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Week of October 3, 2011

In DON’T SING AT THE TABLE, Adriana Trigiani reveals how her grandmothers’ simple values have shaped her own life, sharing the experiences, humor and wisdom of her beloved mentors to delight readers of all ages.

Shane Scully responds to a call at a once-immaculate mansion in Stephen J. Cannell's THE PROSTITUTES' BALL. The place is deserted --- except for three dead bodies, all shot with the same gun. But when he starts investigating what looks like an open-and-shut case, things take a turn for the worse.

Week of September 26, 2011

In Marcia Muller's LOCKED IN, San Francisco private eye Sharon McCone was shot in the head and suffered from locked-in syndrome: almost total paralysis but with an alert, conscious mind. Now, in COMING BACK, Sharon's friend from physical therapy goes missing, causing Sharon to call upon those closest to her to find out the truth behind the disappearance.

Jonathan Frazen's first novel in nine years, FREEDOM is an epic novel of contemporary love and marriage. Comically and tragically, Frazen captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, and the heavy weight of empire.

Week of September 19, 2011

DON'T BLINK by James Patterson and Howard Roughan introduces New York's Lombardo's Steak House, famous for three reasons --- the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police's fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations.

EVE is the first book in a trilogy by Iris Johansen, introducing forensic sculptor Eve Duncan, whose mission is to bring closure to families who have experienced the agony of a missing child. Her work is driven by the fact that her own daughter was kidnapped years ago. But now a name from the past has resurfaced. Could he be the missing piece to the puzzle?

Week of September 12, 2011

In Brad Meltzer's political thriller, THE INNER CIRCLE, Beecher White --- a young archivist --- spends his days working with the most important documents of the U.S. government. He has always been the keeper of other people's stories, never a part of the story himself...until now.

A SECRET KEPT is the story of a modern family and the invisible ties that hold it together. By turns thrilling and seductive, Tatiana de Rosnay's novel leaves a lingering effect that is both bittersweet and redeeming.

Week of September 5, 2011

In Robert B. Parker's 38th Spenser novel, PAINTED LADIES, Spenser had a simple job: protect an art scholar during a ransom exchange for a stolen painting. But no one was supposed to die.

In THREE STATIONS, Martin Cruz Smith produces a complex and haunting vision of an emergent Russia’s secret underclass of street urchins, greedy thugs and a bureaucracy still paralyzed by power and fear.

Week of August 29, 2011

From the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty, FALL OF GIANTS by Ken Follett takes readers into the inextricably entangled fates of five families.

Justice Department operative Cotton Malone has just begun his most harrowing adventure to date in THE EMPEROR'S TOMB --- one that offers up astounding historical revelations, pits him against a ruthless ancient brotherhood, and sends him to one of the greatest archaeological sites in the world.

Week of August 22, 2011

Ruth and Dana were born on the same day, in the same small New Hampshire hospital. Different in nearly every way, the two share a need to make sense of who they are, in Joyce Maynard's THE GOOD DAUGHTERS.

As four women wrestle with the challenges of love and motherhood, WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE by Sally Koslow will leave you certain that close friends can never be replaced.

Week of August 15, 2011

In the hope of hunting down relics representing the Seven Deadly Sins, Diesel latches on to pastry chef Lizzy Tucker and charms his way through Salem --- only to be thwarted by his criminal mastermind cousin --- in Janet Evanovich's WICKED APPETITE.

HOLLYWOOD is Larry McMurtry’s account of the foibles and eccentricities of the movie industry as seen through the eyes of a man who never allowed himself to be overcome by the glitz and glamour of the industry.

Week of August 8, 2011

Gail Caldwell mines the deepest levels of devotion and courage in LET'S TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME, her memoir about treasuring a best friend, and coming of age in midlife.

Week of August 1, 2011

In A ZERO HISTORY by William Gibson, a former rock singer turned journalist has reluctantly agreed to work for secretive Belgian finance genius Hubertus Bigend again --- only to find herself entangled in a threatening mesh of postmodern marketing, corrupt American military contractors, and belated romance.

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