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		<title>8 Sexy, Scandalous Must-Reads</title>
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While not all of the following books are considered pornographic per se, each one on this list launched waves of controversy upon initial release because of its sexual subject matter. But this list isn’t a typical compilation of “banned” or “controversial” books — instead of Henry Miller’s TROPIC OF CANCER, we went for a dirtier, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kick-Ass / Kick-Ass: Creating the Comic, Making the Movie</title>
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Now collected in hardcover, just in time for the feature-film adaptation, KICK-ASS is an adult-oriented comic that lives up to both its title and its hype. In terms of WTF moments and outrageous humor, Mark Millar out-WANTEDs WANTED with this superhero spoof.
The premise is that socially invisible teen Dave Lizewski wonders why no one in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/comics/kick-ass/</link>
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		<title>Fugitive</title>
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Apparently, Phillip Margolin couldn’t make up his mind if FUGITIVE should follow the adventures of a conniving Lothario across two continents, or focus on the legal challenges of defending this same character in a murder trial here in the U.S. So he decided it should be both, and then some. And the result is an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/fugitive/</link>
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		<title>TRAILER PARK &gt;&gt; The Bone Thief</title>
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Who&#8217;s up for a trip to the farm? The Body Farm, that is! On March 23, Jefferson Bass return with THE BONE THIEF, the latest slice of forensic fiction featuring anthropologist/crimebuster Dr. Bill Brockton.
 
Buy it at Amazon.
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		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/news/previews/trailer-park-the-bone-thief/</link>
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		<title>Strange Tales</title>
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A few years after DC Comics invited indie cartoonists to poke fun at its stable of superheroes in BIZARRO COMICS and its sequel, BIZARRO WORLD, Marvel gets into the act with the brilliantly subversive STRANGE TALES. The result is a sure bet for the year&#8217;s most fun comics collection.
Paul Pope&#8217;s Inhumans adventure is continually interrupted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/comics/strange-tales/</link>
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		<title>The Bricklayer</title>
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When you see the names Lee Child and James Patterson being bandied about as blurbs on a book cover, you sort of know what kind of novel it will be: one with a lone hero, like a former government agent who plays by his own rules. It seems to be a subgenre all its own [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/the-bricklayer/</link>
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		<title>PREVIEW &gt;&gt; Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy</title>
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In ALICE IN WONDERLAND AND PHILOSOPHY: CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER, editor Richard Brian Davis examines the compelling issues behind Lewis Carroll&#8217;s classic. It&#8217;s part of the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series, and here&#8217;s the introduction. Read me:  
&#8220;You take the blue pill,&#8221; Morpheus says to Neo in THE MATRIX, &#8220;and the story ends . . [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/news/previews/preview-alice-in-wonderland-and-philosophy/</link>
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		<title>Able One</title>
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We could easily spend this entire page arguing if ABLE ONE, the latest from the ever-reliable Ben Bova, is science fiction or a techno-thriller using slightly extrapolated hardware. It’s a bit of both, actually. But, bottom line: It is one of the most suspenseful, insightful, can’t-put-it-down-for-long novels you are likely to read this year.
A seemingly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/sci-fi/able-one/</link>
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		<title>The Best American Mystery Stories 2009</title>
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THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES 2009 is a pretty solid anthology of short stories, only some of which are true “mystery stories.” The problem with this volume, for readers who actually expect a book with the term “mystery stories” in the title to be comprised entirely of such, is that fewer than half of its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/mystery/the-best-american-mystery-stories-2009/</link>
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		<title>BULLETS, BROADS, BLACKMAIL &amp; BOMBS &gt;&gt; Fixin&#8217;s</title>
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A food motif is what connects the books this week, because what I really love when I go out for dinner is the sight of a fixin&#8217;s bar, which means good eatin&#8217;. No shock, but I&#8217;ve covered all three authors before, today giving us a crime team, a cowboy and, to bring things to a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/crime/bullets-broads-blackmail-bombs-fixins/</link>
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		<title>TRAILER PARK &gt;&gt; Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls</title>
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With PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES being such a monster hit, you knew another installment was inevitable. And so it on March 23, when Quirk Classics unleashes the prequel PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES: DAWN OF THE DREADFULS, by Steve Hockensmith.

Buy it at Amazon.
