LITERARY
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Pictures of You
By Caroline Leavitt
Isabelle becomes enmeshed with the family of the woman she accidently killed in a car crash. San Francisco Chronicle "Pictures of You is a novel I suspect I'll return to again and again."
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LITERARY
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Compass Rose
By John Casey
This is the National Book Award-winning author's first novel in more than two decades. Minneapolis Star Tribune "[A]n old-fashioned comfort food novel."
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CRIME
Page 43
EXCELLENT
The Border Lords
A Charlie Hood Novel
By T. Jefferson Parker
Undercover ATF agent Sean Ozburn goes rogue along the Mexican border.
Los Angeles Times "No novelist or short story writer ... has come close to portraying [drugs and arms trafficking's] depths and their implications as well, or as artfully, as Parker."
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CRIME
Page 41
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Hollywood Hills
By Joseph Wambaugh
This is the fourth installment in the Hollywood Station series.
Washington Post "[It offers] plotlines and sentences that perform buoyant loop-de-loops all over the page before making flawless landings."
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CRIME
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Three Seconds
By Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom
Stieg Larsson fans! This book was named Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year in 2009.
USA Today "Roslund & Hellstrom pull out all the stops, peppering the story with unfathomable mysteries."
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SF
Page 45
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The Broken Kingdoms
By N. K. Jemisin
The second installment of The Inheritance Trilogy reprises the history of the godlings.
io9 "The story works even better than it did in the first book."
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BIO
Page 54
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Colonel Roosevelt
By Edmund Morris
Morris concludes the celebrated trilogy he began with The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (1979). Chicago Sun-Times "As with its companions, the new book is history written with authority and elegances."
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BIO
Page 51
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The Memory Chalet
By Tony Judt
In the two years before his death, at age 62, Judt completed this series of 25 essays. Los Angeles Times "It's enough to renew a reader's faith in a writer's ability to cut a path to immortality."
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Bio
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Poser
My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses
By Claire...
