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Adair, Cherry, 1951- Night shadow : a novel / Cherry Adair. Ballantine Books, 2008. ISBN: 0345499735 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC An anti-terrorist operative with the T-FLAC organization, Alex Stone finds his life complicated by his enigmatic new partner, Lexi, who finds her own attitudes toward good and evil thrown into turmoil by Alex's shadowy world. |
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Adams, John Joseph (EDT)/ Hill, Joe/ Martin, George R. R./ Barker, Clive living dead / edited by John Joseph Adams. 1st ed. Night Shade Books, c2008 ISBN: 1597801437 Order List: FIC 11/08 SF A collection of short stories about zombies includes contributions by Clive Barker, Laurell K. Hamilton, Stephen King, and Neil Gaiman. |
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Anderson, Kevin J. (EDT) Blood Lite : An Anthology of Humorous Horror Stories Pocket Books 2008 ISBN: 1416567836 Order List: FIC 11/08 SS |
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Anelli, Melissa. Harry, a history : the true story of a boy wizard, his fans, and life inside the Harry Potter phenomenon / Melissa Anelli. 1st Pocket Books trade pbk. ed. Pocket Books, 2008. ISBN: 1416554955 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC |
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Asher, Jay Thirteen Reasons Why Penguin Group USA 2009 ISBN: 159514188X Order List: FIC 11/08 Branch Requests |
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Atwood, Margaret, 1939- Handmaid's tale / Margaret Atwood ; with an introduction by Valerie Martin. Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2006. ISBN: 0307264602 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC |
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Auchincloss, Louis. Last of the old guard / Louis Auchincloss. Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008. ISBN: 0547152752 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC As he approaches the end of his life, Adrian Suydam, one of the founding partners of the prominent law firm of Suydam & Saunders, reflects on his lifelong friendship and business relationship with Ernest Saunders. |
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Baldacci, David. Divine justice / David Baldacci. 1st ed. Grand Central Pub., 2008. ISBN: 0446195502 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC Having assassinated the two men who had been inhibiting his freedom, John Carr becomes the target of a manhunt involving the highest levels of the U.S. government, prompting Joe Knox to launch an investigation that tests the resources of the Camel Club. |
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Ballard, Mignon Franklin. Hark! the herald angel screamed : an Augusta Goodnight mystery (with heavenly recipes) / Mignon Ballard. 1st ed. Thomas Dunne Books, 2008. ISBN: 0312376677 Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS Augusta Goodnight, guardian angel, sometime sleuth, and a boarder at the South Carolina home of Lucy Nan Pilgrim, becomes involved in the case of a mysterious stranger who plunges to his death from the balcony of an abandoned mansion. |
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Beck, Glenn. Christmas sweater / Glenn Beck. 1st Threshold editions hardcover ed. Threshold, 2008. ISBN: 141659485X Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC A holiday tale relates the story of a thirteen-year-old boy whose final gift from his mother, a sweater, is scorned in favor of more expensive gifts before a tragic car accident ends the mother's life. |
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Black, Michael A./ Hyzy, Julie Dead Ringer Thorndike Pr 2008 ISBN: 1594147132 Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS |
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Blevins, Winfred. Dreams beneath your feet / by Win Blevins. 1st hardcover ed. Forge, 2008. ISBN: 076530578X Order List: FIC 11/08 WES |
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Bolano, Roberto, 1953-2003. 2666 / Roberto Bolano ; translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2008. ISBN: 0374100144 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of young factory workers have disappeared. |
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Brown, Rita Mae. Santa clawed : a Mrs. Murphy mystery / Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown ; illustrations by Michael Gellatly. Bantam Books, 2008. ISBN: 0553807064 Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS |
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Butcher, Jim, 1971- Princeps' fury / Jim Butcher. 1st ed. Ace Books, 2008. ISBN: 0441016383 Order List: FIC 11/08 SF After achieving a fragile alliance with the savage Canim, Alera's oldest foes, Tavi of Calderon is confronted by an invasion by the Vord, which forces the Aleran legions and Canim warriors into a desperate battle for survival against a dreaded mutual enemy. |
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Cameron, Bill Chasing Smoke Big Earth Pub 2008 ISBN: 1606480189 Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS |
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Camus, Albert, 1913-1960. stranger / Albert Camus ; translated from the French by Matthew Ward ; with an introduction by Peter Dunwoodie. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1993. ISBN: 0679420266 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC |
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Card, Orson Scott. Ender in exile / Orson Scott Card. 1st ed. Tor, 2008. ISBN: 0765304961 Order List: FIC 11/08 SF Having made the difficult choice to leave his home world to travel to the colonies, twelve-year-old military genius Andrew Wiggin shares a series of daring adventures with his sister Valentine and the artificial intelligence Jane. |
