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August 2009 New Releases

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The Silent Hour

The Silent Hour
by Michael Koryta
Published 2009

ISBN: 9780312361570 

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Following his critically acclaimed "Envy the Night "("A dynamic thriller"--"The New York Times"), Michael Koryta returns with a blistering new installment of the Edgar, Shamus, and Quillnominated Lincoln Perry series. "Whisper Ridge--Home to Dreams--November 6, 1992- April 27, 1996 "So reads the strange epitaph carved beside the door of the home called Whisper Ridge, a multimillion-dollar piece of architectural majesty that once housed the beginnings of a unique program for paroled murderers....

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Vanished

Vanished
by Joseph Finder
Published 2009

ISBN: 9780312379087 

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Nick Heller is tough, smart, and stubborn. In his line of work, it's essential. Trained in the Special Forces, Nick is a high-powered intelligence investigator--exposing secrets that powerful people would rather keep hidden. Nick Heller is tough, smart, and stubborn....

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The Birthing House

The Birthing House
by Christopher Ransom
Published 2009

ISBN: 9780312385842 

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This psychological thriller with supernatural overtones begins as a story of possession and sexual obsession and ends ultimately in murder, as a centuries-old crime is reenacted in the present with devastating consequences. "It was expecting them....

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A Princess of Landover

A Princess of Landover
by Terry Brooks
Published 2009

ISBN: 9780345458520 

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Ben Holiday, High Lord of the magic kingdom of Landover, and his wife Willow have sent their 15-year-old daughter Mistaya to a prestigious girls' boarding school, where she is forbidden to use her magic for any reason. It is only a matter of time before the authorities have to act....

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Hitler's War

Hitler's War
by Harry Turtledove
Published 2009

ISBN: 9780345491824 

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The "New York Times"-bestselling master of alternative history delivers the captivating first novel in his new World War II series. Turtledove imagines how the war in Europe would have ended had British Prime Minister Chamberlain refused to allow Hitler's annexation of the Sudetenland....

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The Rapture

The Rapture
by Liz Jensen
Published 2009

ISBN: 9780385528214 

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"Girl, Interrupted" meets "The Dead Zone" in this utterly compelling drama about a paranoia that starts inside one murderously insane teenage girl's head and then grows to encompass the whole world. An electrifying story of science, faith, love, and self-destruction in a world on the brink....

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Perfect Life

Perfect Life
by Jessica Shattuck
Published 2009

ISBN: 9780393069501 

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From the author of "The Hazards of Good Breeding" comes a uniquely modern chronicle of conception in the age of infinite possibility. Two years ago, Neil Banks walked into a bathroom in the Pacific Fertility Center to provide his former college girlfriend, Jenny Callahan, with the biological material needed to conceive a child....

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The Hunted

The Hunted
by Brian Haig
Published 2009

ISBN: 9780446195591 

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"New York Times"-bestselling author Haig delivers this thriller inspired by atrue story about one man running between two countries, trying desperately toescape his past. "New York Times "bestselling author Brian Haig delivers his a thriller inspired by a true story about one man running between two countries, trying desperately to escape his past....

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The Amateurs

The Amateurs
by Marcus Sakey
Published 2009

ISBN: 9780525951261 

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In Sakey's taut, propulsive novel, four friends from the old neighborhood have dreams of a better life. But they go too far with a plan to change their situation, and now their world is falling apart. To save their own lives, they have to take the lives of others....

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Homeland

Homeland
by Barbara Hambly
Published 2009

ISBN: 9780553805529 

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Those who loved "Cold Mountain" or Geraldine Brooks's "March" will embrace and long remember this spellbinding novel of two remarkable women torn apart by conflict, sustained by literature and art, united by friendship and hope.

As brother turns against brother in the bloodbath of the Civil War, two young women sacrifice everything but their friendship....

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Dragons of the Hourglass Mage

Dragons of the Hourglass Mage
by Margaret Weis
Published 2009

ISBN: 9780786949168 

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Between Chronicles and Legends, what made Raistlin aspire to godhood?

Raistlin Majere has become a Black Robe wizard and travels to Neraka, the lord city of the Dark Queen, ostensibly to work for her, though in reality he means to further his own quest for power....

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Hell's Gate

Hell's Gate
by Stephen Frey
Published 2009

ISBN: 9781416549659 

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From "New York Times"-bestselling author Frey comes a riveting new thriller about a world-weary star litigator who goes west to become a firefighter in the nation's greatest woodland--and stumbles across the toughest case of his career. It's fire season in Montana....

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The Atlantis Revelation: A Thriller

The Atlantis Revelation: A Thriller
by Thomas Greanias
Published 2009

ISBN: 9781416589129 

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A pedal-to-the-metal thriller that combines good old-fashioned suspense with throat-grabbing twists. Just the right blend of science, myth, history, and action.--Steve Berry, "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Charlemagne Pursuit." From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Raising Atlantis" and "The Atlantis Prophecy" comes an explosive new international thriller jam-packed with political and prophetic intrigue....

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The Confederate General Rides North

The Confederate General Rides North
by Amanda C Gable
Published 2009

ISBN: 9781416598398 

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Kat, a Civil War buff, comes to a hard-won understanding of the war history she loves and the family history she inherits. Growing up in Georgia in the 1960s, eleven-year-old Katherine McConnell, a precocious Civil War buff, is so fascinated by stories of the war's generals that she often imagines herself one of them: riding her pony, leading troops to battle....

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That Certain Spark

That Certain Spark
by Cathy Marie Hake
Published 2009

ISBN: 9780764203206 

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Gooding, Texas, is about to gain a double blessing--a veterinarian and a doctor. But when siblings Enoch and Taylor Bestman arrive, the discovery that Taylor is a lady doctor has the town up in arms. Especially Karl Van der Vort, the town blacksmith, who becomes the first patient....

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Sweetwater Run

Sweetwater Run
by Jan Watson
Published 2009

ISBN: 9781414323855 

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In 1891, in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, two young women stand at a crossroads. As they struggle with the realities of life, both women learn to rely on their faith above all else. In 1891 in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, two young women stand at a crossroads....

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A Surrendered Heart

A Surrendered Heart
by Tracie Peterson
Published 2009

ISBN: 9780764203664 

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The conclusion to the bestselling drama set in the Thousand Islands region at the turn-of-the-century reveals whether Amanda will marry to save the family legacy or pursue her dream of becoming a doctor. When cholera strikes Rochester, NY, most of the members of the Broadmoor family flee to their castle home in the Thousand Islands....

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Forgiven (Sisters of the Heart, Book 3)

Forgiven (Sisters of the Heart, Book 3)
by Shelley Shepard Gray
Published 2009

ISBN: 9780061474477 

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The Believer

The Believer
by Ann H Gabhart
Published 2009

ISBN: 9780800733629 

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Elizabeth Duncan has nowhere to turn. In charge of her younger brother and sister after their parents die, her options are limited. When she hears that the Shaker community in the next county takes in orphans, she presents herself and her siblings at Harmony Hill....

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