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<title><![CDATA[General Fiction]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[General Fiction]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080729]]></pubDate>
<copyright><![CDATA[King County Library System]]></copyright>
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<title><![CDATA[The romantics / Galt Niederhoffer.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Laura and Lila were once as close as could be - college roommates at the center of a tight-knit group of friends.  But the friendship has wilted a bit.  Now, six years after college, the friends - and the boyfriend they shared - have reunited for Lila's w]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080729]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Niederhoffer, Galt.]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[Calico Canyon / Mary Connealy.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080729]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Connealy, Mary.]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[Le crime / Peter Steiner.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A thoroughly original crime novel of international suspense, this thriller finds CIA insider Louis Morgon dealing with a dead body on the doorstep of his lovely home in the French countrysid]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080729]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Steiner, Peter, 1940-]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[Naughty nights / Charlene Teglia, Tawny Taylor, Dawn Ryder.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080729]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[And he shall be called Nicholas : a historical novel / Marie Trotignon.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080729]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Trotignon, Marie.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0759111189]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Not far away : the real-life adventures of Ima Pipiig / Lois Beardslee.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["In this semi-fictional memoir, Lois Beardslee gives a chilling account of racism - particularly that leveled against Native women - in language that is supple, evocative, often comical, and always incisive. Her fictional heroine, the teacher Ima Pipiig (pronounced "buh-BEEG"), endures humiliating insults from school administrators, fellow teachers, students, and callous neighbors. For years, she suffers in silence, believing that opposing bigotry would only fuel its caustic flames - but then she begins to speak out. Interspersed among the chapters chronicling Ima's experiences are essays and speeches written by the author herself, blurring the line between fiction and fact and creating a resounding echo of resistance."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080729]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Beardslee, Lois.]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[Mafeking road and other stories / Herman Charles Bosman.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080730]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Bosman, Herman Charles, 1905-1951.]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[Valfierno : the man who stole the Mona Lisa : a novel / by Martâin Caparrâos ; translated by Jasper Reid.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["On August 22, 1911, the world was shocked by an audacious crime: Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre. Although some people suspected subversive artists like Picasso or Apollinaire of perpetrating the theft, no arrests were made. Two years later, an Italian named Vincenzo Perugia was detained after attempting to sell the Mona Lisa to an antiques dealer in Florence - but the mystery of the theft itself was never satisfactorily resolved." "In his novel Valfierno, Martin Caparros tackles this enigma, presenting us with a fascinating criminal unable to go to his grave without divulging the details of his outrageous heist. In tantalizing conversations with an American journalist, the Marques de Valfierno sheds light on his past secrets, including his sordid origins as Bollino, son of a Buenos Aires servant woman, a man ultimately transformed into the most notorious con artist in the world. A sly and consummate entertainer, Valfierno reveals the shifting identities of the anonymous Argentine boy who has gone on to become a veritable artist, creating for himself the perfect role of wealthy aristocrat in Belle Epoque Paris as he prepares for his crime."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080730]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Caparrâos, Martâin, 1957-]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[The last of the angels : a modern Iraqi novel / Fadhil al-Azzawi ; translated by William M. Hutchins.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080730]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[°Azzĺawĺi, Fĺaňdil.]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[T.h.u.g. l.i.f.e. : a novel / by Sanyika Shakur.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Published fourteen years ago, Sanyika Shakur's classic memoir of gang life, Monster, was a best-seller and now has over four hundred thousand copies in print in the United States alone. With T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E, his fiction debut, Shakur has delivered a novel that describes, in the same remarkable detail he employed in Monster, the life of an L.A. gang member, and the violent, consuming, and lavish life of the gangster world." "Shakur's protagonist, Lapeace, is the leader of the Eight Tray Crips gang in South Central Los Angeles. He holds no prisoners on the Compton streets, which are riddled with rivalrous gangs looking for revenge. In a deadly gunfight with Anyhow, a Blood, and Lapeace's rival since childhood, eight innocent civilians are killed. Anyhow is captured and Lapeace becomes a fugitive, hiding out in the home of his girlfriend, Tashima, a hip-hop mogul, while a pair of crooked L.A. detectives, John Sweeney and Jesse Mendoza, attempt to track him down. The novel explores Sweeney and Mendoza's maneuvering of the intricate gang network, employing informants on both sides of the fight to get at the secluded Lapeace. It also reveals the psychology of the gang member, and in particular, Lapeace's attempts to uncover his roots and somehow disentangle himself from his violent past." "This novel, like the autobiography before it, was written from the confines of Shakur's jail cell, and the authenticity of its street scenes - the relentless violence, the do-or-die attitude of each side of the gang war, the sheer joy in the killing - is a testament to the hell that has been a majority of Shakur's life. He was christened a gang member at age eleven, and has spent most of his life either running from the law or in jail. With Monster, Shakur announced to the world a side of himself not before seen; with T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E. he follows with an equally compelling story about the terror of gang life and one man's attempt to free himself."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080730]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Shakur, Sanyika, 1964-]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[I'm with stupid / Elaine Szewczyk.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["A hilarious tale of girl meets boy, girl falls in lust, girl discovers boy is dumber than a box of hammers"--Provided by publishe]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080730]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Szewczyk, Elaine.]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[Five sacred crossings / Craig Hazen.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080730]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Hazen, Craig James.]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[Who can save us now? : brand-new superheroes and their amazing (short) stories / edited by Owen King and John McNally ; illustrations by Chris Burnham.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Twenty-two of today's most talented writers (and comics fans) unite in Who Can Save Us Now?, an anthology featuring brand-new superheroes equipped for the threats and challenges of the twenty-first century - with a few supervillains thrown in for good measure." "With mutations stranger than the X-Men and with even more baggage than the Hulk,this next generation of superheroes is a far cry from your run-of-the-mill caped crusader. From the image-conscious and not-very-mysterious masked meathead who swoops in and sweeps the tough girl reporter off her feet; to the Meerkat, who overcomes his species' cute and cuddly image to become the resident hero in a small Midwestern city; to the Silverfish, "the creepy superhero," who fights crime while maintaining the slipperiest of identities; to Manna Man, who manipulates the minds of televangelists to serve his own righteous mission, these protectors (and in some cases antagonizers) of the innocent and the virtuous will delight literary enthusiasts and comic fans alike."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080730]]></pubDate>
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</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0393331679]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Loverboys / Ana Castillo.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080730]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Castillo, Ana.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0373389833]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Disclosure / Nancy Holder.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080730]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Holder, Nancy.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0843959207]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Beyond the Black River / Robert E. Howard.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080730]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Howard, Robert Ervin, 1906-1936.]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[The Aztec heresy / Paul Christopher.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080730]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Christopher, Paul.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0778325032]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Dark matter / Cameron Cruise.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080730]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Cruise, Cameron.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0786018941]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Jacknife / William W. Johnson with J.A. Johnstone.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080730]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Johnstone, William W.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061353337]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Skin and bone / Kathryn Fox.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080730]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Fox, Kathryn]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061249645]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Into the darkness / Elizabeth Peters writing as Barbara Michaels.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Meg Venturi never expected the windfall she inherits when her grandfather dies. For some unknown reason the eccentric old millionaire has left her his profitable antique jewelry business. But there is a catch. Meg must share the business with an aloof, m]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080730]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Peters, Elizabeth.]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[Sons of the wolf / Elizabeth Peters writing as Barbara Michaels.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Ada and Harriet don't know what to expect when they meet their new guardian, Mr. Wolfson. Here is a strangely magnetic, darkly amusing man confined to a wheelchair and flanked by a pair of fierce, dangerous dogs -- an enigmatic benefactor, at once welcom]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080730]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Michaels, Barbara, 1927-]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[How the dead live / Derek Raymond.