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New from Balzer + Bray: The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth. About the book, from the publisher: When Cameron Post’s parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Relief they’ll never know that, hours earlier, she had been kissing a girl. But that relief doesn’t last, and Cam is soon forced to move in with her conservative aunt Ruth and her

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New from Night Shade Books: Hitchers by Will McIntosh. About the book, from the publisher: Two years ago, on the same day but miles apart, Finn Darby lost two of the most important people in his life: his wife Lorena, struck by lightning on the banks of the Chattahoochee River, and his abusive, alcoholic grandfather, Tom Darby, creator of the long-running newspaper comic strip Toy Shop. Against

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New from Walker & Company: The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice by M. G. Lord. About the book, from the publisher: From the brilliant cultural historian M. G. Lord, a fascinating examination of the unexpected feminist content in Elizabeth Taylor's iconic roles. Countless books have chronicled the sensational

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New from Harper: All That I Am by Anna Funder. About the book, from the publisher: All That I Am is a masterful and exhilarating exploration of bravery and betrayal, of the risks and sacrifices some people make for their beliefs, and of heroism hidden in the most unexpected places. When eighteen-year-old Ruth Becker visits her cousin Dora in Munich in 1923, she meets the love of her life, the

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New from the University of North Carolina Press: The Armchair Birder: Discovering the Secret Lives of Familiar Birds by John Yow. About the book, from the publisher: While birding literature is filled with tales of expert observers spotting rare species in exotic locales, John Yow reminds us that the most fascinating birds can be the ones perched right outside our windows. In thirty-five

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New from Yale University Press: Constitutional Cliffhangers: A Legal Guide for Presidents and Their Enemies by Brian C. Kalt. About the book, from the publisher: The United States Constitution's provisions for selecting, replacing, and punishing presidents contain serious weaknesses that could lead to constitutional controversies. In this compelling and fascinating book, Brian Kalt envisions six

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New from Forge Books: Boca Daze by Steven M. Forman. About the book, from the publisher: Retired Boston cop Eddie Perlmutter returns in Steven Forman's Boca Daze. Since moving to Boca Raton, Florida, Eddie’s busted Russian counterfeiters, solved at least two murders, thwarted neo-Nazi harassment, and gained justice for a number of those who couldn’t do it for themselves. This “Boca Knight”

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New from Free Press: A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss. About the book, from the publisher: “WHERE DID THE UNIVERSE COME FROM?WHAT WAS THERE BEFORE IT? WHAT WILL THE FUTURE BRING? AND FINALLY, WHY IS THERESOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING?” Lawrence Krauss’s provocative answers to these and other timeless questions in a wildly popular lecture

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New from Bellevue Literary Press: The Odditorium: Stories by Melissa Pritchard. About the book, from the publisher: In each of these eight genre-bending tales, Melissa Pritchard overturns the conventions of mysteries, westerns, gothic horror, and historical fiction to capture surprising and often shocking aspects of her characters’ lives. In one story, Pritchard creates a pastiche of

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New from Grand Central Publishing: Passing Love by Jacqueline E. Luckett. About the book, from the publisher: Nicole-Marie Handy has loved all things French since she was a child. After the death of her best friend, determined to get out of her rut, she goes to Paris, leaving behind a marriage proposal. While there, Nicole chances upon an old photo of her father-lovingly inscribed, in his hand,

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New from Thomas Dunne Books: Nixon's Darkest Secrets: The Inside Story of America's Most Troubled President by Don Fulsom. About the book, from the publisher: A veteran White House reporter reveals our 37th president was even more sinister and haunted than we knew. Richard Nixon left the White House in 1974 as our most disgraced president, but the American people never knew the full extent of

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New from HarperCollins: The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey. About the book, from the publisher: When her widower father drowns at sea, Gemma Hardy is taken from her native Iceland to Scotland to live with her kind uncle and his family. But the death of her doting guardian leaves Gemma under the care of her resentful aunt, and it soon becomes clear that she is nothing more than an

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New from Washington Square Press: Outside the Lines by Amy Hatvany. About the book, from the publisher: When Eden was ten years old she found her father, David, bleeding out on the bathroom floor. The suicide attempt led to her parents’ divorce, and David all but vanished from Eden’s life. Since childhood, she has heard from him only rarely, just enough to know he’s been living on the streets

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New from Grand Central Publishing: A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty by Joshilyn Jackson. About the book, from the publisher: A GROWN-UP KIND OF PRETTY is a powerful saga of three generations of women, plagued by hardships and torn by a devastating secret, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of family. Fifteen-year-old Mosey Slocumb-spirited, sassy, and on the cusp of womanhood-is shaken when a small

