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Ghostwalk
by Rebecca Stott
Hardcover: May 2007
Paperback: 3 Jun 2008
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Filled with evocative descriptions of Cambridge, past and present, of seventeenth-century glassmaking, alchemy, the Great Plague, and Newton’s scientific innovations, Ghostwalk centers around a real historical mystery that Rebecca Stott has uncovered involving Newton’s alchemy.

Sacred Games : A Novel
by Vikram Chandra
Hardcover: Jan 2007
Paperback: 1 Jan 2008
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Vikram Chandra's novel draws the reader deep into the life of Inspector Sartaj Singh—and into the criminal underworld of Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India. It is is a story of friendship and betrayal, of terrible violence, of an astonishing modern city and its dark side.

Echo Park
by Michael Connelly
Hardcover: Oct 2006
Paperback: 1 Aug 2007
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More than a decade ago, Harry Bosch worked on the case of Marie Gesto, a twenty-two-year-old who went missing but was never found. Now, with the Gesto file still on his desk, Bosch gets a call from the District Attorney: A serial killer has confessed. Did Harry miss a key clue? Or is something more going on here?

Beautiful Lies : A Novel
by Lisa Unger
Hardcover: Apr 2006
Paperback: 5 Dec 2006
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Ridley Jones sets out on a quest to unlock the secrets of her murky past after the faded picture of a man, woman, and baby girl is delivered to her door with a note asking "Are you my daughter?".

The Traveler : The First Novel of the Fourth Realm Trilogy
by John Twelve Hawks
Hardcover: Jun 2005
Paperback: 18 Jul 2006
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The Traveler explores a parallel world that exists alongside our own. A world that exists in the shadows of our own. A conflict we will never see. One woman stands between those determined to control history and those who will risk their lives for freedom.

In The Shadow of The Law
by Kermit Roosevelt
Hardcover: Jun 2005
Paperback: 13 Jun 2006
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In this complex, ambitious, and gripping first novel, Kermit Roosevelt vividly illustrates the subtle and stark effects of the law on the lives of a group of lawyers, and also on communities and private citizens.

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