An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of young factory workers have disappeared.
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Author: Bolaño, RobertoSummary:Genre: General fiction -
Author:Summary:The Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle have enthralled generations of readers--and writers. Now Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger have assembled a stellar group of contemporary...
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Author: Clarke, Arthur C.; Baxter, StephenSummary:The mysterious Firstborn have long sought to stop the advance of human civilization. This time, they have sent a "Q-bomb" speeding toward Earth--a device that human scientists can barely...
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Author: Martin, George R. R.; Lynch, Scott; Bear, ElizabethSummary:A new anthology celebrating the witches and sorcerers of epic fantasy - featuring stories by George R. R. Martin, Scott Lynch, Megan Lindholm, and many others!
Hot on the heels of Gardner...Genre: Fantasy fiction, Short stories -
Author: Lambdin, DeweySummary:It is 1781 and the British-held American port of Yorktown on the Chesapeake Bay is under siege. Pounded by the American colonists on land and the deadly warships of their French allies at sea, the...
Genre: Historical fiction, Sea fiction, War fiction -
Author: Nix, GarthSummary:A short story collection from bestselling fantasy author Garth Nix, including an Old Kingdom novella, a short story set in the same world as Shade's Children, and another story set in the world of...
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Author:Summary:This collection of seventeen classic mystery stories, dating from 1837 to 1914, traces the earliest history of popular detective fiction.
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Author: Simmons, DanSummary:
The men on board the HMS Terror -part of the ill-fated 1945 Franklin Expedition-are entering a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, stranded in a nightmarish landscape of ice and...
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Author: Sacks, OliverSummary:
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us...
Genre: Music, Psychology -
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Assembled and edited by Julian Hawthorne and first published in 1909, the Modern English volume of The Lock and Key Library features classic mystery and detective stories by such luminaries as...
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Author: Nelson, James L.Summary:
Fleeing the New England coast after foiling a British man-of-war's attempt to seize his cargo, merchant sea captain Isaac Biddlecomb finds himself in the middle of a brewing rebellion and at the...
Genre: Historical fiction, Sea fiction -
Author: Lewis, C. S.Summary:
C. S. Lewis's reflections on Milton's Paradise Lost, the seminal classic that profoundly influenced Christian thought as well as Lewis's own.
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Author: Dahl, ArneSummary:
In Arne Dahl's riveting follow up to Misterioso, the Intercrime team is tapped to track down an American serial killer--on the loose in Sweden. A Swedish literary critic is found tortured to death...
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Author: Mitchell, DavidSummary:
A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in 21st-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for...
Genre: Dystopian fiction, Science fiction -
Author: Metz, CadeSummary:
New York Times Silicon Valley beat reporter Cade Metz has an insider's perspective on the greatest tech story of our time--a story that no one else has been in a position to tell.