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IF YOU RIDE A CROOKED TROLLEY... & THE JUDGMENT OF BIESTIAIn To Ride a Crooked Trolley , 9-year-old Peter Myshkin Stephenson from the fictional northern New England town of Halloway is well acquainted...
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FOR F*CK'S SAKEOne might expect that an author who teaches philosophy at the University of London would be on the stuffy side, but Roache, host of the...
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GLOBAL WARMING, ENERGY, AND WORLD PEACEThe author’s proposed ideas frame the debate as a worldwide issue. Youssef uses his experience living and working in Egypt, Canada, and the...
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DELAWARE FROM RAILWAYS TO FREEWAYSThe second book in the author’s intended trilogy on Delaware history covers the 19th century, with a bit extra on either end. From early town...
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THE KILLER FLIES OF LUXORBlazquez was born in Cardenas, Cuba, in 1944. He began painting at an early age, using any materials he could lay his hands on—from house paint...
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THE SOLOMON SCANDALSJonathan Stone, a veteran reporter for the Washington Telegram , sets his investigative sights on a dangerous subject, Seymour “Sy” Solomon, a...
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THE ADVENTURES OF TOBY BAXTERChristmas is fast approaching in Minneapolis. Thirteen-year-old Toby Baxter, never much of a reader, is trying to engage with his mom’s favorite...
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THE LOST TOWN OF GARRISONIn the present day, Kansas University geography professor Katie Robbins’visit to Carnahan Creek-Garrison Cemetery atop the Tuttle Creek...
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HOUSEMOMSGina Marie Ferragamo left high school before graduation to begin working when her mother died. Low on education but highly organized and...
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THE CLEAR CASEInto Mel Gance’s San Francisco office sidles Miss Cecilia Le Cleur, who had “all the curves of Lombard Street with no stop signs in sight.” The...
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RECIPE FOR SECOND CHANCESWhen Stella Park arrives in the picturesque Italian countryside for her friend Subrata’s wedding to longtime partner Luca, she’s thrilled not...
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THE TRIALS OF MADAME RESTELLSyrett, a scholar of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, draws on considerable archival sources to recount the life of British-born Ann Trow...
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NOBLESSECadis Etrama Di Raizel emerges from his coffin in an empty building, with no knowledge of his whereabouts or how long he’s slept. Attempting to...
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STARLING HOUSEOpal’s life in Eden, Kentucky, has never been easy. When their mother died, teenage Opal faked her way into getting custody of her younger...
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THE MUSEUM OF SCENTThere are some authors who know everything there is to know about their field. Aftel, author of Fragrant and Essence and Alchemy , is one of...
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SINNER'S ISLEMajestics are powerful women blessed with magical gifts by the goddess Xiomara. After a former monarch of the Kingdom of Coronado learned how to...
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THE EVOLVING TRUTH OF EVER-STRONGER WILLWill has just witnessed the death of their mother—if Frances was even worthy of that title; they haven’t called her Momma in a while. Will...
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BEING HENRYLife after being the Fonz wasn’t all happy days for Winkler (b. 1945), but this well-crafted autobiography—complete with welcome interjections...
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THE WARPED SIDE OF OUR UNIVERSENobel Prize winner Thorne has been a notable theoretical physicist, author, and media scientist a la Carl Sagan for the past 50 years....
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THE ROSEWOOD HUNTLily Rosewood, granddaughter of wealthy fashion tycoon Iris Rosewood, wants nothing more than to study abroad in Milan during her senior year of...
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CARRY MY SECRET TO YOUR GRAVEBea’s investigative skills are put to the test when the columns she writes for the TrueMaine website from her home in the fictional Maine town...
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I WANT 100 DOGS“I want 100 dogs,” the child muses. Her nonplussed parents raise a practical question: “Where would 100 dogs sleep?” Their daughter has a ready...
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BLACK PUNK NOWThe present subversive and creative collection, write Spooner and Terry, is “a holistic definition of Black punk where every piece stands on...
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PIZZA, PICKLES, AND APPLE PIEConstructing mini-narratives—some decidedly simplistic—as he goes meal by meal from the “Sad, Boring World Before Breakfast” to the “Sweet...
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THE BODY OF THE SOUL“After breaking up with her latest lover, Martha committed suicide in an indecently literary manner: having gone to the hairdresser and...