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080731]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Raymond, Derek.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1590585240]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Green monster / Rick Shefchik.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080731]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Shefchik, Rick.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0385524331]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[When we were Romans : a novel / Matthew Kneale.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Nine-year-old Lawrence is the man in his family. He carefully watches over his willful little sister, Jemima, and his mother, Hannah. When Hannah becomes convinced that their estranged father is stalking them, the family flees London and heads for Rome, where Hannah lived happily as a young woman. For Lawrence, fascinated by stories of popes and emperors, Rome is an adventure. Though they are short of money, and move from home to home, staying with his mother's old friends, little by little their new life seems to be taking shape. But the trouble that brought them to Italy will not quite leave them in peace." "When We Were Romans evokes the emotions and confusions of childhood - the triumphs, the jealousies, the fears, and the love. Even as everything he understands is turned upside down, Lawrence remains determined to keep his family together, viewing the world from a perspective that is at once endearingly innocent and preternaturally wise."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080731]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Kneale, Matthew.]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[The glimmer palace / Beatrice Colin.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A literary historical novel about an orphan girl's journey from poverty to film stardom, set against the grand backdrop of World War I Berlin, the cabaret era, the run-up to World War II, and the innovations in art and industry that accompanied it al]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080801]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Colin, Beatrice.]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[The map thief : a novel / Heather Terrell.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Mara Coyne's new client has left her uneasy. Republican kingmaker Richard Tobias has hired her, he says, because of her skill in recovering stolen art and advocating for the rightful owners, but Mara senses that he is not telling her everything. Tobias re]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080801]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Terrell, Heather.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0060741546]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The divine talisman / Eldon Thompson.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["To protect his people from the demonic Illysp, Torin, king of Alson, made the ultimate sacrifice. Now, as his best friend and his former love seek to salvage the shattered lands beyond their borders, a treacherous assault costs them their most powerful weapon - the fabled Crimson Sword." "Hopelessly outmatched, Pentania's citizens must fight to flee their conquered homeland or else perish. Yet an even greater threat looms, for the Leviathan has been awakened, an unfathomable creature whose wrath could single-handedly destroy the entire world." "Hope - if any remains - lies in the efforts of a lone elf, a mad witch, and a fallen hero charged with unraveling a series of divine riddles. Yet to do so they must first find a way to break the very bonds of fiendish possession."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080801]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Thompson, Eldon.]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[Alive in Necropolis / Doug Dorst.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Colma, California, is the only incorporated city in America where the dead outnumber the living. A "cemetery city" serving San Francisco, Colma is the resting place of the likes of Joe DiMaggio, Wyatt Earp, and William Randolph Hearst. It is also the home of Michael Mercer, a rookie cop trying to go by the book as he struggles to navigate a new realm of grown-up relationships - including a shaky romance with an older woman, a burgeoning alliance with his cocky, charismatic partner, Nick Toronto, fading friendships from his civilian life, and an aching sense of responsibility for a local rich kid whom Mercer rescues from a dangerous cemetery prank." "But instead of settling comfortably into adult life, Mercer becomes obsessed with the mysterious fate of his predecessor in the Colma PD, Sergeant Wes Featherstone, who seems to have spent his last years policing the dead as well as the living. As Mercer delves deeper into Featherstone's story, his own sanity starts to slip, too - either that, or Colma's more famous residents are not resting in peace as they should be."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080801]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Dorst, Doug.]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[The creator's map / Emillo Calderâon.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080801]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Calderâon, Emilio.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1587368226]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The bandits from Râio Frâio : a naturalistic and humorous novel of customs, crimes, and horrors / by Manuel Payno ; translated from Spanish by Alan Fluckey.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080801]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Payno, Manuel, 1810-1894]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[The needle in the blood / Sarah Bower.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080802]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Bower, Sarah.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0765320428]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The court of the air / Stephen Hunt.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["When streetwise Molly Templar witnesses a brutal murder at the brothel to which she has recently been apprenticed, her first instinct is to run back to the poorhouse where she grew up. But there she finds her fellow orphans butchered, and it slowly dawns on her that she was the real target of the attack. For Molly carries a secret deep in her blood, a secret that marks her for destruction by enemies of the state." "Oliver Brooks has led a sheltered existence in the backwater home of his merchant uncle. But when he is framed for his only relative's murder, he is forced to flee for his life, accompanied by an agent of the mysterious Court of the Air. Chased across the country, Oliver finds himself in the company of thieves, outlaws, and spies, and gradually learns more about the secret that has blighted his life." "Soon Molly and Oliver will find themselves battling a grave threat to civilization, an ancient power thought to have been quelled millennia ago. Their enemies are ruthless and myriad, but the two orphans are also aided by indomitable friends in this endlessly inventive tale full of drama, intrigue, and adventure."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080802]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Hunt, Stephen, 1967-]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[A manuscript of ashes / Antonio Muänoz Molina ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["It's the late sixties, the last dark years of Franco's dictatorship: Minaya, a university student in Madrid, is caught up in the student protests and the police are after him. He moves to his uncle Manuel's country estate in the small town of Magina to write his thesis on an old friend of Manuel's, an obscure republican poet named Jacinto Solana." "The country house is full of traces of the poet - notes, photographs, journals - and Minaya soon discovers that, thirty years earlier, during the Spanish Civil War, both his uncle and Solana loved the same woman. Engaged to Manuel, she was shot in the attic of the house on her wedding night. With the aid of Ines, a maid, Minaya begins to search for Solana's lost masterpiece, a novel called Beatus Ille. Looking for a book, he unravels a crime."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080802]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Muänoz Molina, Antonio.]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[Vicious circle / Mike Carey.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In this supernatural thriller, freelance exorcist Felix Castor gets a seemingly insignificant "missing ghost" case that inexorably drags himself and his loved ones into the middle of a horrific plot to raise one of Hell's fiercest demons. When Satanists, ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080802]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Carey, Mike.]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[The last queen : a novel / C.W. Gortner.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Juana of Castile is just thirteen when she witnesses the fall of Moorish Granada and uniting of the fractured kingdoms of Spain under her warrior parents, Isabel and Fernando. Intelligent and beautiful, proud of her heritage, Juana rebels against her fate]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080802]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Gortner, C. W.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0385340990]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society / Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[As London is emerging from the shadow of World War II, writer Juliet Ashton discovers her next subject in a book club on Guernsey--a club born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi after its members are discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their is]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080802]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Shaffer, Mary Ann.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0385341016]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The black path / Asa Larsson ; translated by Marlaine Delargy.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A grisly torture-murder, a haunting northern Sweden backdrop, and a dark drama of twisted sexuality collide in a masterpiece of suspens]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080802]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Larsson, ęAsa, 1966-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0385340532]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Everything nice / Ellen Shanman.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080802]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Shanman, Ellen.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0979517605]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The Bambino secret : a novel of love, murder, and scandal / J. Anderson Cross.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A young, načive white attorney and his black female client struggle to unravel the mystery of her uncle's death. When Cammie discovers the long-held secret of Babe Ruth's ancestry, she becomes the target of overzealous sports aficionados and businessmen a]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080802]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Cross, J. Anderson.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=155245195X]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Stunt / Claudia Dey.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Eugenia Ledoux, nine years old, wakes to a farewell note from her father, Sheb Wooly Ledoux, portraitist. The adores her father, his lunatic charms, how he takes her fishing in the middle of the night and calls her Stunt. She was sure that one day he would, as he promised, take her to the moonscape of northern Ontario. Instead he fries five kippers, blows up a shoulder-pad factory and disappears. Heartbroken Eugenia is left behind with her mother, the sharp-edged former ingenue Mink, and her sister, the death-obsessed and hauntingly beautiful Immaculata." "When Mink vanishes too, Eugenia and Immaculata double in age overnight. Eugenia, now eighteen, sets off to find I. I. Finbar Me the Three, tightrope walker, voluptuary and the only due to Sheb's disappearance." "Studded with postcards from outer space, twins, synesthesia, several fires and some accomplished taxidermy, Stunt is part dirge, part cowboy poetry and part love letter to the wilder corners of Toronto and of ourselves."