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|  | Albert, Susan Wittig HOLLY BLUES
March 15, 2010 - Although traffic has been slow at her shops, China and her family—her husband Mike McQuaid, private eye and part-time college professor, his son Brian, and China's niece Caitlin—are making do. When Mike's former wife, Brian's mom Sally Strahorn,
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| | Beattie, Ann WALKS WITH MEN
March 15, 2010 - Jane, recent Harvard valedictorian and already a semi-celebrity in literary circles, leaves rural Vermont (and a boyfriend who's in mid-metamorphosis from Ben the Juilliard-trained musician to a bedraggled mystic called Goodness) for New York, where
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| | Bi Feiyu THREE SISTERS
March 15, 2010 - As they grow up in a rural community, Yumi, Yuxiu and Yuyang must negotiate both tradition and Mao's Cultural Revolution. Their village is named for their family and dominated by their father, Party Secretary Wang Lianfang, and they enjoy the status
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| | Blum, Jenna THE STORMCHASERS
March 15, 2010 - Karena hasn't seen her twin Charles in 20 years, since he was 18 and briefly committed to a psychiatric ward for his bipolar disorder. Now on their birthday, it seems both surprising and perfectly natural that she should receive a call from a
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| | Brashares, Ann MY NAME IS MEMORY
March 15, 2010 - In 2004, Virginia high-school student Lucy develops an obsessive crush on a mysterious new classmate, Daniel. They finally share a kiss at the Senior Ball, but then Daniel calls her Sophia and insists that they have loved each other for centuries. A
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| | Chisholm, P.F. A MURDER OF CROWS
March 15, 2010 - Sir Robert Carey's sidekick, Sergeant Dodd, seeks a lawyer to sue the evil and greedy Vice Chamberlain, Thomas Heneage, with whom Carey and Dodd have already tangled. He chooses the offbeat Mr. Enys, but the case is thwarted by higher-ups.
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| | Clark, Mary Higgins THE SHADOW OF YOUR SMILE
March 15, 2010 - Two generations after she gave away the child she bore soon after entering the convent, and one generation after her death, Sister Catherine Morrow is back in the news. An ecclesiastical court has been convened to determine whether preliminary steps
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| | Coonts, Deborah WANNA GET LUCKY?
March 15, 2010 - Lyda Sue tumbles from a helicopter and splatters in a lagoon meant to attract high rollers, greedy tourists and lesser fry to one of Vegas's premier casinos. Lucky O'Toole, head of customer relations (that is, troubleshooter) for the Babylon, has
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|  | de Moor, Margriet THE STORM
March 15, 2010 - In the winter of 1953, hurricane-driven flood waters rushing in from the North Sea destroyed dikes and obliterated an entire province in the southwestern Netherlands—a territory which "lay embedded between two arms of the sea that did what arms
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| | Eisler, Barry INSIDE OUT
March 15, 2010 - The action begins with Treven senselessly beating an Australian to death in a bar fight that lands him in a Manila jail. Treven doesn't take well to imprisonment—the food makes him throw up, the heat is stultifying and he has to sleep on the
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| | Ellis, Bret Easton IMPERIAL BEDROOMS
March 15, 2010 - Twenty-five years ago, Ellis made his popular debut with a slim novel that took its title from an Elvis Costello song. It concerned drug-addled young hipsters in Los Angeles and was widely perceived as the West Coast equivalent of Bright Lights, Big
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| | Epstein, Joseph THE LOVE SONG OF A. JEROME MINKOFF
March 15, 2010 - Epstein (In a Cardboard Belt!, 2007, etc.) creates his characters with deft strokes. The story that gives the collection its title is one of the author's most typical, as well as one of his best. Three years earlier the somewhat Prufrockian Dr. A.
