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The Calligrapher: A Novel
by Edward Docx
A modern tale of sexual mores and city life, Edward Docx's brilliant debut is a witty novel of spurned lovers, elaborately planned seduction, plotted revenge, and surprising secrets. Jasper Jackson is a rapacious heartbreaker who is greatly overdue for a reckoning. He is also a passionate, charming, sophisticated young Londoner, well versed in life's finer enjoyments — art and wine, g...(more)

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"A" is for Alibi (The Kinse...

By Sue Grafton
A tough-talking former cop, private investigator Kinsey Millhone has set up a modest detective agenc...

"G" Is for Grafton: The Wor...

By Natalie Hevener Kaufman
If you need help picturing Kinsey Millhone's sweats and tousled hair; listing her personality trai...

"Only the Super-Rich Can Sa...

By Ralph Nader
"As inspirited a work of the political imagination as Tom Paine's Common Sense."-Lewis Lapham"Mr. Na...

'Til Death Do Us Part

By Kate White
When "Gloss" magazine writer and sometime-sleuth Bailey Weggins receives a call from Ashley Hanes on...