| |
 A
Minister's Ghost: A Fever Devilin Mystery
Contributor(s): Depoy, Phillip (Author)
ISBN: 0312339348 EAN: 9780312339340
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur
US SRP: $ 23.95 US
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: December 2005
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|  The
Arms of God
Contributor(s): Hinton, Lynne (Author)
ISBN: 0312347952 EAN: 9780312347956
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
US SRP: $ 24.95 US
Binding: Hardcover - Other Formats
Pub Date: November 2005
Alice is making her daughter dinner when her mother Olivia, who
left her at a day care center when she was four-years-old, appears
at her door. Although Alice has managed to navigate an unforgiving
foster care system to build a good life for herself, she has never
really recovered from her mother's disappearance. Olivia's sudden
reappearance is like a quiet, unexplained gift. Over the next couple
of weeks Alice asks Olivia to dinner. Olivia is always dropped off
by a friend and sits peacefully as Alice and her daughter talk over
the meal. One afternoon Alice gets a call from the hospital telling
her that Olivia is dead. The only identification the hospital could
find was Alice's number with the word "daughter" written
underneath it. She goes to pick up Olivia's things and finds the
key to her apartment. It is here that the mystery of Olivia's past
is slowly uncovered and Alice begins to understand how the power
of hatred can hold a woman down and how the power of friendship
can lift her up again.
Not since her bestselling book "The Friendship Cake has Hinton
created characters who are so filled with heartache and fragile
hope, that they will become a permanent part of the reader's life.
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 An
Atomic Romance
Contributor(s): Mason, Bobbie Ann (Author)
ISBN: 0375507191 EAN: 9780375507199
Publisher: Random House
US SRP: $ 24.95 US
Binding: Hardcover - Other Formats
Pub Date: August 2005
Annotation: Bestselling author Mason's first novel in over a decade
is a profound, funny, and rollicking love story with an eccentric
hero and a scientific/nuclear background. This provocative, rollicking
story is the much-anticipated new novel-the first in over a decade-from
acclaimed author Bobbie Ann Mason. In An Atomic Romance we meet
Reed Futrell, a sexy, thoughtful hero who grapples with radioactive
contamination, a midlife crisis, and string theory-all while falling
in love.
Reed is an engineer at a uranium-enrichment plant near a riverside
city in heartland America. He has deep roots in this community:
He was raised there; his father worked at the very same plant before
him. And it was here that Reed met, married, and then divorced his
wife. Reed spends countless nights camping at a local wildlife preserve,
gazing at the stars, fishing and hunting-that is, until deformed
frogs are discovered at the site. Though his father was killed in
a tragic accident at the atomic plant years ago, Reed stays on,
proud to perform demanding and dangerous work for the benefit of
the nation. As for the radioactive "incidents" he has
endured, Reed prefers to think about other things-Hubble photographs
of distant galaxies, Albert Einstein, his dog.
Reed's casual attitude toward danger infuriates his on-again-off-again
girlfriend, Julia, as much as his quirky mind and muscular body
intrigue her. Julia, a biologist, is truly Reed's match-or maybe
more than his match. They both are witty, curious, and fascinated
by science. Indeed, their courtship began with banter about Stephen
Hawking's theories of space-time, and ever since it has been an
up-and-down adventure of sexual attraction, intellectual game-playing,
and long silences when Julia refuses to return Reed's calls.
When news reports reveal evidence of radioactive pollution in the
land surrounding theplant, Reed and Julia's relationship faces an
unprecedented challenge. In An Atomic Romance, Bobbie Ann Mason
delivers a brilliant novel set against a backdrop of atomic power:
a love story between a motorcycle-riding loner and an independent,
strong-minded biologist; between the peaceful present in a typical
American community and the nation's violent nuclear past; and, finally,
between a good man and the work he takes pride in, though it may
be putting his life in danger.
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|  Bitter
Milk
Contributor(s): McManus, John (Author)
ISBN: 0312301936 EAN: 9780312301934
Publisher: Picador USA
US SRP: $ 13.00 US
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: June 2005
From the Whiting Award--winning writer John McManus comes a debut
novel of startling originality and mystery. The son of an unknown
father and an ostracized mother, and the next of kin in a long line
of bastard relatives, nine-year-old Loren Garland lives a life of
subtle mystery beneath the shadow of an East Tennessee mountain.