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| | Evans, Richard Paul THE WALK
March 15, 2010 - Alan Christoffersen has it all—his own thriving boutique ad agency in Seattle, a McMansion, luxury cars and a beautiful wife, McKale, who's also his best friend from childhood. In mid-meeting—he's just snagged a lucrative new account—Alan is
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| | Ferri, Linda CECILIA
March 15, 2010 - Cecilia's 15th birthday marks her entry into the marriage market, and the headstrong young Roman is not a happy camper. "It was a HORRIBLE birthday," she tells her diary. Since the early deaths of her siblings, only-child Cecilia has been given the
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| | Fitch, Stona GIVE + TAKE
March 15, 2010 - Ross Clifton, the hero of the fourth novel by Fitch (Senseless, 2001, etc.), isn't a world-class piano player, but he's talented enough to get steady gigs around the country in places where he's not forced into his imagined worst-case scenario:
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| | Gore, Steven FINAL TARGET
March 15, 2010 - Jack Burch, a white-shoe lawyer who operates at a level high enough for air-sickness and complex enough to confuse even him at times, takes a bullet in the chest that San Francisco cops attribute to road rage. Well, maybe. Burch goes jogging;
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| | Gruber, Michael THE GOOD SON
March 15, 2010 - When terrorists in Pakistan snatch the participants in a peace symposium, one of the people they grab is Sonia Laghari. They quickly learn that she is no ordinary hostage. On one hand, Sonia's quite a prize. She's been wanted for decades in the
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| | Guillou, Jan THE TEMPLAR KNIGHT
March 15, 2010 - In his native country, Guillou is well-known as a journalist and as the author of a popular series of spy novels. His Crusades Trilogy features the fictional Swedish knight Arn Magnusson. The Road to Jerusalem chronicled Arn's youth and his forced
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| | Hall, Tarquin THE CASE OF THE MAN WHO DIED LAUGHING
March 15, 2010 - Once the Hindu masters taught the virtues of poverty. But in modern India, prosperity and devotion go hand in hand, at least at the Abode of Eternal Love, where well-heeled worshippers gather to revere the Maharaj Swami, who summons the Vedic sage
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| | Hannah, Darci THE EXILE OF SARA STEVENSON
March 15, 2010 - In her debut novel, Hannah indulges a fascination with lighthouses and historical fiction to craft an imaginative fantasy that veers precariously between tasteful romance and bodice-ripper. "Someone once told me that every tower had a ghost, and
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| | Holt, Tom BLONDE BOMBSHELL
March 15, 2010 - In Novosibirsk, genius scientist turned banker George Stetchkin wonders, during his bouts of sobriety, how somebody has removed, without trace, $50 trillion from various bank vaults around the world. Not far away, industrialist Lucy Pavlov ponders
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| | Isaacs, Susan AS HUSBANDS GO
March 15, 2010 - Getting stabbed with a pair of scissors, it turns out, following 80 not-very-suspenseful pages devoted to filling in the back story after Jonah goes missing. On paper the Gerstens seem perfect. They have a lovely home in Shorehaven, Long Island,
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| | Kargman, Jill ARM CANDY
March 15, 2010 - Eden is sure her ethereal beauty will be her ticket out of her backwater hometown. Drawn to Manhattan by the lure of a modeling career, the fetching high-school dropout, after a brief stint as head groupie to a rock star, latches on to Wes, a
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| | Knight, Bernard WHERE DEATH DELIGHTS
March 15, 2010 - Richard Pryor returns from Singapore in 1955 with enough money to start a practice using the big house he has inherited from an aunt as headquarters. His new partner is Angela Bray, a former Home Office scientist who's looking for a change after a
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| | Kwok, Jean GIRL IN TRANSLATION
March 15, 2010 - Twelve-year-old Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong and feel lucky to get out before the transfer to the Chinese. Because Mrs. Chang's older sister owns a garment factory in Brooklyn, she offers Kimberly's mother—and even
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| | Levy, Andrea THE LONG SONG
March 15, 2010 - July is fathered by a brutish overseer named Tam Dewar and born to a field slave named Kitty. She's seized from her mother, renamed "Marguerite," brought into the plantation house and trained to be the housemaid, chief aide and ultimately confidante
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| | Mackenzie, Jassy RANDOM VIOLENCE
March 15, 2010 - After more than a decade in England, Jade de Jong returns to her native Johannesburg at the request of Police Superintendent David Patel, the protg and eventual successor of Jade's father. It was her father's death and her unresolved feelings for
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| | McGovern, Cammie NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH
March 15, 2010 - Betsy explains that she confessed to murdering Linda Sue, not because she remembered committing the crime but because she didn't. When she found blood on her nightgown she assumed that she had bludgeoned Linda Sue to death during one of the
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| | McRae, Cricket SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING BLEU
