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<title><![CDATA[General Fiction]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[General Fiction]]></description>
<copyright><![CDATA[King County Library System]]></copyright>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.kcls.org/bookalert3]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
<item><title><![CDATA[The ideal wife / Jacquelin Thomas.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Thomas, Jacquelin.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1416599630]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Enslave : the taming of the beast / Cathy Yardley.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An erotic interpretation of "Beauty and the Beast" by the author of Ravish and Crave finds Nadia using her sexuality to turn the tables on her captor, Dominic, who has kidnapped Nadia as part of his plan to reclaim money owed to him]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Yardley, Cathy.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061376094]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Shades of blue / Karen Kingsbury.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Kingsbury, Karen.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=031026622X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Blood game / Iris Johansen.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[When a Georgia senator's daughter is found murdered, and her body drained of blood, Eve Duncan is drawn into the web of Kevin Jelak--a serial murderer who is on Eve's short list of killers who might know something about her missing daughter Bonni]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Johansen, Iris.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312368127]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Order in chaos / Jack Whyte.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[After King Philip IV of France declares the Templar knights outlaws and by way of murder and imprisonment seizes their assets, Sir William Sinclair leads the survivors to temporary sanctuary in Scotland, where they team up with Robert Bruce and after a rousing victory at Bannockburn seek out the fabled land of Templar lore--Meric]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Whyte, Jack.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0399155775]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[A glass of water / Jimmy Santiago Baca.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Two Mexican-American brothers--Lorenzo, who becomes a farmer, and Vito, who gains fame as a boxer--take different paths in life after the brutal murder of their mother, only to have their journeys converge and bring them face-to-face with a common enem]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Baca, Jimmy Santiago, 1952-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0802119220]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Hummingbirds : a novel / Joshua Gaylord.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Gaylord, Joshua A. (Joshua Alden)]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061769010]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Island of the naked women / Inger Frimansson ; translated by Laura A. Wideburg.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Frimansson, Inger, 1944-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1929355564]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Dracula : the un-dead / Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[One by one, the band of heroes that defeated Dracula a quarter-century ago is being hunted down. Could it be that Dracula somehow survived their attack and is seeking revenge? Or is there another force at work whose relentless purpose is to destroy anything and anyone associated with Dracul]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Stoker, Dacre.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0525951296]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Crossers / Philip Caputo.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In a tale inspired by the brutality and beauty of life on the Arizona-Mexico border, September 11 widower Gil Castle finds his efforts to heal challenged by dark truths about his fearsome grandfather and retaliations against an act of kindnes]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Caputo, Philip.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0375411674]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The owl killers : a novel / Karen Maitland.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[England, 1321. The tiny village of Ulewic teeters between survival and destruction, faith and doubt, God and demons. Shadowing the villagers' lives are men cloaked in masks and secrecy, ruling with violence, intimidation, and terrifying fiery rites: the Owl Masters. When the daughter of Ulewic's most powerful man is accepted into a beguinage, battle lines are draw]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Maitland, Karen.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0385341709]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Passport to peril / by Robert B. Parker.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Set in Eastern Europe during the time of the "Iron Curtain," this is a story of intrigue in which American John Stodder is swept into the desperate world of government agents, deception, and murder. It's just his luck that he's also using the stolen passport of a dead ma]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Parker, Robert, 1906-1955.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0843961198]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Southern lights : a novel / Danielle Steel.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Eleven years ago Alexa Hamilton left the South behind, fleeing the pain of her ex-husband's betrayal and the cruelty of his prominent Charleston family. Now an assistant D.A. in Manhattan, she's made a name for herself as a top prosecutor while juggling her role as devoted single mom to a teenage daughter. But everything changes when Alexa is handed her latest case: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Facing a high-stakes trial, her private life thrown in turmoil by a series of threatening letters, she is forced to send her daughter back to the very place she swore she would never return to: the place where her marriage ended in heartbrea]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Steel, Danielle.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0385340281]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Grace Hammer : [a novel of the Victorian underworld] / Sara Stockbridge.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Living comfortably with her children in nineteenth-century London's East End off the proceeds of their pickpocket activities, Grace Hammer finds her past catching up with her when the vengeful Mr. Blunt retaliates against her for stealing a particularly cherished scarlet treasur]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Stockbridge, Sara, 1966-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0393067181]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Lessons at Blackberry Inn : adventures with the gentle art of learning / Karen Andreola ; illustrated by Nigel Andreola.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Andreola, Karen.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1889209058]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Drink, play, f@#k : one man's search for anything across Ireland, Vegas, and Thailand / Andrew Gottlieb.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Bob Sullivan, a jilted husband, sets off to explore the world, experience a meaningful connection with the divine, and rediscover his passion. His travels lead him from his home in New York City to a drinking bender across Ireland, through the glitz and glamour that is Las Vegas, and to the hedonistic pleasure palaces of Thailand. After a lifetime of playing it safe, Mr. Sullivan finally follows his heart and lives out everyone's deepest fantasie]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Gottlieb, Andrew, 1966-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0802170528]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Carbon copy : a novel / by Azarel.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Dominique Lewis spent most of her days as a high maintenance wanna-be. Although she had the perfect physique and facial features, she studied the charming behaviors of women who successfully landed pro-athletes, and mimicked the money-hungry ladies who were able to get into the pockets of hustlers. Her life-long dream was to become wealthy, and a house-hold name. By any means necessary."--Amazo]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Azarel.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1934230677]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Dead reckoning / Claire Lorrimer.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Althea Lewis isn't sure she still loves Geoffrey, her rich and handsome husband, and she's not looking forward to hosting an annual charity fãete. When a friend of hers suggests having a fortune-teller as entertainment, it seems like a good idea. But Geoffrey's fortune is not very bright. The Tarot cards don't lie: soon Geoffrey is dead and the police are looking for a kille]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Lorrimer, Claire.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0727867741]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Isis / Douglas Clegg ; illustrations by Glenn Chadbourne.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[After her beloved brother Harvey dies after saving her from her rageful governess, Isis Villiers learns from Old Marsh, the groundskeeper on the estate of her mentally unstable grandfather where she lives, that the family burial crypt on the grounds holds mystical powers to raise the dead, and Isis wonders whether she can bring Harvey back to life. By the best-selling author of Afterlif]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Clegg, Douglas, 1958-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1593155409]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[How to leave Hialeah / Jennine Capâo Crucet.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Crucet, Jennine Capâo.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1587298163]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage in the ashes / William W. Johnstone.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Johnstone, William W.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0786020210]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Buddha met Bubba / Richard "Dixie" Hartwell.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This is the heart-warming story of Billy Bob Coker, also known as Bubba, a redneck who reaches rock bottom, until a freak head injury results in the appearance of his own personal Buddha. From that moment forward, Bubba is led on a humorous journey of introspection through the backwoods of the Deep South and through his own flawed preconceptions and relationships. In the end, he finds resolution for his own conflicts and repairs his life in a climactic reconciliation with the family he lost--Publisher's descriptio]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Hartwell, Richard Dixie.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1596525274]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[White picket fences : a novel / Susan Meissner.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[While interviewing two Holocaust survivors for a sociology project, cousins Tally and Chase soon realize that the whole family is grappling with hidden secrets, echoes of the past, and the realization that ignoring tragic situations won't make them go awa]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Meissner, Susan, 1961-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1400074576]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Noonshade / by James Barclay.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Barclay, James, 1965-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1591027829]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The interrogative mood : a novel? / Padgett Powell.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A wildly inventive jazz meditation on life and language is written using only questions for the sentences, in a book that shows the writer's fascination with the snap and swing of American tal]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Powell, Padgett.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061859419]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The puzzle king : a novel / by Betsy Carter.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Lalami's unpolished first novel (after story collection Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits) follows Youssef El Mekki, a 19-year-old living in the slums of Casablanca who learns that his fatherbelieved to be deadis alive. The news precipitates Youssef's quest to find his father, who turns out to be the rich, well-connected businessman Nabil Amrani. The two meet just as a rift has developed between Nabil and his daughter, Amal, who is studying in America. Once Nabil invites Youssef back into his life, Youssef suddenly has all the luxuries he has ever dreamed about: a new apartment in the best neighborhood and a decent job. But just as quickly, it is all taken away, and when Youssef returns to his old neighborhoodnow the headquarters of a fringe Islamist grouphe finds himself embroiled in a dangerous conspiracy. Unfortunately, Lalami riddles the book with uninspired descriptions and observations; Youssef and Nabril are less than distinctive; and the climax lacks impact. It all seems perfunctory]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Carter, Betsy, 1945-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1565125940]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Siddhartha / Herman Hesse ; translated from the German by Hilda Rosner. The Dhammapada / the Buddha ; translated from the Pali by Irving Babbitt.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A translation of the Nobel Prize-winning writer's classic novel incorporates original writings attributed to the Buddha and follows the spiritually evocative journey of a young Indian Siddhartha, whose discontent with the disciple's role leads him on a torturous journe]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Hesse, Hermann, 1877-1962.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0811218503]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Swords from the desert / Harold Lamb ; edited by Howard Andrew Jones ; introduction by Scott Oden.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Collects four novellas and three short tales by the award-winning pulp-era writer whose historical research rendered him a consultant for the State Department, in an anthology that includes the work, "The Shield," in which an Arabian man is challenged to survive and protect a woman during a crusader siege on Constantinople]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Lamb, Harold, 1892-1962.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0803225164]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Swords from the west / Harold Lamb ; edited by Howard Andrew Jones ; introduction by Robert Weinberg.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A single-volume anthology of the early twentieth-century writer's pulp-era crusader tales includes all seventeen of his previously uncollected works and features the high adventures of sword-wielding knights, shrewd maids, and scheming nobles]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Lamb, Harold, 1892-1962.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0803220359]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Oysters & chocolate : erotic stories of every flavor / edited by Jordan LaRousse and Samantha Sade.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[From the premier source of boundary-pushing erotica comes an anthology that dares to cross the spectrum of sexuality and sensualityfrom the tenderly romantic to the totally taboo. Whatever you're craving, Oysters & Chocolate fulfills every desire, no matter how decadent, how wanton, or how deliciou]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0451226828]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Something she can feel / Grace Octavia.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Tuscaloosa, Alabama, may not be a glamorous place, but for Journey Cash, the small Southern town has always been enough. She has a loving husband, a great family, and she even occasionally brings the house down at church with her beautiful, thunderous singing voice. Problem is, Journey finds herself wondering if all those years as an obedient preacher's daughter have kept her from living a life she is really meant to live. When Dame, one of Journey's former students, comes back to town after striking it big as a rap star, Journey gets a taste of the fast-lane life that has passed her by. Dame is exciting, unpredictable and sexy. He is also ten year Journey's junior. But no matter, Journey runs from everything that is idyllic and stable in her world and into the arms of Dame"--P. [4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Octavia, Grace]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=075823225X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Sinful / Lori Foster, Maggie Shayne, Suzanne Forster, Kimberly Raye.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Four stories of silken fantasy including Lori Foster's Tangled Images, in which a female photographer comes undone during a men's underwear spread.  Maggie Shayne's Leather and Lace finds a prim young beauty leading a double life as a lingerie model.  In Suzanne Forster's Unbuttoning Emmalina, modesty is overrun by desire. And in Kimberley Randell's Sinderella, a tomboy discovers how a red teddy can turn her life aroun]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0425226689]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The evolution of shadows / Jason Quinn Malott.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Malott, Jason Quinn.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1932961844]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The German mujahid / Boualem Sansal ; translated from the French by Frank Wynne.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Two immigrant brothers discover the truth about their German father's past in this masterly investigation of evil, resistance and guilt, billed as "the first Arab novel to confront the Holocaust." Narrator Malrich, the younger son of a German father and an Algerian mother, lives with relatives in a gritty, mostly Arab housing estate outside Paris. Malrich is an indifferent hoodlum while his older brother, Rachel, has a university degree and a glamorous job at "a multinational." The plot hinges on Malrich's reading of Rachel's diary after Rachel commits suicide. After their parents were murdered in Algeria in 1994, Rachel discovered that their father was a Waffen SS officer posted to the death camps. In alternating chapters, the story is perfectly rendered in Malrich's wonderfully adolescent voice and Rachel's increasingly agonized diary entries. All this plays out against Malrich's perceptive likening of Hitler's Germany to the rise of fundamentalist Islamism on his housing estate.]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Sansal, Boualem.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1933372923]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Lying with the dead : a novel / Michael Mewshaw.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Mewshaw, Michael, 1943-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1590513185]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Limelight : a novel / Melody Carlson.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Claudette relished her Hollywood lifestyle, but age has withered her youth, fame, and above all, beauty. She returns to her shabby hometown and her estranged sister. For the first time she begins to question her own values. Can the hand of God help her attain true beaut]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Carlson, Melody.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1400070821]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Lady Vernon and her daughter : a novel of Jane Austin's Lady Susan / Jane Rubino and Caitlen Rubino-Bradway.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Rubino, Jane.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307461661]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Jarrettsville : a novel / by Cornelia Nixon.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Nixon, Cornelia.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=158243512X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunflowers / Sheramy Bundrick.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Bundrick, Sheramy D.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061765279]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Somebody else's man / by Daaimah S. Poole.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Poole, Daaimah S.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0758222475]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Picking bones from ash / Marie Mutsuki Mockett.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Mockett, Marie Mutsuki.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1555975410]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire in the East / Harry Sidebottom.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Sidebottom, Harry]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1590202465]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[David's revenge : Hans Werner Kettenback / translated from the German by Anthea Bell.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Christian Kestner has all but forgotten his stay in Tbilisi seven years before. He begins to worry when he receives a letter from David Ninochvili announcing his visit to Germany. Why is David coming? To seek revenge from Christian, guilty of flirting at the time with David's wif]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Kettenbach, Hans Werner.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1904738397]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Choices / Pamela Nowak.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Nowak, Pamela.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1594148104]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Crossings : a novel / Leonard Chang.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Crossings takes an unflinching look at the lives of Korean immigrants, legal and illegal, in the San Francisco Bay Area. This novel centers on Sam, a widower, who finds himself in debt to a local gangster and Unha, an illegal immigrant working at a nightclub. Intertwined with their lives are the lives of other characters-family members, other immigrants, gangsters. Together they form a portrait of a community struggling to better itself. When Unha rebels against the stringent demands placed on her, she is kidnapped and and trafficked into prostitution and Sam is determined to save her.An ensemble novel, Crossings is a mosaic of stories about the American drea]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Chang, Leonard.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0930773926]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[At home on Ladybug Farm / Donna Ball.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A year after making a home for themselves on the newly-renovated Ladybug Farm, Cici, Lindsay, and Bridget find their ordered household disrupted by the arrival of two young people and a challenging crisis that threatens the family they have becom]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Ball, Donna.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0425229785]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[An eye for an eye  / Irene Hannon.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[After he accidentally shoots a teenager at a tense standoff, FBI Hostage Rescue Team member Mark Sanders is sent to St. Louis to work as a field agent and get his bearings while the bad press starts to settle. Just weeks away from returning to Quantico to resume his work on the HRT, Mark has a chance encounter with an old flame, Emily Lawson. But their reunion is cut short by a sniper. Now Mark must find the shooter before he tries to strike again. But what is his motive--and who was his intended target? Can Mark put the pieces together, keep Emily safe, and rekindle a long-dead relationship at the same time?A fast-paced tale of romance, suspense, and intrigue, An Eye for an Eye is the exciting second installment in the Heroes of Quantico serie]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Hannon, Irene.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0800733118]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[A storm in the blood : a novel / Jon Stephen Fink.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["On December 16, 1910, three unarmed London policemen were killed by a gang of Latvian revolutionaries. Among the most sensational crimes of the era, the Houndsditch Murders sparked an unprecedented manhunt across the capital, and then exploded into the gunfight that entered history as the Siege of Sidney Street. Hundreds of heavily armed soldiers, assembled by then home-secretary Winston Churchill, descended upon the gang. After hours of bloody battle, the police broke into the hideout and discovered the corpses of two men. The ringleader they had expected to find--an urbane and charismatic revolutionary known as Peter the Painter--had mysteriously vanished, along with his mistress, Rivka, a young refugee and Yiddish music hall singer"--Publishe]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Fink, Jon Stephen.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061715425]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[When Autumn leaves : a novel / Amy S. Foster.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Foster, Amy S.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1590202554]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Wicked city : black guard / Hideyuki Kikuchi.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[For centuries, a secret peace treaty has existed between Earth and The Black World, a parallel dimension populated by shape-changers who possess awesome supernatural powers. Now that pact is up for renewal and a militant faction from the Black World will do everything in its power to stop the treaty from being signed. The fate of the Earth rests on the shoulders of a pair of special agents, one a human, the other a shape-changer from the dark dimensio]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Kikuchi, Hideyuki, 1949-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0765323303]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Thirsty : a novel / Tracey Bateman.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Bateman, Tracey Victoria.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=030745715X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The treasures of Venice / Loucinda McGary.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In modern-day Venice, when American librarian Samantha Lewis is approached by Irish rogue Keirnan Fitzgerald to help locate priceless 15th century jewels to pay his sister's ransom, they become embroiled in a 500-year-old love story that eerily prefigures their ow]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[McGary, Loucinda.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1402226705]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The return / Victoria Hislop.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Sonia knows nothing of Granada's shocking past, but ordering a simple cup of coffee in a quiet cafe will lead her into the extraordinary tale of a family's fight to survive the horror of the Spanish Civil War.  Seventy years earlier, in the Ramirez family's cafe, Concha and Pablo's children relish an atmosphere of hope. Antonio is a serious young teacher, Ignacio a flamboyant matador, and Emilio a skilled musician. Their sister, Mercedes, is a spirited girl whose sole passion is dancing, until she meets Javier and an obsessive love affair begins. But Spain is a country in turmoil. In the heat of civil war, everyone must take a side and choose whether to submit, to fight, or to attempt escap]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Hislop, Victoria.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061715417]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Whistlin' Dixie in a nor'easter / Lisa Patton.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Southern belle Leelee Satterfield leaves her beloved Memphis to follow her husband's pipe dream: to manage a quaint Vermont inn. But when they arrive, young daughters and ancient Yorkie in tow, they discover pretty fast that there's a truckload of things nobody tells you about Vermont until you live there. When Leelee is left swindled and snowbound, she's forced to confront the true depth of her Southern grit in this foreign town]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Patton, Lisa.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312556608]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Phoenix noir / edited by Patrick Millikin.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Enter Phoenix, where sunshine is the new noir"--P. [4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1933354852]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Witch craft / Caitlin Kittredge.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Someone, or something, is setting fire to the homes of the city's most infamous non-humans. And strange, otherworldly creatures--selkies, trolls, and harpies--are causing chaos throughout the city. Racing to stop the carnage, Luna turns to sexy federal agent Will Fagin for hel]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Kittredge, Caitlin.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312943628]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Lightbreaker / Mark Teppo.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Teppo, Mark.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1597801380]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[So many ways to sleep badly / Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's new novel is about struggling to find hope in the ruins of everyday San Francisco - battling roaches, Bikram Yoga, chronically bad sex, NPR, internet cruising, tweakers, the cops, $100 bills, chronic pain, the gay vote, vegan restaurants, and incest, with the help of air-raid sirens, herbal medicine, late-night epiphanies, sea lions, and sleeping pills. So Many Ways to Sleep Badly unveils a gender-bending queer world where nothing flows smoothly, except for those sudden moments when everything becomes lighter or brighter or easier to imagine."