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Carr, Robyn. Virgin River Christmas : a Virgin River novel / Robyn Carr. Mira, c2008. ISBN: 0778325733 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC Newly-widowed Marcie Sullivan tracks down Ian Buchanan, the man responsible for saving her husband's life years ago, and finds an emotionally scarred man who needs her help in healing his wounded soul during a season of miracles. |
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Carver, Jeffrey A. Sunborn / Jeffrey A. Carver. 1st ed. Tor, 2008. ISBN: 0312864531 Order List: FIC 11/08 SF |
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Chang, Henry, 1951- Year of the dog / Henry Chang. Soho, c2008. ISBN: 1569475156 Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS |
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Church, James. Bamboo and blood : an Inspector O novel / James Church. 1st ed. Minotaur Books, 2008. ISBN: 0312372914 Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS In 1997 North Korea, Inspector O is working in Pyongyang as the country's nuclear missile program begins to escalate and as the wife of a North Korean diplomat turns up dead in Pakistan under suspicious circumstances. |
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Chute, Carolyn. school on Heart's Content Road / Carolyn Chute. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008. ISBN: 0871139871 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC Mickey Gammon, a disaffected fifteen-year-old dropout kicked out of his home by his half-brother, is introduced to the secretive world of the Settlement, a rural cooperative run by The Prophet, where he encounters another deserted child, six-year-old Jane. |
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Coelho, Paulo. alchemist / A Fable About Following Your Dream Paulo Coelho ; translated by Alan R. Clarke. HarperSanFrancisco, c1998. ISBN: 0062502174 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC A fable about undauntingly following one's dreams, listening to one's heart, and reading life's omens features dialogue between a boy and an unnamed being. |
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Cornwell, Patricia Daniels. Scarpetta / Patricia Cornwell. G. P. Putnam's Sons, c2008. ISBN: 0399155163 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC Leaving behind her Charleston forensic pathology practice to accept an assignment in New York City, Kay Scarpetta learns the story of an injured psychiatric patient who claims he was attacked by a stalker who was killing someone else at the time. |
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Corona, Laurel. four seasons : a novel of Vivaldi's Venice / Laurel Corona. Hyperion, 2008. ISBN: 1401309267 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC |
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Coyle, Harold, 1952- Vulcan's fire : Harold Coyle's Strategic Solutions, Inc. / by Harold Coyle and Barrett Tillman. 1st hardcover ed. Forge, 2008. ISBN: 0765313731 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC Facing a financial crisis, private paramilitary company Strategic Solutions, Inc. takes a morally dubious assignment from Israel that places the organization in a shadowy region of tangled alliances and hostilities between Druze militias and Hezbollah. |
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Cumming, Charles, 1971- Spanish game / Charles Cumming. 1st U.S. ed. St. Martin's Press, 2008. ISBN: 0312366396 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC Attempting to rebuild his life in Madrid, former spy Alec Milius struggles to live below the radar as an investment banker, until the disappearance of a prominent politician places him in the middle of an international conspiracy. |
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Cussler, Clive. Arctic drift : a Dirk Pitt novel / Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2008. ISBN: 0399155295 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC When a series of unexplained deaths and international hostilities occur in the wake of a breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming, NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children investigate a mysterious silvery mineral with links to a fabled Northwest Passage expedition. |
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Davies, David Stuart, 1946- Without conscience : a Johnny Hawke novel / David Stuart Davies. 1st U.S. ed. Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur, 2008. ISBN: 0312382103 Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS |
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Deaver, Jeffery. bodies left behind / Jeffery Deaver. 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. Simon & Schuster, 2008. ISBN: 1416595619 Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS Arriving at a deserted lake house to investigate an aborted call to police, Deputy Anna McCafferty walks into the middle of a heinous crime and is forced to flee, along with the daughter of the murdered couple, into the surrounding forest to escape the perpetrators. |
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Great expectations / Charles Dickens ; with an introduction and notes by Radhika Jones. Hardcover ed. Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004. ISBN: 1593081626 Order List: FIC 11/08 Branch Requests Tells the story of Pip, an orphan who, through a mysterious benefactor, rises in Victorian society, is educated as a gentleman, and snobbishly neglects his childhood friends. |
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Dickey, Eric Jerome. Dying for revenge / Eric Jerome Dickey. Dutton, 2008. ISBN: 0525950869 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC Hit man Gideon traverses a steamy criminal underworld to confront the most challenging adversary of his career. |
