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| The Leisure Reading Collection: A: Personal author: Archer, Jeffrey, 1940- Title: Sons of Fortune / Jeffrey Archer. Publication info: New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, c2003. Physical description: 503 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: In Hartford, Connecticut, during the early 1950s, twin boys are separated at birth. Fletcher and Nat attend competing colleges, fall for the same girl, and have best friends who are the sons of movers and shakers. In the 1960s, Nat is drafted and becomes a hero in Vietnam, while Fletcher goes into law. By the 1990s, Nat's an affluent banker, and Fletcher's a politico on the rise; then, inevitably, their paths come together. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Auel, Jean M. Title: The Shelters of Stone / Jean M. Auel. Publication info: New York, NY : Crown, c2002. Physical description: xii, 753 p. : maps ; 25 cm. Abstract: Ayla, a Cro-Magnon woman raised by Neanderthals, and Jondalar, a Cro-Magnon man, have just completed a yearlong journey to arrive at Jondalar's boyhood home, where they wish to mate and live together among his people. Ayla is quickly welcomed into his family but has to struggle to be accepted by the larger community owing to her unusual upbringing and tame animal companions. With her knowledge of healing and unique interpersonal skills, Alya gains their trust and makes friends. Cover Image |
| B: Personal Author: Baldacci, David. Title: The Christmas Train / David Baldacci. Publication info: New York, NY Warner Books, c2002. Physical description: 260 p. ; 22cm. Abstract: Journalist Tom Langdon is banned from flying after an argument with overenthusiastic security personnel. He sees a story opportunity--a cross-country train trip at the holidays. Aboard the train, he meets up with a lost love, a screenwriter who's also researching life on Amtrak. Later in the trip, his current girlfriend surprises him by boarding the train. Will he commit to one of his loves or continue his nomadic life? Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Barr, Nevada. Title: Flashback / Nevada Barr Publication info: New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2003. Physical description: 387 p.: map ; 24 cm. Abstract: When Anna Pigeon flees a marriage proposal for ranger service on Garden Key in Dry Tortugas National Park, she finds that the past (the island was once a prison) and the present (an exploding boat scatters unidentified body parts) are eerily conjoined. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Barr, Nevada. Title: Hunting Season / Nevada Barr. Publication info: New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2002. Physical description: 322 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: When the body of Doyce Barnett turns up in unsavory circumstances in Mississippi's Natchez Trace National Park, district ranger Anna Pigeon finds her investigation stymied at every turn. The dead man's brother, an undertaker with a secret that's been kept by three generations of his family, will do anything to protect it, even if his cover-up puts Anna's life in danger. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Barry, Dave. Title: Tricky Business / Dave Barry. Publication info: New York, NY, : Putnam's, c2002. Physical description: xi, 320 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: The story is built around events on one of the floating casinos that takes paying customers three miles off the Florida coast each night to gamble. It leads readers into a crazy complexity of money laundering, drug dealing, murder, sex, violence, hijacking, and undercover work. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Binchy, Maeve. Title: Quentins / Maeve Binchy. Publication info: New York, Ny : Dutton, c2002. Physical description: 359 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Ella wants to make a documentary film about Quentins that will capture the dramas revolving around restaurant life. The film's financial backer, Derry King, becomes Ella's suitor after she has a terrible experience with a married, thieving investment advisor. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Bohjalian, Christopher A. Title: The Buffalo Soldier : a Novel / Chris Bohjalian. Publication info: New York, NY : Shaye Areheart Books, c2002. Physical description: 404 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: Two years after their twin daughters drown in a flash flood, Laura and Terry Sheldon, who are physically unable to bear any more children of their own, take in a quiet African American foster child named Alfred. Still haunted by the twins' deaths, Terry cannot connect with Alfred or his grief-stricken wife and finds comfort with another woman in a brief extramarital fling that results in a pregnancy. Disregarded by his foster parents and discriminated against by others in their small Vermont town, Alfred is befriended by an older neighbor, who introduces him to horseback riding and the story of the "Buffalo Soldiers," the name given to the black cavalry on the Western frontier after the Civil War. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Bradford, Barbara Taylor, 1933- Title: Three Weeks in Paris / Barbara Taylor Bradford. Publication info: New York, NY : Doubledau, c2002. Physical description: 288 p. ; 22 cm. Abstract: Four women who became friends and then enemies while studying together in Paris must face one another at a school reunion. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Braun, Lilian Jackson. Title: The Cat who brought down the House / Lilian Jackson Braun. Publication info: New York, NY : Putnam's c2003. Physical description: 228 p. ; 23 cm. Abstract: Twenty-five years ago, Jim Qwilleran walked into my life...huffing into his large moustache, spelling his name oddly, drinking black coffee at the Press Club bar. He was tall but seemed world-weary. His entire earthly possessions fit into two suitcases. He was a down-and-out crime reporter willing to cover any minor beat if it could get him back into newspapering. Then, almost overnight, peculiar circumstances made him the richest man in northeast central United States. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Braun, Lilian Jackson. Title: The Cat who went up the Creek / Lilian Jackson Braun. Publication info: New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's, c2002. Physical description: 226 p. ; 23 cm. Abstract: Now on their 24th case, James Qwilleran and smart kitties Koko and Yum Yum find no peace at lovely Nutcracker Inn, where more than wild beasts are afoot. Cover Image |
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Personal author: Brown, Dan, 1964- Title: The Da Vinci Code : a Novel / Dan Brown. Publication info: New York, NY : Doubleday, c2003. Physical description: 454 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: When Brown regular Robert Langdon is called in to investigate the murder of a curator at the Louvre, he discovers that the body is surrounded by strange ciphers evidently linked to the paintings of Da Vinci-and a powerful relic protected by the Priory, a secret society to which the artist belonged. Cover Image |
| Personal author: Brown, Dandra, 1948- Title: Thursday's Child / Sandra Brown. Publication info: New York, NY Bantam Books, c2002. Physical description: 209 p. ; 22 cm. Abstract: Allison, a quiet scientist, is convinced by her identical twin--vivacious, outgoing Ann--to trade places and entertain Ann's fiancé and his best friend while she has a secret operation. From the very beginning, everything goes wrong, and Allison and the best friend, Spencer. fall passionately in love. Eliza Foss keeps everyone on track in this humorous romance. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Brown, Sandra, 1948- Title: The Crush / Sandra Brown. Publication info: New York, NY : Warner Books, c2002. Physical description: 474 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: When Dr. Rennie Newton's jury duty on a case involving a contract killer ends in an acquittal for Ricky Lozada, her carefully composed and very private life begins to unravel. Cover Image |
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Personal author: Burke, James Lee, 1936- Title: Jolie Blon's Bounce : a Novel / Jame Burke. Publication info: New York, NY Simon & Schuster, c2002. Physical description: 349 p. ; 25cm. Abstract: Dave Robicheaux, the Louisiana cop who's easily one of the most complex and compelling protagonists in mystery fiction, confronts his own demons as well as a brutal adversary who might be the devil himself in this dark thriller. Cover Image |
| C: Personal Author: Card, Orson Scott. Title: Shadow Puppets / Orson Scott Card. Publication info: New York, NY : Tor/Tom Doherty Associates Books, c2002. Physical description: 348 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: The sequel to Ender's Shadow (1999) continues the exploits of Bean, Ender's strategist and friend, juxtaposing them with the deadly challenges faced by 14-year-old Petra Arkanian, another member of Ender's team. Now that the war against the buggers is over, the Battle School's graduates have returned home, and someone is kidnapping them. Could the psychopathic Achilles be behind it? Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Carter, Stephen L. Title: The Emporer of Ocean Park / Stephen L. Carter. Publication info: New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c2002. Physical description: 657 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: When Judge Garland dies, his son Talcott tries to piece together his father's secret life and make sense of "the arrangements," his father's mysterious final requests. At least that's what Tal thinks he's doing. Suddenly, this law professor a failure at marriage and distracted father finds himself caught in an invisible net of vague clues about the judge's arrangements, delivered in hushed voices by a bewildering cast of extended family, so-called friends, Mafia "uncles," and thugs disguised as FBI agents. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Clancy, Tom, 1947- Title: Red Rabbit / Tom Clancy. Publication info: New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2002. Physical description: 618 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Clancy returns to Jack Ryan's first days in the CIA, when the fate of the free world hung in the balance as Ryan discovered a heinous plot to assassinate the Pope. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Clare, Lucy. Title: Hoping for Hope / Lucy Clare. Publication info: New York, NY : Dutton, c2002, 2001. Physical description: 294 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Almost 50, Liddy Claver is preparing for menopause, not motherhood, when she learns that she is seven months pregnant the result of a fling with a man half her age. Telling husband Martin is a problem, since they haven't slept together for five years, but she soon discovers that Martin is having an affair of his own. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Clark, Mary Higgins. Title: Daddy's Little Girl / Mary Higgins Clark. Publication info: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, c2002. Physical description: viii, 291 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: At the parole hearing for Donald Waring, Trish Duncan begins to wonder whether he was wrongly convicted of killing her sister 20 years ago. Cover Image |