--BOOK JACKE]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Sycamore, Mattilda Bernstein.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0872864685]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The fury / Jason Pinter.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Henry Parker had no idea that the junkie who had come to him for help--and who Henry had blown off--was a brother he never knew about. Now, Stephen Gaines is dead, and Henry is forced to question everything he's ever known and why Stephen was murdered in cold bloo]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Pinter, Jason.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0778326276]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The gathering storm / Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, struggles to unite a fractured network of kingdoms and alliances in preparation for the Last Battle. Meanwhile, Egwene al'Vere, the Amyrlin Seat of the rebel Aes Sedai, is being held captive by the White Tower. Knowing the Seanchan attack is imminent, she fights to hold the Aes Sedai together in an epic contest that will prove the mettle of her followers and will decide the future of the White Tower---and possibly the world itself.  The first of three novels that will make up "A Memory of Light" and mark the conclusion of the Wheel of Tim]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Jordan, Robert, 1948-2007.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0765302306]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The children's book : a novel / A.S. Byatt.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[When Olive Wellwood's oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of the new Victoria and Albert Museum--a talented working-class boy who could be a character out of one of Olive's magical tales--she takes him into the storybook world of her family and friends--a world that conceals more treachery and darkness than Philip has ever imagined and that will soon be eclipsed by far greater force]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307272095]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Betraying season / Marissa Doyle.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In 1838, Penelope Leland goes to Ireland to study magic and prove to herself that she is as good a witch as her twin sister Persy, but when Niall Keating begins to pay her court, she cannot help being distracte]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Doyle, Marissa.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0805082522]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Through wolf's eyes / Jane Lindskold.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Lindskold, Jane M.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0812575482]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[White wolf : a novel of Druss the legend / David Gemmell.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Gemmell, David.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=034545832X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The legend of Deathwalker / David Gemmell.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Gemmell, David.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0345408004]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Midnight falcon / David Gemmel.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Banished from his native country, Bane the Bastard, the illegitimate son of the Rigante king Demonblade, makes his living as a gladiator in the blood-drenched Empire arenas, thirsting for revenge against those who have wronged him, while the armies of the Stone prepare to destroy the Rigant]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Gemmell, David.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0345432363]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Morningstar / David Gemmell.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Owen Odell is determined to show the Highland people that Jarek Mace, the man they have hailed as a hero, a legend, and the great Morningstar himself, is nothing more than an outlaw, a bandit, and a thie]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Gemmell, David.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0345379098]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Ravenheart / David Gemmell.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Gemmell, David.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0345432282]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Stormrider / David Gemmell.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Gemmell, David.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0345445864]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The singing sword / Jack Whyte.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A fictional portrait of King Arthur's great-grandfather, Publius Varius, and his wife, Luceiia, follows their desperate struggle to protect their land from the barbarian hordes threatening to overrun the last remnants of Roman civilization in Brita]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Whyte, Jack.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0812551397]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Naoko / Keigo Higashino ; translated by Kerim Yasar.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Heisuke works hard at a factory job to provide for his wife, Naoko, and young daughter, Monami. He takes pleasure from the small things, like breakfast with both of them after a night shift. His placid life is rocked when, looking up from his microwave dinner one evenings, he realizes that the TV news that he wasn't paying attention to is reporting a catastrophic bus accident and the names of his loved ones." "When Monami finally wakes up from a coma, she seems to think she's Naoko, who has died protecting her daughter. More disturbingly, the girl knows things only Naoko could know. The family life that resumes between the modest man and a companion who looks like his daughter but seems like his dead wife is ticklish-funny until it begins hurtling toward a soul-shattering end."--BOOK JACKE]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Higashino, Keigo, 1958-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1932234071]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The triumph of the sun / Wilbur Smith.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Smith, Wilbur A.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312939183]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Kenyatta's escape / Donald Goines.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Kenyatta had two ambitions: cleaning the ghetto of,all drug traffic and gunning down all the racist,white cops! But a black and white detective team,Benson and Ryan, is on his tail and has discovered,the location of his army's camp. Armed with tanks,they bring a bloody doomsday to his followers. In,Kenyatta's Escape, Goines continues his story of the bloody, brutal world of crime he began in Crime Partners and Death List. They're all back for a coast to coast chase that spells gripping adventure]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Goines, Donald, 1937-1974.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0870678833]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091020]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The casebook of Victor Frankenstein : a novel / Peter Ackroyd.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[As Victor Frankenstein begins conducting anatomical experiments to reanimate the dead, he at first uses corpses supplied by the coroner. But these specimens prove imperfect for Victor's purposes. Moving his makeshift laboratory to a deserted pottery factory in Limehouse, he makes contact with the Doomsday men--the resurrectionists--whose grisly methods put Frankenstein in great danger as he works feverishly to bring life to the terrifying creature that will bear his name for eternit]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Ackroyd, Peter, 1949-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0385530846]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091021]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Memories of the future / Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky ; translated by Joanne Turnbull with Nikolai Formozov.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Krzhizhanovskiæi, Sigizmund, 1887-1950.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1590173198]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091021]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Rebel Yell : a novel / Alice Randall.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Attending the funeral of her Pentagon special advocate ex-husband, a bewildered woman encounters a British socialist and probable spy who possesses very different knowledge of the deceased's personality, a situation that sparks their shared investigation into her ex's complicated life. By the NAACP Image Award finalist author of The Wind Done Gon]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Randall, Alice.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1596916680]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091021]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sweetgum ladies knit for love : a novel / Beth Pattillo.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Pattillo, Beth.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1400073952]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091021]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The mall of Cthulhu / Seamus Cooper.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A decade ago, college student Laura Harker was saved from a fate worse than death at the hands (and fangs) of a centuries-old vampire priestess and her Satanic minions. Her rescuer, an awkward, geeky folklore student named Teddy, single-handedly slew the undead occupants of the Omega Alpha sorority house, spurred into heroic action by fate itself, inexorably intertwining his and Laura's destinies. After navigating her way through law school, Laura is now a junior FBI agent assigned to the Bureau's Boston office. Unfortunately, she finds her job involves more paperwork than adventure. When Ted stumbles onto a group of Cthulhu cultists planning to awaken the Old Ones through mystic incantations culled from the fabled Necronomicon, he and Laura must spring into action, traveling from Boston to the seemingly-peaceful suburbs of Providence and beyond, all the way to the sanity-shattering non-Euclidian alleyways and towers of dread R'lyeh itself, in order to prevent an innocent shopping center from turning into... The Mall of Cthulhu]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Cooper, Seamus.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1597801275]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091021]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[On the edge/ Illona Andrews.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Living on the Edge--a place between two worlds, the Broken and the Weird--Rose Drayton, an Edger who can easily travel between the worlds but belongs in neither, must battle against magic-hungry creatures with the help of a blueblood noble who wants to possess her ... and her powe]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Andrews, Ilona.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0441017800]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091021]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The asylum prophecies / Daniel Keyes.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In this novel of suspense, a disturbed and suicidal young woman with multiple personalities is the only person who can stop an impending terrorist attack against the United States and must fight to free herself from her captors--and her mind--to save thousands of innocent live]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Keyes, Daniel.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0843962712]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091021]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[In a perfect world : a novel / Laura Kasischke.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Former flight attendant Jiselle Dorn's idyllic family life as the wife of pilot Mark Dorn and the mother of two soon grows wearisome, since Mark is always away and her children are hostile, but nothing can prepare her for the threat of the Phoenix Flu, which endangers the very lives they have all imagine]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Kasischke, Laura, 1961-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061766119]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091021]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me something true / Leila Cobo.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Gabriella always loved the picture of her mother kneeling in front of a bed of roses, smiling, beautiful and impossibly happy. But then she learns that her late mother hated gardening; that she had never wanted the house in the Hollywood hills, the successful movie producer husband, and possibly, her only daughter. When Gabriella discovers a journal--a book that begins as a new mother's letters to her baby girl, but becomes a secret diary--the final entry leaves one question unanswered: the night her mother died, was she returning to Colombia to end an affair, or was she abandoning her family for goo]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Leila Cobo.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0446519367]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091021]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Section 8 : a hood rat novel / K'wan.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Tionna learned from her on-and-off addicted mother how to live by her wits.  Now, forced to start over in the same neighborhood she swore she'd never go back to, with her on-again/off-again boyfriend and father of her two sons in jail and everything seized by the government, she rediscovers her old life and wonders if she's cut out to be a prisoner's wif]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[K'wan.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312536968]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091021]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Dawn's prelude / Tracie Peterson.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Newly widowed Lydia Sellers, longing to put the memories of a painful marriage behind her, determines to travel to Alaska to join her aunt. Lydia's arrival in Sitka, however, brings things she didn't expect: the acquaintance of Kjell Bjorklund, the handsome owner of the sawmill; and the discovery that she is pregnant with her dead husband's child. What will this mean for her budding relationship with Kjell? And what lengths will her stepchildren go to reclaim their father's fortune? Lydia soon finds her life--and that of her child's--on the lin]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Peterson, Tracie.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0764201514]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091021]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Paying back Jack : a novel / by Christopher G. Moore.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Disbarred American lawyer Vincent Calvino is now a private investigator in Thailand. A client's desire for payback could cost Vinnie his life when a new assignment takes him deep into the lives of corrupt politicians and private contractors, and into Bangkok's seamy underbell]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Moore, Christopher, 1946-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0802119026]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091021]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The pool of Shikama. Part one / by Kevin Radthorne.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Radthorne, Kevin.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1590920295]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091022]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream of reason / Rosa Chacel ; translated by Carol Maier.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A masterpiece of modernist fiction about one mans search for meaning, Dream of Reason (La sinrazâon) reveals Rosa Chacel as an intellectual and literary innovator whose work stands alongside that of Joyce, Proust, and Woolf.  This meditative novel, grounded in the thinking of Spains great modern philosopher Ortega y Gasset, unfolds as the journal of a bourgeois chemist who makes his way in Buenos Aires just before and during the Spanish Civil War. Tracing his relationship with three women, Santiago Hernâandez explores the power of his own intentions and the limits of human reason. His introspective experiment, set against the background of world-altering events, documents the workings of a self-absorbed mind speculating on the inseparability of self and circumstance and is a brilliant enactment of how, from such tensions, narrative emerge]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Chacel, Rosa, 1898-1994.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0803214731]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091022]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The concubine's daughter / Pai Kit Fai.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Li-Xia, the daughter of a young concubine to an old silk farmer in rural Chine, escapes her destiny of becoming a concubine by outwitting her father's orders to bind her feet and running away with an English sea captain, and takes her first steps towards fulfilling her mother's dream of becoming a schola]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Fai, Pai Kit, 1929-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312355211]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091022]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The book of fathers : a novel / Miklâos Vâamos ; translated from the Hungarian by Peter Sherwood.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Vâamos, Miklâos.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1590513398]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091022]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Flesh and fire / Laura Anne Gilman.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Jerzy--a young slave who has just begun an apprenticeship to become a Vineart, a mage who can create spell-making wines--must work with his master to stop a plot to complete the work of the dreaded Sin-Washer and rid the world of the last few Vinearts, in the first book of a new trilog]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Gilman, Laura Anne.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1439101418]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091022]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Rizzo's war / Lou Manfredo.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[When NYPD veteran Joe Rizzo and his ambitious new partner Mike McQueen are given the delicate task of finding and returning the runaway daughter of a city councilman, they learn that the councilman may or may not be more interested in something his daughter has taken with her than in her safety--something that may or may not be evidence of his wrongdoin]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Manfredo, Lou.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312538057]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091022]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The big book of Necon / edited by Bob Booth.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A major horror anthology calls for a killer lineup, and this 30th anniversary tribute to the Northeast Horror and Fantasy Convention features more than 50 works of fiction and nonfiction by past attendees and guests who represent the best and darkest of the genre's practitioners. Among the highlights are Stephen King's The Old Dude's Ticker, a retelling of Poe's The Tell-tale Heart as the rant of a homicidal Vietnam vet, and Peter Straub's Response from a Surprised but Pleased Recipient, which takes the form of creepy answers to a marketing survey. Essays and illustrations by numerous horror and dark fantasy notables round out the volume. Though mostly not convention-themed, these works easily showcase the impressive array of talents that have helped make Necon an annual highlight for horror's pros and semipro]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1587672022]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091022]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[To try men's souls : a novel of George Washington and the fight for American freedom / Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen and Albert S. Hanser, contributing editor.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Gingrich, Newt.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312591063]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091022]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Boston noir / edited by Dennis Lehane.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1933354917]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091022]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Bonny Kate's honeymoon : victory at King's Mountain : a novel / by Mark Strength.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Strength, Mark.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0979951429]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091022]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Hercules of the Revolution : a novel based on the life of Peter Francisco / by Travis S. Bowman.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Bowman, Travis S.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0615296351]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091022]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[A hustler's son. II : live or die in New York / by T. Styles.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Styles, Toy, 1974-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0979493153]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091022]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Wolf Hall : a novel / Hilary Mantel.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIIIs court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the kings favor and ascend to the heights of political power  England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years, and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. The quest for the kings freedom destroys his adviser, the brilliant Cardinal Wolsey, and leaves a power vacuum.   Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell. Cromwell is a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people and a demon of energy: he is also a consummate politician, hardened by his personal losses, implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?   In inimitable style, Hilary Mantel presents a picture of a half-made society on the cusp of change, where individuals fight or embrace their fate with passion and courage. With a vast array of characters, overflowing with incident, the novel re-creates an era when the personal and political are separated by a hairbreadth, where success brings unlimited power but a single failure means death. ]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Mantel, Hilary, 1952-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0805080686]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091022]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Uther / Jack Whyte.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Whyte, Jack.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0812571029]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091022]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The lance thrower / Jack Whyte.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Whyte, Jack, 1940-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0812570138]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091022]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Rough magic : a tempest tale / Caryl Cude Mullin.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The phrase "inspired by" is truly fitting in this novel based on The Tempest. Mullin focuses on three generations of Caliban's family, beginning with the powerful witch Sycorax, who begat Caliban not with the devil, but with Alonso! Like Prospero, she is betrayed and sent to the island where she goes mad with rage and revenge. In the process, she pulls magic from the island, and Caliban sets out to undo her wrongs with help from Miranda's daughter, Chiara. With so many strong women running about and employing dark arts, Rough Magic reads more like The Mists of Avalon than Shakespeare, even if passages are split into acts and scenes. With breaks that span years and even decades, the events of The Tempest are reduced to two and a half pages midway through, which leaves plenty of room for Caliban to take the stage. His isolation, sensitivity, and deep longing for his island effectively cement his humanity and move the plot onward. Mullin's environmental message of hope and restoration is an enthralling take on the Bard. Copyright 2009 Booklist Review]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Mullin, Caryl Cude.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1897187637]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091022]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[In the first circle : a novel, the restored text / Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ; translated by Harry T. Willetts.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Solzheniëtìsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061479012]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091023]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The tin drum / Gèunter Grass ; a new translation by Breon Mitchell.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["The Tin Drum, one of the great novels of the twentieth century, was published in 1959. It became a runaway bestseller and catapulted its young author to the forefront of world literature." "To mark its fiftieth anniversary, here is a new translation of this classic book. Breon Mitchell, acclaimed translator and scholar, has drawn from many sources: a wealth of detailed scholarship,a wide range of newly available reference works, and the author himself. The result is a translation that is more faithful to Grass's styleand rhythm, restores omissions, and reflects more fully the complexity of the original work." "After fifty years, The Tin Drum has, if anything, gained in power and relevance. All of Grass's amazing evocations are still here, and still amazing: Oskar Matzerath, the indomitable drummer; his grandmother, Anna Koljaiczek; his mother, Agnes; Alfred Matzerath and Jan Bronski, his presumptive fathers; Oskar's midget friends Bebra, the great circus master, and Roswitha Raguna, the famous somnambulist; Mother Truczinski, Sister Scholastika and Sister Agneta, the Right Reverend Father Wiehnke; Sigismund Markus, the toy merchant; the Greffs, the Schefflers, Herr Fajngold, all Kashubians, Poles, Germans, and Jews - waiting to be discovered and rediscovered."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Grass, Gèunter, 1927-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0151014167]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091023]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The vision / Debi Pearl.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Pearl, Debi.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0981973701]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091023]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The undaunted : the miracle  of the Hole-in-the-Rock pioneers / Gerald N. Lund.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In 1879 a stalwart group of Mormon pioneers are called to create a settlement that will serve as a buffer between the established communities of Utah and the lawless frontier of the Four Corners area. Their challenges will be enormous--but the biggest part of their mission may well be getting there in the first plac]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Lund, Gerald N.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1606411918]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091023]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The hidden : a novel / Tobias Hill.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Hill, Tobias, 1970-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061768251]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091023]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Eleventh guest / Bodie & Brock Thoene.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Thoene, Bodie, 1951-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0842375376]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091023]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Peter & Max : a Fables novel / by Bill Willingham ; with illustrations by Steve Leialoha.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["When an unspeakable tragedy befalls a family of traveling minstrels, they become stranded and left for dead. Here in the heart of The Black Forest, Peter Piper and his older brother Max encounter ominous forces that will change them both irreparably. Thus begins an epic tale of sibling rivalry, magic, music and revenge that spans medieval times to the present day when their deadly conflict surfaces in the placid calm of modern-day Fabletown."--dust cover fla]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Willingham, Bill.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1401215734]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091023]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Frostbite : a werewolf tale / David Wellington.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["There's one sound a woman doesn't want to hear when she's lost and alone in the Arctic wilderness: a howl. When a strange wolf's teeth slash Cheyenne's ankle to the bone, her old life ends, and she becomes the very monster that has haunted her nightmares for years. Worse, the only one who can understand what Chey has become is the man-or wolf-who's doomed her to this fate. He also wants to chop her head off with an axe. Yet as the line between human and beast blurs, so too does the distinction between hunter and hunted for Chey is more than just the victim she appears to be. But once she's within killing range, she may find that-even for a werewolf-it's not always easy to go for the jugular"--P. [4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Wellington, David.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307460835]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091023]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Death angels : an Inspector Erik Winter novel / êAke Edwardson ; translated from the Swedish by Ken Schubert.