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New from St. Martin's Press: Liberation Square: Inside the Egyptian Revolution and the Rebirth of a Nation by Ashraf Khalil. About the book, from the publisher: A definitive, absorbing account of the Egyptian revolution, written by a Cairo-based Egyptian-American reporter for Foreign Policy and The Times (London), who witnessed firsthand Mubarak's demise and the country's efforts to build a

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New from Thomas Dunne Books: The Godfather Effect: Changing Hollywood, America, and Me by Tom Santopietro. About the book, from the publisher: A brilliant examination of our forty year obsession with the classic film trilogy—and a personal reflection on what it means to be Italian-American Forty years and one billion dollars in gross box office receipts after the initial release of The

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New from St. Martin's Press: Third Grave Dead Ahead by Darynda Jones. About the book, from the publisher: Paranormal private eye. Grim reaper extraordinaire. Whatever. Charley Davidson is back! And she’s drinking copious amounts of caffeine to stay awake because, every time she closes her eyes, she sees him: Reyes Farrow, the parthuman, part-supermodel son of Satan. Yes, she did imprison him

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-82439648324023955542012-01-23T14:22:00.000-06:002012-01-23T09:14:57.437-06:00

New from Viking: Drifting House by Krys Lee. About the book, from the publisher: An unflinching portrayal of the Korean immigrant experience from an extraordinary new talent in fiction. Ranging from Korea to the United States, from the postwar era to contemporary times, Krys Lee's stunning fiction debut, Drifting House, illuminates a people torn between the traumas of their collective past and

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New from Pamela Dorman Books / Viking: The Darlings by Cristina Alger. About the book, from the publisher: A sophisticated page-turner about a wealthy New York family embroiled in a financial scandal with cataclysmic consequences. Now that he's married to Merrill Darling, daughter of billionaire financier Carter Darling, attorney Paul Ross has grown accustomed to New York society and all of its

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New from Penguin: Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning by Gary Marcus. About the book, from the publisher: On the eve of his fortieth birthday, a professor of no discernible musical talent learns to play the guitar and investigates how anyone of any age might master a new skill. Just about every human being knows how to listen to music, but what does it take to make music?

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New from Viking: Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea by Morgan Callan Rogers. About the book, from the publisher: A captivating debut, introducing a spirited young heroine coming of age in coastal Maine during the early 1960s. When her mother disappears during a weekend trip, Florine Gilham's idyllic childhood is turned upside down. Until then she'd been blissfully insulated by the rhythms of

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New from Yale University Press: Democracy, Expertise, and Academic Freedom: A First Amendment Jurisprudence for the Modern State by Robert C. Post. About the book, from the publisher: A leading American legal scholar offers a surprising account of the incompleteness of prevailing theories of freedom of speech. Robert C. Post shows that the familiar understanding of the First Amendment, which

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New from Minotaur Books: Gone West (A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery) by Carola Dunn. About the book, from the publisher: In September 1926, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher visits Sybil Sutherby, a school friend now living in Derbyshire as the confidential secretary to a novelist. Suspecting that something is seriously amiss, Sybil has asked Daisy to discretely investigate. Upon arrival, Daisy

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New from Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown & Co.: The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey. About the book, from the publisher: Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first

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New from Crown: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain. About the book, from the publisher: At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often

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New from New York University Press: 5 Grams: Crack Cocaine, Rap Music, and the War on Drugs by Dimitri Bogazianos. About the book, from the publisher: In 2010, President Barack Obama signed a law repealing one of the most controversial policies in American criminal justice history: the one hundred to one sentencing disparity between crack cocaine and powder whereby someone convicted of “simply”

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New from Ballantine Books: Thinking Small: The Long, Strange Trip of the Volkswagen Beetle by Andrea Hiott. About the book, from the publisher: Sometimes achieving big things requires the ability to think small. This simple concept was the driving force that propelled the Volkswagen Beetle to become an avatar of American-style freedom, a household brand, and a global icon. The VW Bug inspired

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-68668955939899512972012-01-18T14:22:00.000-06:002012-01-18T14:22:00.756-06:00

New from Bantam: The Eden Prophecy by Graham Brown. About the book, from the publisher: The wisdom of faith. The power of science. The evil of man. In the U.N. building in New York City, a U.S. Ambassador contracts an unknown virus after opening a threatening letter. In a slum near Paris, a rogue geneticist is found dead, tortured and defiled. His last message, a desperate plea for help, was

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New from Delacorte Press: Defending Jacob by William Landay. About the book, from the publisher: Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son, Jacob. But when a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy

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New from Yale University Press: The Daily You: How the New Advertising Industry Is Defining Your Identity and Your Worth by Joseph Turow. About the book, from the publisher: The Internet is often hyped as a means to enhanced consumer power: a hypercustomized media world where individuals exercise unprecedented control over what they see and do. That is the scenario media guru Nicholas Negroponte

