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Once Around the Track - Sharyn McCrumb
From Publishers WeeklyBestseller McCrumb (_St. Dale_; Ghost Riders) returns to the world of NASCAR in this middling tale of modern celebrity. Badger Jenkins, a shy, good old boy f.... -
Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Thirteen linked tales from Strout (_Abide with Me_, etc.) present a heart-wrenching, penetrating portrait of ordinary coastal Mainers living l... -
Old Man's War - John Scalzi
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Though a lot of SF writers are more or less efficiently continuing the tradition of Robert A. Heinlein, Scalzi's astonishingly proficient firs... -
Of Love and Evil - Anne Rice
From Publishers WeeklyIn Rice's slim second Songs of the Seraphim novel (after Angel Time), the angel Malchiah whisks ex-contract killer Toby O'Dare back to 16th-century Rome, wher... -
Now You See Her - Joy Fielding
From Publishers WeeklyFielding (The Wild Zone) delivers another emotional blitz in this story about Marcy Taggart, who, at 50, is newly divorced and mourning her daughter, Devon, w... -
Now Is the Time to Open Your He - Alice Walker
From Publishers WeeklyKate Talkingtree, the 57-year-old writer protagonist of Walker's latest concoction, is a lifelong seeker after enlightenment in the carnal, political and reli... -
Nothing to Be Frightened Of - Julian Barnes
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. In this virtuosic memoir, Barnes (_Arthur & George_) makes little mention of his personal or professional life, allowing his audience very lim... -
Nothing but Trouble_ A Kevin Ke - Michael Mcgarrity
From Publishers WeeklyReturning from 2004's Slow Kill, stoic Sante Fe police chief Kevin Kerney receives an unexpected visit from Johnny Jordan, a childhood friend and now ca... -
Nocturnes_ Five Stories of Musi - Kazuo Ishiguro
From Publishers WeeklyThis suite of five stories hits all of Ishiguro's signature notes, but the shorter form mutes their impact. In Crooner, Tony Gardner, a washed-up American sin... -
No Time for Goodbye - Linwood Barclay
From Publishers WeeklyBarclay (_Bad Guys_) tugs hard on the heartstrings with the tragic tale of Cynthia Bigge, whose parents and brother vanished without a trace the day after she...