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Week of April 16, 2012

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Week of April 16, 2012

THE SNOWMAN by Jo Nesbø finds antihero police investigator Harry Hole suspecting a link between a menacing letter and the disappearance of a boy's mother --- and of perhaps a dozen other women, all of whom went missing on the day of a first snowfall.

In Anne Perry's TREASON AT LISSON GROVE, Charlotte and Thomas Pitt are called out of London, to Ireland and France respectively, each chasing the person or group behind a sinister plot aimed directly at taking down the British government and Queen Victoria herself.

The Big Scrum: How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football by John J. Miller - Sports History

 

In THE BIG SCRUM, John J. Miller discusses how Teddy Roosevelt became a vocal advocate of American football. A longtime fan, Roosevelt fought to preserve the game, even as he understood the need for reform.

The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson - Fiction

 

When a bad economy and a few poor personal decisions converge, siblings Annie and Buster Fang return to their family home. Reunited under one roof for the first time in more than a decade, they are forced to confront not only their creatively ambitious parents, but the chaos and confusion of their childhood.

The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan - Horror

 

Jake Marlowe is the last werewolf. Although physically healthy, he has slipped into a deep existential crisis, considering taking his own life and ending a legend that has lived for thousands of years. But there are two dangerous groups with reasons of their own for wanting Jake very much alive.

Pirate King by Laurie R. King - Thriller

 

In this latest adventure featuring the intrepid Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, Laurie R. King takes readers into the frenetic world of silent films --- where the pirates are real and the shooting isn’t all done with cameras.

Rodin's Debutante by Ward Just - Historical Fiction

 

Tommy Ogden declines to give his wife the money to commission a bust of herself from the French master Auguste Rodin, and instead announces his intention to endow a boys’ school. His decision reverberates years later in the life of Lee Goodell, whose coming of age is at the heart of Ward Just’s novel.

The Snowman by Jo Nesbø - Mystery

 

It is Oslo in November, and the first snow of the season has fallen. A boy named Jonas wakes in the night to find his mother gone. Antihero police investigator Harry Hole suspects a link between a menacing letter and the disappearance of Jonas’s mother --- and of perhaps a dozen other women, all of whom went missing on the day of a first snowfall.

Treason at Lisson Grove: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel by Anne Perry - Historical Mystery

 

Charlotte and Thomas Pitt are called out of London, to Ireland and France respectively, each chasing the person or group behind a sinister plot aimed directly at taking down the British government and Queen Victoria herself.