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		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/news/previews/trailer-park-pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies-dawn-of-the-dreadfuls/</link>
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		<title>DEALGASM &gt;&gt; 3.16.10</title>
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Current great entertainment sales on Amazon for the month of March:
• Select DVD and Blu-ray up to 56% off, through April 5
• 100 MP3 albums for $5 each
• Download Microsoft Office 2010 for free when you buy Office 2007 qualifying products
• Pre-order THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON on DVD and watch it instantly at midnight, March [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/news/dealgasm-3-8-10/</link>
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		<title>Butcher Shop Quartet II</title>
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When Cutting Block Press’ BUTCHER SHOP QUARTET hit the stands in 2005, it was subtitled “Four Bold Tales to Disturb the Adventurous Mind.” Wow. Re-arrange those eight words and a myriad of possible exaggerations leap out at you. (Let’s pause for a moment so I can admit that I’m not slamming this book, because I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/horror/butcher-shop-quartet-ii/</link>
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		<title>Baja Florida</title>
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Bob Morris and his series star, Zack Chasteen, are back in their fifth saltwater-flavored mystery, BAJA FLORIDA. While it breaks no new ground for either Morris or his main character, it is surprisingly as engaging and satisfying as anything you are likely to read this year.
Zack, the former NFL player and short-term ex-con, is slowly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/mystery/baja-florida/</link>
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		<title>TRAILER PARK &gt;&gt; WWE Heroes #1</title>
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If you&#8217;re among those who watch professional wrestling, but wish it were really cartoony, mark your calendar for March 23. That&#8217;s when WWE HEROES #1, Titan Publishing&#8217;s comic book featuring WWE superstars, hits stores. Here&#8217;s your preview.

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		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/news/previews/trailer-park-wwe-heroes-1/</link>
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		<title>BOOK WHORE &gt;&gt; 3.16.10</title>
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She&#8217;s back, pimpin&#8217; out notable new releases to place on your radar!
THE INFORMER by Craig Nova — Berlin in 1930 is a city of dark paranoia and covert power struggles, where violence can erupt at any moment. The Brownshirts dominate the streets, but the Red Front is building its insurgence. Gaelle, a beautiful but desperate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/news/previews/book-whore-3-16-10/</link>
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		<title>Snowbound</title>
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When you write a fictional account of a real event, you better have the facts straight. With SNOWBOUND, Richard S. Wheeler is definitely up for the challenge. The story is based on not only a real person, explorer John Charles Frémont, but one of his darkest episodes in his life. 
That episode can only be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/adventure/snowbound/</link>
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		<title>The Ragged End of Nowhere</title>
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THE RAGGED END OF NOWHERE is basically Las Vegas and the surrounding area, and author Roy Chaney does a workmanlike job of describing the austere beauty of the Nevadan hinterlands around Searchlight and Laughlin, and the garish neon excesses of Vegas itself. 
That workmanlike quality is a slight problem in the first 50 pages or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/the-ragged-end-of-nowhere/</link>
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		<title>Project Superpowers: Chapter One</title>
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To quote a character in Jim Krueger and Alex Ross&#8217; PROJECT SUPERPOWERS: CHAPTER ONE, &#8220;What&#8217;s going on here? What&#8217;s happened?&#8221;  —Rod Lott
Buy it at Amazon.
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		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/comics/project-superpowers-chapter-one/</link>
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		<title>15 Great Books About Bad Movies</title>
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After reading Michael Adams&#8217; recent, yearlong diary of bad-movie-watching, titled SHOWGIRLS, TEEN WOLVES, AND ASTRO ZOMBIES, I found that I enjoyed it, but not quite enough to keep it for posterity&#8217;s sake. My home office has an entire shelf devoted to books on less-than-stellar films that often are more entertaining than watching the flicks they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/features/15-great-books-about-bad-movies/</link>
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		<title>High Soft Lisp</title>
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While technically an anthology of LOVE AND ROCKETS stories, Gilbert Hernandez&#8217;s HIGH SOFT LISP actually adds up to a well-shaped whole, if a bit gelatinous at the seams.