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080802]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Dey, Claudia.]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[Lord Tophet : a Shadowbridge novel / Gregory Frost.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Daughter of the legendary shadow-puppeteer Bardsham, Leodora has inherited her father's skills ... and his enemies. Together with her manager, Soter, keeper of her father's darkest secrets, and a gifted young musician named Diverus, Leodora has traveled from span to span, her masked performances given under the stage name Jax, winning fame and fortune." "But Jax's success may be Leodora's undoing. Years ago, following a performance by Bardsham, the vengeful god known as Lord Tophet visited a horrific punishment upon the span of Colemaigne and its citizens, a reprisal inflicted without warning or explanation. And as the genius of Jax gives rise to rumors the Bardsham has returned, Lord Tophet takes notice and dispatches a quintet of deadly killers to learn the truth behind the mask." "Now, upon the cursed span of Colemaigne, where her father achieved his greatest triumph and suffered his bitterest tragedy, Leodora is about to perform the most shocking story of all."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080802]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Frost, Gregory.]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[Try darkness / James Scott Bell.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["In the second fast-paced novel featuring trial lawyer Ty Buchanan, the murder of a client will force Ty into the underbelly of L.A. to protect the child she left behind"--Provided by the publishe]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080802]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Bell, James Scott.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0800718976]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The rook / Steven James.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080802]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[James, Steven, 1969-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0764205110]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The jewel of Gresham Green / Lawana Blackwell.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080802]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Blackwell, Lawana, 1952-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0553589822]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The magicians & Mrs. Quent / Galen Beckett.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080802]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Beckett, Galen.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=080349906X]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Quiet Meg / Sherry Lynn Ferguson.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080802]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Ferguson, Sherry Lynn.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1601620594]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Flint. Book #1 : choosing sides-- / Treasure Hernandez.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080803]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Hernandez, Treasure.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0955233992]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The rich man of Pietermaritzburg / [Sibusiso Nyembezi ; translated by Sandile Ngidi].]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080805]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Nyembezi, C. L. Sibusiso (Cyril Lincoln Sibusiso), 1919-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312360223]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Tiny little troubles / Marc Lecard.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Aaron Rogell is a brilliant San Francisco scientist with a nanotech start-up, a beautiful wife, and a brand-new baby. But Aaron has an ugly little problem; he just can't keep it in his pants." "Ignoring business and family, he spends most of his quality time with an upscale call girl named Aphrodite, a toothless street hooker,and other less presentable companions. But when one of Aphrodite's lowlife acquaintances - the fearsome Pablo Clench - learns that her new boyfriend has invented a miraculous technology that may be worth fabulous sums of money, life for Aaron Rogell will never be the same again." "And soon, Aaron, his wife and child, the bad guys, and just about everyone else end up with lots of tiny little troubles."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080805]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Lecard, Marc.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0765320061]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The veil of gold / Kim Wilkins,]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["When the statue of a golden bear is found walled up in a dilapidated St. Petersburg bathhouse owned by her family, Rosa Kovalenka knows in her heart that this is no trick of fate. Her uncle thinks of treasure, but Rosa fears the bear is much more. She pl]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080805]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Wilkins, Kim.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307405346]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[How far is the ocean from here : a novel / Amy Shearn.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Days before her delivery date, Susannah panics and flees from Chicago to the Southwest. When the parents of her baby discover her whereabouts, she can no longer ignore the profound power she holds over their live]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080805]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Shearn, Amy.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0980151007]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Intermezzo for solo viola / [Henriette Mendels].]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A young college graduate, haunted by memories of family lost in the Holocaust, arrives in Manhattan during the 1950s. After uncovering details of her family's flight from Holland, including her grandfather's ultimate sacrifice, she falls in love with a st]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080805]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Mendels, Henriette.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312383681]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Thanks for nothing, Nick Maxwell / Debbie Carbin.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080805]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Carbin, Debbie.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0842375287]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Eighth shepherd / Bodie & Brock Thoene.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080805]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Thoene, Bodie, 1951-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0345498631]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Elric : to rescue Tanelorn / Michael Moorcock ; illustrated by Michael Wm. Kaluta.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Illustrated by acclaimed artist Michael Wm. Kaluta and including a new introduction by Michael Moorcock, this collection features, along with Elric, such renowned characters as Erekose, Rackhir the Red Archer, and Count Renark von Bek."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080805]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Moorcock, Michael, 1939-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0345492390]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Bachelor degree : a novel / Judith Marks-White.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080805]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Marks-White, Judith.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0553384414]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Love in the time of fridges / Tim Scott.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080805]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Scott, Tim, 1962-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1883523818]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Furthest from the gate / Ann Roberts.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080805]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Roberts, Ann, 1964-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0765318768]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The time engine / Sean McMullen.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Wayfarer Inspector Danolarian saw his world's future and did not approve. The inspector knew about time travel because he had once met his future self. What he did not know was that he would be abducted into the future and wind up on the run with a constable who had shapeshifted into a cat. Danolarian would also find himself marooned in the ancient past, where he would have to recover his time engine from five thousand naked, psychopathic horsemen." "A faulty repair plunges him another three million years back in time to a world of strange, beautiful people living idyllic lives in splendid castles. But things are not always as they seem. After being attacked, he learns from his unlikely rescuer that time travel is not entirely real. A furious Danolarian returns to his own time, planning revenge against the time engine's true builders."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080805]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[McMullen, Sean, 1948-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0595416195]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Waggle : novel / Joe Redden Tigan.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080806]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Tigan, Joe Redden.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0618386289]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard / Erin McGraw.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[""I couldn't cook but I could sew. It would have been better the other way around." So begins this witty and transporting new novel by the acclaimed Erin McGraw, introducing us to Nell Plat, who at age seventeen finds herself unhappily married and the mother of two baby girls. For a young woman with a hunger for excitement and glamour, Kansas circa 1900 offers nothing but a flat horizon. Still, Nell finds some joy in sewing and making dresses for women in town. Dreaming over her sewing machine, she begins to entertain ambitions she knows she cannot share." "Based on Erin McGraw's grandmother's life, here is the story - told in Nell's own irreverent and wise voice - of what happens when Nell runs away to Los Angeles in 1901 as the new motion-picture industry is just taking root. Nell marries again, has a daughter, and goes into business as a costumer in the Hollywood of the Roaring Twenties, renaming herself Madame Annelle. But a knock on the door, precisely the thing she has most feared, threatens to take apart the new life Nell has so carefully built. Forced to confront the legacy of the life she believed she had shed, Nell struggles to make the right choices the second time around and finds herself truly transformed." "In vividly bringing to life the story of Nell Plat, Erin McGraw gives voice to the stories of the countless young women who, unsatisfied with their lives, headed to Hollywood in its heyday. The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard magically re-creates that glamorous time and place, and allows us to witness it beautifully dressed, well lit, and close up."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080806]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[McGraw, Erin, 1957-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0452289386]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[House of daughters : a novel / Sarah-Kate Lynch.