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A first installment of a popular international series introduces a young Swedish chief inspector who teams up with Scotland Yard to solve the mysterious parallel killings of young British and Swedish tourist]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Edwardson, êAke, 1953-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0143116096]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091023]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Cold blood : a novel / James Fleming.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[On the night that Lenin and Trotsky seize control in St. Petersburg, Charlie Doig spots in a crowd the villainous Bolshevik who ordered his family's murder, prompting him and his rag-tag companions to pursue his nemesis all the way to Siberia, all the while conceiving a plan steal a fortune]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Fleming, James, 1944-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1416596518]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091023]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Bite marks : a vampire testament / Terence Taylor.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A teenage runaway is killed and brought back to life to feed on her bastard child, by a sadistic vampire who's stalked her family for decades with the pathology of a serial killer. The undead infant escapes, triggering a citywide search for a vampire baby whose existence threatens to expose the entire vampire society. And they will stop at nothing to make sure that doesn't happen. Bite Marks is an urban horror novel set in the downtown art world/ club scene of late 80s New York. At heart, it's the story of Steven and Lori, artist and writer, a couple working their way through a bad break up, but bound by a contract to do an illustrated coffee table book on vampires. When they stumble across the real thing their feelings for each other intensify as they're reunited to battle monsters they scarcely believe exis]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Taylor, Terence, 1954-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312385250]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091023]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Nikki Turner presents street chronicles : backstage.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0345504291]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091023]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Windfall / Penny Vincenzi.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Sensible Cassia Fallon has been married to her doctor husband for seven years when her godmother leaves her a huge fortune. For the first time in her life, she is able to do exactly as she likes, and she starts to question her marriage, her past, her present, and her future. But where did her inheritance really come from and why? Too soon the windfall has become a corrupting force, one that Cassia cannot resis]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Vincenzi, Penny.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1590202473]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091023]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The skating rink / Roberto Bolaäno ; translated by Chris Andrews.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["With a murder at its heart, Roberto Bolano's The Skating Rink is, among other things, a crime novel. Murder seems to have exerted a fascination for the endlessly talented Bolano, who in his last interview, as the London Observer noted, "declared, in all apparent seriousness, that what he would most liked to have been was a homicide detective."" "Set in the seaside town of Z, on the Costa Brava, north of Barcelona, Spain, The Skating Rink is told in short, suspenseful chapters by three male narrators, and revolves around a beautiful figure skating champion, Nuria Marti. When she is suddenly dropped from the Olympic team, one of the three men, a besotted pompous civil servant, secretly builds her a skating rink in a ruined mansion on the outskirts of town, using public funds. But Nuria has affairs, provokes jealousy, and the skating rink becomes a crime scene. A mysterious pair of women, an ex-opera singer and a taciturn girl armed with a knife, turn up as well." "A deeply layered book, The Skating Rink concerns political corruption, sex, the immigrant experience, and frustrated passion. And it's also an atmospheric chronicle of one summer season in a seaside town, with its vacationers, its drifters, businessmen, bureaucrats, and social workers."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Bolaäno, Roberto, 1953-2003.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0811217132]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091023]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The suicide run : five tales of the Marine Corps / William Styron ; [edited by James L.W. West III].]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Before writing his memoir of madness, Darkness Visible, William Styron was best known for his ambitious works of fiction - including The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie's Choice. Styron also created personal but no less powerful tales based on his real-life experiences as a U.S. Marine. The Suicide Run collects five of these meticulously rendered narratives. One of them - Elobey, Annobon, and Corisco" - is published here for the first time." "In "Blankenship," written in 1953, Styron draws on his stint as a guard at a stateside military prison at the end of World War II. "Marriott, the Marine" and "The Suicide Run" - which Styron composed in the early 1970s as part of an intended novel that he set aside to write Sophie's Choice - depict the surreal experience of being conscripted a second time, after World War II, to serve in the Korean War. "My Father's House" captures the isolation and frustration of a soldier trying to become a civilian again. In "Elobey, Annobon, and Corisco," written late in Styron's life, a soldier attempts to exorcise the dread of an approaching battle by daydreaming about far-off islands, visited vicariously through his childhood stamp collection."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Styron, William, 1925-2006]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1400068223]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091023]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Piáece de râesistance : a novel / Sandra Byrd.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA['Having earned her chef's hat, Lexi Stuart bids au revoir to her glamorous and deliciously satisfying pastry mentorship outside of Paris and returns to her hometown of Seattle, Washington. There, she finds life unexpectedly complicated. She's put in charge of a high-end catering bakery called Bijoux,which should be her dream job, but there's a catch: She has to make this lavish bakery into a successful business in just a few, short months, which will require more than her ability to make an amazing wedding cake. In over her head and at a loss for creative marketing ideas, Lexi isn't sure what the recipe for success needs to be. Stir in a complicated relationship with her French beau, Philippe and his daughter, Celine, then add a dash of romance with down-to-earth lawyer Dan, and life suddenly contains more ooh la la than Lexi can handle. With the fate of her career and her love life hanging by a thread, the phrase piece of cake has never been more daunting. Lexi learns that she must trust the dreams in her heart and the God who put them there"--P. [4] of cover]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Byrd, Sandra.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1400073294]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091024]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Covet : a novel of the fallen angels / J.R. Ward.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Redemption isn't a word Jim Heron knows much about--his specialty is revenge, and to him, sin is all relative. But everything changes when he becomes a fallen angel and is charged with saving the souls of seven people from the seven deadly sins. And failure is not an option. Vin diPietro has surrendered himself to his business--until fate intervenes in the form of a tough-talking, Harley-riding, self-professed savior, and a woman who makes him question his destiny. With an ancient evil ready to claim him, Vin has to work with a fallen angel not only to win his beloved over...but to redeem his very soul."--p.[4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Ward, J. R. (Jessica Bird)]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0451228219]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091024]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[South Africa : a traveler's literary companion / edited by Isabel Balseiro and Tobias Hecht.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Encompasses short stories by some of South Africa's forefront writers including Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee, and Alan Paton, in an anthology that reflects the region's troubled history from the perspectives of both oppressors and the oppresse]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1883513227]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091024]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Kneller's happy campers / Etgar Keret ; translated from the Hebrew by Miriam Shlesinger.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A tale set in an afterlife populated by people who have killed themselves - many of them are young, and most of them bear the marks of their death - bullet wounds, broken necks. Mordy, the hero, discovers that his girlfriend from his life before has also 'offed' herself so he sets out to find her, and so follows a strange adventur]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Keret, Etgar, 1967-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0701184310]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091024]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Polo and the dragon / Râegis Faller.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In this wordless picture book, Polo the dog becomes trapped in the ice and snow while out sailing one day, but a friendly dragon helps him escap]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Faller, Râegis.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1596434988]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091027]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The ghost king / R.A. Salvatore.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Salvatore, R. A., 1959-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0786952334]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091027]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Hot gimmick S / Megumi Nishizaki ; original concept by Miki Aihara ; translation by Sawaka Kawashima and John Werry.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Nishizaki, Megumi.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1421511428]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091028]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Angel time : a novel / Anne Rice.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A seraph offers contract killer Toby O'Dare a chance to save rather than destroy lives. Carried back through the ages to thirteenth-century England, to dark realms where accusations of ritual murder have been made against Jews, where children suddenly die or disappear, O'Dare begins his perilous quest for salvatio]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Rice, Anne, 1941-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1400043530]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091028]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[No tomorrow = Point de lendemain / Vivant Denon ; translated from the French by Lydia Davis ; introduction by Peter Brooks.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Denon, Vivant, 1747-1825.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1590173260]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091028]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Her inheritance forever / Lyn Cote.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Cote, Lyn.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061373435]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091028]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowboy Christmas / Mary Connealy.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Though still wounded by the betrayal of his ex-fiancâee, Wyoming rancher Elijah Walker finds himself attracted to secretive singer Annette Talbot, until he discovers she's a wanted woman. As Christmas draws near, will Elijah respond to God's gentle persuasion to find the truth before he loses Annie foreve]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Connealy, Mary.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1602601453]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091028]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Wind in the ashes / William W. Johnstone.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In post-World War III America, legendary soldier and freedom fighter Ben Raines orders his rebels to make one last desperate assault against the Russian invaders and the mercenary turncoat Sam Hartline. But until fresh troops arrive, Raines wages a one-man guerrilla war against the enem]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Johnstone, William W.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=078601962X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091028]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Elephant song / Wilbur Smith.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[White Gold Ivory. In Africa, it is the tragic and thrilling object of greed, corruption, and senseless death. In this dangerous world of poachers and blood money, one determined man and one dedicated woman risk their lives to stop the senseless slaughter of a species on the brink of extinction. Following a trail that leads from the Mountains of the Moon and the deep forests of central Africa to the secret opulence of Taiwan and London's corridors of power, naturalist Dr. Daniel Armstrong and anthropologist Kelly Kinnear fight the battle of their lives against terrifying adversaries, the powerful individuals and conglomerates who would wipe out an entire race of human beings to satisfy their insatiable lust for elephant's ivor]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Smith, Wilbur A.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0449221032]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091028]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Saga : a novel of medieval Iceland / Jeff Janoda.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Janoda, Jeff, 1960-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0897335325]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091028]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Exiles in the garden / Ward Just.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Settling in Georgetown after rejecting his family's life in politics, newspaper photographer Alec witnesses the âemigrâe gatherings at the home of his next-door neighbors and watches the disintegration of his marriage upon his refusal of an assignment in Vietna]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Just, Ward S.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0547195583]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091028]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Chronic city : a novel / Jonathan Lethem.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires and lies. Chase lives off residuals earned as a child star, living a life of cloistered ease, until a pop critic with a conspiratorial counter cultural savvy forces him to confront the answer to several mysteries tightly intertwined within the tragic fabric of the city itsel]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Lethem, Jonathan.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0385518633]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091028]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Once in a blue moon / Eileen Goudge.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Separated in childhood and sent to foster homes after their neglectful mother's imprisonment, sisters Lindsay and Kerrie Ann are reunited in adulthood and help each other through the fiercest battles of their lives despite their difference]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Goudge, Eileen.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1593155344]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091028]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Generosity : an enhancement / Richard Powers.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["When Chicagoan Russell Stone finds himself teaching a Creative Nonfiction class, he encounters a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous presence. Thassadit Amzwar's blissful exuberance both entrances and puzzles the melancholic Russell. How can this refugee from perpetual terror be so happy? Won't someone so open and alive come to serious harm? Wondering how to protect her, Russell researches her war-torn country and skims through popular happiness manuals. Might her condition be hyperthymia? Hypomania? Russell's amateur inquiries lead him to college counselor Candace Weld, who also falls under Thassa's spell. Dubbed Miss Generosity by her classmates, Thassa's joyful personality comes to the attention of the notorious geneticist and advocate for genomic enhancement Thomas Kurton, whose research leads him to announce the genotype for happiness." "Russell and Candace, now lovers, fail to protect Thassa from the growing media circus. Thassa's congenital optimism is soon severely tested. Devoured by the public as a living prophecy, her genetic secret will transform both Russell and Kurton, as well as the country at large."--BOOK JACKE]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Powers, Richard, 1957-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0374161143]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091028]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The financial lives of the poets : a novel / Jess Walter.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Matt Prior is losing his job, his wife, and his house, and he's about to lose his mind--until he discovers a way that he might possibly be able to save it al]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Walter, Jess, 1965-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061916048]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091028]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Hungry as the sea / Wilbur Smith.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Racing against time to rescue one of his ships and reach the Golden Adventurer--a ship worth a fortune in salvage fees--before the competition, Nicholas Berg must battle for survival and redemption on the glacial waters of the South Atlantic]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Smith, Wilbur A.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312971079]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091028]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Vis major : railroad men, an act of God-- white death at Wellington / by Martin Burwash.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["At 1:43 a.m., March 1, 1910, a wall of snow descended on two Great Northern Railway trains stalled in the town of Wellington, Washington. Ninety-six people died in a single moment. To this day, the Wellington Slide remains North America's worst avalanche disaster. Although other accounts of this monumental event exist, none are told entirely from the perspective of the railroad men who battled the week-long blizzard leading up to the tragedy. Vis Major gives voice to those men"--P. [4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Burwash, Martin.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1440161771]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091028]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Gorgeous East / Robert Girardi.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A sweeping tale of love and redemption, honor and war, Robert Girardis Gorgeous East follows three French For eign legionnaires of very different backgrounds from the cliffs of Mont Saint-Michel to Istanbuls ancient alley ways, from raucous Parisian bars to the desolate Sahara. Gorgeous East takes us on an epic and unfor get table ad ven ture with the wonderful John Smith, a lost Brooklynite they call the Handsome American Cowboy; Colonel de Noyer, the elder statesman slowly going mad; and Cap tain Pinard, whose past is so hideous he cant find love outside the Legions walls. When a mission in the Sahara goes horribly wrong, one legionnaire must wage battle against a rogue terrorist group and rescue his brothers-in-arms. In this tremendous return to form, Girardi show cases his sheer love of language and lumi n ous sense of place to deliver a masterful novel of the hearts and minds of soldiers of fortune.]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Girardi, Robert.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312565860]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091030]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Box 21 / Anders Roslund and Bèorge Hellstrèom.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Three years ago, Lydia and Alena were two hopeful girls from Lithuania. Now they are sex slaves, lured to Sweden with the promise of better jobs and then trapped in a Stockholm brothel. What will happen when they get an unexpected chance at freedo]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Roslund, Anders, 1961-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0374282951]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091030]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christmas secret / Donna VanLiere.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[When struggling young single mother Christine Eisley saves the life of an elderly woman working in Wilson's department store, she sets into motion a series of events that will test her strength, loyalty, and determination, all the while setting her on the path to finding true lov]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[VanLiere, Donna, 1966-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312558368]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091030]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The iron web / Larken Rose]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Rose, Larken.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1607437325]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091030]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Snow melts in spring / Deborah Vogts.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Loving her veterinarian job and harboring affection for a gruff rancher who has become a father figure to her, Mattie Evans faces a painful dilemma when the rancher's estranged son, Gil, plans to sell the ranch and move his father to California, a situation that is further complicated by difficult family secret]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Vogts, Deborah, 1965-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0310292751]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091030]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The humbling / Philip Roth.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[What happens when all the ways that we convince ourselves of our solidity, all our life's performances--talent, love, sex, hope, energy, reputation--are stripped off?  Simon Axler, one of the leading American stage actors of his generation, is about to find out. Now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. His wife has gone, his audience has left him, his agent can't persuade him to make a comeback. Consumed by an erotic desire, he plunges into a darker and more shocking en]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Roth, Philip.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0547239696]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091030]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Servant of a dark god / John Brown.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[One of the mysterious Divines, godlike rulers capable of harvesting a person's life force, has vanished. Young Talen's relatively idyllic life is turned upside down when his family is accused of being "soul-eaters" who worship a twisted god. Pursued by fearful clansmen and a nightmarish earthen monstrosity known only as Hunger, Talen begins to investigate his latent world-changing abilities. Soon he learns of his family's extensive role in the enigmatic Order, whose mission is to "break the yoke of the Divines," and the nature of the dark power that hunts the]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Brown, John, 1966-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0765322358]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091030]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaosbound  / David Farland.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The world of the Runelords has been combined by magic with another parallel world to form a new one, the beginning of a process that may unify all worlds into the one true world. In this follow-up to "The Wyrmling Horde," Borenson has been transformed into a berserker warrior and becomes a pawn in a Byzantine game controlled by supernatural ruler]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Farland, David.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0765321688]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091030]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Canticle / Ken Scholes.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Scholes, Ken.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0765321289]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091030]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[But not for long / Michelle Wildgen.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Hard-shelled, career-minded Greta is the newest and least likely member of a sustainable foods cooperative house in Madison, Wisconsin. Shortly after she joins Karin and Hal in their stately residence near campus, the husband Greta left appears on their porch, drunk, and the reason for her sudden appearance becomes clear. Yet the house members already have plenty to occupy them: a series of summer blackouts has unearthed a disquietude lurking just under the surface for each of the three residents. Gas is dwindling, electricity is unreliable, and the natural world around them is in upheaval. The uneasiness of the environ ment mirrors that of Greta, Hal, and Karin as they each make efforts to resolve their own personal crises. With subtle attunement to the hovering uncertainty affecting each of her characters, Wildgen crafts a story both terrifying and beautiful.]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Wildgen, Michelle.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312571410]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091030]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Monster Hunter International / Larry Correia.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Five days after Owen Zastava Pitt pushed his insufferable boss out of a fourteenth story window, he woke up in the hospital with a scarred face, an unbelievable memory, and a job offer. It turns out that monsters are real. All the things from myth, legend, and B-movies are out there, waiting in the shadows. Officially secret, some of them are evil, and some are just hungry. On the other side are the people who kill monsters for a living. Monster Hunter International is the premier eradication company in the business. And now Owen is their newest recruit. Business is good... Welcome to Monster Hunter International."--p. [4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Correia, Larry.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1439132852]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091030]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Enchanted dreams : erotic tales of the supernatural / Nancy Madore.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Madore, Nancy.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=037360534X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091030]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[American Fuji : a novel / Sara Backer.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Backer, Sara, 1957-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=042518336X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091030]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The tiger warrior / David Gibbins.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Gibbins, David J. L.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0553591258]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091030]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Tigers and devils / Sean Kennedy.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Kennedy, Sean.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1935192450]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091030]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[A prisoner of Versailles / Golden Keyes Parsons.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Parsons, Golden Keyes, 1941-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1595546278]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091030]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA['Til debt do us part / Michelle Larks.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Nicole Singleton has started to lose control of her gambling "hobby," which is threatening to destroy her marriage and her relationship with Go]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Larks, Michelle.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=160162994X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091030]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and money : a novel / by Michael M. Thomas.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A television star with a wholesome image and a line of profitable products risks it all in one wild sexual adventure, only to have her husband--who knows the world's best divorce attorney--find out, in a riveting ride through branding and celebrity, fast money, and quick burn-outs]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Thomas, Michael M.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1933633727]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091030]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Loot the moon / Mark Arsenault.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Martin's old law partner, a superior court judge, has been shot by a thief who dies in a car crash. The cops close the case, but Martin believes the two-bit shoplifter was paid to kill the judge. He turns to former journalist Povich, and it isn't long before the killer takes aim at hi]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Arsenault, Mark.