FICTION
1. BEACH ROAD
by James Patterson and Peter de Jonge
Little, Brown
An East Hampton lawyer
becomes involved in a highly publicized trial that pits locals against the super-rich.
2. TWO LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE
by Mary Higgins Clark
Simon & Schuster
A girl communicates telepath-ically with her kidnapped twin.
3. I SAY A LITTLE PRAYER
by E. Lynn Harris
Doubleday
As a gay singer struggles with homophobia in the church, he must come to terms with his past.
4. DIGGING TO AMERICA
by Anne Tyler
Knopf
Two families, one of them Iranian-American, become involved with each other when both adopt baby girls from Korea.
5. PROMISE ME
by Harlan Coben
Dutton
Myron Bolitar becomes a
suspect when a high school girl disappears after he drives her to a friend's house.
6. BLUE SHOES & HAPPINESS
by Alexander McCall Smith
Pantheon
The seventh novel in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, featuring Mma Ramotswe and her assistant, Grace Makutski.
7. DARK HARBOR
by Stuart Woods
Putnam
Stone Barrington, the New York cop turned lawyer, investigates the death of his cousin, a CIA agent.
8. DEFINITELY DEAD
by Charlaine Harris
Ace
A New Orleans vampire queen tries to stop a cocktail waitress, Sookie Stackhouse, from looking into the past of her consort, who is Sookie's cousin.
9. FULL OF GRACE
by Dorothea Benton Frank
Morrow
A woman who has moved from New Jersey to South Carolina with her Italian-American parents encounters romantic and cultural complications.
10. SUSANNAH'S GARDEN
by Debbie Macomber
Mira
A woman returns to her hometown and re-examines troubling events of her past.
11. GONE
by Jonathan Kellerman
Ballantine
Two acting students stage their own disappearance -- but then one of them is murdered. The psychologist-detective Alex Delaware investigates.
12. OAKDALE CONFIDENTIAL
by Anonymous
Pocket
When a wealthy hospital donor is found dead on arrival at a gala in his honor, three women
suspect murder, a tie-in to As the World Turns.
NONFICTION
1. MARLEY & ME
by John Grogan
Morrow
A newspaper columnist and his wife learn some life lessons from their neurotic dog.
2. DON'T MAKE A BLACK WOMAN TAKE OFF HER EARRINGS
by Tyler Perry
Riverhead
Musings on life from the man behind Diary of a Mad Black Woman.
3. THE WORLD IS FLAT
by Thomas Friedman
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
A columnist for the New York Times analyzes 21st-century
economics and foreign policy and presents an overview of
globalization trends.
4. BURNT TOAST
by Teri Hatcher
Hyperion
The actress urges women to
pursue their own satisfaction rather than continually sacrificing for others.
5. FREAKONOMICS
by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Morrow
A maverick scholar applies
economic thinking to everything from sumo wrestlers who cheat to legalized abortion and the
falling crime rate.
6. POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS
by Augusten Burroughs
St. Martin's
Autobiographical essays from the author of Running With Scissors.
7. THE MIGHTY AND THE ALMIGHTY
by Madeleine Albright with Bill Woodward
HarperCollins
The former secretary of state reflects on America, God and world affairs.
8. THE GOSPEL OF JUDAS
edited by Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer, and Gregor Wurst
National Geographic
An early Christian manuscript lost for 1,700 years portrays Judas Iscariot not as Jesus' betrayer but as his favored disciple.
9. CLEMENTE
by David Maraniss
Simon & Schuster
A biography of baseball's first Latino superstar.
10. MY LIFE IN FRANCE
by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme
Knopf
How Julia Child mastered the art of French cooking.
11. AMERICAN THEOCRACY
by Kevin Phillips
Viking
A former Republican strategist warns against the dangers of religious zealotry, oil dependence and ballooning public and private debt.
12. A DEATH IN BELMONT
by Sebastian Junger
Norton
A man who worked in the author's childhood home -- who later confessed to being the Boston Strangler -- may have murdered a neighbor.
Last Thursday, the Ministry of National Defense (MND) detected 41 sorties of Chinese aircraft and nine navy vessels around Taiwan over a 24-hour period. “Thirty out of 41 sorties crossed the median line and entered Taiwan’s northern, central, southwestern and eastern ADIZ (air defense identification zones),” it reported. Local media noted that the exercises coincided with the annual Han Kuang military exercises in Taiwan. During the visit of then-US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan in August 2022, the largest number of sorties was on Aug. 5, “involving a total of 47 fighter aircraft and two supporting reconnaissance/patrol aircraft.
Xu Pengcheng looks over his shoulder and, after confirming the coast is clear, helps his crew of urban adventurers climb through the broken window of an abandoned building. Long popular in the West, urban exploration, or “urbex” for short, sees city-dwelling thrill-seekers explore dilapidated, closed-off buildings and areas — often skirting the law in the process. And it is growing in popularity in China, where a years-long property sector crisis has left many cities dotted with empty buildings. Xu, a 29-year-old tech worker from the eastern city of Qingdao, has amassed hundreds of thousands of followers for his photos of rundown schools and
At times, it almost seems that former president Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) is out to sabotage the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT). As if on cue, with the recall campaigns against KMT lawmakers in full swing, Ma thought it would be a good time to lead a delegation of students to China and attend the 17th Straits Forum (海峽論壇) and meet with Wang Huning (王滬寧), the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Politburo member entrusted by Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) to be his second in command on Taiwan policy and to run the United Front Work Department (UFWD) in charge of subverting enemies,
Summer is in full swing and with the Penghu Fireworks Festival underway, it is peak tourist season in Penghu right now. For anyone planning a trip this summer, you won’t want to miss out on Penghu’s ocean scenery and excellent swimming. However, with literally hundreds of kilometers of coastline and beaches seemingly at every turn, it can be overwhelming to plan your trip. Here, then, is your guide to the beaches of Penghu. This guide covers beaches with road access from Magong (馬公). They have been sorted into three types: those with nice scenery but limited or no swimming, those where
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