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When Old Midnight Comes Along

Loren D. Estleman · Forge Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A new Amos Walker mystery from award-winning author Loren D. Estleman!Amos Walker is hired by one Francis X. Lawes, a private-sector mover and shaker in Detroit politics, to prove that his wife, Paula, who disappeared under sinister circumstances shortly more than six years ago, is dead,...
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Overthrow: The War with China and North Korea--Fall of an Empire

David Poyer · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The United States and their Allied forces struggle to survive world war with China in this compelling, realistic thriller, the next in the Dan Lenson series.World War III continues in David Poyer's Overthrow, the next novel in the acclaimed series featuring Admiral Dan Lenson as the Allies...
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Lethal Pursuit: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel

Will Thomas · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

London, 1892 -- Cyrus Barker is brought into a game of international espionage by the Prime Minister himself in the newest mystery in Will Thomas's beloved series.Private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn receive in the mail an unexplained key stamped with the letter Q. Barker,...
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The Movie Musical!

Jeanine Basinger · Knopf
Pages: 656
Format: Hardcover

Irresistible and authoritative, The Movie Musical! is an in-depth look at the singing, dancing, happy-making world of Hollywood musicals, beautifully illustrated in color and black-and-white--an essential text for anyone who's ever laughed, cried, or sung along at the movies.Leading...
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Goodness and the Literary Imagination: Harvard's 95th Ingersoll Lecture with Essays on Morrison's Moral and Religious Vision

Toni Morrison · University of Virginia Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

What exactly is goodness? Where is it found in the literary imagination? Toni Morrison, one of American letters' greatest voices, pondered these perplexing questions in her celebrated Ingersoll Lecture, delivered at Harvard University in 2012 and published now for the first time in book...
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Puddin' on the Blitz

Tamar Myers · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

The success of Magdalena Yoder's new Amish-Asian restaurant is threatened by murder in the deliciously quirky new Pennsylvania-Dutch mystery. Although the culinary fare at Magdalena Yoder's new restaurant, Asian Sensations - a unique combination of Asian and Amish cuisine - is not to everyone's...
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Strangers at the Gate

McPherson, Catriona · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the Agatha Award-winning author of Quiet Neighbors comes a twisty, fascinating standalone that begs the question: how well can we ever know the people around us? When Finn and Paddy decide to move from their home in the city to the small town of Simmerton, it feels like everything...
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Bloody Genius

John Sandford · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Virgil Flowers will have to watch his back--and his mouth--as he investigates a college culture war turned deadly in another one of Sandford's "madly entertaining Virgil Flowers mysteries" (New York Times Book Review) .At the local state university,...
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The Best American Poetry 2019

David Lehman · Scribner
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

The 2019 edition of The Best American Poetry - "one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets) - now guest edited by Major Jackson, award-winning poet and poetry editor of the Harvard Review.Since...
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