Unfinished Desires: A Novel by Gail Godwin (Ballantine $15) Godwin "brings readers back in time to the early 1950s in this endearing story of Catholic school girls and the nuns who oversee them....Poignant and transporting, this faux memoir makes a convincing, satisfying novel."
(Publishers Weekly)
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The Good Soldiers by David Finkel (Picador $15) A spellbinding account of an Army battalion (average age 19) stationed in a violent neighborhood in Baghdad during the surge of 2007-8. On many 2009 "best books" lists.
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Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer (Anchor $15.95) When Tillman was killed by "friendly fire" in Afghanistan in 2004, his uniform and belongings were burned and his family was repeatedly lied to in a cover-up by General McChrystal and other officers.
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The Siege by Ismail Kadare, translated by David Bellos (Canongate $15) The winner of the Man Booker International Prize and a Nobel contender. Kadare is Albania's most distinguished novelist. Originally published in 1970, this novel tells the story of a thwarted Ottoman siege of an Albanian fortress in the 15th century. "Extraordinary: an epic with the force of myth and the delicacy of a miniature…. You could read THE SIEGE every year for a lifetime and find something new each time…. A masterpiece.”
(The Telegraph)
TIM DORSEY - A Wild Florida Ride With GATOR-A-GO-GO
Fri, 02/26/2010 - 7:30pm
How can we describe Tim Dorsey's books? Perhaps if you mix Carl Hiaasen with Hunter S. Thompson, and add a dash of Elmore Leonard, you'd be getting there. Serge can be a deranged killer, but he marches to his own extreme code of honor, and is also very funny. Whenever he and sidekick Coleman hit the road, mayhem rules. When Serge and Coleman do spring break, it's sure to be a killer time! Join us for Dorsey's
latest outrageously funny and twisted ride, GATOR-A-GO-GO!
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.
ISBN-13: 9780061432712 Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: William Morrow, 02/01/2010
The world's biggest beach party is about to get crashed, in NY Times-bestselling author Dorsey's latest outrageously funny and twisted tale in the Serge A. Storms series.
ISBN-13: 9780061139222 Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Harper Paperbacks, 03/01/2006
Here's the one that started it all. Sunshine State trivia buff Serge A. Storms loves eliminating jerks and pests. His drug-addled partner Coleman loves cartoons. Hot stripper Sharon Rhodes loves cocaine, especially when purchased with rich dead men's money.
On the other hand, there's Sean and David, who love fishing and are kind to animals -- and who are about to cross paths with a suitcase filled with $5 million in stolen insurance money. Serge wants the suitcase. Sharon wants the suitcase. Coleman wants more drugs . . . and the suitcase. In the meantime, there's murder by gun, Space Shuttle, Barbie doll, and Levi's 501s.
In other words, welcome to Tim Dorsey's Florida -- where nobody gets out unscathed and untanned!
ISBN-13: 9780060829681 Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Harper, 01/01/2008
That lovable, under-undermedicated dispenser of truth, justice,
and trivia is back with a vengeance—just as his cherished home state is
about to take a beating from a conga line of hurricanes bearing down on
the peninsula. But as Serge and his burnout buddy Coleman go
storm-chasing, bodies begin turning up at a disturbing rate, even by
Florida standards. It looks like a serial killer is on the loose—another
serial killer—which highly offends Serge's moral sensibilities. And he
vows he'll stop at nothing to unmask his thrill-killing rival and make
All Things Right—though Coleman's triathlete approach to the sport of
polyabuse binging threatens to derail the mission more completely than
the entire combined Sunshine State police community could ever hope to.
Location:
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