| Personal author: Clark, Mary Higgins. Title: Mount Vernon love story : a novel of George and Martha Washington / Mary Higgins Clark. Publication info: New York, HarperCollins, c2003. Physical description: 339 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: The plot follows George Washington as he exits the White House after his presidency. Clark is more interested in Washington the husband than the nation's leader, and this focuses on his sometimes bumpy marriage to Martha. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Clark, Mary Higgins. Title: Second Time Around / Mary Higgins Clark. Parallel title:: 2nd Time around Publication info: New York : Simon & Schuster, c2003. Physical description: viii, 302 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: When her son vanishes, she supposes that her husband has arranged to spirit him away -- only to realize, long after the trail has grown cold, that he may in fact have nothing to do with the boy's disappearance.... Cover Image |
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Personal author: Coben, Harlan, 1962- Title: No Second Chance / Harlan Coben. Publication info: New York : Dutton, c2003/ Physical description: 338 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Marc Seidman awakens to find himself in an ICU, hooked up to an IV, his head swathed in bandages. Twelve days earlier, he had an enviable life as a successful surgeon, living in a peaceful suburban neighborhood with his beautiful wife and a baby he adored. Now he lies in a hospital bed, shot by an unseen assailant. His wife has been killed, and his six-month-old daughter, Tara, has vanished. But just when his world seems forever shattered, something arrives to give Marc new hope: a ransom note. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Connelly, Michael, 1956- Title: Chasing the Dime : a Novel / by Michael Connelly. Publication info: Boston : Little, Brown and Co., c2002. Physical description: 371 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: Henry Pierce is about to become very rich--as soon as his firm, Amedeo Technologies, gets an infusion of capital from a big backer. But the brilliant chemist's workaholic habits are disrupted when his lover, the former intelligence officer of his company, breaks up with him. Lonely and dispirited, he moves into a new apartment and gets a new phone number that attracts a lot of callers, but not for him. His new telephone number seems to have previously belonged to one Lilly Quinlan, an escort whose Internet photo arouses Henry's curiosity, especially when L.A. Darlings, whose Web page features the beautiful young woman, can't tell Henry how to find her. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Connelly, Michael, 1956- Title: City of Bones : a Novel / Michael Connelly. Publication info: Boston, MA : Little, Brown, c2002. Physical description: 393 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: The trouble with Harry: wrapped up in a fresh new love affair and a case involving the scattered bones of a long-dead child, he finds that he must make a momentous decision. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Connelly, Michael, 1956- Title: Lost Light : a Novel / by Michael Connelly. Publication info: Boston, MA : Little, Brown, c2003. Physical description: 360 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: Even though this marks the ninth outing for Harry, the principled, incorruptible investigator shows little sign of slowing in his unrelenting pursuit of justice for all. Disillusioned by his constant battle with police hypocrisy and bureaucracy, Harry quits the department after 28 years on the job. Like so many ex-cops before him, he finds retirement boring: "I was staying up late, staring at the walls and drinking too much red wine." He decides to take advantage of his newly minted private-eye license and get back to work. The case he chooses-one that he had been briefly involved in four years before-is the puzzling unsolved murder of 24-year-old Angella Benton. Angella's death is linked to the theft of $2 million from a film company foolishly employing real cash as a prop on an action-movie set. Harry patiently follows the bloody trail from Angella's violated body through the Hollywood heist to the disappearance of an FBI computer expert and the shooting of two LAPD cops. His investigation eventually leads him to the elite terrorist hunters of the new Department of Homeland Security Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Coonts, Stephen, 1946- Title: Liberty / Stephen Coonts. Publication info: New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, c2003. Physical description: 420 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: Coonts's latest gripping espionage thriller (after America, Hong Kong and Cuba) continues the adventures of Adm. Jack Grafton as he pursues major malefactors. This time, a rogue Russian general has sold nuclear warheads to a Mideastern anti-American terrorist best known for "hacking some tourists to death with a machete" in Egypt. Grafton must identify and locate the terrorist and his cronies before he detonates the weapons in the U.S. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Coulter, Catherine. Title: Eleventh hour : an FBI Thriller / Catherine Coulter. Publication info: New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2002. Physical description: 385 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Coulter brings back FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savitch for a real test: the priest whose murder they are investigating is a colleague's twin brother, and the clues lead them to a new hit TV series about murder. Cover Image |
| Personal author: Crais, Robert. Title: The Last Detective / Robert Crais. Publication info: New York, NY : Doubleday, c2003. Physical description: 302 p. ; 25cm. Abstract:Elvis is alive and well, not the singer but the detective, Elvis Cole, who has teamed up with Jack Pike in eight of Crais's ten works. Pike got a workout in L.A. Requiem, so now it is Elvis's turn: dark secrets emerge when his girlfriend's son disappears. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Crichton, Michael Title: Prey / Michael Crichton. Publication info: New York, NY : HarperCollins Pub., c2002. Physical description: xiii, 367 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Jack Forman has been a stay-at-home dad since losing his job at an up-and-coming Silicon Valley technology company. Fired for discovering the company's illegal activities, Jack is taking care of his three children while his successful wife, Julia, is working at a similar company, Xymos Technology. Xymos has developed sophisticated nanoparticles for medical use, and Julia has been working long hours on the project. Jack suspects she is having an affair, but it turns out to be much more sinister than that. Cover Image |
| D: Personal Author: Cussler, Clive. Title: Fire Ice : a Novel from the NUMA Files / Clive Cussler, with Paul Kemprecos. Publication info: New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2002. Physical description: 434 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: North Africa is in turmoil. The new Libyan president has had the new Egyptian president assassinated, and the latter's widow, Susan Salaam, vows revenge. She enlists the high-tech help of Air Force general Patrick McClanahan and his Night Stalkers. But the Libyans, and their scheming secret allies, hold a trump card-one with a deeply personal meaning for McClanahan-and it may be one that will leave even the Night Stalkers powerless... Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Deaver, Jeffrey. Title: The Vanished Man : a Lincoln Rhyme Novel / Jeffrey Deaver. Publication info: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, c2003. Physical description: 399 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs battle a particularly gruesome killer they dub "the conjurer." Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Delinsky, Barbara. Title: An Accidental Woman / Barbara Delinksy. Publication info: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, c2002. Physical description: 371 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Come back, Poppy Blake, demanded Delinsky's readers and she did. The wheelchairbound heroine of Lake News has a lot to handle a best friend has been accused of murder, and the charming journalist pursuing the story is also pursuing Poppy. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: DeMille, Nelson. Title: Up Country : a Novel / Nelson DeMille. Publication info: New York, NY : Warner Books, c2002. Physical description: 706 p : maps ; 24 cm. Abstract: Paul Brenner, a retired army detective (previously featured in DeMille's The General's Daughter), is asked to return to Vietnam to look into a 30-year-old murder of a U.S. soldier at the hands of another. Cover Image |
