Word: novelizations
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...fighting in Canton," and the buzz of an increasing onslaught from the "Red" East: "Little Red Books of Mao Zedong's edicts wave in the air. Red bursts of firecrackers. Red drums. Red Guards." In this summer in the city Alice Greenway sets her slim and lyrical debut novel, White Ghost Girls. Greenway's book depicts the coming-of-age of two American girls, Kate and Frankie. Amidst the faint rumblings of violence and revolution, the sisters explore the city while becoming aware of their own sexuality...
...Serb family wanted as war criminals. Luckily for Misha, Argentina boasts islands inhabited by birds of his breed. After stints in Ukraine and Chechnya, what more could a tuckered-out penguin ask for? Flightless birds aren't the only characters in Kurkov's absurdly realistic landscape. In his 2004 novel, The President's Last Love, Russian President Vladimir Putin duly steps down when his second term expires in 2008, but makes a comeback in 2012. (The scenario isn't so far-fetched: late last month, Russian State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov suggested it would be constitutionally acceptable for Putin...
...Teddy Wayne lives in New York City and St. Louis. He is working on a novel and a humor collection. Read more of his writing at the following websites...
...there a contract killer in town looking to put a bullet through his eye? Camden will eventually get to the bottom of it, but not before he figures out who deserves his newly recovered vote in the Reagan-Carter election, which is just around the corner. In his third novel, which won this year's Edgar Allan Poe prize for Best Mystery, Walter has created what may be the most charming small-time hood since Elmore Leonard's Stick...
...convinced he got the right guy, but his eyesight is failing from degenerative tunnel vision, and the case has taken a bizarre twist: fresh traces of the dead woman's blood have turned up under a new victim's nails. Blauner, winner of the 1992 Edgar for Best First Novel, has written a taut psychological thriller with a pair of conflicted but compelling antagonists and a surprise ending you'll never see coming...