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	Canin, Ethan	America America
In the early 1970s Corey Sifter, the son of working class parents, is befriended by the powerful Metarey family, whose patriarch is a kingmaker in the world of New York state politics. Working as a yard boy on the Metarey estate, Corey later becomes an aide to Senator Henry Bonwiller, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. As the campaign gains momentum, a crime is committed, and Corey's forced to accept his part in a triangle of morality, politics, gratitude, love, and loyalty.
	Smith, Abbe	Case of a Lifetime: A Criminal Defense Lawyer's Story
Thousands of innocent people are wrongfully imprisoned each year in the United States. While some are exonerated through DNA evidence, many others remain there because of convictions based on faulty eyewitness accounts and no DNA evidence. Abbe Smith, a former criminal defense attorney, shares real life cases about the moral and ethical dilemmas of representing the guilty and the burden of championing the innocent. She also tells readers about her most memorable case when she helped free a woman wrongly imprisoned for 30 years.
	O'Neil, Dennis	Dark Knight
In the official novelization of the highly-anticipated Warner Brothers movie, 'The Dark Knight,' starring Christian Bale and the late Heath Ledger, Batman returns to face the clown prince of crime--The Joker. While allied with both the police department and the district attorney's office, Batman continues to bring justice and hope to Gotham City, with one man daring to mock his mission.
	Dolnick, Edward	The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century
Dutch Baroque painter Jan Vermeer is now recognized as one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age. For seven years, another Dutch painter named Han van Meegeren, lived vicariously through Vermeer, often passing his work off as Vermeer's. This is the story of how this mediocre painter fooled the art world and Hermann Goering, one of the most reviled leaders of Nazi Germany. The deception eventually landed Meegeren in an Amsterdam court on trial for his life.
	Kopelman, Jay	From Baghdad to America: What This Marine Learned About Love and War from a Dog Named Lava
Lt. Col. Jay Kopelman won the hearts of readers and made the 'New York Times'' bestseller list with his title 'From Baghdad, With Love' about the puppy he and his Marine comrades rescued in Iraq. He continues the story after returning home and talks about the lessons the dog has taught him about everyday life, including: life can change in an instant; have a standard operating procedure for everything; never forget who you are or how you got here, and more.
	Peretti, Frank E. & Dekker, Ted	House
Two of the top bestselling authors in the Christian marketplace have combined their talents to give readers this new title. The old vacant house the two couples took refuge in while fleeing from a maniac was a Godsend. Or, was it? They soon discover that others who are dwelling in the lower level of the house don't take kindly to visitors, and now the house won't let any of them leave. Even worse, they discover that the maniac, who claims to have killed God, has purposely lured them to this house. Only by defeating the evil within themselves can they defeat the evil in the house.
	Kalish, Mildred Armstrong	Little Heathens
While the Great Depression was a hard time, Kalish also remembers it as a time of kinship, kindness, and simple pleasures as she grew up on her grandparents' Iowa farm. She also recollects caring teachers who inspired and befriended her, and all sorts of animals ready to be tamed and loved. She, her siblings, and her cousins worked and played hard. Herein she shares those memories which illustrate how even the bleakest of times can seem like quite a romp.
	Gammel, Irene	Looking for Anne of Green Gables: The Story of L. M. Montgomery and Her Literary Classic
July 2008 will mark the 100th anniversary of the first publication of the book 'Anne of Green Gables' by Canadian author L. M. (Maud) Montgomery. In a revealing new portrait, the author weaves the story of both Anne and Maud and how Maud's life mirrored Anne's in many ways.
	Winchester, Simon	The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
Needham, a young scientist, first arrived in China in 1943 on a mission for the British government. It was a journey that actually began six years earlier at Cambridge University when he had fallen in love with a visiting Chinese student and her mysterious country. It was a transforming event that would make his life and career, transforming him into the world's greatest China scholar, whose life work would predict the emergence of what is 21st-century China.
	Duarte, Judy	Mulberry Park
While jogging in Mulberry Park one evening, a letter falls from its hiding place in a tree in front of Claire Harper. The envelope is addressed: 'To God from Analisa.' Curious and touched, Claire reads the letter from the seven year old who is asking God to look after her parents in heaven. Impulsively, Claire writes back, hoping to preserve Analisa's belief in prayer. Little does Claire realize that this simple act will set in motion a miracle that will touch many lives.
