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02/04 - The Bone House
Brian Freeman
From Publishers WeeklyAt the start of this solid stand-alone from Freeman (Immoral and three other titles in his Duluth, Minn., crime series), former high school teacher Mark Bradley is on vacation in Florida with his wife, Hilary. The previous year,...
02/04 - The Mike Hammer Collection
Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins
A trio of classic novels in the third omnibus from "the king of hard boiled crime fiction" (_USA Today_). "There's a kind of power about Mickey Spillane that no other writer can imitate" (_New York Times_), and it's in full force in this collectio...
02/04 - Always
Iris Johansen
#1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen provides her trademark blend of seductive romance and pulse-pounding suspense in this classic tale of a woman who unexpectedly finds herself living—and loving—on the edge of danger. Lisa Landon mak...
02/04 - Those in Peril
Wilbur Smith
Hazel Bannock is the heir to the Bannock Oil Corp, one of the major oil producers with global reach. While cruising in the Indian Ocean, Hazel's private yacht is hijacked by African pirates. Hazel is not on board at the time, but her nineteen year ol...
02/04 - The Gordian Knot
Bernhard Schlink
From Publishers WeeklyIn Schlink's unremarkable stand-alone thriller, the fortunes of Georg Polger, a German living in France who's struggling to make ends meet as a translator, change after he receives an offer of steady employment translating techn...
02/04 - London: A Biography
Peter Ackroyd
Here are two thousand years of London's history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its food and drink and countless pleasures. Blackfriar's and Charing Cross, Paddington and Bedlam. Westminster Abbey and St. Martin in the...
02/04 - On the Yankee Station: Stories
William Boyd
Review"A skilled narrator with great powers of witty invention.... William Boyd has established himself as an accomplished and adventurous writer."?_The New York Times Book Review_ -- ReviewProduct DescriptionWiliam Boyd, winner of the Whitbread and ...
02/04 - American Outrage
Tim Green
From Publishers WeeklyBestseller Green (_Kingdom Come_) introduces a tough, appealing hero in his action-packed 12th thriller. Jake Carlson, a correspondent for the tabloid TV news show American Outrage, based in New York City, has softened his hard ...
02/04 - Literary Occasions: Essays
V. S. Naipaul and Pankaj Mishra
From Publishers WeeklyOne imagines many readers are still absorbing The Writer and the World, Naipaul's magisterial collection of deeply opinionated global political reports and cultural meditations that was released last August, covering the last fo...
02/04 - The Grave Tattoo
Val McDermid
From Publishers WeeklyAn intriguing, 200-year-old mystery propels this multilayered stand-alone from British author McDermid set in England's Lake District. Scholar Jane Gresham pursues her theory that HMS Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian returned ...
02/04 - Shadowstorm: The Twilight War
Paul S. Kemp
The invasion of the arch-wizards is on! The archwizards of Shade Enclave have come out of the desert with a message of peace, and an act of war. Split by petty disputes and causeless feuds, the merchant realm of Sembia is wide open for invasion, and...
02/04 - Riven Rock
T. Coraghessan Boyle
Amazon.com ReviewIn 1905, Stanley McCormick, heir to East Coast millions, is most definitely mad. Heredity and an early, horrifying glimpse of his naked sister have rendered him schizophrenic, incapable of being around women--right down to his wife, ...
02/04 - Shadowbred: The Twilight War
Paul S. Kemp
_The Lady has spoken to me. It has already begun_. Shadows move out of the shrinking desert, south to the rich and arrogant cities of Sembia. _“Be brave, little man,” says the shadowman, and the boy thinks his voice is surprisingly soft. “Stay wit...
02/04 - The Knife of Never Letting Go
Patrick Ness
Chaos walking [1]: From School Library JournalGrade 9 Up—Todd Hewitt lives in a world in which all women are dead, and the thoughts of men and animals are constantly audible as Noise. Graphically represented by a set of scratchy fonts and sentence fr...
02/04 - Monsters of Men
Patrick Ness
Chaos walking [3]: From School Library JournalGr 9 Up–The first word of this conclusion to the trilogy is "war," and war between various factions takes up much of this book. The action begins immediately and is told from two and then three viewpoints...
02/04 - Sword Quest
Nancy Yi Fan and Jo-Anne Rioux
From School Library JournalGrade 4–6—In this good-versus-evil story, a prequel to Swordbird (HarperCollins, 2007), readers see a legend taking shape as evil forces attempt to conquer the inhabitants of a bird world. Prophecy says a hero will emerge o...
02/04 - Swordbird
Nancy Yi Fan and Mark Zug
From Publishers WeeklyYi Fan's tightly woven story delivers a manifest message promoting peace and freedom. Starring woodland bird characters, the saga pits the tyrannical hawk Turnatt, captor of "slavebirds" whom he shackles and puts to work buildin...
02/04 - The Inheritance of Loss
Kiran Desai
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. This stunning second novel from Desai (_Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard_) is set in mid-1980s India, on the cusp of the Nepalese movement for an independent state. Jemubhai Popatlal, a retired Cambridge-educated ...
02/04 - By the Rivers of Babylon
Nelson DeMille
Review" Not since Exodus has there been such a raw powerful story of the Middle East" - Harold Robbins "A first-class suspense thriller" - Harrison E. Salisbury Product DescriptionLod Airport, Israel: Two Concorde jets take off for a U.N. conference ...
02/04 - The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
Amazon.com ReviewJonathan Franzen's exhilarating novel The Corrections tells a spellbinding story with sexy comic brio, and evokes a quirky family akin to Anne Tyler's, only bitter. Franzen's great at describing Christmas homecomings gone awry, cruis...
02/04 - Fiction Writer's Workshop
Josip Novakovich
With more than 120 writing exercises, this l earn-by-doing guide is designed to help students improve and expand their fiction according to individual needs and sche dules. ' About the AuthorJosip Novakovich is the author of a novel (April Fool's Day...
02/04 - The Last Days of Krypton
Kevin J. Anderson
From Publishers WeeklyAs seen on film and TV, the Phantom Zone where Superman's enemies are exiled is insubstantial and two-dimensional, much like this chronicle of the death of the cape-clad hero's home planet. Best known for sweeping space opera (t...
02/04 - Twice a Spy: A Novel
Keith Thomson
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Razor-sharp writing, laugh-out-loud humor, and a sturdy plot combine to make Thomson's sequel to Once a Spy a real treat for thriller fans tired of more of the same old same old. Charlie Clark has left his life a...
02/04 - The Judas Strain
James Rollins
Sigma Force [4]: From Publishers WeeklyThe special-ops trained scientists of Sigma Force battle the criminals of the shadowy Guild in bestseller Rollins's lively third Sigma Force thriller (after Black Order). An ancient and deadly plague, the Judas ...
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