Monday, January 05, 2009

Fiction Pile

Fiction

Rebels of Mindanao by Tom Anthony. Former soldier Tom Thornton has retired to the island of Mindanao in the Philippines when former colleagues ask him to find and kill a Turk who is running money to Al Qaeda connected rebels in the jungle.

Dark Ops by W.E.B. Griffin. Assassinations of government officials has some dude looking for who is responsible.

Trophy Exchange by Diane Fanning. Murder mystery.

A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam. Some literary chick book set in East Pakistan, which is soon to become Bangladesh, during a party.

Fire and Ice by Julie Garwood. I do not care.

Contagious by Scott Sigler. Aliens are not invading with spaceships but with pathogens. Former football star Perry has an ability to sense hosts of the disease and teams with a CIA guy to defeat the threat.

Running Hot by Jayne Ann Krentz. Paranormal investigators battle evil paranormal people. Or something. This sounds real lame.

Telex From Cuba by Rachel Kushner. Wealthy Americans in pre-revolution Cuba. The parents are oblivious to the country's problems but the kids learn how the cane fields stay working.

A Face at the Window by Sarah Graves. "A home repair is homicide mystery."

Need by Carrie Jones. A Young Adult novel with gold colored lipstick on some gal on the cover.

Ultra Violet by Nancy Bush. Girl's paperback mystery.

The Mirror in the Well by Micheline Aharonian Marcom. "A woman's sexual awakening is a tragedy when the woman is married to someone other than the man who awakens her...This novel will shock and offend some readers. Unapologetically explicit in its language, extreme in some of the acts it catalogues, it makes no pretense of submission to middle-class decency, let alone to expectations of happy endings. All three people in this love triangle are flawed, damaged, human. Things fall apart, and the resolution is unclear. Why does she do it? Who should we read it? The answer in one word: ecstasy."

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