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Evil for Evil

A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery

by James R. Benn
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009

Fifty Browning Automatic Rifles have been stolen from a US Army base in Northern Ireland. His “uncle” Ike Eisenhower sends Billy to recover the weapons, which might be used in a German-sponsored IRA uprising. Bodies begin to accumulate as Billy finds unexpected challenges to his Boston-Irish upbringing...
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by Gina Apostol
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018

**"A bravura performance."—The New York Times Histories and personalities collide in this literary tour-de-force about the Philippines’ present and America’s past by the PEN Open Book Award–winning author of Gun Dealers’ Daughter.** Two women, a Filipino translator...
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by Juliann Garey
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2012

An NPR Great Read: This novel about bipolar disorder and one man’s journey through the world is a “convincing portrait of mental illness” (Entertainment Weekly). This tour-de-force novel takes us inside the restless mind, ravaged heart, and anguished soul of Greyson Todd—a successful...
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by Sophie Hannah
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007

“Little Face is a wonderful work, a brilliant use of mirrors and the writer's magic.  Chilling, tantalizing, and ultimately fair and deeply satisfying.”—Barbara D’Amato, author of Death of a Thousand Cuts “Hannah adapts to crime fiction with arresting aplomb: Her characters are vivid,...
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Billy Boyle

A World War II Mystery

by James R. Benn
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007

“This book has got it all—an instant classic.”—Lee Child, author of The Hard Way “It is a pleasure marching off to war with the spirited Billy Boyle. He is a charmer, richly imagined and vividly rendered, and he tells a finely suspenseful yarn.”—Dan Fesperman, author of The Prisoner...
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by Jacqueline Winspear
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003

Lady Rowan Compton first met Maisie when, at thirteen, she went into service as a maid at her ladyship’s Belgravia mansion. A suffragette, Lady Rowan took the remarkably smart youngster under her wing and became her patron. She encouraged Maisie to study at Cambridge, and was aided in this by Maurice...
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by Jacqueline Winspear
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004

Praise for Maisie Dobbs: "Maisie Dobbs is a quirky literary creation. If you cross-pollinated Vera Brittain’s classic World War I memoir, Testament of Youth, with Dorothy Sayers’s Harriet Vane mysteries and a dash of the old PBS series ‘Upstairs, Downstairs,’ you’d approximate...
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by James R. Benn
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007

Praise for the Billy Boyle series: “A meaty, old-fashioned and thoroughly enjoyable tale of WWII-era murder and espionage.”—The Seattle Times “The World War II atmosphere and history are expertly handled.”—Denver Post “Great fun. Benn knows his war history. . . ....
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by Barbara Cleverly
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018

Barbara Cleverly, bestselling author of the Joe Sandilands series, introduces an ingenious new sleuth who navigates 1920s Cambridge, a European intellectual capital on the cusp of dramatic change. England 1923: Detective Inspector John Redfyre is a godsend to the Cambridge CID. The ancient...
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by Rebecca Pawel
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005

This murder mystery set in Fascist Spain is “a colorful, thrilling story about loyalty and love” (The Detroit Free Press).   Spain, 1940: Lt. Carlos Tejada has been transferred to Salamanca, where he studied law before the Spanish Civil War. His new duties include monitoring parolees—former...
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Luminarium

A Novel

by Alex Shakar
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011

This Los Angeles Times Book Prize–winning novel is a “dizzyingly smart and provocative” look at technology, spirituality, and the search for meaning (Dave Eggers). A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Austin Chronicle,...
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The Elfish Gene

Dungeons, Dragons and Growing Up Strange: A Memoir

by Mark Barrowcliffe
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008

**In this witty memoir of nerd life, the author reflects on “how D&D twisted his teenage development—and about how twisted teenage development is in general” (The Seattle Times).   Summer, 1976. Twelve-year-old Mark Barrowcliffe had a chance to be normal. He blew it. While other teenagers...
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Bomb

The Author Interviews

by Bomb Magazine, Mary Gaitskill, Junot Díaz
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014

Thirty years of interviews that offer “a window into the minds and the writing processes of some of the world’s best practitioners of poetry and prose” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   Since 1981, the quarterly magazine Bomb has been the gold standard for artist-on-artist interviews,...
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Never Look an American in the Eye

A Memoir of Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian Amiercan

by Okey Ndibe
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016

The author of Foreign Gods, Inc. and Arrows of Rain tells his own immigrant’s tale, where what is lost in translation is often as hilarious as it is harrowing. Okey Ndibe’s funny, charming, and penetrating memoir tells of his move from Nigeria to America, where he came to edit the influential—but...
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