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FICTION
The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death
By Charlie Huston
In Charlie Huston's second stand-alone novel (after Shotgun Rule), Web Goodhue, a thirty-something Hollywood grade school teacher turned full-time slacker traumatized by the violent death of a student, quits his job and retreats into a freeloading shell. With the threat of eviction, though, Web reluctantly lucks into an oddly satisfying job with Team Clean, a crime scene cleanup crew in which he's intent and content in scrubbing up the remains of the recently deceased, giving him a new lease on life via death, and a little hope as he finds himself flirting with a suicide’s daughter, who eventually bats her eyelashes and asks a favor. Her brother’s in need of somebody who can clean up a mess. Can he, huh? How can he resist? Soon enough, however, Web is entangled in stolen goods, human smuggling, murderous criminals, and kidnapping. With grit and wit, and pervasive black humor punctuated with sharp dialogue, The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death promises to be an entertaining thrill-ride of a read.
3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows
By Ann Brashares
Best of Everything
By Kimberla Lawson Roby
Mounting Fears (Will Lee Series #7)
By Stuart Woods
The Piano Teacher
By Janice Y.K. Lee
NON-FICTION
The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power
By David E. Sanger
“Bush wrote a lot of checks,” one senior intelligence official told author David E. Sanger, “that the next president is going to have to cash.” Offering a behind-the-doors history of our foreign policy adventures and misadventures and a clear-cut account for future prospects, the chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times and award-winning investigative journalist for national security and White House reporting tells the tales, the inside stuff, that have culminated in the unprecedented world crisis that now faces us. It’s all here: Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, North Korea and China. As are nuclear and economic concerns, among others. With The Inheritance, Sanger has written an “urgent intelligence briefing” on the world America and the upcoming administration faces.
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