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The first critical biography of the innovative television writer whose off-kilter creations helped spark the Golden Age of modern television. TV writer Dennis Potter is widely credited with revolutionizing television. The innovative shows he creat...

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A nineteenth century prophet claims seven young women for his own in this ';engaging, serious and gleefully ironic novel' based on true events (The New York Times Book Review). A New York Times Notable Book In the 1820s, Prophet John Wroe settled ...

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';Never before has the painful, knotty journey to maturity been depicted with such gusto.... Riotously profane' (Patrick McGrath, The New York Times Book Review). Thomas Penman is enduring a very bad adolescence. Growing up in dark, dingy 1950s En...

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In this ';deliciously creepy' novel by the Bram Stoker Award winner, two feuding families face supernatural vengeance in a parallel 16th-century Venice (Publishers Weekly). In the City of Venus, two noble familiesthe della Scorpias and the Barbaro...

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A history of the holiday and an ';elegant, ironic, brief but deeply researched meditation on what makes America America' (Financial Times). Holidays of all sorts are celebrated in the United States, many rooted in the country's great diversity of ...

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A ';lively, intelligently rendered account' of a tabloid romance, scandalous divorce and the rise of yellow journalism in Gilded Age New York (Kirkus Reviews). Edward ';Daddy' Browning was a famously eccentric millionaire when he crossed paths wit...

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';A dubious character experiences a shattering change of heart during his specimen-collecting expedition to Australia... Edgy, intense and engrossing' (Kirkus Reviews). When past indiscretions catch up with Charles Redbourne, a minor English lando...

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Following Faces Under Water, Tanith Lee's alchemical thriller series continues with a Joan of Arcinspired novel set in an alternate medieval Venice. In Saint Fire, the second volume in the Secret Books of Venus series, Volpa is a strangely beautif...

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';This brilliant fictional biography of Saint Teresa of vila breathes new life into a sacred subject' (Booklist). She is Saint Teresaknown as a mystic, reformer, and founder of convents, and the author of numerous texts that introduced her radical...

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';The meticulousness of the Longs' research is awesome' in this historical account of the plot to brand a British naval official as a Catholic traitor (The Guardian). 1679, England: Fear of conspiracy and religious terrorism have provoked panic in...

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The final novel in the alchemical thriller series set in an alternate Venice by the World Fantasy Awardwinning author of A Bed of Earth. Centuries into the future, the sunken city of Venus has been salvaged from beneath the sea and rebuilt there u...

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';A fast start to what promises to be an exciting, innovative fantasy series' from the World Fantasy Awardwinning author of Night's Master(Publishers Weekly). In the hedonistic atmosphere of an eighteenth-century Venice Carnival, gaiety turns dead...

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In the criminal underbelly of the 1960s rural South, a silent, iron-willed man is ready to sacrifice anything to rise to the top.A former professional boxer, actor, horse trainer and radio announcer, Charles Willeford (1919-1988) is best known for...

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In post-World War II Los Angeles, a disillusioned used car salesman seeks revenge after his attempt to make the great American film fails miserably.Richard Hudson, woman chaser and used car salesman, has a pimp's awareness of the ways women (and m...

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The great eighteenth century portraitist comes to life in this ';gritty, bawdy and funny' rags to riches novel told in the voice of the artist himself (The New York Times). William Hogarth was London's artist par excellence, and his workespecially...

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A small-town Florida cop finds big trouble when he becomes a seductive movie star's bodyguard in this clever mystery from the author of Hot Shot. Det. Samuel Cooper, known as ';Coop' to his friends, is the chief of police in Gulf Front, Florida, a...

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An obsessive-compulsive housewife teeters on the edge of madness in this ';immensely intelligent and delightful... dance of a book' (The New York Times). The Limits of Vision is Robert Irwin's irrepressibly entertaining and imaginative novel about...

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The author of The Arabian Nightmare spins ';a wryly subversive and darkly erotic fable' (The Sunday Times). The virginal hero of the tale, Prince Orkhan, escapes from the Cage of the Imperial Harem, in which the sons of the sultan are imprisoned, ...

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A missionary's daughter confronts her father's secretsand her own lifein this ';deeply poetic' novel by the award-winning author of Mr. Wroe's Virgins (The Guardian). When her missionary father suddenly dies in Nigeria, thirty-seven-year old schoo...

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';A fantastically tightly written, read-every-word novel... As a psychological thriller, it's as close to wonderful as anything I've recently read' (The Guardian). In the winter of 1881, John Stannard, a young architect, is in self-imposed exile i...

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PEN/Faulker Award Finalist: A ';fascinating and original' novel based on the real life of a notorious Soviet spy (The New York Times Book Review). This gripping narrative brings to life dramatic true events in America from the 1930s through the Mc...

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This surprise bestseller set in the world of female bodybuilding is ';a modern gothic comedy of obsession' (Vanity Fair). Aurora Jeanine Johnson is an unwed mother from Savannah, Georgia, desperate to sculpt a new lifeand a new bodyin California, ...

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A delightfully absurd blend of crime, comedy, and social commentary: ';A wild novel of black humor... Wonderful' (The New York Times). Meet Gascoyne, a man who spends whole weeks in his car, eating, sleeping, and conducting his business via mobile...

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A billionaire sets out to teach his grandchildren some life lessons in this sharply funny novel by ';a brilliant, original writer' (Ann Beattie, author of The Accomplished Guest). Bewildered by the odious liberal tendencies of his son-in-law, Chip...

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';A highly unusual tale about an unrecognized musical genius,' this acclaimed debut novel ';touches the grand questions about God, love, art and history' (Publishers Weekly). Set against the backdrop of a nineteenth century Alpine village, Brother...

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From the ';intrepid, challenge-taking writer' of The Kashmir Shawl ';comes this story of sisterly rifts and betrayal' (Good Housekeeping). ';Introspective and descriptive writing carry along . . . Thomas' examination of a woman searching for her p...

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An FBI agent scours LA's criminal underground ';in a noirish World War IIera thriller that's rich in atmosphere' by the acclaimed author of Fear Itself (Kirkus Reviews). Autumn, 1941. Special Agent Jimmy Nessheim is in Hollywood for two reasons: t...

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A band of misfits boards an airship to search for utopia, in this novel by the author of The Balloonist, a National Book Award finalist: ';A delight' (Philip Pullman, author of The Amber Spyglass). An unemployed American metaphysician, a perpetual...

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The definitive text on the mystery of R.F.K.'s assassination by a reporter who ';got inside this story... with his impressive grasp of all the loose ends' (Kirkus Reviews). On the night of June 4, 1968, Sirhan Sirhan shot and killed Sen. Robert F....

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This novel posing as a dissertation on Leon Fuertes, the fictional president of a made-up Banana Republic is ';still fresh, funny, and disturbingly relevant' (Publishers Weekly, starred review). To fulfill his PhD requirement, Camilo Fuertes decid...

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