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Ford County: Stories
By Grisham, John
2009-11 - Doubleday Books
9780385532457
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Grisham returns to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his immensely popular first novel, "A Time to Kill." This wholly surprising collection reminds readers once again why Grisham is one of America's favorite storytellers.
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The Lost Symbol
By Brown, Dan
2009-09 - Doubleday Books
9780385504225
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The eagerly awaited follow-up to his #1 international phenomenon "The DaVinciCode, The Lost Symbol" once again features Brown's unforgettable protagonist, Harvard symbol expert Robert Langdon.
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Kindred in Death
By Robb, J D
2009-11 - Wheeler Publishing
9781410420213
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When the newly promoted captain of the NYPD and his wife return from vacation, they look forward to spending time with their 16-year-old daughter who had stayed behind. Not even their worst nightmares could have prepared them for the crime scene that awaits them instead.
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The Gathering Storm
By Jordan, Robert
Author Sanderson, Brandon 2009-10 - Tom Doherty Associates
9780765302304
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"A Memory of Light," the final book of the Wheel of Time series, was partially completed by Jordan before his untimely death. "New York Times"-bestselling author Sanderson pens "The Gathering Storm," the first of three novels to conclude Jordan's bestselling series.
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The Lacuna
By Kingsolver, Barbara
2009-11 - Harper
9780060852573
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In her first novel in nine years, "New York Times"-bestselling author Kingsolver tells the story of Harrison William Shepherd, an unforgettable protagonist whose search for identity takes readers to the heart of the 20th century's most tumultuous events.
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True Blue
By Baldacci, David
2009-10 - Grand Central Publishing
9780446195515
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What begins as a fairly routine homicide investigation quickly turns into something complex, diabolical, and possibly lethal for Mace Perry--a former D.C. cop working gang narcotics--who is rebuilding her life after being framed and imprisoned for a crime she didn't commit.
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The Help
By Stockett, Kathryn
2009-02 - Putnam Adult
9780399155345
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In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.
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Pursuit of Honor: A Thriller
By Flynn, Vince
2009-10 - Atria Books
9781416595168
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Deadly and charismatic hero Rapp wages a war against a new enemy, in this devastatingly intense thriller by "New York Times"-bestselling author Flynn.
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The Scarpetta Factor
By Cornwell, Patricia D.
2009-10 - Putnam Adult
9780399156397
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The indomitable Kay Scarpetta, medical examiner extraordinaire [is back] . . . When it comes to the forensic sciences, nobody can touch Cornwell, who analyzes cyberspace crime as effortlessly as she walks us through cutting-edge lab technology and elucidates clinical obsession.--"New York Times Book Review."
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Last Night in Twisted River
By Irving, John
2009-10 - Random House
9781400063840
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A story spanning five decades, Irving's 12th novel is set in 1954 New Hampshire, where an anxious 12-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear.
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No Less Than Victory: A Novel of World War II
By Shaara, Jeff
2009-11 - Ballantine Books
9780345497925
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The magisterial conclusion to Shaara's World War II trilogy vividly portrays the European war's last act, from the Battle of the Bulge to Germany's unconditional surrender--told through the viewpoints of the men at the top including Eisenhower, Patton, Churchill, and Hitler.
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Nine Dragons
By Connelly, Michael
2009-10 - Little Brown and Company
9780316166317
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While investigating the murder of a Chinese liquor store owner, Harry Bosch gets word his daughter, who lives in Hong Kong with her mother, has been kidnapped. Bosch drops everything and journeys across the Pacific to a new city where nothing is as it seems.
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Wolf Hall
By Mantel, Hilary
2009-10 - Henry Holt & Company
9780805080681
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2009 Booker Award Winner
In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII's court, only one man, Thomas Cromwell, dares to gamble his life to win the king's favor and ascend to the heights of political power.
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The Last Song
By Sparks, Nicholas
2009-09 - Grand Central Publishing
9780446549158
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#1 bestselling author Nicholas Sparks's new novel is at once a compelling family drama and a heartrending tale of young love.Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alientated from her parents, especially her father...until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie's father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church.The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story of love on many levels--first love, love between parents and children -- that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that love can break our hearts...and heal them.
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Heat Wave
By Castle, Richard
2009-09 - Hyperion Books
9781401323820
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A New York real estate tycoon plunges to his death on a Manhattan sidewalk. A trophy wife with a past survives a narrow escape from a brazen attack. Mobsters and moguls with no shortage of reasons to kill trot out their alibis. And then, in the suffocating grip of a record heat wave, comes another shocking murder and a sharp turn in a tense journey into the dirty little secrets of the wealthy. Secrets that prove to be fatal. Secrets that lay hidden in the dark until one NYPD detective shines a light.
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