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Twelve Bar Blues
by Patrick Neate“Entertaining. . . . An anything-goes melting-pot hybrid of Ragtime and White Teeth. . . . Twelve Bar Blues blows with all its might over 400 pages, shifting between continents…
Sherlock Holmes
by Nick Rennison“Rennison does a marvelous job of overlaying his own extensive research on clues from Doyle’s tales of Watson and Holmes, deciphering much for this complex, engaging portrait.” —Irene Wanner, The…
The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez
by John Rechy“A gritty picture of life on the cusp . . . vividly rendered.” —Kirkus Reviews…
Here I Am
by Alan Huffman“Huffman looks at what it means to be a war reporter in the twenty-first century through the lens of the iconic Hetherington’s life.” —New York Post…
Two Guys from Verona
by James Kaplan“Kaplan’s novel is a view of suburban life as David Lynch might imagine it: as banal as a mini-mall, yet seething with anxiety, eroticism and violence. Novels don’t come any…
The Englishman’s Boy
by Guy Vanderhaeghe“The Englishman’s Boy . . . [is] outstanding. . . . A complex, finely written story of deception, dreams, survival, and greed.” —Sybil Downing, The Denver Post…
The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B
by J.P. Donleavy“Donleavy at his best, eloquent, roguish . . . at one with his world and the terrible sadness it contains.” —Newsweek…
The Fatal Eggs and Other Soviet Satires
by Mirra Ginsburg“A fascinating panorama of a paradoxical society. All of the stories, whether lightly spoofing rattlebrained bureaucracy or heavily laden with sarcasm, are well-written and entertaining.” —St. Petersburg Times…
Cereus Blooms at Night
by Shani Mootoo“Shani Mootoo digs deep into the heart of classic storytelling, expanding, sculpting, and molding what is expected into a completely fresh approach to narrative. Her language and characters seduce us…
The Great Glass Sea
by Josh Weil“Josh Weil’s The Great Glass Sea is the most unexpected second book by a writer of note to appear in years . . . an absorbing and touching tale ….
