http://www.earlyink.com/av Audio and Visual Promos for New & Upcoming Books Copyright 2007 Wed, 16 May 2007 15:22:52 -0500 The 6th Target
by James Patterson
in stores May 8

When a horrifying attack leaves one of the four members of the Women's Murder Club struggling for her life, the others fight to keep a madman behind bars before anyone else is hurt. Follow homicide detective Lindsay Boxer and her new partner in the San Francisco Police Department as they try to stop a series of kidnappings that has electrified the city: children are being plucked off the streets together with their nannies—but the kidnappers aren't demanding ransom. Amid uncertainty and rising panic, Lindsay juggles the possibility of a new love with an unsolvable investigation, and the knowledge that one member of the club could be on the brink of death.

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by Trisha Ashworth and Amy Nobile
in stores April 12

Fresh from the front lines of modern motherhood comes a book that uncovers the guilty secrets of moms today . . . in their own words. "I Was a Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids" diagnoses the craziness and offers real solutions, so that mothers can step out of the madness and learn to love motherhood as much as they love their kids.

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by Terry Pratchett
in stores October 2

The long awaited, new adult Discworld novel.
It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Royal Mint and the bank next door? It's a job for life. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long.
The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire. There's something nameless in the cellar (and the cellar itself is pretty nameless), and it turns out that the Royal Mint runs at a loss. A 300-year-old wizard is after his girlfriend, he's about to be exposed as a fraud, but the Assassins Guild might get him first. In fact lot of people want him dead.
Oh. And every day he has to take the Chairman for walkies.
Everywhere he looks he's making enemies.
What he should be doing is . . . Making Money!

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by Toni McGee Causey
in stores May 1

Bobbie Faye Sumrall knows that a day without disaster is a day in someone else's life. Criminals have kidnapped her good-for-nothing brother and are demanding her Contraband Queen tiara—the only thing of her mama's she inherited—as ransom. Bobbie Faye has to outwit the police, organized crime, former boyfriends and a hostage she never intended to take (but who turns out to be damn sexy!), in order to rescue her brother, keep custody of her niece and get back in time to take her place as Queen in the Lake Charles Contraband Festival (think Mardi Gras, with more drinking and pirates).

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by Michael Connelly
in stores May 22

In his first case since he left the LAPD's Open Unsolved Unit for the prestigious Homicide Special Squad, Harry Bosch is called out to investigate a murder that may have chilling consequences for national security.
Soon, Bosch is in a race against time, not only to stop a potential terrorist plot to poison a major American city, but also against the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI (in the form of Harry's one-time lover Rachel Walling), who are convinced that this case is too important for the likes of the LAPD. It is Bosch's job to prove them all wrong.

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by Elmore Leonard
in stores May 8

Walter Schoen is a German-born butcher living with his free-spirit American wife Honey Deal, in Detroit. He's also a dead ringer for Heinrich Himmler and a member of a spy ring sending U.S. war data to Germany and sheltering escaped German POWs.
Carl Webster of the Marshals Service is hunting escaped POW and former Afrika Korps officer Jurgen Schrenk, and he's pretty sure Walter's involved with hiding him. Carl gets to know Honey, hoping she'll take him to Walter. But Honey just wants Carl and a divorce. It's Elmore Leonard's world—gritty, funny, and full of surprises.

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by Conn Iggulden and Hal Iggulden
in stores May 1

In this digital age there is still a place for knots, skimming stones and stories of incredible courage. This book recaptures Sunday afternoons, stimulates curiosity and makes for great father-son activities. The brothers Conn and Hal have put together a wonderful collection of all things that make being young or young at heart fun—building go-carts and electromagnets, identifying insects and spiders, and flying the world's best paper airplanes.

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by Michael Chabon
in stores May 1

At once a gripping whodunit, a love story, an homage to 1940s noir and an exploration of the mysteries of exile and redemption, "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" is a novel only Michael Chabon could have written.

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by Jonathan M. Tisch, Karl Weber
in stores February 26

From CEO and chairman of Loews Hotels, Jonathan M. Tisch, comes the book that explains how to craft the ultimate customer experience for the lasting success of any business.

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by Vikram Chandra
in stores January 9

A literary novel that is also a crime novel, a detective story and a thriller. Sartaj Singh, a seasoned and cynical Bombay police officer, is summoned by an anonymous tip one morning, by a voice which promises him an opportunity to capture the powerful Ganesh Gaitonde, criminal overlord of the G-Company.
As the stakes mount and Sartaj seeks knowledge of his prey, it becomes clear that the game the two players thought they were engaged in is in fact part of a much larger scenario, one that expands beyond their city and implicates the planet.

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by Natalie R. Collins
in stores January 2

For 20 years, they had been closer than sisters, sharing girlhood secrets, their hopes and dreams for the future—and a soul-searing promise. Melissa was the only one who knew what had really happened to Jannie beyond the sacred walls of the Mormon Temple, the night that changed her life forever.
Now Melissa has vanished without a trace, just days after entrusting Jannie with a mysterious box that someone would kill to possess. And someone has—leaving in their murderous wake an innocent victim and a trail of blood that leads to the heart of Jannie's hidden burden.

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by Colleen Gleason
in stores January 2

In every generation, a Gardella is called to accept the family legacy of vampire slaying, and this time, Victoria Gardella Grantworth is chosen, on the eve of her debut, to carry the stake. But as she moves between the crush of ballrooms and dangerous, moonlit streets, Victoria's heart is torn between London's most eligible bachelor, the Marquess of Rockley, and her enigmatic ally, Sebastian Vioget. And when she comes face to face with the most powerful vampire in history, Victoria must ultimately make the choice between duty and love.

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by Michael Palmer
in stores February 20

In Boston, a disgraced medical student is sent to deliver a research paper that could save her career. . . . 4,000 miles away, in a jungle hospital in Cameroon, a brilliant, reclusive scientist, dying from an incurable disease that threatens to make each tortured breath his last, is on the verge of perfecting a serum that could save millions of lives, and bring others inestimable wealth. . . . In Chicago, a disillusioned private detective, on the way to his third career, is hired to determine the identify of a John Doe, killed on a Florida highway, with mysterious marks on his body.
Medical student. Scientist. Private eye. Three lives linked forever by a single vial of blood—the fifth vial.

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by Joyce Antler
in stores February 26

The history of the Jewish mother, told earnestly and humorously by Joyce Antler. A mixture of stereotypes, culture and fable, this character is finally demystified.

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