July...

• A Better Angel: Stories
  Author: Adrian, Chris
  Publisher: FSG $ 22 ISBN: 9780374289904 Date: 2008
  PW Kirkus Booklist
  The stories in A Better Angel describe the terrain of human suffering--illness, regret, mourning, sympathy--in the most unusual of ways, from an author heralded for his wit and inventiveness.
  Updated 6.19.08
  
• The Secret Scripture
  Author: Barry, Sebastian
  Publisher: Penguin $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780670019403 Date: 2008
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  Set against an Ireland besieged by conflict, The Secret Scripture is an epic story of love, betrayal, and unavoidable tragedy, and a vivid reminder of the stranglehold that the Catholic Church had on individual lives for much of the 20th century.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• The Legal Limit
  Author: Clark, Martin
  Publisher: Random $ 25.95 ISBN: 9780307268358 Date: 2008
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  Clark's most remarkable novel yet is the gripping, complex story of a murder cover-up that wreaks widespread havoc even as it redefines the concept of justice--a relentlessly entertaining saga that delves deeply into matters at once ambiguous and essential.
  Updated 4.24.08
  
• All About Lulu
  Author: Evison, Jonathan
  Publisher: Soft Skull $ 14.95 ISBN: 9781593761967 Date: 2008
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  Weakness has always been a concern for William Miller, but he is further weakened by his irrepressible crush on his new step-sister, Lulu. Once Lulu departs for college, Will attempts to find himself--discovering Western philosophy, a cruel dating world, and, ultimately, his true calling.
  Updated 5.12.08
  
• Nightingales of Troy: Connected Stories
  Author: Fulton, Alice
  Publisher: Norton $ 23.95 ISBN: 9780393048872 Date: 2008
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  Set in Troy, New York, the stories in this collection follow a quirky and resilient family of women throughout the 20th century, creating a vividly palpable sense of time and place.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• The Red Scarf
  Author: Furnivall, Kate
  Publisher: Berkley $ 15 ISBN: 9780425221648 Date: 2008
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  After a perilous escape from Davinsky Labor Camp in Siberia, Sofia is tantalizingly close to freedom, family--even a future. All that stands in her way is a secret past that could endanger everything she has come to hold dear.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• The People on Privilege Hill
  Author: Gardam, Jane
  Publisher: Europa $ 15.95 ISBN: 9781933372563 Date: 2008
  Kirkus LJ
  From the author of Old Filth, a "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year, comes this new collection of stories that showcases Gardam's caustic humor, freewheeling imagination, and wicked powers of observation.
  Updated 6.19.08
  
• Shining City
  Author: Greenland, Seth
  Publisher: St Martins $ 24.95 ISBN: 9781596915046 Date: 2008
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  From the acclaimed author of The Bones comes this witty and sexy satire about how contemporary American culture defines right and wrong, good and bad.
  Updated 4.28.08
  
• Telex from Cuba
  Author: Kushner, Rachel
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 25 ISBN: 9781416561033 Date: 2008
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  An astonishingly wise, ambitious, and riveting first novel set in the American community in Cuba during the years leading to Castro's revolution, this masterful debut is a compelling tour de force.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• Art in America
  Author: McLarty, Ron
  Publisher: Penguin $ 25.95 ISBN: 9780670018956 Date: 2008
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  McLarty pens a funny and heartwarming novel about a down-on-his-luck writer who finally finds success and love.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skylar Rampike
  Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 25.95 ISBN: 9780061547485 Date: 2008
  PW Booklist LJ
  "New York Times"-bestselling author Oates is back with this dark, wry, captivating tale, inspired by an unsolved true-crime mystery.
  Updated 5.12.08
  
• What Was Lost
  Author: O'flynn, Catherine
  Publisher: Holt $ 14 ISBN: 9780805088335 Date: 2008
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  Long-listed for the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and "The Guardian" First Book Award, "What Was Lost" is a tender and sharply observant debut novel about a missing young girl.
  Updated 6.19.08
  
