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LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/B08BZHRYVK An old-school reporter discovers that the search for the truth is still full of surprises in a twisty short thriller from bestselling master of suspense Jeffery Deaver.After a long run as a respected journalist, Edward &#8220Fitz&#8221 Fitzhugh is on his way out when he stumbles across the story of a lifetime. The Gravedigger is a serial kidnapper who taunts the police with riddles. The other puzzle is his motive, which Fitz is determined to piece together. When an eyewitness to the latest abduction leads Fitz closer to the facts, he realizes

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/1681374641 An old woman enters into a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic admired by Bj&#246rk and Luis Bu&#241uel.Leonora Carrington, painter, playwright, and novelist, was a surrealist trickster par excellence, and The Hearing Trumpet is the witty, celebratory key to her anarchic and allusive body of work. The novel begins in the bourgeois comfort of a residential corner of a Mexican city and ends with a man-made apocalypse that promises to usher in the earth&#8217s rebirth. In between we are swept off to a most curio

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/B0BMB3VC6Z An old ponda frog jumps in:the sound of water -- Basho This comprehensive introduction to Japan's best-loved haiku poets is the perfect book for anyone wanting to learn about haiku. Compiled and with commentary by renowned author and translator William Scott Wilson, the book features 26 poets and 550 haiku, exquisitely translated. Wilson takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the works of the major Japanese poets from the fifteenth century up to the present.The poets include Basho, Shiki, Buson and Issa (the &quotGreat Four&quot) a

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/B0191WMMZ8 An old man's hazy memory and a Polaroid snapshot are all Chee has to go on, but they are enough to send him deep into an underworld of murder and revenge when a shootout erupts between two strangers at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. One man dies, and the other drives off but not before showing old Joseph Joe a photograph of the man he is looking for. It's not much of a lead for Sergeant Chee, but it's enough to put him on the killer's trail.

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/B00005AAPV An old man wearing a brown robe is found wandering disoriented in the Arizona desert. He is miles from any human habitation and has no memory of how he got to be there, or who he is. The only clue to his identity is the plan of a medieval monastery in his pocket. So begins the mystery of Timeline, a story that will catapult a group of young scientists back to the Middle Ages and into the heart of the Hundred Years' War. Timeline cements Michael Crichton's place as the king of the high-concept thriller, and a master storyteller to boot.

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/B007XA3L2E An old man recounts the raucous adventure of his life through war, obsession and the 20th century in this &#8220rapturous and melancholy new novel&#8221 (The New York Times).An old American who lives in Brazil is writing his memoirs. Call him Oscar Progresso&#8212or whatever else you like. He sits in a mountain garden in Niter&#243i, overlooking the ocean. As he reminisces and writes, placing the pages carefully in his antproof case, an epic adventure unfolds. We learn that he was a World War II ace who was shot down twice, an investment bank

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/1590176189 An NYRB Classics OriginalFew writers had to confront as many of the last century&#8217s mass tragedies as Vasily Grossman, who wrote with terrifying clarity about the Shoah, the Battle of Stalingrad, and the Terror Famine in the Ukraine. An Armenian Sketchbook, however, shows us a very different Grossman, notable for his tenderness, warmth, and sense of fun. After the Soviet government confiscated&#8212or, as Grossman always put it, &#8220arrested&#8221&#8212Life and Fate, he took on the task of revising a literal Russian translation of a lon

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/1619021218 An NPR journalist&#8217s riveting exploration of religious fanaticism, terrorism, persecution, and confronting one&#8217s own beliefs in a post 9/11 world.Soon after the World Trade Center towers fell on September 11 2001, it became clear that the United States would invade Afghanistan. Writer and This American Life producer Scott Carrier decided to go there, too.&#8220In a series of remarkable essays, Carrier, raised among Mormons, noted similarities in the beliefs and practices of the Taliban and the Utah church, stressing the fundamentalis

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/B09DK9FGX3 An NPR Best Book of 2022 &#8220A master class in family and political drama, in star-crossed love stories and in capturing the enormity of what home is.&#8221&#8212NPRWhen Isabel Perez travels to Barcelona to save her sister Beatriz, she discovers a shocking family secret in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton&#8217s new novel. Barcelona, 1964. Exiled from Cuba after the revolution, Isabel Perez has learned to guard her heart and protect her family at all costs. After Isabel&#8217s sister Beatriz disappears in Barcelona, Isabel

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/0593197828 An NPR Best Book of 2022 &#8220A master class in family and political drama, in star-crossed love stories and in capturing the enormity of what home is.&#8221&#8212NPRWhen Isabel Perez travels to Barcelona to save her sister Beatriz, she discovers a shocking family secret in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton&#8217s new novel. Barcelona, 1964. Exiled from Cuba after the revolution, Isabel Perez has learned to guard her heart and protect her family at all costs. After Isabel&#8217s sister Beatriz disappears in Barcelona, Isabel

