CandylandFor the first time Evan Hunter and Ed McBain, two extraordinary and diverse talents, fuse to form a brilliant and powerful novel of two halves Benjamin Thorpe is married, a father, a successful Los Angeles architect and a man obsessed. Alone in New York City on business, he spends the empty hours of the night in a compulsive search for female companionship. His dizzying descent leads to an early morning confrontation in a mid town brothel, and a

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Railway travel without leaving your armchair

A Washington-based thriller about four ambitious twentysomething housemates

It also brings to life the rich world of Texas music out of which he grew

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Lateral is full of sideways-thinking twists

In his first-person account of one of recent American history's most polarizing events Michael Signer then Charlottesville's mayor both tells the story of what really happened and draws out its larger significance

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Growing up in an emotionally desolate home with an abusive father and a distant mother she devoted herself to the discipline and rigor of the oboe and quickly became a young prodigy on the rise in New York City's competitive music scene

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or spanned such a wide range of media - Burroughs has written novels

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