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Wednesday, June 30th
Learn Me Good by John Pearson
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Jack Woodson was a thermal design engineer for four years until he was laid off from his job. Now, as a newly minted third-grade teacher, product testing has given way to standardized testing, and conference calls are replaced by parent conferences. In this semi-autobiographical book, Pearson chronicles a year-in-the-life of a brand new teacher.
Tuesday, June 29th
No Mercy by John Gilstrap
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No names. No feds. No trace evidence. Freelancer Jonathan Grave specializes in covert rescues, which means he has to work outside the law to get things done. But when his rescue of a college student explodes into a deadly shooting spree, Grave discovers that someone rich and powerful will do anything to control a devastating secret.
Monday, June 28th
Eros, Philia, Agape by Rachel Swirsky
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Originally published on Tor.com, Rachel Swirsky’s contemporary tale of love in all its forms–and of one robot’s quest to know it, and himself, on his own terms–is a finalist for the 2010 Hugo Award and the 2010 Locus Award.
Sunday, June 27th
Home to Hart’s Crossing by Robin Lee Hatcher
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Four novellas from bestselling author Robin Lee Hatcher: a daughter returns home from the big city to care for her injured mother; childhood sweethearts reconnect after decades apart; a single mom finds herself the target of her starry-eyed daughter’s matchmaking scheme; and a young couple struggles to find their own American dream.
Saturday, June 26th
The American Vegetarian Cookbook by Marilyn Diamond
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Over 500 mouth watering recipes designed to keep you and your family satisfied and enthusiastic. The hardcover version normally retails for $24.
Friday, June 25th
Parable of the Forgotten by Simon Fenn
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Jarvis had a tiredness in his soul like the main ingredient. Maybe because him and his head have never got on. Then he found Lady’s body. He just has to stay alive long enough to find her killer. And, finally, he can rest. …At least, he thinks that’s what the angel promised.
Thursday, June 24th
Bulls Island by Dorothea Benton Frank
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After a family disaster ruins the engagement between rich J.D. Langley and slightly-less-rich Betts McGee, Betts moves from South Carolina to NYC to raise a secret child and build her own business. Now 20 years later she’s forced to return, where old family rivalries re-emerge and J.D. comes back into her life, unhappily married and childless. I don’t know if I captured the right parts of this book’s plot, frankly, but I tried. I tried!
Wednesday, June 23rd
Violet Dawn by Brandilyn Collins
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The newest resident of Kanner Lake, Idaho, finds a dead body and hides it instead of calling the police. Thus begins a “tale of murder in a small town with an added twist of Christian faith, which is lightly handled.”
Tuesday, June 22nd
Endurance by Jack Kilborn
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Welcome to Rushmore Inn, nestled in the hills of West Virginia. Wary guests wonder how it can stay in business at such a creepy, remote location. Especially with its bizarre, presidential decor and eccentric proprietor. Now four female athletes have checked in, and they’re about to discover the horrors within its walls.
Monday, June 21st
Portal by Imogen Rose
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A New Jersey tomboy suddenly finds herself living an alternate life as a glamorous cheerleader in California. Now Arizona Darley must unravel the mystery behind how her physicist mother has managed to change reality to her whims–and how to undo it.
Sunday, June 20th
The Joy of Pregnancy by Tori Kropp
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Labor and delivery nurse Kropp was troubled when she recognized several years back that women coming into the hospital to give birth were both ill-prepared and more anxious than ever. Her book is a refreshing mix of medical information and helpful, nonjudgmental advice, which urges readers to inform themselves but also to relax and enjoy the special time and anticipation of pregnancy.
Saturday, June 19th
Crack-Up by Eric Christopherson
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Argus Ward, a former Secret Service agent now in the private security business, has managed to build a career while carefully medicating his paranoid schizophrenia. Then one day he turns psychotic, and is charged with the murder of a famously wealthy client. Is there a widescale assassination plot in motion, as he suspects, or is he in the grip of a complex paranoid delusion?
Friday, June 18th
Horror Stories by Jack Kilborn / J. A. Konrath
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This collection of 26 horror stories, many published previously in magazines and anthologies, spans everything from classic vampires and werewolves to real world monsters like serial killers and cannibals. Not for the faint-hearted, based on reader reviews.
Thursday, June 17th
Getting Rich: A Comic Novel by Steve Bensinger
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Scooter Culminer’s company is about to make him rich, and Scooter is ready to settle down with someone he can share his life with. First, however, he must deal with a relationship guru, a pistol-packing porno star, the theft of the car he loves, two gorgeous golddiggers, and a COO who is possibly stealing from the company.
