New Fiction for Aug/Sept

The Beach House by Jane Green
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The inside cover reads, "So Nan takes out an ad: Rooms to rent for the summer in a beautiful old Nantucket home with water views and direct access to the beach. Slowly, people start moving into the house, filling it with noise, with laughter, and with tears. As the house comes alive again, Nan finds her family expanding. Her son comes home for the summer, and then an unexpected visitor turns all their lives upside-down."


The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke
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Publisher's Weekly gave this synopsis, "In Burke's meticulously textured 16th Dave Robicheaux novel, Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath provide the backdrop for an account of sin and redemption in New Orleans. When Detective Robicheaux's department is assigned to investigate the shooting of two looters in a wealthy neighborhood, he learns that they had ransacked the home of New Orleans's most powerful mobster. Now he must locate the surviving looter before others do, and in the process he learns the fate of a priest who disappeared in the ill-fated Ninth Ward trying to rescue his trapped parishioners."

Check out these new books!
Pelican Road by Howard Bahr
Black Out by Lisa Unger
Still Life w/ Husband by Lauren Fox
The James Boys by Richard Liebmann-Smith
Clubbed to Death by Elaine Viets
Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore