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It’s Good To Be Back Home, Where They Want to Kill You

February 12, 2016 Mark Greaney’s assassin, Court Gentry, is unremarkable in his physical appearance, and he uses this natural camouflage to his advantage in the fifth installment of the Gray Man series. Greaney will launch Back Blast at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis on February 20, 2016, at 2 p.m.

It’s Good To Be Back Home, Where They Want to Kill You

A Hard, Cruel Shore

A Hard, Cruel Shore

A Hard, Cruel Shore

Dewey Lambdin

Thomas Dunne Books
352 pages
$26.99

“Check the log, shipmate: Dewey Lambdin has left Alexander Kent and C. S. Forester hull-down in an ocean of words and is closing on Patrick O’Brian as the most prolific historical novelist to celebrate a Royal Navy mariner during the age of sail.”

–The Washington Post

No. 731 Degraw-street, Brooklyn, or Emily Dickinson's Sister

No. 731 Degraw-street, Brooklyn, or Emily Dickinson's Sister

No. 731 Degraw-street, Brooklyn, or Emily Dickinson's Sister

Claudia Barnett

Carnegie Mellon
136 pages
$16.95

‘I like the look of agony, because I know it’s true,’ says the murderous heroine of the new play No. 731 Degraw-street, Brooklyn. If you recognize that line as Emily Dickinson, then this Victorian-set, true-crime drama is for you.”

—Nelson Pressley, Washington Post

No. 731 Degraw-street, Brooklyn, or Emily Dickinson’s Sister

No. 731 Degraw-street, Brooklyn, or Emily Dickinson’s Sister

No. 731 Degraw-street, Brooklyn, or Emily Dickinson's Sister

Claudia Barnett

Carnegie Mellon
136 pages
$16.95

‘I like the look of agony, because I know it’s true,’ says the murderous heroine of the new play No. 731 Degraw-street, Brooklyn. If you recognize that line as Emily Dickinson, then this Victorian-set, true-crime drama is for you.”

—Nelson Pressley, Washington Post

Death Crashes the Party

Death Crashes the Party

Death Crashes the Party

Vickie Fee

Kensington
304 pages
$7.99

“Together, Liv and Di follow a trail of sinister secrets in their sweet little town that leads them from drug smugglers to a Civil War battlefield, and just when they think they’re whistling Dixie, Liv and Di will find themselves squarely in the crosshairs of the least likely killer of all. . .”

–From the publisher

Ghosts, Living and Dead

February 4, 2016 Only Love Can Break Your Heart wasn’t the debut novel Ed Tarkington had in mind when he first started writing in earnest. But after turning out a very different novel that never found a publisher, Tarkington found his voice by mining his own family’s experiences. He will read from the book at Crosstown Arts in Memphis on February 11, 2016, at 6 p.m.

Ghosts, Living and Dead

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