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By Derek Winkler

“Adventure” and “intrigue” are two of the last words you would expect to ­associate with a novel in which the main character works a dead-end job as the associate editor of a waste management trade ... Read More »

January 24, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By John Wilson

In the 1870s, thieves, scalp hunters, and other thrill-seekers covered the Mexican desert with blood. John Wilson’s latest novel incorporates all of these figures in a fast-paced western adventure that ropes in subjects of prejudice, ... Read More »

January 24, 2011

By Sharon E. McKay

Two 14-year-old Muslim girls struggle through the mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan, fleeing danger and certain death. To keep their spirits up, Yasmine tells Tamanna stories from her British childhood of Babar, the gray elephant ... Read More »

January 24, 2011