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GENERAL FICTION
- The Year of Endless Sorrows by Adam Rapp - A Midwestern young man's misadventures in New York City are the subject of this novel which is both comedic and heartbreakingly sad.
- Everybody Loves Somebody by Joanna Scott - This collection of elegantly crafted short stories about people searching for human connections documents every day life throughout the 20th century.
Other titles to consider:
- Paula Spencer - Roddy Doyle
- Returning to Earth - Jim Harrison
- Against the Day - Thomas Pynchon
- Book of Dave - Will Self
- Behind the Moon - Hsu-Ming Teo
- Treason's River - Edwin Thomas
- Redemption - Frederick Turner
HISTORICAL FICTION
Other titles to consider:
- The Terror by Dan Simmons - In 1840, Sir John Franklin led an expedition of almost two hundred men to the Arctic aboard two retired naval vessels, the Terror and the Erebus, to search for a northwest passage.
MYSTERIES
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- Erased from Memory by Diana O'Hehir - Californian Carla Day and her elderly Egyptologist father become involved in a murder linked to a millennia-old Egyptian death.
- No Trace by Barry Maitland - The latest Block and Kolla police procedural has the Scotland Yard detectives investigating the kidnapping of a six year old. The child's father, a famous artist, exploits the crime for publicity turning a spotlight on the contemporary art world.
ROMANCE
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SCIENCE FICTION
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- Eifelheim by Michael Flynn - A present day historian and his physicist love interest become involved in researching the history of the medieval German village Eifelheim. Is it possible that grasshopper-like aliens led to its disappearance from maps after 1349?
- Feast of Souls by C.S. Friedman - Kamala dares to become the first female magister in the Kingdom. Will she plunge it into a dark age? This fun and exciting fantasy is the first of a projected trilogy.
- A Grey Moon over China - Thomas Day
- The Toyminator - Robert Rankin
- Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden - Catherynne Valente
THRILLERS
Other titles to consider:
- Find Me by Carol O'Connell - Vacationing NYPD detective Kathy Mallory becomes involved in the hunt for a child serial killer along Route 66 in the latest powerful entry of the popular series.