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- John Barth, The Development. Nine stories about the denizens of a gated community on the Chesapeake Bay.
- James Lee Burke, The Tin Roof Blowdown, A Dave Robicheaux mystery. Dave faces the aftermath of Katrina.
- Lee Falk (ghost-written by Basil Copper), The Story of the Phantom: The Ghost Who Walks. Comic strip tie-in novel, the first in a series of fifteen published by Avon in the early '70s and written by various authors.
- "Sean Flannery" (David Hagberg), The Zebra Network. Spy-guy.
- Arthur H. Lewis, Hex. True crime. Witchcraft and murder in 1928 Pennsylvania.
- [The Museum of Television and Radio], Jack Benny: The Radio and Television Work. An over-sized book produced in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title at the Museum in 1991. Edited by Ellen O'Neill. Benny always makes me laugh.
- John Ringo, A Hymn Before Battle and Gust Front. Military SF, the first two books in the Posleen series.
- Karen Russell, Vampires in the Lemon Grove. Collection with eight stories, many of them verging into fantasy.
- David Thompson, Wilderness #50: People of the Forest. Western.
I had trouble getting into the Russell stories. Too much like SWAMPLANDIA perhaps.
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