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HOBBS PUBLIC LIBRARY |
LIBRARY FOCUS - December 10, 2006
NEW SCIENCE FICTION AND MYSTERIES ARE ADDED AT LIBRARY
Author Harry Turtledove continues his Crosstime Traffic series with The Disunited States of America. The characters can't go forward or back in time, but can only travel sideways in another timeline where history turned out differently. Now, Justin's family goes to another Virginia, in a timeline where the American states never became a single country.
In The Android's Dream by John Scalzi, Earth is on the verge of war with a vastly superior alien race. One man races against time and a host of enemies to find the one thing that can save our planet and our people from enslavement: a sheep.
Jack McDevitt's new one is Odyssey. In a time when the greenhouse effect is taking its toll on Earth, the Academy sends a manned starship into deep space to learn the truth about moonriders, strange lights being seen in nearby systems. But this is no harmless phenomenon. The moonriders are dangerous in a way that no one could have imagined.
Michael Flynn's new novel revolves around one small town in Germany that has disappeared over the centuries and never been resettled. Tom, a contemporary historian, and his physicist girlfriend, Sharon, become interested. By all logic, the town should have survived. So what's so special about Eifelheim?
Mysteries include Maggie Barbieri's Murder 101. English professor Alison Bergeron teaches at a small college on the banks of the Hudson River. She's recently divorced and her car has been stolen. Then two NYPD detectives stop by her office to say her car has been found...but the body of one of her students is in the trunk.
Ian Rankin's Bleeding Hearts stars Michael Weston, a professional assassin who is paid well to do his work and ask no questions. But after a successful mission in London, the police are immediately on his tail, which makes him wonder if he was set up from the start.
Parnell Hall's puzzle lady, Cora Felton, is back in You Have the Right To Remain Puzzled. This time she's not only been accused of plagiarism, but murder as well.
Caterer and sleuth Faith Fairchild is also back in "The Body in the Ivy" by Katherine Hall Page. Faith has been hired for a weeklong reunion of eight classmates, but the dream job turns into a nightmare when she realizes she's trapped with a group of murder suspects.
Benjamin Franklin said, "Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience."
See you at the library!
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