Fiction

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"Tom Verducci. . . has written one of the best books on baseball in recent years."

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“a cozy mystery filled with winsome dogs and some subtly dangerous characters.”

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Do identical twins share more than the same DNA? Are their temperaments, needs, and desires similar?

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“Erotic Stories of Punjabi Widows is a masterpiece.”

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“In America, cars were real estate.

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“a relentless, heart-stopping, page-turning tour de force, filled with unforgettable villains and heroes . . . Don Winslow’s magnum opus, destined to become a classic.”

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Mapping the Interior is a darkly meditative tale of innocence, family, and ghosts that only Stephen Graham Jones could tell.

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“a satirical, thought provoking, and stimulating novella.”

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Nagata is rapidly assuming her place among the greats of military science fiction . . .”

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A Shining in the Shadows is the second installment of The Gabriel Davenport Series by Beverley Lee.

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Jill Shalvis can write a pretty good sex scene.

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“The stories in the volume are all worthy—some extraordinary.”

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A thriller that combines almost unbearable suspense, a nightmare figure out of some twisted superhero comic, the worst consequences of technology, and an ordinary man who lives almost as a recluse—

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“Drayden has knocked it out of the park with this novel. . . . an excellent piece of fiction that is levels above any of the summer reads coming out.”

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It has been 20 years since the publication of Arundhati Roy’s Booker Prize Winning first novel, The God of Small Things.

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What constitutes being a mother? Is it giving birth to a child or loving and caring for one who isn't born to you?

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“Three Drops of Blood and a Cloud of Cocaine is Quentin Mouron’s English-language debut, and what a debut it is.”

 

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“an engrossing description of evil and the devastating results of its corruption . . .”

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“an imaginative story with some creative viewpoints about guilt, punishment, and redemption . . .”

Detective Kat Murphy’s life is hell . . . literally.

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Michael Tanner is an ordinary man.

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“combines the intrigue of an archaeological event and the joy of an upcoming wedding with  the machinations of a political thriller . . .”

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Every family member shares some of the same personality traits, as is with the four generations of Whitakers.

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Set 18 years after Assassin's Heart, Thief's Cunning is less a sequel and more a separate book in the same world.

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“Another tale by Womack that can’t be put down. Superb storytelling. Rounded characters. Stakes worth killing—or dying—for. This is summer reading for every season.”

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The Golden Age of detective novels is almost universally agreed to have occurred between the 1920s and 1930s.

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