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Personal author: Denning, Troy. Title: Tatooine Ghost / Troy Denning. Publication info: New York, NY : Ballantine Books, c2003. Physical description: 403 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: The deaths of Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine, and victory at the Battle of Endor by no means spelled the end of the Empire. In the aftermath, the New Republic has faced a constant struggle to survive and grow. And now a new threat looms: a masterpiece of Alderaanian art—lost in transit after the planet’s destruction—has resurfaced on the black market. Offered at auction, it will command a handsome price . . . but its greatest value lies in the vital secret it conceals—the key to a code used to communicate with New Republic agents deep undercover within the Empire. Discovery of the key by Imperial forces would spell certain disaster. The only option is recovery—and Han, Leia, Chewbacca, and C-3PO have been dispatched to Tatooine to infiltrate the auction. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Deveraux, Jude. Title: The Mulberry Tree / Jude Deveraux. Publication info: New York, NY : Atria Books, c2002. Physical description: 377 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: For nearly twenty years, quiet, unassuming Lillian Manville has devoted herself to her self-made billionaire husband -- and enjoyed a luxurious life of splendid homes, trips, jewels, and clothes. But when James Manville dies in a plane crash, Lillian's grief is compounded by a shocking mystery: all that Jimmie has left to her is an old farmhouse in tiny Calburn, Virginia. Now, Lillian's unexpected circumstances are leading her to a made-over life in Calburn, an exciting business and a sweet new love with a handsome local man. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Deveraux, Jude. Title: Wild Orchids / Jude Deveraux. Publication info: New York : Atria Books, c2003. Physical description: 341 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Ford Newcombe grew up amongst his 11 uncles and their families, never really fitting in with his ne'er-do-well relatives. He met his wife, Pat, in college and she became his muse, helping him become a famous author. But after 21 years of marriage Pat dies, and Ford is at a loss, looking everywhere for the inspiration to begin writing again. He meets Jackie Maxwell, a young woman with a gift for storytelling, and she tells a doozy about a modern-day woman who is stoned because she was seen consorting with the devil. Ford wants to hire Jackie, but she is about to get married. Life has other plans, however, and Jackie ends up traveling with Ford to Cole Creek, North Carolina, the site of the stoning. Jackie recognizes the town, and she and Ford soon realize that she must have been there before, and perhaps witnessed the event. Cover Image |
| Personal author: Dickey, Eric Jerome. Title: The Other Woman / Eric Jerome Dickey. Publication info: New York : Dutton, c2003. Physical description: 274 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: He works days; she works nights. Instead of growing together, they're rapidly drifting apart, coexisting on stolen phone calls from work, punctuated by occasional bedroom encounters that leave them both feeling even emptier and more alone. When she finds out about his affair-and starts her own-the delicate fabric of their marriage is torn irrevocably asunder. Or is it? In Dickey's expert hands, what begins as a seemingly unforgivable betrayal segues into the sexy and searing story of a man and a woman at a pivotal turning point in their relationship. Only time will tell whether they'll let it all go...or can hold on to the love that drew them together in the first place. Cover Image |
| E: Personal Author: Ellis, Virginia Renfro. Title: The Wedding Dress / Virginia Renfro Ellis. Publication info: New York, NY : Ballantine Books, c2002. Physical description: 292 p. ; 22 cm. Abstract: Set in post-Civil War Virginia, Ellis's romance evokes the aftermath of war in a state that is dying by inches, economically ruined and devoid of an entire generation of young men. The three beautiful Atwater sisters two with dead or missing husbands, one whose chances for marriage have been blighted by the war cling to each other in the ruins of their family home, Oak Creek Plantation. Cover Image |
| Personal author: Evanovich, Janet. Title: Hard Eight / Janet Evanovich. Publication info: New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, c2002. Physical description: 311 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: Stephanie Plum looks for a missing child while trying to keep her love life from getting out of hand. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Evanovich, Janet. Title: Visions of Sugar Plums / Janet Evanovich. Publication info: New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, c2002. Physical description: 149 p. ; 22 cm. Abstract:With only four days to go before December 25, she doesn't have a decorated tree in her apartment or any presents bought. Plus she's chasing an elusive bail-jumper named Sandy Claws; a hunky guy named Diesel is literally popping in and out of her apartment; and a mob of manic elves is threatening to assault her with cookies. The end result is that Stephanie is feeling a tad stressed over the holiday season. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Evans, Richard Paul Title: The Last Promise / Richard Paul Evans. Publication info: New York, NY : Dutton, c2002. Physical description: viii, 290 p. ; 22 cm. Abstract: Evans is billed by his publisher as a brand name, and you know the brand. An American wife in Italy, ignored by her Italian husband and caring for a sick child, risks bittersweet romance with the new man in town. Cover Image |
| F: Personal author: Faber, Michel. Title: The Crimson Petal and the White / Michel Faber. Publication info: New York, NY : Harcourt, c2002. Physical description: 838 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Meet Sugar, a nineteen-year-old prostitute in nineteenth-century London who yearns for escape to a better life. From the brothel of the terrifying Mrs. Castaway, she begins her ascent through society, meeting a host of lovable, maddening, unforgettable characters on the way. Cover Image |
| Personal author: Fairstein, Linda A. Title: The Bone Vault : a Novel / Linda Fairstein. Publication info: New York, NY : Scribner, c 2003. Physical description: 386 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: A glittering reception featuring a controversial joint project between the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Natural History is clouded by the discovery of the body of a young woman in an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus. The woman, a South African who worked as a researcher at the Cloisters, was apparently murdered months before and secluded in the sarcophagus until the killer could have her body shipped out of the country. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Flagg, Fannie. Title: Standing in the Rainbow: a Novel / Fannie Flagg. Publication info: New York, NY : Random House, c2002. Physical description: 493 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: Flagg brings her readers back to 1940s Elmwood, MO, when a family of white gospel singers bursts into town. Cover Image |
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Personal author: Flynn, Vince. Title: Executive Power / Vince Flynn. Publication info: New York : Atria Books, c2003. Physical description: 372 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Mitch Rapp's cover has been blown. After leading a team of commandos deep into Iraq to prevent Saddam Hussein from joining the nuclear arms race, he was publicly hailed by the president as the single most important person in the fight against terrorism. But after years of working covertly behind the scenes, Rapp now lives in the glare of the public spotlight, lauded by the nation and an easy target for virtually every terrorist from Jakarta to London-. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Follett, Ken. Title: Hornet Flight / Ken Follett. Publication info: New York, NY : Dutton, c2002. Physical description: 420 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: The time is 1941, and British bombers attacking Germany are being blown out of the sky in horrific numbers. How do the Nazis know they're coming? The answer is an infant technology called radar, and the Brits--with help from the Danish Resistance--must figure out how and where the German radar stations operate. Cover Image |
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Personal author: Follett, Ken. Title: Jackdaws / Ken Follett. Publication info: New York, NY : Dutton, c2001. Physical description: 451 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: It is days before the Allied invasion of Normandy, and the all-woman operation "Jackdaws" is set to infiltrate Europe's largest telephone exchange and sabotage German communications. Cover Image |
| G: Personal Author: Garwood, Julie. Title: Killjoy / Julie Garwood. Publication info: New York, NY : Ballantine Books, c2002. Physical description: 400 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: FBI profiler Avery Delaney has a case that really hits home: she must track down Aunt Carolyn, the woman who raised her, who has disappeared on her way to the spa. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Gerritsen, Tess. Title: The Apprentice : a Novel / Tess Gerritsen. Publication info: New York, NY : Ballantine Books, c2002. Physical description: 344 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: Boston detective Jane Rizzoli hasn't completely recovered from the near-death experience at the hands of a serial killer (The Surgeon) that left her scarred and scared, but that doesn't keep her from going after a copycat murderer whose modus operandi is disturbingly familiar. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Gibson, William, 1948- Title: Pattern Recognition / William Gibson. Publication info: New York, NY : Putnam, c2003. Physical description: 356 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Cayce Pollard is an expensive, spookily intuitive market-research consultant. In London on a job, she is offered a secret assignment: to investigate some intriguing snippets of video that have been appearing on the Internet. An entire subculture of people is obsessed with these bits of footage, and anybody who can create that kind of brand loyalty would be a gold mine for Cayce's client. But when her borrowed apartment is burgled and her computer hacked, she realizes there's more to this project than she had expected. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Grafton, Sue. Title: Q is for Quarry / Sue Grafton. Publication info: New York, NY : Putnam's, c2002. Physical description: 385 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Two policemen out hunting discover a teenage girl's body near a quarry off California's Highway 1. Eighteen years later, the two recruit Millhone to help them try to identify the victim. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Griffin, W.E.B. Title: Final Justice / W.E.B. Griffin. Publication info: New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2003. Physical description: 466 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: As with the earlier "Honor" novels, his eighth title is set in Philadelphia, and the brash, bright, and wealthy detective Matt Payne emerges as the series' central character. There are multiple criminals to catch, including a cop killer, a serial rapist, and a murderer hiding in France. In addition, Payne has a movie star to protect and a confused love life to untangle. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Griffin, W.E.B. Title: Under Fire / W.E.B. Griffin, Publication info: New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2002. Physical description: 576 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Capt. Ken McCoy is thrown out of the Marine Corps when he suggests that North Korea might attack and then hired by the newly minted CIA when it does. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Grimes, Martha. Title: The Grave Maurice : a Richard Jury Mystery / Martha Grimes. Publication info: New York, NY : Viking, c2002. Physical description: 424 p. ; c2002. Abstract: Richard Jury is back, and he's in the hospital but not for long. Dependable sidekick Melrose Plant has overheard the tale of a missing girl, and when it turns out that she is the daughter of Jury's surgeon and that the gossipy woman who related the story is now dead the daring duo take the case. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Grisham, John. Title: The King of Torts / John Grisham. Publication info: New York, NY : Doubleday, c2003. Physical description: 376 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: Public Defender Clay Carter arrives in court just in time to receive another hopeless murder case. His bad luck and dead-end career disappear as he stumbles upon evidence that thrusts him into the opulent world of class-action lawsuits. Clay's initial success earns him the title "King of Torts." Cover Image |
| H: Personal Author: Hamill, Pete, 1935- Title: Forever : a Novel / Pete Hamill. Publication info: Boston, MA : Little, Brown and Co., c2003. Physical description: 613 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Cormac O'Connor arrived in New York in 1741-and he's still there, having been granted immortality as long as he remains on the island of Manhattan. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Hamilton, Laurell K. Title: A Caress of Twilight / Laurell K. Hamilton. Publication info: New York, NY : Ballantine Books, c2002. Physical description: 326 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Faerie princess and private detective Meredith Gentry juggles love, sex, intrigue, magic, and more in this witty and sensual novel from Laurell K. Hamilton. Merry has her hands full: she's desperate to conceive a child and thereby claim the Unseelie throne; she's the target of intrigue from both the Seelie and Unseelie Courts; her newest client is an exiled goddess with a secret that could get them all killed; and a hideous fey force that alarms even her formidable lover-warriors is loose in Los Angeles. Cover Image |
| Personal author: Hamilton, Laurell K. Title: Cerulean Sins / Laurell K. Hamilton. Publication info: New York, NY : Berkley Books, c2003. Physical description: 405 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Now, Anita learns what it's like to be at the new end of a centuries-old bloodline-and just how far she'll let herself get pushed around by one of the oldest vampires alive...or should we say dead? Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Harris, E. Lynn. Title: A Love of My Own : a Novel / E. Lynn Harris. Publication info: New York, NY : Doubleday, c2002. Physical description: x, 386 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: After Zola Denise Norwood meets media mogul Davis Vincent McClinton on a New York-bound flight, he makes her a couple of offers before they even land. One is editing his hot new urban style magazine Bling Bling. The other is more personal. Cover Image |
| Personal author: Herbert, Brian. Title: Dune. The Butlerian Jihad / Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. Publication info: New York, NY : Tom Doherty Associates Book, c2002. Physical description: 621 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: Ten thousand years before the fall of the Imperial House Corrino, two grand interplanetary organizations ruled the known universe: the Synchronized Worlds, presided over by thinking machines led by the evermind called Omnius, and the League of Nobles, beleaguered survivors of the machines' revolt against the Old Empire. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Hiaasen, Carl. Title: Basket Case / Carl Hiaasen. Publication info: New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, c2002. Physical description: 317 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: Jack Tagger is a former investigative reporter demoted to obituaries. When Jimmy Stoma, the lead singer of a once major but now forgotten rock band, dies in a suspicious diving accident, Jack pounces on the opportunity to prove his investigative mettle to his editor and secure his position in an increasingly unpleasant workplace. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Higgins, Jack, 1929- Title: Midnight Runner / Jack Higgins. l. Publication info: New York, NY : Putnam's, c2002. Physical description: xii, 753 p. : maps ; 25 cm. Abstract: After her brothers are killed one by one, Kate Rashid swears vengeance on all who have harmed her family. Never mind that they tried to assassinate the President of the United States or that villainy ran in their veins. They were her brothers, and her enemies would pay. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Hijuelos, Oscar. Title: A Simple Habana Melody : from when the World was Good: a Novel / Oscar Hijuelos. Publication info: New York, NY : Harper-Collins, c2002. Physical description: 384 p. ; 22 cm. Abstract: It is 1947, and Israel Levis, a Cuban composer whose life had once been a dream of music, love, and sadness, returns to Cuba after being mistakenly imprisoned during the Nazi occupation of France. When Levis arrives back in Habana, his mind returns to an unrequited romance with the alluring Rita Valladares, a singer for whom Levis had written his most famous song, "Rosas Puras." This 1928 composition became the most famous rumba in the world and changed American and European tastes in music and dance forever. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Hillerman, Tony Title: The Sinister Pig / Tony Hillerman. Publication info: New York : HarperCollins, c2003. Physical description: 228 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: The photos are nothing much. Just a Mexican truck, a windmill construction site, exotic animals on a game ranch, and eventually Bernie Manuelito in her new Border Patrol uniform with a little silver replica on her blouse of Big Thunder, the Navajo spirit who protects his people from terrible danger. But seen by Sergeant Chee, her ex-boss in the Navajo Tribal Police, they connect a woman he longs for with a motiveless murder with hazy federal connections. This leads a frightened Washington power broker to fly west and causes Joe Leaphorn to get out his bundle of maps. And the hunt begins for a pig that is sinister indeed. Cover Image |
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Personal author: Hinton, J. Lynne. Title: Garden of Faith : a Novel / Lynne Hinton. Publication info: San Francisco, CA : HarperSan Francisco, c2002 Physical description: 212 p. ; 22 cm. Abstract: Things aren't going too well for Charlotte, the pastor of the Hope Springs Community Church. After she struggles to revive a suicidal woman's faith after her daughter dies in a car wreck, she ends up seeking counseling for help with her own spiritual doubts. Margaret learns she has a lump in her breast, and is reluctant to tell her best friend, Jessie, since Jessie's husband has returned and wants her to move to California with him. Cover Image |
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Personal author: Hoag, Tami. Title: Dark Horse / Tami Hoag. Publication info: New York, NY : Bantam Books, c2002. Physical description: x, 435 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: Elena Estes leaves the Palm Beach County sheriff's office in disgrace after causing the death of a fellow copand gallops straight into trouble at an international riding competition in Florida's horse country. Cover Image |
| Personal author: Howard, Linda, 1950- Title: Dying to Please / Linda Howard. Publication info: New York, NY : Ballantine Books, c2002. Physical description: 312 p ; 25 cm. Abstract: When Sarah Stevens, butler and bodyguard extraordinaire, foils a robbery, she could not have predicted either the tragic chain of events that would be set in motion or detective Thomas Cahill, who responded to the first crime scene. Sarah intrigued, attracted, and aroused him, but his first marriage had dissolved in livid disgust, making him all too wary. Sarah is equally frightened of her feelings for him; she had never before felt so deeply. It might have been bliss had Sarah's employers not developed a habit of dying by murder. Cover Image |