• Secrets of the Sea
  Author: Shakespeare, Nicholas
  Publisher: Perennial $ 14.95 ISBN: 9780061474705 Date: 2008
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  Torn by tragedy from his early life on a remote farm in Tasmania, Alex Dove has returned years later to start over. A chance encounter with quiet, alluring Merridy Bowman--a young woman similarly haunted by a tangled and catastrophic history--results in marriage, as two damaged souls unite to build a home, family, and livelihood far removed from civilization's bustle. Soon they are drawn into the unpredictable dynamics of small-town island life--and into the destructive orbit of an unscrupulous real estate agent who maintains a secret hold over both Doves. But when a shipwreck off the shore thrusts a troubled, possibly criminal teenage castaway into their world, Alex and Merridy's tenuously forged happiness is suddenly at grave risk, as they are forced to confront deeper questions about the true meaning of fulfillment. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• Mosquito
  Author: Tearne, Roma
  Publisher: Europa $ 16.95 ISBN: 9781933372570 Date: 2008
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  Set adrift by the recent death of his wife, Theo Samarajeeva abandons his comfortable writer's life in London and returns to Sri Lanka, his war-torn homeland. By turns heartbreaking and uplifting, "Mosquito" is a first novel of remarkable beauty and compelling power.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• The Good Thief
  Author: Tinti, Hannah
  Publisher: Dial $ 25 ISBN: 9780385337458 Date: 2008
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  A Dickensian cast of characters in 19th-century New England comes brilliantly to life in this wondrous debut novel about an orphaned boy and the colorful con man who claims to be his brother.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• Over and Under
  Author: Tucker, Todd
  Publisher: St Martins $ 23.95 ISBN: 9780312379902 Date: 2008
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  In the summer of 1979, Andy and Tom are two fourteen-year-old boys---best friends, expert cave explorers, and crack shots with their Springfield M-6 Scout rifles. In rural southern Indiana they are blissfully unaware of the local labor strife surrounding the Borden Casket Company. The fact that Andy's dad is a manager and Tom's dad is a union laborer has no bearing on their fun and adventure.
  But in the building summer heat, violence quickly erupts---including an explosion, a murder, and the escape of two fugitives---and the young boys can no longer ignore that the world around them has forever changed. Through their secret observations of labor meetings, both boys feel the effect of the dissolution, and it tests their loyalty and friendship, as well as the town's spirit.
  What began as a season of independence becomes a summer of growth and change, of adventure and misbehavior. Reminiscent of Stand by Me and To Kill a Mockingbird, Over and Under is the quintessential story of ruddy-faced, scheming, precocious boys who must navigate that hazy boundary between growing up and making the most of their last summer of innocence and freedom as they explore the wilds of rural Indiana, see the most amazing gunshot of their lives, and discover what it means to be friends. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• Wifeshopping
  Author: Wingate, Steven
  Publisher: Houghton $ 13.95 ISBN: 9780547053653 Date: 2008
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  An honest, absorbing debut fiction collection, Wifeshopping centers on the ultimate human quest: the search for companionship, love, and understanding. These captivating stories feature American men, love-starved and striving, who try and often fail to connect with women.
  Updated 7.14.08
  

August...

• Man in the Dark
  Author: Auster, Paul
  Publisher: Holt $ 23 ISBN: 9780805088397 Date: 2008
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  Updated 5.28.08
  
• The Lace Reader
  Author: Barry, Brunonia
  Publisher: Morrow $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780061624766 Date: 2008
  LJ
  In Barry's captivating debut, Towner Whitney, a young woman descended from a long line of mind readers and fortune tellers, has returned to her hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, for rest and relaxation. Any tranquility in her life is short-lived, however, when her aunt drowns under mysterious circumstances.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• Stand the Storm
  Author: Clarke, Breena
  Publisher: Little Brown $ 24.99 ISBN: 9780316007047 Date: 2008
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  Updated 5.29.08
  
