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Week of January 23, 2012

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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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