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August 13, 2005
NEW FICTION--JUNE, JULY, AUGUST (Part 1)
Some of the New Fiction added to the collection from June through the August 1:
Island of Saints: A Story of the One Principle that Frees the Human Spirit by Andy Andrews (NEW AND)--The author uncovers a box of WWII relics under a tree in his yard on a Gulf Coast island and discovers the story of a stranded U-Boat captain and a lonely, embittered widow who saves him
Blood of Angels by Reed Arvin (NEW ARV)--Nashville D.A., Tom Dennehy, may have sent the wrong man to Death Row and is now possibly a target of the "real" killer (or is it?) in this legal thriller
Three Day Road Joseph Boyden (NEW BOY)--Two Canadian Cree friends go to France in WWI as snipers, but lose their way and their friendship as the war drags on
Death Watch by Jack Cavanaugh and Jerry Kuiper (NEW CAV)--Los Angeles TV reporter, Sydney St. James discovers a new terrorist plot when people start receiving letters that say they will die (and they do die shortly thereafter); she is aided in her investigation by a renowned German broadcaster as well as her Evangelical Christian faith
Incendiary by Chris Cleave (NEW )--In a letter she writes to Osama Bin Laden, a London widow tells how her life has fallen apart after her husband and son were killed by a terrorist bomb at a soccer match
The Poet of Loch Ness by Brian Jay Corrigan (NEW COR)--The wife of a scholar researching Nessie discovers that their guide to the Loch is a long-lost sweetheart
Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham (NEW CUN)--Ghosts, aliens, machines, Artificial Intelligence, and terrorists are found in three stories about Manhattan at different time periods, two set in the future
The Summer We Got Saved by Pat Cunningham Devoto (NEW DEV)--An Alabama small-town family struggles with the effects of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960's
Genevieve by Eric Jerome Dickey (NEW DIC)--Sensual story of a successful couple who return to the wife's backwoods home when her father dies and they get caught up in secrets, sex, and family disfunction
Sun and Shadow: An Erik Winter Novel by Åke Edwardson; translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson (NEW EDW)--Swedish police detective, Erik Winter, investigates a double murder in Gothenburg while coping with birth and death in his own family
The Loss of Leon Meed by Josh Emmons (NEW EMM)--54 year old Leon Meed appears and disappears in the lives of various residents of Eureka, California, affecting them in "crucial ways"
The Smoke Room by Earl Emerson (NEW EME)--Rookie Seattle firefighter, Jason Gum, gets involved with an older woman as an arsonist keeps him busy on the job and $12 million worth of stolen bearer bonds present a motive for betrayal by fellow firefighters
Posted by egvpl at August 13, 2005 06:54 AM