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FACES OF FEAR by John Saul — Fifteen-year-old Alison Shaw may not be beautiful, but she doesn’t really care. But Alison’s gorgeous mother, Risa, knows that beauty can be a key to success and wishes only the best for her daughter, especially when Risa marries a widowed plastic surgeon. Beauty may be only skin deep, but to the denizens of Bel Air, it means the world. Everywhere mother and daughter look, they are surrounded by beautiful people, many of whom have benefited from the skills of Alison’s new stepfather, the charismatic Peter Dunn. He is certain he can turn Alison into a vision of loveliness. Reluctantly, Alison agrees to undergo the first procedure, and her transformation begins. But soon Alison discovers a picture of Peter’s first wife. To Alison’s horror, she notices a resemblance between the image in the photo and the work her stepfather is doing on her.
THE LITTLE BOOK by Selden Edwards — Wheeler Burden, California-exiled heir, philosopher, rock idol, writer, lover of women, recluse, half-Jew. In 1988, he is 47, living in San Francisco. Suddenly he is — still his modern self — wandering in a city and time he knows mysteriously well: Vienna. It is 1897, precisely 91 years before his last memory and a half-century before his birth. It’s not long before Wheeler has acquired a mentor in Sigmund Freud, a bitter rival, a powerful crush on a luminous young American woman, a passing acquaintance with local celebrity Mark Twain, and an incredible and surprising insight into the dashing young war-hero father he never knew. But the truth at the center of Wheeler’s dislocation in time remains a stubborn mystery that will take months of exploration and a lifetime of memories to unravel.
MOSCOW RULES by Daniel Silva — The death of a journalist leads Gabriel Allon to Russia — not the grim, gray Moscow of Soviet times, but a new Moscow, awash in oil wealth. A Moscow where power resides once more behind the walls of the Kremlin. A Moscow where a new generation of Stalinists is plotting to reclaim an empire lost and to challenge the global dominance of the United States. One such man is Ivan Kharkov, a former KGB colonel who built a global investment empire on the rubble of the Soviet Union. Hidden within that empire, however, is a more lucrative and deadly business: Kharkov is an arms dealer — and he is about to deliver Russia’s most sophisticated weapons to al-Qaeda. Unless Allon can learn the time and place of the delivery, the world will see the deadliest terror attacks since 9/11 — and the clock is ticking fast.
THE APOCALYPSE DIRECTIVE by Douglas MacKinnon — President of the United States Shelby Robertson is in the third year of his second term. His time in office is running out. Four-star general Wayne Mitchell is the man in charge of the nation’s land-based nuclear arsenal. For the past few years, both men have shared a common belief—that the apocalypse in coming. But due to their strong religious faith, they aren’t frightened at all. In fact, they are determined to hasten the process. And unless someone can stop them in time, they will set in motion a chain of events that could wipe clean the face of the earth.
SMOKE SCREEN by Sandra Brown — When newswoman Britt Shelley wakes up to find herself in bed with Jay Burgess, a rising star detective in the Charleston PD, she remembers nothing of how she got there … or of how Jay wound up dead. Firefighter Raley Gannon, Jay’s lifelong friend, learns of his shocking death and Britt’s claim. As the investigation into Jay’s death intensifies, and suspicion against Britt mounts, Raley realizes that the newswoman, Jay’s last sexual conquest, might be his only chance to get personal vindication — and justice for seven victims of a police station fire. But there are powerful men who don’t want to address unanswered questions about the fire and who will go to any lengths to protect their reputations. As Raley and Britt discover more about what happened that fateful day, the more perilous their situation becomes, until they’re not only chasing after the truth but running for their lives.
UNDERGROUND by Kat Richardson — Harper Blaine was your average small-time P.I. until she died — for two minutes. Now Harper is a Greywalker — walking the thin line between the living world and the paranormal realm. And she’s discovering that her new abilities are landing her all sorts of “strange” cases. Pioneer Square’s homeless are turning up dead and mutilated, and zombies have been seen roaming the underground — the city buried beneath modern Seattle. When Harper’s friend Quinton believes he may be implicated in the deaths, he persuades her to investigate. But the killer is no mere murderer — it is a creature of ancient legend. And Harper must deal with both the living and the dead to stop the monster and its master … unless they stop her first.
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