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Family rivalries, long-ago love affairs, and forgotten scandals bubble to the surface in this novel set in the Champagne region of France." "Lonely Clementine is the rightful heir to the House of Peine, the vineyard that has been in her family for generations. She has spent her whole life caring for the vines, not to mention her sour brute of a father. But now the Peine patriarch is dead, and to Clementine's distress his will stipulates that she must share the vineyard with a half sister she hasn't seen in twenty years and another she didn't even know existed. Secrets tumble out as the three sisters struggle to rescue the family heritage while overcoming their own differences. As a precious blend of grapes, tears, and triumph bring these estranged siblings together, readers will savor this heartfelt toast to sisterhood and inspired celebration of champagne."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080806]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Lynch, Sarah-Kate.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312371551]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Breaking cover / J.D. Rhoades.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Tony Wolf was the most talented undercover agent in FBI history, until he dropped completely off the grid, and hasn't been heard from in years. Did he go native, or was he discovered and killed? When he is finally driven out into the open, torn from deep ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080806]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Rhoades, J. D., 1962-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1598244841]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Forever mine / by Kemy.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080806]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Kemy.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=159824714X]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[On the wings of love / by Kemy.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080806]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Kemy.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0385524463]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The implacable order of things : a novel / Jose Luis Peixoto ; translated from the Portuguese by Richard Zenith.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080807]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Peixoto, Josâe Luâis, 1974-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0316007048]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Stand the storm : a novel / Breena Clarke.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080807]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Clarke, Breena.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1596922923]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[No one tells everything : a novel / by Rae Meadows.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080807]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Meadows, Rae.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=157962166X]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[In the name of Sarah Pogford / Jon Jordan.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080807]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Jordan, Jon, 1969-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=034550190X]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Don't you forget about me : a novel / Jancee Dunn.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080807]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Dunn, Jancee.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0765313421]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[An autumn war / Daniel Abraham.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080807]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Abraham, Daniel.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0765319276]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Mage-Guard of Hamor / L.E. Modesitt, Jr.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Rahl was a young apprentice on the island of Recluce sent to the mages training school for testing, then banished to Hamor.  His education now continues under dangerous circumstances.  In Hamor, his powers have increased, but so has the amount of trouble he attract]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080807]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Modesitt, L. E.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1933372575]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Mosquito / Roma Tearne.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080807]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Tearne, Roma.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1933417226]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Touch of night / by Carin Rafferty.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Searching for her lost brother, beautiful Ariel Dantes gradually falls under the spell of the mysterious Lucien Morgret, until she can no longer deny her desire]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080807]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Rafferty, Carin.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1933836261]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Cry of sorrow / Holly Taylor.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080807]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Taylor, Holly, 1965-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1599986574]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Tempting darkness : [a Templar vampire novel] / Rene Lyons.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080807]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Lyons, Rene.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0800732286]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[A steal of a deal : a novel / Ginny Aiken.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080807]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Aiken, Ginny.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1595541322]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Deeper water : a tides of truth novel / Robert Whitlow.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080807]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Whitlow, Robert, 1954-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0595384889]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Runaway to Tahiti / Harry J. McIntyre.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Rodger has been given less than a year to live. His decision to buy a sailboat leads him to Helen, a lonely widow, and owner of the Sea Witc]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080807]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[McIntyre, Harry F.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1419954954]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Lady Jaided's virile vampires / Dominique Adair ... [ et al.].]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080807]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1416577785]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Boy's life / Robert McCammon ; [with a new foreword by the author].]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The lake's depths claim a car and a corpse. Cory and his father begin searching for the truth of this death. Cory's life explodes into a kaleidoscope of clues and puzzles. As he searches for a killer he learns more about the meaning of life, and deat]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080807]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[McCammon, Robert R.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1587368234]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The bandits from Râio Frâio. Part II : a naturalistic and humorous novel of customs, crimes, and horrors / by Manuel Payno ; translated from Spanish by Alan Fluckey.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In the second part of Manuel Payno's nineteenth century novel, the bandit Evaristo joins forces with Colonel Relumbrâon, creating a web of organized crime that paralyzes the nation. Mariana continues to fight her father's will. Juan Robeäno overcomes obstacles to learn the truth of his birth, and Lamparilla succeeds in his lawsuit on behalf of Moctezuma III. Events finally come together in a final clima]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080807]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Payno, Manuel, 1810-1894.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061126241]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Trophies / Heather Thomas.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080807]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Thomas, Heather, 1957-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1601641486]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Hunting the king : a novel / Peter Clenott.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Explores the existence of the Gospel of Hannaniah, the alleged daughter of Jesus in the form of a thrilling fictional thriller that explores the Middle East against a backdrop of scandal, schemers, spies and scientists who seek to obtain the greatest prize the world has ever seen"--Provided by publishe]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080808]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Clenott, Peter.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0979915600]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Wearing jeans to the ball : learning to be OK with who I am / Lynese M. Biniek.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080808]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Biniek, Lynese M.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1896944760]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Virtual evil / Jana G. Oliver.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080808]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Oliver, Jana G., 1953-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=141656358X]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Still dirty : a novel / Vickie M. Stringer.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080808]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Stringer, Vickie M.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0786947888]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Swordmage / Richard Baker.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In the wake of the Spellplague and other horrifying disasters, the world of the Forgotten Realms has been transformed foreve]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080808]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Baker, Richard (Lynn Richard)]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1416568239]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The cure for grief : a novel / Nellie Hermann.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Ruby is the youngest child in the tightly knit Bronstein family, a sensitive, observant girl who looks up to her older brothers and is in awe of her stern but gentle father, a Holocaust survivor whose past and deep sense of morality inform the family's life. But when Ruby is ten, her eldest brother enters the hospital and emerges as someone she barely recognizes. It is only the first in a startling series of tragedies that befall the Bronsteins and leave Ruby reeling from sorrow and disbelief. As Ruby's family fractures, she finds solace in friendships and the beginnings of romance, in the normalcy of summer camp and the prom. But her anger and heartache shadow these experiences, separating her from those she loves, until she chooses to reconcile what she has lost with whom she has becom]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080809]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Hermann, Nellie, 1978-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0060539070]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Good-bye and amen / Beth Gutcheon.