Fiction

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“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”

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Francine Prose takes the reader right into her story with the very first sentence. Then she goes retro, flitting back and forth between her heroine’s American present and her Albanian past.

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Fans of Ms. Macomber’s contemporary fiction will be delighted with this newest release of her Blossom Street series.

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In her first novel, Victoria Patterson returns to Newport Beach, California, the setting of her linked story collection, Drift.

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When Silverlicious bites into her brother Peter’s cookie, she loses her tooth. It’s not just any tooth—it’s her sweet tooth!

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Miss Dorothy and Her Bookmobile is a charming introduction to children of how a young girl’s dream came to fruition.

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Sometimes a book comes along and you get this pleasant feeling of déjà vu. Not in the sense that you’ve read the book before, per se, but that the book knows you.

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Dan DeWeese’s well-crafted and engaging novel, You Don’t Love This Man, is unusual in that it is so well written but lacks real, thought-provoking substance.

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This charming picture book is the second from Jennifer Fosberry and Mike Litwin.

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". . . make readers feel part of a criminal investigation team . . ."

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Although the straightforward, no frills western genre seems to exist only in today’s paperback market, where the proliferation of the “weird” western tableau is visible everywhere.

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Harlan Coben has over 47 millions books in print worldwide. His last three consecutive novels, Caught, Long Lost, and Hold Tight all debuted at #1.

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Not many individuals get a second chance at life.

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Kristi Cook’s debut, Haven, reads like one-stop-shopping for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twilight, and Vampire Diaries, neatly packaged in an updated version of L. J.

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Few thriller authors have attained the cult status of the late Trevanian.

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It’s nice to read a book in which the reader is the hero. And in Charles Davis’s Standing at the Crossroads, the reader is most definitely the hero.

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We think of the great multi-masted sailing ships of the mid-1800s as being entirely male domains; however, The Sea Captain’s Wife explores the sea-faring life from a woman’s point of view.

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A headless corpse appears on Lacey’s lawn. And that is how what author Lisa Lutz calls her first “proper crime novel” begins.

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Consider the women of Water’s Ford, Pennsylvania, in Jennifer Chiaverini’s newest novel, The Union Quilters.

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First, some simple truths: Emma Straub is the real deal: a writer whose gift it is to take the ordinary and, through the selection of perfectly telling details and sublime and sometimes brutal obse

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T. C. Boyle’s new novel opens with one of the most gripping chapters in contemporary fiction.

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Ah, angst. When women are stressed out and dealing with emotional, life changing events, they tend to worry themselves to no end.

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What can a reader say about a page-turner with laughably stock characters, a few unusual touches, and pedestrian prose—all written by a real-life hero?

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Trades of the Flesh takes place just over three decades after Faye L. Booth’s debut novel, Cover the Mirrors.

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What would you do if a naked man with a bear trap on his ankle showed up on your doorstep?

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