 | The Book About Blanche and Marie: A Novel by Per Olov Enquist
Buy new: $6.53 / Used from: $0.01 Novel about Marie Curie and her amputee assistant Blanche Wittman -- love, radium, and hysteria!
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 | Boost by Steve Brewer
Buy new: $24.00 / Used from: $0.26 An excellent and funny thriller about chop shops in the South Valley of Albuquerque
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 | Witchy Woman: A Bubba Mabry P.I. Mystery (Bubba Mabry Mysteries) by Steve Brewer
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $0.64 Bubba Mabry is an Albuquerque PI from Mississippi -- very entertaining with some great parodies of wacko Santa Fe life
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 | Of Minnie the Moocher & me by Cab Calloway
Buy used from: $15.00 Cab Calloway's fascinating biography from the streets of Baltimore to the Cotton Club and beyond
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 | Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock And Out by Bill Graham
Buy new: $17.28 / Used from: $14.81 Bill Graham's fascinating biography from the streets of the Bronx and the resorts of the Catskills to the Fillmore and beyond
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 | Last Dance in Havana by Eugene Robinson
Buy used from: $0.74 If you're at all interested in Cuban music, which flourishes despite all odds, read this one
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 | Life Is So Good by George Dawson
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Want to cheer up and stop complaining? Read about George Dawson's life!
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 | Up the Line by Robert Silverberg
Buy used from: $15.93 An entertaining early Silverberg from his prolific late '60s period -- life as a time courier
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 | Time's Eye (A Time Odyssey) by Arthur C. Clarke
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Clarke & Baxter are a great team -- what happens when the earth is sliced up into small segments, each in a different era! See Alexander the Great meet Rudyard Kipling in Afghanistan!
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 | According to the Rolling Stones by The Rolling Stones
Buy used from: $0.80 Surprisingly literate account of the process of making great rock 'n' roll
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 | Los Alamos by Joseph Kanon
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 The best fictional account I've read of what really went on in the international geek society that produced the atomic bomb -- a mystery too
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 | Stallion Gate by Martin Cruz Smith
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Another A-bomb mystery, but not as good as Kanon's
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 | Wolf in the Shadows by Marcia Muller
Buy used from: $0.01 My first Marcia Muller mystery, and I'm hooked for good! Great California intrigue
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 | Galactic Pot-Healer by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $4.99 A great Phildickian romp I somehow never read back in the '70s...
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 | Shoedog by George Pelecanos
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 My first Pelecanos -- wow! If you love hard-boiled, he's the man!
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 | A Firing Offense (A Five Star Title) by George P. Pelecanos
Buy new: $11.97 / Used from: $1.94 Pelecanos's first book -- a TV saleman gets in way over his head in DC
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 | Half of Paradise by James Lee Burke
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Burke's first novel -- great evocation of seamy life in '50s Louisiana
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 | Jamaica Blue by Don Bruns
Buy used from: $0.01 Entertaining if a bit lightweight, the reggae music biz background makes it
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 | Turncoat by Aaron Elkins
Buy used from: $0.01 Elkins hits it on the nose in this crafty WWII thriller -- sheer fun
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 | Hard Revolution by George P. Pelecanos
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Read this prequel before you start the series about Derek Strange, DC PI -- his cop background in the '68 riots after MLK's assassination
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 | Right as Rain (Derek Strange/Terry Quinn) by George P. Pelecanos
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Derek Strange is now a middle-aged PI in DC -- first in the actual series
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 | Basket Case by Carl Hiaasen
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 This one is a riot, the perfect antidote for the Dubya era: "The secret of big-league b---s----ing is to keep it coming," sez Jack Tagger
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 | Earthquake Weather: A Novel by Terrill Lee Lankford
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Pretty good insider's mystery about Hollywood screenwriting -- "a fast, fun read" sez PW
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 | Towelhead: A Novel by Alicia Erian
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $0.01 Entertaining coming of age novel of a Lebanese-American girl in Houston
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 | The Scorpion's Gate by Richard A. Clarke
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $0.01 To finish off with a book I read strictly for the plot -- the characters are about the worst writing I've ever seen!
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