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| September 2, 2008 | ||
Dr. Marie Heaton, an assured anesthesiologist at the top of her game, is forced to face the personal and professional fallout from an operating room disaster. With the compassion of Jodi Picoult and the medical realism of Atul Gawande, Oxygen is a riveting new novel by a real-life anesthesiologist, an intimate story of relationships and family that collides with a high-stakes medical drama. (read review) |
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| August 31, 2008 | ||
Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes he is God’s instrument. He is. This is John Irving’s most comic novel; yet Owen Meany is Mr. Irving’s most heartbreaking character. Maybe it is because I spent today with my now middle-age UNH roommates (what great people and how lucky I am to have had them as part of my life), it seems an especially good time to publish a recently written review from Neil in the UK from one my favorite authors from my UNH days. Neil is just joining our MostlyFiction team. Expect more reviews of "classics" from Neil -- I can't send him new review copies but as I always say... a good book never goes out of style. Thus Neil is going to remind of us some of the books that we might have missed or that deserve a re-read. (read review) |
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| August 29, 2008 | ||
Each night, 72-year-old August Brill recovering from an accident and sleepless, invents characters living different kinds of lives in an alternative reality--one so close to our own reality that its plausibility becomes frightening. In his stories, August has flashed back to the year 2000, in which the Presidential election led to riots and the demand to abolish the Electoral College. Eventually New York, New England, and nine states in the Midwest, seceded, precipitating the Second Civil War, against President George Bush and the Federals. (read review) |
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| August 27, 2008 | ||
Alexander von Brücken, a reclusive millionaire with an enigmatic past, invites an unnamed writer to stay in his mansion and ghostwrite his autobiography. The writer will be well paid for his efforts, and literary fame is virtually guaranteed; von Brücken’s only stipulation is that the book not be published until after his death. But could the story he recounts—a tale of greed, fanaticism, and erotic obsession—be little more than a dazzling fabrication, the bitter fruit of unrequited love? (read review) |
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| August 25, 2008 | ||
Rico has been banished to society’s margins; he has neither a roof over his head nor a steady income on which to depend. When a friend and fellow beggar dies of exposure after a night spent in the Paris metro, Rico decides to flee the northern cold for his beloved south, for Marseilles and the Mediterranean. An affecting on-the-road novel and a tender exploration of love’s power both to heal and to destroy. (read review) |
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| August 23, 2008 | ||
It’s the late sixties, the last dark years of Franco’s dictatorship: Minaya, a university student in Madrid, is caught up in the student protests and the police are after him. He moves to his uncle Manuel’s country estate in the small town of Mágina to write his thesis on an old friend of Manuel’s, an obscure republican poet named Jacinto Solana. Minaya begins to search for Solana’s lost masterpiece, a novel called Beatus Ille. Looking for a book, he unravels a crime. (read review) |
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| August 18, 2008 | ||
Unaware that his life is about to change in ways he can't imagine, seventeen-year-old Jesse Matson ventures into the northern Minnesota woods with his father on a cold November afternoon. Perched on individual hunting stands a quarter-mile apart, they wait with their rifles for white-tailed deer. When the muffled crack of a gunshot rings out, Jesse unaccountably knows something is wrong-and he races through the trees to find his dad dead of a rifle wound, apparently self-inflicted. But would easygoing Harold Matson really kill himself? If so, why? (read review) |
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| August 17, 2008 | ||
Early one Thursday morning, forensic scientist Theresa MacLean is called to the scene of a gruesome murder. Although it's not the best start to her day, Theresa has been through worse. What unfolds during the next eight hours, though, is nothing she could ever have imagined. Downtown at the Federal Reserve Bank, her police detective fiancé is taken hostage with six others in a robbery masterminded by two clever criminals. A "terrifically entertaining and engrossing thriller." (read review) |
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| August 15, 2008 | ||
Dark, funny, and oddly poignant, this is new British crime fiction at its very finest. (read review and INTERVIEW) |
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| August 14, 2008 | ||
A new collection of stories from a writer at the height of her powers—a celebrated stylist admired for her caustic humor, freewheeling imagination, love of humanity and wicked powers of observation. This is a delightful grouping of stories, witty and wise, that includes the return of Sir Edward Feathers, “Old Filth” himself. (read review) |
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| August 12, 2008 | ||
For all readers who have ever lent an enthusiastic ear to a wonderfully well told tale, or tumbled gladly into pages that could transport them anywhere, now comes novelist Peter David’s enchanting new work of fantasy. Action-packed and suspenseful, heart-tugging and wise, it weaves a spell both hauntingly familiar and utterly irresistible for those who have ever surrendered themselves to flights of fancy, and have whispered in their hearts, “I believe.” (read review) |
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| August 11, 2008 | ||
Keller's a hit man. For years now he's had places to go and people to kill. But enough is enough. He's got money in the bank and just one last job standing between him and retirement. So he carries it out with his usual professionalism, and he heads home, and guess what? One more job. Paid in advance, so what's he going to do? (read review) |
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| August 10, 2008 | ||
This gutsy, funny book is instantly gripping: If God takes human form and dies, what would become of life as we know it? Effortlessly combining outlandish humor with big questions about mortality, ethics, and human weakness, Ron Currie, Jr., holds a funhouse mirror to our present-day world. This provocative new voice in fiction will remind readers of the best of Vonnegut. (read review) |
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OXYGEN
from 24 reviews
A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY
MAN IN THE DARK
from 5 reviews
EROS
from 1 reviews
A SUN FOR THE DYING
A MANUSCRIPT OF ASHES
UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY
from 4 reviews
TAKEOVER
SWANSEA TERMINAL
THE PEOPLE OF PRIVILEGE HILL
TIGERHEART
HIT AND RUN
GOD IS DEAD
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