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|  | Burning City by Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven
In a town where a god periodically posses the inhabitants, giving them the ultimate power over fire, a young man finds himself allied with the wizard who killed his father. Leaving the town as it slowly disintegrates along with the god's fading power, together they set up anew only to find that both their fates are tied to that of the town's. AUTHOR: Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven
PUBLISHER: Atria Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | Edgewater by Ruth Schwartz
Description not available.An engaging compilation of poetry by the winner of the 2001 National Poetry Series Open Competition offers a lyrical, honest exploration of the many faces of human love. By the author of Singular Bodies. Original. AUTHOR: Ruth Schwartz
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Music Like Dirt by Frank Bidart
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Frank Bidart presents a sequence of poems about the human drive to create. AUTHOR: Frank Bidart
PUBLISHER: Sarabande Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Sacred Heart by Marcel Montecino
Streetwise Tommy Coyne is run out of New York by a group of crooked cops, so he goes to live with his Jesuit brother Frank in Mexico--and he goes disguised as a priest. But a war is raging between the church and the Mexican government, and Tommy no sooner arrives in Santa Maria than he is hung from his neck in the town square. The scaffold breaks just in the nick of time, and Tommy is hailed as a miracle worker by the locals. Tommy then begins to see his new life as the path to redemption, as Frank begins a scheme that could mark the start of a downward spiral into hell. AUTHOR: Marcel Montecino
PUBLISHER: Pocket Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | The World Below by Judith Ivey, Sue Miller
Catherine Hubbard inherits her grandmother's house in Vermont, and--newly divorced and at loose ends--she decides to leave her San Francisco home and move into it. In the house, she discovers old diaries that show her that her beloved grandmother was a more complex woman than she had imagined. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001. AUTHOR: Judith Ivey, Sue Miller
PUBLISHER: Knopf, Alfred A. Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | The Long Marriage by Maxine Kumin
Following her memoir INSIDE THE HALO AND BEYOND, about recovering from a riding accident, this volume of poems by the celebrated poet Maxine Kumin further explores the incident and subsequent physical therapy. AUTHOR: Maxine Kumin
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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