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September
13, 2008
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The
Devil of Nanking
by Mo Hayder
In The Devil
of Nanking, Mo Hayder spins a tale around an historical event that
was suppressed for many years and was only recently brought to the
forefront. Although the details and numbers of the Chinese civilians
murdered by Japanese soldiers during the Massacre of Nanking are
still debated, it is no longer a secret lost in denial. Weaving
fiction with fact, Mo Hayder has created a compelling and at times
intense novel that is next to impossible to put down. |
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The
Girls
by Lori Lansens
Conjoined twins Rose and
Ruby Darlen are linked at the side of the head, with separate brains
and bodies. Born in a small town outside Toronto in the midst of a
tornado and abandoned by their unwed teenage mother two weeks later,
the girls are cared for by Aunt Lovey, a nurse who refuses to see
them as deformed or even disabled.
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How
to be Lost
by Amanda Eyre Ward
Fifteen years ago, on the
day the three Winters sisters packed their most precious belongings
in their mother's Oldsmobile and planned to run away from home just
as soon as school was out, 5-year-old Ellie disappeared. The family
never recovered: their abusive father drank himself to death; their
unstable mother retreated deeper into her depression; and once-close
sisters Caroline and Madeline grew far apart.
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Saving
Fish from Drowning
by Amy Tan
Bibi Chen, San Francisco
socialite and art vendor to the stars, plans to lead a trip for 12
friends: "My friends, those lovers of art, most of them rich,
intelligent, and spoiled, would spend a week in China and arrive in
Burma on Christmas Day." Unfortunately, Bibi dies, in very
strange circumstances, before the tour begins. After wrangling about
it, the group decides to go after all.
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Once
Upon a Day
by Lisa Tucker
In the present day,
23-year-old Dorothea has left her overprotective father's secluded
35-acre New Mexico estate, called the Sanctuary, where she and her
brother, Jimmy, had been sheltered from current news and all
modern-day innovations. Searching for her runaway brother in St.
Louis, Dorothea meets a recently widowed doctor-turned-cabbie, who
introduces her to the vibrant outside world he's been trying to
escape.
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