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Flaubert's Parrot (Vintage International)

Flaubert's Parrot (Vintage International)

by Julian Barnes

A kind of detective story, relating a cranky amateur scholar's search for the truth about Gustave Flaubert, and the obsession of this detective whose life seems to oddly mirror those of Flaubert's characters.

Carlotta Carlyle: Book 3

Coyote

by Linda Barnes

When a mysterious woman asks Carlotta to help locate her missing immigration card, it looks to be a pretty straightforward assignment. That is, until the lady disappears, and the card turns up in the possession of another woman...who just happens to be dead. Suddenly the case is far too intriguing for Carlotta to drop-and when her investigation indicates that her client was somehow connected to her inner-city... (more)

Carlotta Carlyle: Book 7

Cold Case

by Linda Barnes

"Cold Case" is the police term for an old, unsolved case. Linda Barnes's private eye, Carlotta Carlyle, finds that it's up to her to discover the connection between an old disappearance and a new riddle. Almost a quarter of a century earlier, fifteen-year-old Thea Janis disappeared after publishing her precociously brilliant debut novel, "Nightmare's Dawn." Now, pages from a new manuscript are appearing,... (more)

Mother of Storms

by John Barnes

In the middle of the Pacific, a gigantic hurricane accidentally triggered by nuclear explosions spawns dozens more in its wake. A world linked by a virtual-reality network experiences the devastation first hand, witnessing the death of civilization as we know it and the violent birth of an emerging global consciousness. Vast in scope, yet intimate in personal detail, Mother of Storms is a visionary fusion of... (more)

Carlotta Carlyle: Book 6

Hardware

by Linda Barnes

In her sixth spellbinding adventure, Carlotta Carlyle, the 6'1" redheaded P.I. from Boston, takes on a case that draws her into the mysterious shadova and of computer technology, where information is cheap, and privacy may be a thing of the past. Part-time cabbie Carlotta is entering the modern age of investigation. With the help of her sometime lover, mafioso, and computer-hobbyist Sam Gianelli, she invests in... (more)

Carlotta Carlyle: Book 2

The Snake Tattoo

by Linda Barnes

Carlotta Carlyle, ex-cop, struggling private eye, and 6'1" of long tall redhead, takes any case that walks through the door. This time the door opens twice. First in is her old partner, Lieutenant Mooney of the Boston police, unfairly charged with brutality, suspended, and desperate. The witness who can clear him is a hooker with a snake tattoo...and she's vanished. The second client is a teenager with a missing... (more)

Carlotta Carlyle: Book 8

Flashpoint

by Linda Barnes

When six-foot redhead ex-cop and Boston-based private investigator Carlotta Carlyle agrees to help an elderly recluse burglar-proof her apartment, the last thing she expected was that the woman would turn up dead. Now Carlotta must find out why the eccentric yet seemingly harmless Valentine Phipps isolated herself—and needed protection. Who would want to hurt Valentine? What was she hiding behind closed doors? Is... (more)

Carlotta Carlyle: Book 1

A Trouble of Fools

by Linda Barnes

The first book in the Carlotta Carlyle series! Linda Barnes’s A Trouble of Fools is the book that introduced readers to ex-Boston cop and PI Carlotta Carlyle, who knows trouble when she sees it like the old Irish lady offering a grand in cash to find her brother... TROUBLE… Since being bounced from the Boston police for insubordination after six years of service, Carlotta Carlyle has set up shop as a... (more)

Carlotta Carlyle: Book 9

The Big Dig

by Linda Barnes

Carlotta Carlyle, the six-foot-tall redheaded private investigator, thought that working undercover searching out fraud on Boston's Big Dig would be a challenging assignment. After all, the Big Dig, the creation of a central artery tunnel running beneath crowded downtown Boston is an engineering marvel, the largest urban construction project in modern history, a fourteen-billion- dollar boondoggle in the eyes of... (more)

Carlotta Carlyle: Book 5

Snapshot

by Linda Barnes

Every Friday a child's snapshot arrives at the Boston office of P.I. Carlotta Carlyle. There's no note. No return address. Just pictures of the child as a newborn, as a toddler, as a preschooler. Maybe Carlotta should have tossed them all in the trash. Maybe then she wouldn't have gotten mixed up again...in murder. Discovering what happened to the child in the photos draws Carlotta into a shattered picture... (more)

Carlotta Carlyle: Book 4

Steel Guitar

by Linda Barnes

They say you meet all kinds when you're driving a hack. That's certainly the case for Boston PI Carlotta Carlyle, who gets an unexpected fare while moonlighting behind the wheel. It's singer Dee Willis, Carlotta's ex-friend and former band mate, who stole Carlotta's man before clawing her way up the charts. Dee's made the leap from Southie's barrooms to the cover of People magazine, but now she's back in... (more)

La Mesa Limon

by Julian Barnes

Entre los chinos, el simbolo de la muerte era el limon. Y en Helsinki, a principios del siglo XX, en un bar frecuentado por Sibelius, los que se sentaban en la mesa limon estaban obligados a hablar de la muerte. En estos cuentos de mediana edad, los protagonistas han envejecido y ya no pueden ignorar que sus vidastendran un final.

My Last Thoughts about Iraq

by Paul Batou

In Baghdad, my memories were sketched in a shadow of pain. Who is going to play the guitar? Who is going to sing? Where am I? Like a migrating bird, will return home. My voice is worn out from calling out for Iraq. Oh, Iraq! Once, you were Sumerian or from Uruk, in an era that knew no history. You were Babylonian in a period that knew no love! Ishtar, your soothing eyes are my harbor, my passport to the haven... (more)

Salthill: A Novel

by Judith Barnes

One evening in 1946, a hungry stranger joins the family at Salthill, a horse ranch in British Columbia. Grey St. Oegger welcomes the young African American, who gives his name as simply Harris, in for a meal. But when he sees Harriss affinity for horses, he extends that welcome indefinitely, offering him a job and a place to live. arris seemingly settles in at Salthill, where Grey breeds and trains horses while... (more)

Una historia del mundo en diez capitulos y medio.Julian. Barnes

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Flaubert's Parrot (Vintage International)

by Julian Barnes

Coyote

by Linda Barnes

Cold Case

by Linda Barnes

Mother of Storms

by John Barnes

Hardware

by Linda Barnes

The Snake Tattoo

by Linda Barnes

Flashpoint

by Linda Barnes

A Trouble of Fools

by Linda Barnes

The Big Dig

by Linda Barnes

Snapshot

by Linda Barnes

Steel Guitar

by Linda Barnes

La Mesa Limon

by Julian Barnes

My Last Thoughts about Iraq

by Paul Batou

Salthill: A Novel

by Judith Barnes

Una historia del mundo en diez capitulos y medio.

by Julian. Barnes