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Dietz, William C. When duty calls / William C. Dietz. 1st ed. Ace Books, 2008. ISBN: 0441016324 Order List: FIC 11/08 SF As Captain Antonio Santana and his crew of biobods and cyborgs confront overwhelming odds in the war with the Ramanthian, his true love, diplomat Christine Vanderveen must deal with treacherous allies and the new president of the Clone Republic. |
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Doss, James D. Snake dreams / James D. Doss. 1st ed. St. Martin's Minotaur, 2008. ISBN: 0312364601 Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS Ute rancher and part-time tribal investigator Charlie Moon's plans for marital bliss with FBI Special Agent Lila Mae McTeague are put on hold thanks to Charlie's cantankerous aunt, her sixteen-year-old niece, and their visions of a murdered woman. |
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Downham, Jenny Before I Die Random House Childrens Books 2009 ISBN: 0385751834 Order List: FIC 11/08 Branch Requests |
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Drake, David. gods return / by David Drake. 1st ed. Tor, 2008. ISBN: 0765312611 Order List: FIC 11/08 SF The united Isles are endangered by the release of new gods from alternate planes of existence and an ancient monster that threatens to devour all life. |
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Ewan, Chris, 1976- good thief's guide to Paris / Chris Ewan. 1st U.S. ed. St. Martin's Minotaur, 2008. ISBN: 0312376456 Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS Fresh from a successful Paris book reading, mystery writer and professional thief Charlie Howard is hired by his fence to steal an oil painting from the apartment at which he had been demonstrating his larcenous skills a day earlier. |
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Ferris, Monica. Thai die / Monica Ferris. 1st ed. Berkeley Prime Crime, 2008. ISBN: 0425223469 Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS The owner of the Crewel World needlework shop, Betsy Devonshire must put her sleuthing talents to work when one of her regular customers unwittingly becomes embroiled in a deadly delivery of exotic antiquities. |
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Flint, Eric. 1635 : the Dreeson incident / Eric Flint and Virginia DeMarce. Baen Pub. ; Distributed by Simon & Schuster, c2008. ISBN: 1416555897 Order List: FIC 11/08 SF As the Thirty Years War continues to devastate seventeenth-century Europe, the power of the United States of Europe, under the leadership of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden flourishes, but a French spy and a vengeful assassin could destroy everything. |
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Flint, Eric. Slow train to Arcturus / by Eric Flint and Dave Freer. Baen Books, c2008. ISBN: 1416555854 Order List: FIC 11/08 SF Sending a spaceship to rendezvous with an enormous vessel made up of a series of globular habitats approaching its star system, the aliens find a savage race calling themselves 'humans' who promptly slaughter the exploration team, except for a single survivor who escapes to another habitat, where he finds more friendly humans whose help he requires to get back to his own ship. |
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Ford, Jeffrey, 1955- drowned life / Jeffrey Ford. 1st ed. Harper Perennial, c2008. ISBN: 0061435066 Order List: FIC 11/08 SS |
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Gardner, John, 1926-2007. Moriarty / John Gardner. 1st ed. Harcourt, c2008. ISBN: 0151012520 Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS Surviving the confrontation with Sherlock Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls, Professor James Moriarty is on the verge of successfully building crime syndicates throughout the United States, when his criminal empire is threatened by a mysterious rival, Sir Jack Idell. |
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Garlock, Dorothy. Leaving Whiskey Bend / Dorothy Garlock. 1st ed. Grand Central Pub., c2008. ISBN: 0446577936 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC When their friend is assaulted in the street of their hard-drinking, gun-toting Colorado town, a young schoolteacher and a spinster set out in an open wagon to find a safer life, an endeavor that pits them against violent natural elements and their friend's assailant. |
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Goldberg, Lee, 1962- Mr. Monk is miserable / Lee Goldberg. Obsidian, 2008. ISBN: 0451225155 Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS Ona a side trip to France, detective Adrian Monk takes a tour through the historic underground world of the Parisian sewers, where he encounters a catacombs filled with ancient human remains, including one much more recent skull bearing evidence of murder. |
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Greeley, Andrew M., 1928- archbishop in Andalusia : a Blackie Ryan novel / Andrew Greeley. 1st hardcover ed. Forge, 2008. ISBN: 0765315904 Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS Sent to Spain to prevent a murder, Archbishop John Blackwood 'Blackie' Ryan protects a beautiful widow from avaricious relatives who would seize control of her fortune, an effort that is further complicated by dramatic events back in his Chicago home. |
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Greenwood, Kerry. Death by water : a Phryne Fisher mystery / Kerry Greenwood. Poisoned Pen Press, 2008. ISBN: 159058239X Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS With a series of jewelry thefts targeting the first-class passengers on P&O ocean liners, the powers-that-be ask Phryne Fisher to mingle with the upper classes to solve a case of theft on the S.S. Hinemoa, during a luxury cruise to New Zealand. |
