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Featured This Month

The Warrior
Frances Richey
Pub Date: 4/15/08
Publisher: Viking
Format: Hardcover

I’m not a poet and I read very little poetry, but Frances Richey’s book of poetry, The Warrior, has changed my mind. It is a mother's thought provoking and moving search for understanding.

While The Warrior is not epic poetry in the truest sense, the emotions and story are epic. Richey uses poetry in a way that Virginia Woolf said could not be done, by creating a narrative .... read more ...

The Forgery of Venus
Michael Gruber
Pub Date: 4/08/08
Publisher: Wm. Morrow
Format: Hardcover

The Forgery of Venus: A surreal and disturbing look into the mind of an artist.

An old college chum is invited to a gallery debut of a lost work of Velasquez and to meet his friend who claims to have an interesting tale to tell. With a little bit of personal background, the college chum is plunged into the waking nightmare of Chaz Wilmot, Jr., the artist who claims to have painted .... read more ...

You Want Fries with That?
Prioleau Alexander
Pub Date: 4/10/08
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Advertising executive Prioleau Alexander was sick of his job. His hours were awful, his clients rude and ungracious. He constantly found himself “swallowing grenades for clients or bosses who don’t appreciate your efforts.” So, he did what many of us dream of doing—he quit.

He spent time trying to live the simple life, to “stop spending so much damn money, learn to appreciate the simple th.... read more ...

The Dark Lantern
Gerri Brightwell
Pub Date: 3/03/08
Publisher: Crown
Format: Hardcover

The Dark Lantern: Mystery and intrigue above and below stairs in Victorian England.

Jane Wilbred arrives in London to work for Robert and Mina Bentley, newly returned from Paris to attend the deathbed of Robert’s mother. His brother, Henry, is on his way from India. The orphaned Jane has lived her life in the country and is ill equipped for what she finds when she begins service in th.... read more ...

The Fiction Class
Susan Breen
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Publisher: Plume
Format: Hardcover

The Fiction Class: A good teacher teaches. The best teacher learns.

Arabella Hicks has a romantic name, but she doesn’t have a romantic nature, unlike her mother Vera, a nursing home resident. Arabella teaches an adult writing class on Wednesday nights, and she has just begun another ten week class. One young man, also in her last class, wants to be a writer, but he says little.