| J: Personal Author: Jance, Judith A. Title: Partner in Crime / J.A. Jance. Publication info: New York, NY : William Morrow, c2002. Physical description: 370 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Jance is famed for two series, one featuring big-city detective J.P. Beaumont and the other small-town Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady. Here, in a case involving the murder of an out-of-state attorney on Brady's turf, the two meet explosively. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Jiles, Paulette, 1943- Title: Enemy Women / Paulette Jiles. Publication info: New York, NY : William Morrow, c2002. Physical description: viii. 321 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract:Set in the Missouri Ozarks during the Civil War, Jiles's story focuses on the trying times of 18-year-old heroine Adair Colley. When a group of renegade Union militiamen attacks the Colley home, stealing family possessions, burning everything down, and taking away her father--an apolitical judge--Adair gathers the remnants of her clothes and mounts a rescue effort. Unfortunately, she is falsely accused of being a Confederate spy, a charge that lands her in a squalid women's prison run by a decent commandant embarrassed by his post. After he helps her escape, the two agree to seek out one another after the war. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Johansen, Iris. Title: Body of Lies / Iris Johansen. Publication info: New York, NY : Bantam Books, c2002. Physical description: 340 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: A forensic sculptor who carefully reconstructs images of the dead, Eve Duncan suspects that the government is lying about her latest case. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Johansen, Iris. Title: Dead Aim / Iris Johansen. Publication info: New York, NY : Bantam Books, c2003. Physical description: 342 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Daring photojournalist Alex Graham concludes that a natural disaster she's been shooting is really a mass murder. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Johansen, Iris. Title: No One to Trust / Iris Johansen. Publication info: New York, NY : Bantam Books, c2002. Physical description: 296 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Elena Kyler was born in Colombia and raised by her rebel fighter father, formerly an American mercenary. After her father dies and her rebel comrades sell out to druglord Rico Chavez, Elena, now in her mid-20s, concocts a desperate plan to save herself and her five-year-old son Barry from Chavez, who also happens to be Barry's father. Cover Image |
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Personal author: Jordan, Robert, 1948- Title: Crossroads of Twilight / Robert Jordan. Publication info: New York, NY : Tor Fantasy/Tom Doherty Assoc. Book, c2003. Physical description: 338 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Fleeing from Ebou Dar with the kidnapped Daughter of the Nine Moons, whom he is fated to marry, Mat Cauthon learns that he can neither keep her nor let her go, not in safety for either of them, for both the Shadow and the might of the Seanchan Empire are in deadly pursuit -. Cover Image |
| K: Personal author: Karon, Jan, 1937- Title: Esther's Gift : a Mitford Christmas Story / Jan Karon Publication info: New York, NY : Viking, c2002. Physical description: 37 p. : col. ill. ; 16cm. Abstract: Esther isn't so sure that she should spend so much time and money making her famous two-layer marmalade cake for holiday gifts but then she remembers the meaning of Christmas. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Karon, Jan, 1937- Title: In This Mountain / Jan Karon. Publication info: New York, NY : Viking, c2002. Physical description: xiv, 382 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. Abstract: Father Tim Cavanaugh is bored. At first, retirement seemed like a good thing; now he longs for a mission, a parish, a goal. After a diabetic blackout at the wheel of his red Mustang, he finds he has seriously injured a fellow clergyman and killed the man's dog. Guilt, confusion, pain, and envy send him into a depression. However, God is keeping Father Tim in Mitford, NC, for a number of reasons to find Dooley Barlow's brother Sammy, to bury Dooley's grandfather, to encourage and support the "man in the attic" when he is released from prison, to help Uncle Billy find some new jokes, and to act as cheerleader for his wife, Cynthia, as she is showered with awards from the publishing world. Once Father Tim realizes that he is needed in Mitford, he regains his love of life, his sense of humor, and his happy existence. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Kellerman, Faye. Title: Stone Kiss / Faye Kellerman. Publication info: New York, NY : Warner Books, c2002. Physical description: 390 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Rina Lazarus and LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker are back, and have they got a problem: the brother-in-law of Decker's half-brother, Rabbi Jonathan Levin, has been found dead in a real dump of a hotel, and the man's young niece is missing. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Kellerman, Jonathan Title: A Cold Heart / Jonathan Kellerman Publication info: New York : Ballantine Books, c2003 Physical description: 388 p. ; 24cm. Abstract: "I’ve got a weird one, so naturally I thought of you," says Milo Sturgis, summoning his friend Alex to the trendy gallery where a promising young artist has been brutally garroted on the night of her first major showing. What makes it "a weird one" is the lack of any obvious motive, and the luridly careful staging of the murder scene, which immediately suggests to Alex not an impulsive crime of passion . . . but the meticulous and taunting modus operandi of a serial killer. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Kellerman, Jonathan. Title: The Murder Book / Jonathan Kellerman. Publication info: New York, NY : Ballantine Books, c2002. Physical description: 408 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: When L.A. psychologist Alex Delaware receives an elaborate album filled with gruesome crime-scene police photos of a series of apparently unconnected killings, he's stymied. He's also in the midst of a personal crisis--Robin, his long-suffering partner, has made it clear that it's up to Alex to heal the breach in their relationship that's been caused by his over-involvement in criminal investigations. The pictures mean nothing to him, but one image gets his policeman pal Milo Sturgis's immediate attention--the victim was one of his rookie cases, and her murder was never solved, perhaps because someone much higher up in the department didn't want it to be. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: King, Stephen, 1947- Title: From a Buick 8 : a Novel / Stephen King. Publication info: New York , NY : Scribner, c2002. Physical description: 356 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: King's villain is one rotten car, a Buick Roadmaster penned up behind the state police barracks that seems to have been responsible for the disappearance of several people. King himself had a near-fatal run-in with an auto shortly after finishing the first draft, an eerie coincidence he addresses in an afterword. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Koontz, Dean R. Title: By the Light of the Moon / Dean Koontz. Publication info: New York, NY : Bantam Books, c2002. Physical description: 431 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: Someone menacing is after itinerant artist Dylan, his autistic brother, and their new traveling companion, Jilly, a stand-up comic who has visions. And they only have the novel's 24-hour time span to figure out who it is. Cover Image |
| Personal author: Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945- Title: The Face / Dean Koontz. Publication info: New York, : Bantam Books, c2003. Physical description: 608 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: Ten-year-old Aelfric Manheim is home alone when he receives a call from a stranger with a simple and terrifying message, "There is trouble coming, young Fric...You're going to need a place to hide." Meanwhile, security chief for the Manheim estate, former detective Ethan Truman, is tailing a "deader than dead" body that got up and left the morgue when he vividly experiences his own death--twice. Cover Image |
| Personal author: Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945- Title: One Door Away from Heaven / Dean Koontz Publication info: New York, NY : Bantam Books, c2001. Physical description: 606 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: Micky, just emerging from a nasty period in her life, is living with her kooky Aunt Geneva when she meets bright, witty Leilani--Lani for short--who despises the pity people feel for her when they see her mutant hand and braced leg. She would rather they remembered her wit. Micky finds meaning in her own life when she discovers the horrible truth of Lani's, and, finally given something other than anger to focus on, rides to the rescue. Cover Image |
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Personal author: Krentz, Jayne Ann. Title: Light in Shadow / Jayne Ann Krentz. Publication info: New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2003. Physical description: 369 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Hiding behind an expensive, black-market-created identity, Zoe Luce has built a successful interior design business in Whispering Springs, Arizona, and hopes that she has just as successfully buried her past. She can't ignore her unique psychic abilities, however, and when she walks into a new client's bedroom and hears the walls scream and moan, she knows something terrible has happened in the house. Did her client murder his wife? She's determined to find out.. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Krentz, Jayne Ann. Title: Smoke in Mirrors / Jayne Ann Krentz. Publication info: New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2002. Physical description: 320 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Leonora intends to turn over the cash that she discovers murdered friend Meredith embezzled. But she feels compelled to investigate when she finds that the lock box where the loot is stashed also contains a newspaper account of an unsolved murder and a book about the Mirror House, where the murder occurred. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Kwa, Lydia, 1959- Title: This Place Called Absence / Lydia Kwa. Publication info: New York, NY : Kensington Books, c2002, 2000. Physical description: 218 p. ; 22 cm. Abstract: A vast emptiness at the core of Wu Lan's life deepens in the wake of her father's startling suicide. Understandably depressed and despondent, Wu Lan is inexplicably drawn to the arcane journals of two prostitutes living in her native Singapore at the turn of the century, seeking answers and finding solace in their impassioned chronicles of barbaric brothel life and illicit lesbian love. Superficially, these three lives appear dissimilar, yet the longing each woman feels for a love that will complete her and fill the void that envelops her existence transcends time and place. Cover Image |
