Dust by Patricia Cornwell: After
working one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, Scarpetta returns home
to Cambridge, Massachusetts, when she receives an unsettling call. The body of
a young woman has been discovered on the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology's rugby field and physical evidence links the case to a series of
uniquely weird homicides in Washington, D.C., where Scarpetta's FBI husband has
been deployed to help capture a serial killer dubbed the Capital Murderer. Check Availability
Sins of the Flesh by Coleen McCullough: It's August 1969 in the sleepy college town of Holloman,
Connecticut, and police Captain Carmine Delmonico is away on vacation. Back at
home, first one, then two anonymous male corpses turn up--emaciated and
emasculated. Sergeant Delia Carstairs and Lieutenant Abe Goldberg connect the
victims to four other bodies, and suddenly they realize Holloman has a
psychopathic killer on the loose. Luckily Carmine decides to come back from
vacation early. Carmine's team begins to circle a trio of eccentrics living on
a beautiful estate; they readily admit to knowing all the victims, but their
stories keep changing. They share a dark past, family ties, and painful memories.
One of them is a woman who has recently become a friend of Delia's, along with
another woman who is the respected head of the insane asylum. She has done
groundbreaking work rehabilitating one very difficult patient who is now her
most trusted assistant. The three women met while rescuing a cat from a tree,
and now they find they share a love of intelligent conversation and their
enjoyment of living the single life. When a gas station attendant is viciously
murdered, and then Carmine barely escapes being next in the body count, it
becomes apparent that Holloman has two killers at large with two completely
different modus operandi. Suddenly the summer isn't so sleepy any more. Check Availability
Stella Bain by Anita Shreve: An
epic story, set against the backdrop of World War I, from bestselling author
Anita Shreve. When an American woman, Stella Bain, is found suffering from
severe shell shock in an exclusive garden in London, surgeon August Bridge and
his wife selflessly agree to take her in. A gesture of goodwill turns into
something more as Bridge quickly develops a clinical interest in his
houseguest. Stella had been working as a nurse's aide near the front, but she
can't remember anything prior to four months earlier when she was found wounded
on a French battlefield. In a narrative that takes us from London to America
and back again, Shreve has created an engrossing and wrenching tale about love
and the meaning of memory, set against the haunting backdrop of a war that
destroyed an entire generation. Check Availability
By Martin Cruz Smith: When
the brilliant and fearless young reporter Tatiana Petrovna--based on the
real-life journalist Anna Politkovskaya--falls to her death from a sixth-floor
window in Moscow in the same week that notorious mob billionaire Grisha
Grigorenko is shot in the back of the head, Renko finds himself on the trail of
a mystery as complex and dangerous as modern Russia itself. The body of an
elite government translator shows up on the bleak sand dunes of Kalingrad and
the possession he was killed for is nothing but a cryptic notebook with
drawings of animals and symbols. A frantic hunt begins to locate and decipher
this notebook, a copy of which falls into the hands of Zhenya, the closest
thing Renko has to a son--who does not realize that the document will put his
life in grave danger. In a fast-changing and lethal race to uncover what this
translator knew, and how he planned to reveal it to the world, Renko makes a
startling discovery that propells him deeper into Tatiana's past--and, at the
same time, paradoxically, into Russia's future. Check Availability
Man of Steel (DVD): A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this
Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he
was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world
from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.
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