November 2006
Look for these titles in the new book section at the
front of the library!
The
Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, begins as the mysterious
author Vida Winter, knowing that her health is failing, decides to let
Margaret Lea, a biographer, write the truth about her life. But
Margaret finds she must verify the facts since Vida has a history of
telling outlandish tales.
In Motor
Mouth by Janet Evanovich, Alexandra Barney Barnaby is
convinced one of NASCAR driver Sam Hooker's competitors is up to no
good on the track. Snooping to find evidence, Hooker and Barney borrow
a hauler that happens to be carrying two race cars and a dead guy. Now
it looks like Barney and Hooker are facing multiple counts of grand
theft auto and homicide.
In The
Book of Fate by Brad Meltzer, a two-hundred-year-old code
devised by Thomas Jefferson becomes the key to a present-day
conspiracy at the highest levels of Washington and the power elite of
Palm Beach.
World
War Z by Max Brooks, is a tale that begins with a doctor's
first zombie case in China. Gradually the creatures move westward
around the world, with the story being told through characters that
encounter and try to subdue the zombies. Ultimately the zombie menace
reaches America.
A
Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon, finds George Hall is settling
down to a comfortable retirement. Then his tempestuous daughter,
Katie, announces that she is getting remarried, to the deeply
inappropriate Ray. Her family is not pleased, and the bride can't
decide if she loves Ray or loves the wonderful way he has with her
son. Her mother Jean, is put out by all the planning and arguing the
wedding has occasioned, which is getting in the way of her late-life
affair with one of her husband's ex-colleagues. And the tidy and
pleasant life George and Jean's son, Jamie, has created crumbles when
he fails to invite his lover, Tony, to the dreaded nuptials.
In The
Mephisto Club by Tess Gerritsen, the Latin phrase I have
sinned is scrawled in blood at the scene of a young woman's brutal
murder. It's a chilling Christmas greeting for Boston medical examiner
Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli, who swiftly link the victim to
controversial celebrity psychiatrist Joyce O'Donnell--Jane's
professional nemesis and member of a sinister cabal called the
Mephisto Club.
H.R.H.
by Danielle Steel, follows Princess Christianna, who after four years
of college in America, is determined not to return to the stiff,
formal lifestyle of her father's court. Hoping to make a difference in
the world, she volunteers for the Red Cross in East Africa, an
experience that will transform her life forever.
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