Themed Booklists

• City of Thieves
  Author: Benioff, David
  Publisher: Viking $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780670018703 Date: 2008
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  A writer visits his retired grandparents in Florida to document their experience during the infamous siege of Leningrad. His grandmother won't talk about it, but his grandfather reluctantly consents. The result is the captivating odyssey of two young men trying to survive against desperate odds.
  Updated4.24.08
  
• Vodka Neat
  Author: Blundy, Anna
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312368630 Date: 2008
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  Vodka Neat features Faith Zanetti, a war correspondent with plenty of libido, good looks, a great sense of humor, and a zest for life that never quits. She's the new Moscow correspondent for a leading newspaper--chosen for the job because she married a Russian when she was a teenager. But the minute she steps on Russian soil, she is instantly arrested in connection with the murders, fifteen years before, of a couple from a neighboring apartment. She was drunk at the time, but surely not "that" drunk. In order to solve the mystery, what she needs to do is find the charming Russian black marketer she married as a nineteen-year-old. And when she finds him, her problems "really" begin. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 4.8.08
  
• Child 44
  Author: Smith, Tom Rob
  Publisher: Grand Central $ 24.99 ISBN: 9780446402385 Date: 2008
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  In Stalin's Soviet Union, it's a crime against the State to suggest that a murderer--much less a serial killer--is in the midst of the populace. Exiled from his home, a war hero must find and stop a criminal that the State won't admit even exists.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 3.3.08