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Lean Mean Thirteen
Janet Evanovich

Fiction/Mystery

In the thirteenth book in the series, the stakes are raised even higher as Stephanie Plum finds herself in her most dangerous, hilarious and hottest chase yet. With her loveably offbeat family along for the ride (as well as a few new faces), there’s no doubt that the Stephanie Plum novels put the “fun” in dysfunctional, and it’s clear to see why they’re called “Hot Stuff” by the New York Times and why Evanovich herself is called “the master.”

Releases June 19, 2007

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On Chesil Beach
Ian McEwan

Fiction

It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an earnest young history student at University College of London, who unexpectedly wooed and won her heart. Newly married that morning, both virgins, Edward and Florence arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their worries about the wedding night to come. Edward, eager for rapture, frets over Florence’s response to his advances and nurses a private fear of failure, while Florence’s anxieties run deeper: she is overcome by sheer disgust at the idea of physical contact, but dreads disappointing her husband when they finally lie down together in the honeymoon suite.

Releases June 5, 2007

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The Navigator
Clive Cussler

Fiction/Thriller

Years before the current Gulf war, a diminutive statue was stolen from the Baghdad Museum. For some reason, this missing Phoenician icon has recently attracted marked interest among men not readily identifiable as art connoisseurs. In fact, the men who seek the so-called Navigator are ruthless killers who have already struck once. Saving the life of a UN investigator, Curt Austin and Zavala learn of this homicidal quest firsthand, thus beginning NUMA’s full immersion into a mystery of Da Vinci Code dimensions. A rip-roaring Clive Cussler page-turner.

Releases June 5, 2007

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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah

Biography

This firsthand account by Sierra Leone native Ishmael Beah gives insight into the ghastly, life-shattering experience of children enlisted as soldiers. Beah was only 13 when he was handed an AK-47 and sent off to the killing fields. A bracing memoir about a survivor in a world gone mad.

Released February 2007

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Bad Luck and Trouble
Lee Child

From the first shocking scenes in Lee Child’s explosive new novel, Jack Reacher is plunged like a knife into the heart of a conspiracy that is killing old friends…and is on its way to something even worse. Because in a world of bad luck and trouble, when someone targets Jack Reacher and his team,they’d better be ready for what comes right back at them…

Releases May 15, 2007

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A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini

Fiction

Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love.

Releases May 22, 2007

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Stomp The Yard
aka Steppin

Drama

A young man finds that the moves he learned on the street may help him make a better life for himself in this youth-oriented musical drama.

Releases May 15, 2007

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Music and Lyrics
starring Drew Barrymore, Hugh Grant

Comedy/Romance

A professional collaboration between a popular lyricist and a washed-up musician takes a decidedly personal turn as the pair gradually finds their relationship developing into something much deeper in a romantic comedy directed by Marc Lawrence and starring Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant.

Releases May 8, 2007

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Because I said so
starring Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore

Comedy

Diane Keaton stars as a unconditionally loving, but meddling, mother whose vain attempt to prevent her insecure youngest daughter from repeating the same mistakes that she made leads to a series of comic misunderstandings in director Michael Lehmann’s affectionate family comedy.

Releases May 8, 2007

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