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April 2006
Look for these titles in the new book section at the
front of the library!
In Cell, the latest novel by Stephen King, civilization doesn't end
with a bang or a whimper. It ends with a call on your cell phone. A
signal sent through every operating cell phone turns its user into
something less than human---savage, murderous, unthinking--and on a
wanton rampage. Terrorist act? Cyber prank gone haywire? It really
doesn't matter, not to the people who avoid the technological attack,
and who are now in a desperate fight to survive.
Gone by Lisa Gardner, follows ex-FBI profiler Pierce Quincy is a
frantic search for his estranged wife, Rainie Conner, after her car is
found abandoned on a desolate stretch of Oregon highway, engine
running, purse on the driver's seat. Did one of the ghosts from
Rainie's troubled past finally catch up with her? Or could her
disappearance be the result of one of the cases they'd been working--a
particularly vicious double homicide or the possible abuse of a deeply
disturbed child Rainie took too close to heart?
The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury, begins when a Vatican exhibit
attended by archaeologist Tess Chaykin is stormed by four masked
horsemen dressed as Templar Knights who steal a particular artifact.
FBI anti-terrorist specialist Sean Reilly teams up with Tess for an
investigation to find out who those men are and why they wanted that
particular item.
Star Wars: Outbound Flight by Timothy Zahn, is set before the onset
of the Clone Wars, when a group of explorers consisting of six Jedi
Masters, twelve Jedi Knights, and a fifty-thousand-member crew set out
aboard a state-of-the-art starship on a mission to search for
intelligent life outside the known galaxy.
The Hostage by W.E.B. Griffin, follows Charley Castillo, a member
of the Department of Homeland Security, as he delves into
investigation of an American diplomat's wife is who has been kidnapped
in Argentina, her husband murdered before her eyes. The woman has been
told her children will be next, unless she discloses the location of
her brother, who may know quite a bit about the burgeoning UN/Iraq
oil-for-food scandal. There is an awful lot of money flying around,
and an awful lot of hands are reaching up to grab it--and some of
those hands don't mind shedding as much blood as it takes. Before the
investigation is over, it might even be Castillo's blood.
False Impression by Jeffrey Archer, follows a senior FBI agent
trying to solve the dual mysteries of the brutal murder of an elegant
lady the night before 9/11 and the theft of Van Gogh's last painting.
In Intuition by Allegra Goodman, a trio of researchers becomes
caught up in the desperate quest for a financial grant from the
Philpott, a prestigious research laboratory in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
Second Honeymoon by Joanne Trollope, finds Edie, an actress,
distraught when her youngest son, twenty-two-year-old Ben leaves home.
She and her theatrical agent husband, Russell, are faced with an empty
nest for the first time, until their two older children plan to move
back in.
Isolation Ward by Joshua Spanogle, has Dr. Nathaniel McCormick is
caught in a web of deceit as he follows the trail of a lethal virus to
California after three mentally handicapped women with the same
mysterious symptoms check into the same Baltimore hospital,
In Sea Change by Robert B. Parker, police chief Jesse Stone is
forced into a difficult case when a woman's partially decomposed body
washes ashore in Paradise. Identifying the woman, who turns out to be
a recently divorced heiress, is just the first step in what proves to
be a treacherous and emotionally charged investigation, and no one is
talking--not the crew of the yacht she was on, not her twin sisters,
and not her parents. But Jesse believes someone--and it looks like
it's going to be him--has to speak for the dead, even if it puts him
in harm's way.
Titan by Ben Bova, travels to one of Saturn's moons, where the crew
of the enormous colony ship Goddard falls prey to long-standing
tensions after a first exploration vessel mysteriously fails.
In Sour Puss by Rita Mae Brown, Mary Minor Harry Haristeen and her
veterinarian ex-husband, Fair, have rekindled their romance and are
happily remarried. But the excitement of their nuptials is quickly
overshadowed by the murder of a world-famous grape expert who was in
picturesque Crozet, Virginia, visiting the local vineyards. And when a
local is also found dead, the residents can't help wondering: is this
the work of an outsider, or one of their own? Harry has just planted a
quarter acre of grapes, which fuels her natural curiosity over just
what the two murder victims knew and had in common.
The Little Balloonist by Linda Donn, follows the adventures of
Sophie, who has been married off to a wealthy and much older man
despite her love for her childhood friend, Andre Giroux. Jean-Pierre
Blanchard leaves much to be desired as a husband, but he teaches
Sophie the workings of his giant hydrogen balloons, and soon she is
flying alongside him, at home in the air in a way that she never was
on land. After Jean-Pierre's death, Sophie gains fame throughout
France for her daring feats and catches the eye of Napoleon himself.
But even as Napoleon's interest becomes more intense--and therefore
more dangerous--Andre returns to rekindle their lost love.
Rain Dogs by Sean Doolittle, is set in the hardscrabble Nebraska
Sandhills, where former Chicago reporter Tom Coleman goes to collect
an inheritance: a broken-down pickup truck, a ramshackle campground, a
canoe livery, and one pot-smoking, barely working employee he doesn't
need, doesn't want, and can't afford. But the truth is, after losing a
child and a marriage, Tom doesn't really care. Life is nice and quiet
in the middle of nowhere--until a drug lab blows up near his property,
putting Tom in contact with the woman he once loved, a small-town cop
with a chip on his shoulder, and a powerful local who doesn't want him
poking his nose where it doesn't belong.
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