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Where do you go at night, once you have turned out the light and snuggled down under the blankets? Abigail Crabtree's imaginary world is precious to her; an escape from the waking world. That is until one wintry night, when a sinister horseman app...

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Queen Victoria is on the throne when we find Hetty Littlewood, one of the few remaining wise women, tending her injured son Daryl who is the master of a canal narrow boat and a part-time prize fighter. Daryl subsequently fall's foul of gaming inte...

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In the not too distant future, after the huge successes of role-playing games, virtual worlds and reality shows, it was only a matter of time before somebody went too far. Welcome to Gameworld, a remote island with a population unaware that they e...

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On the morning of 25 October 1957, a group of men enter the barbershop of the Park Sheraton Hotel on 55th Street and Seventh Avenue and approach the figure in the brown suit sitting in Chair 4. A minute later, Albert Anastasia lies on the floor in...

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Dear Booklover: P J O'Rourke said, "Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to a labour camp ...The blind guy with the funny little harp who composed T...

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New Labour's honeymoon is over, but the London bombings have provided an excuse for meddling in the public's affairs. While political correctness is gaining momentum, the country has lost control of its borders and is reeling under the influx of f...

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Dr Barnabas is the new pathologist at a big inner city hospital. She is also a police surgeon - and the first woman to hold either post. Her first post-mortem is on a well-known author, and surrounded by the entire attendant media circus. But trou...

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This is the second in the medical mystery series, featuring Dr Barnabas, the forensic pathologist and police-surgeon at the Old East Hospital. In this story, she is involved in investigating the harrowing case of suspicious deaths of small babies ...

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When a severed leg is found on the banks of the Thames, Dr George Barnabas, female forensic pathologist and determined investigator, is summoned to the macabre scene. But with no sign of the rest of the body, she cannot say how the man died. Her n...

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Wally Gobbet is an apprentice conservator who finds a medieval manuscript in the basement of the British Library: the Secret Chronicle of the Isle of Mist. Following the untimely death of his grandfather, Wally uses the book to uncover a strange n...

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Johnny Future, lover of all that exists, hopelessly unrepentant and quixotic, knows that life is calling him. He can feel it, man. Inanimate objects, exterminator icons, street signs are all talking to him, telling him he's a loser. His grandmothe...

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It is austerity-ridden, black-market-riddled, post-war England and MI5 has pushed Cockney cat burglar and jewel thief Jethro out onto the rooftops of London again in defence of The Realm. And if that was not bad enough, London's top villains want ...

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It was a fire that could be seen for miles, a fire that split the community, a fire that turned families on each other, a fire that it's still hard to get a straight answer about. A quarter of a century ago, someone held a match to Greenwood, Texa...

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Bangkok 1969: The death of King Rama strikes the match that will set fire to all of Thailand, and as far away as London. Former Legionnaire Nat Raven is sent to Bangkok by British Intelligence, but quickly finds himself in over his head in the int...

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When Yuvi's wife finds him in his underwear, standing on top of his desk, she isn't terribly impressed with him and his writing habits. But Yuvi worries. He has a wife who wants things he can't give, an editor who wants a book he can't deliver, a ...

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On his last day in power, with a blizzard threatening eighteen inches of snow,  Sheriff Bittersmith is called to the scene of a crime. A farmer has been stabbed  clean through the neck with a pitchfork. Two sets of tracks lead from the b...

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This is a novel of journeys, of the paths four people take because their lives are lacking in some significant way. "The devout and the desperate start from different points, but meet along the road", one character says. "In the end...

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This novel tells the absorbing story of the three Tumarkin siblings: reckless Shoe, reclusive Ida, and Johnny, their beautiful, ambivalent younger brother. When Shoe is murdered, her family gathers for her funeral and discovers a will with her fin...

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An eccentric, exotic photographer is drawn to a beautiful psychic in a turn-of-the-century novel about love, possession, adventure, and greed. At the close of the nineteenth century, wheelchair-bound Augustus Auerbach's only interest is his extrao...

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The "Alumni Grill" showcases new stories by award-winning Veterans from the first two Blue Moon Cafe collections hand-picked by editors William Gay and Suzanne Kingsbury. In this stunning anthology of Southern prose and poetry, beloved a...

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This volume features new Southern fiction, poetry, and essays by acclaimed veterans of the popular "Blue Moon Cafe" series, handpicked by editors Beth Ann Fennelly and Tom Franklin. Contributors: Matt Brock; Bev Marshall; Brock Clarke; J...

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Katherine Dennison lives on The Marindor, a beautiful old sailboat that has been her refuge since the death of her son and the end of her marriage three years ago. A master mariner, she would rather navigate the sea than her emotions or her troubl...

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A giant strides this land. A giant who builds robots, invents religions, and kisses like a dream. From the rocky coast of New England to the golden hayfields of Stockton, California, he searches for Americas greatest treasures. You might recognise...

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This is a dazzling debut collection about the secret lives of girls and women. Told with irresistible humour and remarkable grace, these stories illuminate the search for love, friend-ship, connection, and identity. From the fierce bonds among sis...

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In this intricate, psychological mystery, Joel Stabler takes the life of his beloved brother Danny in what appears to be a mercy killing. When Joel's lawyers assign a psychologist to determine his sanity at the time of the shooting, the full story...

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A man kills his wifes loveralmost. The criminal is Gideon Banks, a sculptor of modest success who has finally realized that he is incapable of repairing his broken marriage. Now on the run from the law, Gid is joined by Merithis adopted, introvert...

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Tim Gautreaux. Fannie Flagg. Diane McWhorter. Charles Simic. Daniel Wallace. Steve Yarbrough. These are just a handful of the acclaimed writers whose work has appeared in the Blue Moon Cafe series since its 2002 inception. Now in the fifth instalm...

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A couple of years ago Nick Hartshorn tossed three baseball gloves (one a lefty), two cases of ramen noodle dinners, and a tape recorder into his hatchback and set out to talk with everyone willing to play a game of Catch. Through the summer months...

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With a mix of traditional, literary prose and bold -- some might say irresponsible -- experimentation, Ben Greenman explores the ins and outs of modern romance. Expect tears, nudity and recrimination.

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Cormac -- a dark-red Golden Retriever who has always been afraid of thunderstorms and lightning flashes -- runs away one stormy night while his master is away. So begins a strange adventure that lands Cormac in the back of a red pick-up truck driv...

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