It is on his family's broken-down estate that Loren's imagination
grows, and with it, the extraordinary voice of Bitter Milk---a young
boy named Luther, who may be Loren's imaginary friend, his conscience,
or his evil twin. And yet outside the puzzle of Loren's brain, there
are the darker goings-on of his family: his mother, who wishes she
were a man; his new uncle, who plans to develop the Garland land
into real estate; and his withered grandfather, who holds the clan
together through truculence and fear. When his mother disappears,
Loren must set out on a quest of his own devising, tossing aside
the trappings of youth in order to discover the truth of the world.
Advance Praise for Bitter Milk
"An impressive follow-up to his two striking collections of
stories, the brilliant, mordant Bitter Milk consolidates John McManus's
place as one of the most powerful and original American writers
of the twenty-first century."---Madison Smartt Bell, author
of "The Stone That the Builder Refused
"This mysterious, almost phantasmagoric, debut novel is reminiscent
of Cormac McCarthy's The Orchard Keeper in its precociousness. McManus
writes with a wisdom and empathy that belies his youth. Bitter Milk
signals the arrival of an important new voice in Southern literature."---Ron
Rash, author of" One Foot in Eden and" Saints at the River
John McManus was raised inBlount County, Tennessee. The author of
the story collections "Born on a Train and "Stop Breakin
Down, he became the youngest ever recipient of the Whiting Writers'
Award in 2000. McManus currently divides his time between Tennessee
and Austin, Texas.
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|  Dancing
by the River
Contributor(s): Barton, Marlin (Author)
ISBN: 1929490305 EAN: 9781929490301
Publisher: Frederic C Beil
US SRP: $ 24.95 US
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: July 2005
This is a superb collection of stories about the fascinating complexities
of life in a small community. Marlin Barton is a masterful observer
of family relations and the idosyncratic logic that governs human
lives. His writing does not call attention to itself---it is simple,
powerful, and so fluid that it seems almost effortless.
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|  Drive
Like Hell
Contributor(s): Hudgens, Dallas (Author)
ISBN: 0743251636 EAN: 9780743251631
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
US SRP: $ 23.00 US
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: February 2005
Luke Fulmer belongs behind the wheel of a car. Taught to drive at
the age of ten by his father, Luke can do more damage with a stick
and a clutch than most men can do with a bottle of whiskey and a
lousy mood. He counts down the days to his sixteenth birthday when
he can finally get his license. Unfortunately, the first thing he
does with it is "borrow" his neighbor's car.
When Luke is pulled over and found in possession of an air pistol,
a ski mask, a stolen TV, and a bag of pot, the unforgiving local
magistrate takes scissors to his license and vows to lock him up
if he ever stands in front of her again. As Luke's mother explores
bad relationships and the lure of vodka, Luke moves in with his
older brother, Nick, an easygoing ex-con who wants to steer Luke
onto the straight and narrow. In the gnarled, muggy summer that
follows, Luke contends with a lovely kleptomaniac girlfriend, a
duffel bag full of cocaine, and the realization that he must save
his family from themselves even as he plots to beat a path out of
town.
Dubbed the "Great American Redneck Novel" by "Big
Fish" author Daniel Wallace, "Drive Like Hell" is
a hilarious one-of-a-kind tale set in late '70s Georgia, complete
with stock car racing, honky-tonk dancing, pro wrestling, drug dealing,
and syndicated television. Dallas Hudgens brilliantly evokes Southern
culture in this unforgettable debut that is raucous and wrenching,
funny and wise. |
|  Frankland
Contributor(s): Whorton, James (Author)
ISBN: 0743244486 EAN: 9780743244480
Publisher: Free Press
US SRP: $ 23.00 US
Binding: Hardcover - Other Formats
Pub Date: January 2005
With his critically acclaimed first novel, "Approximately Heaven,"
James Whorton, Jr., introduced readers to his droll, poignant, and
unforgettable brand of humor. Now, Whorton is back with a wry and
ribald tale in the rich tradition of John Kennedy Toole and Walker
Percy. Featuring an oddball hero whose book smarts greatly eclipse
his interpersonal skills, "Frankland" captures the down-home
wisdom that can often be found only in the small Southern towns
of which Whorton writes so captivatingly.
John H. Tolley is a socially awkward yet passionate young man who
technically never graduated from college, but whose greatest ambition
is to become a bow tie-wearing, pipe-smoking historian. For now,
all John has in his quest to penetrate the Ivory Tower is a treasured
tweed jacket, a tenacity that often tends towards obsessive compulsion,
and a hot lead -- he has reason to believe that some potentially
scandalous lost papers of Andrew Johnson have been preserved by
an heir in Tennessee. With visions of writing a new career-making
biography on the often maligned (and even more often ignored) seventeenth
president, John heads down to East Tennessee, the area that the
outspoken Johnson once proposed splitting off into its own separate
state called Frankland.
