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	The Street Sweeper Elliot Perlman Two very different paths lead to one greater story in dealing with memory, love, guilt, heroism, the extremes of racism and unexpected kindness, as this novel spans the twentieth century to the present, and spans the globe from New York to Melbourne, Chicago to Auschwitz.
	Believing the Lie Elizabeth George Inspector Lynley is back in book 17. Inspector Thomas Lynley is mystified when he's sent undercover to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell at the request of the man's uncle, the wealthy and influential Bernard Fairclough.
	The House on Willow Street Cathy Kelly Can four women lay their pasts to rest? Or do they need to look back before they can begin to live for the future?
	That Deadman Dance Kim Scott Big-hearted, moving and richly rewarding, That Deadman Dance is set in the first decades of the 19th century in the area around what is now Albany, Western Australia. In playful, musical prose, the book explores the early contact between the Aboriginal Noongar people and the first European settlers.
	Phantom Jo Nesbo Summer. A boy, Gusto, is lying on the floor of an Oslo apartment. He is bleeding and will soon die. He is trying to make sense of what has happened. In order to place his life and death in some kind of context he begins to tell his story. Outside, the church bells chime.
	The Freudian Slip Marion von Adlerstein With public fascination in the era at a peak, von Adlerstein has put pen to paper and translated her experiences into a buzzing, entertaining chick-lit novel telling the story of three very different young women trying to make names for themselves in the male-dominated workplaces of the 1960s.
	Kill Shot Vince Flynn Vince Flynn is back with another nail-biting political thriller that follows the young Mitch Rapp on a deadly mission to hunt down the men responsible for the Pan Am Lockerbie terrorist attack.
	Kind of Cruel Sophie Hannah A mother who insists her daughter has been substituted for another baby. A man who confesses to the murder of someone who's still alive. And now an insomniac who blurts out the words: "Kind, cruel, kind of cruel" under hypnosis, only to find herself arrested two hours later for the murder of a stranger.
	Never Knowing Chevy Stephens All her life, Sara Gallagher has wondered about her birth parents. As an adopted child with two sisters who were born naturally to her parents, Sara did not have an ideal home life. The question of why she was given up for adoption has always haunted her. Finally, she is ready to take steps and to find closure.
	The Man from St Petersburg Ken Follett His name was Feliks. He came to London to commit a murder that would change history. A master manipulator, ha had many weapons at his command, but against him were ranged the whole of the English police, a brilliant and powerful lord, and the young Winston Churchill himself. These odds would have stopped any man in the world-except the man from St. Petersburg.

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