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Customer Picks
July 2004
Last Act in Palmyra by Lindsey Davis
"It's A.D. 72, Rome, and Emperor Vespasian offers sometime-sleuth Marcus Didius Falco an assignment in the East. Falco's assignment soon becomes a nightmare when he finds the corpse of a Roman playwright in a sacred pool. To ferret out the murderer, Falco joins the traveling theater group the man belonged to--putting his dramatic and detection skills to the ultimate test."
Recommended by Maggie King
$6.50
King Rat by China Mieville
"Something has murdered Saul Garamond's father and left Saul to pay for the crime, but a shadow from the urban waste of London breaks into Saul's prison cell and leads him to freedom. The shadow, called King Rat, reveals Saul's royal heritage, which opens a new world for Saul, but also drags him into King Rat's plan for revenge."
Recommended by Jennifer Hancock
$14.95
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
"Twelve-year-old Artemis is a millionaire, a genius -- and, above all, a criminal mastermind. But Artemis doesn't know what he's taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. These aren't the fairies of bedtime stories -- they're dangerous! Full of unexpected twists and turns, Artemis Fowl is a riveting, magical adventure."
Recommended by Katie Hannah
$7.99
Graves Gate by Dennis Burges
"Arthur Conan Doyle and two intrepid investigators seek the truth about an occult practice in a stunning novel reminiscent of "The Alienist." This chilling story set in post-World War I London, traverses the strange and frightening intersection between spiritualism and early psychiatry."
Recommended by Susan Astin
$25.00
Worldwar: In the Balance by Harry Turtledove
"From Pearl Harbor to panzers rolling through Paris to the Siege of Leningrad and the Battle of Midway, war seethed across the planet as the flames of destruction rose higher and hotter.
And then, suddenly, the real enemy came.
The invaders seemed unstoppable, their technology far beyond human reach. And never before had
men been more divided. For Jew to unite with Nazi, American with Japanese, and Russian with German was unthinkable.
But the alternative was even worse.
As the fate of the world hung in the balance, slowly, painfully, humankind took up the shocking
challenge ..."
Recommended by Anthony Powell
$6.99
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