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A REVISED AND EXPANDED NEW EDITION OF A MODERN CLASSIC After Hurricane Katrina destroys her city, an unlikely heroine turns to art and revenge to survive. A failed hooker, magician's assistant, hotel maid and ice cream truck driver, Katrina Lalande comes barreling back in her old red Cadillac to haunt the abusive husband who thought he'd finished her off during the storm. Bent on revenge but determined to find hope in the wreckage, she remembers her past life as Vincent van Gogh as she paints murals on flood-damaged homes, trying to plug the leaks in her city and her heart.

"...a suspenseful, pitch-perfect novel with an unlikely lead detective: a fictionalized version of iconic Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges... An intelligent, original detective novel." - Kirkus Reviews.Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1967. The blind poet Jorge Luis Borges, visiting at Harvard, faces a crisis of conscience and identity as he and his young assistant Nick Martin grapple with an extraordinary series of crimes and the equally baffling conundrums of literature and philosophy. Forty-five years later, struggling with pain and grief, Nick Martin looks back with wonder at that magical time and asks himself: Did he ever find out who Borges really was?Lighthearted but deeply serious, The Philosophical Detective is a unique journey into the visionary world of a genius.

A chilling series of deaths strikes a writers' group in New York, leaving the remaining members to face the suspicion-and finally the terrifying certainty-that one of them is a psychopathic killer. Is a sequel to Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None being played out in their lives?

Awarded the Kirkus Star for Books of Exceptional Merit Nicole P. is an Irish graduate student pursuing a doctorate in literary theory in New York. She checks herself in to the Palmer Institute (a posh upstate mental hospital), seeking help with anxiety and disorientation triggered by a recent breakup and her quest for a dissertation topic. But by the time she's discharged two weeks later, her life has become dangerously entangled with those of her psychiatrist, who has fallen in love with her, and two schizophrenic patients, Hunter and Antonia Morgan, 21-year-old twins whose mother, Maria Morgan, committed suicide seven years earlier. Maria Morgan's suicide has cast a spell over the Institute, enmeshing everyone there in a world of deception, delusion, and death. Prompted by a blackmailer named Dubin, Nicole realizes that she must untangle the mystery of that suicide and its consequences in order to keep from losing her mind. "A mind-bending marriage of ambitious literary theory and classic murder mystery... An exciting, original take on the literary mystery genre." - Kirkus Reviews "A great read and highly recommended." - Jack Magnus, Readers' Favorite Book Reviews.

Since its first publication in 2005, Bruce Coffin's beautifully written account of growing up in Woodstock, Vermont in the 1950s, The Long Light of Those Days, has become a New England classic. Now Bruce Coffin is back with Among Familiar Shadows, a more intimate evocation of the people who made the world he grew up in. His portraits of these people-including his own family-are loving but unsentimental. Traveling back through time and memory to stand among their familiar shadows, he shows us how they lived, how they talked, how they raised their children-and how they dealt with tragedy. "This moving and beautifully written book deserves a wide audience." -John Elder, author of Reading the Mountains of Home"This is a New England elegy that will endure." -Bill Henderson, Editor, Pushcart Prize"What pure delight in story telling!" -Marcia Butler, author of The Skin Above My Knee