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The Day Nothing Happened by Terence Clarke In this collection of related short stories, the main character Dan Collins is working for the U.S. Agency for International Development in Sarawak in western... More about this book »	Full Grown Men by David Munro Alby Cutrera (Matt McGrath) yearns for a time when life was carefree and action figures were twelve inches tall. When his wife insults him for being more of a... More about this book »
I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert Congratulations—just by opening the cover of this book you became twenty-five percent more patriotic. From Stephen Colbert, the host of television's highest-rated... More about this book »	The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 by Stephen Colbert Stephen Colbert contributed to this lively volume of The Best American Nonrequired Reading. It boasts the best in fiction, nonfiction, alternative comics,... More about this book »
Wigfield: The Can-Do Town That Just May Not by Stephen Colbert Wigfield is a small bucolic hideaway, situated in front of a massive dam which is about to be torn down by the state government to restore the salmon run. Wigfield'... More about this book »	Chicago Noir by Neal Pollack The city of Chicago has spent much time and money over the last decade marketing itself as a tourist-friendly place for the whole family. It’s got a shiny new... More about this book »
Beneath the Axis of Evil: One Man's Journey into the... by Neal Pollack On Sept. 11, 2001, the world was shaken to its foundations unlike on any other foundation-shaking day in the history of the world. Fortunately, Neal Pollack was a... More about this book »	Alternadad by Neal Pollack His novel Never Mind the Pollacks, a hilarious treat, used a fictional “Neal Pollack” to parody the excesses and idiocy of current pop culture. But his self-... More about this book »
Season of the Machete by James Patterson The author of the bestselling Along Came a Spider, Patterson, weaves a superb story of unrelenting suspense about an elegant jet-setting pair of psychopathic... More about this book »	Black Friday by James Patterson The breathtaking suspense of Kiss the Girls and the authenticity of N.Y.P.D. Blue: Welcome to James Patterson’s classic superthriller, Black Friday. A courageous... More about this book »

Secrets of Eden by Chris Bohjalian From the bestselling author of Midwives, The Double Bind, and Skeletons at the Feast comes a novel of shattered faith, intimate secrets, and the delicate... More about this book »	Skeletons At the Feast by Chris Bohjalian Perhaps not since The English Patient has a novel captured both the power and poignancy of romance and the terror and tragedy of war: From Chris Bohjalian comes a... More about this book »
Universal cycle theory: Neomechanics of the hierarchically... by Glenn Borchardt There are only two elements that make the Universal Cycle Theory radical - cycles and infinity. Other than that, much of what you read in the book will seem... More about this book »	Murder at the Lanterne Rouge by Cara Black Aimée Leduc is happy her long-time business partner René has found a girlfriend. Really, she is. It’s not her fault if she can’t suppress her doubts about the... More about this book »
The Luminist by David Rocklin IN COLONIAL INDIA, at a time of growing friction between the ruling British and the restless Indian populace, a Victorian woman and her young Tamil Indian servant... More about this book »	The Detour by Andromeda Romano-Lax Ernst Vogler is twenty-four years old in 1938 when he is sent to Rome by his employer--the Third Reich's Sonderprojekt, which is collecting the great art of... More about this book »
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian SYNOPSIS On an icy winter night in an isolated house in rural Vermont, a seasoned midwife named Sibyl Danforth takes desperate measures to save a baby's life. She... More about this book »	Love Purrs: A Practical Guide to Adopting and Welcoming Home... by Stacey Ritz An insightful guide to cat adoption, spay/neuter and other important cat related topics. If you're thinking about adopting a cat or if you just want to learn more... More about this book »
The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian Praise “In his latest novel, master storyteller Chris Bohjalian explores the ways in which our ancestral past informs our contemporary lives--in ways we understand... More about this book »	The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian SYNOPSIS When college sophomore Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bike through Vermont's back roads, her life is forever changed. Formerly... More about this book »