Week of June 14, 2012
Gone Girl
After a woman disappears on her fifth wedding anniversary, her diary reveals hidden turmoil in her marriage. Her husband, desperate to clear himself of suspicion, realizes that something more disturbing than murder may have occurred.
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Bring Up the Bodies
The spark has gone out of Henry VIII's second marriage. When his roving eye leaves Anne Boleyn and begins to settle on Jane Seymour, another woman at court, the monarch turns to his chief adviser, Thomas Cromwell, for help. Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies is the second book in a planned trilogy about Cromwell.
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Canada
After his parents are arrested and imprisoned for robbing a bank, 15-year-old Dell Parsons is taken in by Arthur Remlinger, who — unbeknownst to Dell — is hiding a dark and violent nature that interferes with Dell's quest to find grace and peace on the prairie of Saskatchewan.
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In One Person
A tale inspired by the U.S. AIDS epidemic in the 1980s follows the experiences of individuals — including the bisexual narrator — who are torn by devastating losses, and whose perspectives on tolerance and love are shaped by awareness of what might have been.
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Calico Joe
Follows the divergent paths of a rookie hitter for the Chicago Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher. By the author of The Litigators and Bleachers.
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A Dance With Dragons
New threats emerge to endanger the future of the Seven Kingdoms, as Daenerys Targaryen, ruling in the East, fights off a multitude of enemies, and Jon Snow, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, faces his foes both in the Watch and beyond the great Wall of ice and stone.
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Sacre Bleu
A Comedy D'Art
Baker turned painter Lucien Lessard and bon vivant Henri Toulouse-Lautrec vow to discover the truth behind the untimely death of their friend Vincent van Gogh, which leads them on a surreal odyssey into the art world of late 19th century Paris.
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Istanbul Passage
The big war is over, and the Cold War has just begun. Leon Bauer, an American tobacco man, and his wife, Anna, a German Jew, made it to Istanbul just before World War II began. His U.S. passport and fluency in German and Turkish made him useful to Allied intelligence. But before he assumes a more peaceful life, Bauer is given a last big job — slip Alexi, a Romanian defector with important Soviet secrets, out of Istanbul. Alexi's secrets might help old allies — but the defector once helped massacre Jews in Romania. Bauer is being asked to help a man in this new war who represents what he fought in the last one.
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A Blaze of Glory
A Novel of the Battle of Shiloh
Drawing on meticulous research and told from the perspectives of characters on both sides, a story inspired by the pivotal Civil War battle re-creates the April 1862 surprise attack by Confederate forces on the Union Army. By the best-selling author of Gods and Generals.
The Paris Wife
The Paris Wife follows the life of Ernest Hemingway's first wife, Hadley, as she navigates 1920s Paris.
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The Innocent
Will Robie, a freelance hit man working for the U.S. government, rescues a teenage girl whose parents' disappearance may be linked to a vast, high-level cover-up, in this new thriller from the New York Times best-selling author of One Summer.
Kiss the Dead
A U.S. Marshal must rescue a teenage girl who has been abducted by a group of newly turned vampires in the latest installment of the New York Times best-selling series "Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter."
Stolen Prey
When the brutal killing of a family in a small Minnesota town reveals unsettling similarities to drug-retribution crimes, baffled police officer Lucas Davenport is shocked by findings that lead him into the darkest case of his career. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Buried Prey.
The Wind Through The Keyhole
The Mystery Writers of America Grand Master returns readers to the rich landscape of Mid-World in a story within a story about gunslinger Roland Deschain, who while investigating a murderous shape-shifter, interviews a terrified teen who has witnessed the creature's most recent killing.