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/1580056733 An NPR Best Book of 2017Celebrate the witchiest women writers with an inventive guidebook that pairs imaginative vignettes with whimsical, folkloric illustrations. Literary Witchesreimagines visionary writers as witches: both are figures of formidable creativity, empowerment, and general badassery. Through a series of thirty lyrical portraits, Taisia Kitaiskaia and Katy Horan honor the witchy qualities of well-known and obscure authors alike, including Virginia Woolf, Mira Bai, Toni Morrison, Emily Dickinson, Octavia E. Butler, Sandra Cisnero

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/B08P3ZBMN2 An MM Out for Justice Holiday - short storyIt's a dog gone Christmas!The plan was to gather at Noah and Mac&#8217s place for a holiday celebration, but when the couple&#8217s nine-year-old Labrador Retriever goes missing, the men and women of Phoenix descend on the city of Alameda. The neighbors and local cops get involved in a search that stretches from the streets of downtown to the rocky beaches.The unit swears they will find the pooch, but when hours pass with nothing, Noah fears the worst.This MM short Christmas romp is filled with badas

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/B007XA3KZW An Italian septuagenarian recounts his life before and after World War I in this novel from the author of Paris in the Present Tense.For Alessandro Giullani, the young son of a prosperous Roman lawyer, golden trees shimmer in the sun beneath a sky of perfect blue. At night, the moon is amber and the city of Rome seethes with light. He races horses across the country to the sea, and in the Alps, he practices the precise and sublime art of mountain climbing. At the ancient university in Bologna he is a student of painting and the science of bea

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/0578685795 An island boy nicknamed Breadcrumb grew up poor in an environment of extreme religious persecution. After the Christian genocide his father told him to go to America and, at age thirteen, he began his odyssey. Struggling through many difficult years in Turkey, he eventually got to America by serving his enemies. His is a story of courage, faith and perseverance. His is the tale of the modern immigrant.

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/0805091963 An irreverent tale of an American Jew serving in the Peace Corps in rural China, which reveals the absurdities, joys, and pathos of a traditional society in fluxIn September of 2005, the Peace Corps sent Michael Levy to teach English in the heart of China's heartland. His hosts in the city of Guiyang found additional uses for him: resident expert on Judaism, romantic adviser, and provincial basketball star, to name a few. His account of overcoming vast cultural differences to befriend his students and fellow teachers is by turns poignant and

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/B004GHN2IU An irreverent tale of an American Jew serving in the Peace Corps in rural China, which reveals the absurdities, joys, and pathos of a traditional society in fluxIn September of 2005, the Peace Corps sent Michael Levy to teach English in the heart of China's heartland. His hosts in the city of Guiyang found additional uses for him: resident expert on Judaism, romantic adviser, and provincial basketball star, to name a few. His account of overcoming vast cultural differences to befriend his students and fellow teachers is by turns poignant and

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/B009A2UIRY An irreverent tale of an American Jew serving in the Peace Corps in rural China, which reveals the absurdities, joys, and pathos of a traditional society in flux. In September of 2005, the Peace Corps sent Michael Levy to teach English in the heart of China's heartland. His hosts in the city of Guiyang found additional uses for him: resident expert on Judaism, romantic adviser, and provincial basketball star, to name a few. His account of overcoming vast cultural differences to befriend his students and fellow teachers is by turns poignant an

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/B0174PRH7C An irresistible love story, an unforgettable family. The New York Times bestselling author of Hamnet captures an extraordinary marriage with insight and laugh-out-loud humor in what Richard Russo calls &#8220her breakout book.&#8221 Daniel Sullivan leads a complicated life. A New Yorker living in the wilds of Ireland, he has children he never sees in California, a father he loathes in Brooklyn, and his wife, Claudette, is a reclusive ex&#8211film star given to pulling a gun on anyone who ventures up their driveway. Together, they have made a

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/B0BY3Z5DWB An irresistible force meets an easily moved objectPeyton has never followed through on anything in his life, which is why he needs a bootcamp like The Bars and Stars and a trainer like Tex. Tex is going to give him some gumption, but that involves giving him something else first.Maybe he should have listened to the warnings about how The Bars and Stars enforces discipline before committing to two weeks on the ranch, but he sure can&#8217t complain about the eye candy. Tex is a tall drink of water with strong hands made for ranch work. And for

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/1682684733 An irresistible and colorful celebration of Japan&#8217s thriving cat culture. In Japan, cats rule. And the country&#8217s feline love affair is now a worldwide phenomenon. From cat caf&#233s and Hello Kitty to the familiar sight of a maneki neko (&#8220beckoning cat&#8221) waving its paw from a shop window, cat lovers all over the world are more immersed in Japan&#8217s cat culture than they may realize. With charming storytelling, Catland will introduce you to cats practicing to become monks, a designer who makes cat costumes inspired by th