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A Guide to The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Series
…guide Tears of the Giraffe In the second book, Precious Ramotswe tracks a wayward wife, uncovers an unscrupulous maid, and searches for an American man who disappeared into the plains many years ago. In the midst of resolving uncertainties, pondering her impending marriage to a good, kind man, Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni, and the promotion of her talented secretary (a graduate of the Botswana Secretarial College, with a mark of 97 percent), she also fi…
Read more ›The Third Rail and Michael Harvey's Chicago
…or out-of-town businessmen looking for a shot of ouzo, a leg of lamb, or a wayward belly dancer” and where Kelly finds Mayor John Wilson right about to bite into a helping of saganaki. It isn’t long before Kelly’s leads in the case take him to Bucktown, a neighborhood he says “got its name from the goats Polish immigrants used to tie up in their front yards. Today the goats are gone, replaced by angst-ridden hipsters, spiked goths, and dewy-eyed e…
Read more ›Five Great Mysteries With Female Protagonists
…is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con man, and follow a wayward daughter. But the case that tugs at her heart, and lands her in danger, is a missing eleven-year-old boy, who may have been snatched by witchdoctors. Reading Group Guide | Excerpt | Buy the Book Hotwire Written by Alex Kava A thrilling addition to Alex Kava’s Maggie O’Dell series! On a crisp fall evening in western Nebraska, two teenagers are seemingly electrocuted…
Read more ›Author Spotlight: Susan Minot
…n l987. The novel was followed by Lust & Other Stories, a collection about wayward artists and journalists living in New York City, particularly about the relations between men and women in their twenties and thirties having difficulty coming together and difficulty breaking apart. Her third book, Folly, set in the twenties and thirties in Boston, is a novel about a woman from a stifling Brahmin background whose choice of a husband is the determin…
Read more ›Novels Featuring Women on the Brink
…ng left for Frances to do: sedate Elaine. Read an excerpt | Buy the book Wayward by Dana Spiotta “Exhilarating … reads like a burning fever dream. A virtuosic, singular and very funny portrait of a woman seeking sanity and purpose in a world gone mad.” —The New York Times Book Review Samantha Raymond’s life is unraveling, between her ill mother, her remote teenage daughter, and the endless creep of time. So, when she finds a stunning yet decrepi…
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Media Center: ‘Leaving the Sea’ by Ben Marcus
…ure sketched in light. But it’s not all macabre corporeality. A story of a wayward creative writing professor who conducts a cruise ship workshop is a downright hilarious and ingenious work of wry metafiction. Recommended especially for fans of speculative fiction that stays grounded in emotional honesty, like that of Donald Barthelme, Blake Butler, and Curtis White.” —Diego Baez, in a starred review for BOOKLIST “Boundary-pushing fiction. Fifteen…
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