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 The Gun Seller
by Hugh Laurie
Looking for "a good man" in the Military Industrial Complex
The Gun Seller is a very fast-paced joke-filled book about a Britisher named Thomas Lang, a former member of the Scots Guard, now a freelance soldier of fortune. The story begins with Lang being paid a handsome to kill Alexander Woolf, Chairman and CEO of Gaine Parker, a large corporation with military contracts.
 The Green Mile
by Stephen King
Convicted murderer makes miracles on the Green Mile—death row, cellblock C—that transforms his jailers
Stephen King has once again taken a life experience that seems ordinary and made it extraordinary. Originally written in six installments, this series of stories is now available as a single volume. This is a supernatural tale of good versus evil, and one man’s attempt to cope with his inner demons.
By Robin Fiorello
 Fat City
by Leonard Gardner
Like actors in a Greek drama, Gardner's characters find redemption in their struggle with inevitability
Leonard Gardner novel Fat City reads like a Greek tragedy with the reader as audience fully aware of the fate that awaits each of the characters. Yet just as with the dramas of antiquity, so too does Gardner’s characters distinguish themselves in their struggle to endure. "‘Hoping never done nothing,’ says Buford Wills. ‘It wanting that do it. You got to want to win bad enough to win.’" The same can be said of Fat City’s characters in their own private daily battles.
 The Deal
by Peter Lefcourt
The Deal makes a movie at Hollywood’s expense
"Peter Lefcourt’s book The Deal is one of the funniest books about Hollywood to come along in some time," claim the reviews on its back cover. In this tale down-on-his-luck hero, Charlie Berns is an independent film producer that hasn’t had a job in so long that he is actively trying to commit suicide as the book opens. He has even sent his updated resume to Hollywood magazine, Daily Variety and The Hollywood Reporter so that when his body is found the two publications gets the facts of his career right.
 The Collector
by John Fowles
Confronting the insanity of a compulsively possessive man
The Collector, by John Fowles, illustrates a man obsessed with a woman to the point of insanity. Ferdinand, the antagonist of the novel, is a misfit of society. Growing-up as a loner, he develops a passion for collecting butterflies. He feels the need to possess the beautiful creatures with no concern for their freedom and beauty displayed in nature. After secretly observing Miranda, the protagonist of the novel becomes crazed with desire to trap her and add her to his collection. Miranda's beauty and grace as well as her life are destroyed during Ferdinand’s possession of her.
By Robin Fiorello
 Clandestine Confessions
by Nina Holden
A gripping, dazzling and insightful novel about rape, trauma self-destruction and fighting spirit.
Nina Holden’s debut novel, Clandestine Confessions, is heartwarming and heart-wrenching at the same time. The author’s forthright, though sensitive portrayal of a young woman’s plight makes for an extremely rewarding read.
By Kelly Parker
 Chronicle of a Death Foretold
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Anatomy of a killing in which an entire village is implicated
When you read the first sentence, indeed, the title of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s 120-page book, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, you immediately know what the story is about: that this day some time in the past, Santiago Nasar, will meet his untimely death. What’s remarkable about the work is the efficiency of the prose, the motives of a complete village in Columbia near the Caribbean coast is dissected and analyzed leaving the reader with a remarkable insight about the lives and motives of its inhabitance. And the story reveals that they can be considered accessories to the crime.
 Anything Considered
by Peter Mayle
An action adventure novel mixed with the good life in the South of France
Luciano Bennett is an Englishman—his Italian mother gave him his unfortunate first name, causing him to go simply by Bennett—is living in the South of France in a friend’s house. A bachelor with a taste for the good life, Bennett is without a viable means of support and is managing to support himself on the last of his savings.
 Misadventures in The (213)
by Dennis Hensley
A gay guy and his girlfriend Dandy live, love, and lust in Southern California
One could call Misadventures in The (213) the "Seinfeld" of Los Angeles. This novel is a "book about nothing" that chronicles the experiences, relationships, and embarrassing moments of four young lost souls in search of the Hollywood dream, fame and fortune. The reader will also encounter many other colorful characters that touch these four lives. The reader will embark on a hysterical and yet perpetual roller-coaster ride of misadventures of these misfits.
By Robin Fiorello
 The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
Struggling for an acceptable identity in the black world of the 1940s
Toni Morrison’s novel, The Bluest Eye, presents the lives of several impoverished black families in the 1940’s in a rather unconventional and painful manner. Ms. Morrison leads the reader through the lives of select children and adults, describing a few powerful incidents, thoughts and experiences that lend insight into the motivation and. behavior of these characters. In a somewhat unconventional manner, the young lives of Pauline Williams Breedlove and Charles (Cholly) Breedlove are presented to the reader. Through these descriptions, the reader comes to understand how they become the kind of adults they are. Background information is given not necessarily to incur sympathy but to lend understanding.
By Robin Fiorello
 Piano Player
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
In a future world, machine take over the job of skilled workers until the workers revolt
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is one of those writers whose works defy easy classification. Piano Player certainly qualifies. In a 1973 interview with Playboy magazine he described his inspiration for the novel coming from observing a computer driven milling machine cutting the rotors for gas turbine jet engines. He observed that this was a job that a machine had taken over from machinists who had done the job in the past.
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