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New from Crown: The Baker's Daughter by Sarah McCoy. About the book, from the publisher: In 1945, Elsie Schmidt is a naive teenager, as eager for her first sip of champagne as she is for her first kiss. She and her family have been protected from the worst of the terror and desperation overtaking her country by a high-ranking Nazi who wishes to marry her. So when an escaped Jewish boy arrives on

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New from Penguin: The Silent Oligarch by Christopher Morgan Jones. About the book, from the publisher: A London intelligence agent pursues a money launderer to expose the dealings of a shadowy Russian oligarch. In a world where national borders shrink to insignificance in the face of colossal wealth and corporate power, The Silent Oligarch offers a new kind of hero to combat a new kind of crime

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New from Random House: Boston Cream by Howard Shrier. About the book, from the publisher: Canada's top private eye is back as Jonah Geller resumes his vagabond ways in Boston Cream, the Vintage World of Crime trade paperback original and sequel to the Arthur Ellis-winning novels Buffalo Jump and High Chicago. David Fine is not the kind of guy to go missing. Or so his father tells PI Jonah

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New from Severn House: The Ely Testament by Philip Gooden. About the book, from the publisher: Third in the highly-acclaimed nineteenth-century 'Cathedral' mystery series When Mr Lye, an elderly partner at Tom Ansell's law firm, drops dead at his desk, Tom is dispatched to Ely to search for Mr Lye's will at Phoenix House, the home of his brother, Ernest. At the same time, Tom's wife Helen has

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New from Farrar, Straus and Giroux: Norumbega Park by Anthony Giardina. About the book, from the publisher: Norumbega Park begins with a vision. Richie Palumbo, the most prosaic of men, gets lost one night in 1969 while driving home with his family. He finds himself in the town of Norumbega—a hidden town, remote and gorgeous, at the far edges of Boston’s western suburbs. He sees an old,

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New from Viking: The Odds: A Love Story by Stewart O'Nan. About the book, from the publisher: In the new novel from the author of Last Night at the Lobster, a middle-age couple goes all in for love at a Niagara Falls casino Stewart O'Nan's thirteenth novel is another wildly original, bittersweet gem like his celebrated Last Night at the Lobster. Valentine's weekend, Art and Marion Fowler flee

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New from Little, Brown: The Rook by Daniel O'Malley. About the book, from the publisher: "The body you are wearing used to be mine." So begins the letter Myfanwy Thomas is holding when she awakes in a London park surrounded by bodies all wearing latex gloves. With no recollection of who she is, Myfanwy must follow the instructions her former self left behind to discover her identity and track

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New from Riverhead: Hope: A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander. About the book, from the publisher: The rural town of Stockton, New York, is famous for nothing: No one was born there, no one died there, nothing of any historical import at all has ever happened there, which is why Solomon Kugel, like other urbanites fleeing their pasts and histories, decided to move his wife and young son there. To

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New from Viking: From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant: A Novel by Alex Gilvarry. About the book, from the publisher: High fashion and homeland security clash in a masterful debut. Boyet Hernandez is a small man with a big American dream when he arrives in New York in 2002, fresh out of design school in Manila. With dubious financing and visions of Fashion Week runways, he sets up shop in a

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New from Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron. About the book, from the publisher: Running the Rift follows Jean Patrick Nkuba, a gifted Rwandan boy, from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life, a ten-year span in which his country is undone by the Hutu-Tutsi tensions. Born a Tutsi, he is thrust into a world where it

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New from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: The House at Sea's End (Ruth Galloway Series #3) by Elly Griffiths. About the book, from the publisher: Forensic archeologist Dr. Ruth Galloway is back, this time investigating a gruesome World War II war crime. Elly Griffiths’s Ruth Galloway novels have been praised as “highly atmospheric” (New York Times Book Review), “remarkable” (Richmond Times-Dispatch),

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New from Simon & Schuster/Touchstone: The Crown by Nancy Bilyeau. About the book, from the publisher: An aristocratic young nun must find a legendary crown in order to save her father—and preserve the Catholic faith from Cromwell’s ruthless terror. The year is 1537... Joanna Stafford, a Dominican nun, learns that her favorite cousin has been condemned by Henry VIII to be burned at the stake.

