Fiction

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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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A woman’s nude body is found in a Helsinki apartment with religious references scrawled on her back.

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Hundreds of white-hot meteor fragments plunge toward earth near Monterey Bay, California.

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“Unfortunately, . . . The Escape Artist promises much more than it delivers, . . .”

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“This is a book that will keep you up all night, unable to turn off the light, because the pages almost literally fly beneath your fingers.”

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With over a dozen English-language books on the topic in the last decade alone, the ill-fated love story of the 12th century French scholar-monk Peter Abelard and his pupil Heloise continues to fas

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Jason Matthews’ The Kremlin’s Candidate is the finale in his Red Sparrow series. The story is very “today” with action and events pulled from current headlines.

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“Harley McKenna is possibly the most powerful, original female character we’ve had in decades . . . Barbed Wire Heart is an evocative work of darkness and redemption . .

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Divorced mom Jackie Reed worries about her oldest son Wade. His actions have become questionable. But is it teenage angst, or is something really bothering the 17 year old?

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“Rudy has illustrated her picture book with an elaborate world made of fabrics and scavenged materials, and populated it with handmade felt and fur mice . . .”

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“A fantastic start to a new series that will have the reader wondering how author Rice can top this first entry.”

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“A story the reader will select with a wriggle of delight and a frisson of dread.”

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“A powerful and thought-provoking story filled with the use of Native American legends and arcane magic.”

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“If you know an 18 year old or an 80 year old who is in love with the creation of art, there is no better book for them to read . . .”

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The cover of Goat Songs is a goat, a giant goat staring at you with hypnotic eyes and a bulbous nose. It immediately evokes memories of the film the Men Who Stare at Goats.

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“Vaseline Buddha is a brilliant example of contemporary South Korean literature.”

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“Only Killers and Thieves is a powerful debut.”

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Mike Hodge, a reporter with the Tribune in 1920s Chicago, sets off on a quest to find the person or persons responsible for the murder of his girlfriend, Annie Walsh.

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This intense character-exploration story draws you along wondering, What the heck happened to Kit to make her so closed to human relationships?

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“A brilliant and fanciful young adult novel inspired by the supposed survival of Anastasia, daughter of the last Romonov ruler of Russia.”

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With suspense and medical drama her forte, Mattie Winston, once an ER nurse and now a medical-legal death investigator, deals with the intricacies of investigative and forensic aspects in a job one

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“I thought about the fact that there is such a high cost to anything a woman chose to do with her life, unless she simply aimed low. But I knew that already, didn’t I?”

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