| L: Personal Author: LaHaye, Tim F. Title: Armageddon : The Cosmic Battle of the Ages / Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins. Publication info: Wheaton, IL : Tyndale House Pub., c2003. Physical description: 395 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: The scattered Tribulation Force is drawn inexorably toward the Middle East, as are all the armies of the world, when history hones in on the battle of the ages. During the last year of the Great Tribulation, safe houses are no longer safe, friends and loved ones must commemorate two lives in one memorial service, and the cast of characters dramatically changes. By the time of the war of the great day of God the Almighty, homes have been uprooted, new alliances forged, and the globe has become a powder keg of danger. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: LaHaye, Tim F. Title: The Remnant: On the Brink of Armageddon / Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins. Publication info: Wheaton, IL : Tyndale House Publishers, c2002. Physical description: xv, 403 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: The Great Tribulation unfolds as the forces of evil and the armies of God prepare for mankind's ultimate battle. Millions of Christians are protected by God as the anger of the Antichrist, Nicolae Carpathia, burns against them. Cover Image |
| Personal author: Lansens, Lori. Title: Rush Home Road: a Novel / Lori Lansens. Publication info: Boston, MA : Little, Brown, and Co., c2002. Physical description: 387 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: A lonely 70-year-old woman takes in an abandoned girl in this heart-wrenching tale of love and loss set in the black communities of southwestern Ontario. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Laurens, Stephanie. Title: The Perfect Lover / Laruens, Stephanie. Publication info: New York, NY : William Morrow, c2003. Physical description: viii, 359 p. : geneal. table ; 24 cm. Abstract: carefree Simon Cynster and his nemesis, Portia Ashford, suddenly realize that they are made for each other, but this happy discovery is wrecked by a murderous stalker. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Lescroart, John T. Title: The First Law / John Lescroart. Publication info: New York, NY : Dutton, c2003. Physical description: viii, 403 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Detective Abe Glitzky, and lawyer, Dismas Hardy team up once again to fight crime on the streets of San Francisco. This time they may circumvent the law to clear a murder charge on bar owner and friend, John Holiday. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Lescroart, John T. Title: The Oath / John Lescroart. Publication info: New York, NY : Dutton, c2002. Physical description: viii, 408 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: A really topical mystery: Lescroart stalwart Dismas Hardy defends a physician accused of doing in the head of an HMO. Cover Image |
| Personal author: Lindsey, Johanna. Title: The Pursuit / Johanna Lindsey. Publication info: New York, NY : William Morrow, c2002. Physical description: 306 p. ; 25cm. Abstract: The one-day laydown means great expectations for this romance about a Scottish lass who must play off her beleaguered fianc against 16 uncles. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Lowell, Elizabeth, 1944- Title: Running Scared / Elizabeth Lowell. Publication info: New York, NY : HarperCollins, c2002. Physical description: 389 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: In the scorching heat of the Southwestern desert, a frightened old man knows his time is quickly running out -- as the bad karma od his own good fortune is finally closing in on hi, after fifty years. Risa Sheridan knows everything there is to know about gold; and her boss, Shane Tannahill, is addicted to the stuff, having already made the precious metal the theme of his ultrasuccessful Las Vegas casino. Now an ancient Celtic piece is being offered to Shane, with the promise of more to come, and the casino owner is hooked. Risa, however, is wary-because something about this particular artifact says "stay away." Cover Image |
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Personal author: Ludlum, Robert, 1927- Title: The Janson Directive / Robert Ludlum. Publication info: New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, c2002. Physical description: 547 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: It's bad enough when a man who once saved Peter Janson's life is about to be executed by terrorists. But things get worse when Janson's rescue efforts go off course. Cover Image |
| M: Personal Author: Margolin, Phillip. Title: Ties that Bind / Phillip Margolin. Publication info: New York, NY HarperCollins Pub., c2003. Physical description: 342 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Defended by Wild Justice's Amanda Jaffe, the man who killed a senator who would be president has dirty secrets to share about several public officials. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Martel, Yann. Title: Life of Pi: a Novel / Yann Martel. Publication info: New York, NY Harcourt, c2001. Physical description: xii, 319 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Named for a swimming pool in Paris the Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel begins this extraordinary tale as a teenager in India, where his father is a zoo keeper. Deciding to immigrate to Canada, his father sells off most of the zoo animals, electing to bring a few along with the family on their voyage to their new home. Cover Image |
| Personal author: Martini, Steve, 1946- Title: The Arraignment / Steve Martini. Publication info: New York, NY : Putnam's, c2003. Physical description: 402 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: When Paul Madriani's old friend, flamboyant criminal-defense lawyer Nick Rush, is gunned down on the streets of San Diego along with a client, Madriani sets out to find the killer. Cover Image |
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Personal author: McEwan, Ian. Title: Atonement : a Novel / Ian McEwan. Publication info: New York, NY : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, c2002. Physical description: 351 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: We meet 13-year-old Briony Tallis in the summer of 1935, as she attempts to stage a production of her new drama "The Trials of Arabella" to welcome home her older, idolized brother Leon. But she soon discovers that her cousins, the glamorous Lola and the twin boys Jackson and Pierrot, aren't up to the task, and directorial ambitions are abandoned as more interesting prospects of preoccupation come onto the scene. The charlady's son, Robbie Turner, appears to be forcing Briony's sister Cecilia to strip in the fountain and sends her obscene letters; Leon has brought home a dim chocolate magnate keen for a war to promote his new "Army Ammo" chocolate bar; and upstairs, Briony's migraine-stricken mother Emily keeps tabs on the house from her bed. Soon, secrets emerge that change the lives of everyone present.... Cover Image |
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Personal author: McLaughlin, Emma. Title: The Nanny Diaries : a Novel / Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus. Publication info: New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, c2002. Physical description: 306 p. ; 22 cm. Abstract: This is an inside story. The authors have both worked as nannies for well-to-do New Yorkers, and here they fictionalize their experiences to protect the innocent and the guilty! Cover Image |
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Personal Author: McNaught, Judith. Title: Someone to Watch Over Me / Judith McNaught. Publication info: New York, NY : Atria Books, c2003. Physical description: 494 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: When the rich, successful husband of a beautiful New York actress mysteriously disappears, she plunges into a desperate search to find him...and into a menacing web of secrets, deception, and danger. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Michaels, Fern. Title: Late Bloomer / Fern Michaels. Publication info: New York, NY : Atria Books, c2002. Physical description: 313 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Cady Jordan, a dowdy 30-year-old loner who moves back to her hometown of Indigo, Pa., to take care of her ailing grandmother. Lola Jor Dan is no cuddly, cookie-baking granny; she's a flamboyant retired movie star, widowed six times and living on a lavish estate. She revamps Cady's wardrobe ("You're going to buy off the rack?") and encourages her to start living her life. Cover Image |
| N: Personal author: North, Oliver. Title: Mission Compromised: a Novel / Oliver North with Joe Musser. Publication info: Nashville, TN : Broadman & Holman, c2002. Physical description: xviii, 695 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: U.S. Marine Major Peter Newman, a highly decorated war hero, was content doing his job--leading troops into harm's way. He was good at it. But the White House had other plans for him. When Newman is hand picked for a dangerous clandestine operation as the head of the White House's Special Projects Office, his orders are clear--hunt down and eliminate terrorists before they attack the United States with weapons of mass destruction. Cover Image |
