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Visiting Us
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city lots to our customers. The Spruce Street parking
structure is located directly north of the store. There
is a short-term meter lot at Broadway and Spruce. Other
lots and structures are located at 1100 Walnut, 1400
Walnut (by the RTD), and 1500 Pearl. There is free street
parking in local neighborhoods for two to three hours,
depending on the neighborhood. On weekends, parking is
unlimited in most neighborhoods, but do check the street
signs when you park for possible exceptions. We also
encourage alternative transportation modes.
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featured titles
for September, 2005
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Immoral by
Brian Freeman
0-312-34042-7 St. Martin's
Press $22.95In a riveting debut
thriller that has drawn comparisons to
masters of the genre like Dennis Lehane
and Michael Connelly, Brian Freeman
weaves obsession, sex, and revenge into a
story that grips the reader with vivid
characters and shocking plot twists from
the first page to the last.
Lieutenant Jonathan Stride is suffering
from an ugly case of déjà vu. For the
second time in a year, a beautiful
teenage girl has disappeared off the
streets of Duluth, Minnesotagone
without a trace, like a bitter gust off
Lake Superior. The two victims
couldnt be more different. First it
was Kerry McGrath, bubbly, sweet sixteen.
And now Rachel Deese, strange, sexually
charged, a wild child. The media hounds
Stride to catch a serial killer, and as
the search carries him from the icy
stillness of the northern woods to the
erotic heat of Las Vegas, he must decide
which facts are real and which are
illusions. And Stride finds his own life
changed forever by the secrets he
uncovers. Secrets that stretch across
time in a web of lies, death, and illicit
desire. Secrets that are
chillingly
immoral.
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First Drop by
Zoe Sharp
0-312-34169-5 - St. Martin's
Press $23.95It should have been
an easy introduction to Charlie Fox's new
career as a bodyguard, working for the
personal protection agency run by her ex-lover,
Sean Meyer. Their trip to Florida
together should have been a working
holiday--and a chance to build on the
fresh start they promised to make when
they last worked together. All Charlie
has to do is baby-sit Trey Pelzner, the
gawky fifteen-year-old son of a rich
computer programmer in Fort Lauderdale.
The last
thing anyone expected was a determined
attempt to snatch the boy, or that Trey's
father and their entire bodyguard team--including
Sean--would disappear off the face of the
earth at the same time.
Now
somebody out there wants the boy badly
and they're prepared to kill anyone who
gets in their way. Evading them, alone in
unknown territory, takes all the skill
and courage Charlie possesses.
As hair-raising
as a roller-coaster ride, First Drop
skyrockets Zoë Sharp to the top of that
exclusive list of suspense writers who
are going places fast.
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Vita: A Novel by
Melania G. Mazzucco - Translated by
Virginia Jewiss
0-374-28495-4 Farrar, Straus
and Giroux $25.00It should have been
an easy introduction to Charlie Fox's new
career as a bodyguard, working for the
personal protection agency run by her ex-lover,
Sean Meyer. Their trip to Florida
together should have been a working
holiday--and a chance to build on the
fresh start they promised to make when
they last worked together. All Charlie
has to do is baby-sit Trey Pelzner, the
gawky fifteen-year-old son of a rich
computer programmer in Fort Lauderdale.
The last
thing anyone expected was a determined
attempt to snatch the boy, or that Trey's
father and their entire bodyguard team--including
Sean--would disappear off the face of the
earth at the same time.
Now
somebody out there wants the boy badly
and they're prepared to kill anyone who
gets in their way. Evading them, alone in
unknown territory, takes all the skill
and courage Charlie possesses.
As hair-raising
as a roller-coaster ride, First Drop
skyrockets Zoë Sharp to the top of that
exclusive list of suspense writers who
are going places fast.
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Officer
Down by Theresa
Schwegel
0-312-34314-0 St. Martin's
Press $23.95Chicago police
officer Samantha Mack's gun killed her
partner. But who pulled the trigger?
Quotes
"Officer Down is the best cop novel
I've read in a very long time, tough and
dark and wickedly funny, and Theresa
Schwegel is a major new talent."
--Scott Phillips, author of COTTONWOOD
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Pardonable
Lies: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by
Jacqueline Winspear
0-8050-7897-5 Henry Holt and
Co. $23.00In the third novel
of this bestselling series, London
investigator Maisie Dobbs faces grave
danger as she returns to the site of her
most painful WWI memories to resolve the
mystery of a pilots death
Agatha
Christies Miss Marple. Sue
Graftons Kinsey Millhone. Alexander
McCall Smiths Precious Ramotswe.
Every once in a while, a detective bursts
on the scene who captures readers
heartsand imaginationsand
doesnt let go. And so it was with
Jacqueline Winspears Maisie Dobbs,
who made her debut just two years ago in
the eponymously titled first book of the
series, and is already on her way to
becoming a household name.
A deathbed
plea from his wife leads Sir Cecil Lawton
to seek the aid of Maisie Dobbs,
psychologist and investigator. As Maisie
soon learns, Agnes Lawton never accepted
that her aviator son was killed in the
Great War, a torment that led her not
only to the edge of madness but to the
doors of those who practice the dark arts
and commune with the spirit world.
In
accepting the assignment, Maisie finds
her spiritual strength tested, as well as
her regard for her mentor, Maurice
Blanche. The mission also brings her
together once again with her college
friend Priscilla Evernden, who served in
France and who lost three brothers to the
warone of whom, it turns out, had
an intriguing connection to the missing
Ralph Lawton.