Its primary subject is the smart, sexy Rosalba Martinez, better known as &#8220;Fritz,&#8221; because her father thought she looked like the cartoon character in Nancy. Fritz is many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/comics/high-soft-lisp/</link>
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		<title>Indigo Springs</title>
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A.M. Dellamonica’s INDIGO SPRINGS features a unique approach to how magic works in the contemporary world. There are enchanters, but very few of them, who are able to harness vitagua, a physically viscous blue goo that can be used to create little magical trinkets. 
These trinkets can be frivolous, such as a purse that turns [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/fantasy/indigo-springs/</link>
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		<title>Iorich</title>
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IORICH is the 12th novel in Steven Brust&#8217;s fantasy series starring the ready-with-a-quip assassin Vlad Taltos. The author&#8217;s work is situated on the light and breezy side of fantasy, a sort of comic noir that features lots of killing, magic, ruthless politics and even some gods and demons, but does it in a heavily sarcastic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/fantasy/iorich/</link>
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		<title>Forty-Five</title>
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Since setting up shot across the pond almost 10 years ago, the energetic, London-based Com.X group have been producing fine quality comics in a mostly traditional format. But Andi Ewington’s FORTY-FIVE breaks new ground for this young publishing house, and it has all the makings of a watershed work.
Journalist James Stanley is about to become [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/comics/forty-five/</link>
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		<title>Party Animals: A Hollywood Tale of Sex, Drugs, and Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll Starring the Fabulous Allan Carr</title>
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Looking for juicy, behind-the-scenes dish on the making of GREASE 2? Keep looking, amigo, because you&#8217;re not going to find it in this biography of the late, flamboyant producer Allan Carr. For a book titled PARTY ANIMALS: A HOLLYWOOD TALE OF SEX, DRUGS, AND ROCK &#8216;N&#8217; ROLL STARRING THE FABULOUS ALLAN CARR, it&#8217;s scant on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/entertainment/party-animals/</link>
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		<title>You Can&#8217;t Stop Me</title>
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Max Allan Collins no longer writes CSI tie-in novels. At least not officially. Because YOU CAN&#8217;T STOP ME, written with Matthew Clemens, feels a lot like one. 
Instead of Gil Grissom (who, perhaps not-so-incidentally, gets name-dropped), the hero is J.C. Harrow, a Iowa small-town sheriff who hits the big time when he saves the President [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/you-cant-stop-me/</link>
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		<title>The Information Officer</title>
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Mark Mills came to prominence with AMAGANSETT, a book that won the British Crime Writer Association’s Award for best novel by a debut author. He followed that up with the well-received THE SAVAGE GARDEN, and now, THE INFORMATION OFFICER. The work is primarily set on the island of Malta in World War II, and features [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/the-information-officer/</link>
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		<title>BULLETS, BROADS, BLACKMAIL &amp; BOMBS &gt;&gt; Apocalypse Dudes</title>
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You know what kind of science fiction never disappoints in it sheer dumbness? The post-apocalyptic type, where the world has become a radiated wasteland populated by fearsome characters out to make things right in their own way. So settle back and enjoy three books that define dumb fun &#8230; and reveal what our futures hold. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/sci-fi/bullets-broads-blackmail-bombs-apocalypse-dudes/</link>
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		<title>Going Hollywood</title>
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“One thing all of those authors had in common with each other, but not with me, was that they had led lives that were worth writing about. &#8230; What the hell had I ever done? Nothing. Oh, wait, that’s right, I’d taken my GED test and graduated high school two years early. Wow!”
—Josh Becker, GOING [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/entertainment/going-hollywood/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Always Four O&#8217;Clock / Iron Man</title>
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Stark House Press casts the two novels in IT&#8217;S ALWAYS FOUR O&#8217;CLOCK / IRON MAN under the noir banner. But let me clarify: This is not bang-bang/shoot-&#8217;em-up noir. W.R. Burnett&#8217;s works more fall into the like-minded world of David Goodis and Charles Willeford. 
An introductory essay by David Laurence Wilson gives a history of Burnett [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/crime/its-always-four-oclock-iron-man/</link>
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		<title>Cownt Tales #1</title>
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A comic book about a vampire count? Why not? 
Labeled for &#8220;moo-chure audiences,&#8221; COWNT TALES #1 is just that, in an anthology format, with three stories about The Cownt, all written by Michael May. The first, &#8220;Stake Dinner,&#8221; is an origin tale of how an otherwise unassuming, grass-chomping bovine became a caped bloodsucker. In the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/comics/cownt-tales-1/</link>
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		<title>BOOK WHORE &gt;&gt; 3.9.10</title>
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She&#8217;s back, pimpin&#8217; out notable new releases to place on your radar!
