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The Vig by John Lescroart Down-and-out lawyer Rusty Ingraham left behind a murdered woman and a houseboat splattered with blood. All the evidence said Ingraham was in San Francisco Bay. Dead... More about this book »	Hard Evidence by John Lescroart The gruesome find of a human hand in a shark's belly begins Dismas Hardy's involvement in the murder of a Silicon Valley billionaire, and finds Hardy on both sides... More about this book »
The 13th Juror by John Lescroart Dismas Hardy undertakes the defense of Jennifer Witt, accused of murdering her husband and their eight-year-old son as well as her first husband, who had died nine... More about this book »	A Certain Justice by John Lescroart In San Francisco, one man died at the hands of another. The next victim was killed by a mob... Now fires burn in the night, helicopters throb through the air, and... More about this book »
Guilt by John Lescroart Influential San Francisco attorney Mark Dooher is accustomed to getting what he wants. When he meets a beautiful young attorney, he decides he wants her, too. Then... More about this book »	The Mercy Rule by John Lescroart Dismas Hardy is hesitant to represent a could-have-been-great baseball player-turned-lawyer who is indicted for the murder of his father, Sal, who was dying. His... More about this book »
Nothing But the Truth by John Lescroart Unbeknownst to her husband Dismas Hardy, Frannie has just appeared before a grand jury—and refused to share a crucial piece of information about her friend who's... More about this book »	The Hearing by John Lescroart When an up-and-coming San Francisco attorney is found dead in an alley as a homeless heroin addict holds a gun and lingers over the body, it looks like a robbery... More about this book »
The Oath by John Lescroart When the head of San Francisco's largest HMO dies in his own hospital, no one doubts it is anything but the result of massive injuries inflicted by a random hit-and... More about this book »	The First Law by John Lescroart It begins with the murder of a pawn shop owner and ends in a high stakes shoot out at Pier 70 in San Francisco... More about this book »

Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Patchen by Larry R. Smith Larry Smith was the general editor on this book edited by AllenFrost for Bottom Dog Press. He also wrote the Foreword and compiled the biographies for the... More about this book »	The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception by Martha Silano With humor and musicality, Martha Silano's The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception rollicks through fourteen billion years of cosmology: galaxies, aliens,... More about this book »
The Haunted Mansion Project: Year One by Loren Rhoads In the fall of 2010, ten horror writers met at a haunted mansion to spend four days together. Joining them were a group of paranormal investigators who studied the... More about this book »	Western Literature in China and the Translation of a Nation by Shouhua Qi This book traces the contours of the ways in which Western literature (in both the broad and narrow sense) was introduced and received in China from the 1840s to... More about this book »
Balance by Jean Stringam Twelve-year-old Adele Walker enters the crucible of adolescence longing for elegance and deploring her family’s lack of it. She finds elegance at her cousins’ home... More about this book »	The Book of War by James Whyle A flickering scene of carnage in the forest. A fairy tale metamorphosed into something simple and old and real and horrible beyond reckoning. Yellow fires roaring... More about this book »
Abarat: Absolute Midnight by Clive Barker “I know that many of you here have waited years for this Hour,” Mater Motley said, using that voice that, though it was barely conversational in volume, was... More about this book »	"In the Doghouse" and "Shutout" (in the... by 'Nathan Burgoine Their sweaty, gym-hardened bodies do battle in the arena for our entertainment and admiration. They are gladiators fighting to be the best at their chosen sport,... More about this book »
"Time and Tide" (in the anthology THE TOUCH OF THE SEA... by 'Nathan Burgoine Greek myths held that Oceanus to be a massive river surrounding the land. A Titan, son of sky and earth, he was depicted as a handsome, muscular man whose torso... More about this book »	Oregon Political Field Guide by Randy Stapilus The Oregon Political Field Guide, the first book-length current independent review of Oregon politics in a generation, focuses on the voters: Who they are and what... More about this book »