Fiction

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Neverboy is one of the strangest comics miniseries around, but it is compellingly whimsical, sad, and hopeful.

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Rachel Ball’s graphic novel The Inflatable Woman is unlike any cancer memoir currently published in its creativity and fictionalized account told through the main character Iris, who stand

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Over his 50-year career, Charles Schulz, the creator, writer, and artist for Peanuts, would write and draw close to 18,000 strips.

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Frank McAllister, a wealthy South African-born investor who has spent his adult life in London, takes languid drives through the richly varied countryside of the native land that he clearly loves.

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“cerebral horror, the subtleties of dark thrills . . .”

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All Dressed in White by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke is the second in the Under Suspicion series and features Laurie Moran as the hard-hitting producer of the popular reality TV se

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Ask Him Why is a multi-layered narrative with a central theme about the consequences of rushing to judgement without trying to understand the other side by first asking, “Why?” 

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Ruth Rendell’s career as a crime and mystery writer is superbly capped with this, her final novel.

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“while a serial killer threatens the beleaguered city, two old friends fight a new but very intimate foe . . .”

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“a splendid novel.”

The Decision, a brief new novel by Britta Bohler, can be summed up with a simple yet elegant sentence lifted from early on in the text:

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"The story is breathtakingly laid out . . ."

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Of course no one should expect chick-lit or mom-lit to be well written.

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A fascinating mystery set in the dusty Texas outback featuring a short, slightly overweight, cynical female sleuth who is as tough as boot leather and as determined as any gumshoe crafted by Raymon

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“A provocative sequel infused with Gaiman’s emblematic humor and nuance.”

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If you are going to read this novel, make time to do so. There is no point in starting and then going off to do something else, for when you come back you will probably have to start again.

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Gentleman sleuth Charles Lenox returns in his 13th adventure as a one of England’s first private detectives.

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Simply put, Paradise City is a good, old-fashioned read.

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a fun graphic novel.”

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Centuries ago, when Earth colonized the moon, no one could have predicted the Lunar population would evolve as it did.

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“an effervescent book, comprised of two equally well-rounded stories . . .”

“if you really care about something in life, do whatever it takes not to lose it.”

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Had Nora Ephron’s title Crazy Salad not already been taken, it might well have been better applied to this collection of American short stories of the past century than it was to Ephron’s

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Not a religious novel, but a novel about religion, The Christos Mosaic by Vincent Czyz is a search for the roots of Christianity and the identity of Christ.

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Helen, a would-be writer living in LA, travels back to her hometown when her father, Tim, experiences heart trouble.

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Venice, renown the world over for its beauty and riches, becomes the setting for Gabrielle Wittkop's Murder Most Serene.

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Even a partial list of newspaper strips represented by King Features Syndicate over the years is mind blowing. Almost every title on this list is a household name!

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