STAR WARS: FATE OF THE JEDI: BACKLASH by Aaron Allston — Repercussions from the dark side’s fatal seduction of Jacen Solo and the mysterious plague of madness afflicting young Jedi continue to wreak havoc galaxy-wide. Having narrowly escaped the deranged Force worshippers known as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/news/previews/book-whore-3-9-10/</link>
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		<title>TRAILER PARK &gt;&gt; Blameless</title>
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For Gail Carriger&#8217;s BLAMELESS, due in September, here&#8217;s a different kind of trailer: one that looks at the creation of the book&#8217;s cover. Even though it focuses on the creative process of graphic design, it still succeeds in whetting the appetite of fans of the series&#8217; first fantasy, SOULLESS.

Buy it at Amazon.
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		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/news/previews/trailer-park-blameless/</link>
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		<title>Horns</title>
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Someday, Joe Hill will figure out how to craft a novel that equals the genius of his short stories. Until then, his full-length books will range between good and really good, perhaps one third act shy of being great. Invest in such hope, because his second novel, HORNS, is better than his first, HEART-SHAPED BOX.
It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/horns/</link>
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		<title>Baseball/Literature/Culture: Essays 2008-2009</title>
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Edited by Ronald E. Kates and Warren Tormey, BASEBALL/LITERATURE/CULTURE: ESSAYS 2008-2009 presents 23 pieces and papers on the sport of baseball, as presented at the 2008 and 2009 Conference on Baseball in Literature and American Culture held at Middle Tennessee State University.
McFarland has been publishing these collections, along with the Cooperstown Symposium papers, for a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/entertainment/baseball-literature-culture/</link>
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		<title>Dark Tower: Fall of Gilead</title>
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I&#8217;m not saying DARK TOWER: FALL OF GILEAD is a bad graphic novel. It&#8217;s just bad for me. Three times I have tried to get into it, and three times I have failed. Then again, I&#8217;m not exactly a DARK TOWER aficionado. Thus far, I&#8217;ve only read the first two novels in Stephen King&#8217;s acclaimed, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/comics/dark-tower-fall-of-gilead/</link>
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		<title>NEWSGASM &gt;&gt; 3.8.10</title>
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All the news that&#8217;s fit to capsulize!
BEST BEFORE &#8230;
St. Martin&#8217;s is giving away six autographed copies of Duane Swierczynski&#8217;s new novel, the time-travel murder-mystery EXPIRATION DATE, plus original illustrations featured in the book by comics artist Laurence Campbell. Enter now at Minotaur Books through April 17. While you&#8217;re there, read the first 50 pages, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/news/newsgasm-3-8-10/</link>
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		<title>Hella Nation: Looking for Happy Meals in Kandahar, Rocking the Side Pipe, Wingnut&#8217;s War Against the Gap, and Other Adventures with the Totally Lost Tribes of America</title>
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In the world of narrative journalism, Evan Wright might place second only to Mike Sager. Wright&#8217;s collection, HELLA NATION: LOOKING FOR HAPPY MEALS IN KANDAHAR, ROCKING THE SIDE PIPE, WINGNUT&#8217;S WAR AGAINST THE GAP, AND OTHER ADVENTURES WITH THE TOTALLY LOST TRIBES OF AMERICA, has the same undeniable, voyeuristic appeal as Sager&#8217;s.
