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Murder and revenge in New Orleans. Vol. 3 in the Frank Renzi hard-boiled detective mystery series.   TWO MURDERS TWENTY YEARS APART  1988: Ten-year-old...
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The Moon Upstairs: A Biker's Story (Book 4 of the Series)
After serving ten years in prison for manslaughter, former Skuldmen motorcycle club president Landon “Blues” McKendry is released on parole. Instead of using...
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How do three siblings grow up under the same difficult circumstances but end up taking completely different paths in life? This question is at the heart of ...
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In his first-ever collaboration, New York Times bestselling author James Rollins combines his skill for cutting-edge science and historical mystery with...
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From New York Times bestselling author James Rollins and award-winning suspense novelist Rebecca Cantrell comes a disturbing story of vengeance, bloodshed...
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Danger in the Congo! The unexplored Amazon! Long perceived as a place of mystery and danger, and more recently as a fragile system requiring our protection, the...
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An astonishing work of cutting-edge science and cultural history that radically reframes how we understand the vagina—and consequently, how we understand women—...
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THe Infects
Seventeen-year-old Nero is stuck in the wilderness with a bunch of other juvenile delinquents on an "Inward Trek." As if that werent bad enough, his counselors...
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Al Pennyback learns that a cousin he hardly knew has died and left him property in his will.  The problem is, he has to go to Houston, Texas, near where he...
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A book on how learning to take risks can lead to a more successful and fulfilled life, with anecdotes from the author's life and his observations after a 50-year...
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From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002
Celebrated novelist, poet, and MacArthur fellow Ishmael Reed pushes the boundaries once again in the publication of From Totems to Hip-Hop—a truly all-inclusive...
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Japanese by Spring
Reed’s satire of academia as cultural battleground takes on targets ranging from Eurocentrism to antiporn feminists. – Publishers Weekly
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The Reed Reader
Essays, poems, two plays, and excerpts from novels sample the witty satire and politically charged storytelling and cultural criticism that has made Reed one of the...
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Maya Angelou: Poems
Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In this moving...
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The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life
by Amy Tan
Novelist Amy Tan (The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife) presents a nonfiction work sharing her personal philosophy of fate; she also writes about her life and...
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The Kitchen God's Wife
by Amy Tan
With the same narrative skills and evocative powers that made her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, a national bestseller, Tan now tells the story of Winnie Louie, an...
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The Hundred Secret Senses
by Amy Tan
Set in San Francisco and in a remote village of southern China, this is a tale of American pragmatism shaken, and soothed, by Chinese ghosts. What proof of love do...
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Bombardiers
The bombardiers in Po Bronson’s novel are bond salespeople at the firm of Atlantic Pacific, grunts who wake up at 4 a.m. to hustle financial products they barely...
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Charles Dickens
With the delectable wit, unforgettable characters, and challenging themes that have won her a Pulitzer Prize and national bestseller status, Jane Smiley naturally...
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Masters Of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust
In Masters of Death, Rhodes gives full weight, for the first time, to the Einsatzgruppen’s role in the Holocaust. These “special task forces,” organized by Heinrich...
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