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A mystery police procedural that's tough and very urban, about a crime that makes men cringe.
Detroit, 1980: A bizzare sex crime shakes even this violent city. Police Lieutenant Sharon Dair, detective in the Sex Crimes division, plunges into an investigation that threatens her physical and mental well-being. The woman she seeks is in some ways a distorted image of Sharon, so much so that the Detective falls prey to a vigilante group out to catch the criminal. Her every relationship(with forensics expert Nantelli, with her only black co-worker McNeely, with her women friends) becomes entangled in the web of hatred and confusion aroused by a crime that sets men against women, city agains | |  | | No Return Address: A Memoir of Displacement
A memoir of childhood in Communist Romania by a woman of hyphenated parentage--a Jewish mother who survived Auschwitz and a Greek father who became a political prisoner during the Communist regime, an adolescence in Western Europe and the U. S., and an adulthood haunted by a continued sense of displacement.
No Return Address is a vivid memoir of a life in exile and a poignant meditation on pleasure and loss, repression and transgression, and the complexities of love under harsh human conditions. In recounting her life's journey from Romania to Paris and Brussels, then on to the United States, Anca Vlasopolos writes movingly of the peculiar attributes of displacement in the contemporary world -- the hyphenated, ambiguous identities; the purgatory in which immigrants await transfer to another country; the mysterious nostalgia for places and events dimly recalled. Throughout, she describes the const | |  | | Penguins in a Warming World
A collection of 66 poems about love, loss, desperation, urban wilderness.
I'll quote from a blurb: "Anca Vlasopolos's voice is new and violent, witness to humanity's multiple cruelties, to the carelessness that has given rise to 'penguins in a warming world.' In response, her poems are full of caring, showing itself in a profound caring for language--ornate, precise, original, memorable--and on subjects that break us into tears: tales, images, cries from the heart and from history's victims. . . " | | | | Sidereal and Closer Griefs
A chapbook of poetry on the theme of loss and tempered hope after loss.
Quite a dark collection of poems, with a couple of concluding poems in a hopeful tone. | |  | | The New Bedford Samurai
A 19th-century high-seas adventure story based on the life of Manjiro Nakahama, a poor fisherboy stranded on an uninhabited island and rescued by an American whaling ship. He lived in the U.S. for ten years, repatriated himself, was instrumental as an informant to the Japanese government during the opening of Japan, came to the States two more times, and brought to Japan the knowledge of animal exploitation he learned in the West.
This book contains adventures on the oceans of the world, whaling scenes, a trip with a captain who goes insane, an episode during California's gold rush, life in 19th-century Japan and New England, and meditations on globalization and its dire effects on the environment, from the 19th century to the present. |
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A Murder in a Different Light
by Brendan O'Brien
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 Ireland 1947. Seven weeks of relentless snow. Guard Eamon Foley is searching for a missing child.
At Toby Appleyard’s farm, he discovers the kitchen littered with dead cats. And the skeletal remains of a woman. Upstairs, Toby is dead in his bed. |
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