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The Mirage by Matt Ruff
Matt Ruff, author of Queen Anne Books favorites Set This House in Order and Bad Monkeys,
has written another page-turning, mind-reeling masterpiece. Imagine a
world where the United Arab States is threatened by Christian
fundamentalist terrorists, a world where a few good Homeland Security
Agents have to fight corruption and conspiracies to protect all they
believe in, a world where evil and mass deception threaten everything. I
predict this is the novel that everyone will be talking about in 2012... read the rest of Tegan's review
Operation Napoleon by Arnaldur Indridason
In 1945, near the end of World War II, a German plane crashes on a
glacier in Iceland, oddly carrying both German and American high ranking
officers. One of the German survivor's leaves the crash site with a
suitcase handcuffed to his wrist, and is never seen again. Since that
time U.S. military intelligence has attempted and failed several times
to find that plane. Now over fifty years later they have found the plane
and are willing to go to great lengths to keep it a secret... read the rest of Mara's review.
White Truffles in Winter by N.M. Kelby If you have ever worked in a restaurant or are enough of a foodie to
recognize the name Escoffier, I would recommend you pick up White Truffles in Winter by
N. M. Kelby. This fictionalized account of the life of chef
extraordinaire, Auguste Escoffier is a sensual and even lusty recounting
of Escoffier in the kitchen as well as his relationships with his wife,
poet Delphine Daffis, and his mistress, Sarah Bernhardt... read the rest of Patti's review.
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