	Peters, Elizabeth	Mummy Case
Radcliffe Emerson, husband of Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, has been denied permission to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor, but is instead awarded the 'pyramids' at Mazghunah, where he feels nothing is worthy of interest. That is, until an antiquities dealer is murdered and an Egyptian is spotted at the crime scene. As Amelia and Emerson look for answers in an ancient tomb, their digging turns dangerous.
	Thurlo, Aimee & Thurlo, David	The Prodigal Nun: A Sister Agatha Mystery
The offer of money for renovations to the cash-strapped Our Lady of Hope monastery by the local diocese comes with strings attached. In return the monastery must house Sister Jo, a loud, boisterous, opinionated, inappropriate, impulsive, novice nun. The older nuns reluctantly agree. After Sister Jo's arrival, a series of violent threats start to arrive and Sister Agatha wonders if Sister Jo is in some way involved. Sister Agatha knows she must uncover the truth before her peaceful community is further disrupted.
	Cabot, Meg	Queen of Babble Gets Hitched
Things are looking up for Lizzie Nichols. She's got a successful business and has just become engaged. Just when she's beginning to enjoy the view from cloud nine, circumstances pull her back to reality. The best man and the maid of honor voice their feelings about her upcoming nuptials. Her family balks at her choice of wedding sites. Her future in-laws try to lure her fiance to change careers, and she begins to wonder if her Prince Charming is as fabulous as she once thought.
	Lustbader, Eric Van	Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Sanction
To regain his identity as David Webb, Jason Bourne accepts an invitation from his mentor, Dominic Specter, to join the linguistics department at Georgetown University. When he learns about a group of Muslim extremists who are determined to attack America, Bourne knows he has to do something to stop them. Meanwhile, two Pentagon operatives plan to accomplish something the CIA could never do--hunt down Bourne and destroy him. Jason has a critical decision to make. Will he save his country, or himself?
	Steel, Danielle	Rogue
Maxine Wiliams was a dedicated doctor with three great kids, a challenging career, and the perfect new man in her life. The fly in the ointment, as the expression goes, was Blake, her charming, infuriating, millionaire entrepreneur ex-husband, who wants her as a partner in a humanitarian project that could change countless lives, and maybe, theirs as well. Blake's sudden transformation from carefree playboy to responsible grownup raises questions Maxine's never managed to answer . . . and some she's afraid to ask.
	Kreidler, Mark	Six Good Innings: How One Small Town Became a Little League Giant
Google the phrase 'jokes about New Jersey' and you will find page after page of humorous pokes at the state and its people. But, one thing that is no laughing matter, in at least one town in New Jersey, is the seriousness of the sport of Little League. Kreidler follows one group of All-Stars in Toms River, N.J., as they go through a season that they hope will take them all the way to a coveted Little League Championship, as experienced by four previous teams.
	Bohjalian, Christopher A.	Skeletons at the Feast
The trip the small group is undertaking from Warsaw to the Rhine is a dangerous one in the waning months of World War II. Among the group is Anna Emmerich, 18, daughter of Prussian aristocrats; her lover, Callum Finnella, 20, a former prisoner of war; and a 26-year-old Wehrmacht corporal named Manfred, who in reality is Uri Singer, a Jew from Germany, who escaped from a train bound for Auschwitz. Their trek to reach British and American lines will test them all, assuming any of them survive.
	Dekker, Ted	Skin
A serial killer has come to the town of Summerville, Nev., looking for revenge. The victims he selects causes the town (and readers) to ask the question: What makes the beautiful ugly and the ugly beautiful? The answer will shock and haunt readers long after the last page.
	Hoffman, Alice	Third Angel
Madeleine Heller finds herself in love with her sister's fiance. Freida Lewis, a doctor's daughter and a runaway, becomes the muse of an ill- fated rock star. Bryn Evans, about to marry, is secretly obsessed with her ex-husband. The lives of these women from three different decades are charted, as the protagonist, Lucy Green, searches for the Third Angel, the angel on Earth who will renew her faith.
	Sullivan, Tom & White, Betty	Together: A Novel of Shared Vision
Brendan McCarthy was a mountain climber challenging himself when one misstep cost him his sight and nearly everything he held dear. Then a special dog named Nelson came into his life and pulled him out of the depths of depression and self-pity, showing him how to see what really mattered. Although the novel is fiction, it is based on a real dog named Nelson and written by two of Hollywood's strongest dog advocates.