March 15, 2010 - Sophie Mae's bath-products business is flourishing, and she's about to marry detective Barr Ambrose. But her mother Anna Belle's call begging her to come home and read her brother's long-lost suicide note changes everything. The newly surfacing
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| | Meade, Amy Patricia BLACK MOONLIGHT
March 15, 2010 - Having escaped the wedding planned by their Ridgebury, Conn. neighbors, Marjorie and Creighton Ashcroft are honeymooning on the high seas. Marjorie's seasickness calls for a change of venue, so when the ship visits Bermuda, Creighton takes his bride
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| | Morales, Aaron Michael DROWNING TUCSON
March 15, 2010 - Though Morales' debut work of fiction is billed as a novel, it's more a collection of loosely linked stories; some characters appear numerous times, but nothing's lost if the pieces are read out of order. (Indeed, the book has multiple tables of
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| | Myers, Amy TOM WASP AND THE NEWGATE KNOCKER
March 15, 2010 - Bound for the gallows after poisoning her abusive husband in 1863, housekeeper Eliza Hogg presents chimney sweeper Tom Wasp with a ticket that allows him to redeem a shabby doll from a seedy pawnbroker. Inside the doll, he and his apprentice Ned
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| | Ogawa, Yoko HOTEL IRIS
March 15, 2010 - Minimalist Ogawa (The Housekeeper and the Professor, 2009, etc.) trades the eccentric relationships of her debut novel for a much darker affair in her latest plumbing of human experience. In an overgrown inn in a sedate seaside town, 17-year-old
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| | Pizzolatto, Nic GALVESTON
March 15, 2010 - Violence shadowed Roy Cady's childhood in East Texas. His alcoholic father fell to his death; his mother killed herself. She had worked for a bar owner and racketeer, and at 17 Roy started working for him too. Eventually he moved to New Orleans and
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| | Ramsay, Frederick THE EYE OF THE VIRGIN
March 15, 2010 - Louis Dakis, an artist and instructor at Virginia's Callend University, returns home from class to find his rented digs ransacked, though nothing's been taken. Across town at the Picketsville Hospital emergency room, nurse Laurie Kratz discovers
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| | Rich, Simon ELLIOT ALLAGASH
March 15, 2010 - Comedy writer and essayist Rich (Free Range Chickens, 2008, etc.) mines the adolescent postmodern humor of King Dork and Youth in Revolt and emerges with a feel-good comedy that melds the feel-good humor of the 1995 film Angus with the acerbic wit
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| | Sandford, John STORM PREY
March 15, 2010 - "We don't hurt anyone," Lyle Mack tells his brother Joe and their biker buddies Mikey Haines and Shooter Chapman as he conducts one last on-site review of their plans to rob the pharmacy in the Minneapolis Medical Center. But despite the thieves'
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| | Talton, Jon DEADLINE MAN
March 15, 2010 - Around the Seattle Free Press, he's more often referred to as the columnist, or Mr. Economics Columnist, than by his proper name. He likes that, delights in his importance, relishes the impact his work delivers. It's clear to him that he has the
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| | Vance, Lee THE GARDEN OF BETRAYAL
March 15, 2010 - Vance (Restitution, 2007) begins his sophomore effort with a haunting prologue. On a cold afternoon in 2003, three men kidnap Kyle Wallace, a 12-year-old boy. As they pull him off Riverside Drive in Manhattan, the youth's cap goes "tumbling down the
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| | Viets, Elaine HALF-PRICE HOMICIDE
March 15, 2010 - Florida seemed like just the place for CPA Helen Hawthorn to bury herself in a series of dead-end jobs with salaries that might fly under the IRS's formidable radar. So when a Missouri judge awarded her ex-husband Rob half her future earnings, Helen
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| | Walker, Martin THE DARK VINEYARD
March 15, 2010 - Prolific British journalist Walker (Bruno, Chief of Police, 2009, etc.) blends food, wine, community, history, tradition and general love of the Perigord region into a tidy yet thrill-free story. An act of arson ignites the plot, drawing 40-year-old
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| | Winslow, Emily THE WHOLE WORLD
March 15, 2010 - Polly, an American student at Cambridge, and her English friend Nick are helping their classmate Liv perform her part-time job, assisting a blind professor, Gretchen, with research into her family history. Gretchen's mother, Linda Paul, published a
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| The Arabian Nights: A New Edition
March 01, 2010 - The most famous tales in The Arabian Nights have flown far beyond the confines of the night-shrouded bedroom in which Scheherazade spins stories to the vengeful king who will kill her come morning (unless she makes sure he just has to know what happens next). "There is no such thing as a canonical text of the Nights with a fixed number of stories," writes Middle East scholar Robert Irwin in his introduction to Volume 2 of Penguin Classics' new three-volume edition. So should we care that Cambridge University scholars Malcolm and Ursula Lyons, for the first time since Sir Richard Burton in the 1880s, have based this English translation on the 1839-42 Arabic edition that contains more stories than any other, usually in fuller versions? We should
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