Mystery Books
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The Alpine Traitor (An Emma Lord Mystery)
Emma Lord is shocked to hear that the Advocate is embroiled in a ruthless takeover bid. Soon, battle lines are drawn and war is de
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The Beauties of Burns: Consisting of Selections from His Poems and Letters
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pag
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The Last Precinct: Scarpetta (Book 11)
The new era of Scarpetta begins…In this #1 New York Times bestselling novel, Patricia Corn
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Total Recall (V. I. Warshawski)
The bestselling V.I. Warshawski novels have dazzled readers and earned the acclaim of critics everywhere. “V.I. Warshawski rules
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See Delphi and Die: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery (Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries)
It’s A.D. 76 during the reign of Vespasian, and Marcus Didius Falco, a Roman “informer,” has achieved much in his
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Fatal Voyage (Temperance Brennan Novels)
"Fans of TV's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation should be in heaven" (People) stepping into the world of forensic an
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Dreamland Lake
When two thirteen-year-olds discover a dead man, a chain of events begins that involves several kinds of death.
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Kenneth Fearing biography
Kenneth Fearing (1902-1961) was the author of seven novels (including The Big Clock) and seven books of poetry; the film critic for The New Masses; a founding editor of Partisan Review; and a frequent contributor to The New Yorker. In recent years a growing number of critics have agreed with M. L. Rosenthal's estimation of Kenneth Fearing as "the chief poet of the American Depression." This publication marks the first time all of Fearing's poetry has been collected in one volume.
"To [Fearing] America was already an all-enveloping nightmare in which he felt trapped like a rat and from which he could not awaken. Fearing's language, which is what you would have heard in a newsroom in the Middle West in the 1930s, plain and ordinary, has a cadence, a music of its own, not borrowed from any English or French literary models, or any other, that's distinctly American." --Carl Rakosi
"No one else so completely immersed himself in the lingo of the mass culture. . . . Kenneth Fearing didn't think like an advertising copywriter. He thought like the advertising copy itself, or at least like a taxi driver reading a billboard while fighting traffic." --Kenneth Rexroth, American Poetry in the Twentieth Century
Information source: wikipedia