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The Quickening Maze - Adam Foulds
From Publishers WeeklyFoulds's erudite, Booker-shortlisted debut follows three men--Dr. Matthew Allen, mad peasant poet John Clare, and prodigious pipe-smoking poet Alfred Tennyson... -
The Presence - John Saul
From School Library JournalYA?Dr. Katharine Sundquist is hired to work on a short term archaeology project in beautiful Maui. It seems to be an ideal situation for her and her 16-y... -
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SUMMARY: Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction.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 Pegasus Secret - Gregg Loomis
From Publishers WeeklyShortly after ex-spy Lang Reilly's sister dies in an explosion in her Paris home, a reproduction of a painting by the 17th-century artist Poussin, which his s... -
The Nomad - Simon Hawke
Armed with Galdra, the fabled sword of elven kings, Sorak has forged his way across the forbidding wilds of Athas, from the peaks of the Ringing Mountains to the shores of the Grea... -
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 Mystery of the Coughing Dra - Nick West
SUMMARY:When five dogs disappear from a seaside town and a dragon is sighted off-shore, the Three Investigators look into the situation. -
The Marvelous Land of Oz - Lyman Frank Baum
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Marvelous Land of Oz, commonly shortened to The Land of Oz, published on July 5, 1904, is the second of L. Frank Baum's books set in the Land of Oz, and the s... -
The Loss of the SS. Titanic - Lawrence Beesley
SUMMARY:The history of the R.M.S. Titanic, of the White Star Line, is one of the most tragically short it is possible to conceive. The world had waited expectantly for its l... -
The Kennedy Men_ 1901-1963 - Laurence Leamer
From Publishers WeeklyJournalist Leamer (The Kennedy Women) provides a stirring narrative of the Kennedy men but comes up short as regards analysis of the byzantine motivations, co...