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Gregory, Philippa Fallen Skies Simon & Schuster 2008 ISBN: 1416593144 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC |
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Gregson, J. M. Good Walk Spoiled Severn House Pub Ltd 2008 ISBN: 0727866664 Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS |
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Grippando, James, 1958- Born to run / James Grippando. 1st ed. HarperCollins, 2008. ISBN: 0061556114 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC Intrepid Miami attorney Jack Swyteck is entreated by his former governor father for help representing him and investigating the suspicious hunting death of the vice president. |
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Hamilton, Laurell K. Blue moon / Laurell K. Hamilton. Berkley Books, 2008, c1998. ISBN: 0425223833 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC Unable to forget her fiance, Richard Zeeman, whom she had left when she could not reconcile herself to his werewolf nature, vampire hunter Anita Blake seeks to prove his innocence when he is falsely accused of rape in Tennesee. |
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Hardie, Titania. rose labyrinth / by Titania Hardie. 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. Atria Books, c2008. ISBN: 1416584609 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC Discovering hidden writings by Queen Elizabeth I's astrologer that made shocking predictions for the modern world, documentary producer Lucy King races throughout England, France, and New York to decipher clues leading to a fated lost treasure. |
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Harris, C. S. Where serpents sleep : a Sebastian St. Cyr mystery / C.S. Harris. Obsidian, c2008. ISBN: 0451225120 Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS The sole witness to the slaughter of eight young prostitutes at a house of refuge near Covent Garden, Hero Jarvis, daughter of the Prince Regent's cousin, joins forces with Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, to investigate the massacre. |
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Harris, Charlaine (EDT)/ Kelner, Toni L. P. (EDT) Wolfsbane and mistletoe / edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner. 1st ed. Ace Books, 2008. ISBN: 0441016332 Order List: FIC 11/08 SS Lycanthropy is the theme of a special anthology of holiday tales featuring a collection of werewolf stories by Charlaine Harris, Simon R. Green, Keri Arthur, Dana Stabenow, Carrie Vaughn, Patricia Briggs, and Rob Thurman. |
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Hart, Ellen. Sweet poison / Ellen Hart. 1st ed. St. Martin's Minotaur, 2008. ISBN: 0312375255 Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS Struggling to juggle her career as a restaurateur while working on her father's campaign for governor, Jane Lawless turns sleuth when one of the volunteers on the campaign is found murdered. |
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Havill, Steven. fourth time is murder : a Posadas County mystery / Steven F. Havill. 1st ed. Minotaur Books, 2008. ISBN: 0312380631 Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS With the sheriff out on medical leave following a serious injury, Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman is called upon to run the Posadas County department and finds herself investigating a strange accident that has injured another police officer. |
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Hill, Susan, 1942- man in the picture : a ghost story / Susan Hill. 1st ed. Overlook Press, 2008, c2007. ISBN: 1590200918 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC Oliver's former college tutor, Theo Parmitter, reveals to him the eerie secret of a mysterious painting that has the power to demonically possess the minds of people who stare at it. |
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Horan, Nancy. Loving Frank : a novel / Nancy Horan. Ballantine Books trade pbk. ed. Ballantine Books, 2008. ISBN: 0345495004 Order List: FIC 11/08 Branch Requests Fact and fiction blend in a historical novel that chronicles the relationship between seminal architect Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney, from their meeting, when they were each married to another, to the clandestine affair that shocked Chicago society. |
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Howard, Linda, 1950- Under the mistletoe / Linda Howard, Stephanie Bond. HQN, c2008. ISBN: 0373773447 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC In 'Bluebird Winter,' Kathleen Fields, pregnant and alone during a blizzard on Christmas Day, finds her life changed after being rescued by a stranger, and in 'Naughty or Nice,' a corporate hatchet man mixes business with pleasure when he investigates a sexy general manager. |
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Jacobs, Kate, 1973- Knit two / A Friday Night Knitting Club Novel Kate Jacobs. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2008. ISBN: 039915583X Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC |
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James, P. D. private patient / P.D. James. 1st ed. Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. ISBN: 0307270777 Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS |
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Jance, Judith A. Cruel intent / A Novel of Suspense by J.A. Jance. Simon & Schuster, 2008. ISBN: 1416563792 Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS When her contractor's unfaithful wife is brutally murdered, former TV anchorwoman Ali Reynolds sets out to prove the husband's innocence in spite of skepticism on the part of Ali's detective boyfriend, a situation that catches the attention of the real killer. |