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Beth Gutcheon's critically acclaimed family saga, Leeway Cottage, was a major achievement: a tale of war and marriage and their consequences. Good-bye and Amen is the next chapter for the family of Leeway Cottage, the story of what happens when those most powerful people in any family drama, the parents, have left the stage." "The complicated marriage of the gifted Danish pianist Laurus Moss to the provincial American child of privilege Sydney Brant was a mystery to many who knew them, including their three children. Now, Eleanor, Monica, and Jimmy Moss have to decide how to divide or share what Laurus and Sydney have left them without losing one another." "Secure and cheerful Eleanor, the oldest, wants little for herself but much for her children. Monica, the least-loved middle child, brings her youthful scars to the table, as well as the baggage of a difficult marriage to the charismatic Norman, who left a brilliant legal career, though not his ambition, to become an Episcopal priest. Youngest and best-loved Jimmy, who made a train wreck of his young adulthood, has returned after a long period of alienation from the family surprisingly intact, but extremely hard for his sisters to read." "Having lived through childhoods both materially blessed and emotionally difficult, with a father who could seem uninvolved and a mother who loved a good family game of "let's you and him fight," the Mosses have formed strong adult bonds that none of them wants to damage. But it's difficult to divide a beloved summer house three ways and keep it too. They all know what's at stake - in a world of atomized families, a house like Leeway Cottage can be the glue that keeps generations of cousins and grandchildren deeply connected to one another. But knowing it's important doesn't make it easy."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080809]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Gutcheon, Beth Richardson.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=141431955X]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Dogwood / Chris Fabry.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080809]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Fabry, Chris, 1961-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0375425330]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Babylon rolling / Amanda Boyden.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Here is a glittering, gritty, and unflinching story of five families - black, white, and Indian -living along one block of Uptown, New Orleans." "It is the summer of 2004, and Orchid Street is changing. Newcomers Ariel May and her husband, Ed, relocated from Minnesota, are trying to make sense of the Southern city. From her front porch, Philomenia Beauregard de Bruges watches her new neighbors, the Guptas, as they move into one of the biggest homes. Across the way, Daniel Harris, aka Fearius, has just been released from juvenile detention. And Cerise Brown, a longtime resident now in her late seventies, hopes only to pass the rest of her days in peace." "But with one random accident, a scene of horror on Cerise's front lawn, the whole neighborhood converges on the sidewalk to help, to cast blame, and to offer hope. And as Hurricane Ivan churns its way toward the city, bringing a different series of challenges, these new relationships tighten, intertwining the families' paths for better and for worse."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080809]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Boyden, Amanda.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=159051288X]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[A week in October / by Elizabeth Subercaseaux ; translation by Marina Harss.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Clara Griffin, the beautiful wife of a successful architect, courageously confronts a life-threatening illness while recording her thoughts and experiences in her journal under the guise of a novel. What develops is a thinly veiled version of Clara's own life, her disappointment with her marriage, her reminiscences of childhood, and the death that seems to surround her. When her husband discovers the notebook, he is stunned: How does she know that he had a mistress all these years? Is he really such a fatuous bore? Could it be true that his sick wife had a passionate love affair with one of his colleagues, right under his nose? Is this just a fictional story - he asks himself, turning the pages - or his wife's very personal diary as she awaits death?"--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080809]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Subercaseaux, Elizabeth.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1596922788]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Eldorado : a novel / by Laurent Gaudâe ; translated by Adriana Hunter.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Captain Salvatore Piracci has sailed along the Italian coast for the last twenty years, intercepting boats with clandestine North African immigrants who have risked everything in the hope of reaching the new Eldorado. But when Piracci is confronted by a woman haunted by the death of her son, killed during an illegal crossing, he is forced to question the validity of his border-patrolling mission." "Meanwhile, two brothers prepare to leave Sudan and make the dangerous passage to Europe. Separated mid-voyage, Suleiman, the youngest, vows to make it to the promised land and find the means to reunite with his ailing elder brother."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080809]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Gaudâe, Laurent.]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[Travel writing / Peter Ferry.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Pete Ferry, our narrator, teaches high school English in the wealthy suburb of Lake Forest outside of Chicago, and moonlights as a travel writer. On his way home after work one evening he witnesses a car accident that kills a beautiful woman named Lisa Kim. But was it an accident? Could Pete have prevented it? And did it actually happen, or is this just an elaborate tale he concocts to impart the power of story to his restless teenage charges? Why can't he stop thinking about Lisa Kim? And what might his obsession with her mean to his relationship with his girlfriend, Lydia? The line between fact and fiction is often negotiabl]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080809]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Ferry, Peter.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1933110678]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Rebel's quest / by Gun Brooke.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080809]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Brooke, Gun.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1416571345]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[More than this : a novel / Margo Candela.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080809]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Candela, Margo.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1932511636]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The man back there and other stories / by David Crouse.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080809]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Crouse, David.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1569475105]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Bones in the belfry / Suzette A. Hill.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Following the more than slight embarrassment of having murdered a lady parishioner, the hapless Reverend Francis Oughterard is now plunged into the world of art crime. Forced by the shady Nicholas Ingaza into acting as a fence for stolen paintings, he must endure the investigative probings of terrifying female novelist and amateur sleuth, Maud Tubbly Pole, hell-bent on portraying him in her next novel." "Haunted by his homicidal past and fearful of exposure in his new role of "receiver", the Reverend flounders in a mesh of intrigue and deceit. As usual, each fresh disaster is given added piquancy by the commentary of his cat, the acidic Maurice, and his redoubtable bone-grinding ally, the dog Bouncer."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080809]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Hill, Suzette A.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1434799883]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Leave it to Chance : a novel / Sherri Sand.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080809]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Sand, Sherri.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0345480910]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Going down south : a novel / Bonnie Glover.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080809]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Glover, Bonnie J.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1593761961]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[All about Lulu : a novel / Jonathan Evison.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["In the wake of his mother's death, as his body-building father and brethren pump themselves to Hulkish proportions, weak-eyed vegetarian William Miller stops growing altogether - until the day his father remarries a relentlessly kind grief counselor, delivering Will a troubled stepsister who soon becomes his confessor, companion, and heart's only desire. But when Lulu inexplicably begins to push him away, Will is forced to look elsewhere for meaning."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080809]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Evison, Jonathan.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1416555544]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Grantville gazette IV : sequels to 1632 / edited and created by Eric Flint.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080809]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0385525923]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Twenty fragments of a ravenous youth / Xiaolu Guo.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080812]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Guo, Xiaolu, 1973-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1416572848]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Iodine : a novel / Haven Kimmel.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[From her earliest years, Trace turned away from her abusive mother toward her loving father. Within the twisty logic of abuse, her desperate love for him took on a romantic cast that persists to this day, though she's had no contact with her family since she ran away from home years ago. Alone but for her beloved dog, she's eked out an impoverished but functional existence, living in an abandoned house, putting herself through college, and astonishing her teachers with her genius and erudition. What they don't know is that she leads a double life: thanks to forged documents, at school she is Ianthe Covington, a young woman with no past. Trace's singular life is upended when she and her literature professor fall in love. She tells him nothing about her life, and as it becomes apparent that he has his own dark secrets, she's forced to face herself and her past. After recovering a horrific, long-suppressed memory, Trace finally copes with the fallout from her brutal, bizarre childhood.--From publisher descriptio]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080812]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Kimmel, Haven, 1965-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0316156477]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The turnaround : a novel / George Pelecanos.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080812]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Pelecanos, George P.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1594483140]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Mine all mine / Adam Davies.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080812]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Davies, Adam.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061553832]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Emma's table : a novel / Philip Galanes.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080812]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Galanes, Philip, 1963-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0375424547]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Ask for a convertible : stories / Danit Brown.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080812]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Brown, Danit.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0425221687]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Midwife of the Blue Ridge / Christine Blevins.