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New from Knopf: Vulture Peak (Sonchai Jitpleecheep Series #5) by John Burdett. About the book, from the publisher: Nobody knows Bangkok like Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, and there is no one quite like Sonchai: a police officer who has kept his Buddhist soul intact—more or less—despite the fact that his job shoves him face-to-face with some of the most vile and outrageous

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New from Scribner: The Night Swimmer by Matt Bondurant. About the book, from the publisher: The Night Swimmer, Matt Bondurant’s utterly riveting modern gothic novel of marriage and belonging, confirms his gift for storytelling that transports and enthralls. In a small town on the southern coast of Ireland, an isolated place only frequented by fishermen and the occasional group of bird-watchers,

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New from Crown: Glock: The Rise of America's Gun by Paul M. Barrett. About the book, from the publisher: Based on fifteen years of research, Glock is the riveting story of the weapon that has become known as American’s gun. Today the Glock pistol has been embraced by two-thirds of all U.S. police departments, glamorized in countless Hollywood movies, and featured as a ubiquitous presence on

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New from Counterpoint: The Little Russian by Susan Sherman. About the book, from the publisher: The Little Russian spotlights an exciting new voice in historical fiction, an assured debut that should appeal to readers of Away by Amy Bloom or Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. The novel tells the story of Berta Alshonsky, who revels in childhood memories of her time spent with a wealthy family in

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New from Tin House Books: Glaciers by Alexis M. Smith. About the book, from the publisher: Isabel is a single, twentysomething thrift-store shopper and collector of remnants, things cast off or left behind by others. Glaciers follows Isabel through a day in her life in which work with damaged books in the basement of a library, unrequited love for the former soldier who fixes her computer, and

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New from Angry Robot: Empire State by Adam Christopher. About the book, from the publisher:The stunning superhero-noir fantasy thriller set in the other New York. It was the last great science hero fight, but the energy blast ripped a hole in reality, and birthed the Empire State – a young, twisted parallel prohibition-era New York. When the rift starts to close, both worlds are threatened,

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-23642689286211966202012-01-08T02:22:00.000-06:002012-01-08T02:22:01.343-06:00

New from Little, Brown & Company: American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar. About the book, from the publisher: Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only by his Pakistani heritage and by the frequent chill between his parents, who fight over things he is too young to understand. Then Mina arrives,

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-27858848403110742452012-01-07T14:22:00.000-06:002012-01-07T14:22:00.221-06:00

New from Free Press: Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners by Michael Erard. About the book, from the publisher: We all learn at least one language as children. But what does it take to learn six languages, twenty ... seventy? Such feats of linguistic prowess provide a glimpse into what the human brain is capable of—and hold up a mirror to our desire to

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-24201413323307824402012-01-07T02:22:00.000-06:002012-01-07T02:22:00.072-06:00

New from Scribner: In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age by Patricia Cohen. About the book, from the publisher: From the New York Times reporter whose beat is culture and ideas comes a fascinating, revelatory, and timely social history of the concept of middle age. For the first time ever, the middle-aged make up the biggest, richest, and most influential segment of the country, yet the

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-80102783161531262662012-01-06T14:22:00.000-06:002012-01-06T14:22:00.815-06:00

New from Princeton University Press: In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman: Mathematics at the Limits of Computation by William J. Cook. About the book, from the publisher: What is the shortest possible route for a traveling salesman seeking to visit each city on a list exactly once and return to his city of origin? It sounds simple enough, yet the traveling salesman problem is one of the most

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-42072784665543815942012-01-06T02:22:00.000-06:002012-01-06T02:22:00.878-06:00

New from St. Martin's Press: The Living End: A Memoir of Forgetting and Forgiving by Robert Leleux. About the book, from the publisher: The Living End is a tribute to an unforgettable woman, and a testimony to the way a disease can awaken an urgent desire for love and forgiveness. Told with sparkling wit and warmth, The Living End will resonate with families coping with Alzheimer's, and any

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-61947202122737436262012-01-05T14:22:00.000-06:002012-01-05T14:22:00.424-06:00

New from Knopf: The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus. About the book, from the publisher: In The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a work of heartbreak and horror, a novel about how far we will go, and the sorrows we will endure, in order to protect our families. A terrible epidemic has struck the country and the sound of children’s speech has become

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-7567513519398783662012-01-05T02:22:00.000-06:002012-01-05T02:22:01.101-06:00

New from Thomas Dunne Books: 150 Pounds by Kate Rockland. About the book, from the publisher: A smartly-written novel of two women starting at opposite ends of the scale--and finding compromise and friendship in their journey towards 150 pounds In the fast paced life of blogging, two women stand out: Alexis Allbright, of Skinny Chick, and Shoshana Weiner, who writes Fat and Fabulous. Both have

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-1491127361144585002012-01-04T14:22:00.000-06:002012-01-04T14:22:00.174-06:00

New from the University of Chicago Press: American Egyptologist: The Life of James Henry Breasted and the Creation of His Oriental Institute by Jeffrey Abt. About the book, from the publisher: James Henry Breasted (1865–1935) had a career that epitomizes our popular image of the archaeologist. Daring, handsome, and charismatic, he traveled on expeditions to remote and politically unstable

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-12340221204906552112012-01-04T02:22:00.000-06:002012-01-04T02:22:01.396-06:00

New from Bantam: The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great by Eva Stachniak. About the book, from the publisher: From award-winning author Eva Stachniak comes this passionate novel that illuminates, as only fiction can, the early life of one of history’s boldest women. The Winter Palace tells the epic story of Catherine the Great’s improbable rise to power—as seen through the