As determined as John is to get down to bookish pursuits upon his
arrival, distractions abound in the forms of living people: Van
Brun, the gravy-voiced academic in desperate need of a pedicure;
McBain, the greens-eating New York newswoman; Boo Price, the neurotic
ex-con; and Dweena, the brown-eyed, shy, and stoic mail carrier
who may or may not know she's near the center of a clandestine scheme
to bring a state lottery toTennessee.
Holed up in a town with folks as quirky as he is, John is destined
to find answers, although not necessarily the ones that he set out
to uncover. Native and newcomer, highbrow and hillbilly cross paths
and tangle riotously in this offbeat, provocative, and at times
hilarious second novel. "Frankland" is further proof of
James Whorton's vast literary talent. |
|  Gods
in Alabama
Contributor(s): Jackson, Joshilyn (Author)
ISBN: 0446524190 EAN: 9780446524193
Publisher: Warner Books
US SRP: $ 19.95 US
Binding: Hardcover - Other Formats
Pub Date: April 2005
Annotation: A crime from her youth threatens a young woman's future
in this extraordinary debut novel that follows in the bestselling
Southern tradition of "Big Stone Gap."
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House Call by Darden North |
|  If
You Want Me to Stay
Contributor(s): Parker, Michael (Author)
ISBN: 1565124847 EAN: 9781565124844
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
US SRP: $ 19.95 US
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: September 2005
In Michael Parker’ s new novel, Joel Dunn Jr. tells the story
of how he did everything he could to save his family after his mother
left and his father’ s tenuous hold on sanity unraveled. On
a journey from the town of Trent, North Carolina, to the coast,
Joel and his little brother Tank thread their way back to their
mother, fueled by potato chips, Coke, and the soundtrack of the
powerful soul music that their daddy taught them to love. Always
keeping the faith that their mother is waiting for them, they move
from one kindly stranger to another on their odyssey, Joel ever
certain they are being guided to her door: “ I was being passed
from person to person, ” he says, “ on my way back into
her wide open window.”
Caught between the endless idealism of childhood and the sobering
tests of adulthood, Joel and Tank bravely negotiate their way through
a landscape of love and beauty, abandonment and betrayal, to learn
that the one sure thing is often right by your side.
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|  Johnny
Too Bad: Stories
Contributor(s): Dufresne, John (Author)
ISBN: 0393057895 EAN: 9780393057898
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
US SRP: $ 23.95 US
Binding: Hardcover - Other Formats
Pub Date: February 2005
HERE ARE PEOPLE CAUGHT unawares by trouble and opportunity in the
act of going about their daily lives. A romantic woman, involved
with her married boss, is proposed to by a Bulgarian on a tourist
visa in search of a green card and must choose between a wedding
and a love affair. A doctor who has killed two women escorts a flamboyant
woman home to tell her about his rage and her foolishness. Four
young brothers wander into a man's backyard claiming to be foster
children. They share lunch and search for the foster home that doesn't
exist. After a man tells his wife that he's leaving her and his
children for his new lover, he's found dead in the morning. It's
up to our literary hero to solve the mystery--murder, he wrote.
A cross between William Faulkner and John Irving, John Dufresne
masterfully charts the power of truth and lies and the magic hidden
in the mundane.
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|  Kill
Me Twice
Contributor(s): St Claire, Roxanne (Author)
ISBN: 0743477308 EAN: 9780743477307
Publisher: Pocket Books
US SRP: $ 6.99 US
Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
Pub Date: September 2005
dangerous desires, dark deceptions -- and one drop-dead gorgeous
bodyguard.
WATCH YOUR BACK
Alex Romero is the hottest "Bullet Catcher" in the business.
Tall, dark, and deadly if necessary, this high-priced bodyguard's
got the muscle "and" the moves -- especially when it comes
to the ladies. Alex can keep his beautiful clients out of danger,
but sometimes they can't keep their hands off of "him."
Now Alex has one last chance to prove he belongs among the elite
force known as The Bullet Catchers, but his assignment is stacked...against
him.
