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|  | Alt, Madelyn A WITCH IN TIME
March 01, 2010 - Maggie has succeeded in hiding her hot romance with hunky Marcus Quinn from her inquisitive mother until she gets a call to rush to the local hospital. Her perfect sister Mel is about to give birth, turning Maggie's romantic night with Marcus into a
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| | Brown, Rita Mae CAT OF THE CENTURY
March 01, 2010 - Fresh from yet another local murder (The Purrfect Murder, 2008, etc.), Mary "Harry" Minor Haristeen, small-town postmistress turned farmer, eagerly anticipates getting out of town to celebrate Aunt Tally's 100th year at the old gal's alma mater,
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| | Fleming, Irene THE EDGE OF RUIN
March 01, 2010 - In 1909, Emily Weiss bids farewell to a pleasant life in Philadelphia when husband Adam, who owns a string of nickelodeons, announces that he's selling everything to set up as a movie producer. The contract he's signed with his old college pal Howie
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| | Kuhlken, Ken THE BIGGEST LIAR IN LOS ANGELES
March 01, 2010 - Los Angeles in 1926 has four supreme power brokers: rival newsmen Hearst and Chandler; rogue police chief Two Gun Davis; and charismatic, showboating evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. None of them is eager to acknowledge that Frank Gaines has been
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| | Marshall, Evan DARK ALLEY
March 01, 2010 - When Garry Thomason disappears on his early-morning trash run to New Amsterdam Mews, near West 48th Street, his ex-socialite boss, Anna Winthrop (Evil Justice, 2009, etc.) is more than a little worried. When his body turns up the next day in the
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| | McEvoy, John THE SIGNIFICANT SEVEN
March 01, 2010 - Thirty years after they began gathering to place their bets and watch the races, seven old college buddies hit the jackpot, winning the Pick Six for $1 million. Forming a syndicate dubbed The Significant Seven, they invest their winnings in horses
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| | Oleksiw, Susan UNDER THE EYE OF KALI
March 01, 2010 - Tourists come and go at the South India resort town of Kovalam, regularly getting lost in the maze of lanes as they wander up the Lighthouse Road to the Balabhadrakali Temple. Anita Ray, who's come from the United States to help her Auntie Meena
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| | Solomita, Stephen MERCY KILLING
March 01, 2010 - Felled by a stroke five years ago, Joyce has lain in a vegetative state until someone sprinkles an arsenic compound in her feeding tube and she finally succumbs. By all accounts, her husband Charles was devoted to her, but along with three nurses,
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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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