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BLOOD AND BONE by William Lashner — Kyle Byrne, the illegitimate son of a prominent Philadelphia lawyer, finds himself drifting through a life of slack. With his house in foreclosure and his part-time job lost, he spends his days playing Xbox and his nights in Philly bars, drinking way too much and sleeping with the wrong type of women. Life is, well, actually pretty damn sweet. But when his father’s former law partner is brutally murdered, the cops see Kyle as a possible suspect and start asking uncomfortable questions about his father’s death. And after a strange encounter with one of his father’s former clients, Kyle enters into a search for answers that leads from his father’s past to the highest pinnacles of power — and forces Kyle to lay bare the deceptions and losses in his own life.
THE WOMEN by T.C. Boyle — Architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s life was one long howling struggle against the bonds of convention, whether aesthetic, social, moral or romantic. He never did what was expected and despite the overblown scandals surrounding his amours and very public divorces and the financial disarray that dogged him throughout his career, he never let anything get in the way of his larger-than-life appetites and visions. Wright’s triumphs and defeats were always tied to the women he loved: the Montenegrin beauty Olgivanna Milanoff; the passionate Southern belle Maud Miriam Noel; the spirited Mamah Cheney, tragically killed; and his young first wife, Kitty Tobin.
GERMANIA by Brendan McNally — In their youth, Manni and Franzi, together with their brothers, Ziggy and Sebastian, captured Germany’s collective imagination as vaudeville’s Flying Magical Loerber Brothers. The ensuing years have, however, found them estranged and ensconced in various occupations as the war is drawing near its end and a German surrender is imminent. Now, with the Russian noose tightening around Berlin and the remnants of the Nazi government fleeing north to Flensburg, the Loerber brothers are unexpectedly reunited. As Himmler and Speer vie to become the next Führer, deluded into believing they can strike a bargain with Eisenhower and escape their criminal fates, the Loerbers must employ all their talents — and whatever magic they possess — to rescue themselves and one another.
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