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STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS by Karen Traviss — Across the galaxy, the Clone Wars are raging. The Separatists, led by Count Dooku, the onetime Jedi and now secret Sith Lord, continue to press forward, and more worlds are either falling, or seceding. Under the leadership of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, the Republic heroically battles on, championed by its huge army of cloned soldiers and their Jedi generals. Anakin Skywalker, believed by some to be the prophesied “Chosen One” destined to bring balance to the Force, is now a Jedi Knight under the tutelage of Obi-Wan Kenobi. Death is a constant possibility — and his chances of survival aren’t improved by the unexpected arrival of an apprentice: Ahsoka, a brash, inexperienced 14-year-old Padawan apprenticed to Anakin. But there’s no time for Anakin to question his latest orders: He and Obi-Wan have been assigned a new mission, and failure is not an option.
THE VEIL OF GOLD by Kim Wilkins — When an ancient gold bear is found walled up in a dilapidated St. Petersburg bathhouse, researcher Daniel St. Clair and his frosty colleague Em Hayward set out for the university in Arkhangelsk to verify its age. Along the way they are mysteriously set adrift. Maps are suddenly useless. Lost and exhausted they turn north, sinking even deeper into the secrets and terrors of the Russian landscape. Daniel’s lost love, the beautiful Rosa Kovalenka, fears the worst when Daniel goes missing and resolves to find him. To do so will mean confronting her past and secrets that she has fought to suppress. The only way to save him is to go forward, where she encounters the haunted Chenchikov clan, a family with their own shadowy tangle of grief, desire and treachery.
FOREIGN BODY by Robin Cook — Jennifer Hernandez is a fourth-year medical student at UCLA, whose world is shattered during a break in an otherwise ordinary day. While relaxing in the surgical lounge of L.A.’s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, she half-listens to a piece on medical tourism, where first-world citizens travel to third-world countries for surgery. But when she hears her beloved grandmother’s name mentioned, her own heart nearly stops: the CNN reporter says Maria Suarez-Hernandez had died, a day after undergoing a hip replacement in New Delhi’s Queen Victoria Hospital. Devastated, and desperate for answers, Jennifer takes emergency leave from school and heads to India, discovering a sophisticated medical facility with little margin for error. As the death count grows, so do the questions.
BEYOND REACH by Karin Slaughter — Sara Linton — resident medical examiner/pediatrician in Grant County, Geo. — has plenty of hardship to deal with, including defending herself in a heartbreaking malpractice suit. So when her husband, police chief Jeffery Tolliver, learns that his friend and coworker detective Lena Adams has been arrested for murder and needs Sara’s help, she is not sure she can handle the pressure of it all. But soon Sara and Jeffery are sitting through evidence, peeling back the layers of a mystery that grows darker by the day — until an intricate web of betrayal and vengeance begins to unravel. And suddenly the lives of Sara, Lena, and Jeffery are hanging by the slenderest of threads.
STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS: A HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF JOKES by Jim Holt — STOP ME is the first book to trace the evolution of the joke from the stand-up comics of ancient Athens to the comedy-club Seinfelds of today. Cropping up en route are such unforgettable figures as Poggio, a Renaissance papal secretary and sexual adventurer; and Gershon Legman, the FBI-hounded psychoanalyst of dirty jokes. Having explored humor’s history in part one, Holt then delves into philosophy in part two. Jewish jokes; Wall Street jokes; jokes about rednecks and atheists, bulimics and politicians; jokes that you missed if you didn’t go to a Catholic girls’ school; jokes about language and logic itself — all become fodder for the grand theories of Aristotle, Kant, Freud and Wittgenstein. A heady mix of the high and the low, of the ribald and the profound, this handsomely illustrated volume demands to be read by anyone who has ever peered into the abyss and asked: What’s so funny?
BASED ON THE MOVIE by Billy Taylor — It’s been nine months since Bobby Conlon’s wife dumped him for a hot young film director and he’s doing great. Okay, so he occasionally breaks into Natalie’s apartment and sobs along to her old Carole King records, but that’s only when he’s out of meds. He’s better now. And to prove it, he’s throwing out that year-old Christmas tree decorated with 500 empty Vicodin bottles and flying to Texas to work on a movie starring Ralph the Swimming Pig. But Bobby realizes he’s signed on to the most dysfunctional movie ever. The director can’t direct, the pig catches pneumonia, and Natalie and her boyfriend are hired to take over the movie. Suddenly, Bobby’s personal and professional lives collide, and fresh disasters await. Still, in spite of everything, Bobby clings to the hope that a happy ending might still be possible. This is the movie business, right?
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