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Bestselling authors Sandra Brown, Robin Cook, and Linda Howard will all have new books available on Tuesday, AUGUST 10.

In Tough Customer, by Sandra Brown, private investigator Dodge Hanley doesn't let rules get in his way.That's why he's the first person Caroline King asks for help when a stalker attempts to murder their daughter, the daughter Dodge has never met. Dodge's daughter Berry has become the object of desire of a co-worker who has spent the past year making her life miserable and who now has vowed to kill her. Dodge joins forces with the local deputy sheriff as the stalker begins to claim other victims.

        
Cure is the 10th book in the Jack Stapleton/ Laurie Montgomery series by Robin Cook. New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery is investigating the death of CIA agent Kevin Markham. While her coworkers doubt her assassination theory, her husband, fellow medical examiner Jack Stapleton, agrees with her. Together they discover links to a pharmaceutical company and several biomedical start-ups dealing with stem-cell research.

In Veil of Night, by Linda Howard, Jaclyn Wilde is a wedding planner who loves her job. But helping Carrie Edwards with her wedding has been a nightmare. Carrie is a bridezilla whose tantrums are just about as crazy as her demands. When Carrie is brutally murdered, everyone involved with the ceremony is under suspicion.

        
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Bestselling author Susan Isaacs will be at the Book Revue in Huntington on Monday, August 16, at 7:30 p.m.

She will be there to speak about and sign her new book As Husbands Go.
In her new book, Susie Gerstsen's husband is found murdered in the apartment of an escort. She must take on her in-laws, her husband's partners, the police, and the district attorney to prove that her wonderful life with her husand was not a lie.

For more information, call the Book Revue at 631-271-1442.

I have just finished reading the first two books in the Kate Burkholder series by Linda Castillo and I highly recommend them for mystery fans. The plots are original and both books were hard to put down.

In the first book, Sworn to Silence, we meet Kate Burkholder, Chief of Police in Painter's Creek, Ohio. Burkholder grew up in this Amish community but left the Amish life after a tragedy occured in her past. Now she has been put in charge of a murder investigation and must use her understanding of Amish life to bridge the gap between two cultures.

Bestselling authors James Patterson, Frederick Forsyth and Dick Francis all have new books coming out next week.

Postcard Killers, by James Patterson, will be available on Monday, AUGUST 16. NYPD detective Jack Kanon travels to Europe after his daughter and her boyfriend were murdered while on vacation in Rome. Since then, couples in several European cities have become victims of the same killers. Kanon teams up with Swedish reporter, Gabby Larsen. Each killing is preceded by a postcard to the local newspaper and Kanon thinks he knows where the next victims will be.

The Cobra, by Frederick Forsyth, will be available Tuesday, AUGUST 17. In this book, an unnamed U.S. president decides to bring all the resources of the federal government against the international cocaine trade. He declares drug traders and their cartels to be terrorists and brings in ex-CIA director Paul Devereaux in to head the team to implement the effort. Devereaux, known as the Cobra, is given free rein by the president to call in any arm of the government to fight the cartels.

        
Crossfire is the final book written by Dick Francis and his son Felix. It will be available Tuesday, AUGUST 17. Army Capt. Thomas Forsyth has lost a foot during his tour of duty in Afghanistan. Upon discharge, Forsyth returns home to Lambourn where he gets a less-than-warm welcome from his mother, horse trainer Josephine Kauri. Forsyth discovers that his mother has been sabotaging her own animals in response to a blackmailer's threats to reveal her tax evasion to the authorities. With nothing else to do, Forsyth turns detective to identify the extortionist.

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WALK-INS are also welcome:
THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 2010 from 2:30 PM-8:30 PM in the West Hempstead Public Library Community Room on the lower level, 500 Hempstead Ave., West Hempstead, NY.

Thank you for caring and sharing this lifesaving gift!

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Kathy Reichs' new book, Spider Bones, will be available on Tuesday, AUGUST 24. This is the 13th book in the Temperance Brennan series.

John Lowery was declared dead in 1968 in Vietnam and buried in North Carolina. Four decades later, Temperance Brennan is called to the scene of a drowning in Canada and the corpse is identified as John Lowery. Temperance exhumes Lowery's grave and takes the remains for reanalysis. Soon another set of remains is located with Lowery's dog tags. Three bodies all identified as John Lowery.

In another case, Temperance is contacted the Honolulu medical examiner, who needs help identifying the remains of an adolescent boy. Was he the victim of a shark attack or something more sinister?

Reichs is also the writer and producer of the television show Bones.

This year's Adult Summer Reading Program was a resounding success, with an increase in participation to over 30 entries.

8 lucky winners received a West Hempstead Public Library tote bag, along with a $10 pizza gift certificate, a bookmark, and their choice of a free book to take home and enjoy.

Congratulations to all our winners and a big THANK YOU to everyone who participated.

We are grateful to Gino's Pizza for their generous contribution to our Summer Reading Raffle.

New bestselling books by Jennifer Crusie, Clive Cussler and Sara Paretsky will be available on Tuesday, AUGUST 31.

In Jennifer Crusie's new book, Maybe This Time, when Andie Miller tries to gain closure with her ex-husband, he asks one final favor of her before they go their separate ways. A distant cousin of his has died and left him as the guardian of two orphans who have driven out three nannies already. He knows Andie can handle anything and asks for her help. Andie's fiance, however, thinks this is all a plan by her ex to get Andie back, and he may be right.

The Lost Empire, by Clive Cussler, is the second entry in his Fargo Adventure series. While scuba diving in Tanzania, Sam and Remi Fargo discover a relic belonging to a Confederate ship. An anomaly about the relic sets them off chasing a mystery and a rumored second artifact. However, a Mexican political party is intent on finding that artifact as well because it contains a secret that could destroy them.

Sara Paretsky's new book, Body Work, is the 14th book in the V.I. Warshawski series. The performer known as the Body Artist works at Chicago's Club Gouge and allows her audience to use her naked body as a canvas for their illustrations. V. I. Warshawski watches as people step forward but the evening takes a strange turn when one woman's sketch triggers a outburst from a man at the club. The man - an Iraqi war vet - leaves the club and days later, the woman is shot outside the club. The police arrest the veteran and V.I. is hired by the vet's family to clear his name.

You can reserve these or any other books by stopping by or calling the reference desk or by using your online library account.