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Week of September 5, 2011

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Week of September 5, 2011

In Robert B. Parker's 38th Spenser novel, PAINTED LADIES, Spenser had a simple job: protect an art scholar during a ransom exchange for a stolen painting. But no one was supposed to die.

In THREE STATIONS, Martin Cruz Smith produces a complex and haunting vision of an emergent Russia’s secret underclass of street urchins, greedy thugs and a bureaucracy still paralyzed by power and fear.

Against All Things Ending: The Last Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant, Book 3 by Stephen R. Donaldson - Fantasy

 

Thomas Covenant is resurrected and he is once again a leper, and his mind slips in and out of human reality as an after-effect of spending millennia as part of the Arch of Time. As a result of the combined use of wild magic, Earthpower, and the Krill of Loric, the Worm of the World's End is awakened, and is moving towards the Land to drink of the Earthblood.

All Our Worldly Goods by Irene Nemirovsky - Fiction

Pierre and Agnes marry for love against the wishes of his parents and the family patriarch, the tyrannical industrialist Julien Hardelot, provoking a family feud that cascades down the generations.

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans - Fiction/Short Stories

Striking in their emotional immediacy, these stories are based in a world where inequality is reality, but where the insecurities of adolescence and young adulthood are sometimes the biggest complicating forces in one's sense of identity and the choices one makes.

The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore - Fiction

 

Internationally acclaimed author Helen Dunmore follows her bestselling novel, THE SIEGE, with a riveting and emotionally absorbing portrait of postwar Soviet Russia, a world of violence and terror where the severest acts of betrayal can come from the most trusted allies.

C by Tom McCarthy - Historical Fiction

Opening in England at the turn of the twentieth century, C is the story of Serge Carrefax. As Serge goes from a Bohemian spa to the skies of World War I, and from a German prison camp into the tombs of Egypt, we follow his life through the tumultuous course of the nascent modern era.

Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff - Biography

Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Stacy Schiff boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order.

The Coldest Fear by Rick Reed - Thriller

A newspaper reporter seems to have a direct line to the person responsible for three gruesome murders --- and a secret he wants to keep hidden. 

Death of the Mantis: A Detective Kubu Mystery by Michael Stanley - Mystery

In this third installment of the Detective Kubu mystery series, members of an ancient nomadic tribe are fingered in the murder of a ranger in modern-day Botswana.

First Family: Abigail and John Adams by Joseph J. Ellis - History

 

Exquisitely researched and beautifully written,FIRST FAMILYis both a revealing portrait of a marriage and a unique study of America’s early years.

Great House by Nicole Krauss - Fiction

 

For 25 years, a reclusive American novelist has been writing at the desk she inherited from a young Chilean poet who disappeared at the hands of Pinochet’s secret police; one day a girl claiming to be the poet’s daughter arrives to take it away, sending the writer’s life reeling.

The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women by James Ellroy - Memoir

 

A layered narrative of time and place, emotion and insight, sexuality and spiritual quest, THE HILIKER CURSE is a brilliant, soul-baring revelation of self. It is unlike any memoir you have ever read.

The Lost Dogs: Michael Vick's Dogs and Their Tale of Rescue and Redemption by Jim Gorant - Pets

 

An inspiring story of survival and our powerful bond with man's best friend, in the aftermath of the nation's most notorious case of animal cruelty.

Man in the Woods by Scott Spencer - Fiction

 

In his most stunning novel yet, this wry, witty, and deeply sensitive writer returns to the territory of his New York Times bestseller A SHIP MADE OF PAPER in a gripping and provocative psychological thriller of morality and manhood, choice and fate.

Painted Ladies by Robert B. Parker - Mystery

 

Spenser had a simple job: protect an art scholar during a ransom exchange for a stolen painting. But no one was supposed to die.

The Spider's Web: A Wind River Mystery by Margaret Coel - Mystery

 

Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden agrees to represent a woman accused of murdering her Arapaho fiancé, a decision that places her at odds with her own people --- and Father John O'Malley --- for choosing to believe an "outsider" over her own people.

Strategic Moves: A Stone Barrington Novel by Stuart Woods - Mystery

 

Stone Barrington gets wind of an impending scandal that might torpedo his big promotion: It may be that the lucrative new client whom he's introduced to the firm might be a Bernie Madoff in disguise. . .

The Thousand by Kevin Guilfoile - Thriller

 

Math whiz Canada Gold is busy putting her skills to questionable use in the courthouses --- and casinos --- of Las Vegas when a case sends her back to Chicago, a city marred by personal tragedy.

Three Stations: An Arkady Renko Novel by Martin Cruz Smith - Mystery

 

In THREE STATIONS, Smith produces a complex and haunting vision of an emergent Russia’s secret underclass of street urchins, greedy thugs and a bureaucracy still paralyzed by power and fear.