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Mexico City Noir - Paco Ignacio Taibo II; Achy Obe
From Publishers WeeklyTaibo's introduction, evocatively titled Snow White vs. Dr. Frankenstein, is more compelling than any of the 12 stories in this slim anthology in Akashic's ce... -
Men and Cartoons - Jonathan Lethem
Review"A strikingly original collection . . . imaginative, insightful, witty and sad." --Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"An already dazzling writer shows us a new card. . . . -
Mayflower_ A Story of Courage, - Nathaniel Philbrick
From the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement of New England has become enshrined as our most sacred national myth. Yet, a... -
Marcel Proust_ A Life - Edmund White
Amazon.com ReviewMarcel Proust documented his existence so lavishly--albeit in fictional form--that many of his biographers have functioned as little more than code-breakers, dogge... -
Magnificent Desolation_ The Lon - Buzz Aldrin; Ken Abraham
Forty years ago, Buzz Aldrin became the second human, minutes after Neil Armstrong, to set foot on a celestial body other than the Earth. The event remains one of mankind’s greates... -
Love in the Afternoon - Lisa Kleypas
SUMMARY: As a lover of animals and nature, Beatrix Hathaway has always been more comfortable outdoors than in the ballroom. Even though she participated in the London season in the... -
Love Letters - Katie Fforde
SUMMARY: Phillida Horsley might have bitten off more than she can chew when she agrees to help organize a literary festival and finds herself going to Ireland to persuade the infam... -
Lord of Emperors - Guy Gavriel Kay
Having finally achieved his journey to fabled Sarantium, Crispin the mosaicist wants nothing more than to confront the challenges of his art high on the scaffolding of destiny-but ... -
Long for This World_ The Strang - Jonathan Weiner
SUMMARY: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Jonathan Weiner comes a fast-paced and astonishing scientific adventure story: has the long-sought secret of eternal youth a... -
Leviathan Wakes - James S. A. Corey
Product DescriptionHumanity has colonized the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond - but the stars are still out of our reach. Jim Holden is XO of an ice...