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New Release Signed First Editions by Bestselling Authors
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March 9, 2010
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Ace Atkins
Infamous
2010 NY: Putnam
From "one of the best crime writers at work today" (Michael
Connelly) comes a fast, funny, violent new noir crime classic - a Coen
Brothers movie come to life.
He has been compared to
Lehane, Ellroy, and Pelecanos, but Ace Atkins's rich, raucous,
passionate blend of historical novel and crime story is all his own and
never more so than in Infamous.
In July 1933, the
gangster known as George "Machine Gun" Kelly staged the
kidnapping-for-ransom of an Oklahoma oil-man. He would live to regret
it. Kelly was never the sharpest knife in the drawer, and what started
clean soon became messy, as two of his partners cut themselves into the
action; a determined former Texas Ranger makes tracking Kelly his
mission; and Kelly's wife, ever alert to her own self-interest, starts
playing both ends against the middle.
The result is a
mesmerizing tale set in the first days of the modern FBI, featuring one
of the best femmes fatales in history - the Lady Macbeth of
Depression-era crime - a great unexpected hero, and some of the most
colorful supporting characters in recent crime fiction.
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Carol Higgins Clark
Wrecked 2010 NY: Simon & Schuster
New York Times bestselling author Carol Higgins Clark delivers the next installment in her increasingly popular Regan Reilly mystery series.
Carol Higgins Clark's 13th Regan Reilly mystery is an amusing and entertaining whodunit opening on Cape Cod. Regan's husband, Jack "no relation" Reilly is one of six children. His three sisters, two brothers, and their children often gather at Jack's parent's vacation home on Cape Cod. Regan and Jack join the Reilly clan for a simple family vacation on the Cape; but it turns out to be something quite different...
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Brian Freeman The Burying Place  2010 NY: St. Martin's Press
One cold night. Two shocking mysteries.
In the quiet town of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, a baby vanishes from her bedroom in an opulent lakeside home. Was she abducted - or does her father have a terrible secret to hide?
That same night, a young policewoman gets lost in the fog and stumbles into the middle of a horrific crime. Now a sadistic killer wants her to play his deadly game.
Lieutenant Jonathan Stride and his team need to move fast to save a child and stop a vicious killing spree. As fear grips the frozen winter farm lands, Stride knows that every snow-covered field may be the next burying place.
Each twist in the investigation takes Stride into an elaborate web of deceit and desire. But his biggest obstacles may be the very people he's trying to help. With everything at risk and time running out, Stride worries how far a desperate mother will go to rescue her baby - and how far a desperate cop will go to save herself.
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Iris Johansen
Eight Days to Live
 2010 NY: St. Martin's Press
Found all around the world, the cult worships Judas Iscariot, who they
believe was God's Chosen One to betray Jesus in order to fulfill a
biblical prophecy. The members know for certain that Judas is in Heaven
sitting next to God. They meet annually on April 1 to provide a human
sacrificial blood offer in Judas' name.
Jane McGuire is having an art show of her work at the Denarve Gallery
in Paris. Someone wants to spend a fortune on "Guilt", a picture of a
man whose face is tortured by internal demons. The Judas followers
believe Jane committed blasphemy with her painting; so they decide she
shall be this year's sacrifice.
The picture came to her in dreams, but
the cult thinks with the vivid details within the portrait she has been
to the holy place where an ancient treasure is concealed. They try to
grab her, however Jane escapes, but not before learning she is to be
their Offering. Jane calls the expert for advice, her adopted mom Eve
Duncan and her lover Joe. Two men are after Jane with differing
motives, but share in common that her loved ones are expendable.
Eight Days to Live is Iris
Johansen at her very best in a fresh switch in which Eve and Joe play
secondary roles while Jane stars. She calls on Caleb, a man with
psychic powers who applies them in such a way that Eve does not
approve. However he remains Jane's only hope to survive the next eight
days. This is a gripping one sitting suspense thriller.
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Christopher Moore
Bite Me
 2010 NY: HarperCollins
The undead rise again in Bite Me, the third book in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore's wonderfully twisted vampire saga.
Joining his farcical gems Bloodsucking Fiends and You Suck, Moore's latest in continuing story of young, urban, nosferatu style love, is no Twilight - but rather a tsunami of the irresistible outrageousness that has earned him the appellation, "Stephen King with a whoopee cushion and a double-espresso imagination" from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and inspired Denver's Rocky Mountain News to declare him, "the 21st century's best satirist."
A vampire cat is stalking San Francisco in Moore's serviceable latest comic horror adventure (after You Suck), and the only humans who can take him down are goth girl Abby Normal and her brainiac boyfriend, Stephen "Foo Dog" Wong. They, in turn, call upon Abby's masters, vampiric lovers Jody and Tommy, who were on the verge of breaking up until Abby decided to bronze them posed as Rodin's The Kiss.
Also in pursuit of the vampire cat and his minions are the Animals, the night stock crew at the Marina Safeway who hunt vampires in their spare time; a lunatic homeless man who calls himself the "Emperor of San Francisco"; a Japanese printmaker who wields a mean sword; and homicide detectives Rivera and Cavuto. Things become even more complicated with the arrival of three ancient vampires intent on getting some payback.
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Ridley Pearson
Kingdom Keepers 3: 
Disney in Shadow
This gripping high-tech tale will thrill every kid who has ever dreamed of sneaking into Walt Disney World after hours and wondered what happens at night, when the park is closed.
With the adventures set forth in the first books now behind them, Kingdom Keepers 3: Disney In Shadow follows the five teens as they search to find Wayne, their mentor and head Imagineer who has mysteriously gone missing. Concerned that Wayne has been abducted by the Overtakers - Disney villains, who along with other Disney characters, take over the parks when the turnstiles stop spinning, and want desperately to steer the parks to a far darker place - the five kids pick up a major clue from a close friend, Jez, whose dreams (nightmares, really) often accurately predict the future.
The very few clues from Jez's dream lead the kids into Disney's Hollywood Studios and Epcot-through imaginary worlds that become real, by imaginary kids who are real. Each clue seems tied to the last, and with the stakes growing ever higher, what starts out as a puzzle ends up as a fight for their lives.
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Jeremy Robinson
Instinct
2010 NY: St. Martin's Press
Robinson's slam-bang second Chess Team thriller (after Pulse) opens in 1995 in Vietnam's Annamite Mountains, where Dr. Anthony Weston, a cryptozoologist, is studying a strange tribe of protohumans. When a pack of the creatures attacks Weston, one of them decides he'd make a tasty snack ("he could taste the decaying flesh of some previous meal that clung to its two-inch-long canines").
Fourteen years later, Jack Sigler, head of the elite Chess Team, is searching for the source of a deadly plague known as the Brugada syndrome, which has stricken the new U.S. president. Jack (call sign "King") and his team members-Queen, Rook, Bishop, Knight, Pawn-are soon in Vietnam on the trail of a cure. There they find a vast mountain hideout with a city built of bones.
Robinson has come up with a wildly inventive yarn that reads as well on the page as it would play on a computer screen.
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When I look back, I am so impressed again
with the
life-giving power of literature.
If I were a young person today, trying to
gain a sense of
myself in the world, I would do that again by reading,
just as I
did when I was young.
(Maya
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