• The Gargoyle
  Author: Davidson, Andrew
  Publisher: Doubleday$ 24.95 ISBN: 9780385524940 Date: 2008
  Kirkus PW
  An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time, The Gargoyle is a hypnotic, horrifying, astonishing novel that manages, against all odds, to be redemptive" (Sara Green, author of Water for Elephants).
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• Travel Writing
  Author: Ferry, Peter
  Publisher: Harcourt $ 24 ISBN: 9780151014361 Date: 2008
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  Pete Ferry, our narrator, teaches high school English in the wealthy suburb of Lake Forest outside of Chicago, and moonlights as a travel writer. On his way home after work one evening he witnesses a car accident that kills a beautiful woman named Lisa Kim. But was it an accident? Could Pete have prevented it? And did it actually happen, or is this just an elaborate tale he concocts to impart the power of story to his restless teenage charges? Why can't he stop thinking about Lisa Kim? And what might his obsession with her mean to his relationship with his girlfriend, Lydia?
  With humor, tenderness, and suspense, Travel Writing takes readers on fascinating journeys, both geographical and psychological, and delves into the notion that the line between fact and fiction is often negotiable. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• The Cure for Grief
  Author: Hermann, Nellie
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 24 ISBN: 9781416568230 Date: 2008
  Kirkus
  An intimate and profoundly affecting debut novel, The Cure for Grief is a modern coming-of-age story marked by excruciating loss, the love that binds a family, and the potential for resilience.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• People of the Whale
  Author: Hogan, Linda
  Publisher: Norton $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780393064575 Date: 2008
  LJ
  From a writer with unparalleled gifts for truth and magic (Barbara Kingsolver) comes a powerful story of a Vietnam veteran torn between his war experience and his Native American community.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• Iodine
  Author: Kimmel, Haven
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 24 ISBN: 9781416572848 Date: 2008
  PW LJ
  The fourth novel by "New York Times"-bestselling author Kimmel tells the terrifying story of a young woman who, after recovering a horrific, long-suppressed memory, discovers that much of her present-day life is a carefully constructed delusion.
  Updated 8.1.08
  
• When We Were Romans
  Author: Kneale, Matthew
  Publisher: Nan Talese $ 23.95 ISBN: 9780385526258 Date: 2008
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  Updated 6.19.08
  Like Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird . . . young Lawrence, nine years old and the 'man' of the family, brings readers into his world, powerfully connecting us to the drama of his childhood.--Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides.
• One More Year
  Author: Krasikov, Sana
  Publisher: Bantam $ 21.95 ISBN: 9780385524391 Date: 2008
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  Updated 5.12.08
  
• Alfred and Emily
  Author: Lessing, Doris
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 25.95 ISBN: 9780060834883 Date: 2008
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  Nobel Laureate Lessing offers a moving meditation on parents and children, war and memory, and she explores the lives of her parents, two individuals irrevocably damaged by the Great War, in this work that combines fiction and memoir.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• Made in the U.S.A.
  Author: Letts, Billie
  Publisher: $ ISBN: 9780446529013 Date: 2008
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  The bestselling author of Where the Heart Is returns with this alternately heartbreaking and life-affirming story of two gutsy children who must discover how cruel, unfair, and frightening the world is before they come to a place they can finally call home. Updated 5.12.08
  
• Demons in the Spring
  Author: Meno, Joe
  Publisher: Akashic $ 24.95 ISBN: 9781933354477 Date: 2008
  Kirkus PW
  This collection of 20 short stories by the author of The Boy Detective Fails and Hairstyles of the Damned features illustrations by 20 artists from the fine art, graphic art, and comic book worlds--including Charles Burns, Archer Prewitt, Ivan Brunetti.
  Updated 7.14.08
  
• The Seamstress
  Author: Peebles, Frances De Pontes
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 25.95 ISBN: 9780060738877 Date: 2008
  Booklist LJ
  An enthralling novel of love and courage, passion and adventure that brings to life a faraway time and place, The Seamstress is an epic saga, rich in depth and vision, that heralds the arrival of a supremely talented new writer. Updated 5.2.08
  