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312555768]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091030]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Shadowfae / Erica Hayes.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Hayes, Erica.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312578008]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091030]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Process of elimination / by Robert Stricklin.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[On a bright Saturday morning in May, the nation is jolted by the news that the Vice President of the Untied States has perished in a plane crash.  After a respectable period of mourning, President James J. Hartman begins the arduous task of vetting and choosing a successor.  But as White House correspondent Gideon Burnett soon learns, forces intent on undermining the administration are plotting to influence the President's decision - by any means necessar]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Stricklin, Robert.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1432741012]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091030]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The museum of innocence / Orhan Pamuk ; translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. Kemal, scion of one of the city's wealthiest families, is about to become engaged to Sibel, daughter of another prominent family, when he encounters Fusun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation. Thus begins an obsessive but tragic love affair that will transform itself into a compulsive collection of objects--a museum of one man's broken heart--that chronicle Kemal's lovelorn progress and his afflicted heart's reaction]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Pamuk, Orhan, 1952-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307266761]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091031]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Imager's challenge : the second book of the Imager portfolio / L.E. Modesitt, Jr.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Rhenn prepares for his liaison duties only to encounter hostility from his new commander and a threat from a vengeful High Holder, a situation for which he becomes a lone defender against gang lords, naval marines, and terrorist priest]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Modesitt, L.E.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0765321262]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091031]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten storey love song : a novel / by Richard Milward.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Ten storey love song is a cutting but characteristally charismatic portrait of a deeply dysfunctional, creative, and drug-sodden world, delivered with great beauty and abandon"--Cover p. [4]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Milward, Richard.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061834483]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091031]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Though waters roar / Lynn Austin.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Languishing in a jail cell, Harriet Sherwood has plenty of time to sift through the memories of the three generations of women who have preceded her. As each story emerges, the strength of her family--and their deep faith in God--brings Harriet to the discovery of her own goal]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Austin, Lynn N.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0764204963]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091031]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Sand daughter / Sarah Bryant.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[After discovering that her arranged marriage to a Bedouin Clan chief is part of a deadly plot involving the Templar Knights, Khalidah runs away with a stranger to find adventure, growing desire, and her connection to mysterious Afghan warrior]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Bryant, Sarah.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0425229807]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091031]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[This side of Jordan : a novel / by Monte Schulz.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["In the idyllic last American summer before the great stock market crash of '29, nineteen-year-old farm boy Alvin Pendergast somehow decides he can escape a fatal relapse of tuberculosis by accepting the offer of a job across the Mississippi River from a slick-talking stranger who seems to be everything poor Alvin is not: smart, sharply dressed, well-acquainted, and without worry in the world. But beneath appearances, Chester Burke is also a gangster and a sociopathic killer. On their traveling road through the small towns of the Midwest, Alvin soon discovers how ignorant he is of life beyond the farm." "Fortunately, he finds another companion on this harrowing journey, a curious and clever dwarf, whose own pathetic life has offered little resistance to fate, until the circumstances of Chester's cruel itinerary force both him and Alvin to seek another path, if they hope to survive." "This Side of Jordan is a story of another America, eighty years distant yet familiar, too, a vibrant and scandalous tapestry of eccentric characters from a nation embroiled in criminal liquor traffic, thrilled by Jazz Age fads and frolic, drunk amid the glittering showgrounds of a booming circus whose flag-topped tents are about to come down. Through mayhem and merriment, past the violence and hypocrisy of Prohibition, along miles of dirt roads and busy Main Streets, we see this evocative narrative, a simple yearning for love and hope. This side of Jordan is about the distance we travel in America to find our rightful place."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Schulz, Monte.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1606992961]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091031]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Appomattox saga. Part 2, 1861-1863 : adventure and romance thrive during the war between the states / Gilbert Morris.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Morris, Gilbert.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1602601798]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091031]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Wild stories / Colin Thompson.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[For all the animal inhabitants of the grden, life was very simple until humans moved back into house Number Fourteen.   Now all of  sudden, Ethel the chicken is trying to hatch golf balls and Venus the caterpillar has fallen in love with the moo]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Thompson, Colin, 1942-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=193360588X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091031]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Kira / Kate O'Hearn.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[When war comes to the kingdom, Lord Dorcon and his knights take Kira's father, mother and brother, Dane, to the palace to serve the king.  12 year old Kira and her sisters go the Lasser Commons, the most notrious prison in the land.  The crime of Kira and her sisters is that they aren't married.  Kira and her younger sister, Elspeth escape.  Kira will need every bit of her will power and the help of a baby dragon to protect the life of her siste]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[O'Hearn, Kate.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=193527905X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091031]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Cockroach / Rawi Hage.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A tale set during a month in a bitter Montreal winter finds a would-be thief rescued from a suicide attempt and forced into counseling with a naèive therapist to whom he relates his childhood in a war-torn country and his troubled present life in a series of smoky âemigrâe cafe]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Hage, Rawi.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0393075370]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Tower / Ken Bruen & Reed Farrel Coleman.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Born into a rough Brooklyn neighborhood, outsiders in their own families, Nick and Todd forge a lifelong bond that persists in the face of crushing loss, blood, and betrayal. Low-level wiseguys with little ambition and even less of a future, the friends become major players in the potential destruction of an international crime syndicate that stretches from the cargo area at Kennedy Airport to the streets of New York, Belfast, and Boston to the alleyways of Mexican border towns. Their paths are littered with the bodies of undercover cops, snitches, lovers, and stone-cold killers..."--front cover fla]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Bruen, Ken.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1935415077]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Heart's blood / Juliet Marillier.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Anluan has been crippled since childhood, part of a curse that has besieged his family and his home of Whistling Tor. But when the young scribe Caitrin is retained to sort through family documents, she brings about unexpected changes in the household, casting a hopeful light against the despairing shadows. But to truly free Anluan's burdened soul, Caitrin must unravel the web of sorcery woven by his ancestors before it claims his life-and their lov]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Marillier, Juliet.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0451462939]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The evil in Pemberley House / Philip Joseâ Farmer and Win Scott Eckert.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Farmer, Philip Josâe.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1596062495]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[God's gym / Leon de Winter ; translated by Jeannette K. Ringold.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["December 22, 2000 is a day of dramatic confluence in the life of Joop Koopman, a Dutchman living in California. It is the day he celebrates his daughter Miriam's seventeenth birthday, meets his old friend Philip, with whom he has been out of touch for eighteen years and who now works for the Israel Ministry of Defense, and crosses paths with Errol Washington, aka Godzilla, the owner of God's Gym, a Venice health club Miriam frequents. Philip has sought out Joop for reasons that are more than personal, and Joop, in turn, has no choice but to let himself be carried along by political developments that he has previously tried to avoid, but that now inescapably control his life."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Winter, Lâeon de, 1954-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1592642659]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The golden shrine / Harry Turtledove.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[North of the city of Nidaros, north of the forest, north of the steppes where the nomadic Bizogots hunt, a gap has opened in the ice-wall. And down through that gap come the men who call themselves "Rulers." Against the Rulers stands Count Hamnet Thyssen and his small band of friends. Perhaps Hamnet and his allies can save their lands from the Rulers. But first they must seek out the legendary Golden Shrine. An alternate-Bronze-Age epic begun in "Beyond the Gap]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Turtledove, Harry.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0765317125]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The Swiss courier : a novel / Tricia Goyer and Mike Yorkey.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[It is August 1944 and the Gestapo is mercilessly rounding up suspected enemies of the Third Reich. When Joseph Engel, a German physicist working on the atomic bomb, finds that he is actually a Jew, adopted by Christian parents, he must flee for his life to neutral Switzerland.Gabi Mueller is a young Swiss-American woman working for the newly formed American Office of Strategic Services (the forerunner to the CIA) close to Nazi Germany. When she is asked to risk her life to safely "courier" Engel out of Germany, the fate of the world rests in her hands. If she can lead him to safety, she can keep the Germans from developing nuclear capabilities. But in a time of traitors and uncertainty, whom can she trust along the way?This fast-paced, suspenseful novel takes readers along treacherous twists and turns du]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Goyer, Tricia.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0800733363]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at the birdie : unpublished short fiction / Kurt Vonnegut.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A volume of fourteen early and previously unpublished short works offers insight into the social satirist's developing literary style and includes pieces that explore such themes as innocence, ironic twists of fate, and moralit]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Vonnegut, Kurt.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=038534371X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Poisonville / Massimo Carlotto & Marco Videtta ; translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Poisonville is a noir thriller par excellence - there's murder, moral ambiguity, and a protagonist less than heroic. In this #1 bestselling noir novel, however, the killer is not an individual but an entire system." "The heavily industrialized northeast, Italy's richest region, is undergoing dramatic change. It once drove the nation's economic boom - a regional superpower, affluent and arrogant, a land that abided only its own rules. But then the factory owners began moving their operations east, across the border to former soviet countries where labor was cheap and regulatory bodies absent. With the factories closed and the jobs gone, new elements began insinuating themselves into the old system, and the Brahmin families of the northeast began employing increasingly violent methods to protect their status and their wealth. Once renowned for its economic might, the region is now infested by organized crime, trafficking of every commodity, including human, ranks of media personalities and politicians on the payrolls of rich families and mobsters, and an ongoing environmental catastrophe." "Welcome to Poisonville! Here, the young lawyer Francesco, heir to the region's second richest family, will have to decide between business as usual or a violent rupture with the ways of the past. The wrong choice could cost him his life."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Carlotto, Massimo, 1956-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1933372915]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Quatrain / Sharon Shinn.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The four enchanting novellas within Shinn's shimmering collection make delightful introductions to her romantic science fantasy worlds and thrill fans eager for a return visit. In "Flight" (the Samaria series), Aunt Salome tries to protect her niece from Raphael, an archangel with a dark past. In "Blood" (Heart of Gold), 17-year-old Kerk Socast moves from Gold Mountain to a distant city, where women's activist Jalciana Candachi helps him search for his runaway mother and find peace. In "Gold," (Summers at Castle Auburn), war endangers the life of Princess Zara, who enjoys refuge in magically alluring Alora so much she doesn't want to go home. "Flame" (the Twelve Houses series) explores the fiery dangers of an untutored young Mystic and provides a whimsical conclusion to a satisfying collection that affirms Shinn's skill with the shorter form]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Shinn, Sharon.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0441017584]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Boneshaker / Cherie Priest.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Maternal love faces formidable challenges in this stellar steampunk tale. In an alternate 1880s America, mad inventor Leviticus Blue is blamed for destroying Civil Warera Seattle. When Zeke Wilkes, Blue's son, goes into the walled wreck of a city to clear his father's name, Zeke's mother, Briar Wilkes, follows him in an airship, determined to rescue her son from the toxic gas that turns people into zombies (called rotters and described in gut-churning detail). When Briar learns that Seattle still has a mad inventor, Dr. Minnericht, who eerily resembles her dead husband, a simple rescue quickly turns into a thrilling race to save Zeke from the man who may be his father. Intelligent, exceptionally well written and showcasing a phenomenal strong female protagonist who embodies the complexities inherent in motherhood, this yarn is a must-read for the discerning steampunk fan]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Priest, Cherie.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0765318415]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans in space / Mary E. Mitchell.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Life is a challenge for 36-year-old Kate Cavanaugh, high school guidance counselor to a motley group of at-risk students. Two years after finding her young husband dead in bed beside her, Kates storybook life has vanished, and she and her two children are still reeling. Her daughter Charlotte, once a sweet girl, has morphed into an angry, tattooed, tongue-studded teen; and Hunter, Kates four-year-old, keeps his feelings sealed tight inside and an empty ketchup bottle clasped to his heart. When a tragedy occurs at the Alan B. Shepard High School, its Kate who finds herself in need of counsel and guidance. What she does next catapults her and her family down an unfamiliar road, on a trajectory into spacetoward understanding, forgiveness and healing.]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Mitchell, Mary E., 1951-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312372450]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[An Amish Christmas : December in Lancaster County ; three Amish Christmas novellas / Beth Wiseman, Kathleen Fuller, Barbara Cameron.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Follow the lives of three Amish families through the Christmas seaso]]></description>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1595548211]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Audrey's door / Sarah Langan.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Built on the Upper West Side, the elegant Breviary claims a regal history. But despite 14B's astonishingly low rental price, the recent tragedy within its walls has frightened away all potential tenants . . . except for Audrey Lucas.  No stranger to tragedy at thirty-two -- a survivor of a fatherless childhood and a mother's hopeless dementia -- Audrey is obsessively determined to make her own way in a city that often strangles the weak. But is it something otherworldly or Audrey's own increasing instability that's to blame for the dark visions that haunt her . . . and for the voice that demands that she build a door? A door it would be true madness to open . .]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Langan, Sarah.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061624217]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[One imperfect Christmas / Myra Johnson.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Johnson, Myra, 1951-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1426700709]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[One week in December / Holly Chamberlin.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Reunited with her family for the holidays, Becca Rowan, fueled by loneliness and longing, makes a shocking announcement that brings up long-buried resentments, secrets, and guilt, which challenges her own preconceptions about family and love]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Chamberlin, Holly, 1962-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0758214057]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Manituana / Wu Ming ; translated by Shaun Whiteside.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[To save their threatened utopian community of Iroquois, Irish, and Scots during the start of the American Revolution, Mohawk chief Joseph Brant and a group of warriors go on a restless journey that takes them from New York to Canada, to the salons of Georgian London and the heart of the British Empire, in the latest work by a critically acclaimed collective of Italian writers known as Wu Min]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Wu, Ming.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1844673421]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[More of this world or maybe another / Barb Johnson.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["The lives of four unlikely friends intersect on the backstreets of New Orleans. Living amid poverty and violence, these fragile heroes of the American underclass redefine our notions of family, redemption, and love."--p. [4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Johnson, Barb.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061732273]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaving yesterday / Kathryn Cushman.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Alisa Stewart feels like she's lost two sons: her youngest to a terrible tragedy and her eldest, Kurt, to a life ruined by addiction. But now Kurt has checked himself into rehab and found a healing faith that seems real. It's like he's been raised from the dead. Then a detective arrives at Alisa's door asking questions about a murder--the death of a drug dealer before Kurt entered rehab. Alisa fears losing her son again, and when she finds evidence linking him to the killing, she destroys it. Her boy is different now. He's changed and deserves a second chance. But when another man is charged with the crime, Alisa finds herself facing an impossible choice: be silent and keep her son or give up everything for the trut]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Cushman, Kathryn.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0764203827]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Living room : a novel / by Rachel Sherman.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Follows a family of three generations of women: a grandmother whose senility brings strange dreams and hallucinations about her younger life; her daughter, an unfulfilled housewife with a strange eating disorder; and her teen granddaughter, who strives to navigate the terrors of high school, despite her mother's dysfunctio]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Sherman, Rachel, 1975-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1890447536]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude / Joseph Kertes.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[March 1944: Wars darkest period descends upon Hungarys Jews. By the time it ends in January 1945, over half a million Jews will have been murdered. Gratitude tells the story of that period, through the eyes of the wealthy Beck family, whose lives and loves are saved and lost. At the center of it all is Paul Beck, a young lawyer whose chance meeting with a visiting Swede, Raoul Wallenberg, may alter the inevitability of the Jews fate. Like The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Gratitude captures forever the pain and passion of ones family precious moment in tim]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Kertes, Joseph, 1951-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312585950]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The ghosts of Belfast / Stuart Neville.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Fegan has been a "hard man," an IRA killer in northern Ireland. Now that peace has come, he is being haunted day and night by twelve ghosts: a mother and infant, a schoolboy, a butcher, an RUC constable, and seven other of his innocent victims. In order to appease them, he's going to have to kill the men who gave him order]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Neville, Stuart, 1972-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1569476004]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving up on ordinary / Isla Dewar.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[At her eccentric-professor employer's prompting, Megs, a housekeeper and a single mother of three, takes a job singing at a blues club and starts a secret affair, begins to speak her mind, stand up for herself, and live her life in color]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Dewar, Isla.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=031256161X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Double cross : a novel / James David Jordan.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Someone is after former Secret Service agent Taylor Pasbury. Again. The top assistant of prominent televangelist Simon Mason has turned up dead. All signs point to embezzlement and suicide, but something doesn't add up. When Taylor investigates, shots begin to fly. As if dodging bullets isn't enough, another surprise awaits Taylor, and it's on her front doorstep. Her mother, who abandoned Taylor when she was a child, has reappeared. Soon Taylor, with her mother in tow, is careening down  a twisting trail of danger and deceit, where nothing can be taken at face value. It's a path that leads to troubling truths about her family's past. A path that could lead to revelation and restoration. Or disaster."--p. [4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Jordan, James, 1956-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0805447547]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Dancing with butterflies : a novel / Reyna Grande.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[From the American Book Award-winning author of Across a Hundred Mountains comes the story of four women in Los Angeles bound together in friendship by their Mexican roots and their love of Folklorico danc]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Grande, Reyna.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1439109060]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Dark tiger / William G. Tapply.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An unnamed man who has periodically appeared to check on Stoney after being struck by lightning, this time shows up looking for help.  Stoney must go to the far corner of Maine, sign on as a guide at a high-end fishing lodge, and look into a couple of suspicious deaths. A government "opearitve" was found shot dead in a staged murder/suicide pact involving a local sixteen-year-old girl.  Now Stoney has to uncover what the dead agent was investigating and got  him killed, without tipping his hand or getting killed himsel]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Tapply, William G.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312379781]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Daughters of the stone / Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A tale spanning five generations of a family of African-Puerto Rican women finds mute seamstress Fela working in colonial Puerto Rico and drawing on her tribal beliefs to enable the birth of a daughter who becomes a powerful curandera]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Llanos-Figueroa, Dahlma.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312539266]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[This crooked way / by James Enge.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Enge, James, 1960-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1591027845]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The test : a novel / Patricia Gussin.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Determined to leave something more valuable than money to his six children, philanthropist and billionaire Paul Parnell instructs his lawyers to create an unusual will stipulating that the lion's share of his estate be given to those heirs who, within one year, pass "the test]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Gussin, Patricia.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1933515198]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The vampire archives : the most complete volume of vampire tales ever published / edited with an introduction by Otto Penzler ; foreward by Kim Newman ; preface by Neil Gaiman.]]></title>
