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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — OCTOBER 2010

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Great House
Nicole Krauss

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By Nightfall
Michael Cunningham

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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Tom Franklin

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A Lily of the Field
John Lawton

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The Dead Path
Stephen M. Irwin

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The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories
Otto Penzler

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  • Lisa Kleypas

    New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas’s new series begins during the most magical time of year ONE LITTLE GIRL NEEDS A FAMILY One rain-slicked night, six-year-old Holly lost the only parent she knew, her beloved mother Victoria. And sinc...



  • Janet Dailey

    “Can Santa bring you a husband?” Montana winters are harsh, but bad weather won’t get in the way of the Calders’ Christmas reunion. Patriarch Chase Calder is determined to make this holiday the happiest yet -- especially for his daughter...



  • Heather Graham

    New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Heather Graham introduces the thrilling world of the MacDonald sisters. Born into a legacy, they balance the fate of the world and the passion that might force them to risk it all . . . At the core of...



  • Catherine Coulter

    When Garron of Kersey returns home from the king's service to claim his title as Baron Wareham, he's shocked to find Wareham Castle very nearly destroyed by a man called the Black Demon. According to the last starving servants still clinging to life...



  • Iris Johansen

    Eve Duncan won't rest until she finds the truth-- and a missing child -- in the latest adrenaline-pumping thriller from #1 blockbuster bestselling author IRIS JOHANSEN ONE WOMAN'S NIGHTMARE... A CIA agent's two-year-old child was stolen in the nigh...



  • Stephanie Laurens

    Four bold, brave, and determined ex-officers of the Crown band together to destroy the traitorous fiend known as the Black Cobra. He races to complete their mission against escalating odds--his task made more perilous when he loses his heart. She's...



  • Sharon Sala

    Torn apart years ago by a family feud and a deadly accident, high school sweethearts Haley and Mack reunite when Haley returns to town. But someone doesn't want them together and will do anything to keep them apart. Anything…...



  • R.A. Salvatore

    Drizzt joins Bruenor on his quest for the fabled dwarven kingdom of Gauntlgrym: ruins said to be rich with ancient treasure and arcane lore. But before they even get close, another drow and dwarf pair stumbles across it first: Jarlaxle and Athrogate....



  • John Grisham

    An innocent man is about to be executed. Only a guilty man can save him. For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty one left on the outside. He doesn't understand how the police and prosecutors got the wrong man, and he certainly ...



  • Karen Kingsbury

    SHE TOOK A STAND ... HE TOOK A CHANCE Holden Harris is an eighteen-year-old locked in a prison of autism. Despite his quiet ways and quirky behaviors, Holden is very happy and socially normal -- on the inside, in a private world all his own. In real...



  • Robyn Carr
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    These are New Year's resolutions worth keeping! Take a risk. At the inaugural New Year's Eve party at Jack's Bar, two lonely revelers decide the best balm for their broken hearts might just be each other. Find the perfect work/life balance. ...



  • Lorraine Heath

    Known throughout London for his prowess in the bedroom, Morgan Lyons, the 8th Earl of Westcliffe, cannot forgive an unpardonable affront to his honor. Discovering his young bride in the arms of his brother was a staggering blow -- so he banished the ...



  • B.J. Daniels

    LOCKED AND LOADED, B.J. DANIELS IS BACK WITH MORE WINCHESTERS OF WHITEHORSE Cyrus Winchester's last attempt at helping a damsel in distress led to a coma and a stay in the Whitehorse hospital. But the Montana private investigator can't seem to shake...



  • Michael Connelly

    Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller never thought he would cross the aisle and work for the prosecution -- until imprisoned child killer Jason Jessup is granted a retrial based on new DNA evidence. Convinced Jessup is guilty, Haller takes the cas...



  • William W. Johnstone

    Cotton Pickens made it through fifth grade. That and a tin star were good enough to make him the sheriff in the boomtown of Doubtful, Wyoming. And Doubtful’s name is no accident. The saying around town is, If you’re a lawman, it’s doubtful you�...



  • Lora Leigh

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Lora Leigh returns to the world of the Breeds, where mating is a carnal craving and a primal pleasure that cannot be denied... When Storme Montague's father and brother are killed by the Breeds, her father's rese...



