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Max Frei

THE STRANGER

"If Harry Potter smoked cigarettes and took a certain matter-of-fact pleasure in administering tough justice, he might like Max Frei, the protagonist of this fantasy novel. Well-written, well-paced grown-up fantasy with a strong dose of reality." -Kirkus Reviews

"The whole effect is like a collaboration between Raymond Chandler and Gilbert and Sullivan—cheerfully noirish and disturbingly satirical. . . the story is quite charming and unusual, and the books in the series are best sellers in Russia and elsewhere in Europe." -Library Journal

Allan Tannenbaum

NEW YORK IN THE 70S

"Photographs that will transport you back to NYC as it was in the '70s. Sex, drugs, street gangs, disco divas, politicians, homeless, celebrities, musicians, hookers, and literally every other thing (and person) that went down during the decade are amongst the images included." -Gothamist

“Tannenbaum’s photographs of the 1970s are as wildly entertaining and energetic as that wonderful and bizarre decade itself. The form and important visual history of a moment when American culture changed forever.” —American Photo

Rachel DeWoskin

REPEAT AFTER ME

"Cultures don’t so much collide as coalesce in DeWoskin’s sparkling debut novel, which follows the relationship of two people with more in common than their backgrounds would suggest.Infusing her multicultural narrative with vibrant observations that glitter with laser-intense acuity, DeWoskin demonstrates a smart, sophisticated literary agility.”--Booklist (STARRED REVIEW)

"This complex story of friendship, family, honor, and cultural differences is rich and deep. DeWoskin has firsthand knowledge of China, its language, and its traditions, as well as life in New York City, and her characters live and breathe." -Library Journal

Alastair Campbell

ALL IN THE MIND

A psychiatrist wrestles with his clients' demons—and his own—in the first novel from Tony Blair's former spokesperson. Campbell crafts some top-notch and has a talent for imagining lost souls. - Kirkus Reviews

Alastair Campbell has crafted a skillful and compelling debut novel about Martin Sturrock, a psychiatrist whose simmering meltdown informs him that he may be in need of treatment of his own. With their many flaws, Campbell’s characters are fully formed people—sharply observed and nicely nuanced. Despite the sometimes brutal subject matter, the many moments of kindness and hope make this a strong first novel providing much catharsis in its own right.-Publishers Weekly

Joe Bennett

WHERE UNDERPANTS COME FROM

Much more than an intrepid investigator reporting how his underpants found their way to his body, Bennett is a delightful guide on an off-the-beaten-track-tour of the New China. . . The good time he has on his adventures from one end of China to the other is infectious. A delightful and informative tour of the New China through the lens of the fancy underpants of a very funny New Zealander." - Shelf Awareness

Harry Ferguson

OPERATION KRONSTADT

A thrilling episode at the dawn of the Bolshevik era. Former MI6 operative Ferguson ventures that the findings of British spies in Russia during the civil-war era should have encouraged intervention to bring down the vulnerable Communist regime, which would have spared the West a great deal of trouble in the decades to come. Ferguson displays novelistic touches in setting the scene and the narrative gathers steam as the author follows the resourceful commandos and their attack on the heavily armed Soviet fleet at Kronstadt with a flotilla of plywood boats. Suffice it to say that things did not go exactly as planned, but there were plenty of fireworks and cliffhangers even though the Soviet regime survived both the attack and the civil war. -Kirkus Reviews