Wednesday, June 16th
Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
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In this first appearance of Amelia Peabody–”a Victorian Indiana Jones”–the young adventurer uses her sudden inheritance to travel to Egypt, where she begins to suspect a new friend is in mortal danger. Note that several Amelia Peabody titles are currently on sale for $1.99 each.
Tuesday, June 15th
Rules of Deception by Christopher Reich
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After Dr. Jonathan Ransom’s wife dies in a skiing accident in the Swiss Alps, he learns she had been leading a double life as a spy. What starts out as a search for answers about his late wife’s past quickly escalates into a frantic life and death chase across northern Europe.
Monday, June 14th
Toe Popper by Jonny Tangerine
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A terrorist is planting landmines on the beaches of Southern California. Major Joel Lane, a Special Forces adviser and landmine expert, is called-in from the wilderness of Cambodia to hunt him down. Teamed with the beautiful female FBI agent assigned to the case, Lane battles his past demons, opium addiction, and a diabolical opponent who is only getting started.
Sunday, June 13th
The Choice Effect by Amalia McGibbon, Lara Vogel, and Claire A. Williams
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The Choice Effect is for young women who have all the opportunities in the world and no idea how to decide among them. How can you know whether you’re with the right person–or if the time is right–when you haven’t vetted the other possibilities?
Saturday, June 12th
The Walk by Lee Goldberg
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A major earthquake has devastated Los Angeles, and self-absorbed TV network executive Marty Slack will do anything to make it back to his family in the San Fernando Valley–through fires, floods, explosions, sinkholes, after-shocks and looters.
Friday, June 11th
Marked by P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast
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16-year-old Zoey Redbird has been marked with special gifts, and enrolls at the House of Night school to learn whether or not she will one day become a vampire. Described by one reviewer as “hot and dark and funny,” this is the first book in a series for teens.
Thursday, June 10th
Hide by Lisa Gardner
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Six bodies, all young girls, are discovered in a hidden underground chamber on the grounds of a former mental hospital–one of them bearing the name of a young woman who has spent her entire life in hiding, and who must now unravel the mystery behind the killings.
Wednesday, June 9th
Overtime by Charles Stross
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The Laundry is a secret British government agency charged with preventing interdimensional entities from destroying the human race. Now the Laundry is on a skeleton staff for Christmas — leaving one bureaucrat to be all that stands between the world and annihilation by the Thing That Comes Down Chimneys. 2009 Hugo Award Finalist.
Tuesday, June 8th
Shadow of Power by Steve Martini
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A writer is slain while promoting his book, which reveals secret language in the Constitution and hints at an explosive missing letter of Thomas Jefferson’s. But defense attorney Paul Madriani thinks the attacker is a scapegoat, and that something far deadlier is hiding in America’s political heart.
Monday, June 7th
Faking It by Elisa Lorello
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Thirty-four-year old professor Andi Cutrone has broken up with her fiancé, moved back to her native New York, and wants to be a better lover. So after meeting Devin, a handsome, charming escort, she proposes an unusual arrangement: lessons about writing in exchange for lessons about sex.
Sunday, June 6th
The Scent of Shadows by Vicki Pettersson
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When she was sixteen, Joanna Archer was left to die in the Nevada desert. Now a photographer by day, she prowls a different Las Vegas after sunset—a grim, secret Sin City where Light battles Shadow—seeking answers… and revenge.
Saturday, June 5th
His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik
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The first in a trilogy of books set during the Napoleonic wars. A British Navy captain bonds with a newly hatched dragon, and the two “take on the French in sprawling, detailed battles that Novik renders with admirable attention to 19th-century military tactics.”
Friday, June 4th
The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen
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Years ago, Dr. Catherine Cordell fended off a serial killer in Savannah who removed the wombs of his victims. Now someone with the same profile is killing again, and Cordell has to help catch the copycat even as he closes in on her.
Thursday, June 3rd
Outsmart! by Jim Champy
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This fast-paced book reveals the surprising lessons learned by companies that have achieved super-high growth for at least three straight years. Drawing on their strategies, Champy identifies eight powerful ways to compete in even the roughest marketplace.
Wednesday, June 2nd
Democratizing Innovation by Eric von Hippel
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Aided by new technology, users are increasingly developing their own new products and services, then sharing their innovations with others. Hippel looks closely at this emerging system of user-centered innovation, and explains why it often pays users to reveal their innovations freely for the use of all.
Tuesday June 1st
God Don’t Like Ugly by Mary Monroe
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Annette Goode, born in the racist South of the 1950s, is the heroine of Monroe’s strong second novel (after The Upper Room), a coming-of-age journey depicted with wit, poignancy and bite.
