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Week of January 9, 2012

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Week of January 9, 2012

In OF LOVE AND EVIL by Anne Rice, former contract killer Toby O'Dare, barely recovered from his previous divine mission in ANGEL TIME, is once again summoned by the angel Malchiah to investigate the poisoning of a prominent nobleman and stop the haunting of a diabolical dybbuk. 

Jeff Shaara's THE FINAL STORM illuminates some critical events of World War II. With the war in Europe winding down in 1945, the U.S. turns its military resources toward an assault on the island of Okinawa. Meanwhile, a secret mission unfolds to develop a weapon so powerful, not even the scientists who build it know just what they are about to unleash. 

The Final Storm: A Novel of the War in the Pacific by Jeff Shaara - Historical Fiction

 

With the war in Europe winding down in 1945, the U.S. turns its military resources toward an assault on the island of Okinawa. Meanwhile, a secret mission unfolds to develop a weapon so powerful, not even the scientists who build it know just what they are about to unleash. 

Of Love and Evil: The Songs of the Seraphim, Book Two by Anne Rice - Metaphysical Thriller

 

Barely recovered from his previous divine mission, former contract killer Toby O'Dare is once again summoned by the angel Malchiah to investigate the poisoning of a prominent nobleman and stop the haunting of a diabolical dybbuk. 

The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen - Fiction

 

Willa Jackson has lately learned that an old classmate has restored her great-great-grandfather’s mansion, with plans to turn it into a top-flight inn. But when a skeleton is found buried beneath the property’s lone peach tree, long-kept secrets come to light. 

The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady by Elizabeth Stuckey-French - Fiction

 

In 1953, Dr. Wilson Spriggs gave Marylou Ahearn a radioactive cocktail without her consent, and Marylou has been plotting her revenge ever since. But as she becomes entangled with Spriggs’ fragile family, she wonders if she’s really meant to ruin their lives or fix them.

The Terror of Living by Urban Waite - Thriller

 

Hunt is on the run from two men: Drake, the deputy sheriff who intends to catch him, and Grady, the vicious hitman who means to kill him. Grady takes pleasure in the use of knives, taking Hunt's life apart piece by piece and leaving a trail of victims behind him.