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|  | Bartulin, Lenny DEATH BY THE BOOK
November 15, 2009 - Jack Susko makes his first entrance clinging to a cliff's edge with his hands cuffed and a gun pointed at him. A flashback shows unsuspecting Jack delivering a handful of books to the remote estate of wealthy Hammond Kasprowicz, who uses the
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| | Clinch, Wendy DOUBLE BLACK
November 15, 2009 - Stacey Curtis isn't one for complications. When she walked in on her fianc cheating with a mutual friend, she didn't cause a scene but simply took off in the direction of the nearest ski resort. Ski bumming had always fascinated Stacey, and it
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| | Dobson, Joanne DEATH WITHOUT TENURE
November 15, 2009 - Each department at Enfield College is restricted to a single tenure appointment this year, and the English faculty must choose between promoting a colleague who's published two books and a slew of scholarly articles and a Native American who never
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| | Hall, James W. SILENCER
November 15, 2009 - Thorn's plan to donate a big chunk of the land left him by Abigail Bates to the state seems to be improved when Earl Hammond asks him to swap his holdings for Coquina Ranch, the even bigger spread Hammond's son Browning has turned into a hunting
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| | Harris, Gardiner HAZARD
November 15, 2009 - When a wall in the Blue Gem Mine gives way, veteran miner Amos Blevins watches helplessly as Rob Crane is trapped by an onrush of water. Amos tries desperately to save his young co-worker, but Rob becomes one of nine casualties in the disaster. At a
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| | Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia FELL PURPOSE
November 15, 2009 - Zellah Wilding, just shy of 17, always did exactly as she was told. She was sweet, she was smart, she never misbehaved—or so her daddy thought until she turned up togged out like a tart, her lights turned permanently off by a pair of tights. Finding
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| | Kaminsky, Stuart M. A WHISPER TO THE LIVING
November 15, 2009 - In Bitsevsky Park, a stocky, middle-aged man sits on a bench, seemingly impervious to wintry blasts. He's been there five days in succession, notes 11-year-old Yuri Platkov. Bright and ever curious, Yuri approaches, puts a few questions, and so
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| | Kaufman, Thomas DRINK THE TEA
November 15, 2009 - Decades after his affair with Colette Andrews, a gorgeous young fan with whom he long ago lost touch, jazz musician Steps Jackson asks his pal Willis Gidney to find the daughter he never knew. Gidney, a part-time detective who works at a record
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| | Knopf, Chris SHORT SQUEEZE
November 15, 2009 - Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, but few can rival Sergey Pontecello, his sister-in-law Eunice Wolsonowicz, and her daughter Wendy and adopted son Oscar, aka Fuzzy. His late wife's sister has taken up residence in his home and won't
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| | McLean, Russel D. THE GOOD SON
November 15, 2009 - Daniel Robertson was only 16 when he left St. Michaels, a small village outside Dundee, after quarreling with his father. More than two decades later, his brother James finds his body hanging from a tree on the family's farm. To fill in the gaps in
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| | Mercer, Ken SLOW FIRE
November 15, 2009 - Leaving behind the gritty streets of Los Angeles and a heroin addiction, former LAPD narcotics detective Will Magowan takes a job as chief of police in the small Northern California town of Haydenville. His advanced skills are required almost
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| | Parks, Brad FACES OF THE GONE
November 15, 2009 - Though Carter Ross, an investigative journalist at the Newark Eagle-Examiner, is only 31, he's unabashedly retrograde. He loves the newspaper game with old-school zeal, the kind that sent Stanley scampering off to darkest Africa in search of Dr.
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| | Parshall, Sandra BROKEN PLACES
November 15, 2009 - Now that she's moved to Mason County, Va., to escape the problems of her past (Disturbing of the Dead, 2007, etc.), Rachel is involved in a nasty murder spree that also has roots in bygone events. While treating the dog of celebrated cartoonist Ben
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| | Todd, Charles THE RED DOOR
November 15, 2009 - Where is Walter Teller? An undiagnosed malady has sent him to the Belvedere Clinic. His wife Jenny, his sister Leticia, his brothers Edwin and Peter and their wives Amy and Susannah worry over him, then become alarmed when he disappears. Family
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November 15, 2009 - Lately in our reader-feedback inbox we've had a few pleas to split our Children's section into subsections based on audience age. I understand these readers' motivations: There are only so many minutes in a day, and to spend some of them reading reviews of books you don't work with can feel burdensome...But I have to say that simply putting together the Best Children's Books (in the Nov. 15 issue) and Best Young Adult Books (in the Dec. 1 issue) supplements this year was agony for me. While it's easy enough, I suppose, to declare Jerry Pinkney's glorious "The Lion and the Mouse" a children's book and Nick Burd's edgy-in-the-extreme "The Vast Fields of Ordinary" a YA book, drawing the line got pretty arbitrary
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