WATCH YOUR HEART
Private investigator Jasmine Adams is fiercely independent and
fearless under pressure -- she doesn't need some hunk-for-hire's
help to catch the creep stalking her twin sister. But when Jazz
uncovers bigger forces targeting her sister for death, she's glad
to have Alex's brain and brawn handy. From the steamy streets of
Miami to the sultry beaches of Key West, Alex and Jazz try to fight
temptation as they race to keep a madman from fulfilling his promise
to kill not just once, but twice. "And some temptations are
too powerful to resist...."
First in the new "Bullet Catchers" series by Roxanne
St. Claire |
|  Legacy
of Masks
Contributor(s): Bissell, Sallie (Author)
ISBN: 0553802798 EAN: 9780553802795
Publisher: Bantam Books
US SRP: $ 23.00 US
Binding: Hardcover - Other Formats
Pub Date: March 2005
This killer is so evil, he wears the most deceptive face of all....
Legacy of Masks
Ex-prosecutor Mary Crow didn't expect a hero's welcome when she
returned home to Pisgah County, North Carolina. But what she did
expect was the job she'd been promised in the D.A.'s office. Instead
she found she'd worn out her welcome before she even arrived-and
that she has more than a few enemies among the supporters of the
corrupt sheriff she'd caught sidelining in murder years before.
The new sheriff was one of Mary's childhood schoolmates, timid and
nerdy Jerry Cochran. Only Cochran is neither nerdy nor timid anymore.
And when a young girl is found brutally murdered and everyone, including
the girl's parents and the police, is sure the killer is a young,
mystical Ani Zaguhi Cherokee named Ridge Standingdeer, Mary's first
case in her own law firm slams her into the heart of a controversy.
As a prosecutor, Mary was used to tenaciously tracking down the
guilty. Now she finds herself on the other side of the law, defending
a client she's sure is innocent against a merciless system, a bigoted
town...and an even more ruthless killer. With her old lover Jonathan
Walkingstick, Mary will have to go where she's never gone before-a
place where a psychopath with the perfect mask and a shocking secret
is waiting to add Mary herself to his growing collection of silent
victims.
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|  Lies
Contributor(s): Hoffman, William (Author)
ISBN: 1579660630 EAN: 9781579660635
Publisher: River City Publishing
US SRP: $ 23.95 US
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: August 2005
Publisher Marketing: As Wayland, a successful Florida businessman
and devoted family man, drives through the territory of his hardscrabble
childhood--"Depression-era Virginia--"his memories tumble
forth in contrast to the images he has worked so hard to invent
and maintain during his adult life. He finds himself haunted by
those he believed forgotten: his mother--"a proud, upright
woman worn thin and tough by poverty and ceaseless toil; his father--"who
taught his boys self-reliance but died broken and unable to provide
for his own; and the Ballards--"wealthy landowners who were
the gods of their own pastoral heaven, prospering from the sweat
of others. Looking back over the land he left behind and the betrayed
promises of his youth, Wayland must decide how much of his former
life to reveal to his cultured young wife and beautiful daughter,
who know nothing of hunger and want, and how much to keep buried
under the dust of his past, hidden by lies.
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|  The
Mercy of Thin Air
Contributor(s): Domingue, Ronlyn (Author)
ISBN: 0743278801 EAN: 9780743278805
Publisher: Atria Books
US SRP: $ 24.00 US
Binding: Hardcover - Other Formats
Pub Date: September 2005
In 1920s New Orleans, Raziela Nolan's magnificent love affair is
interrupted by her untimely and tragic death. Immediately after,
she chooses to stay "between" -- a realm that exists after
life and before whatever lies beyond it. From this remarkable vantage
point, Razi narrates the story of her lost love as well as of the
relationship of Amy and Scott, a young couple whose house she haunts
seventy years later. It is their own troubled story that finally
compels Razi to slowly unravel the mystery of what happened to her
first and only passion, Andrew, and to confront a long-hidden secret.
"The Mercy of Thin Air" entwines two heartbreaking and
redemptive love stories that echo across three generations and culminates
in a finish that will leave readers breathless. It is a poignant
and brilliant first novel that beautifully captures the nature of
love and shows how it transcends all barriers -- even death. |
|  The
Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure
Contributor(s): Pendarvis, Jack (Author)
ISBN: 1596921285 EAN: 9781596921283
Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing
US SRP: $ 21.00 US
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: October 2005
Laugh-out-loud funny and dripping with style, this debut collection
of stories holds a fun house mirror to the everyday lives of characters
as empathetic as they are absurd. You?ve met the characters in The
Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure. They?re the quirky visionaries
and misguided dreamers we all know?and might even be. These characters
are absurd, hilarious, and completely believable. From the self-appointed
historian of the title piece to the frustrated wage slaves of ?Our
Spring Catalog? and ?The Pipe, ? these are individualists who don?t
quite adhere to mainstream ideals. Pendarvis draws his humor from
the world of high school ambitions and misunderstood intentions
allowed to breathe and take shape. Always original but somehow familiar,
these are stories plugged into the collective unconscious of our
imaginary lives. Jack Pendarvis's work is difficult to describe
but a pleasure to experience, infused with humanity and laugh-out-loud
funny. Comedic literary talent of this caliber is rare.
