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Proof - Dick Francis
From Publishers WeeklyThe narrator of Francis's 26th mystery is Tony Beach, a young widower who fights his grief by keeping busy at his wine shop and by socializing. Eventually he ... -
Promises to Keep - Ann Tatlock
Eleven-year-old Roz (Rosalind) Anthony and her family have just moved to Mills River, Illinois, to escape an abusive situation. Only days after settling into their new home, they a... -
Prentice Alvin - Orson Scott Card
SUMMARY: The Tales of Alvin Maker series continues in volume three, Prentice Alvin. Young Alvin returns to the town of his birth, and begins his apprenticeship with Makepeace Smith... -
Plum lovin' - Janet Evanovich
EDITORIAL REVIEW: From #1 blockbuster bestselling author Janet Evanovich comes a Stephanie Plum novel that takes adventure, action, suspense (and maybe even true love?) to new heig... -
Parallel Stories - Peter Nadas; Imre Goldstein
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A once-in-a-generation literary event: the monumental masterwork being hailed as a “twenty-first-century War and Peace” (Magyar Nemzet)In 198... -
Pakistan_ A Hard Country - Anatol Lieven
From Publishers WeeklyLieven (Chechnya), who has reported on Pakistan off and on for 20 years, offers a compelling argument for reorienting Western interests (and investments) in i... -
Pack Animals - Peter Anghelides
SUMMARY: The seventh novel in the bestselling Torchwood range from BBC Books. Shopping for wedding gifts with your fiance is enjoyable, unless like Gwen you witness a Weevil massac... -
Overhaul - Steven Rattner
The first real look inside Team Obama—due just before the 2010 elections—mixes political warfare and big business shakeups in equal proportions, and comes from a uniquely informed ... -
Other Earths - Nick Gevers; Jay Lake
SUMMARY: Alternate history explores the many possible directions our world could follow if certain key events didn't occur at all or were changed in some crucial way. Is our Earth ... -
Operation Napoleon - Arnaldur Indridason
SUMMARY: 1945: a German bomber flies over Iceland in a blizzard; the crew have lost their way and eventually crash on the Vatnaj kull glacier, the largest in Europe. Puzzlingly, th...