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Surface Detail - Iain M. Banks
It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Lededje Y’br... -
Soft Target_ The Second Spider - Stephen Leather
There’s only one thing more dangerous than a corrupt cop…. and that’s a corrupt cop with a gun. When a group of armed police in an elite unit turn maverick and st... -
Searching for Schindler - Thomas Keneally
From Publishers WeeklyAustralian author Keneally was awarded the 1982 Booker Prize for his novel Schindler's List. How Keneally came to write that novel about Oskar Schindler's re.... -
Report From Engine Co. 82 - Dennis Smith
ReviewIn 1972, Emergency, a show about the Los Angeles Fire Department, debuted on network TV. That same year, Smith, a New York City fireman, published this book about life in wha... -
Powder Burn - Carl Hiaasen; Bill Montalbano
From Library JournalPublished in 1984, 1981, and 1982, respectively, these novels feature action, intrigue, violence, and murder. In the Hitchcock vein, they also portray protagoni... -
Philosophy_ who needs it - Ayn Rand
SUMMARY: This collection of essays was the last work planned by Ayn Rand before her death in 1982. In it, she summarizes her view of philosophy and deals with a broad spectrum of t... -
Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and B - Lester Bangs
Before his untimely death in 1982, Lester Bangs was inarguably the most influential critic of rock and roll. Writing in hyper-intelligent Benzedrine prose that calls to mind Jack K... -
Lightnin' Hopkins - Alan Govenar
By the time of his death in 1982, Sam “Lightnin’” Hopkins was likely the most recorded blues artist in history. This brilliant new biography--the first book ever written about h... -
Handle With Care - Jodi Picoult
“Everything breaks. Some things just hurt more than others. Charlotte O’Keefe’s beautiful, much-longed-for, adored daughter Willow is born with osteogenesis imper... -
Gabriel Garcia Marquez_ a life - Gerald Martin
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The first full and authorized biography of the 1982 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature—the most popular international novelist of the last fifty years.Over t...