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Satan's Circus: Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century

by Mike Dash

Published: 2007-06-12

Hardcover: 449 pages

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They called it Satan’s Circus—a square mile of Midtown Manhattan where vice ruled, sin flourished, and depravity danced in every doorway. At the turn of the twentieth century, it was a place where everyone from the chorus girls to the beat cops was on the take and where bad boy...

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by Ian McEwan

Published: 2005

Paperback: 289 pages

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This ISBN (0739458205) is for the Book Club paperback edition; about 8.25 inches tall, 289 pages.

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Saucer

by Stephen Coonts

Published: 2003-01-20

Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages

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A relic from the past. A bridge to the future.After 140,000 Years...Seismic Surveyor Rip Cantrell has made an exhilarating discovery-a flying saucer embedded in the Sahara sandstone. Buried for eons, it's not the invention of modern man. Computer-equipped, it can't belong to ancient man. R...

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Saul and Patsy

by Charles Baxter

Published: 2005-04-12

Paperback: 336 pages

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Five Oaks, Michigan is not exactly where Saul and Patsy meant to end up. Both from the East Coast, they met in college, fell in love, and settled down to married life in the Midwest. Saul is Jewish and a compulsively inventive worrier; Patsy is gentile and cheerfully pragmatic. On Saul's i...

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Saul Bellow's Herzog (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

Published: 1988-02

Library Binding: 135 pages

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A collection of seven critical essays on the Bellow novel, arranged in chronological order of their original publication.

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The Sausage Maker's Daughters: A Novel

by A.G.S. Johnson

Published: 2012-01-24

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THE SAUSAGE MAKER?S YOUNGEST DAUGHTER IS HEADING FOR THE FIGHT OF HER BATTLE-SCARRED LIFEIt's the era of the counterculture and Vietnam. Women's consciousness is being raised and they?re beginning to find their places outside of the home. But twenty-four-year-old Kip Czermanski is nowhere ...

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The Sauvignon Secret: A Wine Country Mystery (Wine Country Mysteries)

by Ellen Crosby

Published: 2011-08-16

Hardcover: 272 pages

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WHEN LUCIE MONTGOMERY FINDS the body of prominent wine merchant Paul Noble hanging from a beam in his art studio not far from her Virginia vineyard, she is unwittingly dragged into Noble's murky past. Once a member of the secretive Mandrake Society, Noble might have aided in a cover-up of ...

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Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay

by Nancy Milford

Published: 2002-09-10

Paperback: 608 pages

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A "New York Times" Notable Book, this landmark biography uncovers for the first time the dark side of Edna St. Vincent Millay, the most famous poet of the Jazz Age. Chosen by "Entertainment Weekly" as the #1 nonfiction book of the year.

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The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge

by T. J. English

Published: 2011-03-15

Hardcover: 496 pages

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Product Description In the early 1960s, uncertainty and menace gripped New York, crystallizing in a poisonous divide between a deeply corrupt, cynical, and racist police force, and an African American community buffeted by economic distress, brutality, and narcotics. On August 28, 1963?th...

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The Savage Detectives: A Novel

by Roberto Bolano

Published: 2007-04-03

Hardcover: 592 pages

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New Year’s Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the obscure, vanished poet Ces�rea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flig...