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A Killer's Essence
Overlook Hardcover 1590203216 Published September 1, 2011
Stan Green is a New York City homicide detective who has seen better days. As his family life threatens to disintegrate and he struggles to muster up any real feeling for his girlfriend, he is assigned to the most shocking case of his career.
Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
Twelve 1455502774 Published September 1, 2011
This first new book of essays by Christopher Hitchens since 2004 offers an indispensable key to understanding his passionate and skeptical spirit.
Assassins of the Turquoise Palace
Grove Press 0802119115 Published September 6, 2011
An unforgettable narrative of heroism and justice about a crusade that would not only pit members of the Iranian and Kurdish opposition against Tehran, but against some of the greatest powers in Germany.
Birds of Paradise
W. W. Norton & Company 0393064611 Published September 6, 2011
A girl who ran away from home five years previously must reckon with the guilty secret that drove her away, and must face her fear of losing her family and her sense of self forever.
Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Fiction
Simon & Schuster 0743276701 Published September 6, 2011
Eight provocative and darkly funny linked stories explore the commonly shared, but rarely spoken of experiences that build girls into women and women into wives and mothers, mapping America's shifting cultural landscape from the late 1970s to the present day.
Damage Control
Scribner 0743296745 Published September 6, 2011
Denise Hamilton weaves an engrossing story of teenage friendship and adult betrayal, featuring a high-powered crisis consultant who gets swept up in murder and scandal involving a wealthy political family.
I Married You for Happiness
Atlantic Monthly Press 0802119913 Published September 6, 2011
I MARRIED YOU FOR HAPPINESS is not only a moving elegy to a man and a marriage, but also a meditation on the theory of probability and how chance can affect both a life and one's consideration of the possibility of an afterlife.
Irma Voth
Harper 0062070185 Published September 6, 2011
IRMA VOTH follows a young Mennonite woman, vulnerable yet wise beyond her years, who carries a terrible family secret with her on a remarkable journey to survival and redemption.
Loose Diamonds: …and other things I've lost (and found) along the way
William Morrow 0061958743 Published September 6, 2011
Amy Ephron weaves together the most insightful, profound, and just plain funny stories of her life to form a tapestry of a woman’s experiences from childhood through young adulthood, marriage, divorce (and remarriage), and everything in between
Pirate King
Bantam 0553807986 Published September 6, 2011
In this latest adventure featuring the intrepid Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, Laurie R. King takes readers into the frenetic world of silent films --- where the pirates are real and the shooting isn’t all done with cameras.
Prey
Ballantine Books 034550691X Published September 6, 2011
Sanctus
William Morrow 0062038303 Published September 6, 2011
A man climbs a cliff face in the oldest inhabited place on earth, a mountain known as the Citadel. But this is no ordinary ascent. It is a dangerous and symbollic act. Few people understand its consequence. But for foundation worker Kathryn Mann and a handful of others, it’s evidence that a revolution is at hand.
Second Nature: A Love Story
Random House 1400067758 Published September 6, 2011
From the bestselling author of DEEP END OF THE OCEAN and NO TIME TO WAVE GOODBYE comes this fierce and moving story of a young woman's fight for identity in the wake of unspeakable tragedy.
Secret Obsession
Grand Central Publishing 044657242X Published September 6, 2011
A sister's jealousy pushes a family to the edge and exploses life-changing secrets in this new novella from New York Times bestseller Kimberla Lawson Roby, author of the acclaimed Reverend Curtis Black series.
The Burning Soul
Atria Books 1439165270 Published September 6, 2011
Detective Charlie Parker must unravel a web of deceit involving the police, the FBI, a doomed mobster, and a man tormented for his past crime.
The Race: An Isaac Bell Adventure
Putnam Adult 0399157816 Published September 6, 2011
It is 1910, and newspaper publisher Preston Whiteway is offering $50,000 for the first daring aviator to cross America in less than 50 days. He is even sponsoring one of the prime candidates --- an intrepid woman named Josephine Frost --- and that's where Detective Isaac Bell, chief investigator for the Van Dorn Detective Agency, comes in.
Wunderkind
Free Press 1451616910 Published September 6, 2011
Brash, brilliant 15-year-old Konstantin is a world-class pianist of exceptional sensitivity whose propulsive rage at Soviet oppression threatens to undo him
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