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|  Nothing
to Fear
Contributor(s): Rose, Karen (Author)
ISBN: 0446614483 EAN: 9780446614481
Publisher: Warner Books
US SRP: $ 6.50 US
Binding: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats
Pub Date: August 2005
Annotation: After kidnapping 12-year-old Alec Vaughn, Sue Conway
poses as an abused mother at a shelter for battered women. However,
the more shelter director Dana Dupinsky gets to know Sue, the more
alarmed she becomes. The only hope may be security expert Ethan
Buchanan, who has joined the search for the missing Alec--his godson.
Original.
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|  Novel
Contributor(s): Singleton, George (Author)
ISBN: 0151011281 EAN: 9780151011285
Publisher: Harcourt
US SRP: $ 24.00 US
Binding: Hardcover - Other Formats
Pub Date: June 2005
Set in the town of Gruel, South Carolina, this first novel by George
Singleton, master of the comic short story, is the tale of a young
man named Novel (his brother's name is James; his sister's is Joyce),
a professional snake handler who stumbles across strange doings
while he sits in a motel room writing his autobiography. As he struggles
to recount his life story, he uncovers-and finds himself starring
in-a decades-old town secret, one that can blow him and his fellow
citizens sky-high. Funny as only George Singleton can be, full of
Southern mischief and wit, Novel is a crazed and crazy fictional
whirlwind of drinking, motel-living, art-forgery-committing, pool-playing
redneck charm.
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|  The
Orange Blossom Special
Contributor(s): Carter, Betsy (Author)
ISBN: 1565124499 EAN: 9781565124493
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
US SRP: $ 23.95 US
Binding: Hardcover - Other Formats
Pub Date: June 2005
Maybe Tessie couldn’ t help but hope that by following in
the tracks of the Orange Blossom Special— the first passenger
train to connect New York to Miami— she and her daughter Dinah
would find a kinder climate and a new beginning. The year was 1958
and the young widow could tell just by looking in her daughter’
s vacant eyes that a change was called for, indeed necessary. Besides,
returning to the spot where she and Jerry had spent their honeymoon
might keep him close to her, even if just in spirit.
The Orange Blossom Special is a story about the relationships people
develop in the face of loss. And with the social upheaval that shook
the 1960s, the friendships formed end up surprising all of those
involved.
With a light and compassionate touch, Betsy Carter depicts a mother
and daughter who create a family out of the people living at the
crossroads— the Orange Blossom Special’ s designated
rest stop, Gainesville, Florida.
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 The
Poet of Tolstoy Park
Contributor(s): Brewer, Sonny (Author)
ISBN: 034547631X EAN: 9780345476319
Publisher: Ballantine Books
US SRP: $ 21.95 US
Binding: Hardcover - Other Formats
Pub Date: March 2005
"The more you transform your life from the material to the
spiritual domain, the less you become afraid of death." Leo
Tolstoy spoke these words, and they became Henry Stuart's raison
d'etre. "The Poet of Tolstoy Park is the unforgettable novel
based on the true story of Henry Stuart's life, which was reclaimed
from his doctor's belief that he would not live another year.
Henry responds to the news by slogging home barefoot in the rain.
It's 1925. The place: Canyon County, Idaho. Henry is sixty-seven,
a retired professor and a widower who has been told a warmer climate
would make the end more tolerable. San Diego would be a good choice.
Instead, Henry chose Fairhope, Alabama, a town with utopian ideals
and a haven for strong-minded individualists. Upton Sinclair, Sherwood
Anderson, and Clarence Darrow were among its inhabitants. Henry
bought his own ten acres of piney woods outside Fairhope. Before
dying, underscored by the writings of his beloved Tolstoy, Henry
could begin to "perfect the soul awarded him" and rest
in the faith that he, and all people, would succeed, "even
if it took eons." Human existence, Henry believed, continues
in a perfect circle unmarred by flaws of personality, irrespective
of blood and possessions and rank, and separate from organized religion.
