In this collection of short stories, novelist Stross moves the U.S.-U.S.S.R. conflict onto a massive disk in another galaxy in "Missile Gap," offers a spam-filter solution to the Fermi paradox in...
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Author: Stross, CharlesSummary:Genre: Science fiction, Short stories -
Author: McCormack, EricSummary:
Rachel, the mother of the aging professor Thomas Vanderlinden, shared her life with two men. Both went by the name of Rowland Vanderlinden. The first husband went abroad and never returned. The...
Genre: Psychological fiction -
Author: McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
There is the surveyor who dreams of a membership in Muirfield golf club. There is the pushy Stockbridge mother. There is the intellectual lady who sees herself as part of a much larger world....
Genre: Bildungsromans, Humorous fiction -
Author: McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
The latest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's perennially popular and irresistibly charming 44 Scotland Street series. When Pat accepts her narcissistic ex-boyfriend Bruce's invitation for...
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Author: Smith, Alexander McCallSummary:
Newlywed painter and sometime somnambulist Angus Lordie might be sleepwalking his way into trouble with Animal Welfare when he lets his dog Cyril drink a bit too much lager at the local bar. The...
Genre: Humorous fiction -
Author: Smith, Alexander McCallSummary:
Domestic bliss seems in short supply at 44 Scotland Street. Over at the Pollocks, dad, Stuart, is harbouring a secret about a secret society and Bertie is feeling kind of blue. Having had enough...
Genre: Humorous fiction -
Author: Smith, Alexander McCallSummary:
It is said that a picture may be worth a thousand words but an old photograph can inspire many more. In this beguiling book, Alexander McCall Smith casts his eye over five chanced-upon photographs...
Genre: Humorous fiction, Short stories -
Author: Walker, MartinSummary:
An anonymous skull, an unsolved murder, sinister rumors about Cold War espionage—Bruno's investigation into a long-standing cold case takes him into the tangled inheritance of a Bergerac...
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Author: Doig, IvanSummary:
Doig captures the passion and tenacity of turn-of-the-century immigrants struggling to build new lives amidst Montana's windswept Rockies. The tale unfolds into a contest of the heart between Anna...
Genre: Historical fiction -
Author: McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
Between glances in the mirror, vain Bruce contemplates a new career as a wine merchant. His troubled flatmate Pat finds herself looking for true love at a nudist picnic. Precocious Bertie, now six...
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Author: King, Laurie R.Summary:
Waking up in Morocco with no memory of her identity, Mary Russell is enmeshed in the political and military uprisings of Europe, while Sherlock Holmes taps the assistance of T. E. Lawrence to...
Genre: Historical fiction -
Author: Krauss, NicoleSummary:
A young novelist inherited the desk from a poet taken by Pinochet's police. Then the desk is stolen from her by the poet's supposed daughter. In its drawers, another man discovers a long-kept...
Genre: Psychological fiction -
Author: McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
Stil enduring psychotherapy, the precocious Bertie gets a chance to escape when he joins a junior orchestra trip to Paris--wher he is accidentally left behind. Never fear for Bertie, though. He...
Genre: Humorous fiction