• What Happened to Anna K.
  Author: Reyn, Irina
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 24 ISBN: 9781416558934 Date: 2008
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  This debut novel--declared as wondrous a feat as I can recall in contemporary fiction (Darin Strauss, author of Chang and Eng)--skillfully retells the classic tragedy of Anna Karenina by setting it in present-day New York City within a community of Russian-Jewish immigrants.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• Filter House
  Author: Shawl, Nisi
  Publisher: Aqueduct $ 18 ISBN: 9781933500195 Date: 2008
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  Filter House collects the short fiction by Nisi Shawl and includes an introduction by Eileen Gunn (author of Stable Strategies). The collections fourteen tales offer a haunting montage that works its magic subtly on the readers subconscious. As Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club says, This lovely collection will take you, like a magic carpet, to some strange and wonderful places. Three of the stories are original to the volume. Eminent novelist and critic Ursula K. Le Guin writes: From the exotic, baroque complexities of At the Huts of Ajala to the stark, folktale purity of The Beads of Ku, these fourteen superbly written stories will weave around you a ring of dark, dark magic. Matt Ruff, author of Set This House In Order and Bad Monkeys calls Filter House A traveling story-bazaar, offering treasures and curios from diverse lands of wonder. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• Shades of Dark
  Author: Sinclair, Linnea
  Publisher: Bantam $ 6.99 ISBN: 9780553589658 Date: 2008
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  The RITA Award-winning author of Gabriel's Ghost returns with this long-awaited sequel, in which matters of the heart are put to the test by Chas Bergren, a court-martialed Imperial Fleet captain.
  Updated 7.14.08
  

September...

• Seduction of a Proper Gentleman
  Author: Alexander, Victoria
  Publisher: Avon $ 7.99 ISBN: 9780061449468 Date: 2008
  LJ
  In the conclusion of Alexander's series, the Earl of Norcroft is the last unmarried man standing from the wager among four of London's most handsome noblemen--but not for long.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• In the Land of No Right Angles
  Author: Beal, Daphne
  Publisher: Anchor $ 13.95 ISBN: 9780307388063 Date: 2008
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  Instantly suspenseful . . . Beal's intimate knowledge of Nepal . . . shines from these pages, making her a frank and humane tour guide into an underworld she makes fully her own--Jennifer Egan, author of The Keep.
  Updated 8.1.08
  
• Ms. Hempel Chronicles
  Author: Bynum, Sarah Shun-Lien
  Publisher: Harcourt $ 23 ISBN: 9780151014965 Date: 2008
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  Ms. Beatrice Hempel, teacher of seventh grade, is new--new to teaching, new to the school, newly engaged, and newly bereft of her idiosyncratic father. Grappling awkwardly with her newness, she struggles to figure out what is expected of her in life and at work.
  Updated 7.14.08
  
• The Various Flavors of Coffee
  Author: Capella, Anthon
  Publisher: Bantam $ 22 ISBN: 9780553807325 Date: 2008
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  When Robert Wallis, an impoverished poet in turn-of-the-century London, accepts a commission from eccentric coffee merchant Samuel Pinker to categorize the elusive tastes of coffee, little does he know his assignment will completely alter his life.
  Updated 8.1.08
  
• Voice Over
  Author: Curiol, Celine
  Publisher: Seven Stories $ 24.95 ISBN: 9781583228487 Date: 2008
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  A lonely young woman works as an announcer in Paris' Gare du Nord train station. Obsessed with a man attached to another woman, she wanders through the world of dinner parties, shopping excursions, and chance sexual encounters with a sense of haunting expectation. As something begins to happen between her and the man she loves, she finds herself at a crossroads, pitting her desire against her sanity. This smashing debut novel sparkles with mordant humor and sexy charm. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 8.1.08
  
