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January 2007
Fiction

The Song is You by Megan Abbot
The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery
Lion Eyes by Claire Berlinski
Self-Storage by Gayle Brandeis
Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
Deep Storm by Lincoln Child
Breakpoint by Richard A. Clarke
The Cloud of Unknowing by Thomas H. Cook
Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell
The Mathematics of Love by Emma Darwin
More Twisted by Jeffrey Deaver
Spider Mountain by P.T. Deutermann
What Goes Around by Susan Diamond
Paula Spencer by Roddy Doyle
Plum Lovin' by Janet Evanovich
Bad Blood by Linda Fairstein
Time to Kill by Brian Freemantle
The Successor by Stephen Frey
Hide by Lisa Gardner
On Tall Pine Lake by Dorothy Garlock
Shadow Dance by Julie Garwood
Trap Door by Sarah Graves
The Hunters by W.E.B. Griffin
Dust by Martha Grimes
When Darkness Falls by James Grippando
Man in the Middle by Brian Haig
Inferno by Karen Harper
Skylight Confessions by Alice Hoffman
The Killing Moon by Chuck Hogan
Blood and Circumstance by Frank Turner Hollon
The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood
Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
Web of Evil by J.A. Jance
Stalemate by Iris Johansen
Trouble by Jesse Kellerman
White Lies by Jayne Ann Krentz
The Suspect by John Lescroart
Charity Girl by Michael Lowenthal
The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer
Fangland by John Marks
How to Marry a Ghost by Hope McIntyre
You Suck by Christopher Moore
The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud
by Julia Navarro
Find Me by Carol O'Connell
The Perfect Fake by Barbara Parker
Exile by Richard North Patterson
Surveillance by Jonathan Raban
The Sun Over Breda by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Silent In the Grave by Deanna Raybourn
In the Rain by S.J. Rozen
The Blade Itself by Marcus Sakey
The Case of the Missing Books by Ian Sansom
The Terror by Dan Simmons
Stalin's Ghost by Martin Cruz Smith
A Deeper Sleep by Dana Stabenow
City of Glory by Beverly Swerling
Exit A by Anthony Swofford
Red River by Lalita Tademy
Sliver of Truth by Lisa Unger

Nonfiction

A Perfect Mess by Eric Abrahamson
Quick Facts on Colon Cancer
by American Cancer Society
Quick Facts on Lung Cancer
by American Cancer Society
Knitting With Balls by Michael Del Vecchio
Natural Causes by Dan Hurley
Woodworking 101 For Women by Marilyn MacEwen
Mayo Clinic Book of Alternative Medicine
by The Mayo Clinic
The Supreme Court by Jeffrey Rosen

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February 2007
Fiction

Travels In the Scriptorium by Paul Auster
The Tinderbox by Jo Bannister
Flesh and Bone by Jefferson Bass
The Alexandria Link by Steve Berry
By the Time You Read This by Giles Blunt
The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
Little Lady, Big Apple by Hester Browne
Drop Dead Beautiful by Jackie Collins
The Watchman by Robert Crais
The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis
Family Tree by Barbara Delinsky
Napoleon's Pyramids by William Dietrich
Hurricane Punch by Tim Dorsey
Damage Control by Robert Dugoni
The Presidential Affair by Clive Egleton
The Machiavelli Covenant by Alan Folsom
Causing Havoc by Lori Foster
The Liar's Diary by Patry Francis
Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
Changing Light by Nora Gallagher
Irish Linen by Andrew Greeley
The Dead Fathers Club by Matt Haig
The Solitude of Thomas Cave by Georgina Harding
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Past Perfect by Susan Isaacs
Looks to Die For by Janice Kaplan
Lost Echoes by Joe R. Lansdale
Taste of Innocence by Stephanie Laurens
The Mosaic Crimes by Giulio Leoni
The Grave Tattoo by Val McDermid
Strangled by Brian McGrory
The Polish Woman by Eva Mekler
Free Fall by Fern Michaels
McKetrick's Luck by Linda Lael Miller
The Fifth Vial by Michael Palmer
High Profile by Robert B. Parker
Storm Runners by T. Jefferson Parker
Step On a Crack by James Patterson
Natural Born Charmer by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Falling by Christopher Pike
Valentine by Chet Raymo
The Collaborator of Bethlehem by Matt Beynon Rees
Black Monday by R. Scott Reiss
The Edge of Winter by Luann Rice
Innocent in Death by Nora Roberts
Irish Dreams (pb) by Nora Roberts
Sixty Days and Counting by Kim Stanley Robinson
Ten Days in the Hills by Jane Smiley
The House (pb) by Danielle Steel
Sisters by Danielle Steel
The Winter Lodge by Susan Wiggs
The Lying Tongue by Andrew Wilson

