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Her Fearful Symmetry
Audrey Niffenegger
Pub Date: 9-28-09
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Her Fearful Symmetry: Dark seduction of the flesh by a disembodied soul.

Elspeth Noblin died of cancer and willed everything to her twin sister Edie’s daughters, Valentina and Julia. But she made one twist: the twins must live in Elspeth’s flat for one year before they can sell it, and their parents can never visit. One further stipulation: Robert, her lover who lives in a fl.... read more ...




Green
Ted Dekker
Pub Date: 9-29-09
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

Green: A once and future apocalyptic story full of surprises and mysteries that leaves the reader asking for more.

Thomas Hunter is the leader of the Circle, and once again Elyon’s followers, the albinos that have drowned, come together to celebrate the Great Romance. Samuel, Thomas’s son, is dissatisfied with loving the Horde who are determined to wipe out all of Elyon’s follo.... read more ...




You Can’t Predict a Hero
Joseph J. Grano, Jr. with Mark Levine
Pub Date: 9-27-09
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Format: Hardcover

You Can’t Predict a Hero: It isn’t bragging when it’s true.

To say that Joseph Grano has led an interesting life is like saying the Grand Canyon is a big ditch.

As a patriot, Grano served his country in the Army Special Forces and took a rag tag, demoralized group of soldiers and turned them into an elite team. As an entrepreneur, Grano started at the bottom and w.... read more ...




The Gates of Hell Are About to Open Want to Peek?
John Connolly
Pub Date: 10-10-09
Publisher: Atria
Format: Hardcover

The footnotes in The Gates of Hell Are About to Open Want to Peek? (or The Gates) are as important to the story as the text above them. The book begins with a whole chapter devoted to the Big Bang theory with detailed footnotes. The story then moves to a small town where two couples are preparing to delve into the mysteries of the occult. Mrs. Abernathy, the leader of the group, .... read more ...




Urgent Care
C. J. Lyon
Pub Date: 10-10-09
Publisher: Penguin Group
Format: Trade Paperback

Urgent Care: Riveting stand-alone book in the Angels of Mercy Hospital series.

The ER at Angels of Mercy hospital is usually hopping. One morning charge nurse Nora Halloran brings in a co-worker. The woman was found naked, bleeding, bruised, beaten and covered in neon spray-painted graffiti, near death. The incident turns Nora’s life upside down. The nurse, Karen Chisholm, w.... read more ...




My Father’s Bonus March
Adam Langer
Pub Date: 10-30-09
Publisher: Random House
Format: Hardcover

My Father’s Bonus March: Meandering memoir of a man’s life and a pivotal point in history lost and found.

How well do we know our parents? The answer Adam Langer discovers is not well at all. What we know is what remains when someone else writes the history.

Adam Langer begins this memoir of his father Seymour Sidney Langer in an unhurried and laconic voice. He se.... read more ...




Leaving Gee’s Bend
Irene Latham
Pub Date: 01-10-10
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Leaving Gee’s Bend: A young girl’s journey of courage and hope for savoring and sharing.

The people who live in Gee’s Bend are poor by any standards—sharecroppers living in drafty shacks that let in the rain and wind—but it is home to Ludelphia Bennett, a ten-year-old girl who loves her home and family: mother, father and older brother Ruben.

Ludelphia has a w.... read more ...




Flesh and Fire
Laura Anne Gilman
Pub Date: 12-20-09
Publisher: Tantor Media, Onc
Format: Hardcover

Flesh and Fire: Seductive, innovative and masterful fantasy.

Jerzy followed Master Malech away from the vineyard and the slave quarters to find a new life filled with marvels and magic. He was to become Master Malech’s new apprentice. But had he been a slave too long to make him a Vineart worthy of Malech’s house?

There is danger in the land. Blights, diseases.... read more ...




Homer & Langley
E.L. Doctorow
Pub Date: 9-29-09
Publisher: Random House
Format: Hardcover

After reading E.L. Doctorow’s novel, Homer & Langley, you will mourn the two brothers—hoarding recluses in a Fifth Avenue New York City mansion. The characters are vivid “principled separatists” who struggle to live by their own rules.

This fictional tale is based on the true life drama of Homer and Langley Collyer who, like Doctorow’s main characters, died under 130 .... read more ...




Paris Under Water
Jeffrey H. Jackson
Pub Date: 1-10-10
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardcover

Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910: A subtle blend of history, prophecy and humanity that illuminates the past and informs the future.

In January 1910 after a winter of heavy rains, the Seine flooded outlying areas. Slowly the Seine rose between the stone and mortar quays in the midst of Paris, creeping higher until it flooded the s.... read more ...





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