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[They call her Dark Maggie for her thick black hair, but the name also has a more sinister connotation. As the lone survivor of an attack on her village, she was thought to be cursed--and unfit for marriage. Maggie is also gifted with quick wits and skilled in medicine, trained as a midwife. Venturing to the colonies as an indentured servant, she hopes to escape the superstitions of the old country--and find a home of her own. But what she discovers is a New World fraught with new danger]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080812]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Blevins, Christine.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061253774]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Dear neighbor, drop dead / Saralee Rosenberg.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080812]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Rosenberg, Saralee H.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1416560203]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Necking / Chris Salvatore.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Dating a vampire is going to be the death of Gia. She's got a bloodthirsty boyfriend dying to get into her pants, and an evil, centuries-old vampire on the hunt for her. Who knew being a publicist was such a deadly busines]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080812]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Salvatore, Chris.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0758215142]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Who's loving you / Mary B. Morrison.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Starting a new life in Atlanta, Georgia, former prostitute and madam Honey Thomas falls in love with Grant Hill, but when he discovers her past, he wants nothing to do with her, forcing her to revert to her old tricks to prove her lov]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080812]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Morrison, Mary B.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0764201794]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Merciless / Robin Parrish.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Grant Borrows has supposedly fallen to his doom, but when something crawls out of the pit--something dark and merciless with unrestrained power--it proclaims itself "Oblivion" and begins molding the planet into a twisted, barren, dangerous world. Is it Grant Borrows returned from the dead or something more siniste]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080812]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Parrish, Robin.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061543543]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Alexander and Alestria : a novel / Shan Sa ; translated by Adriana Hunter.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080812]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Shan, Sa, 1972-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0352341777]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Recipe for disaster / Michelle M Pillow.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080812]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Pillow, Michelle M.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=030723813X]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The man in the blizzard : a novel / Bart Schneider.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080813]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Schneider, Bart.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1416537546]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Shameless hoodwives : a Bentley Manor tale / Meesha Mink and De'nesha Diamond.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080813]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Mink, Meesha.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=141430904X]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Riven : a novel / Jerry B. Jenkins.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Brady Wayne Darby and Thomas Carey could hardly have been more disparate individuals. Yet when Darby, a no-account loser raised in a dingy suburban trailer park, encounters Carey, a weary man of God, an entire state--indeed, a nation--is affecte]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080813]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Jenkins, Jerry B.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0425221792]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Matters of faith / Kristy Kiernan.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080813]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Kiernan, Kristy.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307396223]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Holding my breath : a novel / Sidura Ludwig.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080813]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Ludwig, Sidura.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1416548777]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Based on the movie : a novel / Billy Taylor.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[It's been nine months since Bobby Conlon's wife dumped him for a hot young film director. To prove he's better now, he's flying to Texas to work on a movie starring Ralph the Swimming Pig. But once there, Bobby realizes he's signed on to the most dysfunctional movie ever. Suddenly, his personal and professional lives collide, and no matter which way he turns, fresh disasters await. Still, in spite of everything, Bobby clings to the hope that a happy ending might still be possibl]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080813]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Taylor, Billy, 1960-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1847670180]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Where Three Roads Meet : the myth of Oedipus / Sally Vickers.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080813]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Vickers, Sally.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=080321619X]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The plain sense of things / Pamela Carter Joern.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080813]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Joern, Pamela Carter, 1948-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1555916600]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[If every month were June : a novel / by Tony Bender.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080813]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Bender, Tony, 1958-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1400066905]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[A common ordinary murder : a novel / Donald Pfarrer.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080813]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Pfarrer, Donald.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0856408077]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Fox, swallow, scarecrow / âEilâis Nâi Dhuibhne.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080814]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Nâi Dhuibhne, âEilâis, 1954-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1934051241]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Black October / Ralph L. Cates.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080815]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Cates, Ralph L.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0393064573]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[People of the whale : a novel / Linda Hogan.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Raised in a remote seaside village, Thomas Witka Just marries Ruth, his beloved since infancy. But an ill-fated decision to fight in Vietnam changes his life forever: cut off from his Native American community, he fathers a child with another woman. When he returns home a hero, he finds his tribe in conflict over the decision to hunt a whale, both a symbol of spirituality and rebirth and a means of survival. In the end, he reconciles his two existences, only to see tragedy befall the son he left behin]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080815]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Hogan, Linda.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0670019429]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Pharmakon / Dirk Wittenborn.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080815]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Wittenborn, Dirk.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0060792949]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Jimmy the Hand / Raymond E. Feist and S.M. Stirling.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Jimmy the Hand, boy thief of Krondor, was a pickpocket with potential-- until the day he met Prince Arutha, and ran afoul of Black Guy's secret police. His youthful bravado and courage will plunge him deep into the maw of chaos and perhaps even deat]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080815]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Feist, Raymond E.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312361580]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Envy the night / Michael Koryta.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080815]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Koryta, Michael.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0393332713]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[August / Gerard Woodward.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080815]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Woodward, Gerard, 1961-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1590200721]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[All the tea in China : a novel / Kyril Bonfiglioli.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080815]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Bonfiglioli, Kyril.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1846880106]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The lake / Paola Kaufmann ; translated by Miranda France.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080815]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Kaufmann, Paola, 1969-2006.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1590200020]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Vermeer's Milkmaid and other stories / Manuel Rivas ; translated from the Galician by Jonathan Dunne.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080815]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Rivas, Manuel, 1957-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0374289905]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[A better angel : stories / Chris Adrian.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080815]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Adrian, Chris, 1970-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0765316579]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The view from Garden City : a novel / Carolyn Baugh.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A young American student living in the Garden City district of Cairo has come to study Arabic and learns far more from the Egyptian women, young and old, she meets within the swirl and tumult of Garden City. Living, loving, and flourishing amid the fierce inflexibility of tradition, these women reveal a fascinating world of arranged marriages, secret romances, and the often turbulent bonds between four generations of Arab mothers and daughters. A deeply moving story of mothers and daughters, in the tradition of "The Joy Luck Club]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080815]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Baugh, Carolyn.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0316007579]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The ashes of worlds / Kevin J. Anderson.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080815]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Anderson, Kevin J., 1962-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0800732391]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The outsider : a novel / Ann H. Gabhart.