  • Robyn Donald

    Sizzling affair... With the body of a Greek god, a tycoon's wealth and all the emotion of cold, hard marble, Luke Michelakis is an enigma. Intimidated and out of her depth in his glamorous world, Iona Guthrie has consigned their brief passionate...



  • Lee Child

    There's deadly trouble in the corn country of Nebraska .. and Jack Reacher walks right into it. First he falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it's the unsolved, decades-old case of a missing...



  • Margaret Way

    If only the society beauties jostling for the bouquet, hoping to become Mrs. Garrick Rylance, knew that the dashing best man in question has eyes for only one woman…. Bridesmaid Zara was his friend, his lover -- but that was five years ago, befo...



  • Joan Johnston

    Bella Benedict's five grown children are scattered around the world like a handful of precious jewels. Now she's dying and she has one last, secret wish. To bring her children home. And to give them what she once had: a marriage of passion. Wealth...



  • M.C. Beaton

    This Christmas, be careful what you wish for... Cranky yet lovable Agatha Raisin has always been ambivalent about holiday cheer, though her cozy village of Carsely has long prided itself on its Christmas festivities. Until now. This year, local He...



  • Robert B. Parker

    Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange -- money for a stolen painting. The case becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect h...



  • Colleen Coble

    A thrilling romantic mystery set in the lush Victorian age. Central Operator Katie Russell's inquisitive ways have just uncovered her parents' plan for her marriage to wealthy bachelor Bartholomew Foster. Her heart is unmoved, but she knows the ma...



  • Carolyn Brown

    HE'S JUST DOING HIS JOB... If Hank Wells thinks he can dig up dirt on the new owner of the Honky Tonk beer joint for his employer, he's got no idea what kind of trouble he's courting... SHE'S NOT GOING DOWN WITHOUT A FIGHT... If any dime store cow...



  • J.R. Ward

    Seven deadly sins. Seven souls that must be saved. One more no-holds-barred battle between a fallen angel with a hardened heart and a demon with everything to lose. Isaac Rothe is a black ops soldier with a dark past and a grim future. The target o...



  • Sarah MacLean

    When artfully attempting to land a lord, a lady must always remain highly mysterious...and make him chase her. "Lord Nicholas is a paragon of manhood. And his eyes, Dear Reader! So blue!" Pearls and Pelisses, June 1823 Since being named London...



  • Richard Paul Evans

    "As you read my story, there is something I want you to understand. That in spite of all the pain -- past, present and that still to come -- I wouldn’t have done anything differently. Nor would I trade the time I had with him for anything -- except...



  • Joanne Fluke
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    When Hannah Swensen finds her neighbor Ernie Kusak with his head bashed in and sprawled on the floor of his condo next to an upended box of Hannah’s Gingerbread Cookies, she discovers a flurry of murder suspects that’s as long as her holiday shop...



  • Dean Koontz

    The chilling account of a pivotal encounter between innocence and ultimate malice, Darkness Under the Sun is the perfect read for Halloween -- or for any haunted night -- and reveals a secret, fateful turning point in the career of Alton Turner Black...



  • Dean Koontz

    When things get scary, it’s nice to know that Odd is on our side. The one and only Odd Thomas is back -- in his second edgy and enthralling graphic-novel adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling suspense master Dean Koontz.It’s Halloween...



  • Carla Neggers

    A new day. A new danger. The small town of Black Falls, Vermont, finally feels safe again -- until search-and-rescue expert Rose Cameron discovers a body, burnt almost beyond recognition. Almost. Rose is certain that she knows the victim's identity....



  • Maureen Child

    Scrooge had moved in next door and Ivy Holloway was at his mercy. Billionaire Tanner King wanted her year-round Christmas-tree farm shut down so he could have his peace and quiet. He had enough money and power to do it, too. Leaving Ivy with only one...



  • Suzanne Enoch

    For proper young ladies, good behavior has always been the rule. Captain Bradshaw Carroway loves the seafaring life -- though he'd rather be battling brigands than his current assignment of ferrying a boatload of spoiled aristocrats. One passe...



  • Barbara Taylor Bradford

    From the blockbuster bestselling author of A Woman of Substance and The Ravenscar Dynasty comes an explosive novel about one woman's remarkable journey to success. Annette Remmington is a London art consultant and private dealer. With a roster of ...



