Playing for Pizza
Written by John Grisham
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2008
Price: $7.99
Rick Dockery was the third-string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. In the AFC Championship game, to the surprise and dismay of virtually everyone, Rick actually got into the game. With a 17-point lead and just minutes to go, Rick provided what was arguably the worst single performance in the history of...
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Written by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: July 29, 2008
Price: $22.00
“ I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.” January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject...
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The 19th Wife
A Novel
Written by David Ebershoff
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2008
Price: $26.00
Faith, I tell them, is a mystery, elusive to many, and never easy to explain.Sweeping and lyrical, spellbinding and unforgettable, David Ebershoff’s
The 19th Wife combines epic historical fiction with a modern murder mystery to create a brilliant novel of literary suspense.
It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently...
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The Gargoyle
Written by Andrew Davidson
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2008
Price: $25.95
An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time
The narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern life. As the book opens, he is driving along a...
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Bridge of Sighs
A Novel
Written by Richard Russo
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $14.95
Louis Charles Lynch (also known as Lucy) is sixty years old and has lived in Thomaston, New York, his entire life. He and Sarah, his wife of forty years, are about to embark on a vacation to Italy. Lucy's oldest friend, once a rival for his wife's affection, leads a life...
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Faces of Fear
A Novel
Written by John Saul
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $26.00
New York Times bestselling author John Saul is a master at writing novels that chill the bones, curdle the blood, and tap into our darkest fears. He creates characters so real that you’ll feel as if they’re friends or family, and throws them into situations so terrifying that you won’t be...
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Songs Without Words
Written by Ann Packer
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: July 29, 2008
Price: $14.95
Liz and Sarabeth were girlhood neighbors in the suburbs of Northern California, brought as close as sisters by the suicide of Sarabeth's mother. In the decades that followed, their relationship remained a source of continuity and strength. But when Liz's adolescent daughter enters dangerous waters, the women's friendship takes a devastating...
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Into the Fire
A Novel
Written by Suzanne Brockmann
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2008
Price: $25.00
Suspense doesn’t burn any brighter and desire doesn’t run any deeper than when Suzanne Brockmann takes the helm, opens the throttle, and takes readers along for a breathless ride as she breaks the thrill barrier–again and again. With Into the Fire, Brockmann lights the fuse on her most explosive story yet.
Vinh...
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The Terminal Spy
A True Story of Espionage, Betrayal and Murder
Written by Alan S. Cowell
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2008
Price: $26.95
In a page-turning narrative that reads like a thriller, an award-winning journalist exposes the troubling truth behind the world’s first act of nuclear terrorism.
On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko sipped tea in London’s Millennium Hotel. Hours later the Russian émigré and former intelligence officer, who was sharply critical of Russian president...
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Everything Nice
Written by Ellen Shanman
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: July 29, 2008
Price: $5.99
In this smart, sexy, wickedly funny new novel, the acclaimed author of
Right Before Your Eyes introduces an unforgettable and irresistibly real heroine: a woman who is forced to reinvent herself— and discovers that the biggest risk is not taking one at all.
Michaela “Mike” Edwards doesn’t do sugar and spice...
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