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-63805268041039371362012-01-03T14:22:00.000-06:002012-01-03T14:22:00.174-06:00

New from Palgrave Macmillan: Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind by Kitty Ferguson. About the book, from the publisher: Stephen Hawking has beenan iconic figure in physics for the last half a century,making many groundbreaking discoveries on the nature of the universe. Yet while his mind roams to the farthest corners of reality, his body has become increasingly trapped by the advance of Lou

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-4421086532898696222012-01-03T02:22:00.000-06:002012-01-03T02:22:00.412-06:00

New from Dutton: The Hunter by John Lescroart. About the book, from the publisher: New York Times bestseller John Lescroart delivers a dark, intimate thriller about the price we put on family and the terrible costs of seeking the truth. Raised by loving adoptive parents, San Francisco private investigator Wyatt Hunt never had an interest in finding his birth family-until he gets a chilling text

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-84245613471399736102012-01-02T14:22:00.000-06:002012-01-02T14:22:00.507-06:00

New from Pegasus Books: Fifth Victim: A Charlie Fox Thriller by Zoë Sharp. About the book, from the publisher: 'How could you let them take you? Why didn't you run? Why didn't you fight? Don't you think I have enough damn blood on my hands?' With the life of her lover, Sean, still hanging in the balance, former Special Forces soldier turned bodyguard, Charlie Fox, throws herself into her only

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-616982443594041362012-01-02T02:22:00.000-06:002012-01-02T02:22:01.800-06:00

New from Viking: A Safeway in Arizona: What the Gabrielle Giffords Shooting Tells Us About the Grand Canyon State and Life in America by Tom Zoellner. About the book, from the publisher: A riveting account of the state of Arizona, seen through the lens of the Tucson shootings On January 8, 2011, twenty-two-year-old Jared Lee Loughner opened fire at a Tucson meet-and-greet held by U.S.

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-88131707869723578002012-01-01T14:22:00.000-06:002012-01-01T14:22:00.243-06:00

New from Katherine Tegen Books: Love and Leftovers by Sarah Tregay. About the book, from the publisher: My wish is to fall cranium over Converse in dizzy daydream-worthy love. (If only it were that easy. Marcie has been dragged away from home for the summer—from Idaho to a family summerhouse in New Hampshire. She’s left behind her friends, a group of freaks and geeks called the Leftovers,

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-71368203181698819022012-01-01T02:22:00.000-06:002012-01-01T02:22:00.380-06:00

New from Stanford University Press: Projections: Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling by Jared Gardner. About the book, from the publisher: When Art Spiegelman's Maus won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, it marked a new era for comics. Comics are now taken seriously by the same academic and cultural institutions that long dismissed the form. And the visibility of comics

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-89199947659916452982011-12-31T14:22:00.000-06:002011-12-31T14:22:00.697-06:00

New from Grand Central Publishing: Three-Day Town (Deborah Knott Series #17) by Margaret Maron. About the book, from the publisher: Judge Deborah Knott and Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant are on a train to New York, finally on a honeymoon after a year of marriage. January in New York might not be the perfect time to visit, but they'll take it. The trip is a Christmas present from Dwight's

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-13796656427074674742011-12-31T02:22:00.000-06:002011-12-31T02:22:00.649-06:00

New from DAW: City of the Lost by Stephen Blackmoore. About the book, from the publisher: Joe Sunday has been a Los Angeles low-life for years, but his life gets a whole lot lower when he is killed by the rival of his crime boss-only to return as a zombie. His only hope is to find and steal a talisman that he learns can grant immortality. But, unfortunately for Joe, every other undead thug and

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-91676698335927766602011-12-30T14:22:00.001-06:002011-12-30T14:22:00.545-06:00

New from Columbia University Press: Acts of God and Man: Ruminations on Risk and Insurance by Michael Powers. About the book, from the publisher: Much has been written about the ups and downs of financial markets, from the lure of prosperity to the despair of crises. Yet a more fundamental and pernicious source of uncertainty exists in today's world: the traditional “insurance” risks of

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-25900630139252356242011-12-30T02:22:00.000-06:002011-12-30T05:58:07.324-06:00

New from Random House: The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson. About the book, from the publisher: An epic novel and a thrilling literary discovery, The Orphan Master’s Son follows a young man’s journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world’s most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea. Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother—a singer “stolen” to

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-73548634838076428582011-12-29T14:22:00.000-06:002011-12-29T14:22:00.048-06:00

New from Penguin/ Obsidian: An Appetite For Murder by Lucy Burdette. About the book, from the publisher: Hayley Snow’s life always revolved around food. But when she applies to be a food critic for a Key West style magazine, she discovers that her new boss would be Kristen Faulkner—the woman Hayley caught in bed with her boyfriend! Hayley thinks things are as bad as they can get—until the police