In Alabama, until his final breath, he would chase these high ideas.
But first, Henry had to answer up for leaving Idaho. Henry's dearest
friend and intellectual sparring partner, Pastor Will Webb, and
Henry's two adult sons, Thomas and Harvey, were baffled and angry
that he would abandon them and move to the Deep South, living in
a barn there while he built a round house of handmade concrete blocks.
His newneighbors were perplexed by his eccentric behavior as well.
On the coldest day of winter he was barefoot, a philosopher and
poet with ideas and words to share with anyone who would listen.
And, mysteriously, his "last few months" became years.
He had gone looking for a place to learn lessons in dying, and,
studiously advanced to claim a vigorous new life.
"The Poet of Tolstoy Park is a moving and irresistible story,
a guidebook of the mind and spirit that lays hold of the heart.
Henry Stuart points the way through life's puzzles for all of us,
becoming in this timeless tale a character of such dimension that
he seems more alive now than ever.
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|  Relics
(Faye Longchamp Mysteries (Hardcover) )
Contributor(s): Evans, Mary Anna (Author)
ISBN: 1590581199 EAN: 9781590581193
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
US SRP: $ 24.95 US
Binding: Hardcover - Other Formats
Pub Date: August 2005
Erstwhile artifacts blackmarketeer Faye Longchamp lands the job
as chief archaeologist for a rural development project and heads
to the hills of Alabama, her studly Cherokee assistant, Joe, in
tow. She's looking forward to a legitimate dig, and hopes to uncover
the mystery of the Sujosa, an ethnic group of mysterious origins
known for their aquamarine eyes and unusual resistance to disease.
But the murder of one of the project team leads to a different sort
of investigation, and Faye finds herself using her professional
and personal skills to discover the murderer, and the long-buried
secret of the Sujosa as well.
Mary Anna Evans, winner of the 2004 Ben Franklin Award and the Patrick
D. Smith Florida Fiction Award, started Faye's sleuthing career
in Artifacts, a novel rich in the history, archaeology, and landscape
of Faye's family and Florida's west coast.
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|  Rocks
That Float
Contributor(s): Steele, Kathy B (Author)
ISBN: 0895873184 EAN: 9780895873187
Publisher: John F. Blair Publisher
US SRP: $ 22.95 US
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: September 2005
Annotation: In the tradition of Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg,
Ohio," Steele's debut novel populates an entire community within
the page of a book, telling the story of a recently divorced man--and
the choices his new neighbors force him to make.
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|  The
Mayor of Lexington Avenue
Contributor(s): Sheehan, James (Author)
ISBN: 097674421X EAN: 9780976744214
Publisher: Yorkville Press
US SRP: $ 14.95 US
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: August 2005
Publisher Marketing: ANNOTATION: Praise for James Sheehan from Nelson
DeMille: "If you like South Florida crime novels, legal thrillers,
and courtroom dramas, then you'll love THE MAYOR OF LEXINGTON AVENUE,
which has all three, plus some nostalgic New York City flashbacks
as an added bonus. James Sheehan, a FL trial attorney, has created
Jack Tobin, a Florida trial attorney, and one of the most interesting
and complex characters I've come across in a long time. This is
a debut novel, but it reads like it was written by a master of the
genre."
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|  The
Pleasure Was Mine
Contributor(s): Hays, Tommy (Author)
ISBN: 0312339321 EAN: 9780312339326
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
US SRP: $ 23.95 US
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: March 2005
Prate Marshbanks proposed to his future wife on a muggy July night
at Pete's Drive-in back in '52. "She said yes to me between
bites of a slaw burger all-the-way." A college graduate and
daughter of a prominent lawyer, Irene was an unlikely match for
Prate, a high school dropout. He lived his married life aware of
the question on people's minds: How in the world did a tall, thin,
fair-skinned beauty and one of the most respected high school English
teachers in all of Greenville County, in all of South Carolina for
that matter, wind up married to a short, dark, fat-faced, jug-eared
house painter? That their marriage not only survived for fifty years,
but flourished, is a source of constant wonder to Prate. Now he
faces a new challenge with Irene.
From the author of "In The Family Way, a novel the Atlanta
Constitution called "an instant classic" and the "Charlotte
Observer praised as "a lovely, moving book," comes a powerful
story of hard-earned hope. "The Pleasure Was Mine takes place
during a critical summer in the life of Prate Marshbanks, when he
retires to care for his wife, who is gradually slipping away. To
complicate things, Prate's son, Newell, a recently widowed single
father, asks Prate to keep nine-year-old Jackson for the summer.
