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Here you can see what library staff are recommending and read a summary of each book.

How To Use:
  • Select a title link to find that book's library location and availability.
  • Select the Full Review link to read the entire summary and view the book cover, both in a popup window.
  • To read previous recommendations by category, pick a category from the table to the right.

List 1 - 10 of 27 records in Adventure & Thrillers

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The Queen Jade, a Novel by Yxta Maya Murray
Lola Sanchez is a bookstore owner who enjoys her tranquil life in Southern California. When she discovers that her archeologist mother is missing, she immediately sets off to search for her in ...
Full Review (August 2009)

Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
-- also available in Large Print Book format --
Anansi Boys is a modern story tapping into the ancient myths handed down through the history of mankind. On the modern level, we meet sympathetic characters using deeply funny dialogue, and a ...
Full Review (August 2006)

Zorro by Isabel Allende ; translated by Margaret Peden
The estate of the original creator of the Zorro legend asked Isabel Allende to write the story of Zorro's childhood, and the influences that made him what he became, and Ms. Allende ...
Full Review (June 2005)

Mr. Impossible by Loretta Chase
Daphne Pembroke has arrived in Cairo, Egypt, to solve the mystery of the hieroglyphics. As a female, her expertise is disregarded, so her brother, Miles, pretends to be the scholar of the ...
Full Review (May 2005)

The Murder Stone by Charles Todd
The Great War is raging in the autumn of 1916 when Francesca Hatton’s beloved grandfather dies in the remote Exe Valley of England. He raised her and her five male cousins after ...
Full Review (December 2004)

The Color of Night by David Lindsey
Take a breath and plunge into the murky international art world of the super rich and very powerful crooks. Quiet, unassuming Harry Strand's career in the CIA comes back to haunt him ...
Full Review (October 2004)

Every Step You Take by Judith Kelman
Claire Barrow’s life is going from bad to worse. First her husband, a New York police officer, commits suicide. Now she is trying to raise her stepdaughter, Rainey, who is out of ...
Full Review (October 2004)

Death in Vienna by Daniel Silva
-- also available in Large Print Book format --
This is the fourth of Silva’s thrillers featuring Gabriel Allon, an art restorer who is also a spy for Israeli Intelligence (The Kill Artist, The Confessor and The English Assassin). Gabriel hasn’t ...
Full Review (July 2004)

Thursday Next in The Well of Lost Plots : a Novel by Jasper Fforde
After making several diabolical enemies in the line of duty during her first two novels -- The Eyre Affair and Lost In a Good Book -- literatec agent ...
Full Review (June 2004)

Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
-- also available in Book on CD format --
Everyone has a book that they read over and over again. Whether it’s because the book touches something deep in their soul, makes them laugh hysterically, or just challenges their perceptions of ...
Full Review (June 2004)

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