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More Niffenegger!

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Rated by Library Staff (not verified)
Apr 29, 2010

You might remember my appreciation for last year's Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger. She has a graphic novel coming out this fall called The Night Bookmobile and I think it looks every bit as mysterious and wonderful as her last book.

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Caught - Harlan Coben


Rated by Library Staff (not verified)
Apr 29, 2010

caught.jpgWendy is a 30-something television newscaster with a 17 year old son. Her husband was killed by a drunk driver when her son was young and Wendy is holding a grudge.

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St. Agnes’ Stand by Tom Eidson


Rated by Library Staff (not verified)
Apr 29, 2010

Nat Swanson didn't expect his flight from Texas to California to be easy, not with the friends of the man he recently killed (in self-defense) on his trail. He certainly wasn't expecting, in the middle of the desert, to find three nuns and seven orphans holed up and surrounded by Apaches (who have already brutally murdered a nun), and then to be regarded as their savior.
Nat struggles between his conscience and his desire to escape alone, all the while devising a daring plan to get them all to safety.

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The Ghost by Robert Harris


Rated by Library Staff (not verified)
Apr 29, 2010

ghost2.jpgI  like reading movie reviews, but tend not to see them until the DVD releases.  I read Robert Butler's  KC STAR review of  THE GHOST WRITER  in early March---it's hard not to read a review that says something about making Hitchcock proud.  Anyway, the movie is based on the novel THE GHOST written by British author Robert Harris.  I had been intending to read one of his books.

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The Yellow House


Rated by Library Staff (not verified)
Apr 28, 2010

yellow houseRecently, I realized how much pleasure I derive from reading international fiction with an Irish flair; must be that Irish blood coursing through my veins or a previous lifetime spent roaming locales like Donaghadee, Ballyskeagh or Glengormley.

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Bitter Harvest by Ann Rule


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Apr 28, 2010

Bitter Harvest by Ann RuleAnn Rule is one of the best true crime writers of this generation. No one else does so much detailed research about murderers (serial or otherwise). I have read all of her books and eagerly anticipated the publication of Bitter Harvest since it dealt with a local crime. Bitter Harvest takes place in Prairie Village, Kansas and involves Dr.

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Solar by Ian McEwan


Rated by Melody K.
Apr 28, 2010

Solar by Ian McEwanIan McEwan has never disappointed me and Solar was no exception. However, unlike previous McEwan novels I’ve read, Atonement, On Chesil Beach, and Enduring Love this one is neither poignant nor tragic. Michael Beard is a brilliant scientist past his prime, void of any self-discipline, a true narcissist. He has never been faithful to any of his five wives.

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Everafter by Amy Huntley

By Amy Huntley
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by Christi H.
Apr 27, 2010

The Everafter by Amy Huntley This would be a good read alike for people that enjoyed Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin. Like that book, the subject explored is what happens to a person after they are dead. As the book begins the only thing that Madison Stanton knows for sure is that she is dead. She doesn't remember dying and she doesn't really remember her life.

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The Bolter By Francis Osborne


Rated by Library Staff (not verified)
Apr 27, 2010

bolterThe Bolter is a scandalous biography of Idina Sackville written by her great-granddaughter who is married to the finance minister of England. It begins in the flapper age and continues until World War II. Idina was a blue-eyed beauty, elegant and smart.

Staff Review Apr 27, 2010

This foreign film is a romantic comedy with subtitles. The french film has a simple plot, what would happen if two people who are friends or strangers decide to kiss. The result is a complex problem develops between. What will happen, I will not tell. But there is plenty of humor and melancholy  involved.