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<author><![CDATA[]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307473899]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Vampire stories / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; edited by Robert Eighteen-Bisang & Martin H. Greenberg.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=160239797X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The very best of Fantasy & science fiction : 60th anniversary anthology / edited by Gordon Van Gelder.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1892391910]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The last will of Moira Leahy : a novel / Therese Walsh.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Ten years after abandoning the saxophone in the wake of her twin sister's death, former prodigy Maeve Leahy develops a sense of foreboding for which she purchases a dagger alleged to strip its owner of inhibitions.  In order to learn more about this unusual acquisition, she accepts a mysterious invitation to Rome, thereby opening a window into her pas]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Walsh, Therese.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307461572]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The great Christmas bowl : a Christmas novella / Susan May Warren.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Marianne Wallace is focused on two things this Christmas: planning the greatest holiday ever and her youngest son's football game. But when she's asked to sub for the school mascot in a fish costume, organize the annual church tea, and cope with children who can't come home, it might take a miracle to restore her chee]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Warren, Susan May, 1966-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1414326785]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The hunt for Atlantis / Andy McDermott.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[When she locates the lost city of Atlantis, archaeologist Nina Wilde, along with the help of a reclusive billionaire, his daughter, and an ex-SAS bodyguard, prepares to make the most important discovery in centuries, but a powerful and enigmatic organization will do anything to stop he]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[McDermott, Andy.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0553592858]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Men against the sea / by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Nordhoff, Charles, 1887-1947.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0316738883]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091103]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Bound to shadows : a Riley Jenson guardian novel / Keri Arthur.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Part vampire, part werewolf, Riley Jenson knows what can happen when vamps don't play well with others. But she's never seen anything like this: a series of brutal murders surrounding the latest hot spot for vampire-human hookups--and the victims aren't just killed, they're beheaded. Now Riley is launching into action, toying with a seductive--and highly suspicious--club owner, and finding herself in the middle of another mystery: women being killed one by one, without a trace of violence. For Riley, solving multiple cases--in a world going mad with human and vampire passions--would have been tough enough. Instead she has two jealous lovers on her hands: Kye Murphy, the amber-eyed werewolf who makes Riley's wolf blood howl--and Quinn, the cool, elegant vamp who has over a thousand years' experience at fulfilling women's desires. While she's busy juggling these two sexy beasts, Riley's detective work takes a stunningly violent turn. Finding a murderer is now a matter of life and death. Especially since the killer has long since found her...."--p. [4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Arthur, Keri.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0553591169]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Naughty 3 : It's juicy, no matter how you slice it / Brenda Hampton.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In this third installment of the "Naughty" series, millionaire investment broker and notorious player Jaylin "Naughty Boy" Rogers is forced to choose one woman, while Daisha, who is not in the running, will stop at nothing to make Jaylin hers--especially since she is carrying his child]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Hampton, Brenda (Brenda M.)]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1601621825]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[A quilter's holiday : an Elm Creek quilts novel / Jennifer Chiaverini.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[For the Elm Creek Quilters, the day after Thanksgiving marks the start of the quilting season, a time to gather at Elm Creek Manor and spend the day stitching holiday gifts for loved ones. On this quilter's holiday, Master Quilter Sylvia Bergstrom has invited her friends to continue an old family tradition of sewing quilt blocks representing their thankfulness and gratitude. As each quilter explains the significance of her carefully chosen block, stories of love and longing for family and friends emerg]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Chiaverini, Jennifer.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1439139326]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Last night in Twisted River : a novel / John Irving.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County-to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto-pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. A tale that spans five decade]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Irving, John, 1942-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1400063841]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The quickening maze / Adam Foulds.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Foulds, Adam, 1974-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0224087460]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[No less than victory : a novel of World War II / Jeff Shaara.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[After the success of the Normandy invasion, the Allied commanders are buoyantly confident that the war in Europe will be over in a matter of weeks, that Hitler and his battered army have no other option than surrender. But despite the advice of his best military minds, Hitler will hear no talk of defeat. In mid-December 1944, the Germans launch a desperate and ruthless counteroffensive in the Ardennes forest. As American commanders respond to the stunning challenge, the German spear is finally blunte]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Shaara, Jeff, 1952-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0345497929]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Songs of the dead / Derrick Jensen.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Jensen, Derrick, 1960-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1604860448]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The man in the wooden hat / Jane Gardam.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Gardam, Jane.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1933372893]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The last waltz : a novel of love and war / G.G. Vandagriff.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In December 1913, the city of Vienna glitters with promises of the future for sought-after debutante Amalia Faulhaber. But life takes a dramatic turn when simmering political unrest escalates into WWI and she must now choose between an idealistic young Polish doctor, who shares her political views, and the wealthy Baron von Schoenenburg, an Austrian Cabinet minister who promises to provide safety and securit]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Vandagriff, G. G.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1606410520]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[A measure of mercy / Lauraine Snelling.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[18-year-old Astrid Bjorklund has always dreamed of being a doctor. But will she have to give up love to pursue her drea]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Snelling, Lauraine.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0764206095]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Dawnbreaker / Jocelynn Drake]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Drake, Jocelynn]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061542881]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Western : a novel / by Christine Montalbetti ; translated by Betsy Wing.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Montalbetti, Christine.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1564785289]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The gates / by John Connolly.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund, Boswell, are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Halloween which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Road. The Abernathys don't mean any harm by their flirtation with the underworld, but when they unknowingly call forth Satan himself, they create a gap in the universe. A gap in which a pair of enormous gates is visible. The gates to Hell. And there are some pretty terrifying beings just itching to get out...  Can one small boy defeat evil? Can he harness the power of science, faith, and love to save the world as we know i]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Connolly, John, 1968-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1439172633]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christmas clock : a novel / Kat Martin.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Teddy Williams was eight years old that Christmas, too young to understand all the undercurrents swirling around him in the tiny Michigan town of Dreyerville. He wasn't able to value that Christmas for the miracle it truly was. Teddy only knew he wanted to buy the beautiful Victorian clock in the window of Tremont's Antiques as a gift for his grandmother, Lottie Sparks, a woman desperate to find him a home before her rapidly progressing Alzheimer's left him an orphan. Teddy didn't know that in trying to buy the clock he would meet Sylvia Winters and Joe Dixon, a couple, once in love, desperate to overcome the past. He didn't know he would form a friendship with his neighbors, Floyd and Doris Culver, two people struggling to revive their long-dead marriage. He didn't know that these people would fill his Christmas with magic and hope; that the love of his friends would change his world, and that he would forever change theirs."--dust cover fla]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Martin, Kat.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1593155476]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christmas cookie club : a novel / Ann Pearlman.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This riveting debut novel follows the rich and complicated friendships among thirteen women who meet for a cookie exchange every year on the first Monday of December. Everyone has to bring a dish, a bottle of wine, and their stories. This year, the stories are especially importan]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Pearlman, Ann.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1439158843]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The bigness of the world : stories / by Lori Ostlund.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Ostlund, Lori.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=082033409X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Snow job / William Deverell.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Arthur Beauchamp has followed his wife, the leader and first elected member of the Green Party, to Ottawa. But he hates it there: the cold, the politics, and his place in his wife's shadow. So when a delegation of government officials from Bhashyistan is blown sky high on Bronson Avenue and the shares of a Calgary-based oil company promptly drop like a stone, Arthur is only too happy to jump to the defense of the missing suspected assassi]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Deverell, William, 1937-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0771027222]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Soulless / Gail Carriger.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Carriger, Gail.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0316056634]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Spoon / Robert Greer.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A novel of the contemporary American West, Spoon tells the story of Arcus Witherspoon, a mysterious half-black, half-Indian, oddly clairvoyant man searching the West for his roots. Hitchhiking near Hardin, Montana, Spoon falls in with a ranching family struggling to keep their ranch afloat amidst the pressures of hard economic times and an encroaching coal company. Proving himself a gifted ranch hand and mentor, Spoon charges himself with rescuing the Darleys and guiding the family's teenage son TJ on his path to manhood. While Spoon's checkered past includes a prison stint and a navy tour of Vietnam, it is his tenacity, wisdom, and charm that end up defining this quintessential Western man]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Greer, Robert O.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1555916899]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Sugarless / James Magruder.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Things look bad for Rick Lahrem, a high school sophomore in a cookie-cutter Chicago suburb in 1976.  His mothers second husband is a licensed psychologist who eats like an ape, his stepsister is a stoner slut, and his father is engaged to a Southern belle.  Ricks only solace is his growing collection of original Broadway-cast LPs, bought on the sly at Wax Trax.  After he brings two girls in speech class to tears by reading a story aloud, Rick is coaxed onto the interscholastic forensics team to perform an eight-minute dramatic interpretation of The Boys in the Band, the controversial sixties play about homosexuality.  Unexpectedly successful at this oddball event, Rick begins winning tournaments and making friends with his teammates.  Rick also discovers the joys of sexwith a speech coach from a rival schooljust as his mother, reacting to a deteriorating home environment, makes an unnerving commitment to Christ.  The newly confident Rick assumes this too shall passuntil the combined forces of family, sex, and faith threaten to undo him at the state meet in Peoria.  James Magruders Sugarless offers a ruefully entertaining take on the simultaneous struggles of coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming-to-Jesus.]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Magruder, James, 1960-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0299233804]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Silver Lake : a novel / by Peter Gadol.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[After twenty years together, Robbie and Carlo are beginning to see their architectural practice and their marriage falter. When a peculiar young man drifts into their storefront office claiming he has car trouble, Robbie invites him home for dinner. After the stranger has had too much to drink, the two men insist he sleep in their guest room, but during the night the stranger commits an act of violence which shatters the architects' ordered live]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Gadol, Peter.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0982520905]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Ford County : stories / John Grisham.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[John Grisham returns to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his immensely popular first novel, "A Time to Kill," with this wholly surprising collection of storie]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Grisham, John.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0385532458]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Rainwater / Sandra Brown.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In a time of drought and economic depression in 1934, Ella Barron runs her boardinghouse in Texas while caring for her son, Solly, and responds to the calm influence of one of her boarders, David Rainwater, while facing the tension and uncertainty around he]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Brown, Sandra, 1948-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1439172773]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Home in time for Christmas / Heather Graham.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[When she rescues a man claiming to be a patriot soldier, sentenced to death by British authorities, Melody Tarleton takes the stranger to her parent's house where a little Christmas magic, some enchanted petals, and ancient potions take them on an unimaginable adventur]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Graham, Heather.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=077832687X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[From hood to Hollywood / Sasha Raye.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Demi's drug-dealing boyfriend is sent to prison, and she is forced to go back to her mother's housing project in Harle]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Raye, Sasha.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1934230804]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA["Only the super-rich can save us!" / Ralph Nader.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Political activist and author Ralph Nader answers the question, "What if?" What if a cadre of superrich individuals tried to become a driving force in America to organize and institutionalize the interests of the citizens of this troubled nation? What if some of America's most powerful individuals decided it was time to fix our government and return the power to the people? What if they focused their power on unionizing Wal-Mart? What if a national political party were formed with the sole purpose of advancing clean elections? What if these seventeen superrich individuals decided to galvanize a movement for alternative forms of energy that will effectively clean up the environment? What if together they took on corporate goliaths and Congress to provide the necessities of life and advance the solutions so long left on the shelf by an avaricious oligarchy? What could happen?--From publisher descriptio]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Nader, Ralph.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1583229035]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Urge to kill / John Lutz.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The New York Times best-selling author presents a chilling new tale of suspense in which homicide detective Frank Quinn is forced out of retirement when a sadistic killer begins murdering beautiful women and horribly defiling their bodies]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Lutz, John, 1939-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0786018453]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Friday night bites / Chloe Neill.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Ten months after vampires revealed their existence to the mortals of Chicago, they're enjoying a celebrity status usually reserved for the Hollywood elite. But should people learn about the Ravesmass feeding parties where vampires round up humans like cattlethe citizens will start sharpening their stakes.  So now it's up to the new vampire Merit to reconnect with her upper class family and act as liaison between humans and bloodsuckers, and keep the more unsavory aspects of the vampire lifestyle out of the media. But someone doesn't want peace between themsomeone with an ancient grud]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Neill, Chloe.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=045122793X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Cursed to death : a crimson moon novel / L.A. Banks.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Banks, L. A.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312942990]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The accidental family / Rowan Coleman.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Coleman, Rowan.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1439155283]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The sand fish : a novel from Dubai / Maha Gargash.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Coming of age in the 1950s, seventeen-year-old Noora is unlike other women of the sun-battered mountains at the tip of the Arabian Peninsula. Though she shares their poverty and, like them, bears life's hardships without complaint, she is also fiery and independent. Following the death of her mother and her father's descent into dazed madness, Noora flees the threat of an arranged marriage, only to be driven back to her unwanted fate by disappointment and heartbreak. As the third wife to a rich, much older man, Noora struggles to adjust to her new home by the sea, thinking of herself as a sand fish--the desert lizard she observed in the mountains, which, when stuck in the wrong place and desperate to escape, smashed itself again and again into unyielding rocks. But then a light is shone into her miserable darkness, resulting in an unexpected passion, a shocking indiscretion, and a secret that could jeopardize Noora's lif]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Gargash, Maha.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061744670]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Demon ex machina : tales of a demon-hunting soccer mom / Julie Kenner.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Demon Hunter Kate Connor is having one hell of a month   In between demon patrols and teaching self-defense classes to the local moms, Kate has to deal with a teenage daughter who's gung-ho on being a demon slayer in training and a toddler son entering a tantrum phase that rivals anything from the pits of Hell.   That's a lot for one woman to juggle, but on top of it all, Kate has to find a way to release the demon possessing her first husband, Eric, without destroying the man inside. Because if the demon within Eric gets free, it just might be more than one seriously stressed suburban mom can handle. ]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Kenner, Julie.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0425229645]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Orcs : army of shadows / Stan Nicholls.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A sojourn in their idyllic homeworld has left Stryke and the Wolverines lacking purpose. So when an opportunity for bloodletting appears, Stryke seizes it. Utilizing mysterious artifacts, the Wolverines are transported to Acurial, a world where the indigenous orc population is cruelly subjugated by human invaders.   Upon their arrival, Stryke's band joins with Acurial's emerging resistance movement. As the revolution gathers pace, the Wolverines are forced to embark on a quest that will see Stryke and his comrades pursued by both their most ruthless enemy and a mysterious troop hell-bent on their destructio]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Nicholls, Stan.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0316033685]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[According to Jane / Marilyn Brant.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Entirely unbidden, Jane Austen's ghost has taken up residence in Ellie Barnett's mind, and seems determined to stay there. Jane's wise and witty advice guides Ellie through the hell of adolescence and beyond, serving as the voice she trusts, usually far more than her own. On the subject of Sam Blaine, Jane's quite insistent--stay away ; he's your Mr. Wickham! Still, everyone has something to learn about love--perhaps even Jane hersel]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Brant, Marilyn.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0758201168]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[House of serpents / Lisa Smedman.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Arvin, a young rogue working the humanoid-serpent city of Hlondeth, must fight to stop Sibyl and her puppet organization The Pox from turning all humans into freakish tainted ones--slaves to heartless, serpentine master"--Cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Smedman, Lisa.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0786953640]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Betrayal / Dwayne S. Joseph.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[How could she do this, after all I've done for her?  This is the thought racing through Zeke's mind as he stares at the evidence of his wife's infidelity.  The photos were send to him anonymously, and Zeke doesn't quite know how to handle the devasting news--until he catches his son-in-law in a compromising position and hatches a plan.  Sam has always been grateful for the opportunities given to hime by his father-in-law, who saved him from a life in the streets.  But how far is he willing to go now that Zeke is threatening to expose his secret? In order to hold on to everything he has, can Sam bring himself to commit murde]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Joseph, Dwayne S.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1601621906]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The mammoth book of the world's best crime stories / edited and with an introduction by Maxim Jakubowski.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0762437251]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The best American short stories 2009 / selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by Alice Sebold with Heidi Pitlor ; with an introduction by Alice Sebold.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Edited by critically acclaimed, best-selling author Alice Sebold, the stories in this year's collection serve as a provacative literary "antenna for what is going on in the world" ("Chicago Tribune)." The collection boasts great variety from "famous to first-timers, sifted from major magazines and little reviews, grand and little worlds" ("St. Louis Post-Dispatch)," ensuring yet another rewarding, eduring edition of the oldest and best-selling Best America]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0618792244]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Best new American voices 2010 / guest editor, Dani Shapiro ; series editors, John Kulka and Natalie Danford.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0156034255]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The word book / Mieko Kanai ; translated by Paul McCarthy.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Kanai, Mieko, 1947-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1564785661]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Hush / by Amaleka McCall.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[McCall, Amaleka G.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1601622554]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Snow White / Anna J.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["You have to use what you got to get what you want.  For Journey Clayton, this statement rings more than true as she struggles under the weight of her mother's cocaine addiction.  She learns from a very young age that family doesn't offer as much help as she hoped they would.  It's not until she befriends Khalid, the son of a neighborhood drug dealer, who is trying to stay about the struggle himself, that she starts to believe there might just be hope..."--page [4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[J., Anna.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1601621647]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[West End girls / Lena Scott.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Scott, Lena.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=160162168X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Indiana Jones and the army of the dead / Steve Perry.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Perry, Steve.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0345506987]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Darker angels / M.L.N. Hanover.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["When Jaynâe Heller's uncle Eric died, she inherited a fortune beyond all her expectations--and a dangerous mission in a world she never knew existed. Reining in demons and supernatural foes is a formidable task, but thankfully Jaynâe has vast resources and loyal allies to rely on. She'll need both to tackle a body-switching serial killer who's taken up residence in New Orleans, a city rich in voodoo lore and dark magic. Working alongside Karen Black, a highly confident and enigmatic ex-FBI agent, Jaynâe races to track down the demon's next intended host. But the closer she gets, the more convinced she becomes that nothing in this beautiful, wounded city is exactly as it seems. When shocking secrets come to light, and jealousy and betrayal turn trusted friends into adversaries, Jaynâe will soon come face-to-face with an enemy that knows her all too well, and won't rest until it has destroyed everything she loves most...."--P. [4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Hanover, M. L. N.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1416576770]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The mermaid's madness / Jim C. Hines.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["There is an old story--you might have heard it--about a young mermaid, the daughter of a king, who saved the life of a human prince and fell in love. So innocent was her love, so pure her devotion, that she would pay any price for the chance to be with her prince. She gave up her voice, her family, and the sea, and became human. But the prince fell in love with another woman. The tales say the little mermaid sacrificed her own life so that her beloved prince could find happiness with his bride. The tales lie. If you want to know the real story, a tale not of unrequited love and noble sacrifice but one of madness, murder, and magic gone awry, Daniella, Talia, and Snow--a.k.a. Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White--are the three princesses who can tell you what really happened. They were there when everything fell apart, and unthinkable tragedy struck the kingdom of Lorindar. And they were the only ones who stood a chance of setting things right, not only for Queen Bea and Lorindar, but for the merfolk as well...."--p. [4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Hines, Jim C.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0756405831]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Shamanslayer / Nathan Long.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In this latest installment of the best-selling fantasy series, dwarf Trollslayer Gotrek and his human companion Felix Jaeger seek the remaining members of the Order of the Fiery Heart to help them stop the evil forces of Chaos that threaten the safety of the Empir]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Long, Nathan.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1844167739]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Strip mauled / edited by Esther M. Friesner.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This lycanthropic follow-up to "Witch Way to the Mall" has werewolves wreaking havoc in the suburbs--especially when there is a full moon--and features contributions by Sarah A. Hoyt, Dave Freer, K. D. Wentworth, and Esther Friesner]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1439133204]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Zombie raccoons & killer bunnies / edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Kerrie Hughes.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A collection of original stories centering around a vast array of creatures and things that go bump in the night, from ninja rats to a Siamese cat in league with a super squirre]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0756405823]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Razor sharp / Fern Michaels.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[When it comes to repaying a debt, the women of the Sisterhood, Myra, Annie, Kathryn, Alexis, Yoko, Nikki, and Isabelle, never forget. And now one of their allies needs help only they can give. A powerful attorney with a cutthroat reputation, Lizzie Fox has just taken on a high-profile new client, Lily Flowers, the madam of a high-end bordello operating under the guise of a summer camp. Her clients included some of the most influential men in the country, and Lily is on the run, sure she'll rot in jail while her arrogant customers get off scot-fre]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Michaels, Fern.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1420106848]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Depraved / Bryan Smith.