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Week of May 14, 2012

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Week of May 14, 2012

In Janet Evanovich’s EXPLOSIVE EIGHTEEN: A STEPHANIE PLUM NOVEL, Stephanie is on the way back from a trip to Hawaii, her dream vacation-turned-nightmare, when she is roped into a complex case when her seatmate on the flight is found dead in a garbage can after the L.A. layover --- and she alone may hold critical evidence.

From Lisa Unger, the author of BEAUTIFUL LIES and FRAGILE, comes DARKNESS, MY OLD FRIEND, a thriller about broken trust that explores our faith in those we rely on --- and how that faith can sustain or shatter us.

Bright's Passage by Josh Ritter - Fiction

 

This wondrous, deeply affecting first novel recounts the unlikely journey undertaken by a father, an infant son, and their guardian angel in the aftermath of the First World War.

Darkness, My Old Friend by Lisa Unger - Thriller

 

From the author of BEAUTIFUL LIES and FRAGILE comes a thriller about broken trust that explores our faith in those we rely on --- and how that faith can sustain or shatter us.

Explosive Eighteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel by Janet Evanovich - Mystery

 

On the way back from a trip to Hawaii, her dream vacation-turned-nightmare, Stephanie Plum is roped into a complex case when her seatmate on the flight is found dead in a garbage can after the L.A. layover --- and she alone may hold critical evidence.

Reamde by Neal Stephenson - Thriller

 

In this high-stakes thriller, a wealthy tech entrepreneur gets caught in the very real crossfire of his own online fantasy war game.

My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business: A Memoir by Dick Van Dyke - Memoir

 

This is a lively, heartwarming memoir of a performer who still thinks of himself as a "simple song-and-dance man," but who is, in every sense of the word, a classic entertainer.

Next to Love by Ellen Feldman - Historical Fiction

 

In Next to Love by Ellen Feldman, three young women --- Babe, Millie and Grace --- who live in a small town in Massachusetts all send the men they love off to fight in World War II. Not everyone returns, and those who do are profoundly changed, reminding us that the scars of war run deeper than the day that victory is won. This character-rich story begins before the men head out and continues right through the early ’60s.

The Profession by Steven Pressfield - Thriller

 

Steven Pressfield returns with a stunning, chillingly plausible near-future thriller about the rise of a privately financed and global military industrial complex.