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  Bedlam & Belfry Intergalactic...

  Glen Cadigan

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  Have you ever needed a lawyer? If that's the case, then Bedlam & Belfry, Intergalactic Attorneys at Law are the ones for you! 
  Bedlam & Belfry, Intergalactic Attorneys at Law: The 1st Dozen features the first twelve adventures of the morally challenged barristers as originally seen in Bedlam & Belfry, Intergalactic Attorneys at Law Vols. 1-4. Their opponents range from God above to the Devil himself, and their clients include the rich, the very rich, and the filthy rich! 
  Stories include: 
  Bedlam & Belfry Beat The Odds 
  Bedlam & Belfry Go Broke 
  Bedlam & Belfry Get Elected 
  and exactly nine more! 
  Bedlam & Belfry are always open for business if the money is good, so if you're of a mind to become rich yourself, then with the proper lawsuit, they're your men!

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  Bad Bird - A Mystery

  Chris Knopf

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  Jackie Swaitkowski may not be the most buttoned-up lawyer in the Hamptons, but a plane crash before her very eyes is hard to miss.  Just before the struggling air taxi takes a nosedive, its female pilot tosses out a camera case.  To Jackie, the accident's only witness, the case (so to speak) seems meant for her.The camera's memory card holds an unusual set of photos.  Jackie recognizes more than a few of the faces in those pictures.  Are they telling her the story of the crash?  The pilot, a hard-nosed biker chick named Eugenie Birkson, came from a family tree filled with ex-cons, and boasted a passenger list packed with high society.  And Jackie soon learns that solving the mystery of Eugenie's death will mean uncovering some dark secrets from her own past as well. All this and a freshly revived romance with gentle giant Harry Goodlander, and Jackie yet again has her heart and her hands full.   Award-winning mystery writer Chris Knopf returns to Southampton, a one-of-a-kind small town where the rich and the rest of us rub shoulders on a daily basis, generating all the frictions that might imply.

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  The Selected Works of Abdullah...

  H. M. Naqvi

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  The winner of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature follows his debut Home Boy with“an unforgettable romp across love, life, and everything else” (Akhil Sharma, author of Family Life). Abdullah, bachelor and scion of a once prominent family, awakes on the morning of his seventieth birthday and considers launching himself over the balcony. Having spent years attempting to compile a “mythopoetic legacy” of his beloved Karachi, the cosmopolitan heart of Pakistan, Abdullah has lost his zeal. A surprise invitation for a night out from his old friend Felix Pinto snaps Abdullah out of his funk and saddles him with a ward—Pinto’s adolescent grandson Bosco. As Abdullah plays mentor to Bosco, he also attracts the romantic attentions of Jugnu, an enigmatic siren with links to the mob. All the while Abdullah’s brothers’ plot to evict him from the family estate. Now he must to try to save his home—or face losing his last connection to his familial past.    Anarchic, erudite, and rollicking, with a septuagenarian protagonist like no other, The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack is a joyride of a story set against a kaleidoscopic portrait of one of the world’s most vibrant cities.      “H.M. Naqvi’s remarkable Cossack is the Pakistani Falstaff, the Tristram Shandy of ‘Currachee,’ spinning yarns inside yarns, allusive, affirming, and grandly comic.”—Joshua Ferris, author of To Rise Again at a Decent Hour “Wild, wise, and tender . . . Every page in this book is a playground, and each sentence an absolute thrill and joy to read.”—Patricia Engel, author of The Veins of the Ocean   “Completely original in form and sensibility.”—Ha Jin, winner of the National Book Award 

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  The Hedgehog

  Saki Saki

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  In Saki's short story "The Hedgehog," social commentary is cleverly interwoven with elements of a ghost story. Set during a garden party at the Rectory, the narrative revolves around a group of upper-class women who engage in idle gossip and rivalry, particularly focusing on the arrival of a clairvoyant guest, Ada Bleek.

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  It's Lonely in the Modern World...

  Molly Jane Quinn

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  This “satisfying send-up of a design primer . . . presents lessons in hostile faucetry, blinding fluorescents and vicious exposed ductwork.” —The New York Times 
   
  True modernity requires much more than discipline, vision, and a willingness to live without upper kitchen cabinets. It’s Lonely in the Modern World outlines exactly what’s required to achieve sleek design and the requisite ennui.  
   
  From the creators of the Unhappy Hipsters website, this essential guide is to hipsters what The Official Preppy Handbook was to prepsters. The authors advise on a number of topics. Readers will learn how to navigate the vast array of concrete finishes and plywood grades, accessorize with children and pets, and opine with authority on rooflines. Featuring detailed illustrations, beautifully staged photos, and helpful charts, this master manual is perfect for aspiring modernists, those who love them, and, of course, those who love to hate them.

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  The Stones of Venice Volume 2

  John Ruskin

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  The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from 1851 to 1853. Intending to prove how the architecture in Venice exemplified the principles he discussed in his earlier work, The Seven Lamps of Architecture, Ruskin examined the city in detail, describing for example over eighty churches. He discusses architecture of Venice's Byzantine, Gothic and Renaissance periods, and provides a general history of the city as well. The book aroused considerable interest in Victorian Britain and beyond. The chapter "The Nature of Gothic" (from volume 2) was admired by William Morris, who published it separately in an edition which is in itself an example of Gothic revival. It inspired Marcel Proust; the narrator of the Recherche visits Venice with his mother in a state of enthusiasm for Ruskin. The Stones of Venice is considered one of the most influential books of the 19th century. (Summary adapted from the Wikipedia by Leni)  
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