Though Prate is irritated by the presence of his moody grandson,
during the summer Jackson helps tend his grandmother, and grandfather
and grandson form a bond. As Irene's memory fades, Prate, a hardworking
man who has kept to himself most of his life, has little choice
but to get to know his family.
With elegance and skillful economy of language, Tommy Hays renders
an unforgettable character in Prate Marshbanks. "The Pleasure
Was Mine is atonce a quietly wrenching portrayal of grief, a magical
and romantic story about the power of love, and an unexpectedly
moving take on the resilience of family.
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|  Those
Pearly Gates (Homegrown )
Contributor(s): Cannon, Julie (Author)
ISBN: 0743271599 EAN: 9780743271592
Publisher: Touchstone Books
US SRP: $ 13.00 US
Binding: Paperback - Other Formats
Pub Date: September 2005
The heartwarming saga of Imo Lavender and her spirited family continues
in a third installment of the beloved Homegrown series.
Life is moving on for Imogene Lavender, and reluctantly she leaves
her farm in rural Georgia to follow her new husband, Reverend Peddigrew,
into town to live in the parsonage. Her struggle to adjust is not
what she expects when she begins feeling the all-too-perfect presence
of the Reverend's late wife. The move also leaves Imo's niece Loutishie
resentful and stretching her faith to find a way back to her beloved
farm. Imo's daughter, Jeanette -- a beautician at the Kuntry Kut
'n' Kurl married to a reverend of her own -- is so afraid of becoming
a "church lady" that she secretly enters an erotic bull-riding
contest. But a devastating event forces Jeanette to see that beauty
is not just skin deep, and when Imo's neighbors suffer a great tragedy,
she learns what it really means to be a reverend's wife by helping
to restore their faith. |
|  Torpedo
Juice
Contributor(s): Dorsey, Tim (Author)
ISBN: 0060585609 EAN: 9780060585600
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
US SRP: $ 24.95 US
Binding: Hardcover - Other Formats
Pub Date: February 2005
The drinks are on us!
Serge A. Storm returns -- and so does Tim Dorsey -- for another
hilarious tour of the wacky underside of the Sunshine State. And
this time our lovable but maniacal hero is on a mission: Stay off
police radar and reinvent himself.
Naturally Serge makes a beeline to the Reinvention Capital of the
United States, the Florida Keys, where nobody is who they seem to
be and the freaks are the least of your worries.
The perfect place for Serge to blend in!
Unfortunately, some other less likable lunatics have latched on
to the same idea, and the sheriff's fax machine keeps jamming because
of all the APBs coming in like a storm front about to break ...
Lurking beneath paradise are many questions: Who is the mystery
driver of the metallic green Trans Am? The brown Plymouth Duster
with Ohio plates? What about the white Mercedes with tinted windows?
Who can keep it all straight?
Serge can!
At least when he's not conch blowing, Seven-Mile Bridge running,
underwater romancing, operating an all-inclusive twelve-step program,
or trying to convince his accidental posse that he's not the messiah.
But the questions only lead to more questions: Why is everyone
afraid to set foot on No Name Key? Why are they more afraid of the
smuggler left over from the old days, when all the phone booths
are covered with drug dealers' numbers? What was Serge thinking
when he got married? What was she thinking? Who rises from the dead
to wreak havoc on the newlyweds' bliss? Will the Skunk Ape win the
scavenger hunt? Who will survive the Key West beach bash from hell?
And why is everyone hammered all the time?
Maybe it's something in the Torpedo Juice ...
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 Turning
Angel
Contributor(s): Iles, Greg (Author)
ISBN: 0743234715 EAN: 9780743234719
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
US SRP: $ 25.95 US
Binding: Hardcover - Other Formats
Pub Date: December 2005
Annotation: "New York Times" bestselling author Greg Iles
brings the secrets of the South alive in this vibrant novel of infatuation,
murder, and sexual intrigue set in his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi.
"Turning Angel marks the long-awaited return of Penn Cage,
the lawyer hero of "The Quiet Game, and introduces Drew Elliott,
the highly respected doctor who saved Penn's life in a hiking accident
when they were boys. As two of the most prominent citizens of Natchez,
Drew and Penn sit on the school board of their alma mater, St. Stephen's
Prep. When the nude body of a young female student is found near
the Mississippi River, the entire community is shocked -- but no
one more than Penn, who discovers that his best friend was entangled
in a passionate relationship with the girl and may be accused of
her murder.
