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Rogue forces
Dale Brown.
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321 p. ; 24 cm.
Scion Aviation International has been hired by the Pentagon to take over aerial patrols in northern Iraq as the U.S. military begins to downsize its presence there. But when Kurdish nationalist attacks led by the Republic of Turkey and joined by the new government in Persia invade northern Iraq, retired Air Force lieutenant-general Patrick McLanahan makes the decision to take the fight to the Turks.
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Sanctuary
Ken Bruen.
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203 p. ; 25 cm.
When a letter containing a list of victims arrives in the post, Jack Taylor tells himself that it has nothing to do with him. But when a child is added to the list, Taylor is determined to find the identity of the killer--who is far closer than Taylor thinks.
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The scarecrow : a novel
Michael Connelly.
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419 p., 14 p. ; 24 cm.
Newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to use his final days at the LA Times to write the definitive murder story of his career. Focusing on the case of Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a brutal murder, Jack realizes that Winslow's so-called confession is bogus and that the real killer is operating completely below police radar--and with perfect knowledge of any move against him.
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The secret speech
Tom Rob Smith.
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407 p. ; 24 cm.
Smith's first novel, "Child 44," was one of the most critically acclaimed books of the year. Now the author returns with a new thriller set in the turmoil and upheaval of the post-Stalinist Soviet Union.
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Seducing an angel
Mary Balogh.
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325 p. ; 24 cm.
In glittering Regency England a desititute widow stands accused of murdering her husband and must now barter her beauty in order to survive. With seduction in mind, she sets her sights on Stephen Huxtable, the irresistibly attractive Earl of Merton and London's most eligible bachelor.
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The selected works of T.S. Spivet
Reif Larsen.
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374 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
A brilliant, boundary-leaping debut novel tracing twelve-year-old genius map maker T.S.Spivet's attempts to understand the ways of the world When twelve-year-old genius cartographer T.S. Spivet receives an unexpected phone call from the Smithsonian announcing he has won the prestigious Baird Award, life as normal--if you consider mapping family dinner table conversation normal--is interrupted and a wild cross-country adventure begins, taking T.S. from his family ranch just north of Divide, Montana, to the museum¿s hallowed halls. T.S. sets out alone, leaving before dawn with a plan to hop a freight train and hobo east. Once aboard, his adventures step into high gear and he meticulously maps, charts, and illustrates his exploits, documenting mythical wormholes in the Midwest, the urban phenomenon of rims, and the pleasures of McDonald's, among other things. We come to see the world through T.S.'s eyes and in his thorough investigation of the outside world he also reveals himself. As he travels away from the ranch and his family we learn how the journey also brings him closer to home. A secret family history found within his luggage tells the story of T.S.'s ancestors and their long-ago passage west, offering profound insight into the family he left behind and his role within it. As T.S. reads he discovers the sometimes shadowy boundary between fact and fiction and realizes that, for all his analytical rigor, the world around him is a mystery. All that he has learned is tested when he arrives at the capital to claim his prize and is welcomed into science's inner circle. For all its shine, fame seems more highly valued than ideas in this new world and friends are hard to find. T.S.'s trip begins at the Copper Top Ranch and the last known place he stands is Washington, D.C., but his journey's movement is far harder to track: How do you map the delicate lessons learned about family and self? How do you depict how it feels to first venture out on your own? Is there a definitive way to communicate the ebbs and tides of heartbreak, loss, loneliness, love? These are the questions that strike at the core of this very special debut.
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Shanghai girls : a novel
Lisa See.
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314 p. ; 25 cm.
Two sisters leave Shanghai to find new lives in 1930s Los Angeles in this fresh, fascinating adventure.
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The sign
Raymond Khoury.
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464 p. ; 24 cm.
In this gripping thriller, a scientific expedition in Antarctica stops for a live news feed. As the CNN journalist Gracie Logan begins her report, a massive, shimmering sphere of light suddenly appears in the sky, enveloping the ship in luminous white light before disappearing as mysteriously as it arrived--the entire event witnessed by an incredulous world audience. Meanwhile, a monk in Egypt experiences visions that seemed connected, and back in Boston, Matt Sherwood learns that his brother's death may have been actually murder related to this erupting worldwide controversy over the meaning of this "sign" in the sky.
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Sprig muslin
Georgette Heyer ; with a foreword by Linda Lael Miller.
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vi, 268 p. : 21 cm.
"One mischievous girl on a mission-- Sir Gareth Ludlow is a sought-after bachelor in London high society -- wealthy, noble, handsome -- and brokenhearted since the death of his true love many years ago. Resigned to remarry, Sir Gareth solicits the hand of a woman he respects and admires -- Lady Hester Theale. But fate takes an impish turn when, on his way to ask for Lady Hester, Sir Gareth encounters a saucy young lady who identifies herself as "Amanda Smith." Amanda is alone and unchaperoned, and her imaginative tales take on a life of their own, sweeping up Sir Gareth, Lady Hester and several other hapless victims in a series of unexpected adventures. And no one, especially Sir Gareth, will ever be the same again"--P. [4] of cover
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The Stalin epigram : a novel
Robert Littell.
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xiv, 366 p. ; 25 cm.
A riveting, fictional rendering of the life of Osip Mandelstam, perhaps the greatest Russian poet of the twentieth century -- and one of the few artists in Soviet Russia who daringly refused to pay creative homage to Joseph Stalin.
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Stone's fall : a novel
Iain Pears.
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594 p. ; 25 cm.
In this dazzling historical mystery, John Stone, financier and arms dealer, dies falling out of a window at his London home. The quest to uncover the truth behind his death plays out against the backdrop of high-stakes international finance, Europe's first great age of espionage, and the start of the twentieth century's arms race.
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Storm glass
Maria V. Snyder.
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488 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Glassmaker Opal Cowen's magic is focused on the ability to create magical glassa talent that comes into play when someone sabotages the glass orbs used by the Stormdancers to ameliorate the force of debilitating storms. To find the cause of the tainted glass, Opal must unlock new magics and face dangers that threaten her power and her life. The author of the "Study" series (e.g., Poison Study) launches a new series set in the same world and featuring some of the same characters while also introducing a cast of fresh personalities. Snyder deftly weaves information about glassblowing into her tale of magic and murder. Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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