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Cod - Mark Kurlansky
A delightful romp through history with all its economic forces laid bare, Cod is the biography of a single species of fish, but it may as well be a world history with this humble f... -
Clown Girl - Monica Drake; Chuck Palahniuk
From Publishers WeeklyAs Drake's debut opens, Nita, otherwise known as Sniffles the Clown, is tying balloon animals for a horde of greedy, sticky children at a fair. Suffering what... -
Chat - Archer Mayor
From Publishers WeeklyRelationships always drive Mayor's plots, but never more so than in this intricate, suspense-filled 18th Joe Gunther novel (after 2006's The Second Mouse -
Censoring an Iranian Love Story - Shahriar Mandanipour; Sara Khal
SUMMARY: If conducting a love affair in modern Iran is not a simple undertaking, then telling the story of that love may be even more difficult. In a country where mere proximity b... -
Candyfreak - Steve Almond
Perhaps you remember the whipped splendor of the Choco-Lite, or the luscious Caravelle bar, or maybe the sublime and perfectly balanced Hershey's Cookies 'n Mint. The Marathon, an ... -
Bryant & May on the Loose_ A Pe - Christopher Fowler
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Fowler's unique blend of the comic and the grotesque is on full display in his excellent seventh Peculiar Crimes Unit mystery (after 2008's Th... -
Broken - Kelley Armstrong
SUMMARY: In this thrilling new novel from the author of Industrial Magic, a pregnant werewolf may have unwittingly unleashed Jack the Ripper on twenty-first-century—and become his ... -
Briefing for a Descent Into Hel - Doris May Lessing
In this ambitious novel of madness and release, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Doris Lessing imagines the fantastical "inner-space" life of an amnesiac.Charles Watkins, a Profes... -
Breath, Eyes, Memory - Edwidge Danticat
Amazon.com ReviewOprah Book Club® Selection, May 1998: "I come from a place where breath, eyes and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like the hair on ... -
Brave New Worlds - John Joseph Adams; Cory Doctoro
YOU ARE BEING WATCHED.Your every movement is being tracked, your every word recorded. Your spouse may be an informer, your children may be listening at your door, your best friend ...