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Brooklyn : a novel
Colm Tóibín.
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262 p. ; 23 cm.
From the award-winning author of "The Master" comes a moving historical novel set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, concerning a young woman torn between her family and her past in Ireland and the American who wins her heart.
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Burnt shadows
Kamila Shamsie.
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370 p. ; 21 cm.
An Orange Prize Finalist Beginning on August 9, 1945, in Nagasaki, and ending in a prison cell in the US in 2002, as a man is waiting to be sent to Guantanamo Bay,Burnt Shadowsis an epic narrative of love and betrayal.Hiroko Tanaka is twenty-one and in love with the man she is to marry, Konrad Weiss. As she steps onto her veranda, wrapped in a kimono with three black cranes swooping across the back, her world is suddenly and irrevocably altered. In the numbing aftermath of the atomic bomb that obliterates everything she has known, all that remains are the bird-shaped burns on her back, an indelible reminder of the world she has lost. In search of new beginnings, two years later, Hiroko travels to Delhi. It is there that her life will become intertwined with that of Konrad's half sister, Elizabeth, her husband, James Burton, and their employee Sajjad Ashraf, from whom she starts to learn Urdu.With the partition of India, and the creation of Pakistan, Hiroko will find herself displaced once again, in a world where old wars are replaced by new conflicts. But the shadows of history--personal and political--are cast over the interrelated worlds of the Burtons, the Ashrafs, and the Tanakas as they are transported from Pakistan to New York and, in the novel's astonishing climax, to Afghanistan in the immediate wake of 9/11. The ties that have bound these families together over decades and generations are tested to the extreme, with unforeseeable consequences.
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Button, button : uncanny stories
Richard Matheson.
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205 p. ; 21 cm.
"Button, Button", which inspired a memorable Twilight Zone episode, is just one of a dozen unforgettable tales in this new collection by Richard Matheson, the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Legend and What Dreams May Come. This volume contains a number of stories that were adapted for television, as well as a new introduction by Matheson himself.
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Cemetery dance
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.
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435 p. ; 24 cm.
After New York Times reporter William Smithback and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are brutally attacked in their apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side, Pendergast--the world's most enigmatic FBI Special Agent--returns to New York City to investigate a murderous Obeah cult.
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The city & the city
China Miéville.
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312 p. ; 25 cm.
New York Times bestselling author China Miéville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other–real or imagined. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points to conspiracies far stranger and more deadly than anything he could have imagined. Borlú must travel from the decaying Beszel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own. This is a border crossing like no other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a shift in perception, a seeing of the unseen. His destination is Beszel’s equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the rich and vibrant city of Ul Qoma. With Ul Qoman detective Qussim Dhatt, and struggling with his own transition, Borlú is enmeshed in a sordid underworld of rabid nationalists intent on destroying their neighboring city, and unificationists who dream of dissolving the two into one. As the detectives uncover the dead woman’s secrets, they begin to suspect a truth that could cost them and those they care about more than their lives. What stands against them are murderous powers in Beszel and in Ul Qoma: and, most terrifying of all, that which lies between these two cities. Casting shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984, The City & the City is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.
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Clubbed to death : a dead-end job mystery
Elaine Viets.
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x, 273 p. ; 18 cm.
The author of "Murder with Reservations" reveals the lifestyles of the rich and murdered, in the latest entry in her bestselling series.
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Cold choices
Larry Bond.
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477 p. ; 25 cm.
Former Naval pilot Jerry Mitchell's new career as a nuclear engineer has been riddled with difficulty. His first mission, aboard the USS Memphis, put him in the crosshairs of a volatile international dispute, but his heroic actions earned him an instant promotion. Now a navigator on the USS Seawolf, one of the U.S. Navy's most capable nuclear attack submarines, Mitchell will find his skills once again challenged. A stealth reconnaissance mission, deep in the Barents Sea, turns harrowing as Mitchell and his crew find themselves the target of a Russian submarine commanded by the energetic but inexperienced Captain First Rank Alexi Petrov. Petrov's missteps cause the two subs to collide, leaving the Russian boat crippled and stuck at the bottom of the ocean. Mitchell must make one the most difficult decisions of his life: escape with his crew intact or risk their all their lives to save his enemies? Larry Bond uses his experience as an intelligence officer, warfare analyst, and anti-submarine technology expert to give readers an expertly crafted techno-thriller. Like Run Silent, Run Deep, and The Hunt for Red October, Cold Choices takes readers deep into the minds of submariners and the treacherous world in which they dwell.
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The cold light of mourning
Elizabeth J. Duncan.
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viii, 277 p. ; 22 cm.
Duncan spins a charming tale of murder and intrigue in this winning first novel. With its bucolic Welsh setting and vivid, colorful characters, this mystery is sure to delight the most discerning of traditional mystery fans.
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The convenient marriage
Georgette Heyer.
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307 p. ; 21 cm.
When the Earl of Rule proposes marriage to Horatia Winwood's sister Lizzie, she offers herself instead. Her sister is already in love with someone else.
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Cousin Kate
Georgette Heyer.
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373 p. ; 21 cm.
In this romance by the creator of the modern Regency genre, a woman's luck changes when she locates a long-lost aunt and becomes wealthy. But schemes are brewing and the only one she can trust is cousin Philip, who doesn't seem to like her very much--or does he?
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Covenant Hall
Kathryn R. Wall.
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307 p. ; 22 cm.
Battling time, Private Investigator Bay Tanner and her late husband's brother, Red Tanner, search desperately for one woman's missing family, only to discover that an old murder and a haunted woman from Bay's past may hold the key to everything.
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The currents of space : [a novel of the Galactic empire]
Isaac Asimov.
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239 p. ; 22 cm.
High above the planet Florinia, the Squires of Sark live in unimaginable wealth and comfort.nbsp; Down in the eternal spring of the planet, however, the native Florinians labor ceaselessly to produce the precious kyrt that brings prosperity to their Sarkite masters. Rebellion is unthinkable and impossible. Not only do the Florinians no longer have a concept of freedom, any disruption of the vital kyrt trade would cause other planets to rise in protest, ultimately destabilizing trade and resulting in a galactic war. So the Trantorian Empire, whose grand plan is to unite all humanity in peace, prosperity, and freedom, has stood aside and allowed the oppression to continue.Living among the workers of Florinia, Rik is a man without a memory or a past.nbsp; He has been abducted and brainwashed. Barely able to speak or care for himself when he was found, Rik is widely regarded as a simpleton by the worker community where he lives.nbsp; But as his memories begin to return, Rik finds himself driven by a cryptic message he is determined to deliver:nbsp; Everyone on Florinia is doomed . . . the Currents of Space are bringing destruction.nbsp;But if the planet is evacuated, the power of Sark will end--so some would finish the job and would kill the messenger. The fate of the Galaxy hangs in the balance.
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