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Week of March 12, 2012

The three Beauchamp women live in North Hampton, out on the tip of Long Island. Their town seems almost stuck in time, and all three lead seemingly uneventful existences. But, in WITCHES OF EAST END, they are harboring a mighty secret --- they are powerful witches banned from using their magic.

When ballerina Sasha Davis suffers a career-ending injury, she retreats to the home of her youth in Minnesota, where her injuries limit her as much as her mother's recent death haunts her. She hires a temporary live-in aide, and the two women form an unlikely alliance in FINDING OUR WAY HOME.

Week of March 5, 2012

In NEW YORK TO DALLAS, J. D. Robb presents an intense and terrifying new case for New York homicide cop Eve Dallas, one that will take her all the way to the city that gave her her name --- and plunge her into the nightmares of her childhood.

THE WISE MAN'S FEAR, Patrick Rothfuss’s long-awaited sequel to THE NAME OF THE WIND, finds Kvothe searching for answers, attempting to uncover the truth about the mysterious Amyr, the Chandrian, and the death of his parents.

Week of February 27, 2012

BRINGING ADAM HOME tells the story of Adam Walsh. Before Adam, there were no faces on milk cartons, no National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, no federal databases of crimes against children. His 1981 abduction and murder --- unsolved for over a quarter of a century --- forever changed America.

Harlan Coben’s LIVE WIRE follows Myron Bolitar, who gets involved in the family drama of his former tennis star client and her rock star husband. He discovers secrets about his own family, specifically his brother, who abandoned the Bolitars long ago.

Week of February 20, 2012

In THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNETS’ NEST, the concluding volume of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition in a Swedish hospital, a bullet in her head. But she's fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she'll stand trial for three murders.

Week of February 13, 2012

In Lisa Scottoline’s SAVE ME, Rose McKenna volunteers as a lunch mom in her daughter Melly’s school in order to keep an eye on Amanda, a girl who’s been bullying her daughter. But an accidental explosion in the kitchen will change the course of Rose’s life.

Week of February 6, 2012

In DREAMS OF JOY, Lisa See returns to the story of sisters Pearl and May from SHANGHAI GIRLS, and Pearl’s strong-willed 19-year-old daughter Joy, who runs away to Shanghai in early 1957 to find her birth father.

In Helen Schulman THIS BEAUTIFUL LIFE, 15-year-old Jake Bergamot receives --- and then forwards to a friend --- a sexually explicit video that an eighth-grade admirer sent to him. The video goes viral within hours, and the scandal that ensues threatens to shatter his family and his world.

February 2012

February’s roundup of New in Paperback titles includes KINGDOM KEEPERS IV: POWER PLAY, a continuation of Ridley Pearson’s adventure story that pits the five teens who modeled as Disney Hologram Imaging hosts against the Overtakers, a group of Disney villains attempting to rescue two of their leaders imprisoned by the Disney Imagineers after a violent encounter at Epcot; BEST OF THE BEST, Tim Green’s latestBaseball Great novel that finds Josh LeBlanc trying to balance his parents’ impending divorce with making the winning plays at the Little League World Series; FAIRIES AND THE QUEST FOR NEVER LAND, the third installment in Gail Carson Levine’s chapter book series, in which Peter Pan comes at last and blows fairy dust on Gwendolyn Carlisle; and NO PASSENGERS BEYOND THIS POINT, Gennifer Choldenko's story of three siblings who find themselves trapped in a fantastical place they've never heard of.

Week of January 30, 2012

In Tom Clancy's AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, a terrorist bombing in Pakistan wipes out ex-Navy SEAL Max Moore’s entire CIA team. What he discovers in the terrorist cell leads him to a much darker conspiracy in an unexpected part of the globe --- the US/Mexico border, where a drug war rages.

Everything Faith learned in the police academy goes out the window when she charges into her mother’s house, gun drawn. She sees a man dead in the laundry room, a hostage situation in the bedroom. What she doesn’t see is her mother. Read FALLEN by Karin Slaughter to see how this all unfolds.

Week of January 23, 2012

In LETHAL by Sandra Brown, accused murderer Lee Coburn claims that Honor Gillette's beloved late husband possessed something extremely valuable that places Honor and her daughter in grave danger. Coburn has come to their house to retrieve it --- at any cost.

No one knew Stieg Larsson like his lifelong companion, Eva Gabrielsson. In "THERE ARE THINGS I WANT YOU TO KNOW" ABOUT STIEG LARSSON AND ME, she tells the story of their 30-year romance, Stieg's lifelong struggle to expose Sweden’s Neo-Nazis, his difficult relationships with his immediate family, and the joy and relief he discovered writing the Millennium Trilogy.

Week of January 16, 2012

The narrator of David Levithan’s THE LOVER’S DICTIONARY has constructed the story of his relationship as a dictionary. Through these short entries, he provides an intimate window into the great events and quotidian trifles of being within a couple.

In VENETIA KELLY’S TRAVELING SHOW by Frank Delaney, Ben MacCarthy and his father watch a vagabond variety revue making a stop in the Irish countryside in 1932. After two hours, Ben’s father, mesmerized by Venetia Kelly, the troupe’s magnetic headliner, makes a fateful decision: to abandon his family and set off on the road with Miss Kelly and her caravan.

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