  • Gena Showalter

    New York Times bestselling sensation Gena Showalter enthralls with a dark, tantalizing world of humans, otherworlders, powers beyond imagining, and a seductive vampire undone by his insatiable hunger for one woman. . . . Growing up poor on New Chica...



  • Tracie Peterson

    SHE WAS CERTAIN SHE COULD STRIKE A MATCH... After being educated in the East, Deborah Vandermark returns to Perkinsville, Texas, where her family is part of the thriving logging industry. She brings along an unexpected companion -- her best friend, ...



  • Lori Wilde

    “On Christmas Eve, if you sleep with kismet cookies under your pillow and dream of your one true love, he will be your destiny.” The townsfolk of Twilight, Texas, believe the legend, but not Sarah Collier -- not since she was a pudgy teenager, r...



  • Rick Riordan

    JASON HAS A PROBLEM. He doesn't remember anything before waking up in a bus full of kids on a field trip. Apparently he has a girlfriend named Piper, and his best friend is a guy named Leo. They're all students at the Wilderness School, a boarding sc...



  • Rick Riordan

    A BOOK TO SAVE THE WORLD The book in your hands is the ultimate source of Cahill knowledge. It contains every buried secret, every Cahill weapon or gadget, all the strongholds, and each agent and founder. In it, you will discover the true story of M...



  • Bertrice Small

    Aware of the covetous interest in his land, the laird of Brae Aisir announces that any man who can outrun, outride, and outfight his headstrong granddaughter "Mad Maggie" will have her as a wife-along with her inheritance. His proposition cau...



  • Julia London

    In 1792, the village of Hadley Green executed a man for stealing the Countess of Ashwood’s historic jewels. Fifteen years later, questions still linger. Was it a crime of greed -- or of passion? When Declan O’Connor, Earl of Donnelly, arrives at...



  • Mercedes Lackey

    Magpie is a thirteen-year-old orphan chosen by one of the magical Companion horses of Valdemar and taken to the capital city, Haven, to be trained as a Herald. Like all Heralds, Magpie learns that he has a hidden Gift-the Gift of telepathy. But l...



  • Sheila Roberts

    Discover an unforgettable holiday treasure in Sheila Roberts’ heartwarming tale of love and laughter, magic and miracles, friendship and coming home… On a blustery afternoon, Kylie Gray wanders into an antique shop and buys an enchanting snow ...



  • Cynthia Eden
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    Good girl toy inventor Christie takes a walk on the naughty side when she sparks a no-strings fling with Santa -- actually, sexy cop Jonas in a Santa suit. She loves her new “bad girl” persona, except as the holidays approach, she starts falling,...



  • Anne Perry

    Once again, the distinguished mathematician Henry Rathbone is approached to help solve a mystery. This time, the call comes from an old friend whose son has gone missing--and just before the Christmas holiday. Now in his early twenties, Lucien has kn...



  • Geronimo Stilton

    Geronimo has always been a 'fraidy mouse, and his super-sporty friend Bruce Hyena decides that he needs to help Geronimo learn to keep calm in extreme situations. Bruce puts Geronimo to the test through encounters with scary animals and weather in co...



  • Geronimo Stilton

    Return of the Kingdom of Fantasy with Geronimo Stilton! I, Geronimo Stilton, never expected to return to the Kingdom of Fantasy. But when I received a letter from Blossom, the Queen of the Fairies, asking for my help, I had to respond. It turned ou...



  • Connie Mason

    Even with her gift of the Sight, never had Elspeth Stewart imagined her wedding would be interrupted by a dark-haired stranger charging in on a black stallion, scooping her into his arms, and carrying her off across the wild Scottish highlands. With ...



  • Rochelle Alers

    Denise Eaton is proud of the day-care business she built from scratch. But now the scion of this Philadelphia family dynasty could lose everything. The man who holds the key to her future? None other than Rhett Ferrell, the man she passionately loved...



  • Beverly Jenkins

    In a time of peril, she fears nothing--except the forbidden passions of her heart. In Boston, revolution is in the wind--yet none would ever suspect Faith Kingston of treason. But under cover of darkness, the beautiful daughter of a Tory tavern ow...


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