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Errors and Omissions, by Paul Goldstein. Lights Out Tonight, by Mary Jane Clark.
Michael Seeley is an intellectual-property liti- For film and theater critic Caroline Enright,
gator—and a man on the brink of personal angry calls from producers and agents are one
and career collapse. When United Pictures thing, but murder is quite another. While in
demands that he fly out to Hollywood to con- the rolling Berkshire Mountains to do a piece
firm that it owns the rights to its corporate on a prestigioussummer actingfestival, Enright
cash-cow Spykiller films, he has to comply. discovers that someone in the quaint college
What he discovers plunges him headlong into town has a secret worth killing for. She must
Daniel Silva the messy tangle of the blacklisting era and now use her journalistic skills to unmask a
from there into the even darker world of murderer before she and her stepdaughter
Nazi-occupied Poland. become the next victims.
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The Messenger, by Daniel Silva. Gabriel Break No Bones, by Kathy Reichs. Peter and the Shadow Thieves, by Dave
Allon, art restorer and spy, is recovering from Archaeological field school is almost over when Barry and Ridley Pearson. In this follow-a showdown with a master terrorist when a Temperance Brennan’s students find a decom- up to Peter and the Starcatchers, young readers
figure from his past arrives in Jerusalem. posing body in a shallow grave. It is a recent discover Peter leaving the relative safety of
Monsignor Luigi Donati, the private secretary burial of a middle-aged white male. Who is he? Mollusk Island for the cold, damp streets of
to His Holiness Pope Paul VII, is a man as Why was he buried there? And what does the London. On the journey, he encounters Lord
ruthless as he is intelligent. Now he has come vertical hairline fracture of the sixth cervical Ombra, who has the ability to make shadows
to seek Allon’s help. A Swiss guard has been vertebra signify? Brennan is working on disappear. When Peter reaches London, he
found dead in St. Peter’s Basilica, and answering those questions when her personal sets out to find Molly, and together they com-although Donati has allowed the official life is suddenly thrown into turmoil: Her bat Ombra’s powers to protect the magical,
inquiry to determine that it is suicide, his estranged husband is shot by a bullet possibly treasured starstuff and rescue Molly’s mother.
instinct tells him it is murder. meant for her, and another body is discovered. —Valerie Ryan
This House of Sky: Life of Pi
Landscapes of a by Yann Martel
Western Mind Trade Paper.
by Ivan Doig May 2003.
Doig’s life among the shep- Harvest Books
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of small-town saloons and
ranches of the West.
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The Crimson Petal
Animals in Translation: and the White
Using the Mysteries of by Michel Faber
Autism to Decode Trade Paper.
Animal Behavior September 2003.
by Temple Grandin and Harvest Books
Catherine Johnson
Conservatives Without
Conscience
by John Dean
Former White House legal counsel John
Dean paints a vivid picture of what’s
happening at the top levels of the
Republican Party.
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On sale July 11, 2006
The Mysterious Flame
of Queen Loana 1812: The War That Down the Great
by José Saramago Forged a Nation Unknown
A groundbreaking book Blindness
that revolutionizes the
understanding of how
animals think and feel.
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Harvest Books emphasizes the War of September 2002.
1812’s importance to Harper Perennial
America’s development as
a nation and its subsequent
westward expansion.
by Umberto Eco Trade Paper. October
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A fascinating, abundant 2005. Harper Perennial
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Harvest Books The Children's Blizzard April 1865: The
by David Laskin Month That
The Club Dumas
by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Part mystery, part puzzle,
part witty intertextual
game—a wholly original
intellectual thriller.
Trade Paper. May 2006.
Harvest Books
An account of the blizzard Saved America
of January 12, 1888, which by Jay Winik
killed some 500 settlers in Trade Paper.
Nebraska, the Dakotas and April 2002.
Lighthousekeeping Minnesota—many of whom Harper Perennial
by Jeanette Winterson were children trying to get
Trade Paper. home from school.
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