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Karp, Larry. king of ragtime / Larry Karp. 1st ed. Poisoned Pen Press, 2008. ISBN: 1590585267 Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS |
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Kelton, Elmer. Texas sunrise : two novels of the Texas Republic / Elmer Kelton. 1st ed. Forge, 2008. ISBN: 0765320649 Order List: FIC 11/08 WES In 'Massacre at Goliad,' a pair of brothers arrives in the Mexican-controlled province of Texas only to witness the outbreak of the revolution, and in 'After the Bugles,' Joshua struggles to start over in a new republic that is finding its independence challenging. |
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Kenyon, Sherrilyn One Silent Night St Martins Pr 2008 ISBN: 0312947062 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC |
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King, Stephen, 1947- Just after sunset : stories / Stephen King. 1st Scribner hardcover ed. Scribner, 2008. ISBN: 1416584080 Order List: FIC 11/08 SS A collection of short works is comprised of pieces that previously appeared in 'The New Yorker,' 'Playboy,' and 'McSweeney's,' in a volume that includes such tales as 'The Gingerbread Girl' and 'N.' |
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Kingsbury, Kate. Ringing in murder / Kate Kingsbury. Berkley Prime Crime trade pbk. ed. Berkley Prime Crime, 2008. ISBN: 042522399X Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS |
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Kinkade, Thomas, 1958- Christmas star : a Cape Light novel / Thomas Kinkade & Katherine Spencer. 1st ed. Berkley Books, 2008. ISBN: 0425223582 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC Sam and Jessica Morgan's holiday joy turns to tragedy when they lose their house to a fire just before Christmas, while single mother Julie Newton and her young daughter, in desperate need of a roof over their heads, turn to widower Jack Baxter for help. |
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Kluge, P. F. (Paul Frederick), 1942- Gone tomorrow / P.F. Kluge. Overlook Press, 2008. ISBN: 159020090X Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC When an acclaimed writer and college professor is killed in a hit-and-run accident, speculations about his unwritten final novel run rampant in the intellectual community, prompting his literary executor to begin a search through the professor's personalrecords. |
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Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945- Your heart belongs to me / Dean Koontz. Bantam Books, 2008. ISBN: 0553807137 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC One year after the heart transplant that had saved him from certain death, Ryan Perry receives strange messages united by the theme, 'Your heart belongs to me,' and discovers that he is being stalked by a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the donor of his heart. |
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Korman, Gordon. Born to rock / Gordon Korman. 1st Hyperion Paperbacks ed. Hyperion Paperbacks, 2008, c2006. ISBN: 0786809213 Order List: FIC 11/08 Branch Requests High school senior Leo Caraway, a conservative Republican, learns that his biological father is a punk rock legend. |
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Korman, Gordon. Son of the mob / Gordon Korman. 1st Hyperion pbk. ed. Hyperion Paperbacks, 2004, c2002. ISBN: 0786815930 Order List: FIC 11/08 Branch Requests Seventeen-year-old Vince's life is constantly complicated by the fact that he is the son of a powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that threatens to destroy his romance with the daughter of an FBI agent. |
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Korman, Gordon. Son of the mob : Hollywood hustle / Gordon Korman. 1st Hyperion Paperbacks ed. Hyperion Paperbacks, 2006, c2004. ISBN: 0786809191 Order List: FIC 11/08 Branch Requests Eighteen-year-old Vince Luca, son of mob boss Anthony Luca, goes away to college in California hoping to escape his past, but soon his brother and a series of 'uncles' appear at his dorm, and he is caught up in criminal activity once again. |
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Kundera, Milan. unbearable lightness of being / Milan Kundera ; translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim. 1st Perennial Classics ed. HarperPerennial, 1999, c1984. ISBN: 0060932139 Order List: FIC 11/08 Branch Requests Interweaves story and dream, past and present, and philosophy and poetry in the sardonic and erotic tale of two couples--Tomas and Teresa, and Sabina and her Swiss lover, Gerhart. |
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Lavene, Joyce. telltale turtle : a pet psychic mystery / Joyce & Jim Lavene. 1st ed. Midnight Ink, c2008. ISBN: 0738712264 Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS |
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Lerner, Edward M. Fools' experiments / by Edward M. Lerner. 1st ed. Tor, 2008. ISBN: 0765319012 Order List: FIC 11/08 SF Demonic attacks on the computer industry's top minds coincide with the escape of a malicious artificial life form created by misguided researchers, prompting computer scientist Doug Carey to institute unconventional measures to save humanity. |
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Lindskold, Jane M. Thirteen orphans / Jane Lindskold. 1st ed. Tor, 2008. ISBN: 0765317001 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC |
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Luceno, James, 1947- Star wars : millennium falcon / James Luceno. 1st ed. Del Rey/Ballantine Books, c2008. ISBN: 0345507002 Order List: FIC 11/08 SF |
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Macomber, Debbie Manning Grooms : Bride on the Loose / Same Time, Next Year Harlequin Books 2008 ISBN: 0778326020 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC |
