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  • FLYING CAN BE FUN
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    FLYING CAN BE FUN
    DICK LOCHER / MICHAEL KILIAN
    The A to Z of flying jargon is the subject of  Flying Can Be Fun,  a humorous look at the world of flight. Award-winning cartoonist Dick Locher has teamed up with award-winning humorist Michael Kilian to create the funniest illustrated dictionary of flight lingo available anywhere. A is for aerial, "that part of the aircraft most frequently broken off during walk-around pre-fli...

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  • THE IRONCLAD ALIBI
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    THE IRONCLAD ALIBI
    MICHAEL KILIAN
    Raines goes behind enemy lines to investigate a Confederate ship in this "colorful and exciting" mystery "that entertains from start to finish" ( Publishers Weekly). It's been years since Harrison Raines set foot in Richmond. Although a proud Virginian, he fled the South before the Civil War, unable to bear the evil of slavery. In 1862, battles rage on all sides of the Confeder...

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  • THE WEEPING WOMAN
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    THE WEEPING WOMAN
    MICHAEL KILIAN
    First in the historical mystery series featuring a sophisticated sleuth in Jazz Age Greenwich Village!   Everyone who's anyone in 1920s New York knows Bedford Green. Once a merciless gossip columnist, he has given up the life of sleaze and secrets and decamped for the Village—to open a gritty little art gallery showcasing the most shocking European artists imaginable.   The gal...

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  • POSTCARD FROM HELL
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    POSTCARD FROM HELL
    MICHAEL KILIAN
    A back-alley murder carries André Derain from the streets of New Orleans to the sun-drenched hell of the Cayman Islands It's quiet in the Garden District, and André Derain can't sleep. After a lifetime as a fashion photographer in New York and the French Quarter, he needs noise, excitement, action—and he's about to get more than he can handle. A call comes in from the New Orlea...

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  • MURDER AT MANASSAS
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    MURDER AT MANASSAS
    MICHAEL KILIAN
    A Southern gambler is on the trail of a coldblooded killer as war breaks out between the States in this "enjoyable and entertaining" debut mystery (Historical Novel Society). It's July 1861, and both the Union and Confederate armies expect to win the war within 24 hours. For Harrison Raines, a southern dandy ensconced in DC society, it's time to choose a side. Though Raines lov...

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  • A SINFUL SAFARI
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    A SINFUL SAFARI
    MICHAEL KILIAN
    Journey from Jazz Age New York to Kenya, with a novel by an author who "successfully combines the genre of historical novel and murder mystery" ( Booklist).   It's a beautiful day in Greenwich Village, and business is booming for art dealer Bedford Green. The former gossip owes it all to his invaluable assistant, Sloane—who then goes and spoils the fun by announcing that she's ...

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  • A GRAVE AT GLORIETA
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    A GRAVE AT GLORIETA
    MICHAEL KILIAN
    A Pinkerton spy solves the murder of a war hero out West, in a mystery filled with "delightful characters [and] much fun" ( Publishers Weekly).   It's 1862, and the Civil War rages. Although the Union has beaten back the Southern armies in the east, the Confederacy is intent on opening new fronts to the west—and perhaps securing British support to widen this ugly conflict into ...

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  • THE UNINVITED COUNTESS
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    THE UNINVITED COUNTESS
    MICHAEL KILIAN
    This murder mystery set amid the social whirl of 1920s Newport "beautifully captures the flavor of the period" ( Rendezvous).   Gossip columnist, gallery owner, amateur sleuth—Bedford Green has been a lot of things, but he's never been respectable. So on a blistering hot afternoon in 1925, the impeccably dressed man-about-town is shocked to receive an invitation from the Vander...

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  • BAD GIRL BLUES
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    BAD GIRL BLUES
    MICHAEL KILIAN
    A former fashion photographer encounters murder and corruption in New Orleans It's too hot to sleep. It's too hot to be up. This is New Orleans in the summer. And as dawn breaks on a sweltering July morning, André Derain awakens to a scream from his courtyard as a man is stabbed just below his window. Acting on impulse, Derain leaps out the window, in the buff, and chases the a...

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  • THE SHILOH SISTERS
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    THE SHILOH SISTERS
    MICHAEL KILIAN
    A Union agent hunts a savage double murderer in the midst of a bloody battle in this "exciting" historical mystery ( Publishers Weekly).   General Grant's army is camped along the Tennessee River, ready to deal a crushing blow to the South. If they are able to capture Corinth, the Confederacy's railways will disintegrate, bringing its army to its knees. But first, Grant must pa...

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  • A KILLING AT BALL'S BLUFF
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    A KILLING AT BALL'S BLUFF
    MICHAEL KILIAN
    "A tightly constructed, well-written, and suspenseful whodunit" starring "a relentless but all-too-human hero" ( Booklist).   The messenger finds Harrison Raines in one of the finest gambling halls in Washington. As usual, Raines is losing. Union intelligence demands his presence immediately—it's a matter that could affect the outcome of the Civil War—but Raines delays. After a...