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Visitors are more than welcome in the isolated rural town of Hopkins Bend. The town needs them for their annual sacrifices--and entertainment. Now outsiders have stumbled into the town's traps. Some will be held for their captors' perverse, degrading amusement, but some will face a far more gruesome end at the yearly Holiday Feast. The townspeople hope their unholy ritual will protect them from the curse that befell the Kincher family. For more than a century the Kinchers have been changing, mutating, becoming gradually less human. And at the center of it all lies the dark secret, the malignant evil that controls Hopkins Bend and has made its residents truly--Depraved"--P. [4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Smith, Bryan, 1965-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0843962925]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Feeding ground / Sarah Pinborough.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[When nightmarish spidery creatures invade the streets of London, taking humans as their prey, a few desperate survivors band together to escape the dying city and stumble upon something even more horrifi]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Pinborough, Sarah, 1972-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0843962933]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Heart of Veridon / Tim Akers.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Veridon, City of Cog, is about to be rocked by a conspiracy taking in the highest levels of the Council, the Church and its founding families. Heart of Veridon marks the start of a superb new trilogy from an exciting new trilogy from an exciting new author, set in an exotic fantasy world  ]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Akers, Tim.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1844167593]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Bloodborn / Kathryn Fox.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Two sisters were attacked in their own home. Only one of them survived. And now she mush revisit hell if justice is to be served. Forensic pathologist Dr. Anya Crichton is incensed over the brutal crime, and she will do everything in her power to see that the three men responsible are punished severely. But the suspects, the Harbourn brothers, are part of a fanatically devoted family of criminals who are expert at sidestepping the law. And suddenly, people connected with the investigation and prosecution are turning up dead. In the face of an impending legal travesty Anya cannot let fear distract her. But it may be harder to remain calm in light of the nightmare the Harbourns' attorney unearths beneath the floorboards of his own house."--p. [4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Fox, Kathryn, 1966-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061353345]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091105]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[A Christmas blizzard / Garrison Keillor.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A wealthy and depressed Chicago man, bound for Christmas in Hawaii, is abruptly summoned home to North Dakota. He arrives just in time to be trapped there by a blizzard. During his stay, he reaches an epiphany worthy of the season and resolves to simplify his lif]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Keillor, Garrison.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0670021369]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091106]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The lacuna : a novel / Barbara Kingsolver.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["The story of Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two worlds -- Mexico and the United States in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s -- and whose search for identity takes readers to the heart of the twentieth century's most tumultuous events"--Provided by publishe]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Kingsolver, Barbara.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0060852577]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091106]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Matchless : a Christmas story : an illumination of Hans Christian Andersen's classic "The Little Match Girl" / written and illustrated by Gregory Maguire.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The best-selling author of the Wicked Years series reimagines the Hans Christian Anderson tale "The Little Match Girl," intertwining the title character's tale with that of Frederik, whose own yearnings are a catalyst for a better future for himself and his family, in a book that suggests transcendence and the permanence of spirit]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Maguire, Gregory.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061913014]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091106]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Plain promise : a Daughters of the promise novel / Beth Wiseman.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Sadie Fisher wonders if she'll ever find true love again after the death of her husband. When wealthy Englischer Kade Saunders rents her guest cottage for a month, Sadie's world is turned upside-down. Kade has a five-year old autistic son who is unexpectedly left in his permanent care. As Sadie's feelings for the child grow, so do her feelings for Kade. But is this man suitable for anything more than friendshi]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Wiseman, Beth, 1962-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1595547207]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091106]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Forsaken / Vanessa Miller.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Pastor Jerome Tyler 'JT' Thomas is charismatic behind the pulpit, charming to all he comes in contact with, and lethal to those who linger too long. Since the age of twenty-two, when he prayed for God to keep him out of prison, JT knew he would preach the gospel. Bishop Turner makes it possible; but there are strings attached, and now JT isn't sure he can stay tied down. Cutting loose causes more problems than JT anticipated. When an old friend from his days on the streets resurfaces and his 'extracurricular activity' comes knocking on his front door, JT's life and the lives of those close to him spiral out of control. Now he will need divine intervention to make things right. But how much help can a man hope to receive when he feels he's been forsaken by God?"--P. [4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Miller, Vanessa.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1601629346]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091106]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The manual / Sherryle Kiser Jackson.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Need a manual on raising children and having healthy relationships? Refer to the Bible. That's what Deidre Collins' inner spirit is telling her to do now that Andre, her son's father, is back in town after deserting them eight years ago. At fourteen years old, her son, DeAndre, is struggling with his own issues-- peer pressure, problems at school, and figuring out how to navigate his first crush. When DeAndre gets suspended from school for ten days, Andre sees it as the perfect opportunity to get to know his son-- and to get closer to Deidre. Can this couple overcome the past for the sake of their son's future?"--P. [4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Jackson, Sherryle Kiser.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1601629354]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091106]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[No greater pleasure / Megan Hart.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Young and innocent handmaiden Tranquilla Caden is required only to service her new master, Lord Gabriel Delessan, by stimulating his mind, nourishing his soul, and arousing his body, but finds herself falling hopelessly, and dangerously, in love with hi]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Hart, Megan.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0425229815]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091106]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Sea hawk / Michael Howe.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Howe, Michael.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0425230651]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091106]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The furies / Bill Napier.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Napier, Bill.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312947836]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091106]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The Solomon Effect / C.S. Graham.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A remote viewer working in top secret for the U.S. government, October Guinness can "see" events occurring on the other side of the globe. But she and her loose cannon partner, CIA agent Jax Alexander--who questions the validity of Tobie's "gift"--have arrived too late to prevent a bloodbath . . . and perhaps the Apocalypse as well. Now every second brings the unthinkable a step closer--and places Tobie and Jax in the gunsights of powerful enemies in frighteningly high places--as they race to connect the dots between an impending catastrophe and a nightmare cultivated decades earlier by Nazi scientists with an evil agenda about to become all too rea]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Graham, C. S.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061689351]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091106]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The commanding stone / David Forbes.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Forbes, David, 1965-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0060820446]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091106]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Born of Night / Sherrilyn Kenyon.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["He was born and trained to kill.  Command Assassin Nykyrian Quiakides once turned his back on the League--and has been hunted by them ever since.  Though many have tried, none can kill him or stop him from completing his current mission:  to protect Kiara Zamir, a woman whose father's political alliance has made her a target."--page [4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Kenyon, Sherrilyn, 1965-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312942303]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091106]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The solemn lantern maker : a novel / Merlinda Bobis.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["It's six days until Christmas, and on the bustling streets of Manila a mute ten-year-old boy sells his version of the stars: exquisite lanterns handmade with colorful paper. But everything changes for young Noland when he witnesses an American tourist being injured and imagines he's seen an angel falling from the sky. When Noland whisks her to the safety of the hut he shares with his mother, the magical and the real collide: shimmering lanterns and poverty, Christmas carols and loss, dreams of friendship and the global war on terror. As the story of the missing tourist grips the media, Noland and his mother care for their wounded guest, and a dark memory returns. But light sneaks in - and their lives are transformed by the power of love."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Bobis, Merlinda C. (Merlinda Carullo)]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=038534113X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091106]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The queen's mistake : in the court of Henry VIII / Diane Haeger.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Haeger, Diane.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0451228006]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091107]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Sasha / Joel Shepherd.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Shepherd, Joel, 1974-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=159102787X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091107]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Knit the season / Kate Jacobs.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Dakota Walker spends the Christmas holidays with her Gran in Scotland--accompanied by her father, her grandparents, and her mother's best friend, Catherine. Join them as they share a trove of happy memories about Christmases past with Dakota's mom, Georgia Walker--from Georgia's childhood to her blissful time as a doting new mo]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Jacobs, Kate, 1973-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0399156380]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091107]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Abandoned : a thriller / Cody McFadyen.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Investigating the works of a serial killer for hire who kills wives and effectively hides all evidence until the cases are closed, FBI Special Agent Smoky Barrett and her team fight to crack his operation and discover that he may be targeting Smok]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[McFadyen, Cody.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0553806955]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091107]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Criminal tendencies : great stories from great crime writers.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0955707854]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091107]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Never after / Laurell K. Hamilton ... [et al.].]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["...Laurell K. Hamilton spins a story of a princess who decides to take her own destiny in hand and rescue a pampered Prince Charming from an evil sorceress in 'Can he bake a cherry pie?' A selkie on the run from a century-old marriage arrangement has finally found true love--only to have the darkness from her past return to threaten both her and her dearly beloved in...Yasmine Galenorn's 'The shadow of mist.' ...Marjorie M. Liu tells the tale of a young princess who escapes betrothal to a warlord by entering a magical forest. But when an evil queen sends her on a quest to 'The Tangleroot Palace,' she faces dangers more perilous than marriage. When a princess refuses her boring betrothed, the king holds a competition to see who will win his daughter's hand. But in matters of the heart, is a winner truly worthy--or can a loser offer even more in ... Sharon Shinn's 'The wrong bridegroom'?"--p. [4] of cove]]></description>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0515147281]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091107]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Race for the dying / Steven F. Havill.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Arriving in early twentieth-century Washington only to suffer a life-changing accident, young doctor Thomas Parks endures a painful convalescence during which he discovers that his supervising physician is perpetuating a fraudulent mail-order diagnosis business]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Havill, Steven.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312380712]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091107]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of his word : a hearts of Middlefield novel / Kathleen Fuller.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[When Amish wife Moriah Byler is abandoned by her husband, she fears that she'll never find a man of his word. What Moriah doesn't know is that Levi's twin, Gabriel, has loved her for years. Moriah must learn to accept his love so that she can be made whole agai]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Fuller, Kathleen.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1595548122]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091107]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Stuff to spy for : a novel / Don Bruns.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Best friends, James Lessor and Skip Moore are still stuck in dead end jobs. When Skip lands a job to install a state-of-the-art security system for Synco Systems, they think their dreams have finally come true. But, as usual for these two, things are not exactly what they see]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Bruns, Don.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1933515228]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091107]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The magic of Recluce / L.E. Modesitt, Jr.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Modesitt, L. E.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0812505182]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091107]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[In great waters / Kit Whitfield.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["In a tense, divided court, a young princess watches her mother struggle to hold the throne. On a remote coastal estate, a scholar finds a child washed up on the shore. Anne. Henry. A Christian princess of the royal blood. A pagan bastard, groomed all his hidden, lonely life to make a grab for the crown." "Since the ninth century, when the deepsmen invaded Venice, an uneasy alliance has held between the people of the land and the sea. That alliance was brokered by the warrior queen, Angelica, half landsman, half deepsman, the mother of the royal houses of Europe. Now, centuries later, no navy can cross the seas without allies in the ocean - and without deepsmen guarding its shores, no nation can withstand invasion. The hybrid kings keep the treaty between both sides, protecting their people from the threat of war." "The royal blood is the key to peace, and ferociously protected. The penalties for any landsman who tries to breed with a deepsman are severe; the fate of any 'bastard' child, born of such an illegitimate union, is terrible. But the royal house of England is staggering, collapsing under the weight of centuries of inbreeding." "Anne prays for guidance, a way into the future without hatred or bloodshed. Henry holds with fierce certainty that only the strong survive. But if either of them is to outlive the coming conflict, they may need more than faith alone."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Whitfield, Kit.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0345491653]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091107]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Tainted / Julie Kenner.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Lily Carlyle has never been a good girl. She's lied, cheated, and stolen, but she did it all to protect her younger sister. To keep food on the table after their mother died. She'd made a promise, after all. A promise to take care of her sister. To keep the family together. And that's a promise she's determined to keep. Even to the death... When her sister is brutally attacked, a vengeful Lily resolves to exact her own justice from the monster responsible. She succeeds--at the cost of her own life. As she lies dying, she is given a second chance: Though what she has done is evil, she can earn her way into paradise by fighting for the forces of good. Lily agrees... and wakes in the body of Alice Purdue--a Boston barmaid who has more than a little familiarity with the battle raging between the light and the darkness. Each side is mustering its forces for all-out war--and Lily is going to become an assassin for the light. It's a job she can really get into--but she doesn't realize that she may not be able to get out..."--p. [4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Kenner, Julie.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0441017843]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091107]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Elric : in the dream realms / Michael Moorcock ; fully illustrated by Michael Wm. Kaluta.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Kinslayer, soul reaver, sorcerer, thief, and last emperor of a cruel, decadent race. Elric of Melnibone is all of these - and more. His life is sustained by drugs and magic - and energy sucked from the victims of his vampiric black sword, Stormbringer, a weapon feared by men and gods alike. Denied the oblivion he seeks, poised between a tragic past he cannot escape and a terrifying future he is doomed to bring about, Elric is a hero like no other." "Del Rey presents the fifth installment in its definitive collection featuring the immortal creation of Michael Moorcock. Highlights include an epic novel of Elric's early years, The Fortress of the Pearl; the script of the graphic novel Elric: The Making of a Sorcerer; a previously unpublished proposal for a new series; and Neil Gaiman's moving fictional tribute to Elric, the short story "One Life, Furnished in Early Moorcock.""--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Moorcock, Michael, 1939-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0345498666]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091107]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Table for three / Recha G. Peay.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Three friends--Shiquanna, an alcoholic exotic dancer; Yvonne, a CPA in love with her pastor; and India, a professional college student--meet each week to keep each other grounded as they all deal with life's challenge]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Peay, Recha G.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=159983071X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091107]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Topless : an urban drama / Relentless Aaron.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Fools Paradise where the women are devious, the men are ruthless, and the raw, undeniable climate of smut dominates. This is Douglass Gilmores kingdom, a family business that grew to become one of New York Citys premier adult clubs. But money, power, and seduction makes for an explosive combinationand something dangerous is about to go down  The most famous stripper at Fools Paradise has been gunned down in the parking lot. Was it a lovers quarrel? A rivalry between jealous dancers? Or a deliberate attempt to destroy the man behind the curtain? Douglass has won plenty of enemies in the business. Now, with the cops, the FBI, and the mob at his door, everything is on the lineand Douglass has only once chance to defend the family empireor lose it all]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Relentless Aaron.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312949650]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091107]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Both sides of the fence / by M.T. Pope.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Pope, M. T.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1601621965]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091107]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep deception / Tina Brooks McKinney.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[McKinney, Tina Brooks.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1601621957]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091107]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Say it ain't so / La Jill Hunt.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[When Paisley Lawrence, the leading lady in all the hottest music videos, and Warren Cobb, a rising Gospel music star, are involved in a terrible crash, lies are told, lives are threatened, and things will never be the same]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Hunt, La Jill.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1601622546]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091107]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Mania / Craig Larsen.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Larsen, Craig.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0786021543]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091107]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Urgent care / CJ Lyons.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[When her coworker is brutally murdered, charge nurse Nora Halloran, who is hiding a dark secret, teams up with three of her friends at Angels of Mercy Medical Center to stop a sadistic killer before he strikes agai]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Lyons, CJ, 1964-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0515147052]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091107]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Flint. Book 6, A king is born / Treasure Hernandez.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Hernandez, Treasure.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1601621698]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091107]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Guardian of the flame: a seven wonders novel / T.L. Higley.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Alexandria, 48 B.C. In a city ravaged by the clash of cultures, one woman fights for solitude. Will a Roman soldier destroy her peac]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Higley, T.L.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0805447326]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091107]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Issa : a novel / Lois Drake.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Drake, Lois.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=193289005X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091107]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Prodigal / Zaria Garrison.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Identical twins Phylicia and Phoebe share a love for the same man, the Reverend Gary Morgan, who only has eyes for Phylicia, which prompts Phoebe to masquerade as her sister and seduce Gary at any cos]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Garrison, Zaria.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1601629370]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091107]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cartel 2 / Ashley [Antoinette] & JaQuavis [Coleman].]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Ashley, 1985-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1601622562]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091107]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Drama 99 FM / Janine A. Morris.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Morris, Janine A.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0758223811]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091107]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Immortal / by Erica Barnes.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Barnes, Erica K.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1601621701]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091107]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Relic of time / Ralph McInerny.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Five centuries ago, a Mexican peasant named Juan Diego was visited by the Virgin Mary. As a lasting sign of her presence, Diego's cloak was marked with the image of the Holy Mother surrounded by roses--and it remains one of the most revered and priceless relics in Mexican religious culture. But now the Virgin's Cloak has been stolen. Retired CIA operative Vincent Traeger has a history with the Vatican, and is asked to recover the cloak. From the border-hunting Minutemen to longtime foes of the Church, the suspects are as varied as the motives. But Traeger soon realizes that the truth is hidden within a conspiracy that could bring a country--and a faith--to its knees..."--p. [4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[McInerny, Ralph M.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0515147044]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091107]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Candle in the storm / Morgan Howell.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[As the malign shadow of the Devourer darkens the land and the followers of the goddess Karm are cut down by Lord Bahl's army, two people stand in the way: Honus, a grim-faced warrior, and Yim, a beautiful former slave with divine power. But as the evil storm descends, can the flame of hope endur]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Howell, Morgan.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=034550397X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091107]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Tempest rising / Nicole Peeler.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Living in small town Rockabill, Maine, Jane True always knew she didn't quite fit in with so-called normal society. During her nightly, clandestine swim in the freezing winter ocean, a grisly find leads Jane to startling revelations about her heritage: she is only half-human. Now, Jane must enter a world filled with supernatural creatures that are terrifying, beautiful, and deadly--all of which perfectly describe her new 'friend,' Ryu, a gorgeous and powerful vampire. It is a world where nothing can be taken for granted: a dog can heal with a lick; spirits bag your groceries; and whatever you do, never--ever--rub the genie's lamp."--p. [4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Peeler, Nicole.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0316056588]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091107]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The Hotel Albatross / Debra Adelaide.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Adelaide, Debra.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0091830931]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091110]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Miranda's big mistake / Jill Mansell.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Miranda is thrilled when she meets Greg at a cocktail party. He's gorgeous, he's funny - he's practically perfect! Of course, he hasn't told her everything about himself - even the sweetest girls can be a bit funny about a man who's just left his newly pregnant wife. But there's no way she's going to find out - is ther]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Mansell, Jill.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=140221832X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091110]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend of the family : a novel / by Lauren Grodstein.