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He Who Whispers (British Library Crime Classics)

John Dickson Carr - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Paperback

Carr considered this novel one of his best works, and it is easy to see why when experiencing its ingenious plot delivered with an astounding pace and masterfully drawn characters including none other than the great detective Dr. Gideon Fell."It almost seemed that the murder, if it was a murder,...
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Giga Town: The Guide to Manga Iconography

Fumiyo Kouno - Udon Entertainment
Format: Paperback

Manga symbols - "manpu" in Japanese - are iconic or symbolic expressions used uniquely in manga, such as sweat drops, popping veins, and smoke puffs. . Giga Town: A Guide to Manga Iconography! is (probably) Japan's first guide to this manga iconography, collecting and explaining...
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Keep: A Novel

Jenny Haysom - House of Anansi Press
Format: Paperback

A timely tale of ownership and loss, loneliness and connection, and a meditation on all the stuff in our lives.Home staging is an art of erasure. But in some cases -- no matter how much clutter you remove, or how many coats of white paint you apply -- stains bleed through, and memories...
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Big Breath In

John Straley - Soho Crime
Format: Hardcover

This new stand-alone from the former Writer Laureate of Alaska and author of the acclaimed Cecil Younger series introduces an amateur sleuth with an ax to grind - and a child to save.. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, retired marine biologist Delphine is on the brink of throwing in the towel....
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Them Without Pain (A Simon Westow mystery, 7)

Chris Nickson - Severn House
Format: Hardcover

Simon Westow, the city's unwavering thief-taker, must confront betrayal, history and murder in this gritty page-turner set in nineteenth-century Leeds.Leeds, May 1825. Thief-taker Simon Westow is hired by Sir Robert Foley to find four silver cups stolen by his servant. The cups are a family...
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The Bishop's Villa

Sacha Naspini - Europa Editions
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Nives, a story of love, redemption, and resistance set in Italy during WWIITuscany, November 1943. The village of Le Case is miles from any big city and appears rooted in an earlier century. Seen from there, even the war looks different - it is mostly a matter of waiting,...
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Dante's Divine Comedy: A Biography

Joseph Luzzi - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

The life and times of Dante's soaring poetic allegory of the soul's redemptive journey toward God. Written during his exile from Florence in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy describes the poet's travels through hell, purgatory, and paradise, exploring the state...
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The World in Books: 52 Works of Great Short Nonfiction (Great Short Books)

Kenneth C. Davis - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A delightful, inspiring, and idea-rich selection of fifty-two of the best, most important short nonfiction works of all time - from Plato to Michael Pollan and Dante to Joan Didion - chosen by historian, lifelong reader, and bestselling author of Don't Know Much About History.. From...
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Alternate Endings

Ali Rosen - Montlake
Format: Paperback

From the author of Recipe for Second Chances comes a smart, sexy, heartfelt romance about a single mother juggling homelife and career who finds unexpected complications while in Ireland for work.Beatrice Leal's personal life is complicated between her divorce and her precocious six-year-old....
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The Loose End (Teigan Craft forensic mysteries Book 1)

A.J. Cross - Severn House
Format: Hardcover

Introducing Professor Teigan Craft, a neurodiverse forensic psychologist getting into the minds of Birmingham's most twisted killers.. No one has seen reclusive Emma Matheson for years. But when her mummified remains are found in the cellar of a property in Birmingham during a renovation,...
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