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Soul
City A Novel by
Touré
0-312-42516-3 Picador $12.00 Welcome to Soul
City, where roses bloom in the cracks of
the sidewalk, musical genres become
political platforms, and children use
their allowance money to buy records from
the Vinyl Man. It's an unusually peaceful
and magical American community with a
strong heritage and sense of unity--at
least, thats how journalist
Cadillac Jackson first finds it when he
visits the city for a magazine story. It
isn't long before a mayoral campaign
turns hostile; Cadillac falls hard for
Mahogany Sunflower and is taught how to
shed his embattled African-American
identity so that he, too, might become a
resident of this fabled city. What he
discovers reveals as much about himself
as it does about human nature and the
meaning of race in America.
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Highest
Tide: A Novel by Jim
Lynch
1582346054 Bloomsbury
Publishing $23.95Miles O'Malley is a
special kid. The main character of Jim
Lynch's debut novel, The Highest Tide, is
the smallest 13-year-old on the
Washington coast. He's a speed-reading
insomniac who is obsessed with Rachel
Carson and the troubled girl next door,
and who would rather spend time with the
creatures of the tidal flats outside his
home than with other kids his age. Miles
uses his encyclopedic knowledge of the
ocean and its inhabitants to collect
specimens he sells to aquariums. On one
of his late-night jaunts around the bay,
Miles hears a strange sound, like a huge
exhale. He soon finds himself face-to-face
with a giant squid, a species that doesn't
live anywhere near Puget Sound and which
no one has ever seen alive. The next
morning, the now-dead squid is discovered
by the rest of the town, and Miles
becomes a local celebrity. Sought after
by journalists, pursued by cult members
and all but ignored by his feuding
parents, Miles tries to make sense of it
all as his coming-of-age cleverly
coincides with a period of tumult in the
ocean and the world around him.
This
beautiful novel is sure to charm readers
with its stunning imagery and amazing
characters. The sense of place is so
strong in this book that reading it will
feel like taking a vacation, and the
characters, quirky, flawed and sad as
they are, will not easily slip from
memory.
Lynch's
language sparkles with his love of the
ocean. While parts of The Highest Tide
offer a catalog of ocean life many
readers will have never heard of, the
book gives ocean-dwellers and land-lubbers
alike a glimpse of the unbelievable
variety of sea life that is out there, if
only people would notice it. Read this
book and be left eagerly anticipating
Lynch's next work.
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Elsewhere
by Gabrielle Zevin
0-374-32091-8 Farrar, Straus
& Giroux $16.00One moment, 15-year-old
Liz Hall is riding her bike to meet a
friend at the mall. The next thing she
knows, she's alone on a mysterious cruise
ship with lots of senior citizens playing
shuffleboard. Liz soon realizes there's
something odd about all the passengers,
including herself. It turns out that they've
all recently died (Liz was hit by a taxi)
and are heading to Elsewhere.
To Liz,
Elsewhere seems like an odd place, with
its own laws and customs. Despite her new
relationship with her grandmother, who
died before Liz was born, Liz has a hard
time adjusting to her new "life."
As one of the few young people arriving
in Elsewhere, she's lonely. She spends
hours watching her family and friends
from a special observation deck, and even
makes a dangerous attempt to contact her
family, with surprising results that
shock her out of her depression, help her
discover love and allow her to live again.
In
Elsewhere, Gabrielle Zevin has imagined a
rich, original vision of the afterlife.
There are no tunnels of bright white
light, no angels or pearly gates. Most
intriguing is the book's conception of
reincarnation. The residents of Elsewhere
all gradually grow younger, until, as
babies, they are reborn on Earth. Life on
Elsewhere is finite and predictable; each
person has exactly as much time to live
backward as they lived forward on Earth,
before heading back to Earth to do it all
over again. One of the themes of the
novel is an exploration of how this
knowledge, this life lived backward,
affects people's relationships, their
choices and their vision of themselves.
Despite
its subject matter, Elsewhere largely
avoids maudlin sentimentality. Instead,
in addition to being genuinely funny in
places, this lovely novel is truly
thoughtful: "There are so my lives.
How we wish we could live them
concurrently instead of one by one by one.
We could select the best pieces of each,
stringing them together like a strand of
pearls. But that's not how it works. A
human's life is a beautiful mess."
Elsewhere inspires reflection on deathand
on life.
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Drift
House: The First Voyage by
Dale Peck
1-58234-969-X Bloomsbury
Publishing $16.95 In the first book
in this new fantasy series, three
siblings are sent to live with their
uncle whose house looks like a ship
perched at the edge of the sea. It's not
until a great flood comes that the house's
name--Drift House--starts to make sense.
Floating aimlessly, the ship-like house
begins to yield its many secrets.
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Rosa by
Nikki Giovanni & Bryan Collier
0-8050-7106-7 Holt &
Company, Henry $16.95 "She had not
sought this moment but she was ready for
it. When the policeman bent down to ask
"Auntie, are you going to move?"
all the strength of all the people
through all those many years joined in
her. She said, "No."
An
inspiring account of an event that shaped
American history
Fifty
years after her refusal to give up her
seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus,
Mrs. Rosa Parks is still one of the most
important figures in the American civil
rights movement. This picture- book
tribute to Mrs. Parks is a celebration of
her courageous action and the events that
followed.
Award-winning
poet, writer, and activist Nikki Giovanni's
evocative text combines with Bryan
Collier's striking cut-paper images to
retell the story of this historic event
from a wholly unique and original
perspective.
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