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Gabrielle Hope has a special gift of "knowing" the future. When she and her mother join the Pleasant Hill Shaker community in 1807, the members embrace her ability, although it sometimes frightens quiet Gabrielle. But when one vision comes true, a chain of events and an unlikely love challenge her loyalty to this chaste communit]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080815]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Gabhart, Ann H., 1947-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1596911662]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Novel about my wife / Emily Perkins.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["When Tom moves with his wife, Ann, from their tiny Camden flat into a large house in Hackney, he feels as if it's the start of the rest of their life together. They are deeply in love, and with a baby on the way, everything, Tom thinks, is finally coming together. Ann, particularly galvanized, spends hours cleaning and reorganizing the house, and sitting up all night talking with a renewed passion about life, love, and art. But there is a darker side to this new fervor, somehow linked with her conviction that someone is lingering threateningly around their new home. Someone who - Tom soon realizes - may not exist at all."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080816]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Perkins, Emily, 1970-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307265471]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[A blessed child / by Linn Ullmann ; translated from the Norweign by Sarah Death.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Every summer Isak Lovenstad gathers his three daughters by different wives to the windswept Baltic island of Hammarso. Here Erika, Laura, and Molly know, if only for the season, what it is to be a family, and here, in the society of children, each undergoes the rites of growing up. Though many alliances form and dissolve, none compares to Erika's bond with the rebellious misfit Ragnar, the intensity of which makes them inseparable. But when they reach the age of fourteen and their relationship threatens to relegate Erika to Ragnar's outcast state, she suddenly turns away - a common enough teenage betrayal that nonetheless precipitates an incident of such senseless cruelty as to forever alter Isak's family. Twenty-five years later, returning to Hammarso to see their father - now eighty, a bereaved widower, and in year-round exile there - the three women confront, finally, the specter of that awful summer, the mark of which each has since carried."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080816]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Ullmann, Linn, 1966-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1590172620]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The post-office girl / Stefan Zweig ; translated from the German by Joel Rotenberg.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080816]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=157344314X]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The Palace of Varieties / James Lear.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080816]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Lear, James, 1960-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0778325393]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Bone yard / Michelle Gagnon.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080819]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Gagnon, Michelle, 1971-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1583228284]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[No blood, no foul : a novel / Charley Rosen.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Jason Lewis is a star college basketball player just back from World War II. He's a hero, missing two fingers on his shooting hand. He can't play any longer, so he makes the ultimate ballplayer's sacrifice: he becomes a referee. Set in postwar New York during the founding of what will eventually be the NBA, No Blood, No Foul is the story of a man who must come to terms with a debilitating injury and chase after dreams of perfection in a decidedly imperfect world. Charley Rosen gives us not only a lovingly faithful insider's look at the game of basketball, but a passionate story about what it meant to face life in an America that had lost its innocence."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080820]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Rosen, Charles.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061435074]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The matchmaker of Pâerigord : a novel / Julia Stuart.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080821]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Stuart, Julia.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061434914]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The Gaudâi key / Esteban Martâin & Andreu Carranza ; translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["In the early twentieth century, Barcelona basks as the center of the high-spirited Modernist movement that has captivated Western thought, art, and architecture. Yet while the city's surface is aglow with creativity, its darker underworld hides a multitude of secret societies - those that support and those that seek to undermine the architects of the city's newfound splendor." "When the death of the Grand Master of an ancient religious brotherhood seems imminent, a decision must be made as to the fate of a sacred object whose existence has been a guarded secret since the early Christian era. The Grand Master passes on the relic to a prominent member of his order, a man named Antonio Gaudi - already a celebrity in his own right. The great architect thus inherits a dual mission: to do all he can to protect the artifact from the covetous hands of those who seek to do evil and to preserve its secrecy by passing it on to a worthy person of his choosing - in this case, his young apprentice." "In honoring his pledge to forever keep the secret from dangerous hands, Gaudi hides the relic in the heart of his most precious work, in a place he believes will never be discovered." "Almost a century later, Maria, the granddaughter of the apprentice to whom Gaudi passed along his secret, his charged with finding the relic. But after the mysterious death of her grandfather, Maria doesn't know what the relic is, where it is located, or what she needs to do with it after she finds it." "With the help of her mathematician boyfriend, she begins to trace the clues that Gaudi hid in the symbolism of his sculptures, designs, and, most important, his architecture - racing against time and the evil forces aligning against her to unravel the true meaning of Gaudi's monuments and their mysterious legacy. And to finally uncover the whereabouts and importance of the sacred relic Gaudi was dedicated to protect."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080821]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Martâin, Esteban.]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[The grift : a novel / Debra Ginsberg.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Marina Marks has been on the grift as a psychic since she was a child, forced into the business by a junkie mother who was always desperate for her next fix - and willing to use her solemn dark-haired daughter to peddle an extra buck. As an adult, Marina has earned a handsome living preying on the dreams and fears of her clients. She doesn't believe there is such a thing as psychic ability, but she does believe in intuition. Her gift is the ability to gain the trust of her clients and subtly raise her fees as they become more attached to her and her readings." "But when Marina moves her "intuitive counseling" business out of muggy, cloying Florida to the milder environs of southern California, her past follows her. As she takes on new clients - a trophy wife desperate to bear a child, a gay man involved with a closeted psychiatrist, and a philandering businessman who's smitten with her - a former client resurfaces in an eerie way." "Suddenly, Marina is in love for the first time, but it is a romance whose roots lie deep in her past and threaten her efforts to reinvent herself." "As Marina's life gets more and more entangled with those of her clients, she makes a startling discovery: she suddenly has the actual ability to see the future. After predicting a murder exactly as it happens, she becomes the sole suspect. Now she's the desperate one - desperate to clear her name and to discover the meaning behind her visions."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080821]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Ginsberg, Debra, 1962-]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[Tethered : a novel / Amy MacKinnon.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Clara Marsh is an undertaker who doesn't believe in God. She spends her solitary life among the dead, preparing their last baths and bidding them farewell with a bouquet from her own garden. Her carefully structured life shifts when she discovers a neglected little girl, Trecie, playing in the funeral parlor, desperate for a friend." "It changes even more when Detective Mike Sullivan starts questioning her again about a body she prepared three years ago, an unidentified girl found murdered in a nearby strip of woods. Unclaimed by family, the community christened her Precious Doe. When Clara and Mike learn Trecie may be involved with the same people who killed Precious Doe, Clara must choose between the stead-fast existence of loneliness and the perils of binding one's life to another."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080821]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[MacKinnon, Amy.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061370908]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Supernatural : nevermore.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Sam and Dean have hit New York City to check out a local rocker's haunted house. But before they can figure out why a lovesick banshee in an '80s heavy-metal T-shirt is wailing in the bedroom, a far more macabre crime catches their attention. Not far from the house, two university students were beaten to death by a strange assailant. A murder that's bizarre even by New York City standards, it's the latest in a line of killings that the brothers soon suspect are based on the creepy stories of legendary writer Edgar Allan Poe.--publishe]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080821]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[DeCandido, Keith R. A.]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[Live a little : a novel / Kim Green.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080821]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Green, Kim, 1969-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1416569723]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Apart from the crowd / Anna McPartlin.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080821]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[McPartlin, Anna, 1972-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0374237425]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The private lives of Pippa Lee / Rebecca Miller.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["At fifty, Pippa Lee seems just fine. The devoted wife of a brilliant publisher thirty years her senior, the proud mother of successful twins, and a lovely and adored friend and neighbor, she seems to glow with feminine serenity. But when her husband spontaneously decides they should cast off Gramercy Park for Marigold Village retirement home as a "preemptive strike against his decrepitude," Pippa finds her beatific persona unraveling in alarming ways: the truth is that the gracious woman of the present day has seen more than her fair share of the wild side. By seventeen, Pippa had lived with a Dexedrine-addicted mother, felt the first stirrings of sexuality with a school girlfriend, had an affair with a teacher, and run away from home, set adrift on a course littered with broken hearts - until she seemingly found love and security in a family of her own. And now that established world, too, is in danger." "In Pippa Lee we have an unforgettable heroine, and a quirky and acutely intelligent portrait of the many lives behind a single name. Even after we've read it, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee is a story that is still unfurling."