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-38954475123638782772011-12-29T02:22:00.000-06:002011-12-29T02:22:01.059-06:00

New from Melville House: The Fallback Plan by Leigh Stein. About the book, from the publisher: “In June, the monsoons hit Bangladesh. Chinese police discovered slaves in a brickwork factory who couldn’t be sent home because they were too traumatized to remember anything but their own names, and Dr. Kevorkian was released from prison. In other news, I moved in with my parents.” What to do when

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-75959356650981194732011-12-28T14:22:00.000-06:002011-12-28T14:22:00.615-06:00

New from Minotaur Books: The Darkening Field by William Ryan. About the book, from the publisher: A dedicated policeman caught in terrifying circumstances, Captain Alexei Korolev of Criminal Investigation Division of the Moscow Militia may be unwavering in his outward party loyalty but he is forever conflicted about what he must do to maintain that good standing. It is 1937, and Korolev finds

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-64425066516897897262011-12-28T02:22:00.000-06:002011-12-28T02:22:00.226-06:00

New from Europa Editions: Treasure Island!!! by Sara Levine. About the book, from the publisher: When a college graduate with a history of hapless jobs (ice cream scooper; gift wrapper; laziest ever part-time clerk at The Pet Library) reads Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel Treasure Island, she is dumbstruck by the timid design of her life. When had she ever dreamed a scheme? When had she ever done

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-86168183446408959372011-12-27T14:22:00.000-06:002011-12-27T14:22:00.205-06:00

New from Minotaur/Thomas Dunne Books: The Cat Sitter's Pajamas: Dixie Hemingway Mysteries (Volume 7) by Blaize Clement. About the book, from the publisher: Author Blaize Clement has thrilled readers everywhere with the first six books in her pet-sitting mystery series. Now Blaize’s beloved heroine Dixie Hemingway is back for another adventure, and she has her hands full when the worlds of

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-19856135978172697122011-12-27T02:22:00.000-06:002011-12-27T02:22:00.905-06:00

New from Poisoned Pen Press: The Exterminators: An Assassin Bug Thriller by Bill Fitzhugh. About the book, from the publisher: All Bob Dillon ever wanted was a truck with a big fiberglass bug on the roof. All he had to do was survive a half dozen assassination attempts, pull a ten million dollar con on a Bolivian drug lord, and then fall off the face of the earth with his family and his new best

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-12465194821202200712011-12-26T14:22:00.000-06:002011-12-26T14:22:00.939-06:00

New from Poisoned Pen Press: Mercury's Rise (Silver Rush Mystery Series #4) by Ann Parker. About the book, from the publisher: In summer 1880, many come to the fast-rising health resort of Manitou, Colorado, at the foot of Pike’s Peak to “chase the cure” for tuberculosis. But Inez Stannert, part-owner of the Silver Queen Saloon in Leadville, travels for a different reason. After a long

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-32775524195436738272011-12-26T02:22:00.000-06:002011-12-26T02:22:00.478-06:00

New from Berkley: True Shot by Joyce Lamb. About the book, from the publisher: Special FBI operative Samantha Trudeau's unique psychic abilities help her catch the most elusive criminals. They also put her in the path of a sadistic adversary when she discovers she's actually working for a rogue cell-and into the confidence of a handsome journalist with his own potentially dangerous secrets.

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-41738684464011782062011-12-25T14:22:00.000-06:002011-12-25T14:22:00.887-06:00

New from W.W. Norton: You Will See Fire: A Search for Justice in Kenya by Christopher Goffard. About the book, from the publisher:A nonfiction mystery dwelling on timeless themes: an individual's stand against corruption, the complexity of the human heart. Whether gunning down a warthog, raising the beams he'd hewn himself for a new church, or standing up for landless refugees and abused girls,

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-47810452815796425832011-12-25T02:22:00.000-06:002011-12-25T02:22:00.192-06:00

New from Harcourt Children's Books: Flyaway by Helen Landalf. About the book, from the publisher: Stevie Calhoun knows how to take care of herself. It’s not like her mom hasn’t disappeared before. So why is Aunt Mindy making such a big deal of it now? It’s not like Mom’s really doing meth. Stevie makes sure of that. Whatever. She’ll go home with Aunt Mindy if it will keep her from calling Child

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-19799075311179152992011-12-24T14:22:00.000-06:002011-12-24T14:22:00.523-06:00

New from Delacorte Press: Conqueror: A Novel of Kublai Khan by Conn Iggulden. About the book, from the publisher: Intrigue and treachery roil the vast Mongol nation as the heirs of Genghis Khan fight for control of his unprecedented empire—and of his mighty armies. History will turn on the outcome of their struggle. But only one man, dismissed by all the others, will boldly rise to the challenge

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-27946960324732282882011-12-24T02:22:00.003-06:002011-12-24T02:22:00.527-06:00

New from the University of Missouri Press: The Jester and the Sages: Mark Twain in Conversation with Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx by Forrest Robinson, Gabriel Noah Brahm, Jr., and Catherine Carlstroem. About the book, from the publisher: The Jester and the Sages approaches the life and work of Mark Twain by placing him in conversation with three eminent philosophers of his time—Friedrich Nietzsche

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-54430275031771668762011-12-23T14:22:00.001-06:002011-12-23T14:22:00.927-06:00

New from Yale University Press: The Very Hungry City: Urban Energy Efficiency and the Economic Fate of Cities by Austin Troy. About the book, from the publisher: As global demand for energy grows and prices rise, a city's energy consumption becomes increasingly tied to its economic viability, warns the author of The Very Hungry City. Austin Troy, a seasoned expert in urban environmental

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-11849347366073802072011-12-23T02:22:00.001-06:002011-12-23T02:22:00.278-06:00

New from Berkley: The Unexpected Miss Bennet by Patrice Sarath. About the book, from the publisher: Pride and Prejudice's Mary Bennet gets her own story... The third of five daughters, Miss Mary Bennet is a rather unremarkable girl. With her countenance being somewhere between plain and pretty and in possession of no great accomplishments, few expect the third Bennet daughter to attract a

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-86830593817532005642011-12-22T14:22:00.001-06:002011-12-22T14:22:00.161-06:00

New from Grove/Atlantic: Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Adventure by Julia Flynn Siler. About the book, from the publisher: Around 200 A.D., intrepid Polynesians paddled thousands of miles across the Pacific and arrived at an undisturbed archipelago. For centuries, their descendants lived with almost no contact from the Western world but in 1778

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-75918688941384577212011-12-22T02:22:00.000-06:002011-12-22T02:22:00.630-06:00

New from Back Bay Books: One Hundred and One Nights: A Novel by Benjamin Buchholz. About the book, from the publisher: After 13 years in America, Abu Saheeh has returned to his native Iraq, a nation transformed by the American military presence. Alone in a new city, he has exactly what he wants: freedom from his past. Then he meets Layla, a whimsical fourteen-year-old girl who enchants him with

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-3954529960834672812011-12-21T14:22:00.005-06:002011-12-21T14:22:00.861-06:00

New from Berkley: The Boy Who Shoots Crows by Randall Silvis. About the book, from the publisher: A riveting new psychological thriller from a "a masterful storyteller" (New York Times Book Review). Yesterday, a local boy went missing in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Transplanted painter Charlotte Dunleavy was used to seeing him go into the woods, rifle in hand, to shoot at crows. Suffering

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-65439904255954967592011-12-21T02:22:00.001-06:002011-12-21T02:22:00.271-06:00

New from Ballantine Books: Point, Click, Love: A Novel by Molly Shapiro. About the book, from the publisher: In Molly Shapiro’s fun and sexy debut novel, four women try to sort through the wild and complicated world of text messaging, status updates, and other high-speed connections. Best friends and fellow midwesterners Katie, Annie, Maxine, and Claudia are no strangers to dealing with love

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-72771950874524860972011-12-20T14:22:00.000-06:002011-12-20T14:22:00.231-06:00

New from Grand Central Publishing: Agent 6 by Tom Rob Smith. About the book, from the publisher: THREE DECADES. TWO MURDERS. ONE CONSPIRACY. WHO IS AGENT 6? Tom Rob Smith's debut, Child 44, was an immediate publishing sensation and marked the arrival of a major new talent in contemporary fiction. Named one of top 100 thrillers of all time by NPR, it hit bestseller lists around the world, won

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-42948050034066739982011-12-20T02:22:00.004-06:002011-12-20T02:22:00.446-06:00

New from Scribner: Girl Reading by Katie Ward. About the book, from the publisher: Seven portraits. Seven artists. Seven girls and women reading. A young orphan poses nervously for a Renaissance maestro in medieval Siena. An artist's servant girl in seventeenth-century Amsterdam snatches a moment away from her work to lose herself in tales of knights and battles. An eighteenth century female

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-73795187186568721822011-12-19T14:22:00.000-06:002011-12-19T14:22:01.018-06:00

New from Oxford University Press: Playing Along: Digital Games, YouTube, and Virtual Performance by Kiri Miller. About the book, from the publisher: Why don't Guitar Hero players just pick up real guitars? What happens when millions of people play the role of a young black gang member in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas? How are YouTube-based music lessons changing the nature of amateur

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-22035327872601142932011-12-19T02:22:00.001-06:002011-12-19T02:22:01.101-06:00