• The Sealed Letter
  Author: Donoghue, Emma
  Publisher: Harcourt $ 26 ISBN: 9780151015498 Date: 2008
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  Based on a scandalous divorce case that gripped England in 1864, The Sealed Letter is a riveting, provocative drama of friends, lovers, and divorce, Victorian style.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• Yesterday's Weather
  Author: Enright, Ann
  Publisher: Grove $ 24 ISBN: 9780802118745 Date: 2008
  LJ
  The winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize for The Gathering presents a series of deeply moving glimpses into a rapidly changing Ireland: a land of family and tradition, but also, increasingly, of organic radicchio, cruise-ship vacations, and casual betrayals.
  Updated 8.1.08
  
• Best New American Voices 2009
  Author: Gaitskill, Mary (edt)
  Publisher: Harvest $ 14 ISBN: 9780156034319 Date: 2008
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  This year's volume, featuring 17 new stories selected by award-winning novelist John Casey, continues the tradition of identifying the best young writers on the cusp of their careers.
  Updated 8.1.08
  
• Deaf Sentence
  Author: Lodge, David
  Publisher: Viking $ 25.95 ISBN: 9780670019922 Date: 2008
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  From Booker Prize finalist Lodge comes this funny, moving account of one man's effort to come to terms with deafness and death, aging and mortality, and the comedy and tragedy that is human life.
  Updated 7.14.08
  
• Fresh Kills
  Author: Loehfelm, Bill
  Publisher: $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780399155314 Date: 2008
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  Updated 7.14.08
  
• To Siberia
  Author: Petterson, Per
  Publisher: FSG $ 22 ISBN: 9781555975067 Date: 2008
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  From the author of Out Stealing Horses comes this story of a brother and sister who are forced ever more closely together after the suicide of their grandfather. The sister dreams of escaping to Siberia, while her brother becomes more and more involved in resisting the Nazis.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• Goldengrove
  Author: Prose, Francine
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780066214115 Date: 2008
  Booklist LJ
  The "New York Times"-bestselling author of Reading Like a Writer returns with an emotionally powerful novel about love and loss filled with echoes of the classics Vertigo and Pygmalion. Updated 4.24.08
  
• Indignation
  Author: Roth, Philip
  Publisher: Houghton $ 26 ISBN: 9780547054841 Date: 2008
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  Updated 5.29.08
  
• Death With Interruptions
  Author: Saramago, Jose
  Publisher: Harcourt $ 23 ISBN: 9780151012749 Date: 2008
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  On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This of course causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, morticians, and doctors. Among the general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebration--flags are hung out on balconies, people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life. Then reality hits home--families are left to care for the permanently dying, life-insurance policies become meaningless, and funeral parlors are reduced to arranging burials for pet dogs, cats, hamsters, and parrots.
  Death sits in her chilly apartment, where she lives alone with scythe and filing cabinets, and contemplates her experiment: What if no one ever died again? What if she, death with a small "d," became human and were to fall in love?
  Updated 8.1.08
  

October...

• A Country Called Home
  Author: Barnes, Kim
  Publisher: Random $ 23.95 ISBN: 9780307268952 Date: 2008
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  Updated 7.14.08
  
• Fault Lines
  Author: Houston, Nancy
  Publisher: PGW $ 14 ISBN: 9780802170514 Date: 2008
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  Updated 6.18.08
  
• Between Here and April
  Author: Kogan, Deobrah Copaken
  Publisher: Algonquin $ 23.95 ISBN: 9781565125629 Date: 2008
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  When a deep-rooted memory suddenly surfaces, Elizabeth Burns becomes obsessed with the long-ago disappearance of her childhood friend April Cassidy. What she uncovers leads her back to her own life and what it means to be a mother and wife.
  Updated 7.14.08
  
• A Map of Home
  Author: Jarrar, Randa
  Publisher: Random $ 24.95 ISBN: 9781590512722 Date: 2008
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  Updated 7.14.08
  
• The Given Day
  Author: Lehane, Dennis
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 27.95 ISBN: 9780688163181 Date: 2008
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  Updated 7.14.08
  

November...

• The Shape of Mercy
  Author: Meissner, Susan
  Publisher: Waterbrook $ 13.99 ISBN: 9781400074563 Date: 2008
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  Updated 7.14.08
  

December...