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1. The cobra / Frederick Forsyth. by Forsyth, Frederick, 1938- G. P. Putnam's Sons, c2010. Call #: FICTION FOR Summary:  "What if you had carte blanche to fight evil? Nothing held back, nothing off the table. What would you do? For decades, the world has been fighting the drug cartels, and losing, their billions of dollars making them the most powerful and destructive organizations on earth. Until one man is asked to take charge. Paul Devereaux used to run Special Operations for the CIA before they retired him for being too ruthless. Now he can have anything he requires, do anything he thinks necessary. No boundaries, no rules, no questions asked. The war is on-though who the ultimate winner will be, no one can tell... "--Publisher. Format:  Adult books Number of Holds:  39 Bestseller / List Name:  BESTSELLERS: Globe & Mail Fiction BESTSELLERS: Macleans Fiction BESTSELLERS: New York Times Fiction       2. The beauty of humanity movement / Camilla Gibb. by Gibb, Camilla. Doubleday Canada, c2010. Call #: FICTION GIB Summary:  "Set in contemporary Vietnam, this is the story of a country undergoing momentous change and the story of how family is defined -- not always by bloodlines but by the heart. Tu' is a young tour guide working in Hanoi for a company called New Dawn. While he leads tourists through the city, including American vets on "war tours," he starts to wonder what it is they are seeing of Vietnam --and what they miss entirely. Maggie, who is Vietnamese by birth but has lived most her life in the U.S., has returned to her country of origin in search of clues to her dissident father's disappearance during the war. Holding the story together is Old Man Hung, who has lived through decades of political upheaval and has still found a way to feed hope to his community of pondside dwellers. This is a keenly observed and skillfully wrought novel about the reverberation of conflict through generations, the enduring legacy of art, and the redemption and renewal of long-lost love."--Inside jacket. Format:  Adult books Number of Holds:  31 Bestseller / List Name:  BESTSELLERS: Macleans Fiction NEW: Latest Canadian Fiction       3. Star Island / by Carl Hiaasen. by Hiaasen, Carl. Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. Call #: BESTSELLERS-FICTION Format:  Adult Books-7 Day Loan Number of Holds:  87 Bestseller / List Name:  BESTSELLERS: Macleans Fiction BESTSELLERS: New York Times Fiction BESTSELLERS: Fiction Bestseller Orders       4. The girl who kicked the hornet's nest / Stieg Larsson ; translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland. by Larsson, Stieg, 1954-2004. Viking (Canada), c2010. Call #: FICTION LAR Summary:  This is the hugely anticipated final novel in the critically acclaimed Millennium Trilogy - an international phenomenon - with over 21 million copies sold worldwide and published in 34 countries. As the novel opens, Lisbeth Salander - the heart and soul of Larsson's two previous novels (THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE and THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO) - is under close supervision in the intensive care unit of a provincial Swedish city hospital. And she's fighting for her life, and plotting her revenge against the man who tried to kill her, and the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. Format:  Adult books Number of Holds:  358 Bestseller / List Name:  BESTSELLERS: New York Times Fiction BESTSELLERS: Globe & Mail Fiction BESTSELLERS: Macleans Fiction RA: Mysteries in Translation       5. The Double Comfort Safari Club / Alexander McCall Smith. by McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948- Alfred A. Knopf Canada, c2010. Call #: FICTION MCC Summary:  The delightful new installment in Alexander McCall Smith's beloved and best-selling series finds Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi traveling to the north of Botswana, to the stunning Okavango Delta, to visit a safari lodge where there have been several unexplained and troubling events-including the demise of one of the guests. Format:  Adult Rapid Reads Number of Holds:  92 Bestseller / List Name:  BESTSELLERS: Macleans Fiction       6. Corduroy Mansions / Alexander McCall Smith. by McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948- Knopf Canada, c2010. Call #: FICTION MCC Summary:  "Corduroy Mansions" is the affectionate nickname given to a genteelly crumbling mansion block in