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The Potato Chip Puzzles - Eric Berlin
When puzzle addict Winston Breen and his best friends head to an all-day puzzle hunt with a $50,000 grand prize, they’re pumped. But the day is not all fun and games: not only do t... -
The Post-American World - Fareed Zakaria
Amazon.com ReviewBook Description"This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else." So begins Fareed Zakaria's important new ... -
The Phantom of Manhattan - Frederick Forsyth
SUMMARY: The stunning continuation of the timeless classic The Phantom of the Opera.In The Phantom of Manhattan, acclaimed, bestselling suspense novelist Frederick Forsyth pens a m... -
The Petrified Ants - Kurt Vonnegut
SUMMARY: Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of per... -
The Pearl - John Steinbeck; Linda Wagner-Ma
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America’s greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, h... -
The Ones That Got Away - Stephen Graham Jones
From Publishers WeeklyThirteen horror stories, most originally published between 2005 and 2010, make up Native American writer Jones's second collection (after 2005's Bleed into Me... -
The New Weird - Ann VanderMeer; Jeff VanderMeer
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. The VanderMeers (_Best American Fantasy_) ably demonstrate the sheer breadth of the New Weird fantasy subgenre in this powerful anthology of s... -
The Murders of Richard III - Elizabeth Peters
From Library JournalA mixture of American and British characters fill this living room style mystery in which a joker's increasingly dangerous pranks parallel the more interesting ... -
The Monday Night Cooking School - Erica Bauermeister
SUMMARY: On Monday nights eight people gather in Lillian's restaurant for a cooking class. There's Claire, who can barely remember the last time she went out without her two kids; ... -
The Miernik Dossier - Charles McCarry
Review‘Arguably the finest modern American spy story’— New York Times‘Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue...