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June's featured author is Laura Lippman
(recommended by Maggie King)

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Andrew's Staff Picks

Out of Sight by Elmore Leonard

Jack Foley was busting out of Florida's Glades Prison when he ran head-on into Karen Sisco with a shotgun. Suddenly the world-class gentleman felon was sharing a cramped car trunk with a disarmed federal marshal -- whose Chanel suit cost more than the take from Foley's last bank job -- and the chemistry was working overtime. Here's a lady Jack could fall for in a big way, if she weren't a dedicated representative of the law that he breaks for a living. And as soon as she escapes, he's already missing her. But there are some seriously bad men and a major score waiting for Jack in Motown. And there's a good chance that when his path crosses Karen's again, she's going to be there for business, not pleasure.

$7.50

Mystery by Peter Straub

A young boy passed beyond the pale of death and returned with no answers - except chilling clues to the ultimate mystery... After a tragic accident which he barely survives, Tom Pasmore develops an obsession with death--an obsession which leads him to investigate two murders--one in the past and one in the present. And during his investigation, Pasmore learns more than anyone needs--or deserves--to know.
In this chilling novel in Straub's Blue Rose trilogy, a young boy, an old man, and a beautiful girl fall prey to the intrigue that shadows them and all others in the world of wealth, power, and pleasure--and to an evil that reaches out to them from the abyss of the past to claim the living.

$7.99

Lucky You by Carl Hiaasen

Grange, Florida, is famous for its miracles--the weeping fiberglass Madonna, the Road-Stain Jesus, the stigmata man. And now it has JoLayne Lucks, unlikely winner of the state lottery.

Unfortunately, JoLayne's winning ticket isn't the only one. The other belongs to Bodean Gazzer and his raunchy sidekick, Chub, who believe they're entitled to the whole $28 million jackpot. And they need it quickly, to start their own underground militia before NATO troops invade America.

But JoLayne Lucks has her own plans for the Lotto money--an Eden-like forest in Grange must be saved from strip-malling. When Bode and Chub brutally assault her and steal her ticket, JoLayne vows to track them down, take it back--and get revenge.

The only one who can help is Tom Krome, a big-city investigative journalist now bitterly consigned to writing frothy features for a midsized central Florida newspaper. With a persuasive nudge from JoLayne, Krome is about to become part of a story that's bigger and more bizarre than anything he's ever covered.

Chasing two heavily armed psychopaths down the coast of Florida is reckless enough, but Tom's got other problems--the murderous attention of a jealous judge; an actress wife who turns fugitive to avoid divorce court; an editor who speaks in tongues; and Tom's own growing fondness for the future millionairess with whom he's risking his neck.

The pursuit takes them from the surreal streets of Grange to a buzzard-infested island deep in Florida Bay, where they finally catch up with the fledgling militia--Chub, Bode Gazzer, a newly recruited convenience-store clerk and their baffled hostage, a Hooters waitress.
The climax explodes with the hilarious mayhem that is Carl Hiaasen's hallmark. Lucky You is his funniest, most deliriously gripping novel yet.

$7.50

On Writing by Stephen King

Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King's advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported near-fatal accident in 1999 -- and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery. Brilliantly structured, friendly and inspiring, "On Writing" will empower and entertain everyone who reads it -- fans, writers, and anyone who loves a great story well told.

$7.99

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

With this extraordinary first volume in what promises to be an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century.

In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse -- mathematical genius and young Captain in the U.S. Navy -- is assigned to Detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. The mission of Waterhouse and Detachment 2702 -- commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe -- is to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy's fabled Enigma code. It is a game, a cryptographic chess match between Waterhouse and his German counterpart, translated into action by the gung-ho Shaftoe and his forces.

Fast-forward to the present, where Waterhouse's crypto-hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a "data haven" in Southeast Asia -- a place where encrypted data can be stored and exchanged free of repression and scrutiny. As governments and multinationals attack the endeavor, Randy joins forces with Shaftoe's tough-as-nails granddaughter, Amy, to secretly salvage a sunken Nazi submarine that holds the key to keeping the dream of a data haven afloat. But soon their scheme brings to light a massive conspiracy with its roots in Detachment 2702 linked to an unbreakable Nazi code called Arethusa. And it will represent the path to unimaginable riches and a future of personal and digital liberty...or to universal totalitarianism reborn.

A breathtaking tour de force, and Neal Stephenson's most accomplished andaffecting work to date, Cryptonomicon is profound and prophetic, hypnotic and hyper-driven, as it leaps forward and back between World War II and the World Wide Web, hinting all the while at a dark day-after-tomorrow. It is a work of great art, thought, and creative daring; the product of a truly iconoclastic imagination working with white-hot intensity.

$7.99

Lelia's Staff Picks

Undead and Unwed by Mary Janice Davidson

"First Betsy Taylor loses her job, then she's killed in a car accident. But what really bites is that she can't seem to stay dead. And now her new friends have the ridiculous idea that Betsy is the prophesied vampire queen, and they want her help in overthrowing the most obnoxious power-hungry vampire in five centuries."

$5.99

Catch As Cat Can by Rita Mae Brown

"Spring has come to the little town of Crozet, Virginia, and its arrival is heralded with festivals and balls and general merriment on the part of the town's citizens, including Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen and her coterie of animals: her Welsh Corgi, Tee Tucker; her portly gray cat Pewter; and of course, feline sleuth extraordinare, Mrs. Murphy. The Wrecker's Ball, a lavish affair held at O'Bannon's salvage yard, is set to be the highlight of the season, though the Dogwood Festival runs a close second -- until young Roger O'Bannon suddenly dies in the middle of all the excitement.

His unexpected passing raises eyebrows but not suspicions -- Roger had been a fast-living kind of man, involved in a number of dangerous activities, any one of which could have led to an early death. But when the body of a kid from out of town turns up, Harry's inquisitive instincts kick in, and she goes looking for a connection between their deaths. Still, it's hard to keep focused on solving the murders when handsome men keep wanting to twirl you around the dance floor, and everyone's spring spirits are high. It's up to Mrs. Murphy, Pewter, and Tucker to sniff out the truth...and to make sure that their favorite human doesn't find herself dancing on an early grave."

$7.50

The Withdrawing Room by Charlotte MacLeod

"When her curmudgeonly boarder, Barnwell Augustus Quiffen, gets squashed by a subway train, Boston landlady Sarah Kelling already has a far nicer applicant for Quiffen's drawing room suite. But then an odd eyewitness shows up, insisting somebody pushed Mr. Quiffen under the train. Now, Sarah finds herself in yet another mystery, aided by Max Bittersohn, an art expert with a very special sort of expertise."

$6.99

The Beastly Bloodline by Patricia Guiver

"At the Lazy D Guest Ranch, British transplant and pet detective Delila Dolittle is out to solve the mysterious death of a valuable show horse, but murder and mayhem dog her heals, and before she collars the killer she and Watson, her Doberman, have fallen afoul of a family fued reaching back generations."

$13.95

The Mirror by Marlys Millhiser

"On the eve of her wedding in 1978, Shay Garrett peers into the antique mirror in her family's longtime home, the famous Victorian Gingerbread House on Pearl Street in Boulder, Colorado, and falls unconscious only to wake in the body of her own grandmother Brandy on the eve of her wedding--in 1900. The virginal Brandy, in turn, awakes in Shay's body to discover herself pregnant. What follows is a fascinating look at how two women--and their families--cope with this strange situation."

$14.95