers Assurance
Corp., Leonid McGill investigates, while his own family life begins
to unravel around him. |
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Shadows in Flight
by Orson Scott Card
Bean moves with three of his children into a derelict space colony
ship where they hope for a cure to engineered genes that give
them high intelligence and short lives, a situation that is complicated
when space-time distortions cause them to be forgotten by humanity. |
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New : Understanding
Our Need For Novelty and Change
by Winifred Gallagher
Offers insight into the psychological drive to pursue new things,
sharing advice for aficionados of new experiences on how to embrace
today's dynamic and creative culture while living sensibly and satisfyingly. |
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Man Seeks God : My
Flirtations With the Divine
by Eric Weiner
After a health scare, an atheist travels the world searching for
an experience of the divine, from meditating with Tibetan lamas
in Nepal and unblocking his chi in China, to studying the Kabbalah
in Israel. |
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The Meaning of the
Bible : What the Jewish Scriptures and Christian Old Testament Can
Teach Us
by Douglas A. Knight and Amy-Jill Levine
Presents an introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures that brings to
life ancient Israel and highlights the key biblical themes for Christians
to better understand the Old Testament and how it relates to the
Gospels. |
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Beyond Religion :
Ethics For a Whole World
by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
A stirring call to move beyond religion for the guidance to improve
human life on individual, community, and global levels--including
a guided meditation practice for cultivating key human values. |
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Childism : Confronting
Prejudice Against Children
by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
The author exposes American society's prejudice against its children--from
corporal punishment and an uncaring foster care system to the
pressure placed on children to support one parent or another in
a divorce--and the harm it causes them.
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The Partnership :
Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb
by Philip Taubman
Describes the joint effort between President Obama and the leaders
behind the U.S. nuclear arsenal during the Cold War to protect
America from a nuclear terrorist attack. |
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Would It Kill You
To Stop Doing That? : A Modern Guide to Manners
by Henry Alford
A humorist tackles etiquette and manners for the modern age, providing
interviews with civility experts like Judith Martin and Tim Gunn
and more unlikely subjects including a former prisoner and an
army sergeant. |

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Earth in 100 Groundbreaking
Discoveries
by Douglas Palmer
A journey back through the evolutionary history of our planet,
from the origins and formation of the earth. |

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The One Dish Collection
: All-in-one Dinners That Nourish Body and Soul
by the Canadian Living Test Kitchen
One-Dish Collection offers tasty options to satisfy your cravings.
Inside, you'll find hearty meat-and-veggie soups and stews, filling
dinner salads, simple skillet suppers (complete with fresh biscuits
on top!), rich casseroles, flavour-packed pastas, creamy risottos
and more. Add a sprinkle of helpful tips and advice from Canadian
Living's cooking experts, and you have a recipe for dinnertime
success.
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Christ to Coke :
How Image Becomes Icon
by Martin Kemp
How does an image become iconic? In Christ to Coke, eminent art
historian Martin Kemp offers a highly original look at the main
types of visual icons. This marvelous work illuminates eleven
universally recognized images, both historical and contemporary,
to see how they arose and how they continue to function in our
culture. |
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Pictures, Passions
and Eye : A Life At Sotheby's
by Michel Strauss
Strauss, the head of the Impressionist and modern art department
at Sotheby's auction house for decades, details the many extraordinary
works of art he handled, and the intriguing stories each had to
tell. |
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Alix and Nicky :
The Passion of the Last Tsar and Tsarina
by Virginia Rounding
A psychological examination of the marriage of the last Russian
Tsar and Tsarina assesses the debates about their characters and
harrowing executions, providing coverage of such topics as the
Empress's ill health, their relationship with confidante Ania
Vyrubova and their reliance on the infamous Rasputin.
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