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 ‘Bullets’ proof of author’s riseA dad and his four-year-old son are heading across a parking lot to a Tim Hortons in downtown Toronto when a couple of guys leave the doughnut shop, an old Cadillac pulls up, a man steps out of it as a young woman employee runs to it, and somebody -- maybe a couple of somebodies -- start shooting.
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 Surprise son sparks thrilling adventureFBI agent Sean Reilly is the hero of Raymond Khoury's best-selling Templar novels.
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 Everything but the answerLinden MacIntyre's somewhat demanding new novel, Why Men Lie, is the third volume of a Cape Breton trilogy which featured The Long Stretch, published in 1999, and The Bishop's Man, winner of the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
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 Touching bases with moralityWarren Tracey was dying, his body riddled with tumours but his mind painfully alert, when for the first time in his miserable, damned life he did the right thing.
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 This heroine’s life never dullClass, and its occasional companion race, have often been critical issues tucked inside the criminal and domestic dramas of Gail Bowen's Regina-set Joanne Kilbourn series, in which Kaleidoscope is the 13th entry.
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 Maurice Sendak dead at 83American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak, who is best known for his classic children’s books including “Where the Wild Things Are,” has died at the age of 83, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.
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 Eyre-ly familiarScottish-born novelist Margot Livesey takes some risks in transferring Charlotte Bronte's much-loved classic, Jane Eyre, into the 20th century.
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 Drifting into Finnish darknessFinnish cop Kari Vaara has just had surgery for a brain tumour that leaves him unable to feel any emotions and is running a covert operation that strays onto morally ambiguous ground.
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 Obama's past loves in new bookGeorge Clooney wasn't kidding when he said he'd never run for office because of his bad-boy past.
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 Ru no ordinary immigrant’s taleRu, which won the French language Governor General's Award for Fiction in 2010 and has been translated into English by celebrated translator Sheila Fischman, is more poetry than prose.
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 The Republic of ShriverInternational best-selling novelist Lionel Shriver's latest book isn't exactly new. She wrote it more than 10 years ago.
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 Englander's 'Anne Frank' a gemThere isn't much about the legendary Anne Frank in Nathan Englander's new and perceptive collection of short stories, but there is much about Jewish identity as perceived by a writer tightly tied to his Jewish-American heritage.
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 Over-complicated plot leads to a breakdownSara Paretsky's Chicago female private investigator, V.I. Warshawski has won her legions of fans who will no doubt lap up this 15th novel in a series which has lasted 30 years.
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 Ru no ordinary immigrant's taleRu, which won the French language Governor General's Award for Fiction in 2010 and has been translated into English by celebrated translator Sheila Fischman, is more poetry than prose.
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 Twilight author buys horror film rightsThe author of the Twilight books has snapped up the film rights to Lois Duncan's gothic horror novel Down a Dark Hall.
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 Book details Cowell's love lifeSimon Cowell's sex life: four words to make your blood run cold.
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 Fear, courage powerful mixAs a former human rights lawyer and the author of non-fiction bestseller Stasiland about life in communist East Germany, Australian author Anna Funder knows a thing or two about digging deep to uncover the facts of history's fascinating stories.
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 Edgy tales explore Jewish identityThere isn't much about the legendary Anne Frank in Nathan Englander's new and perceptive collection of short stories, but there is much about Jewish identity as perceived by a writer tightly tied to his Jewish-American heritage.
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 New Rowling novel title unveiledJ.K. Rowling’s first book for adults will be a “blackly comic” novel set in an idyllic English town where all is not what it seems, its publisher said on Thursday.
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 Murderer has a poker faceIt would be interesting to know the RCMP's views of its fictional employee Clare Vengel, protagonist of Vancouver's Robin Spano's two crime novels so far.
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 Royal page-turner dubbed ‘wonderful read’Philippa Gregory, the historian who writes like a novelist, (The Other Boleyn Girl, etc.) has produced another spellbinder in this story which presages England's War of the Roses.
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 Cain series shows promiseSome writers would kill to have blurbs from international stars like Dennis Lehane and Richard Russo attached to their novels.
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 Detective in the crosshairs of a killerEspionage novelist Amanda Kyle Williams turns her hand to suspense in this new series featuring a female private eye, based in Atlanta.
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No snake eyes in this tale A title that comes straight from the Rolling Stones' playbook signals there's music in the novel ahead - and music of a particular rocking, brawling kind.
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 Updike's 'Gossip' poignant, engagingSince 1965, the late John Updike periodically compiled and published his pungent reviews, essays and other writings into anthologies any lover of books would wish to have on the shelves.
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