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Black List: A Thriller
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Brad Thor
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books (2012, Jul 31st).
Pages: 336
A stunning masterwork of action, intrigue, and ingenious plot twists. #1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor returns with his most explosive thriller ever. Somewhere deep inside the United States government is a closely guarded list. Members of Congress never get to see it—only the President and a secret team of advisers. Once your name is on the list, it doesn’t come off . . . until you’re dead. Someone has just added counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath’s name. Somehow Harvath must evade the teams dispatched to kill him long enough to untangle who has targeted him and why they want him out of the way. Somewhere, someone, somehow can put all the pieces together. The only question is, will Harvath get to that person before the United States suffers the most withering terrorist attack ever conceived? An intense, page-turning novel that is action-packed and frighteningly real, Black List blurs the line between fiction and reality and once again reaffirms why Brad Thor “is arguably the best thriller writer of our time” (Suspense Magazine) and “America’s favorite author” (KTTX). more
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Broken Harbor: A Novel (Dublin Murder Squad)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Tana French
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult (2012, Jul 24th).
Pages: 464
The mesmerizing fourth novel of the Dublin murder squad by New York Times bestselling author Tana FrenchMick "Scorcher" Kennedy, the brash cop from Tana French’s bestselling Faithful Place, plays by the book and plays hard. That’s what’s made him the Murder squad’s top detective—and that’s what puts the biggest case of the year into his hands.On one of the half-built, half-abandoned "luxury" developments that litter Ireland, Patrick Spain and his two young children are dead. His wife, Jenny, is in intensive care.At first, Scorcher and his rookie partner, Richie, think it’s going to be an easy solve. But too many small things can’t be explained. The half dozen baby monitors, their cameras pointing at holes smashed in the Spains’ walls. more
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Where We Belong
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Emily Giffin
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: St. Martin's Press (2012, Jul 31st).
Pages: 384
The author of five blockbuster novels, Emily Giffin, delivers an unforgettable story of two women, the families that make them who they are, and the longing, loyalty and love that binds them together Marian Caldwell is a thirty-six year old television producer, living her dream in New York City. With a fulfilling career and satisfying relationship, she has convinced everyone, including herself, that her life is just as she wants it to be. But one night, Marian answers a knock on the door . . . only to find Kirby Rose, an eighteen-year-old girl with a key to a past that Marian thought she had sealed off forever. From the moment Kirby appears on her doorstep, Marian’s perfectly constructed world—and her very identity—will be shaken to its core, resurrecting ghosts and memories of a passionate young love affair that threaten everything that has come to define her. more
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Friends Forever: A Novel
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Danielle Steel
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Delacorte Press (2012, Jul 24th).
Pages: 320
Five children meet on the first day of kindergarten. In the years that follow, they become friends and more than friends. Together, they will find strength, meet challenges, face life’s adventures, endure loss, face stark realities, and open their hearts. In this moving novel, #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel traces their unforgettable journey—full of tests and trials—as three boys and two girls discover the vital bonds that will last a lifetime. FRIENDS FOREVER Gabby, Billy, Izzie, Andy, and Sean—each bursting with their own personality, strikingly different looks and talents, in sports, science, and the arts. Each drawn by the magical spark of connection that happens to the young. At the exclusive Atwood School, on a bright September day, starting in kindergarten they become an inseparable group known to outsiders as the Big Five. more
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Judgment Call: A Brady Novel of Suspense (Joanna Brady Mysteries)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: J. A. Jance
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: William Morrow (2012, Jul 24th).
Pages: 384
The New York Times bestselling master of mystery and suspense, J.A. Jance—whom the Chattanooga Times ranks “among the best, if not the best”—brings back her enormously popular series protagonist, Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady.With Judgment Call, Jance achieves a new high in crime fiction, as Brady wrestles with her conflicting roles of law officer and mother when her daughter discovers the murdered body of the local high school principal, and the ensuing investigation reveals secrets no parent wants to hear. At once a breathtaking recreation of the rugged landscape of the American Southwest, a moving story of a mother’s concerns for her endangered child, and thrilling masterwork of brutal crime and expert detection, Judgment Call is prime J. more
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Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Robert Leckie
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam; 1st pr of this edition (2010, Feb 2nd).
