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The Unusual Life of Tristan Smi - Peter Carey
From Publishers WeeklyCarey, known for his quirkily skewed re-creations of Australian culture (Oscar and Lucinda; The Tax Collector), has outdone himself in this bizarre, uncannily... -
The Spanish Game - Charles Cumming
SUMMARY: In exile. In danger. On the run. For six years Alec Milius has been trying to escape his past. But his past refuses to release him. Abandoned by MI6 after a disastrous ope... -
The Ships of Earth - Orson Scott Card
SUMMARY: The City of Basilica has fallen. Now Wetchik, Nafai, and all their family must brave the desert wastes, and cross the wide continents to where Harmony's hidden spaceport l... -
The Reluctant Nude - Meg Maguire
SUMMARY: Chipping away at her resistance, one touch at a time...Fallon Frost's late foster mother had done so much to heal the wounds of her damaged childhood. So when a lecherous ... -
The Mystery of the Death Trap M - M. V. Carey
SUMMARY:The Three Investigators, aided by their friend Allie, try to untangle the unusual circumstances surrounding an abandoned mine. -
The Midnight Club_ A Novel - James Patterson
After a clash with drug kingpin Alexandre Ste. Germain leaves streetwise cop John Stefanovich in a wheelchair and his wife dead, "Stef" becomes determined to see justice done and t... -
The Hyde Park Headsman - Anne Perry
Not since the bloody deeds of Jack the Ripper have Londoners felt such terror as that aroused by the gruesome beheadings in Hyde Park. And if newly promoted Police Superintendent T... -
The Hunters - Jason Pinter
SUMMARY:While Henry Parker and Jack O'Donnell get some much needed rest, two killers are on the move and before the night's done their plan will be completed. -
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
SUMMARY:The final curtain is closing on the Second World War, and Hana, a nurse, stays behind in an abandoned Italian villa to tend to her only remaining ward. Rescued by Be... -
The Dragon Done It - Eric Flint
SUMMARY: Pity the poor private eye (or official investigator, for that matter), who has to solve a case which may involve death by black magic, evidence that may have been altered ...