New from SilverOak: A Walk Across the Sun by Corban Addison. About the book, from the publisher: When a tsunami rages through their coastal town in India, 17-year-old Ahalya Ghai and her 15-year-old sister Sita are left orphaned and homeless. As they struggle to reach the safe haven of the convent where they attend school, they are abducted by human traffickers and thrust into a hidden world of

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-76020619947101804772011-12-18T14:22:00.002-06:002011-12-18T14:22:00.087-06:00

New from Little, Brown: Brothers (and Me): A Memoir of Loving and Giving by Donna Britt. About the book, from the publisher: Donna Britt has always been surrounded by men-her father, three brothers, two husbands, three sons, countless friends. She learned to give to them at an early age. But after her beloved brother Darrell's senseless killing by police 30 years ago, she began giving more,

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-22202942209451486762011-12-18T02:22:00.001-06:002011-12-18T02:22:00.519-06:00

New from Kensington: Don't Let Me Go by J. H. Trumble. About the book, from the publisher:Some people spend their whole lives looking for the right partner. Nate Schaper found his in high school. In the eight months since their cautious flirting became a real, heart-pounding, tell-the-parents relationship, Nate and Adam have been inseparable. Even when local kids take their homophobia to brutal

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-23471027793888898452011-12-17T14:22:00.001-06:002011-12-17T14:22:00.377-06:00

New from Putnam: Covert Warriors (Presidential Agent Series #7) by W. E. B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV. About the book, from the publisher: The thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. There's an uneasy and unholy alliance building across the Caribbean. Few in the U.S. government want to believe that a Third World country and its chest-thumping leader could

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-20410267900541229012011-12-17T02:22:00.000-06:002011-12-17T02:22:01.340-06:00

New from Oxford University Press: Heinrich Himmler: A Life by Peter Longerich. About the book, from the publisher: Heinrich Himmler, an unremarkable looking man, was Hitler's top enforcer, in charge of the Gestapo, the SS, and the so-called Final Solution. We can only wonder, as biographer Peter Longerich asks, how could such a banal personality attain such an historically unique position of

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-89238363499398858182011-12-16T14:22:00.001-06:002011-12-16T14:22:00.164-06:00

New from Northwestern University Press: You Need a Schoolhouse: Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South by Stephanie Deutsch. About the book, from the publisher: Booker T. Washington, the founder of Tuskegee Institute, and Julius Rosenwald, the president of Sears, Roebuck, and Company, first met in 1911 at a Chicago luncheon. By charting the

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-8832170854715610222011-12-16T02:22:00.001-06:002011-12-16T02:22:00.244-06:00

New from Bantam: Tuesday Night Miracles by Kris Radish. About the book, from the publisher: In this poignant and transformative novel, bestselling author Kris Radish weaves a tale of five women yearning for change—and the potential for happiness that lies within every heart. Free-spirited psychologist Dr. Olivia Bayer suspects she’ll need a miracle to help the four wildly different women in her

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-19675349347715545302011-12-15T14:22:00.001-06:002011-12-15T14:22:00.757-06:00

New from Severn House: Midnight Guardians by Jonathon King. About the book, from the publisher: When private eye Max Freeman is hired to investigate a conspiracy involving fake claims to Medicare, he quickly realizes the scheme is much more dangerous than anyone assumed. And when the Brown Man, a former drug kingpin who once helped Max catch a serial killer, reappears in a slick new guise, Max

Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478248757385954365.post-54234893013998662212011-12-15T02:22:00.001-06:002011-12-15T02:22:01.077-06:00

New from St. Martin's Press: Vigilante: Shane Scully Novels (Volume 11) by Stephen J. Cannell. About the book, from the publisher: In the last novel by acclaimed producer and New York Times bestselling author Stephen J. Cannell, LAPD detective Shane Scully and his partner Sumner Hitchens investigate a crime with ties to the sometimes violent world of reality TV Lita Mendez was a thorn in the

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New from Severn House: Blindside by Ed Gorman. About the book, from the publisher: The new Dev Conrad mystery from the author of the Sam McCain and Jack Dwyer series Political consultant Dev Conrad knows that helping Congressman Michael Robards to get re-elected is going to be tough. Robards' liberal voting record stands against him, and his staff seem resentful of Dev himself - which could

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New from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: A Team for America: The Army-Navy Game That Rallied a Nation by Randy Roberts. About the book, from the publisher: There never has been a sports event, perhaps never an event of any kind, that received the attention of so many Americans in so many places around the world.” So wrote a reporter on December 2, 1944, about the greatest Army- Navy football game in

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New from I.B. Tauris: Albert: A Life by Jules Stewart. About the book, from the publisher: Albert, prince consort to Queen Victoria and social and cultural visionary in his own right, defined the culture and direction of nineteenth century Britain—a superpower at the zenith of its influence—more than any other British royal or politician. The role he played in shaping Victorian culture stands

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