The Likeness by Tana French.

This novel finds Detective Cassie Maddox still scarred by her last case. When her boyfriend calls her to a chilling murder scene, Cassie is forced to face her inner demons. A young woman has been found stabbed to death outside Dublin, and the victim looks just like Cassie.

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Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood.

The impeccable prose of Lady Caroline Blackwood reads like some kind of deranged bedtime stories told by a ghastly/gorgeous Colony Room habitué to members of a debauched and defrocked Anglo-Irish aristocracy. She’s a Guinness… you must know, and her novel Great Granny Webster is for those of us who like their Big House Ascendancy to Oblivion novels just a wee bit darker and funnier; I mean grimmer. Great Granny Webster is a gothic delight.

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Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon.

As the marijuana haze of the free love 1960s begins to fade, Doc Sportello drifts in and out of awareness. He hasn't seen his girlfriend in a long time. Then one day she shows up and rattles off a fantastic story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer--and Doc can't help but get drawn in.

A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick.

When Ralph Truitt, a wealthy businessman in a remote nineteenth-century Wisconsin town, advertises for a reliable wife, his ad is answered by Catherine Land, a woman who makes every effort to hide her own dark secrets. A well-written page turner that should not be missed!

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson.

Forty years after the disappearance of Harriet Vanger from the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family, her octogenarian uncle hires journalist Mikael Blomqvist and Lisbeth Salander, an unconventional young hacker, to investigate.

Maureen says, "It is rare that I read something that is on a best sellers list, but this book was great. Larsson creates such vivid characters and an unpredictable plot."

The Wishing Year by Noelle Oxenhandler.

Is there power in desire? A writer and skeptic explore this question from a personal and philosophical point of view. She describes her work as "a memoir of fulfilled desires" and asks why when we grow older does the principal of pleasure always get pushed aside for the "reality principal"? The joy of wishing like when you were a kid rarely comes to adults except in dreams which of course leave us the minute we wake. We’re too old for such nonsense. The novelist puts her skepticism to the test in a year of wishing for things yearned for and things needed while giving us a look at the past connections to desires through philosophers, psychiatry, religion and written works on this very subject. The desire to aspire is a pleasure in itself.

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Food Matters: a guide to conscience eating with more than 75 recipes by Mark Bittman.

The "Minimalist" columnist and author of How to Cook Everything outlines an eating plan that is comprised of environmentally responsible choices, in a guide that shares insight into the risks associated with livestock production.

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Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut.

When the local outcast of Thames Valley is found shot to death, Detective-Superintendent Mike Yeadings investigates the old woman's murder and quickly comes up with a long list of suspects. – Baker & Taylor

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Dewey: the small town library cat who touched the world by Vicki Myron.

Traces the author's discovery of a half-frozen kitten in the drop-box of her small-community Iowa library and the feline's development into an affable library mascot whose intuitive nature prompted hundreds of abiding friendships, in a tale told against a backdrop of the town's struggles with the 1980s farm crisis.

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon.

Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.

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The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt.

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 forces.

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The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown.

Symbologist Robert Langdon returns in this new thriller follow-up to The Da Vinci Code as he delves into the world of Freemasonry to rescue his kidnapped mentor, prominent Mason and philanthropist Peter Solomon.

From Here to Eternity (DVD)

Drama about life in the Army in the days prior to World War II. Shows the effect of Army discipline on an individualistic former boxing champion who defies the attempts of officers and men to break him when he refuses to fight on the company's boxing team. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

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Diet for a New America by John Robbins.

Takes a hard look at the average American's diet and the health problems it causes, describes the methods used in raising and slaughtering animals for our meat and poultry, and suggests healthful alternatives. Written by the son of one of the co-founders of Baskin-Robbins, Robbins left it all behind to follow a more rewarding lifestyle.

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The Strain by Guillermo del Toro.

Abraham Setrakian, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust, joins forces with CDC specialist Eph Goodweather to battle a vampiric virus that has infected NewYork in this first installment in a thrilling trilogy about a horrifying battle between man and vampire that threatens all humanity.