On the surface, Kate Townsend seems the most unlikely murder victim
imaginable. A star student and athlete, she'd been accepted to Harvard
and carried the hope and pride of the town on her shoulders. But
like her school and her town, Kate also had a secret life -- one
about which her adult lover knew little. When Drew begs Penn to
defend him, Penn allows his sense of obligation to override his
instinct and agrees. Yet before he can begin, both men are drawn
into a dangerous web of blackmail and violence. Drew reacts like
anything but an innocent man, and Penn finds himself doubting his
friend's motives and searching for a path out of harm's way.
More dangerous yet is Shad Johnson, the black district attorney
whose dream is to send a rich white man to death row in Mississippi.
At Shad's order, Drew is jailed, the police cease hunting Kate's
killer, and Penn realizes that only by finding Kate's murderer himself
can he save his friend's life.
With his daughter's babysitter as his guide, Penn penetrates the
secret world of St. Stephen's, a place that parents never see, where
reality veers so radically from appearance that Penn risks losing
his own moral compass. St. Stephen's is a dark mirror of the adult
world, one populated by steroid-crazed jocks, girls desperate for
attention, jaded teens flirting with nihilism, and hidden among
them all -- one true psychopath. It is Penn's journey into the heart
of his alma mater that gives "Turning Angel its hypnotic power,
for on that journey he finds that the intersection of the adult
and nearly adult worlds is a dangerous place indeed. By the time
Penn arrives at the shattering truth behind Kate Townsend's death,
his quiet Southern town will never be the same.
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|  Where the River Runs
Contributor(s): Henry, Patti Callahan (Author)
ISBN: 0451215052 EAN: 9780451215055
Publisher: New American Library
US SRP: $ 12.95 US
Binding: Paperback - Other Formats
Pub Date: May 2005
Annotation: From the author of "Losing the Moon" comes
an engaging new novel following the emotional path of a woman who
goes back home to face the past--only to discover herself. Includes
a conversation guide.
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|  The
Widow of the South
Contributor(s): Hicks, Robert (Author)
ISBN: 0446500127 EAN: 9780446500128
Publisher: Warner Books
US SRP: $ 24.95 US
Binding: Hardcover - Other Formats
Pub Date: August 2005
Annotation: Reminiscent of "Cold Mountain" and "Enemy
Women," Robert Hicks' gripping debut novel, based on the incredible
true story of Carrie McGavock--a woman whose life was forever changed
by the Civil War--is exquisitely packaged with endpapers and compelling
interior photographs.
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|  Wolf
Point
Contributor(s): Falco, Edward (Author)
ISBN: 1932961089 EAN: 9781932961089
Publisher: Unbridled Books
US SRP: $ 23.95 US
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: October 2005
Annotation: In this taut, dramatic literary thriller, award-winning
author Falco examines betrayal, trust, and forgiveness in a story
about a middle-aged man pulled from his mundane world into the chaotic
lives of a young woman and her boyfriend in a way he will barely
survive.
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|  The
Year the Music Changed: The Letters of Achsa McEachern-Isaacs &
Elvis Presley
Contributor(s): Thomas, Diane C (Author)
ISBN: 1592641229 EAN: 9781592641222
Publisher: Toby Press
US SRP: $ 22.95 US
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: September 2005
It is 1955. Achsa is a lonely, passionate and precocious fourteen-year-old,
isolated at school by her intelligence and disfigurement, troubled
at home by the undercurrents in her parents' relationship. She finds
comfort and inspiration in the tunes and rhythms she hears on her
radio. Hearing a recording by an unknown 20-year-old country singer
named Elvis Presley, she fires off a fan letter, telling him she
knows he's going to be a star. Insecure in the world he is entering,
passionate about music and burning with a desire to succeed, Elvis
answers her and enlists her help in teaching him how to "talk
good." The intimate, touching correspondence that follows chronicles
Achsa and Elvis' coming of age as artists and individuals. Able
to confide in nobody else, they share with each other their most
private dreams and fears. Elvis becomes Achsa's sounding board as
she watches her beautiful, distant mother and her sternly religious
father lurch toward tragedy, confronts her own scarred mouth, and
faces a shattering loss. The young singer's responses reveal his
fierce, aching innocence in the year before his star burst forth
and offers a fascinating glimpse into the grassroots history of
rock and roll.
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