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By: Nora Roberts

Fiction

Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley is a long way from Hollywood. And that’s exactly how Cilla McGowan wants it. Cilla, a former child star who has found more satisfying work as a restorer of old houses, has come to her grandmother’s farmhouse, tools at her side, to rescue it from ruin. Sadly, no one was able to save her grandmother, the legendary Janet Hardy. An actress with a tumultuous life, Janet entertained glamorous guests and engaged in decadent affairs—but died of an overdose in this very house more than thirty years earlier. To this day, Janet haunts Cilla’s dreams. And during waking hours, Cilla is haunted by her melodramatic, five-times-married mother, who carried on in the public spotlight and never gave her a chance at a normal childhood. By coming east, rolling up her sleeves, and rehabbing this wreck of a house, Cilla intends to find some kind of normalcy for herself.

Released on July 8, 2008

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Silent Thunder
By: Iris Johansen

Fiction/Mystery

Hannah Bryson, a top-notch submarine designer, and her brother, Conner, must make sure that a Russian nuclear submarine, the Silent Thunder, recently purchased by the U.S. government for use as a maritime museum, is safe for visitors. Working alone on the sub in a Maine harbor, the two make a strange discovery that’s swiftly followed by a deadly attack. Others, both Russian and American, want what the Brysons have uncovered and will stop at nothing to obtain it. One Russian, Nicolas Kirov, has a special interest in the submarine as well as a growing interest in the feisty, beautiful Hannah. The constantly bickering Hannah and Kirov are forced to work together for a common goal as they fight various enemies and, of course, fall in love.

Released on July 8, 2008

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Last Patriot
By: Brad Thor

Fiction/Thriller

In Thor’s intriguing seventh Scot Horvath novel, Scot, a former navy SEAL who’s recently quit working for Homeland Security, pursues a mystery involving a recently discovered ancient Koran. Differing from the original, this Koran suggests a secret exists that, if revealed, will change the entire nature of the warlike extremist versions of Islam. In a pulse-pounding, adrenaline-charged tour de force, Navy SEAL turned covert Homeland Security operative Scot Harvath must race to locate an ancient secret that has the power to stop militant Islam dead in its tracks.

Released on July 1, 2008

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My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike
By: Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction

This book is an unexpurgated first-person narrative of nineteen-year-old Skyler Rampike, the only surviving child of an “infamous” American family. A decade ago the Rampikes were destroyed by the murder of Skyler’s six-year-old ice-skating champion sister, Bliss, and the media scrutiny that followed. Part investigation into the unsolved murder; part elegy for the lost Bliss and for Skyler’s own lost childhood; and part corrosively funny exposé of the pretensions of upper-middle-class American suburbia, this captivating novel explores with unexpected sympathy and subtlety the intimate lives of those who dwell in Tabloid Hell.

Released on July 1, 2008

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Fool’s Gold
Starring Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey and Donald Sutherland
Rated PG-13

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If You Like…Summer Fiction

Summer is here! Grab a summer themed book and hit the beach!

Fiction
Summer in Tuscany by Elizabeth Adler
A Summer to Remember by Mary Balogh
Farewell Summer by Ray Bradbury
The Last Summer of You and Me by Ann Brashares
The Summer Guest by Justin Cronin
The Summer I Dared by Barbara Delinsky
Summer Island by Kristin Hannah
The Summer Country by James Hetley
Still Summer by Jacquelyn Mitchard
July July by Tim O’Brien
Summer Snow by Rebecca Pawel
Summer Light by Luanne Rice
Summer of Roses by Luanne Rice
Summer in the Country by Marcia Willett
Fireworks by Elizabeth Winthrop
Summer Reading by Hilma Wolitzer

New Books
Summers at Blue Lake by Jill Althouse-Wood
The Summer Snow by Nicole Baart
My Summer of Southern Discomfort by Stephanie Gayle
Summer People by Brian Groh
Barefoot by Elin Hilderbrand
A Summer Affairby Elin Hilderbrand
Dead of Summer by Camilla Way

DVD Releases for July

July 1st
Drillbit Talyor
My Blueberry Nights
Vantage Point

July 8th
Stop Loss

July 15th
College Road Trip
Penelope

July 22nd
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