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2014 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize Long List Announced!
Originally posted on BookPeople:
The Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize Long List was announced last week, and there are a lot of great books included. We’ve already been buzzing about a few of them at the store and certainly don’t envy the judges when it comes to picking one winner from the bunch! While we wait…
New Releases – 7/1/14
Originally posted on BookPeople:
HARDCOVER FICTION Inside Man by Jeff Abott The latest Sam Capra novel from one of our favorite #ATX #crimefiction authors, Jeff Abbott, is here! When Capra’s best customer – and friend – is murdered outside his Miami bar, Sam decides to seek justice. We can’t wait to have Jeff here Tues…
What We’re Reading This Week
Originally posted on BookPeople:
Steven (W.) Poking a Dead Frog by Mike Sacks “Humor journalist Mike Sacks dissects the what-if’s, what-for’s, who-if’s, and the what-you-talking-about’s of comedy writing by interviewing dozens of today’s most successful, least successful, and least most performers and writers of modern laffs.” ? Ellen The Thickety by J.A. White “I’m not…
New Release Picks for the Week!
Originally posted on BookPeople:
HARDCOVER FICTION & NONFICTION Hell to Pay by Garry Disher Constable Paul Hirschhausen—”Hirsch”—is a recently demoted detective sent from Adelaide, Australia’s southernmost booming metropolis, to Tiverton, a one-road town in rustic, backwater “wool and wheat” country three hours north. Hirsch isn’t just a disgraced cop; the internal investigations bureau is still…