A new police procedural trilogy set in an isolated group of northern islands proves moody and involving.
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A French documentarian looks at the aftereffects of war on a group of Iraq War vets – and himself does not emerge untouched.
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The basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar crafts a strong addition to the ever swelling realm of Sherlockiana, "Mycroft Holmes".
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Persia Blues by Brent Bowman and Dara Naraghi contains the first two volumes of a Graphic Novel trilogy which blend life in modern Iran with a fantastic vision of ancient Persia.
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A new New Order disc from a new New Order.
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Ruth Dugdall's " Humber Boy B" is a moody British crime novel examining the why behind a child-on-child killing.
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The reissue of a classic of British new wave s-f proves as germane today as it did when it first came out in paperback.
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A reissue of the first book in an enduring hard-boiled series comes out to prep us for an upcoming Cinemax teleseries.
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The third volume in de Pins’ ghoulish comic series broadens its scope beyond its not-so-innocent amusement park.
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The first volume in a military s-f trilogy provides a hard-knock take on intergalactic warfare.
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