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Days at the (Oak Street) beach
Pleasant, warm nights
The appropriate wearing of shorts,and
Books— The pleasures of summer... |
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By Matthew
Pearl
Baltimore,
1849. The body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked
grave. Everyone accepts the conclusion that Poe was a second-rate
writer who met a disgraceful end as a drunkard, everyone except
a young lawyer, Quentin Clark, who puts his own reputation at
risk in a passionate crusade to salvage Poe’s. Following
The Dante Club, Pearl has once again crossed literary
history with innovative mystery to create an ingeniously plotted
tale. Pearl’s groundbreaking research—featuring
new, documented material—opens a window on the truth behind
Poe’s demise, literary history’s most persistent
enigma. The resulting novel is a publishing event that, through
sublime craftsmanship, subtle wit, and devious twists, does
honor to Poe himself. |
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The
Art of Detection
A Novel of Suspense |
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By Laurie
R. King
San
Francisco homicide detective Kate Martinelli crosses paths with
Sherlock Holmes—in a spellbinding, dual mystery that could
only come from the mind of Laurie R. King, THE
ART OF DETECTION. Martinelli has seen her share of
peculiar things since becoming a cop, but nothing like this:
an ornate Victorian sitting room straight out of a Holmes story—complete
with gunshots in the wallpaper that spell out the initials of
the late queen. Philip Gilbert was a true Holmes fanatic, with
a collection of priceless memorabilia—a collection worth
killing for. And perhaps someone did, for in his collection
is a manuscript purportedly written by Holmes himself—a
manuscript that eerily echoes details of Gilbert’s own
murder. Now Kate must follow the convoluted trail of a killer
who may have trained at the feet of the greatest detective of
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The
Nasty Bits
Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones |
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By Anthony
Bourdain
Bestselling
chef and No Reservations host Anthony Bourdain has
never been one to pull punches. In THE
NASTY BITS, he serves up a well-seasoned hellbroth
of candid, often outrageous stories from his worldwide misadventures.
Whether scrounging for eel in the backstreets of Hanoi, revealing
what you didn’t want to know about the more unglamorous
aspects of making television, calling for the head of raw food
activist Woody Harrelson, or confessing to lobster-killing guilt,
Bourdain is as entertaining as ever. Bringing together the best
of his previously uncollected nonfiction—and including
new, never-before-published material—The
Nasty Bits is a rude, funny, brutal and passionate
stew for fans and the uninitiated alike.
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Kingdom
Coming
The Rise of Christian Nationalism |
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By Michelle
Goldberg
KINGDOM
COMING takes us to an America in the grip of fevered
religious radicalism: the America of our time. From classrooms
to megachurches to courtrooms, Goldberg demonstrates how the
growing influence of dominionism—the doctrine that Christians
have the right to rule nonbelievers—is threatening the
foundation of democracy. We meet military retirees pledging
to seize the nation in Christ’s name, congressmen courting
neo-confederates and theocrats, and leaders of federally funded
programs offering Jesus as the solution to social problems.
Kingdom Coming offers the powerful testimony of "regular" Americans
to illustrate the subversive effect of this movement nationwide,
and urgently requires us to turn our attention to the mechanisms
of a fundamentalism opposed to science, pluralism, and reason.
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