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Three
Sisters
by Bi Feiyu
Growing up in a post-Cultural Revolution-era Chinese village,
three sisters among seven brought into the world by parents
desperate to have a boy strive to change the course of their
destinies by embracing respective views about dignity, seduction
and ambition.
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A
Stranger Like You
by Elizabeth Brundage
Inciting the wrath of an unstable aspiring screenwriter whose
film she cancelled for its implausible violence, movie executive
Hedda is abducted by the writer, who decides to prove his story's
worth by staging its plot with Hedda as the victim.
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The Thieves of Darkness
by Richard Doetsch
Reformed master thief Michael St. Pierre travels to Istanbul
to rescue an associate and prevent an ancient artifact from falling
into the hands of a brutal adversary, an effort that is complicated
by Michael's secretive ex-girlfriend.
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Lowcountry
Summer
by Dorothea Benton Frank
With her mother dead, Caroline Wimbley Levine returns to Tall
Pines Plantation in the South Carolina countryside to try to sort
out old family betrayals and secrets. |
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Late
Rain
by Lynn Kostoff
Desire, need, and ambition fuel Corrine Tedros, a Lady Macbeth
wannabe who arranges the murder of her father-in-law, a soft-drink
mogul. It's witnessed by a man in the late stages of Alzheimer's;
he provides scattershot details, but cannot accurately communicate
what he saw.
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Bleed
for Me
by Michael Robotham
For Professor Joe O'Loughlin life remains complicated as his
Parkinson's disease worsens. When Sienna Hegarty turns up at his
home one night, covered in blood he tries to unlock the dark secrets
of her mind. The police find her father in a pool of blood but
she cannot remember what happened and chillingly doesn't want
to mourn his death.
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Sanctuary
Line
by Jane Urquhart
Set in the present day on a farm at the shores of Lake Erie,
Jane Urquhart's stunning new novel weaves elements from the nineteenth-century
past, in Ireland and Ontario, into a gradually unfolding contemporary
story of events in the lives of the members of one family that
come to alter their futures irrevocably.
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The
Sonderberg Case
by Elie Wiesel
Ruminating on his past relationships with the men in his family,
New York city theater critic Yedidyah is assigned to cover the
murder trial of a German expatriate whose enigmatic plea triggers
Yedidyah's own revelations. |
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Villain
by Shuichi Yoshida
Follows a southern Japanese community's concerned observations
of a young construction worker who is charged with murdering an
insurance saleswoman. |
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The
Man with the Baltic Stare
by James Church
Ordered out of retirement to Pyongyang to cover up a crime of
passion committed by the young leader of a transitional government
vital to a tenuous peace agreement between the two Koreas, Inspector
O finds his life threatened when the case tests his loyalties.
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The
Good Thief's Guide to Vegas
by Chris Ewan
Scheming to steal a fortune in casino chips from a famous illusionist
who has been courting Victoria, magician thief Charlie Howard
is thwarted by a dead body found in his mark's hotel bathtub,
a situation that is further complicated by the illusionist's own
heist and subsequent disappearance.
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The
Blood of Lorraine
by Barbara Corrado Pope
In the wake of the Dreyfus affair, two murders reveal the darker
side of human nature. After an infant boy is found dead in the
town of Nancy in historical Lorraine, France, and the townspeople,
thinking a Jew was responsible for the murder, whip up a frenzy
of anti-Semitism, it is up to Bernard Martin to find the true
killer before a vigilante mob embarks on a spree of racial violence.
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Spider
Bones
by Kathy Reichs
Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan investigates the death
of a man who appears to have died while engaged in a bizarre sexual
act and who was originally declared dead four decades earlier.
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Dream
Queen
by Betsy Thornton
Chloe Newcombe travels from New York City to Arizona to see
her brother Danny and his girlfriend Kristi. On the way to the
house from the airport they have car troubles. Kristi and Chloe
go to a restaurant to wait for Danny while he takes the van to
a garage, but he never comes back.
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305.8951 B455c
The
Poker Bride: the First Chinese in the Wild West
Christopher Corbett
Retraces the story of the first Chinese men and women who journeyed
to the American West during the California Gold Rush, focusing
on the story of a Chinese concubine who was won in a poker game
and lived out her life as a rancher's wife.
