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Week of October 15, 2012

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Week of October 15, 2012

FALLEN is a thrilling journey through the heart and soul, where the personal and the criminal collide, and conflicted loyalties threaten to destroy reputations and ruin lives.

JANE FONDA: The Private Life of a Public Woman looks into Jane Fonda's life: her family drama, her film career, her activism during the Vietnam War, the exercise videos that began a fitness craze, and much more.

American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America by David O. Stewart -

 

AMERICAN EMPEROR traces Aaron Burr from the threshold of the presidency in the contested election of 1800, through his duel with Alexander Hamilton, and then across the American West as he schemed with foreign ambassadors, the traitorous general-in-chief of the army, and future presidents, including Andrew Jackson.

An American Spy by Olen Steinhauer - Thriller

 

When Alan Drummond, Milo Weaver's former boss in the CIA, uses one of Milo’s compromised aliases to travel to London and then disappears, calling all kinds of attention to his actions, Milo can’t help but go in search of him.

And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life by Charles J. Shields - Biography

 

AND SO IT GOES is the culmination of five years of research and writing --- the first-ever biography of the life of Kurt Vonnegut Jr., a writer who changed the conversation of American literature.

Fallen by Karin Slaughter - Thriller

 

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.

Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson written by Hunter S. Thompson, edited by Jann S. Wenner - Essays

 

This is a definitive, hand-picked selection of Hunter S. Thompson's finest pieces ever published in Rolling Stone --- the magazine that helped to put him on the map in the 1970s.

Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman by Patricia Bosworth - Biography

 

Patricia Bosworth brings readers into Jane Fonda's life: her family drama, her film career, her activism during the Vietnam War, the exercise videos that began a fitness craze, and much more.

The Maid: A Novel of Joan of Arc by Kimberly Cutter - Historical Fiction

This is the story of Jehanne (Saint Joan of Arc), a peasant girl who is terrified and confused after a voice calls out, “Jehanne, my virgin, Maid of France.” Later, when the voices of saints follow, Jehanne believes she has been chosen by God to defeat the English who have invaded France.