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	City of thieves : a novel		FIC BENIOFF, D.
		Benioff, David.
		Benioff follows up "The 25th Hour" with this hard-to-put-down novel based on his grandfather's stories about surviving World War II in Russia.
	Finding Nouf		M FERRARIS, Z.
		Ferraris, Zoë
		A finely detailed literary mystery set in contemporary Saudi Arabia, Ferraris's debut centers on Nouf ash-Shrawi, a 16-year-old girl who disappears into the desert three days before her marriage and is later found dead and several weeks pregnant.
	The good thief : a novel		FIC TINTI, H.
		Tinti, Hannah.
		A Dickensian cast of characters in 19th-century New England comes brilliantly to life in this wondrous debut novel about an orphaned boy and the colorful con man who claims to be his brother.
	Just after sunset : stories		SS KING, S.
		King, Stephen
		Following his two recent critically acclaimed bestsellers, "Duma Key" and "Lisey's Story," celebrated author King delivers a stunning collection of short stories, his first in six years.
	Mudbound : a novel		FIC JORDAN, H.
		Jordan, Hillary
		Two soldiers return to their home in the South after WWII to find racial tensions as explosive as the battle fields of Europe.
	Over and under		FIC TUCKER, T.
		Tucker, Todd
		Andy and Tom's fourteenth summer is defined by adventures in the woods and caves near their home, a strike that polarizes their small town,and secrets that test their friendship.
	The Oxford project		977.7655 FELDSTEIN
		Feldstein, Peter
		In 1984, photographer Feldstein set out to photograph every single resident of his town, Oxford, Iowa. In 2004, Feldstein decided to do it again and invited writer Bloom to join him. Together they went in search of the same Oxford residents Feldstein had originally shot two decades earlier.
	Sharp teeth		FIC BARLOW, T.
		Barlow, Toby.
		Race through the brutality of L.A.'s wilderness of drugs, gangs and the connections people make with one another. That most of the characters in this bloody, sexy, free-verse tale are mostly lycanthropes is almost incidental.
	The Dragons of Babel		S SWANWICK, M.
		Swanwick, Michael
		Enslaved by a war-dragon of Babel, young Will evacuates to the Tower of Babel where he meets the confidence trickster,Nat Whilk, and becomes a hero to the homeless living in the tunnels under the city. As he rises from an underling to a politician, Will falls in love with a high-elven woman he dare not aspire to.--From publisher description.
	Three girls and their brother : a novel		FIC REBECK, T.
		Rebeck, Theresa
		In this sharp-edged drama that unfolds in New York's celebrity fast lane, it takes an awful incident with a famous movie star to blast three famous girls--and their brother--out of their self-destructive spiral.