Saturday, June 30, 2012

New This Week



The Next Best Thing by Jennifer Weiner  (Atria)
Believing she is realizing her dreams when her sitcom is bought, television writer Ruth Saunders finds her happiness threatened by demanding actors and executives as well as an unrequited crush on her boss and her septuagenarian grandmother's upcoming wedding.  


Criminal by Karin Slaughter (Delacorte)
 A Georgia Bureau of Investigation search into a shocking crime from 1975 poses unprecedented personal and professional challenges for top agent Will Trent, who encounters threats against his life and revelations about his past.     


Die a Stranger by Steve Hamilton (Minotaur)
When the murders of five people and the mysterious landing of an airplane on a deserted Upper Peninsula airstrip implicates his missing Ojibwa friend Vinnie, Alex McKnight races against time to find his friend, who is also being sought by a mysterious stranger.    


Gold by Chris Cleave (Simon & Schuster)
Cyclists Zoe and Kate are friends and athletic rivals for Olympic gold, while Kate and her husband Jack, also a world-class cyclist, must contend with the recurrence of their young daughter's leukemia.  


Juliet in August by Dianne Warren (Amy Einhorn)
Juliet, Saskatchewan is a blink-and-you-miss-it kind of town--the welcome sign promises a population of one thousand and eleven--so it's easy to believe that nothing of consequence takes place there. But the heart of Juliet beats with rich stories of its inhabitants. They all bring the prairie desert and the town of Juliet to vivid life in this funny, tragic and touching novel

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