| O: P: Personal Author: Packer, Ann, 1959 - Title: The Dive from Clausen's Pier / Ann Packer. Publication info: New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, c2002. Physical description: 369 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: A young woman, uncertain about her future. An unforeseen accident causes heightened ambivalence and further wrestling with choices. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Palahniuk, Chuck Title: Lullaby : a Novel / Chuck Palahniuk. Publication info: New York, NY : Doubleday, 2002. Physical description: 260 p. ; 22 cm. Abstract: Life is hell for people in Palahniuk's fictional world (Fight Club; Choke). Palahniuk's latest cast of miserable characters includes hack reporter Carl Streator and Helen Hoover Boyle, a real estate agent whose specialty is the sale of distressed homes those haunted by the crimes previously committed in them. Both have lost children to sudden infant death syndrome, precipitated not by a medical condition but by reading their babies an ancient magic culling song included in a library book of poems from around the world. Once the poem is in one's mind, it's easy to kill anyone one pleases, and the body count is formidable as Carl and Helen take off on a trip to locate and destroy copies of the poem. They are joined in this macabre quest by two witches-in-training, Helen's assistant, Mona, and her boyfriend, Oyster. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Palmer, Michael, 1942- Title: Fatal / Michael Palmer. Publication info: New York, NY : Bantam Books, c2002. Physical description: 387 p ; c2002. Abstract: A young doctor, back home in West Virginia to track some suspicious family deaths, runs into a conspiracy at the local mine. More from the former physician who brought us The Patient. Cover Image |
| Personal author: Parker, Robert B., 1932- Title: Back Story / Robert B. Parker. Publication info: New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2003. Physical description: 291 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Spenser's back to help a friend of his, Paul, track down the men who killed her mother years ago in a holdup. Cover Image |
| Personal author: Parker, Robert B. 1923- Title: Shrink Rap / Robert B. Parker. Publication info: New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2002. Physical description: 339 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Melanie Joan Hall is a bestselling author in a bind. Her publisher needs her to tour on behalf of her newest blockbuster, and Melanie Joan needs a bodyguard-cum-escort to protect her from an overbearing ex-husband whose presence unnerves her to the point of hysteria. Sunny's cool demeanor, cop background, and P.I. smarts are an instant balm for the older woman. She begins to sense that Melanie Joan's ex-a psychotherapist-is not your basic stalker, and when an incident at a book signing leaves the ex bloodied and the author unconscious, it's clear the stakes are high. Deciding that the only way to crack the case is from the inside, Sunny enters therapy herself, only to discover some disturbing truths about herself . . . while putting her life on the line. Cover Image |
| Personal author: Parker, Robert B. Title: Widow's Walk / Robert B. Parker. Publication info: New York, NY : Putnam's, c2002. Physical description: 294 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Parker has his hands full defending a brassy young blonde with a shady past who really does seem to have shot her 51-year-old hubby in the head. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Patterson, James, 1947- Title: 2nd Chance: a Novel / by James Patterson, with Andrew Gross. Publication info: Boston, MA : Little, Brown, c2002. Physical description: 390 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract:2nd Chance reconvenes the Women's Murder Club, four friends (a detective, a reporter, an assistant district attorney, and a medical examiner) who used their networking skills, feminine intuition, and professional wiles to solve a baffling series of murders. Cover Image |
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Personal author: Patterson, James, 1947- Title: The Beach House : a Novel / James Patterson and Peter de Jonge. Publication info: Boston, MA : Little, Brown, c2002. Physical description: 358 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: Law student Jack Mullen doesn't believe that his brother's drowning death was an accident. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Patterson, James. Title: Four Blind Mice: a Novel / by James Patterson. Publication info: Boston, MA : Little, Brown and Co., c2002. Physical description: 387 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: In the latest Alex Cross thriller, his partner, John Sampson, takes center stage. A friend of John's, U.S. Army Sergeant Cooper, has been convicted of murdering three women. The military higher-ups are convinced that it's an open-and-shut case, but John knows that his friend is innocent. Their investigation is hampered at every turn, as if the army doesn't care to have the truth revealed, even when Cross and Sampson uncover other military men who were possibly framed for murder. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Patterson, James, 1947- Title: The Jester : a novel / by James Patterson and Andrew Gross. Publication info: Boston : Little, Borwn, c2003. Physical description: 457 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: Another departure for Patterson after Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas: home from the Crusades, Hugh must play the jester to find his wife, abducted by knights. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Pearl, Matthew. Title: The Dante Club : a novel / Matthew Pearl. Publication info: New York, NY : Random House, c2003. Physical description: ix, 372 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: The title refers to an actual group of 19th-century Bostonians who gathered to translate Dante's Inferno for an American audience. Among the members of this exclusive "club" were poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, physician Oliver Wendell Holmes, and poet James Russell Lowell. While poring over the poem, the men find themselves on the trail of a serial killer who tortures his victims in ways that seem to be taken straight out of the pages of Inferno. The police are at a loss and must rely on the club members' unique knowledge of Dante's work to help catch the killer. Cover Image |
| Personal author: Pearson, Allison, 1960- Title: I Don't Know How She Does It: a Comedy about Failure, a Tragedy about Success / Allison Pearson. Publication info: New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, c2002. Physical description: 338 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Londoner Kate has it all-an incredible job in the financial sector, a loving and supportive husband, two beautiful children, and a wonderful nanny. But having it all doesn't mean that she has time to enjoy it all, and, in fact, she doesn't. Plagued by guilt, she keeps a "must remember" list longer than her arm, shows up for important meetings with baby spit-up on her Armani jacket, and defaces supermarket bakery items so that they will look homemade at her daughter's bake sale. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Perry, Anne. Title: Southampton Row / Anne Perry. Publication info: New York, NY : Ballantine Books, c2002. Physical description: 326 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: Thomas Pitt prefers the grim routine of murder investigations to the riskier probing of Victorian governmental intrigues. Yet Anne Perry's Southampton Row again finds him displaced from his police command, this time to foil the political ambitions of a ruthless republican. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Peters, Elizabeth. Title: The Golden One / Elizabeth Peters. Publication info: New York, NY : Morrow, c2002. Physical description: 429 p. : maps ; 24 cm. Abstract: It's 1917, the Great War is ravaging throughout Europe and Asia, and Peabody and her husband, Egyptologist Radcliffe Emerson, are chasing tomb robbers in Luxor. Meanwhile, their son, British spy Ramses Emerson, travels to Gaza on a dangerous mission of his own. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Pineiro, R.J. Title: Firewall / R.J. Pineiro. Publication info: New York, NY : Forge Books, c2002. Physical description: 493 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: North Korea hires a former East Geman agent to steal access codes to a U.S. military spy satellite with the capability to cause mass destruction. The code (aka the Ultimate Encryption) is guarded by an artificial intelligence clone of computer entrepreneur Mortimer Fox; Fox's daughter, Monica, has half the password and Fox's bodyguard, former CIA and NSA agent Bruce Tucker, has the other half. Cover Image |
| Personal author: Pratt, James Michael. Title: Paradise Bay / Michael Pratt. Publication info: New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, c2002. Physical description: viii, 336 p. ; 22 cm. Abstract: Jack Santos never had a father-or so he believed. All his life, he was told his father was killed in the Vietnam War. Jack was raised by his mother alone, and all his life he was searching for something he couldn't name. A twist of fate changes everything he thought he knew, however. He discovers his father isn't dead after all and that for the past decades he has been suspended between life and death; between dreaming and waking. Cover Image |
| Personal author: Quick, Amanda. Title: Late for the Wedding / Amanda Quick. Publication info: New York, NY : Bantam Books, c2003. Physical description: 332 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: The killer, an insider with easy access to the opulent homes of Regency England's elite, has left his calling card, a memento-mori ring--a jeweled, coffin-topped band with a white skull inside. He's clever, but not nearly clever enough to fool the fearless team of Lavinia Lake and Tobias March. Cover Image |
| Q: Personal Author: Quindlen, Anna. Title: Blessings : a Novel / Anna Quindlen. Publication info: New York, NY : Random House, c2002. Physical description: 226 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: The wealthy and reclusive 80-year-old Lydia Blessing lives in the eponymous "Blessings," the country estate to which she was banished by her family after the death of her husband in World War II. Two events conspire to change the remaining years of Lydia's life: she hires twentysomething Skip Cuddy as a handyman, and a baby is abandoned on her doorstep. Skip, whose friendship with some local lowlifes led to a stint in jail, tries to hide the existence of the baby from his prickly and critical employer, to no avail. Both Skip and Lydia fall in love with the baby, whom they name Faith, and in spite of their misgivings come together as a makeshift family. Cover Image |