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March 2007
Fiction

Hades by Russell Andrews
Cat O'Nine Tales by Jeffrey Archer
Whitethorn Woods by Maeve Binchy
Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
Accidentlly Engaged by Mary Carter
Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier
Then We Came To the End by Joshua Ferris
Magic City by James W. Hall
Bleeding Hearts by Richard Hawke
Pig Island by Mo Hayder
Death Comes For the Fat Man by Reginald Hill
The Alibi Man by Tami Hoag
On the Wrong Track by Steve Hockensmith
The Betrayers by James Patrick Hunt
Passports to Crime edited by Janet Hutchings
The Kommandant's Girl by Pam Jenoff
The Dowry by Walter Keady
Shopaholic & Baby by Sophie Kinsella
Con Ed by Matthew Klein
Sugar Daddy by Lisa Kleypas
Poison Pen by Sheila Lowe
The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz
Canaan by Donald McCaig
The Bloomsday Dead by Adrian McKinty
When the Light Goes by Larry McMurtry
Ascent by Jed Mercurio
The Hourglass (pb) by Barbara Metzger
Eddie Krumble is the Clapper by Dito Montiel
Scavenger by David Morrell
The Gentle Axe by R.N. Morris
The Back Nine by Billy Mott
The Return by Hakan Nesser
Sister Mine by Tawni O'Dell
At Some Disputed Barricade by Anne Perry
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
Wife In the Fast Lane by Karen Quinn
Roma by Steven Saylor
Daddy's Girl by Lisa Scottoline
The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
Visibility by Boris Starling
Gray Ghost by William G. Tappley
Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir
Hunter's Moon by Randy Wayne White
Dry Ice by Stephen White
My French Whore by Gene Wilder

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April 2007
Fiction

Spanish Dagger by Susan Wittig Albert
A Poisoned Season by Tasha Alexander
A Treasury of Regrets by Susanne Alleyn
Calamity Jane Goes to College (pb)by Kathleen Bacus
White Night by Jim Butcher
The Quilter's Homecoming by Jennifer Chiaverini
I Heard That Song Before by Mary Higgins Clark
The Last Tycoons by William D. Cohan
Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas
Skin by Ted Dekker
Secret Relations by Annabel Dilke
Hot Stuff (pb) by Janet Evanovich
God's Spy by Juan Gomez-Jurado
Helpless by Barbara Gowdy
American Outrage by Tim Green
The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton
Set Sail For Murder by Carolyn Hart
The Refuge by Sue Henry
Damsels in Distress by Joan Hess
Gold Diggers by Tracie Howard
The Color of Blood by Declan Hughes
Body of Lies by David Ignatius
Absolute Fear by Lisa Jackson
Obsession by Jonathan Kellerman
Jigsaw by Jerry Kennealy
Little Pink Slips by Sally Koslow
Kingdom Come by Tim LaHaye
American Youth by Phil LaMarche
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
by Alexander McCall Smith
The Marriage Game by Fern Michaels
McKettrick's Heart (pb) by Linda Lael Miller
Somewhere In the City by Marcia Muller
We Shall Not Sleep by Anne Perry
Angelica by Arthur Phillips
The Naming of the Dead by Ian Rankin
Obsession by Karen Robards
The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson
Miss Julia Strikes Back by Ann B. Ross
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Anatomy of Fear by Jonathan Santlofer
Thistle & Twigg by Mary Saums
Body Surfing by Anita Shreve
Zig Zag by Jose Carlos Somoza
The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien
Mergers & Acquisitions by Dana Vachon
To My Dearest Friends by Patricia Volk
The Wilde Women by Paula Wall
April in Paris by Michael Wallner
The Bad Quarto by Jill Paton Walsh
What's So Funny by Donald Westlake
Fresh Disasters by Stuart Woods

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May 2007
Fiction

The Lost Diary of Don Juan by Douglas Abrams
Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea
Killer Genius by David Baldacci
Little Stalker by Jennifer Belle
Dream When You're Feeling Blue by Elizabeth Berg
Free Fire by C.J. Box
Strike Force by Dale Brown
Bobbie Faye's Very (Very, Very, Very) Bad Day
by Toni McGee Causey
The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child
The Nature of Monsters by Clare Clark
The Woods by Harlan Coben
The Overlook by Michael Connelly
The Unquiet by John Connolly
Simple Gifts by Lori Copeland
The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
The Entitled by Frank DeFord
Landing by Emma Donoghue
Zoo Station by David Downing
The Ministry of Special Causes by Nathan Englander
A Good and Happy Child by Justin Evans
The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan
The Land of Mango Sunsets
by Dorothea Benton Frank
In the Woods by Tana French
The Fourth Order by Stephen Frey
The Sudoku Murder by Shelley Freydont
Pearl Harbor by Newt Gingrich
Lying With Strangers by James Grippando
The Blue Zone by Andrew Gross
Addled by JoeAnn Hart
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Genghis: Birth of an Empire by Conn Iggulden
Stormy Weather by Paulette Jiles
The Good Guy by Dean Koontz
Up in Honey's Room by Elmore Leonard
The King of Methlehem by Mark Lindquist
Back on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber
Imposture by Benjamin Markovits
Brasyl by Ian McDonald
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
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Adult Services - Featured Books of 2007 (with scheduled publishing date)

Adult Services - Featured Books of 2007
(with scheduled publishing date)