London's vibrant Pimlico. This is the home patch of - among others - a lovelorn literary agent, possibly the first ever nasty Liberal Democrat MP and Freddie de la Hay, an urbane terrier trained to be vegetarian and respectful of feline rights, and with the ability to fasten his own seatbelt. Other incredible characters pass each other on the stairs of this delightful residence. Format:  Adult books Number of Holds:  64 Bestseller / List Name:  BESTSELLERS: Macleans Fiction       7. The thousand autumns of Jacob de Zoet : a novel / David Mitchell. by Mitchell, David (David Stephen) Alfred A. Knopf Canada, c2010. Call #: FICTION MIT Summary:  "The year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the "high-walled, fan-shaped artificial island" that is the Japanese Empire's single port and sole window onto the world, designed to keep the West at bay; the farthest outpost of the war-ravaged Dutch East Indies Company; and a de facto prison for the dozen foreigners permitted to live and work there. To this place of devious merchants, deceitful interpreters, costly courtesans, earthquakes, and typhoons comes Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk who has five years in the East to earn a fortune of sufficient size to win the hand of his wealthy fiancée back in Holland. But Jacob's original intentions are eclipsed after a chance encounter with Orito Aibagawa, the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and midwife to the city's powerful magistrate. The border between propriety, profit, and pleasure blur until Jacob finds his vision clouded, one rash promise made and then fatefully broken. The consequences will extend beyond Jacob's worst imaginings. As one cynical colleaque asks, "Who ain't a gambler in the glorious Orient, with his very life?""--p. [2 & 3] of cover. Format:  Adult Books-7 Day Loan Number of Holds:  70 Bestseller / List Name:  BESTSELLERS: Macleans Fiction       8. The Rembrandt affair / Daniel Silva. by Silva, Daniel, 1960- G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2010. Call #: FICTION SIL Summary:  "Two families, one terrible secret, and a painting to die for... Determined to sever his ties with the Office, Gabriel Allon has retreated to the windswept cliffs of Cornwall with his beautiful Venetian-born wife Chiara. But once again his seclusion is interrupted by a visitor from his tangled past: the endearingly eccentric London art dealer, Julian Isherwood. As usual, Isherwood has a problem. And it is one only Gabriel can solve. In the ancient English city of Glastonbury, an art restorer has been brutally murdered and a long-lost portrait by Rembrandt mysteriously stolen. Despite his reluctance, Gabriel is persuaded to use his unique skills to search for the painting and those responsible for the crime. But as he painstakingly follows a trail of clues leading from Amsterdam to Buenos Aires and, finally, to a villa on the graceful shores of Lake Geneva, Gabriel discovers there are deadly secrets connected to the painting. And evil men behind them. Before he is done, Gabriel will once again be drawn into a world he thought he had left behind forever, and will come face to face with a remarkable cast of characters: a glamorous London journalist who is determined to undo the worst mistake of her career, an elusive master art thief who is burdened by a conscience, and a powerful Swiss billionaire who is known for his good deeds but may just be behind one of the greatest threats facing the world."--Inside jacket. Format:  Adult Books-7 Day Loan Number of Holds:  102 Bestseller / List Name:  BESTSELLERS: Macleans Fiction BESTSELLERS: New York Times Fiction       9. The help / Kathryn Stockett. by Stockett, Kathryn. G. Putnam's Sons, c2009. Call #: FICTION STO Summary:  Limited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, three women, including an African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend, and a recently graduated white woman, team up for a clandestine project. Format:  Adult Rapid Reads Number of Holds:  318 Bestseller / List Name:  BESTSELLERS: Globe & Mail Fiction BESTSELLERS: Macleans Fiction BESTSELLERS: New York Times Fiction RA: Staff Picks 2009       10. Fauna / Alissa York. by York, Alissa. Random House Canada, 2010. Call #: BESTSELLERS-FICTION Format:  Adult Books-7 Day Loan Number of Holds:  34 Bestseller / List Name:  BESTSELLERS: Macleans Fiction BESTSELLERS: Fiction Bestseller Orders

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