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Severina
Rodrigo Rey Rosa · Yale University Press,
Pages: 87
Format: Print book |
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"Right from the start I picked her for a thief, although that day she didn't take anything. . . . I knew she'd be back," the narrator/bookseller of Severina recalls in this novel's opening pages. Imagine a dark-haired book thief as alluring as she is dangerous. Imagine... |
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Kicking the Sky
Anthony De Sa · Workman Pub Co
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback |
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It was 1977 when a shoeshine boy, Emanuel Jaques, was brutally murdered in Toronto. In the aftermath of the crime, twelve-year-old Antonio Rebelo explores his neighborhood's dark garages and labyrinthine back alleys along with his rapscallion friends. As the media unravels the truth... |
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Mr. Eternity
Aaron Thier · Bloomsbury
Pages: 272
Format: Print book |
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Key West, 2016. Sea levels are rising, coral reefs are dying. In short, everything is going to hell. It's here that two young filmmakers find something to believe in: an old sailor who calls himself Daniel Defoe and claims to be five hundred and sixty years old.In fact, old Dan is in the prime... |
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The Graveyard of the Hesperides
Lindsey Davis · Minotaur Books
Pages: 325
Format: Print book |
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In first century Rome, Flavia Albia, the daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, has taken up her father's former profession as an informer. On a typical day, it's small cases---cheating spouses, employees dipping into the till---but this isn't a typical day. Her beloved, the plebeian Manlius... |
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Land of Love and Ruins
Oddn Eir · Restless Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book |
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"Oddný Eir is an authentic author, philosopher and mystic. She weaves together diaries and fiction. She is the writer I feel can best express the female psyche of now and has bridged the gap between rural Iceland and Western philosophy. A true pioneer!!!!!!!!" - BjorkThe winner... |
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The Kid: A Novel
Ron Hansen · Scribner
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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A new novel from Ron Hansen, the award-winning author of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, about an iconic American criminal of the old West: legendary outlaw, Billy the Kid.Born Henry McCarty, Billy the Kid was a diminutive, charming, blond-haired young man who,... |
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Rituals: A Faye Longchamp Mystery
Mary Anna Evans · Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Hardcover |
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Faye Longchamp doesnt believe in ghosts but shes an archaeologistdead people are her life Yet while working in Rosebower a rural New York town founded by Spiritualists Faye is surrounded by people who talk to the dead on a regular basis When influential Spiritualist Tilda Armistead invites... |
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Magic Bitter, Magic Sweet
Charlie N. Holmberg · 47north
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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Maire is a baker with an extraordinary gift: she can infuse her treats with emotions and abilities, which are then passed on to those who eat them. She doesn't know why she can do this and remembers nothing of who she is or where she came from.When marauders raid her town, Maire is captured... |
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The Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery: The Fourth Charlie Mortdecai Novel
Kyril Bonfiglioli · The Overlook Press, 2015.
Pages: 173
Format: Print book |
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"You couldn't snuggle under the duvet with anything more disreputable and delightful" -- Stephen Fry'She was a Fellow and Tutor of Scone College and the world must learn that Fellows and Tutors of Scone College shall not be done to death with impunity.'The Hon. Charlie... |
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The Infernal: A Novel
Mark Doten · Graywolf Press
Format: Book |
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A fierce, searing response to the chaos of the war on terror--an utterly original and blackly comic debutIn the early years of the Iraq War, a severely burned boy appears on a remote rock formation in the Akkad Valley. A shadowy, powerful group within the U.S. government speculates Who is he? Where... |
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