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The Lord of Death
by Eliot Pattison
Hardcover: Jun 2009
Paperback: 1 Jun 2010
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A government bus filled with imprisoned illegal monks has overturned. Two women in an approaching sedan have been killed. Now Shan, an exiled Chinese national and a former Beijing investigator, must find the murderer.

Every Man Dies Alone
by Hans Fallada
Hardcover: Mar 2009
Paperback: 30 Mar 2010
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This never-before-translated masterpiece—by a heroic best-selling writer who saw his life crumble under the Nazis— is based on a true story. It presents a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis and tells the sweeping saga of one working-class couple who decides to take a stand when their only son is killed at the front.

Freeze Frame : The Fourth of the Enzo Files
by Peter May
Hardcover: Mar 2010
Paperback: 1 Mar 2010
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A promise made to a dying man leads forensics ace Enzo Macleod to the study which the man's heir has preserved for nearly twenty years. Enzo rashly boasted he could solve the case - but that proves to be more difficult than he thought...

Museum of Human Beings
by Colin Sargent
Hardcover: Dec 2008
Paperback: 1 Nov 2009
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A Shoshone woman, Sacagawea, leads Lewis and Clark to the Pacific at the turn of the 19th century. On her back is her infant son, Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, the youngest member of the Expedition - a child caught between two worlds.

The Man in the Wooden Hat
by Jane Gardam
Hardcover: Oct 2009
Paperback: 27 Oct 2009
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Old Filth has been acclaimed as Jane Gardam’s masterpiece, a book where life and art merge. And now that beautiful, haunting novel has been joined by a companion that also bursts with humor and wisdom: The Man in the Wooden Hat.

Curse of the Pogo Stick
by Colin Cotterill
Hardcover: Jul 2008
Paperback: 1 Aug 2009
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In the engaging fifth entry in Cotterill's unusual crime series set in 1970s Laos, A Pogo Stick Brings a Curse Down upon a Hmong Village.

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