| Personal author: Reardon, Joyce Title: The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer : My Life at Rose Red / Joyce Reardon. Publication info: New York, NY : Hyperion, c2001. Physical description: 252 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm. Abstract: Built on a Native American burial ground in early 20th-century Seattle, the mansion which is constantly under construction sets the scene for a multitude of inexplicable disappearances and ghastly deaths. While moody oil tycoon John Rimbauer refuses to acknowledge that the house has a mind of its own, his young wife, Ellen, dramatizes these eerie events with great detail in her diary, often personifying the house as if it were a living being. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Rice, Anne, 1941- Title: Blackwood Farm / Anne Rice. Publication info: New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, c2002. Physical description: 527 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: Fledgling vampire Quinn Blackwood makes a desperate appeal to the older, stronger Lestat to save his loved ones from Goblin, a doppelganger out to destroy them. Since Quinn entered the dark world of the undead, the once caring and protective Goblin has amassed tremendous strength and a ruthlessness that cannot be controlled. Lestat is intrigued but refuses to make a decision until Quinn tells his life story. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Roberts, Nora. Title: Birthright / Nora Roberts. Publication info: New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2003. Physical description: 465 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Archaeologist Callie Dunbrook is excited to be overseeing a new dig, but with the site rumored to be cursed, her ex-husband hanging around, and a stranger suggesting that he knows all about her past, things aren't altogether rosy. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Roberts, Nora. Title: Chesapeake Blue / Nora Roberts. Publication info: New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2002. Physical description: 374 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: After a five-year absence, Seth Quinn has returned home from Europe a world-renowned artist. He's ready to settle down in the same picturesque town on the Bay where the three step-brothers who raised him now live. Soon, Seth meets beautiful, independent Druscilla "Dru" Whitcomb Banks and falls in love with her almost immediately. Life takes on an idyllic glow until someone from his past begins blackmailing him again. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Roberts, Nora. Title: Three Fates / Nora Roberts. Publication info: New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2002. Physical description: 450 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Irish siblings Malachi, Gideon, and Rebecca Sullivan cherish the family legend of their great-great-grandfather's acquisition of one of the Fates, a trio of priceless, long-separated silver statues. When the Sullivans' Fate is stolen by an unscrupulous New York antiquities dealer, they vow to retrieve the little silver lady, and thus begins a quest that will send them racing across Europe, traveling through Ireland, and dodging killers in New York City. Cover Image |
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Personal author: Rosenberg, Joel C., 1954- Title: The Last Jihad : a Novel / Joel C. Rosenberg. Publication info: New York, NY : Forge Books/Tom Doherty Assoc. Book, c2002. Physical description: 351 p. ; 22 cm. Abstract: In the wake of September 11, popular American president James MacPherson has spearheaded an international effort to destroy terrorist training camps in the Middle East and North Africa. Osama bin Laden has been killed, but Saddam Hussein continues to plot against the West.. Cover Image |
| S: Personal author: Salvatore, R.A. Title: Star Wars, Episode II. Attack of the Clones / R.A. Salvatore. Publication info: New York, NY : Ballantine Books, c2002. Physical description: 353 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: More on Anakin Skywalker before he became Darth Vader; from the screenplay of Star Wars: Episode II. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Sandford, John, 1944- Title: Mortal Prey / John Sandford. Publication info: New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2002. Physical description: 354 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Lucas Davenport's boss is about to lose her job as chief of police, his fiancée is distracted with wedding plans, and his house-remodeling project is at a standstill. So when the FBI and DEA draft the Minneapolis cop to head off hit woman Clara Rinker's bloody murder spree, he's glad to oblige. Cover Image |
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Personal author: Sandford, John, 1944- Title: Naked Prey / John Sandford. Publication info: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2003. Physical description: 359 p. ; 24cm. Abstract: Sandford puts Lucas Davenport through some changes. His old boss, Rose Marie Roux, has moved up to the state level and taken Lucas with her, creating a special troubleshooter job for him for the cases that are too complicated or politically touchy for others to handle. In addition, Lucas is now married and a new father, both of which are fine with him: he doesn't mind being a family man. But he is a little worried. For every bit of peace you get, you have to pay-and he's waiting for the bill. It comes in the form of two people found hanging from a tree in the woods of northern Minnesota. What makes it particularly sensitive is that the bodies are of a black man and a white woman, and they're naked. "Lynching" is the word that everybody's trying not to say-but, as Lucas begins to discover, in fact the murders are not what they appear to be, and they are not the end of the story. There is worse to come-much, much worse. Cover Image |
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Personal author: Scottoline, Lisa Title: Courting Trouble / Lisa Scottoline. Publication info: New York, NY : HarperCollins, c2002. Physical description: 310 p. ; 24cm. Abstract: Anne Murphy thought she'd put her unhappy past a continent behind her when she joined Philadelphia attorney Bennie Rosato's all-woman law firm. Then a friend who's housesitting for Anne is murdered in what's clearly a case of mistaken identity, and Anne realizes that the past has caught up with her and that the only way to outrun it is to catch the killer before he realizes that she's still alive. Cover Image |
| Personal author: Scottoline, Lisa. Title: Dead Ringer / Lisa Scottoline. Publication info: New York, HarperCollins, c2003. Physical description: 339 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Ace lawyer Bennie Rosato is dueling evil in the form of her own twin sister, ex-convict Alice Connolly, who has returned to Philadelphia to exact her revenge and ruin Bennie. At the same time, Bennie's law firm is in trouble, so she takes on a potentially lucrative class action suit to try to save the day. Meanwhile, her colleague Mary DiNunzio persists in bringing in a case that will provide more headaches -- and laughs -- than dollars. But then a mysterious stranger appears just in time to help Bennie in the fight of her life, for her life. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Sebold, Alice. Title: The Lovely Bones : a Novel / Alice Sebold Publication info: Boston, MA : Little, Brown, c2002. Physical description: 328 p. ; 22 cm. Abstract: When we first meet 14-year-old Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. This was before milk carton photos and public service announcements, she tells us; back in 1973, when Susie mysteriously disappeared, people still believed these things didn't happen. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Shreve, Anita. Title: All He Ever Wanted : A Novel / Anita Shreve. Publication info: New York : Little, Brown, and Co., c2003. Physical description: 310 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: Etna Bliss has just moved to the New England town where her uncle teaches college when her life is transformed in a single stroke. She is dining in a hotel downtown when a fire forces her to escape to the snowy streets outside. Amid the smoke and chaos of that night she is glimpsed, standing under a streetlight, by a man who was dining in the same room-a man who is so overwhelmed by the sight of her that he rebuilds his life around a single goal: to marry Etna Bliss. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Shreve, Anita. Title: Sea glass : a Novel / Anita Shreve. Publication info: Boston, MA : Little. Brown, c2002. Physical description: 378 p. ; 25 cm. Abstract: Newlyweds Sexton and Honora Beecher have plenty of dreams, but they didn't plan on the stock market crash of 1929. Cover Image |
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Personal author: Silva, Daniel, 1960- Title: The Confessor / Daniel Silva. Publication info: New York, NY : G. P. Putnam's Sons, c2003. Physical description: 401 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: The writer Benjamin Stern entered his flat to see a man standing there, leafing through his research, and said, "Who the hell are you?" In response, the man shot him. Filled with rich characters, remarkable prose, and a multilayered plot of uncommon intensity, this is the finest work yet by a new master of the art. Cover Image |
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Personal author: Silva, Daniel, 1960- Title: The English Assassin / Daniel Silva. Publication info: New York, NY : Putnam's, c2002. Physical description: 386 p. ; 24 cm. Abstract: Israeli intelligence operative Gabriel Allon is back, looking for another best seller (after The Marching Season). In a case that draws on Switzerland's links to the Nazis, art restorer Allon is sent to salvage a Raphael and finds the owner dead. Cover Image |
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Personal Author: Sparks, Nicholas Title: The Guardian / Nicholas Sparks. Publication info: New York : Warner Books, c2003. Physical description: 384 p. ; 22 cm. Abstract: Julie Barenson survived a negligent mother and is now trying to survive the loss of a loving husband. The man who rescued her by offering her in the small town of Swansboro, North Carolina, died far too young, leaving Julie with a Great Dane puppy she names Singer and a promise to look out for her. Now 29, Julie is starting to date again after four years of mourning and Singer is acting very strangely. He becomes possessive, and especial |