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[After his best friend's daughter, Laura, sets her sights on his son, Alec, Pete Dizinoff sees his plans for a perfect son not just unraveling but being destroyed completely and sets out to derail the romanc]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Grodstein, Lauren.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1565129164]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091110]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Eagle rising / David Devereux.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Jack's back! And this time he must face a terrifying supernatural threat from Europe's recent past. Someone has been mad enough to revive the most terrifying evil of the last 60 years. And only one man is bad enough to stop them. Eagle Rising takes Jack to the rotten heart of big business and the dark secrets of a neo-Nazi magical sect intent on giving the world back to a terror from the darkest days of the 1940s. Jack must infiltrate the closed corridors of big business and reach the core of a conspiracy amongst some of the most high-powered city executives in the country, a cabal of businessmen with occult interests and an insane hunger for the return of an old and dark order]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Devereux, David, 1971-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0575079878]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091110]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Matters arising / Sarah Harrison.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Harrison, Sarah, 1946-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0727867377]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091110]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The carousel painter / Judith Miller.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[When Carrington Brouwer receives the enviable job of painting carousel horses for a factory in Ohio, she believes her future is secure. But after an expensive necklace disappears from the home where she's been staying, she's caught up in a search for the truth that puts her entire livelihood--and her developing relationship with the factory manager--at risk. Can she lead police to the real culprit before she loses everythin]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Miller, Judith, 1944-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0764202790]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091110]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream breakers / Elizabeth Gill.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Gill, Elizabeth, 1950-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0727867776]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091110]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[When she flew / Jennie Shortridge.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Police officer Jessica Villareal recognizes a chance to make a difference in someone's life, as well as her own, when faced with having to separate a father and daughter living off the radar in the Oregon wood]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Shortridge, Jennie.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0451227980]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091110]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Bitter night : a Horngate witches book / Diana Pharaoh Francis.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Once, Max dreamed of a career, a home, a loving family. Now all she wants is freedom ... and revenge. A witch named Giselle transformed Max into a warrior with extraordinary strength, speed, and endurance. Bound by spellcraft, Max has no choice but to fight as Giselle's personal magic weapon--a Shadowblade--and she's lethally good at it. But her skills are about to be put to the test as they never have before... The ancient Guardians of the earth are preparing to unleash widespread destruction on the mortal world, and they want the witches to help them. If the witches refuse, their covens will be destroyed, including Horngate, the place Max has grudgingly come to think of as home. Max thinks she can find a way to help Horngate stand against the Guardians, but doing so will mean forging dangerous alliances--including one with a rival witch's Shadowblade, who is as drawn to Max as she is to him--and standing with the witch she despises. Max will have to choose between the old life she still dreams of and the warrior she has become, and take her place on the side of right--if she survives long enough to figure out which side that is...."--p. [4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Francis, Diana Pharaoh.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1416598146]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091110]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas cake / Lynne Hinton.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Hinton, J. Lynne]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061711500]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091110]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Charlie Class / David E. Meadows.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In 1973, the Yom Kippur War in Israel draws the world's superpowers into action. Commander Mickey Brandon receives orders to patrol the Strait of Gibraltar and make sure the way is clear for the American naval forces. Meanwhile, Deniska Bagirli, captain of a Russian nuclear sub, has been ordered to intercept any American response, an order he interprets as permission to fire at wil]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Meadows, David E.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0425231097]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091110]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell. Conviction / written by David Michaels.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Third Echelon's Sam Fisher is one of the deadliest men in the world. Even the FBI and CIA are in the dark about the black ops that he takes on. He's known as a Splinter Cell, and sometimes he's the only force holding the country together...Third Echelon is training new recruits who will be given a necessary but terrible mission. They must capture or kill one of their own, a man who's gone rogue and sold out his government...Sam Fisher, Splinter Cell."--p.[4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Michaels, David, 1955-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0425231046]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091110]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Born of fire / Sherrilyn Kenyon.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["...Syn was raised as a tech-thief until his livelihood uncovered a truth that could end his life. He tried to destroy the evidence and has been on the run ever since. Now trained as an assassin, he allows no one to threaten him. Ever. He is the darkness that swallows his enemies whole. Shahara Dagan is the best bounty hunter in the universe. When Syn comes back on the radar, she's the only one who can bring him to justice. There's only one problem: Syn is a close family friend who's helped out the Dagans countless times. But if she saves him, both of their lives will be on the line..."--p.[4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Kenyon, Sherrilyn, 1965-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312942311]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091110]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Finding the lost / Shannon K. Butcher.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Andra Madison knows that monsters are real. She's been fighting them ever since her family was victimized by the Synestryn eight years ago. Now she's devoted to finding children who've been abducted by the Synestryn. When she gets a call about a lost little boy, she tracks him to a warehouse on the outskirts of town, where she's aided by a trio of human men...or so she thinks. Paul has been searching for centuries for a woman like Andra. To find her, he strikes a bargain with a bloodhunter that could cost him his life. Now his desire for Andra threatens to destroy his much-needed control. Against her wishes, Andra agrees to join Paul on a journey fraught with danger--one that leads directly to the Synestryn."--p. [4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Butcher, Shannon K.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0451412826]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091110]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Magic in the shadows / Devon Monk.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Magic is Allison Beckstrom's blessing and curse. As a Hound, she uses her gifts to track down practitioners who abuse their power, and then stops them from inflicting harm on unsuspecting innocents. Unfortunately her spells have taken a toll on her, physically marking her and erasing her memories--including those of the man she supposedly loves. But lost memories aren't the only things preying on Allie's thoughts. Her late father, the prominent businessman--and sorcerer--Daniel Beckstrom, has somehow channeled himself into her mind. With the help of the Authority, a secret organization of magic users, she hopes to gain better control over her own abilities--and find a way to deal with her father...."--p. [4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Monk, Devon.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0451462874]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091110]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Son of Khyber / Keith Baker.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Baker, Keith.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0786952342]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091110]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Howling legion / Marcus Pelegrimas.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["You can't see them, but they're here: hiding in the pools of shadow outside a Chicago burger joint...wreaking havoc in Kansas City...feeding in sleazy 'blood brothels' that cater to humans who itch to get bitten. Cole was designing video games when he learned the truth--that foul creatures of the night lust for our blood...and our world. Now he's a 'Skinner,' a member of an ancient secret society of warriors entrusted with keeping the terror at bay. Monsters once chained to the wilderness are suddenly free and descending, razor claws ripping, on the unsuspecting city. No one knows what's coming--but Cole and his seductive partner, Paige, will be the first to dive into the meat grinder."--p. [4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Pelegrimas, Marcus.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=006146306X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091110]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Night of demons / Tony Richards.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["A serial killer with a corrupt and twisted soul, Cornelius Hanlon has freely entered Raine's Landing, undeterred by the ancient magical safeguards. And when he chooses the town's oldest adept as his first victim, the maniac inadvertently gains possession of a powerful "gift" more terrible than anything he could have sadistically dreamed. Ex-town cop Ross Devries and his Harley-riding sometime-partner Cassandra Mallory, have no supernatural abilities. But they are the last line of defense in this village of secrets and shadows--facing a psychopath who now wields the power to bend the living and the dead to his will."--p.[4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Richards, Tony, 1956-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061474673]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091110]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Child of darkness : a Lightworld/Darkworld novel / Jennifer Armintrout.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["At a Lightworld royal gala, Queene Ayla announces the betrothal of her daughter, Cerridwen, to a high-ranking councilor. Though strategically brilliant, the engagement comes as a shock--to Cerridwen especially. Infuriated by her mother's high-handedness, ignorant of her own true origins, she flees the court--leaving herself vulnerable to those who would see the Lightworld destroyed. Amid burgeoning unrest, desperate desires become divided loyalties and terrifying mercenaries lurk in the shadowy space between rebellion and anarchy."--p. [4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Armintrout, Jennifer, 1980-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0778326705]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091110]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The wrong side of dead / Jordan Dane.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Mysterious computer wizard Seth Harper awakens in a bloody motel room to find he's not alone. The vacant eyes of a grisly corpse stare accusingly at him--the body of a young woman. Seth becomes the prime suspect of a heinous murder. If only he could remember what happened. His former employee, bounty hunter Jessie Beckett, is determined to prove his innocence despite his gaps in memory. But when Seth is reluctant to reveal his own dark secrets, she must earn his deepest trust. Against all odds, she's in an uphill battle to save him--the man she hasn't stopped thinking about since he disappeared from her life. But his plight is not what it seems. And both Jessie and Seth must confront the demons of their past--in the place where their nightmares began--before Seth becomes a sacrificial lamb to a ruthless killer. With one fatal mistake, more innocent lives could wind up on the wrong side of dead."--p. [4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Dane, Jordan.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061474134]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091110]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Grace and mercy / Brittney Holmes.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Holmes, Brittney.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1601629915]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091110]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Angel lane / Sheila Roberts.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Roberts, Sheila.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312384823]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091110]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[A Christmas gift / David Saperstein and James J. Rush.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Twelve-year-old Katie Williams has the gift of second sight, passed down from her great-grandmother. So far her visions have helped her avert tragedy, and brought her beloved, long-lost uncle Charlie back to the family, but can they help keep him ther]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Saperstein, David.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0758241321]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091110]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect timing / Jill Mansell.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["It's the night before her wedding when Poppy Dunbar meets Tom. He is tall, dark, and handsome with a quirky smile, and Poppy can't shake the feeling she's known him all her life. She can't go through with the meeting they arrange...but she can't go through with the wedding anymore either. Suddenly notorious as 'The Girl Who Jilted Rob McBride,' Poppy leaves for London and a fresh start. Soon she's installed in the bohemian household of Caspar French, a ravishingly good-looking young artist with a reputation for breaking hearts. But even in her new home and new life, Poppy can't get Tom off her mind. Until she's tracked him down, she'll never know if their meeting was destiny, or if it was just a matter of timing..."--p. [4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Mansell, Jill.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1402226748]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091110]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[How not to make a wish / Mindy Klasky.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[When she unleashes a genie from an old lantern, Kira Franklin, after making her three wishes, discovers that you really should be careful for what you wish for, and that moxie, not magic is the key to making all your dreams come tru]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Klasky, Mindy L.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=077832737X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091110]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The rags of time / Maureen Howard.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Evaluating her personal history in light of her successful writing career, an aging Manhattan author considers her family and relationships, the influences of three historical figures, and the future prospects of her fictional characters. By the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of The Facts of Lif]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Howard, Maureen, 1930-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0670021326]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091110]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Spinning forward / Teri DuLong.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[When her husband dies, leaving her broke and evicted, Sydney Webster, getting no sympathy from her angry daughter, takes shelter at a college friend's B&B in Cedar Key, Florida where she is embraced by a community filled with love, laughter, friendship--and knittin]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[DuLong, Teri.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0758232047]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091110]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Shadow season : a novel / Tom Piccirilli.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Ex-cop Finn was left blind by violence, but he can still see the body of his wife, Dani, and a crime scene that won't fade from his mind's eye. Now a professor, Finn learns that an isolated girls' prep school can be every bit as dangerous as city streets when he stumbles upon a local girl lying in a graveyard during a raging blizzar]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Piccirilli, Tom.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0553592475]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091110]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Blood kin / Maria Lima.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Keira Kelly has come into her full powers, and they are frighteningly strong, creating a distance between her and her human friends in her beloved Rio Seco. It is time to obey her great-great-grandmother Gigi's orders and rejoin her family in northwest Canada, where Keira can learn to handle her dangerous new skills. She'll have friends with her every step of the way--her shapeshifter brother Tucker, his beloved Niko, and, to Keira's dismay, her cousin on her mother's side, Daffyd ap Geraint, the Sidhe prince who suddenly appeared in her life and now refuses to leave--but her vampire lover Adam has insisted on staying in Texas. And while there are certainly perks to being Family, such as a private Learjet for the flight to Canada and a fabulous penthouse condo overlooking Vancouver, there are threats looming that nobody, not even Gigi, anticipated. Keira's Sidhe inheritance from her mother is far more important than anyone ever realized, and the fate of the Family may depend upon what she does next...."--p. [4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Lima, Maria Y.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=143915676X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091111]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Iron company / Chris Wraight.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Wraight, Chris.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1844167798]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091111]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The killing hands / P.D. Martin.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Just as Aussie FBI profiler Sophie Anderson is settling into her job in the L.A. bureau, she's pulled into a case that's different from anything she's ever seen--the victim has had his throat ripped out. But what weapon could have caused such devastating injuries? And who is the John Doe? Sophie and her team are dealing with a skilled killer, someone who leaves virtually no forensic evidence. When the team links the body to an Asian criminal organization, things get even more mysterious. The victim has been missing for fifteen years, so where has he been and why has he returned? More important, who wanted him dead? As L.A.'s underworld rears its ugly head, Sophie will have to draw on her experience and her developing psychic skills to find a brilliant killer who's carved a trail of death in organized crime across the U.S. He leaves only one thing behind him--horrifying murder scenes."--p. [4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Martin, P. D. (Phillipa Deanne)]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=077832639X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091111]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Depraved indifference / Joseph Teller.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Teller, Joseph.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0778326918]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091111]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The Gatekeeper / Michelle Gagnon.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["From the moment sixteen-year-old Madison Grant is abducted, an unthinkable terrorist plot is set in motion--pitting Special Agent Kelly Jones against her most powerful adversary yet. The kidnapper's ransom demands aren't monetary...they come at a cost that no American can afford to pay. As Kelly's fiancâe, Jake Riley, races to find Madison, Kelly is assigned to another disturbing case: the murder and dismemberment of a senator. At first the two cases don't appear to be related. But as Kelly navigates her way through the darkest communities of America--from skinheads to biker gangs to border militias--she discovers a horrible truth. A shadowy figure who calls himself The Gatekeeper is uniting hate groups, opening the door to the worst homegrown attack in American history."--p. [4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Gagnon, Michelle, 1971-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0778326721]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091111]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Under the dome : a novel / Stephen King.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The small town of Chester's Mill, Maine, is faced with a big dilemma when it is mysteriously sealed off by an invisible and completely impenetrable force field. With cars and airplanes exploding on contact, the force field has completely isolated the townspeople from the outside world. Now, Iraq war vet Dale Barbara and a group of the town's more sensible citizens must overcome the tyrannical rule of Big Jim Rennie, a politician bent on controlling everything within the Dom]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[King, Stephen, 1947-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1439148503]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091113]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Shadows of war / Larry Bond and Jim DeFelice.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In the year 2014, with the world torn by climate change and economic and geopolitical chaos, the Chinese premier reacts to mass riots by marching on traditional Chinese enemies through Southeast Asia, while the United States struggles to prevent a nuclear wa]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Bond, Larry.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0765321378]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091113]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Too much happiness : stories / by Alice Munro.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Munro, Alice.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307269760]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091113]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The gift : a novel / Cecelia Ahern.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In this modern-day fable, workaholic executive Lou Steffen shows an uncharacteristic burst of generosity towards Gabe, a homeless man who always seems to be in two places at once. With Lou's personal and professional fates at important crossroads and Christmas looming, Gabe resorts to some unorthodox methods to show his stubborn patron what truly matters and how precious the gift of time is. But can Gabe help Lou fix what's broken before it's too lat]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Ahern, Cecelia, 1981-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061706264]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091113]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[New York : the novel / Edward Rutherfurd.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The intertwining fates of characters rich and poor, black and white, native born and immigrant, brings to life the momentous events that shaped New York City and America: the Revolutionary War, the emergence of the city as a great trading and financial center, the excesses of the Gilded Age, the explosion of immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the trials of World War II, the near-demise of New York in the 1970s and its roaring rebirth in the '90s, and the attacks on the World Trade Cente]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Rutherfurd, Edward.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0385521383]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091113]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Wishin' and hopin' : a Christmas story / Wally Lamb.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Set in the fictional town of Three Rivers, Connecticut, the story of fifth grader Felix Funicello in the months leading up to Christmas 1964"--Provided by publishe]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Lamb, Wally.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=006194100X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091113]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Mariposa / Greg Bear.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In this near-future thriller, three FBI agents take on the Talos Corporation and its plan to destroy the government and constitutional law by means of a treatment program code-named Maripos]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Bear, Greg, 1951-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1593154976]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091113]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Ice : a novel / Linda Howard.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[As a brewing ice storm approaches, and despite the icy conditions that have always existed between him and Lolly Helton, combat veteran Gabriel McQueen makes the long haul to the middle of nowhere to find out whether she is safe and sound. Spotting strangers in Lolly's home--one of them packing a weapon--Gabriel rescues Lolly from her captors ... but when the escape is discovered, the heat--and the hunt--are o]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Howard, Linda, 1950-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0345517199]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091113]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Pemberley Manor : Darcy and Elizabeth, for better or for worse / Kathryn L. Nelson.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Nelson, Kathryn L., 1950-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1402218524]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091113]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Scream / Mike Dellosso.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Dellosso, Mike.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1599794691]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091113]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The mammoth book of best new horror. Volume twenty / edited and with an introduction by Stephen Jones.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0762437278]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091113]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[At world's end / Gabriel Hunt ; as told to Nicholas Kaufmann.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Hunt, Gabriel.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0843962453]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091113]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Triangle of deception / Carmon Haggai.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Dan Gordon, while working undercover in a joint CIA/Mossad mission, infiltrates a Lebanese network in Paraguay to find the source of funding to Hezbollah and stumbles upon a wide-ranging conspiracy--a discovery that places him in a Romanian prison with no hope of escap]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Carmon, Haggai.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0843961929]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091113]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The black train / Edward Lee.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Lee, Edward, 1957-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0843962275]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091113]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The 13th / John Everson.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Everson, John.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0843962674]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091113]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Trife life to lavish / by Deja King.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[King, Deja.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0975581171]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091113]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Apprentice father / Irene Hannon.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[His orphaned niece and nephew are depending on Clay Adams. This commitment-phobe substitute dad needs help, and he needs it fast! Nanny Cate Shepard comes to his rescue just in the nick of time. Cate is no stranger to tragedy, and her deep, abiding faith has led her through her darkest days. With God's help, her kindness and nurturing can heal the children, but what about Clay? Will this father in the making abandon his lone-wolf ways to give Cate and the children the forever family they deserv]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Hannon, Irene.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0373875150]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091113]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[30 days of night : light of day / Jeff Mariotte.