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Hotlists 2008
Crime Fiction - embedded
Ranganathan's Five Laws:
Books are for use.
Books are for all; or Every reader his book.
Every book its reader.
Save the time of the reader.
A library is a growing organism.
Take Five:
Salem Witchcraft
Fiction
The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry (2008)
The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent (2008)
The Last Witchfinder by James Morrow (2006)
Nonfiction
In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 by Mary Beth Norton (2002)
Judge Sewall's Apology: The Salem Witch Trials and the Forming of an American Conscience by Richard Francis (2006)
The Lace Reader
by Brunonia Barry
Gargoyle
by Andrew Davidson
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer
The Night of the Gun by David Carr
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
by David Wroblewski
The Palace Council
by Stephen L. Carter
The Sugar Queen
by Sarah Addison Allen
Child 44
by Tom Rob Smith
Predictably Irrational by Dan Airely
The Somnambulist
by Jonathan Barnes
America America
by Ethan Canin
The Bishop's Daughter
by Honor Moore
Out and About. . .
I'm playing around at Shelfari, LibraryThing, and Good Reads. I've set up links to my pages on these sites. And, yes, I have a hard time keeping up-to-date on these sites...
I've set up "shelves" from these sites on Overbooked - here
Overbooked is spacing out: Myspace: Overbooked and Crime Space - and, facing out: Facebook profile.
All Stars 2006
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Crime Fiction Bookstores Online
Page Modified: September 9, 2008
Cluelass Mystery Bookstores
list and the Deadly Directory listings
The Independent
Mystery Booksellers Association
Adventures in Crime and Space
A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books
Baker Street Books
Barnes & Noble - Mystery
Big Sleep Books
Black Bird Mysteries
Black Orchid Bookshop
Bleeker
Cemetery Plots
Clues Unlimited
Colophone Books
A Compleat Mystery Bookshop
Creatures 'n Crooks Bookshoppe
Crimebookshop - UK
Crime in Store (London)
Dead Write Books - mysteries (CA)
Deadly Passions
Grave Matters
High Crimes
James Mountain, Bookseller
M is for Mystery
Malice the Mystery Bookstore
Ming Books (UK)
Murder By The Book - Texas
Murder By the Book - Colorado
Murder Ink
Murder, Mystery & Mayhem
Murder On Miami Beach
Murder One - UK
Mysteries By Mail
Mysteries to Die For
The Mysterious Bookshop
Mysterious Galaxy
Mystery Annex
Mystery Books - Bryn Mawr, PA
Mystery Lovers
Mystery One Bookshop
Noble's Used Books
Pandora Online
Partners in Crime
P.I.E.S. - Private Investigator Entertainment Service
Poe's Cousin
Poisoned Pen
Remember the Alibi
Sally Owen, Bookseller
Sleuth of Baker Street (Toronto)
Space-Crime Continuum
Spenser's Mystery Bookshop
Violet Books: Antiquarian Supernatural, Fantasy & Mysterious Literature
Whodunit Canada
Hotlists
African American Fiction | Christian Fiction
2008 Excel Files: (download - print, sort, etc.)
Crime Fiction | Fiction | African American Fiction | Christian Fiction | Nonfiction Notables
Stars
Fiction: Jan-June | July-Dec
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