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"A fine, gripping page-turner infused with a deep historical sensibility."
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Released: Dec. 3, 2009
"A gripping thriller with as many twists and turns as a cross-country road trip."
A young man set to inherit his dead father's fortune runs into a charismatic drifter on a cross-country trip in this thriller from Maffei (
And of the Holy Ghost, 2010, etc.).
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Released: Jan. 1, 2010
"A smart, entertaining send-up of celebrity under siege."
A rock star searching for his soul embarks on an underworld picaresque in this gonzo satirical romance.
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Released: Feb. 15, 2010
"An extremely important contribution to the field of Mormon fiction, whose current growth just might make all that explication unnecessary in the future."
In this novelistic collection of short stories, a gay Mormon missionary struggles to make sense of sexuality and spirituality in 1970s Italy.
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Released: June 24, 2010
"Old-fashioned but never stodgy; a charming story about a bygone time where even magic seems possible."
In Johnson's novel, faith and mysticism bring two people on uncertain paths together in the mountains of Appalachia.
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Released: July 4, 2010
"A satisfying, well-crafted reminder of how one family's story can encapsulate the cultural history of America as a whole."
Godges presents a vast narrative depicting what it means to be an American, told through the lens of an expressive family story.
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Released: Sept. 27, 2010
"An utterly readable fusion of vampire fiction and labyrinthine whodunit powered by a highly intelligent narrative containing deep existential speculation and numerous philosophical references; Anne Rice meets Dashiell Hammett at a Zen Buddhist monastery."
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Released: Nov. 4, 2010
"The kind of dangerous book that makes you want to remove most of your clothing, climb in a dugout and just start paddling."
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Released: Nov. 5, 2010
"An honest, engaging self-portrait of a woman who forever changed racial and gender dynamics in media."
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Released: Dec. 27, 2010
"A testament of remarkable clarity and humanity, wrung from dark experience."
A Jewish teenager views World War II from a very precarious perch—Nazi-occupied Latvia—in this quietly harrowing memoir.
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Released: Dec. 31, 2010
"Unpolished but intricate and fun, even as the plot turns tragic."
A terrorist sleeper agent has fallen in love with his adoptive country, but the arrival of other jihadists threatens to place him back on a dangerous path.
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Released: Jan. 1, 2011
"A deftly crafted tale of an absorbing character in dire straits; readers will be pulling for Rebecca Plotnik."
The grinding tribulations of a promising young woman breaking from the bad habits sewn by her upbringing.
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Released: Jan. 1, 2011
"Gorgeous illustrations, humorous dialogue and a moving narrative make this a stunning debut."
As the seasons pass, a wise and beautiful tree must persuade a jolly woodcutter not to chop her down.
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Released: Jan. 12, 2011
"At times laugh-out-loud funny, occasionally just weird for the sake of weird, but consistently entertaining."
A drug trial participant blogs about his experiences on an experimental medication and questions whether the strangeness in his life is a side-effect or just weirdness as usual.
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Released: Jan. 13, 2011
"A fine disaster tour-guide, replete with interesting factoids and vivid reportage."
The many varieties of natural and manmade catastrophe are catalogued and mined for sightseeing opportunities in this absorbing compendium-cum-travelogue.
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Released: Jan. 14, 2011
"A triumphant and eloquent collection that never shies away from the emotional and intellectual entanglements of love and lust, connection and manipulation, the momentary and the eternal.
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A compact yet thematically and stylistically wide-ranging verse collection that contains lyrical and nuanced explorations of love, power, impermanence and aging.
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Released: Jan. 15, 2011
"A rollicking, complex read.
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A densely plotted, gay coming-of-age novel starring the talented Erik, whose lengthy history is half hard-boiled Jim Thompson mayhem and half Martha Grimes youthful fantasia, heavily laden with crime, war (both international and domestic), alcoholism and, ultimately, personal triumph.
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Released: Jan. 27, 2011
"A delightfully playful cross-genre novel whose science fiction is every bit as enjoyable as its historical fiction."
A French journalist encounters the American Civil War--and something even stranger--in 1861 Kentucky.
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Released: Feb. 6, 2011
"Fast cars, fast women and fast thinking comprise this solid, utterly entertaining thriller."
Driving a Volkswagen Beetle with an alternative engine-technology, an engineer races from New York to Paris and tries to outwit those bent on stealing the car.
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Released: Feb. 7, 2011
"A wonderful, quick-witted alternative to the typical romance novel."
