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January 2008
Fiction

The Kept Man by Jami Attenberg
The Reserve by Russell Banks
Dust (pb) by Elizabeth Bear
Capitol Conspiracy by William Bernhardt
Blue Heaven by C.J. Box
Three Shirt Deal by Stephen J. Cannell
Beginner's Greek by James Collins
Sword Song by Bernard Cornwell
The Secret Between Us by Barbara Delinsky
The Voyage of the Short Serpent
by Bernard Du Boucheron
Primal Threat by Earl Emerson
Gas City by Loren D. Estleman
Plum Lucky by Janet Evanovich
Killer Heat by Linda Fairstein
The Serpent's Tale by Ariana Franklin
Shadow Music by Julie Garwood
The Book of Old Houses by Sarah Graves
Death Before Wicket by Kerry Greenwood
The Shooters by W.E.B. Griffin
The Appeal by John Grisham
Hot (pb) by Julia Harper
Precious Blood by Jonathan Hayes
The Killer Ground by Jack Higgins
A Version of the Truth by Jennifer Kaufman
Without Mercy by Toni Kelner
Day by A.L. Kennedy
Touchstone by Laurie R. King
Duma Key by Stephen King
Sizzle and Burn by Jayne Ann Krentz
Betrayal by John Lescroart
In For a Pound by Richard Marinick
Hunter's Run by George R.R. Martin
Hide & Seek (pb) by Fern Michaels
The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller
Lady of the Snakes by Rachel Pastan
Bone Rattler by Eliot Pattison
The Painter of Battles by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Blasphemy by Douglas Preston
Silent in the Sanctuary by Deanna Raybourn
Light of the Moon by LuAnne Rice
Beet by Roger Rosenblatt
What I Was by Meg Rosoff
Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink
The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz
Chili Con Corpses by J.B. Stanley
Vienna Blood by Frank Tallis
A Pale Horse by Charles Todd
The Fault Tree by Louise Ure
The Chameleon's Shadow by Minette Walters
Mermaids in the Basement by Michael Lee West
Beverly Hills Dead by Stuart Woods

Nonfiction

What Color is Your Parachute? For Retirement
by Richard Nelson Bolles
American Connections by James Burke
Boone: A Biography by Robert Morgan
Personality by Daniel Nettle
Terra by Michael Novacek
The Forger by Cioma Schonhaus
Easy Money by Liz Pulliam Weston

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February 2008
Fiction

Wastelands ed. by John Joseph Adams
Special Assignments by Boris Akunin
Deep Dish by Mary Kay Andrews
Wild Inferno by Sandi Ault
Matter by Iain M. Banks
The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes
The Soul Thief by Charles Baxter
Gambit by Karna Small Bodman
The Little Lady Agency and the Prince
by Hester Browne
St. Bart Breakdown by Don Bruns
The Accident Man by Tom Cain
Mozart's Ghost by Julia Cameron
Johnny One-Eye by Jerome Charyn
Silver by Edward Chupack
Shavetail by Thomas Cobb
Atomic Lobster by Tim Dorsey
Stalked by Brian Freeman
Celebutantes by Amanda Goldberg
The Anatomy of Deception by Lawrence Goldstone
Now You See Him by Eli Gottlieb
Irish Tiger by Andrew Greeley
Dakota by Martha Grimes
The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
The Art of French Kissing by Kristen Hamilton
The Wedding Machine by Beth Webb Hart
Charm! by Kendall Hart
The Expeditions by Karl Iagnemma
Lady Macbeth by Susan Fraser King
Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella
Obedience by Will Lavender
1999 by Morgan Llywelyn
Slip of the Knife by Denise Mina
Return of the Stardust Cowgirl by Marsha Moyer
The Last Beach Bungalow by Jenine Nash
The First Patient by Michael Palmer
Stranger in Paradise by Robert B. Parker
7th Heaven by James Patterson
Hush My Mouth by Cathy Pickens
A Grave In Gaza by Matt Rees
Strangers in Death by J.D. Robb
Lady Killer by Lisa Scottoline
Ice Trap by Kitty Sewell
Resistance by Owen Sheers
Honor Thyself by Danielle Steel
Spy Game by Sue Swift
An Irish Country Village by Patrick Taylor
Snowfall at Willow Lake (pb) by Susan Wiggs
The Seduction of the Crimson Rose by Lauren Willig
The Spare Wife by Alex Witchel

