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Ridley Pearson brings back Sun Valley, Idaho Sheriff Walt Fleming for a third time in his thriller Killer Summer (Putnam, 2009). In this outing, Walt is tasked with protection duties for the area’s high-class annual wine auction, which features wines such as a set of bottles that were purportedly a gift to John Adams from Thomas Jefferson. Before long, Walt finds himself trying to dismantle a painstakingly orchestrated heist.

The novel has been praised by outlets including Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews for its clever plotting, non-stop action, and the way that Pearson infuses Summer’s Idahoan environment with vivid detail.

Visit www.ridleypearson.com/killersummer.php for more information on the book; watch the clip below of Pearson discussing it.

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Selected entertainment news including the death of Walter Cronkite.

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Look to the Stars delivers news, interviews, and videos on what celebrities are doing to help charitable organizations. The site’s database contains directories by charity name and by celebrity name; a general cause directory (e.g., “abuse,” “environment,” or “poverty”) will turn up a list of relevant charities and celebrities who support it.

Below, watch a video of Look to the Stars talking to Joe Mantegna, Anthony Anderson, and Alyssa Milano at the 2009 National Kidney Foundation Celebrity Golf Classic.

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Jennifer Weiner’s Best Friends Forever (Atria, 2009) follows Addie and Valerie, childhood best friends who grew apart in their teen years. Now adults, they reconnect when a bloodied Valerie shows up on Addie’s doorstep in desperate need of help.

Weiner will promote her latest book at the Lincoln Triangle Barnes & Noble on Tuesday, July 14 at 7:30 p.m.; visit the B&N event page for details. Click below to watch her discuss the book with Greer Hendricks of Simon & Schuster, which publishes the Atria imprint.

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June 7 is National Cancer Survivors Day and June is Child Abuse Awareness Month—honor both occasions with The Pink Project, a charity photobook that has raised money for the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) and the Los Angeles Breast Cancer Alliance (LABCA) since its publication in 2007. 

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Undead and Unwelcome is the eighth book in MaryJanice Davidson’s Undead series, which follows suburban vampire queen Betsy Taylor. In this outing, Betsy takes the body of her werewolf friend to Cape Cod and wonders how the werewolf clan there will receive her. At the same time, back home, her half-sister is starting to act very strangely.

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) and author Chuck Hogan (Prince of Thieves) present The Strain, the first novel in their Strain Trilogy, in which a vampiric virus infects New York and threatens to spread across the globe. CDC doctor Eph Goodweather and former professor Abraham Setrakian join a small group of people who are scrambling to stop the virus. The book will be published on Tuesday, June 2.

Hogan and del Toro will discuss the book at the Union Square Barnes & Noble on Thursday, June 4 at 7:00 p.m.; visit the B&N event page for details.

Below, watch a video of del Toro discussing the trilogy and trailers for the The Strain; click the widget to browse inside the book.

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