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080821]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Miller, Rebecca, 1962-]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[What happened to Anna K. : a novel / Irina Reyn.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Vivacious thirty-seven-year-old Anna K. is comfortably married to Alex, an older, prominent businessman from her tight-knit Russian-Jewish immigrant community in Queens. But a longing for freedom is reignited in this bookish, overly romantic, and imperious woman when she meets her cousin Katia Zavurov's boyfriend, an outsider and aspiring young writer on whom she pins her hopes for escape. As they begin a reckless affair, Anna enters into a tailspin that alienates her from her husband, family, and entire world." "In nearby Rego Park's Bukharian-Jewish community, twenty-seven-year-old pharmacist Lev Gavrilov harbors two secret passions: French movies and the lovely Karin. Lev's restless longing to test the boundaries of his sheltered life powerfully collides with Anna's. But will Lev's quest result in life's affirmation rather than its destruction?" "Exploring struggles of identity, fidelity, and community, What Happened to Anna K. is a remarkable retelling of the Anna Karenina story."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080822]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Reyn, Irina.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061129623]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The smart one / Ellen Meister.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080822]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Meister, Ellen.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0762433833]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Mammoth book of extreme fantasy / edited by Mike Ashley.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080822]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0446179566]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The January girl / Goldie Taylor.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080822]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Taylor, Goldie.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0451462122]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Underground : a greywalker novel / Kat Richardson.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["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."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080822]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Richardson, Kat.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0751536598]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The scarlet lion / Elizabeth Chadwick.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080826]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Chadwick, Elizabeth.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0939767600]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The good physician / Kent Harrington.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080827]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Harrington, Kent A., 1952-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1416572104]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Something to tell you : a novel / Hanif Kureishi.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080827]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Kureishi, Hanif.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1596922400]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Awesome : a novel / by Jack Pendarvis ; with illustrations by Michael Mitchell.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080827]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Pendarvis, Jack, 1963-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1401322875]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Schooled / Anisha Lakhani.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080827]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Lakhani, Anisha.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0385524390]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[One more year : stories / Sana Krasikov.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080827]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Krasikov, Sana, 1979-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0805088474]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The white Mary : a novel / by Kira Salak.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A young journalist journeys deep into the jungles of Papua New Guinea, determined to discover the truth about a Pultizer-winning war corresponden]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080827]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Salak, Kira, 1971-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0060738871]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The seamstress : a novel / Frances de Pontes Peebles.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In 1930's Brazil, a vigilante gang invades the home of two seamstresses, kidnapping one of the]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080827]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Peebles, Frances de Pontes.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307267067]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[A stopover in Venice : a novel / Kathryn Walker.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080827]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Walker, Kathryn.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061458414]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Everything under the sky : a novel / Matilde Asensi ; translated from Spanish by Lisa Carter.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080827]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Asensi, Matilde, 1962-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=038534189X]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[My husband's sweethearts : a novel / Bridget Asher.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080827]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Asher, Bridget.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0802118747]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Yesterday's weather : stories / Anne Enright.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The sum of these stories is a rich tapestry of people struggling to find contentment with one another--and with themselves--in a rapidly changing Irelan]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080827]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Enright, Anne, 1962-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0811217558]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The club of angels / Luis Fernando Verissimo ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Tells the story of ten well-to-do men who meet every month to dine fabulously and celebrate their friendship and singularity. When their leader dies of AIDS, a mysterious man, Lucido, is taken on to recreates the men's favorite dishes. But after each extravagant meal, one member of the club die]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080827]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Verâissimo, Luâis Fernando, 1936-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1903517621]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Magnus / Sylvie Germain ; translated and with an afterword by Christine Donougher.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080827]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Germain, Sylvie, 1954-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1933500190]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Filter house : short fiction / by Nisi Shawl.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080827]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Shawl, Nisi.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1933417293]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Dance with me, my lovely / Jaye Roycraft.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080828]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Roycraft, Jaye.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1555975046]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The half-known world : on writing fiction / Robert Boswell.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080828]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Boswell, Robert, 1953-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0451462181]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Hell and earth : a novel of the Promethean age / Elizabeth Bear.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080828]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Bear, Elizabeth.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1595542507]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[House of wolves / Matt Bronleewe.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080828]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Bronleewe, Matt.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1933515163]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Stuff dreams are made of : a novel / Don Bruns.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080828]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Bruns, Don.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0753513781]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Hairdos of the mildly depressed : a novel / by Doug Crandell.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080828]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Crandell, Doug.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=075822544X]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The Queen's lady / Barbara Kyle.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080828]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Kyle, Barbara.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0525950842]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Good people : a novel / Marcus Sakey.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A family, and the security to enjoy it: that's all Tom and Anna Reed ever wanted. But years of infertility treatments, including four failed attempts at in-vitro fertilization, have left them with neither. The emotional and financial costs are straining their marriage and endangering their dreams. So when their downstairs tenant--a recluse whose promptly delivered cashier's checks were barely keeping them afloat--dies in his sleep, the $400,000 they find stashed in his kitchen seems like fate. More than fate: a chance for everything they've dreamed of for so long.  But Tom and Anna soon realize that their tenant wasn't a hermit who squirreled away his pennies. He was a criminal who double-crossed some of the most dangerous men in Chicago. Men who won't stop until they get revenge, no matter where they find it.--From publisher descriptio]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080829]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Sakey, Marcus.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1592123392]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Under the black ensign / L. Ron Hubbard.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080829]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Hubbard, L. Ron (La Fayette Ron), 1911-1986.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0803498934]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The secret correspondence / Annette Mahon.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080829]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Mahon, Annette.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0871139928]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Ritual / Mo Hayder.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080829]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Hayder, Mo.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0765360969]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Mistborn : the final empire / Brandon Sanderson.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080829]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Sanderson, Brandon.]]></author>
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