Costco Connection - June 2007

book prevıews

The big events and small
decisions that change lives

FICTION A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini. Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought together by war, loss and fate. As they endure the ever-escalating dangers around them—in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul— they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation.

The Penny, by Joyce Meyer and Deborah Bradford. When Jenny Blake is 14, she decides to pick up a penny embedded in the sidewalk and ends up stopping a robbery, getting a job and meeting a person who will change her life forever. That person is Miss Shaw, and their friendship transforms each of them and those around them, showing that God is in the details —even a detail as small as a penny.

The Sleeping Doll, by Jeffery Deaver. A vicious killer, Daniel Pell, escapes from a

California prison to embark on a deadly quest. Special agent Kathryn Dance (from Deaver’s Cold Moon), an interrogator and body-language expert with the Cal Bureau of Investigation, has to hunt him down. To do so, she must enlist the aid of people from the killer’s past, including a young girl who is the only survivor of her family’s slaughter.

Stalin’s Ghost, by Martin Cruz Smith. Detective Arkady Renko returns to his Moscow base on the trail of a suspect police officer. He isn’t having much luck with that case when his boss asks him to check out a strange phenomenon: Passengers riding the last metro of the night see the ghost of Stalin waving to them from the platform’s edge. To add to Renko’s troubles, his adopted son has disappeared and his girlfriend reignites a love affair with the officer he is investigating!

NONFICTION
The Secret History of the American
Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and

Khaled Hosseini

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the Truth about Global Corruption, by John Perkins. Perkins offers both entertaining and disturbing accounts of the American governnment wreaking havoc around the world in support of American business. His thesis is that American presidents are in the thrall of CEOs who encourage them to distribute foreign aid to third-world leaders who keep a share and return the rest to U.S. business for shady projects. Perkins zeroes in on hot spots around the world, drawing on interviews to examine the current geopolitical crisis and providing a compassionate plan to reimagine our world.—Valerie Ryan

“Reagan’s diaries are revealing, and Brinkley has done historians and the broad public a great service by editing them for publication.” —PublishersWeekly

HARPERCOLLINS / HARDCOVER Available now

“Clark has perfected the suspense novel, where in classic Christie fashion, everyone is a potential suspect.”

—Booklist

WILLIAM MORROW / HARDCOVER On sale June 6

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