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Maleeny, Tim, 1962- Greasing the pinata / Tim Maleeny. Poisoned Pen Press, 2008. ISBN: 1590585666 Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS When her father, a former U.S. senator, and brother vanish, only to turn up dead on a Mexican golf course with body parts missing, the senator's estranged daughter Rebecca hires P.I. Cape Weathers to uncover the truth. |
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Marai, Sandor, 1900-1989. Esther's inheritance / by Sandor Marai ; translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes. 1st American ed. Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. ISBN: 1400045002 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC Falling in love with Lajos, a pathological liar, despite the fact that he is married to her sister, Esther is trapped in a humdrum life with an elderly cousin when Lajos vanishes after her sister's death, until, after many years, he announces that he is returning. |
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Marillier, Juliet Heir to Sevenwaters Penguin Group USA 2008 ISBN: 0451462335 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC |
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Marr, Melissa. Wicked lovely / Melissa Marr. 1st pbk. ed. HarperTeen, 2008, c2007. ISBN: 0061214671 Order List: FIC 11/08 Branch Requests Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see faeries, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle between the Summer King and the Winter Queen, and the survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the balance. |
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McCaffrey, Todd, 1956- Dragonheart : Anne McCaffrey's dragonriders of Pern / Todd McCaffrey. 1st ed. Ballantine Books, 2008. ISBN: 0345491149 Order List: FIC 11/08 SF When young Fiona is asked to take on the role of Weyrwoman, the co-leader of an entire dragon Weyr, she soon discovers the challenges of her new position, from unexpected perils to the possibility of losing her own dragon to the sickness that has claimedothers. |
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McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948- world according to Bertie / by Alexander McCall Smith. 1st Anchor Books ed. Anchor Books, 2008. ISBN: 0307387062 Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS |
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McDevitt, Jack. devil's eye / Jack McDevitt. 1st ed. Ace Books, 2008. ISBN: 0441016359 Order List: FIC 11/08 SF Hired by writer Vicki Greene, interstellar antiquities dealer Alex Benedict discovers that his would-be client now has no memory of her past, and his search for answers takes him to a remote human world that holds the key to a decades-old political conflict. |
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McKenna, Shannon Ultimate Weapon Kensington Pub Corp 2008 ISBN: 0758211899 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC |
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McKiernan, Dennis L., 1932- City of jade : a novel of Mithgar / Dennis L. McKiernan. Roc, c2008. ISBN: 0451462319 Order List: FIC 11/08 SF Aravan, captain of the Elven ship Eroean, his Magekind Seeress beloved Aylis, and his crew of men and dwarves embark on a perilous quest to find a legendary city carved of precious jade, only to discover sorcery and death lurking amidst the treasure. |
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Modesitt, L. E. lord-protector's daughter / L.E. Modesitt, Jr. 1st ed. Tor, 2008. ISBN: 0765321637 Order List: FIC 11/08 SF Discovering that large sums of money have been diverted from her father's treasury, the eldest daughter of Lanachrona's overseer is directed to discover her Talent in order to save her world. |
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Montefiore, Sebag, 1965- Sashenka / Simon Montefiore. Simon & Schuster, 2008. ISBN: 1416595546 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC In early twentieth-century Russia, Sashenka Zeitlin becomes caught up in the revolutionary fervor destined to bring down the czar, as she deals with arrest and imprisonment, the bloody battles that engulf the country under Stalin, and a forbidden love affair. |
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Morris, Bob, 1950- deadly silver sea / Bob Morris. 1st ed. Minotaur Books, 2008. ISBN: 0312377258 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC Celebrating the imminent birth of their first child, Zack Chasteen and his wife, Barbara, join the inaugural cruise of the Royal Star, the world's most exclusive and luxurious liner, but their dream vacation is threatened when armed gunmen seize the ship. |
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Morrison, Toni. mercy : a novel / by Toni Morrison. 1st ed. Knopf, 2008. ISBN: 0307264238 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC In exchange for a bad debt, an Anglo-Dutch trader takes on Florens, a young slave girl, who feels abandoned by her slave mother and who searches for love--first from an older servant woman at her master's new home, and then from a handsome free blacksmith, in a novel set in late seventeenth-century America. |
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Murdock, Catherine Gilbert. Dairy queen / by Catherine Gilbert Murdock. Graphia, [2007], c2006. ISBN: 0618863354 Order List: FIC 11/08 Branch Requests After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her. |
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Murdock, Catherine Gilbert. off season / by Catherine Gilbert Murdock. Graphia, 2008, c2007. ISBN: 0618934936 Order List: FIC 11/08 Branch Requests High school junior D.J. staggers under the weight of caring for her badly injured brother, her responsibilities on the dairy farm, a changing relationship with her friend Brian, and her own athletic aspirations. |