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306.74 L378
Some
Girls: My Life in a Harem
by Jillian Lauren
Follows the author's journey from acting school to a harem in
Borneo where she spent eighteen months attending parties and competing
for a prince's attention.
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330.9 K54
Losing
Control: the Emerging Threats to Western Prosperity
by Stephen D. King
Argues that the years ahead will see a major redistribution
of wealth and power across the world, which will force consumers
in the United States, Europe and other wealthy regions to stop
living in prosperity.
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Your
Money Milestones: a Guide to Making the 9 Most Important Financial
Decisions of your Life
by Moshe A. Milevsky
Admitting that he lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in the
latest economic downturn by doing everything exactly right, Milevsky
revises personal finance planning now that all the received wisdom
is out the window.
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364.162 W832
Priceless:
How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures
by Robert K. Wittman with John Shiffman
"Robert K. Wittman wasn't an ordinary FBI agent. Instead
of tracking terrorists or busting drug kingpins and mobsters,
he carved out a niche as art crime specialist. During his 20-year
career, Wittman recovered more than $225 million worth of artwork
and historical artifacts in undercover stings all over the globe.
This book is an account of how he planned and pulled off some
of his high-stakes operations, rescuing treasures such as an original
copy of the Bill of Rights and paintings by Rembrandt and Renoir."
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394.13 C871
Brew
North: How Canadians Made Beer and Beer Made Canada
by Ian Coutts
The author tells the delightful story of Canada's national beverage.
Lively and informative, Brew North puts beer lovers front and
centre. Charming illustrations reveal rustic taverns, Victorian
photographs give us that era’s opulent saloons, and modern
colour shots help us understand the brewing process. The book
also illustrates how brewers have long been conscious of marketing
and advertising, creating unique bottles and ads, giveaway trays
and signs."
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The
Roadmap to 100: the Breakthrough Science of Living a Long and
Healthy Life
by Walter M. Bortz II, Randall Stickrod
Shares cutting-edge research on the connection between age and
disease, showing that many preconceptions about growing old need
a second look, genetics play a small role in aging, and diseases
of the elderly are not inevitable.
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Wide
Awake: a Memoir of Insomnia
by Patricia Morrisroe
The author travels the globe interviewing hundreds of people
in search of answers to why she and millions of other Americans
have trouble sleeping. |
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641.22 K89
Matt
Kramer on Wine: a Matchless Collection of Columns, Essays, and
Observations by America's Most Original and Lucid Wine Writer
by Matt Kramer
Matt Kramer is one of the world's most distinguished and insightful
writers on wine. The time is ripe for a retrospective, and here
it is, covering topics from terroir to glassware to the various
grapes and regions and personalities. Most of the essays are drawn
from his work in Wine Spectator and The New York Sun, along with
excerpts from his books.
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How
to Cook Like a Top Chef
by Emily Miller
This cookbook and culinary primer in one features recipes from
all six seasons of the show and season one of Top Chef: Masters,
along with insider techniques from everyone's favorite contestants
and judges. Covering everything from knife skills to sauces and
sous-vide, How to Cook Like a Top Chef teaches aspiring chefs
what it takes to be a star in the kitchen.
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796.75 J71
Live
to Ride: the Rumbling, Roaring World of Speed, Escape, and Adventure
on Two Wheels
by Wayne Johnson
“A marvelously entertaining and masterfully written ode
to the many joys of two wheeled motorized transportation...This
very special book transcends its seemingly narrow subject matter
to touch the pulse of life in modern America.”
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Let's
Take the Long Way Home : a Memoir of Friendship
by Gail Caldwell
"Caldwell creates a memorable offering of love to her best
friend, Caroline Knapp, the writer who died of lung cancer at
age 42 in 2002. Caldwell is unflinching in depicting her friend's
last days, although her own grief nearly undid her; she writes
of this desolating time with tremendously moving grace."
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| Previous Hot New Books of the Week |
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| For a list of hot new books in French, please consult
Nouveautés
en vedette. |
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