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March 2008
Fiction

A Prisoner of Birth by Jeffrey Archer
Simply Perfect by Mary Balogh
A Flaw In the Blood by Stephanie Barron
The Silver Swan by Benjamin Barron
The View From the Seventh Layer
by Kevin Brockmeier
Zapped by Carol Higgins Clark
Where Are You Now by Mary Higgins Clark
The Blue Star by Tony Earley
The Amateur Spy by Dan Fesperman
The Killer's Wife by Bill Floyd
The Dark Tide by Andrew Gross
The Labrador Pact by Matt Haig
The Outlaw Demon Wails by Kim Harrison
Bathtub Admirals by Jeff Huber
The Price of Blood by Declan Hughes
Chasing Windmills by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Genghis: Eagle of the Mountains by Conn Iggulden
Promise Me Tomorrow by Linda Ingmanson
The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
Compulsion by Jonathan Kellerman
Blue-Eyed Devil by Lisa Kleypas
World Made By Hand by James Howard Kunstler
The English American by Alison Larkin
Pinkerton's Secret by Eric Lerner
City of the Sun by David Levin
Another Thing to Fall by Laura Lippman
Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz
Shadow of Power by Steve Martini
The Bible of Clay by Julia Navarro
Buckingham Palace Gardens by Anne Perry
Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult
Lush Life by Richard Price
Three Girls and Their Brother by Theresa Rebeck
Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana by Ann Rice
Blind Fall by Christopher Rice
Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
Windy City by Scott Simon
Criminal Paradise by Steven M. Thomas
The Spa by Fay Weldon
Black Widow by Randy Wayne White
Dead Time by Stephen White
The Woman Who Wouldn't by Gene Wilder
Our Story Begins by Tobias Wolff
The Ten-Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer

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April 2008
Fiction

Lady Lazarus by Andrew Foster Altschul
The Romanov Bride by Robert Alexander
Wicked City by Ace Atkins
The Whole Truth by David Baldacci
Winter Study by Nevada Barr
Small Favor by Jim Butcher
Antiques to Die For by Jane Cleland
Hold Tight by Harlan Coben
Blood Alley by Tom Coffey
Girls In Trucks by Katie Crouch
Playing With the Grown-ups by Sophie Dahl
Adam by Ted Dekker
Suddenly by Barbara Delinsky
The Rosetta Key by William Dietrich
Cathedral of the Sea by Ildefonso Falcones
Nice To Come Home To by Rebecca Flowers
Wit's End by Karen Joy Fowler
Bull's Island by Dorothea Benton Frank
Losing You by Nicci French
All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen
Sleeping Dogs by Ed Gorman
The Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber
Bound by Sally Gunning
Fall of Frost by Brian Hall
The Messiah by Marek Halter
The Girl With No Shadow by Joanne Harris
The Finder by Colin Harrison
Death Walked In by Carolyn Hart
Mummy Dearest by Joan Hess
The Third Angel by Alice Hoffman
Quicksand by Iris Johansen
Cold Plague by Daniel Kalla
Twisted by Andrea Kane
Stop by Jesse Kellerman
Take Me If You Can by Karen Kendall
Hangman's Corner by Peter King
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahari
Wrack and Ruin by Don Lee
The Ex-Debutante by Linda Francis Lee
South of Shiloh by Chuck Logan
The Headhunters by Peter Lovesey
River of Heaven by Lee Martin
The Miracle at Speedy Motors
by Alexander McCall Smith
The House in Riverton by Kate Morton
Sepulchre by Kate Mosse
Things I Want My Daughter to Know
by Elizabeth Noble
Sundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson
Killing Rommel by Steven Pressfield
The Third Circle by Amanda Quick
Searching for Paradise in Parker, PA
by Kris Radish
Guilty by Karen Robards
Miss Julia Paints the Town by Ann B. Ross
The God of War by Marisa Silver
Dirty Money by Richard Stark
The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir
Sante Fe Dead by Stuart Woods

Nonfiction

Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
Polk by Walter R. Borneman
Vindicated by Jose Canseco
The Bin Ladens by Steve Coll
The Faithful by James M. O'Toole
Armageddon In Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut

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May 2008
Fiction

Rubicon by Lawrence Alexander
The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
The Fisher Boy by Stephen Anable
Vodka Neat by Anna Blundy
Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
The Adventures of Slim and Howdy by Kix Brooks
Spider Star by Mike Brotherton
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
by Janelle Brown
Swine Not? by Jimmy Buffett
The Front by Patricia Cornwell
Belong to Me by Marisa de Los Santos
The Count of Concord by Nicholas Delbanco
Secrets by Jude Deveraux
So Brave, Young and Handsome by Leif Enger
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks
Dark Magic (pb) by Christine Feehan
Careless in Red by Elizabeth George
Love the One You're With by Emily Giffin
A Dangerous Age by Ellen Gilchrist
Days of Infamy by Newt Gingrich
The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer
Escape From Andersonville by Gene Hackman
From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris
Comfort Food by Kate Jacobs
The Diplomat's Wife by Pam Jenoff
Odd Hours by Dean Koontz
The Lost by Roberta Kray
The Girl of His Dreams by Donna Leon
Twenty Wishes by Debbie Macomber
Rosewater and Soda Bread by Marsha Mehran
The Angel by Carla Neggers
The Body in the Gallery by Katherine Hall Page
Natural Born Charmer (pb) by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
The Hollow (pb) by Nora Roberts
To the Death by Patrick Robinson
Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
by James Rollins
Phantom Prey by John Sandford
Triumph of Caesar by Steven Saylor
The Steel Wave by Jeff Shaara
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
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Adult Services - Featured Books of 2008 (with scheduled publishing date)

Adult Services - Featured Books of 2008
(with scheduled publishing date)