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Nelson, D. L. Running from the Puppet Master Thorndike Pr 2008 ISBN: 1594147086 Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS |
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Newman, Gary. ruffian on the stair / Gary Newman. 1st U.S. ed. Soho Constable ; Constable, 2008. ISBN: 1569475431 Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS |
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Parker, K. J. company / K. J. Parker. 1st ed. Orbit, 2008. ISBN: 0316038539 Order List: FIC 11/08 SF Setting out to colonize an abandoned island in the hope of a better life, five war veterans find their company threatened by a dark secret that reveals that the war is far from over. |
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Patterson, James, 1947- Cross country : a novel / by James Patterson. 1st ed. Little, Brown, 2008. ISBN: 0316018724 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC Believing he is investigating the work of a horrible new breed of killer when he encounters a murder scene of particular violence at the home of his oldest friend, detective Alex Cross finds himself entangled in the deadly Nigerian underworld of Washington, D.C. |
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Peters, Elizabeth. Lion in the valley / Elizabeth Peters. William Morrow, 2008, c1986. ISBN: 0061429791 Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS Amelia Peabody, the intrepid archaeologist, returns to the Nile with her Egyptologist husband Emerson and their entourage to track down a brilliant and dashing master criminal wreaking havoc among the excavations. |
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Plain, Belva. Crossroads / Belva Plain. Delacorte Press, 2007. ISBN: 0385336845 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC The owner of a New England glassworks company, widow Cassie Wright struggles to raise her surviving child, Gwen, in the face of unbearable tragedy, but as Gwen blossoms into an independent young woman, dissention drives the two apart. |
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Power, Jo-Ann. Baring arms / Jo-Ann Power. 1st ed. Thomas Dunne Books, 2008. ISBN: 0312365411 Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS |
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Poyer, David. weapon / David Poyer. 1st ed. St. Martin's Press, 2008. ISBN: 0312374933 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC Struggling to obtain the plans for a new Russian nuclear warhead, Navy commander Dan Lenson and his team are betrayed and barely escape with their lives, a situation that prompts an even more dangerous attempt to steal the weapon off of an Iranian submarine. |
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Reynolds, Sheri. sweet in-between : a novel / by Sheri Reynolds. 1st ed. Shaye Areheart Books, 2008. ISBN: 0307393895 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC Desperate for a place to belong with her father in prison and her mother dead, teenager Kenny Lugo finds a less-than-idyllic home with her Aunt Glo, her father's struggling girlfriend, and her children, until she finds redemption from an unexpected source following the killing of a college girl in the house next door. |
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Rhodes, David, 1946- Driftless / David Rhodes. 1st ed. Milkweed Editions, 2008. ISBN: 1571310592 Order List: FIC 11/08 SS |
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Ringo, John. Claws that catch / John Ringo, Travis S. Taylor. Baen Books ; Distributed by Simon & Schuster, 2008. ISBN: 1416555870 Order List: FIC 11/08 SF Sent to investigate rumors of an ancient and powerful alien civilization that may have created the 'Black Box' that drives the space ship, the crew of the Vorpal Blade must first deal with an unpopular new commander and an infestation of scorpion-like arachnoids. |
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Robb, J. D./ Blayney, Mary/ Langan, Ruth Ryan/ McComas, Mary Kay Suite 606 / J.D. Robb ... [et al.]. Berkley Books, 2008. ISBN: 0425224449 Order List: FIC 11/08 SS The secrets of desire are unlocked in this collection of paranormal passion and suspense that features a new Eve Dallas novella by J. D. Robb, as well as works by Mary Blayney, Ruth Ryan Langan, and Mary Kay McComas. |
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Roberts, Nora Pagan Stone Berkley Pub Group 2008 ISBN: 0515144665 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC |
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Rowland, Laura Joh. fire kimono / Laura Joh Rowland. 1st ed. St. Martin's Minotaur, 2008. ISBN: 031237948X Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS As the conflict between Sano Ichiro and his enemies escalates, the samurai detective and his wife, Reiko, are called in by the shogun to investigate a mysterious skeleton, in a case that forces them to confront long-buried secrets. |
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Sagara, Michelle Cast in Fury Harlequin Books 2008 ISBN: 0373802692 Order List: FIC 11/08 SF |
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Santis, Pablo de, 1963- Paris enigma : a novel / Pablo De Santis ; translated from Spanish by Mara Lethem. 1st ed. HarperCollins, 2008. ISBN: 0061479675 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC Arriving in Paris for their inaugural meeting during the 1889 World's Fair, an exclusive society of the world's most renowned detectives wonders at the absence of its co-founding member, who has sent a secret message about a threat to the society. |
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Scibona, Salvatore. end / Salvatore Scibona. Graywolf Press, c2008. ISBN: 1555974988 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC |
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Sefton, Maggie. Fleece Navidad / Maggie Sefton. 1st ed. Berkley Prime Crime, 2008. ISBN: 0425223604 Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS The knitters of Fort Connor, Colorado, including Juliet, the town librarian, are working feverishly on their Christmas projects, but when Juliet turns up dead, suspicion falls on a newcomer to the knitting group. |
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Semple, Maria. This one is mine : a novel / Maria Semple. 1st ed. Little, Brown, 2008. ISBN: 031603116X Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC Deeply unhappy in spite of a luxurious Hollywood life with an emotionally distant rock-and-roll manager husband and beloved toddler, Violet Parry rediscovers passion through a relationship with a small-time bass player. |
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Shelton, Sandi Kahn. Kissing games of the world : a novel / by Sandi Kahn Shelton. 1st ed. Shaye Areheart Books, 2008. ISBN: 0307393658 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC Sharing a house with an elderly man and his young grandson in order to make ends meet, single mother Jamie McClintock finds her life thrown into turmoil by the old man's sudden death and the return of his estranged son, Nate, to reclaim the house and hisson. |
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Shinn, Sharon. Fortune and fate / Sharon Shinn. 1st ed. Ace Books, 2008. ISBN: 0441016367 Order List: FIC 11/08 SF A troubled Warrior Rider named Wen faces her greatest challenge in the last place she ever expected--behind the walls of a great family estate known as Fortune, where Wen has been hired to guard the young heiress. Once there, she will find that fate has other plans for her. |
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Souljah, Sister. Midnight : a gangster love story / Sister Souljah. 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. Atria Books, 2008. ISBN: 1416545182 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC Sent to America with his mother when his father's powerful empire is attacked, underworld lieutenant Midnight draws on his African intelligence and Muslim mindset to protect those he loves and reclaim his wealth and way of life. |
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Stone, Nick, 1966- king of swords : a novel / Nick Stone. Harper, 2008. ISBN: 0060897317 Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS Investigating a bizarre case in which the victim was found to have ingested a tarot card, detective Max Mingus and his partner, Joe, follow an increasingly violent trail to a sinister fortune teller and her scheming pimp son. |
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Swanwick, Michael Best of Michael Swanwick Subterranean 2008 ISBN: 1596061782 Order List: FIC 11/08 SF |
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Thornton, Betsy. song for you / Betsy Thornton. 1st U.S. ed. Thomas Dunne Books, 2008. ISBN: 0312380623 Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS |
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Tierney, Ronald Bloody Palms Severn House Pub Ltd 2008 ISBN: 0727866710 Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS |
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Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973. Tales from the perilous realm / J.R.R. Tolkien ; illustrated by Alan Lee. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008. ISBN: 0547154119 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC Never before published in a single volume, Tolkien's four novellas (Farmer Giles of Ham, Leaf by Niggle, Smith of Wootton Major, and Roverandom) and one book of poems (The Adventures of Tom Bombadil) are gathered together for the first time, in a fully illustrated volume. This new, definitive collection of works -- which had appeared separately, in various formats, between 1949 and 1998 -- comes with a brand-new foreword and endmatter, and with a series of detailed pencil illustrations by Alan Lee. |
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Turtledove, Harry After the Downfall Diamond Comic Distributors 2008 ISBN: 1597801305 Order List: FIC 11/08 SF |
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Turtledove, Harry. United States of Atlantis / Harry Turtledove. ROC, 2008. ISBN: 045146236X Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC Imperialistic England has driven the French from Atlantis and seized the continent's eastern coastal town, prompting Victor Radcliff, leader of the revolutionaries, to preserve the freedom of the Atlantean people at all costs. |
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Webb, Betty. anteater of death / A Gunn Zoo Mystery Betty Webb. Poisoned Pen Press, 2008. ISBN: 1590585607 Order List: FIC 11/08 MYS When Lucy, a pregnant giant anteater from Belize, is blamed for killing the man found dead in her pen, California zookeeper Teddy Bentley must find the real culprit before Lucy is shipped to another zoo, but her investigation is undermined by another murder. |
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Yehoshua, Abraham B. Friendly fire : a duet / A.B. Yehoshua ; translated from the Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman. 1st U.S. ed. Harcourt, c2008. ISBN: 0151014191 Order List: FIC 11/08 FIC Leaving her husband at home, Daniela journeys from Tel Aviv to East Africa to mourn the death of her older sister and to confront her grieving brother-in-law, a scientist still struggling with the death of his soldier son in an incident of 'friendly fire' on the West Bank. |
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Zahn, Timothy. Odd girl out / Timothy Zahn. Tor, 2008. ISBN: 0765317338 Order List: FIC 11/08 SF |