Pages: 320
“Helmet for My Pillow is a grand and epic prose poem. Robert Leckie’s theme is the purely human experience of war in the Pacific, written in the graceful imagery of a human being who—somehow—survived.”—Tom Hanks“One hell of a book! The real stuff that proves the U.S. Marines are the greatest fighting men on earth!”—Leon Uris, author of Battle Cry more
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Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Suzi Parron
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Swallow Press; 1 edition (2012, Feb 15th).
Pages: 240
The story of the American Quilt Trail, featuring the colorful patterns of quilt squares writ large on barns throughout North America, is the story of one of the fastest-growing grassroots public arts movements in the United States and Canada. In Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement Suzi Parron travels through twenty-nine states and two Canadian provinces to visit the people and places that have put this movement on America's tourist and folk art map.Through dozens of interviews with barn artists, committee members, and barn owners Parron documents a journey that began in 2001 with the founder of the movement, Donna Sue Groves. Groves's desire to honor her mother with a quilt square painted on their barn became a group effort that eventually grew into a county-wide project. more
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Beckett Baseball Card Price Guide
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: James, III, Dr. Beckett
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Beckett Pubns (2012, Feb 25th).
Pages: 800
WHAT'S YOUR BASEBALL CARD COLLECTION WORTH? FIND OUT BY READING THIS BOOK! You hold in your hands the most authoritative and widely used baseball card price guide available. For more than three decades, Beckett has published this must-have reference book filled with extensive lists and prices for the most important and popularly traded baseball card sets. Whether you're a serious long-time baseball card collector or simply a curious beginning collector, this price guide is a great resource. This new edition for 2012 includes: Complete checklists and pricing for the most important and popularly traded baseball card sets from 1887 to present More than 800,000 cards priced Newly added Minor League section covering products released from 2006 to present Front photos of an example card for most sets Complete checklists for all included card sets Values for individual cards and complete sets developed from thorough market research Set description includes distinguishing features, key cards, distribution information -- everything you need to become a baseball card expert! . more
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Out of Sight, Out of Time (Gallagher Girls)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Ally Carter
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH (2012, Mar 20th).
Pages: 272
*“This episode is nearly three hundred pages of perfection, and the only regret fans will have when they are done is being one step closer to the final installment of this outstanding series.”—VOYA [starred review] With more than a million Gallagher Girls books sold, a legion of fans have fallen in love with the New York Times best-selling spy-girl series, and the fifth book delivers the most nerve-wracking, high-stakes adventure yet. The last thing Cammie Morgan remembers is leaving the Gallagher Academy to protect her friends and family from the Circle of Cavan—an ancient terrorist organization that has been hunting her for over a year. But when Cammie wakes up in an alpine convent and discovers that months have passed, she must face the fact that her memory is now a black hole. more
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In Too Deep (The Kincaid Brides)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Mary Connealy
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Bethany House (2012, Feb 1st).
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History, Romance, Humor--and Cowboys!--from Bestselling Author Mary ConnealyIn 1866 Colorado, Ethan Kincaid agrees to a marriage of convenience with the same casual disregard he gives every decision. Audra Gilliland, young mother of two, accepts his proposal because she wants to stop being a burden to her newly married stepdaughter.And suddenly both of them are in far deeper than they'd planned.Ethan doesn't expect Audra to affect him so profoundly, and when she begins to, he's terrified of the pain he's felt before when someone he loved was seriously injured on his watch. He's determined that his new wife will do as he says so he can keep her safe from the dangers that lurk on their ranch.Audra has been cared for all her life by one man or another--and they've done a poor job of it. more
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