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|  | Bowen, Rhys A ROYAL PAIN
May 15, 2008 - Lady Georgiana Rannoch, who lives in her impoverished brother's London house, survives by doing occasional light cleaning jobs. Although dead broke, she is 34th in line to the throne and at the beck and call of the Queen, who's thought up a scheme
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| | Burman, Carina THE STREETS OF BABYLON
May 15, 2008 - Euthanasia Bondeson is that rara avis of Victorian times: a plain-speaking, independent woman who travels the world with only her beautiful young companion Agnes as chaperone. In 1851, upon their arrival in London to see the Great Exhibition, Agnes
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| | Cavanagh, Thomas B. THE PRODIGAL SON
May 15, 2008 - Fresh from a dangerous case (Head Games, 2007) and from surgery to remove a brain tumor, Mike Garrity is focused on recovery. But when Jimmy Hungerford of A-Plus Investigators urges him to become a private investigator, he takes the offer seriously.
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| | Crosby, Ellen THE BORDEAUX BETRAYAL
May 15, 2008 - Virginia vineyard owner and amateur sleuth Lucie Montgomery is holding a charity wine auction at her vineyard, an auction that is attracting worldwide attention after the donation of a bottle of Margaux purportedly bought in 1790 by Thomas Jefferson
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| | Ehrhart, Peggy SWEET MAN IS GONE
May 15, 2008 - After one bad relationship with a guitar man, Maxx Maxwell has kept her distance from sexy, talented Jimmy Nashville. But when she arrives at his upper Manhattan apartment to pick him up for a gig, she's stunned to learn that his body has just been
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| | Fossum, Karin BLACK SECONDS
May 15, 2008 - Ida Joner is such a perfect daughter that her mother worries about her after she's 20 minutes late coming home from running an errand. Helga Joner's fears are deepened by a sense she's always had that Ida was too good to last. Her sister Ruth phones
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| | Grabien, Deborah ROCK & ROLL NEVER FORGETS
May 15, 2008 - John "JP" Kinkaid plays the guitar in Blacklight, a wildly successful British rock band with more than a passing resemblance to the Rolling Stones. Although still married to drug-addicted Cilla, he's lived for 25 years with Bree Godwin, a very
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| | Haines, Carolyn WISHBONES
May 15, 2008 - Sarah Booth Delaney, part-time PI, full-time Daddy's Girl, leaves Zinnia, Miss., to costar with her new beau, Graf Mileau, in a remake of Body Heat. They barely have time for a wardrobe fitting before director Federico's former lover is found dead
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| | Handler, David THE SOUR CHERRY SURPRISE
May 15, 2008 - Dorset, Conn., has much to gossip about. Its favorite (and only) mixed-race couple, Trooper Desiree Mitry and pudgy Jewish film critic Mitch Berger, have split up, and she's reconciled with her ex, Brandon, a studly FBI agent. Tongues are also
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| | Jance, J.A. DAMAGE CONTROL
May 15, 2008 - Husbands don't come any better than the one Joanna's brought to the altar. Sensitive, loving, endlessly accepting his status as second banana, Butch Dixon is a stay-at-home treasure. It's Butch's enduring selflessness that enables Joanna to cope
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| | Kilgore, Evan THE CHILDREN OF BLACK VALLEY
May 15, 2008 - When Riley disappears, his mother Ann takes to drink and his dad Sam concentrates on putting one foot in front of the other at his middle-management job at CW Medical rather than parenting young Daniel. Years pass. The marriage dissolves, Ann sobers
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| | Konrath, J.A. FUZZY NAVEL
May 15, 2008 - In the beginning were the three murderous members of The Urban Hunting Club: Swanson, Munchel and Pessolano. Conceived by Swanson in righteous anger, TUHC has taken it upon itself to kill perverts. Rob Siders, who attacked Swanson's beloved wife
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| | McRae, Cricket HEAVEN PRESERVE US
May 15, 2008 - While doing volunteer work answering the Heaven House Helpline, soapmaker Sophie Mae Reynolds is disturbed by a caller who seems to be stalking her rather than asking for professional help. Her concerns for herself pale, however, when Heaven House
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| | Reichs, Kathy DEVIL BONES
May 15, 2008 - Tempe Brennan's personal life is in tatters. Her love, a Montreal cop called Ryan, has gone back to his lover in hopes of stabilizing their troubled daughter; Tempe's ex is about to marry a much younger woman; and her daughter Katy is utterly bored
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| | Stanley, Kelli NOX DORMIENDA
May 15, 2008 - It's 83 CE and half-Roman, half-Britanni narrator Arcturus is serving as doctor and confidant to Agricola, the province's governor. Arcturus' duties also involve ministering to the locals. On a frigid December morning, the most arresting of
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| | Thurlo, Aime THE PRODIGAL NUN
May 15, 2008 - Before she was killed, Jane Sanchez phoned Sister Agatha about something that was bothering her but refused to discuss it. Jane was a bit of a shrew who was determined to break up her daughter's marriage. So why did the killer, who came and left on
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| Books to Remember
May 01, 2008 - Books to Remember has been an annual tradition at The New York Public Library for more than 50 years. Each year, a small group of librarians comb through hundreds of book reviews and consider hundreds of new titles in the categories of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Selection criteria include literary excellence, uniqueness of concept and command of subject matter. The goal: Choose 25 adult titles that offer informative or transformative reading experiences. In the spring, the Books to Remember committee formally presents its top 25 at an event held at the library.
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| BOOKS SCHEDULED FOR REVIEW
Click here for the hourly-updated list of the books scheduled for review in one of the upcoming issues of Kirkus Reviews.
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