Fiction

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"One can only sincerely hope that this is the first title in a very long series."

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“. . . reminiscent of any of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker series, with more than a maddening touch of Werner Herzog.”

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“Ashbery’s work is an assemblage fashioned by a genius, and They Knew What They Wanted is a great tribute, an absolute treasure.”

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In 1922 the British author Vita Sackville-West was commissioned to write a story and inscribe it in her own hand into a beautifully bound, tooled leather book.

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“Freefall is a far, far above average thriller . . .”

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It is a difficult task to dive into the sequel to a book that received universal praise and many starred reviews without having read that first acclaimed book.

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“Not only is The Sons an excellent thriller, it is also an examination of family relationships, of the toxic damage done by child abuse and domestic violence.”

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Christine Mangan’s noir novel, Tangerine, draws a fine line between homage to Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley novels and downright copying or pastiche.

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Twelve-year-old Paloma Marquez is a huge fan of the fictional detective with the excellent name of “Lulu Pennywhistle.” Lulu is a Nancy Drew stand-in, a star of an imagined children’s mystery serie

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“an exploration into the mystery that is the human mind, pointing out that real-life devils live among us.”

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“In Queen Phela, authors Golden and Lebbon have created a female villain rivaling Lady Macbeth.”

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“Both youngsters and adults alike will be thrilled by Nick’s trials and tribulations and how he rises above them.”

“I’m not old enough to cope with this.”

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Coming of age stories seem a dime a dozen these days, which is why it takes a particularly striking novel to catch the eyes of readers.

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A natural-born trapper and hunter raised in the Alaskan wilderness, Tracy Petrikoff spends her days tracking animals and running with her dogs in the remote forests surrounding her family’s home.

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Originally published in 1999, this reprint of The Firemaker by Peter May is the first in The China Thrillers series and offers Mr.

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“No one can create a more eloquently written suspense novel than Peter May.”

“a compelling and memorable read.”

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Alternate Side by Anna Quindlen is a novel in miniature.

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Do we really know what happened on April 4, 1968, when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee?

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“well written, masterfully translated . . . rewards rereading.”

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A collection of short, fictional profiles of women who chose to “love” the most notorious monsters of our time, including such failures at the most fundamental acts of human empathy and decency as

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Black Bird Yellow Sun operates on several levels, more complicated than you might think a simple board book would be.

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“A wonderful setting and likeable characters, lots of action and subtle humor will have readers calling for more stories featuring David Wakeland.”

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"Highly recommended."

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Six years after the collapse of “the Feed”—the futuristic Internet wired into people's brains—due to a surprise attack on humanity by mysterious, homicidal body snatchers, Tom, Kate, their daughter

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