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DELICATE CHAOS by Jeff Buick – As the vice-president of a Washington, D.C., bank, Leona Hewitt knows her new position will have greater responsibilities. She doesn’t know they may cost her life. Her boss made it pretty clear that he expects her to approve a particular conversion for one of their largest corporate clients, no matter how questionable it may seem to her. Both the head of the bank and the head of the corporation have a lot to lose if this doesn’t go through … and they’re not about to let anything or anyone get in their way. As Leona races to stay one step ahead of the killer on her trail, the only man who can help keep her alive is fighting for his own life halfway around the world.
THE POTENTIAL HAZARDS OF HESTER DAY by Mercedes Helnwein – Hester Louise Day: high school graduate, almost-wife, would-be mother, soon to be wanted for kidnapping a 10-year-old with a comb-over. Apprehensive about spending the rest of her existence in a void of nothingness in Nowheresville, Fla., where she currently lives with her painfully intrusive family, she decides to tip her life over into any kind of surrealism she can lay her hands on.
ROBERT LUDLUM’S THE ARCTIC EVENT by James H. Cobb – On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, researchers discover the wreckage of a mysterious World War II-era aircraft, a discovery that forces the Russian Federation into a shocking admission. The unmarked plane is a Soviet strategic bomber that disappeared with its crew more than 50 years ago while carrying two metric tons of weaponized anthrax. Desperate to prevent a political and diplomatic firestorm, the U.S. president dispatches a Covert-One team led by Lt. Col. Jon Smith to the crash site. But others have reached the frigid, windswept island first, including an international arms dealer and his crew of vicious mercenaries.
THE ARCHIMEDES CODEX: HOW A MEDIEVAL PRAYER BOOK IS REVEALING THE TRUE GENIUS OF ANTIQUITY’S GREATEST SCIENTIST by Reviel Netz and William Noel – At a Christie’s auction in 1998, a battered medieval manuscript sold for $2 million to an anonymous bidder. The manuscript was a palimpsest – a book made from an earlier codex whose script had been scraped off and the pages used again. Behind the script of the 13th-century monk’s prayer book, the palimpsest revealed the faint writing of a much older, 10th-century manuscript: the earliest surviving manuscript by Archimedes, the greatest mathematician of antiquity.
WHAT THE DEAD KNOW by Laura Lippman – Thirty years ago, the two Bethany sisters, ages 11 and 15, disappeared from a Baltimore shopping mall. They never returned, their bodies were never found, and only painful questions remain. Now, decades later, in the aftermath of a rush-hour hit-and-run accident, a clearly disoriented woman is claiming to be the younger Bethany sister. Not a shred of evidence supports her story, and every lead she reluctantly offers takes the police to another dead end: a dying, incoherent man; a razed house; a missing grave. But there is something she knows about that terrible day …
WAKING BRIGID by Francis Clark – Young Brigid Rourke is a beautiful Irish nun. Driven by the ravages of the famine, Brigid’s family chose to give the girl up to the service of the Church to ensure her survival. But in order to do that, she had to reject her people’s pagan ways. Brigid’s resolve is tested when a prominent Savannah citizen is cruelly murdered behind a locked and bolted door in an insane asylum. The last words of the man chilled the blood of all who heard him, and the fact that he was murdered while he was alone in the cell defies all logical reason. What follows is nothing less than an amazing clash between the forces of good and evil-dedicated white magicians versus the entrenched devil worshippers – for the soul of a city.
THE LABRADOR PACT by Matt Haig – The Hunters are your typical family, with typical concerns – work, money, love, the trials of adolescence – with one difference: They are protected by a highly determined dog, their black Labrador, Prince. Prince views it as his sacred duty to defend his family and to guard its integrity. But what is he to do when the family’s worst enemies are themselves? As Prince uses every canine resource to keep the Hunter clan together, he finds himself confounded by the odd behavior of the humans he loves. To save the family, Prince must betray the ancient Pact of the Labradors – a decision that may cost him everything.
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