Fiction

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Brendan Fishback and his best friend, Cobb Kuzawa head to their favored fishing hole at Lake Charles, Tennessee.

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Balenciaga and Spain is a brilliantly conceived homage to one of the greatest, if not the greatest, designer of the 20th century.

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There is a sinister world just veiled beneath the world we see every day . . . at least that’s how it seems in the world where Mark Samuels’ short stories reside.

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Animal behaviorist Pru Marlowe returns to her small Berkshires town for the final days of her mother’s life—or at least that’s what she tells herself.

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Craig Clements-Rabbitt gave up the draw of Dartmouth to embrace the prestige of Godwin Honors Hall, located in the heart of one of the countries biggest public universities.

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Once in a while authors don’t just master a genre, they take effective ownership of it.

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Have you ever felt so stressed out and betrayed that you want to run away? Jamie Newman feels the need to flee when she learns her boyfriend is cheating on her with her older stepsister Laurel.

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Returning to Budapest after three concentration camps, Imre Kertész wrote novels he knew would never be published under the Soviet regime.

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There is so much frenzied activity going on during the three days that Aimée Leduc is trying to solve a murder for which her beloved godfather and police Commissaire Morbier is the prime suspect, t

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The publisher is billing Madison Smartt Bell’s latest novel as a “taut, terrifying tale,” and one that “will appeal to readers of James Ellroy and Cormac McCarthy.” That brought two problems to bea

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Familiarity may breed contempt in daily life, but novelists, particularly those who write mysteries, long ago discovered it doesn’t hold true on the page.

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To the reader, the act of reading a good novel is not unlike taking a Sunday drive.

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Do you believe that man can be as terrifying as any unnatural creation an author can invent?

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Fifteen-year-old Emma barely remembers the night ten years ago when her mother woke her, made her promise to look after her younger siblings Michael and Emma, and then packed her into a car and dis

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A woman therapist is called by neighbors to coax a wild girl down from a tree.

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Energy Island is an inspiring story that demonstrates how a normal everyday community can pull together to reach energy independence.

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There was some hubbub recently about an IBM supercomputer beating two “Jeopardy!” champions.

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It’s a brave or foolhardy writer who kills the main character in the very first page of their book, believing the reader will continue with the rest of the story rather than simply give up.

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What happens when an urban dweller attempts to live a more sustainable and authentic life? Chaos. Near financial ruin. Hilarity. And, finally, triumph.

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Every town has an ”it” girl: The one that shines just a little too brightly, lives life a little too fully, and yet still manages to draw the attention of everyone.

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Mourning Gloria is the 19th book in Susan Wittig Albert’s China Bayles series. As with all her books, Ms. Albert has chosen an herb to highlight.

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How cool is it to live at a hotel, especially a grand one built in the 1800s that has a history of stories to tell?

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Teenagers fall in love but very few have to literally fall in order to obtain the heart of that special someone.

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The prose in this new series goes down as smoothly as the fine scotch favored by the lead character, Dr. Zol Szabo.

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The illustrations in Monkey: A Trickster Tale from India are rich with vibrant colors, while the tale is equally peppered with cleverness and humor, and, of course, just the right amount of mischie

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