Perhaps best known for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/non-fiction/hella-nation/</link>
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		<title>Hell Hollow</title>
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Dammit, I know you get tired of reading reviews of new horror books that whine about how much they remind the reviewer of one or more old books (or old movies, or TV shows, or issues of FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND magazine, or whatever it is that the reviewer is familiar with from decades of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/horror/hell-hollow/</link>
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		<title>Who won ANGELOLOGY?</title>
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In ANGELOLOGY, her fiction debut, Danielle Trussoni delivers an epic about an ancient clash reignited in our time, between a hidden society and heaven&#8217;s darkest creatures. It blends biblical lore, the myth of Orpheus and the Miltonic visions of PARADISE LOST into a tale of ordinary people engaged in a battle that will determine the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/news/contests/who-won-angelology/</link>
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		<title>Darkness on the Edge of Town</title>
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Prolific and inventive horror author Brian Keene’s DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN shares the same basic premise as UNDER THE DOME by Stephen King, to whom Keene is often — and justifiably — compared. Don’t avoid it just because of this coincidence. If you do, you’ll miss out on Keene’s creative spin on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/horror/darkness-on-the-edge-of-town/</link>
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		<title>The Bad Book Affair</title>
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I think any writer who desires to create a series character who will be defined and remembered by his quirks should read the first 16 pages of Ian Sansom’s THE BAD BOOK AFFAIR. That’s all it takes for the author to show off the inimitable Israel Armstrong, “Tumdrum’s and possibly Ireland’s only English Jewish vegetarian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/mystery/the-bad-book-affair/</link>
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		<title>Push</title>
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PUSH, the movie, was actually fairly gripping and stylish, if a little too long. The same can be said for PUSH, the graphic-novel prequel written by Adam Freeman and Marc Bernardin.
Through six chapters (read: issues), it tells the story of the Division, that super-secret bureau of the U.S. government whose agent possess mutant powers, such [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/comics/push/</link>
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		<title>Long Time Coming</title>
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Robert Goddard writes the kind of mysteries and thrillers you can get lost in. Seriously! His novels are often so full of plot twists, interconnected events and characters that you literally risk getting lost. But just as often, you’ll find it worth the effort for the rewards offered.
LONG TIME COMING is a perfect case in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/mystery/long-time-coming/</link>
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		<title>BULLETS, BROADS, BLACKMAIL &amp; BOMBS &gt;&gt; Hitting The Cycle</title>
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Search this site and you&#8217;ll find we are big fans of F. Paul Wilson, for his short stories, standalone novels and his-soon-to-be-finishing Repairman Jack series. But there is a set of books on my shelf which I&#8217;ve been staring at for close to three years. I&#8217;m referring to &#8220;The Adversary Cycle,&#8221; which starts off with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/horror/bullets-broads-blackmail-bombs-hitting-the-cycle/</link>
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		<title>Bible Black</title>
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Offering &#8220;horrifying tales and visions of madness, death, love and God,&#8221; J. Morvay&#8217;s BIBLE BLACK is a horror anthology semi-disguised as a graphic novel. I can recommend it for fans of both, with one dire warning: Clearly, it&#8217;s not for the easily offended. Really, really not.
This is evident from the start, with a take-it-or-leave-it quasi-poem [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/comics/bible-black/</link>
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		<title>Tails of Wonder and Imagination</title>
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TAILS OF WONDER AND IMAGINATION is a selection of science-fiction, fantasy and horror stories relating to a somewhat unexpected theme: cats. Edited by Ellen Datlow, it is another collection in a wave recently published by Night Shade books, falling in among THE LIVING DEAD and BY BLOOD WE LIVE. 
While I would never consider myself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Psycho File: A Comprehensive Guide to Hitchcock&#8217;s Classic Shocker</title>
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Two books on Alfred Hitchcock&#8217;s PSYCHO were released recently. One is THE MOMENT OF PSYCHO: HOW ALFRED HITCHCOCK TAUGHT AMERICA TO LOVE MURDER, by the renowned film critic David Thomson. The other is THE PSYCHO FILE: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO HITCHCOCK&#8217;S CLASSIC SHOCKER, by the comparatively unknown Joseph W. Smith III.
Smith&#8217;s will cost you nearly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SERIOUS ISSUES &gt;&gt; 3.2.10</title>
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Scouring out the weekly singles scene &#8230; in comics!
MCSWEENEY&#8217;S recently did an entire issue in the form of a Sunday newspaper. The good news: They&#8217;ve now released THE SAN FRANCISCO PANORAMA COMICS section on its own. The tabloid-sized section will set you back $7, but it&#8217;s full of terrific, esoteric strips from indie artists and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/comics/serious-issues-3-2-10/</link>
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She&#8217;s back, pimpin&#8217; out notable new releases to place on your radar!
SPELLWRIGHT by Blake Charlton — Nicodemus is a young, gifted wizard with a problem. Magic in his world requires the caster to create spells by writing out the text &#8230; but he has always been dyslexic, and thus has trouble casting even the simplest [...]]]></description>
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