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A terrifying species of legend that exists in shadow and thrives in night, preying on and intriguing an unsuspecting modern world - An amoral, clandestine government operation that uses whatever means necessary to inflict maximum damage upon one of the most frightening and demonized forces humanity has ever encountered - And all of mankind is threatened by the chain of events set in motion by this unrestrained conflict, and the ripple effects of a new element to the hostilities will forever alter the rules of engagement..]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Mariotte, Jeff.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=143912227X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091113]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Buccaneer / Dudley Pope.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Pope, Dudley.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0755104374]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091113]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The enemy : a Reacher novel / Lee Child.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier's son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army's brightest stars. But in every cop's life there is a turning point. One case. One messy, tangled case that can shatter a career. Turn a lawman into a renegade. And make him question words like honor, valor, and duty. For Jack Reacher, this is that case. New Years Day, 1990. The Berlin Wall is coming down. The world is changing. And in a North Carolina hot-sheets motel, a two-star general is found dead. His briefcase is missing. Nobody knows what was in it. Within minutes Jack Reacher has his orders: Control the situation. But this situation can't be controlled]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Child, Lee.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0440245990]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091113]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The sound of sleigh bells / Cindy Woodsmall.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In mourning over the death of her fiance, Beth Hertzler works alongside her beloved Aunt Lizzy in their dry goods store.  When Beth responds to a woodcarving, Lizzy sees the changes in her niece and hunts down Jonah, the artist who created the healing work of art.  Lizzy is determined that Beth meets this man. Will Lizzy's elaborate plan to reintroduce her niece to love work? Will Jonah be able to offer Beth the sleigh ride she's always dreamed of and a second chance at real love-or just more heartbrea]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Woodsmall, Cindy.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307446530]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091114]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Where grace abides / BJ Hoff.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Hoff, B. J., 1940-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0736924191]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091114]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Running away / Jean-Philippe Toussaint ; translated by Matthew B. Smith.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Accepting a seemingly small task from his Parisian girlfriend while vacationing in Shanghai, a European man experiences a series of existential complications including a cash payoff, impromptu traveling companions, and suspicious coincidences. By the author of The Bathroom]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Toussaint, Jean-Philippe.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=156478567X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091114]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Cottonwood whispers / Jennifer Erin Valent.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In the summer of 1936, Gemma Teague's job with the wealthy Hadley family leads to a crush on their youngest son, but when her best friend, Jessilyn Lassiter, insists that he is no good and that no rich white man would fall for a black girl like Gemma, it threatens to tear the lifelong friends apar]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Valent, Jennifer Erin.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1414333269]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091114]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Bo's cafâe / John Lynch, Bill Thrall, and Bruce McNicol.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[High-powered executive Steven Kerner is living the dream in Southern California, but when his bottled pain ignites his anger yet again, his wife finally kicks him out. An eccentric mystery man named Andy Monroe befriends Steven, and their conversations begin to unravel his tightly wound world and through a series of frustrating and revealing encounters, Steven confronts his inner world and the choice to let a genuine friendship lead him to a grace and love of God he has never know]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Lynch, John.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=193517004X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091114]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The Recipe Club : a tale of food and friendship / Andrea Israel & Nancy Garfinkel.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Israel, Andrea.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0982349203]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091114]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Most beautiful princess : a novel based on the life of Grand Duchess Elizabeth of Russia / Christina Croft.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Croft, Christina M., 1961-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0955985307]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091114]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Apocalypse happens / Lori Handeland.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Arriving in Los Angeles to find a nest of varcolacs--half-human, half-dragon creatures who crave the destruction of the sun and moon--Liz Phoenix, one of the select few with the power to battle hellish creatures, must stop yet another Doomsday with the help of her former lover and her mento]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Handeland, Lori.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312366027]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The pursuit of other interests / Jim Kokoris.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Cast adrift after being abruptly fired, workaholic CEO Charlie Baker is astonished to find his finances in shambles and his son rapidly growing up, a situation he initially denies while spending his days in an outplacement fir]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Kokoris, Jim.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312365489]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Invisible / Paul Auster.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Poet and student Adam Walker meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent, seductive girlfriend, Margot, sending Adam into a perverse triangle that leads to a shocking act of violence that will alter his lif]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Auster, Paul, 1947-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0805090800]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Devil's dream / Madison Smartt Bell.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Bell, Madison Smartt.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0375424881]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two : a novel / Patrizia Chen.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Chen, Patrizia.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1416570616]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Harold Robbins' The shroud / Junius Podrug.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["The man on the other end of the phone should be dead. Sir Henri Lipton, wanted on three continents for looting and smuggling art and precious antiques, had destroyed Madison Dupre's career before supposedly kicking the bucket. Dupre, a drop dead gorgeous art investigator, had hoped he was buring in hell." "With her reputation in shreds, her bank accounts empty, and creditors pounding down her door, Dupre has no choice but to listen. Twenty-thousand-dollors cash - upfront - just a little trip to Dubai, he tells her, a quick look at a piece of art. And then he makes the offer truly irresistible: the art is two thousand years old and was "buried with Christ." Dupre is hooked ... even though her gut tells here there has to be a catch." "Dubai, so-called called Las Vegas on steroids, is just the first stop on a quest that takes Madison Dupre to an ancient Mesopotamian city, from the dark streets of exotic Istanbul, Venice at carnival time, and to a cathedral where the most sacred object of Christendom is stored. Along the way, she finds danger, cheap thrills and a smoldering desire for a Russian agent she doesn't trust - and can't resist."--BOOK JACKE]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Robbins, Harold, 1916-1997.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0765318318]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Family album / Penelope Lively.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[All Alison ever wanted was a blissful childhood for her six children, with summers at the beach and birthday parties on the lawn at their family home. Together with Ingrid, the family au pair, she has worked hard to create a real old-fashioned family life. But beneath its postcard sheen, the picture is clouded by a distant father, Alison's inexplicable emotional outbursts, and long-repressed secrets that no one dares mentio]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Lively, Penelope, 1933-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0670021245]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Pornografia / Witold Gombrowicz ; translated from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Gombrowicz, Witold.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0802119255]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Now you know / Susan Kelly.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Entreated by their mother on her deathbed to look after her best friend of nearly fifty years, capable homemaker Alice, recalcitrant alcoholic Allegra, and bohemian Edie wonder what the high-achieving, tough-minded Libba could possibly need from them, until a visit to a summer cabin reveals surprising truth]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Kelly, Susan S.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1605980234]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Before I forget / Leonard Pitts, Jr.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["A man recently diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease takes a road trip to visit his ailing, estranged father, along with his troubled teen-aged son"--Provided by publishe]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Pitts, Leonard.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1932841431]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancestors and others / Fred Chappell.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In this collection, Fred Chappell shows his mastery across a range of genres. Featuring folk fables in the Twain tradition, realistic stories of growing up in remote Appalachia, stories of family, kin, and community, and tales of the fantastic and spooky, this book will delight fans and surprise new readers.]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Chappell, Fred, 1936-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312561679]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[7th son : descent / J.C. Hutchins.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[As America reels from the bizarre presidential assassination committed by a child, seven men are abducted from their normal lives and delivered to a secret government facility. Each man has his own career, his own specialty. All are identical in appearance. The seven strangers were grown--- unwitting human clones---as part of a project called 7th Son.   The government now wants something from these g2sJohn Michael Smiths.g3s They share the flesh as well as the implanted memories of the psychopath responsible for the president's murder. The killer has bigger plans, and only these seven have the unique qualifications to track and stop him. But when their progenitor makes the battle personal, it becomes clear he may know the seven better than they know themselves]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Hutchins, J. C., 1975-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312384378]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Lovecraft unbound : twenty stories / edited by Ellen Datlow.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The 16 new and four reprint stories Datlow (Poe) assembles for this outstanding tribute anthology all capture what Dale Bailey praises as horror master H.P. Lovecraft's gift for depicting the universe as "inconceivably more vast, strange, and terrifying than mere human beings can possibly imagine." Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud, in "The Crevasse," evoke this alien sensibility through an Antarctic expedition's glimpses of an astonishingly ancient prehuman civilization preserved in the polar ice. Laird Barron's "Catch Hell" depicts a Lovecraft-type backwoods community in the grip of a profoundly creepy occult mythology. Selections range in tone from the darkly humorous to the sublimely horrific, and all show the contributors to be perceptive interpreters of Lovecraft's work. Readers who know Lovecraft's legacy mostly through turgid and tentacled Cthulhu Mythos pastiches will find this book a treasure trove of literary terrors]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1595821465]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Good for the Jews / Debra Spark.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Spark, Debra, 1962-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0472117114]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[A Rumpole Christmas / John Mortimer.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Five holiday tales feature the curmudgeon barrister in "Rumpole and Father Christmas," "Rumpole's Slimmed Down Christmas," "Rumpole and the Boy," "Rumpole and the Old Familiar Faces," and "Rumpole and the Christmas Break]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Mortimer, John, 1923-2009.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0670021350]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Season of ash : a novel in three acts / Jorge Volpi ; translated from the Spanish by Alfred Mac Adam.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Volpi Escalante, Jorge, 1968-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1934824100]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The Canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer ; a retelling by Peter Ackroyd ; illustrated by Nick Bantock.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Ackroyd, Peter, 1949-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0670021229]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Stretch marks : a novel / Kimberly Stuart.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Mia is a granola-eating, sensible shoe-wearing, carbon-footprint-conscious twenty-something living in a multicultural neighborhood in Chicago. Her mother, Babs, is a stiletto-wearing Zsa Zsa Gabor type who works as an activities hostess on a Caribbean cruise line...and if you guessed there's some tension there, you'd be right. Factor in an unexpected pregnancy and Mia's idealistic boyfriend, and the mother-daughter relationships is, well, stretched very thin. As is Mia's sanity when Babs shows up to...help..."--p.[4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Stuart, Kimberly, 1975-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0781448921]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[In the arms of immortals / Ginger Garrett.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Garrett, Ginger, 1968-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0781448883]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Set up in SoHo / Dee Davis.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Davis, Dee, 1959-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312367619]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The saga of Gèosta Berling / Selma Lagerlèof ; translated [from the Swedish] by Paul Norlen ; introduction by George C. Schoolfield.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A classic work by a first woman winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature shares the story of a former minister whose indiscretions land him in the ironworks estate of Margareta Celsing, where he resides with eccentric Napoleonic Wars veterans and attracts a series of wome]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Lagerlèof, Selma, 1858-1940.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0143105906]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The man handler : a novel / by Cairo.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Bianca Rivers has an overpowering love and passion for sexuality, and the ability to satisfy it without fear or regret. She makes no excuses for her highly charged libido. But what will happen when one of the men decides that he wants to love her and be in a true relationshi]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Cairo.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=159309275X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Indigo Springs / A.M. Dellamonica.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Dellamonica, A. M.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0765319470]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Full circle / Pamela Freeman.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Saker's ghost army is slaughtering those of the new blood, fuelled by an ancient wrong. But while he'd thought revenge would be simple, he's now plagued by voices foreshadowing a calamity beyond his comprehension. Ash and Bramble raise the warrior spirit of Acton, mighty in life and powerful in death. Only he can stop Saker's rampage. But is Acton, Lord of War, murderer or savior?..."--p.[4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Freeman, Pamela.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0316035629]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Bunco babes gone wild / Maria Geraci.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Geraci, Maria.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0425229963]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Leah's choice / Marta Perry.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Perry, Marta.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0425230503]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Whiplash : a Dreamland thriller / Dale Brown and Jim DeFelice.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Hiding behind the bloody madness of tribal warfare in the Horn of Africa, Iranian functionary-turned-fanatic Bani Aberhadji has achieved the impossible--single-handedly creating a vast, invisible network dedicated to the construction, delivery, and detonation of a nuclear nightmare. Only by chance are American agents now learning of its existence, and it may already be too late. Born from the ashes of Dreamland, the covert strike force Whiplash is armed and ready to spring into action--led by Dreamland veterans Danny Fresh and former ace pilot, now Washington insider, Breanna Stockard. But Aberhadji's web of death is wide and well concealed...and the doomsday clock is ticking."--p. [4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Brown, Dale, 1956-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061713007]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[First lord's fury / Jim Butcher.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The savage Vord are on the march, and Gaius Octavian, first lord of Alera, must lead his legions to the Calderon Valley to stand against them--using all of his intelligence, ingenuity, and furycraft to save their world from eternal darknes]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Butcher, Jim, 1971-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=044101769X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The wrecker / Clive Cussler and Justin Scott.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Investigating a series of attacks on the Southern Pacific Railroad's Cascades express lines, Detective Bell learns of the existence of an elusive saboteur who recruits and murders his own accomplices while engineering schemes of maximum havo]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Cussler, Clive.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0399155996]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091118]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Typhoon / Charles Cumming.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Cumming, Charles, 1971-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=031255852X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091119]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The return of the sorcerer : [the best of Clark Ashton Smith] / Clark Ashton Smith.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Smith, Clark Ashton, 1893-1961.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=160701209X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091119]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The midnight guardian : a millennial novel / Sarah Jane Stratford.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Remembering the devastation of World War I on the vampire communities, ancient vampires break their policy against interfering in human affairs upon the outbreak of World War II but find the Nazi war machine more formidable than anticipated. A first novel]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Stratford, Sarah Jane.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312560133]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091119]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark Twain's book of animals / edited with introduction, afterword, & notes by Shelley Fisher Fishkin ; illustrations by Barry Moser ; text established by The Mark Twain Project, The Bancroft Library.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0520248554]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091119]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The divine farce / Michael S.A. Graziano.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Graziano, Michael S. A., 1967-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1935248049]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091119]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The Hadrian memorandum / Allan Folsom.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[When a Texas oil exploration company discovers a massive oil reserve off the Equatorial Guinea coast, the company plots an overthrow of the region's government, a situation that is countered by U.S. President John Henry Harry and former LAPD homicide detective Nicholas Marte]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Folsom, Allan.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0765321572]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091119]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The captain's lady / by Lorhainne Eckhart.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Eckhart, Lorhainne.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1601543832]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091119]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Windfall / Nora Roberts.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Impulse : For once in her life, Rebecca Malone decided to follow her impulses, jettison the familiar and head to Greece to find adventure! So when a sexy stranger began to romance her, she couldn't resist playing the sophisticated, well-traveled woman. However, falling in love with Stephen Nickodemus was not part of the plan! How on earth could she explain to the man she'd given her heart to that she wasn't the woman he'd believed her to be? And then convince him that she was still the woman he loved. --Temptation : Socialite Eden Carlborough didn't expect running a girls' camp to be easy, but she never thought she'd literally be run up an apple tree by the little monsters. She was equally surprised to come crashing down into the capable arms of orchard owner Chase Elliot. While her handsome neighbor's overbearing ways were highly irritating, his touch ignited feelings she'd never known. She never imagined she'd be so very...tempted!"--p.[4] of cove]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Roberts, Nora]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0373285957]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091119]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Millionaire wives club : a novel / Tu-Shonda L. Whitaker.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Whitaker, Tu-Shonda L.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0345486676]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091120]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ship of Ishtar / A. Merritt, Tim Powers.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Merritt, Abraham, 1882-1943.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1601251777]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091120]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[What the world will look like when all the water leaves us : stories / by Laura van den Berg.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Van den Berg, Laura.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0976717778]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091120]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Thirsty : a novel / Kristin Bair O'Keeffe.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Bair O'Keeffe, Kristin, 1966-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0804011230]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091120]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Save the whales please : a novel / Konrad Karl Gatien & Sreescanda.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["A rescue adventure in which eco-warriors, led by the US First Lady, commandeer a pirate whaling vessel to shepherd a herd of endangered blue whales from the Arctic Ocean to the safety of the Antarctic, pursued the entire way by illegal Japanese whalers"--Provided by publishe]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Gatien, Konrad Karl.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1601641656]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091120]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Angel fall : a novel / Coleman Luck.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Luck, Coleman.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0310283981]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091120]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The chill / by Romano Bilenchi ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Bilenchi, Romano, 1909-1989.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1933372907]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091120]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christmas dog / Melody Carlson.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Carlson, Melody.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=080071881X]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091120]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The collected stories of Lydia Davis.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Davis, Lydia, 1947-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0374270600]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091120]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The creed of violence / Boston Teran.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Teran, Boston.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1582435251]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091120]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The art student's war / Brad Leithauser.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Leithauser, Brad.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307271110]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091120]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of disappearing / Ivy Pochoda.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Pochoda, Ivy.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0312385854]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091120]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Personal demons / by Gregory Lamberson.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Lamberson, Gregory, 1964-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1605420727]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091120]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Neuropath / R. Scott Bakker.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Tom's best friend Neil worked for the National Security Agency, cracking the minds of suspected terrorists. Now it is Neil himself who has cracked and gone AWOL--what's more, he has left behind evidence that he has been employing his unique skills on civilians, kidnapping and mutilating people with a connection to Tom. Only when Neil gets near his ultimate target does he reveal the full horror of his pla]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Bakker, R. Scott.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0765321890]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091120]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The edge of Eden / Helen Benedict.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Benedict, Helen.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1569476020]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091120]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[A deep dark secret / Kimberla Lawson Roby.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[On the outside, twelve-year-old Jillian Maxwell is the perfect child. She's helpful with chores around the house, gets straight A's in school, has plans for college, and stays out of trouble. She seems to have everything a girl could want: a beautiful new home, an adoring little sister, a mother who cares about her, and an attentive stepfather. But inside, Jillian harbors a terrible secre]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Roby, Kimberla Lawson.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0061443093]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20091120]]></pubDate>
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