Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional books set mainly in the present day (2000-current).
Contemporary
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High and Mighty: SUVs--The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way
by Keith Bradsher
Hardcover: Sep 2002
Paperback: Jan 2004
The auto industry wants us to believe that SUVs are safer and "greener" than ordinary cars, but the reality is they poorly protect occupants and inflict horrific damage in crashes, they guzzle gasoline, and they are hard to control. Bradsher ...
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Engaged to Die
by Carolyn Hart
Hardcover: Mar 2003
Paperback: Jan 2004
Love is in the air, but alas, so is murder, as Carolyn Hart's delightful married sleuths set out once again on their separate trails to catch a killer.
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Close To Home
by Peter Robinson
Hardcover: Feb 2003
Paperback: Jan 2004
Detective Inspector Alan Banks has never forgotten the disappearance and presumed death of his best friend in the summer of 1965. When the tragic bones are shockingly unearthed and identified more than 35 years later, the imagined skeleton in the ...
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Revenge Of The Middle-Aged Woman
by Elizabeth Buchan
Hardcover: Feb 2003
Paperback: Jan 2004
Full of humor, clever insight, and a whimsical sense of the absurd - an irresistible and finely written fantasy for anyone who ever wondered what a certain age would look like from beyond the looking-glass.
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Resurrection Men: An Inspector Rebus Novel
by Ian Rankin
Hardcover: Feb 2003
Paperback: Jan 2004
With the brilliant eye for character and place that have made him a major international bestseller, Ian Rankin delivers yet another page-turning novel of intricate suspense set in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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The Cat Who Brought Down The House
by Lilian Jackson Braun
Hardcover: Feb 2003
Paperback: Jan 2004
The twenty-fifth volume in this bestselling series, featuring small town reporter Jim Qwilleran and his cats with their uncanny intuition. The inhabitants of Pickax are abuzz with the news that a native of Moose County is retiring from a long ...
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Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World
by Greg Critser
Hardcover: Jan 2003
Paperback: Jan 2004
Critser's portrait of Fat America including forays into the diabetes ward of a major children's hospital make Fat Land a chilling but eloquent portrait of the cost in human lives - many of them very young lives - of America's obesity ...
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The Bone Vault
by Linda Fairstein
Hardcover: Jan 2003
Paperback: Jan 2004
Atmospheric, chilling, and rich with the kind of procedural authenticity that only Linda Fairstein can provide, The Bone Vault is a page-turning tour de force from one of crime writing's brightest stars.
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A Cold Heart
by Jonathan Kellerman
Hardcover: Apr 2003
Paperback: Dec 2003
As more and more killings are discovered, unraveling the maddening puzzle assumes a chilling new importance—stopping a vicious psychopath who's made cold-blood murder his chosen art form.
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The King of Torts
by John Grisham
Hardcover: Feb 2003
Paperback: Dec 2003
A young public defender stumbles on a conspiracy too horrible to believe, and soon finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies looking at an enormous settlement that would totally change ...
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Reversible Errors
by Scott Turow
Hardcover: Nov 2002
Paperback: Nov 2003
A supercharged, exquisitely suspenseful novel about a vicious triple murder and the man condemned to die for it.
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Prey
by Michael Crichton
Hardcover: Nov 2002
Paperback: Nov 2003
Drawing on up-to-the-minute scientific fact, Crichton's new novel is a breathtaking tale of suspense about a mechanical plague and the desperate efforts of a handful of scientists to stop it.
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The Sleeping Father
by Matthew Sharpe
Paperback: Oct 2003
'At once tragic and madcap, Sharpe's second novel offers an acidly funny portrait of a 'diminished nuclear unit' coping with its patriarch's pharmacologically induced stroke.'
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Another Day In Paradise: International Humanitarian Workers Tell Their Stories
by Carol Bergman
Hardcover: Oct 2003
Humanitarian workers define courage in the 21st century. This book gives voice to their stories, to their ability to survive
in the face of death, to their humanity to one another and to those they seek
to serve.
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Four Blind Mice: An Alex Cross Thriller
by James Patterson
Hardcover: Nov 2002
Paperback: Oct 2003
Alex Cross returns in the most harrowing case of his career—one that risks the life of his closest friend and partner, John Sampson.
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A Well-Known Secret
by Jim Fusilli
Hardcover: Oct 2002
Paperback: Oct 2003
'Combines a brilliantly conceived plot, droll wit, often-outrageous characters, moody prose, and atmospheric descriptions of a gritty, post-September 11 New York. A winner on all fronts.'
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Saffy's Angel
by Hilary McKay
Hardcover: May 2002
Paperback: Sep 2003
Unforgettable characters come alive in often deeply humorous and always absorbing events to make a book to be treasured for a long, long time. Reading age approx 10 yrs+.
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The Last Place: A Tess Monaghan Mystery
by Laura Lippman
Hardcover: Oct 2002
Paperback: Aug 2003
"Lippman, reporter for the Baltimore Sun, excels at vivid portraits of her town's offbeat neighborhoods, hangouts and inhabitants. Seen through the eyes of her protagonist--a smart, funny P.I. named Tess Monaghan--Baltimore is never dull."
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The Demon In The Freezer
by Richard Preston
Hardcover: Oct 2002
Paperback: Aug 2003
A team of leading US scientists are doing controversial experiments with live smallpox virus at CDC. Preston takes us into the lab where they are reawakening smallpox and explains, with cool and devastating precision, what may be at stake if this ...
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I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother
by Allison Pearson
Hardcover: Oct 2002
Paperback: Aug 2003
In a novel that is at once uproariously funny and achingly sad, Allison Pearson captures the guilty secret lives of working women--the self-recrimination, the comic deceptions, the giddy exhaustion, the despair--as no other writer has.
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