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  • ANTIETAM ASSASSINS
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    ANTIETAM ASSASSINS
    MICHAEL KILIAN
    A Union spy is pulled out of retirement to find a killer in this "action-packed" historical mystery ( Publishers Weekly).   It's 1862, and as far as Harrison Raines is concerned, the Civil War is finished. Since the First Battle of Bull Run, he has served the Union Army as a spy, crisscrossing the war-torn country and witnessing more death, misery, and carnage than any man shou...

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  • THE VALKYRIE PROJECT
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    THE VALKYRIE PROJECT
    MICHAEL KILIAN
    A doomed journalist travels to Iceland to destroy a Soviet superweapon Halfway between the United States and the Soviet Union, Iceland is one of the most strategic points in the Cold War. And home to a NATO squadron that could wipe Moscow off the map in an instant, it's is about to become the unwitting host for the most daring operation in military history. On the remote coast ...

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  • MAJOR WASHINGTON
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    MAJOR WASHINGTON
    MICHAEL KILIAN
    A historical novel about the Seven Years' War, a conflict that shaped a young George Washington decades before the American Revolution. On May 28, 1754, the colonial militia surrounded a party of French-Canadian soldiers. With 15 minutes of rifle fire, the colonists slaughtered the French, then allowed Indian guides to take the corpses' scalps. Observing this grisly scene was a...

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  • BY ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT
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    BY ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT
    MICHAEL KILIAN
    When an assassin targets the president, an outsider finds evidence of an even deeper conspiracy in this thriller from the author of The Valkyrie Project. The gunman crouches in his crawl space, dreaming of revenge. The United States has turned his homeland into a combat zone, killing his family and ruining his life. Today, vengeance will be had. President Henry Hampton is visit...

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  • NORTHERN EXPOSURE
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    NORTHERN EXPOSURE
    MICHAEL KILIAN
    A diplomat hounded by the KGB and the CIA fights to prevent a Canadian civil war Pulling over on the California highway, 2 men argue with each other in French. They open their car's trunk and haul out 2 victims: a drunk man and a screaming woman. With 2 shotgun blasts, the couple is dead, and the killers drive back to Canada—the country their actions have just pushed to the bri...

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  • DANCE ON A SINKING SHIP
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    DANCE ON A SINKING SHIP
    MICHAEL KILIAN
    A dogged reporter follows Prince Edward and Charles Lindbergh onto a doomed ocean liner in this historical novel with "a full cargo of intrigue" ( Kirkus Reviews). C. Jamieson Spencer is sipping cognac when Paris starts to burn. As Communists and Fascists battle in the streets below his hotel balcony, this world-weary foreign correspondent does not bother taking notes. He's too...

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  • THE BIG SCORE
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    THE BIG SCORE
    MICHAEL KILIAN
    A billionaire's commission draws an architect into a conspiracy of sex, lies, and murder The ship is dead in the water. Its lines are tangled and its sails are slack as it drifts toward the rocky coast. A fisherman spies the vessel and steps aboard, expecting it to be deserted. But there is 1 passenger: a lovely young woman with a rolled-up painting in her hand and 2 bullets in...

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  • THE LAST VIRGINIA GENTLEMAN
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    THE LAST VIRGINIA GENTLEMAN
    MICHAEL KILIAN
    A counterfeit stallion lures a Virginia horseman into a billion-dollar conspiracy Vicky Clay awakes with chills. She's still glowing from her victory in last night's steeplechase—the genteel form of horseracing for which the Virginia gentry lives and dies—but that's not why her skin tingles. She has been poisoned, and within seconds, she's as useless to the world as a thoroughb...

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  • DEEPKILL
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    DEEPKILL
    MICHAEL KILIAN
    After a botched terrorist plot, a coast guard agent uncovers a terrifying threat against America The plan is simple. The moment the Homeland Security adviser reaches the middle of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, a team of suicide bombers will rush his car, killing him and destroying the bridge. But as the plot's mastermind watches from afar, he sees only 2 small explosions. The brid...

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  • BLOOD OF THE CZARS
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    BLOOD OF THE CZARS
    MICHAEL KILIAN
    An actress infiltrates the Soviet Union to avenge the death of an ancestor When the Russian Revolution came to Saint Petersburg, Princess Irina went into hiding. A stunningly beautiful ballerina, she knew she had to escape the Bolsheviks—or else die. With her jewels sewn into her cloak, Irina made a mad dash for the border. But the Cheka caught up with her, stole her jewelry, a...

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  • LOOKER
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    LOOKER
    MICHAEL KILIAN
    After a murder at the Plaza, a society columnist races to save a model's life A daytime fashion show at the Plaza Hotel attracts the most beautiful, cynical, and useless people that New York society has to offer. Swimming among them is A. C. James, who has been making enemies on the Upper East Side ever since trading in his life as a war correspondent to become the most vicious...

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