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  • PARIS IN THE DARK
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    PARIS IN THE DARK
    ROBERT OLEN BUTLER
    A novel of murder and espionage during the First World War: "Rich atmosphere and a propulsive plot...a satisfying, stylish thrill."― The Tampa Bay Times Autumn 1915. World War I is raging across Europe, but Woodrow Wilson has kept Americans out of the trenches—though that hasn't stopped young men and women from crossing the Atlantic to volunteer at the front. Christopher "Kit" ...

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  • THE EMPIRE OF NIGHT
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    THE EMPIRE OF NIGHT
    ROBERT OLEN BUTLER
    "A cracking good spy thriller, with a cast of memorable characters and a terrifically suspenseful plot . . . Butler's elegant writing elevates the book." — Tampa Bay Times   In the first two books of his acclaimed Christopher Marlowe Cobb series, The Hot Country and The Star of Istanbul, Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler captured the hearts of historical crime fiction fa...

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  • A GOOD SCENT FROM A STRANGE MOUNTAIN
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    A GOOD SCENT FROM A STRANGE MOUNTAIN
    ROBERT OLEN BUTLER
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: "Uncannily perceptive stories written by an American from the viewpoint of Vietnamese citizens transplanted to Louisiana" ( People).   A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain is Robert Olen Butler's Pulitzer Prize–winning collection of lyrical and poignant stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its enduring impact on the Vietnamese. Writte...

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  • A SMALL HOTEL
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    A SMALL HOTEL
    ROBERT OLEN BUTLER
    From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author comes this "fascinating . . . intense portrayal of the collapse of a marriage . . . [that] delivers a surprising charge" (Jane Smiley, The Washington Post).   An O, The Oprah Magazine "Summer Reading List" pick   Set in contemporary New Orleans but working its way back in time, A Small Hotel chronicles the relationship between Michael and ...

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  • HELL
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    HELL
    ROBERT OLEN BUTLER
    "A novel that explores the darker side of human nature while making you laugh so hard iced tea almost comes out your nose." — The Tampa Tribune   One of American literature's brightest stars and author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain reimagines the underworld in an uproarious novel. Its main character, Hatcher McCord, is an evening news presen...

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  • FAIR WARNING
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    FAIR WARNING
    ROBERT OLEN BUTLER
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning author's "strange and finally beautiful tale about obsession and modern love" (Beth Kephart, The Baltimore Sun).   Fair Warning is acclaimed novelist Robert Olen Butler's enthralling glimpse into a Manhattan auction house that caters to the shopping pheromones of the rich and powerful.   At age forty, the company's charismatic star employee, Amy Dicke...

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  • MR. SPACEMAN
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    MR. SPACEMAN
    ROBERT OLEN BUTLER
    "A surprisingly sweet and droll first-person account of the vexed attempts of an alien to understand the bafflingly unpredictable human race." — Kirkus Reviews   The Pulitzer Prize–winning author "raises fin de siècle literature to new heights and turns inevitability on its head" in a novel of an alien named Desi ( Publishers Weekly).   For decades, Desi has kept a quiet vigil ...

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  • LATE CITY
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    LATE CITY
    ROBERT OLEN BUTLER
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning author shares an "exceptionally nuanced, tender, funny, tragic, and utterly transfixing portrait" of one man's troubled century ( Booklist, starred review). At 115 years old, former newspaperman Sam Cunningham is also the last surviving veteran of World War I. As he prepares to die in a Chicago nursing home, the results of the 2016 presidential electi...

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  • PERFUME RIVER
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    PERFUME RIVER
    ROBERT OLEN BUTLER
    A powerful novel of a family haunted by the aftershocks of the Vietnam War—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of a A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain.   "You share a war in one way. You pass it on in another." Passionate student activism brought Robert Quinlan together with his future wife during the tumultuous years of the Vietnam War. But since then, the long-married Fl...

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  • THE STAR OF ISTANBUL
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    THE STAR OF ISTANBUL
    ROBERT OLEN BUTLER
    An intrepid reporter boards the Lusitania in a "vivid . . . ripping good" spy thriller from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author ( The Wall Street Journal).   It's 1915, World War I is in full swing, and foreign correspondent Christopher "Kit" Marlowe Cobb is tasked with following a German intellectual and possible secret service agent who's just boarded the British ocean liner Lu...

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  • THE DEEP GREEN SEA
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    THE DEEP GREEN SEA
    ROBERT OLEN BUTLER
    "A wrenching love story" about the relationship between a Vietnam veteran and a woman who was orphaned when Saigon fell, by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author ( Chicago Tribune). This is an incandescent tale of modern love between a Vietnamese woman, orphaned in 1975 when Saigon fell to the Communists, and a Vietnam War veteran, returning from America to seek closure for decades-o...

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  • TABLOID DREAMS
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    TABLOID DREAMS
    ROBERT OLEN BUTLER
    There are a dozen ways the American Dream can go awry in this "unrepeatable . . . tour de force" of short fiction from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author ( The Washington Post Book World).   "[With] touches of Italo Calvino, Roald Dahl, and Gabriel García Márquez" the Pulitzer Prize and National Magazine Award–winning author dazzles with his mastery of the short story and his ab...

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  • THE HOT COUNTRY
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    THE HOT COUNTRY
    ROBERT OLEN BUTLER
    A US war correspondent is plunged into the Mexican civil war in " a whip-smart tale of intrigue and espionage" by the Pulitzer Prize winner (CNN.com).   Undaunted by enemy territory and sweltering heat, American journalist Christopher "Kit" Marlowe Cobb has arrived in Mexico in the spring of 1914. The country is rocked by civil war, the American invasion of Vera Cruz, and the c...

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  • FROM WHERE YOU DREAM
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    FROM WHERE YOU DREAM
    ROBERT OLEN BUTLER
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning author "shares his insights into—and passion for—the creation and experience of fiction with total openness" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).   Robert Olen Butler, author of Perfume River, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, and A Small Hotel, teaches graduate fiction at Florida State University—his version of literary boot camp. In From Where ...

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  • HAD A GOOD TIME
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    HAD A GOOD TIME
    ROBERT OLEN BUTLER
    ”Gloriously imaginative and utterly hypnotizing short stories” inspired by vintage twentieth-century postcards, from a Pulitzer Prize-winning author (Booklist, starred review). For many years, author Robert Olen Butler has collected picture postcards from the early twentieth century—not so much for the pictures on the fronts but for the messages written on the backs, little bit...

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  • THE HEMINGWAY VALISE
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    THE HEMINGWAY VALISE
    ROBERT OLEN BUTLER
    An American spy in Paris solves a legendary mystery as the Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s “thrilling historical series” continues (The Wall Street Journal).   Former Chicago journalist turned globe-trotting spy Christopher Marlowe Cobb has already lived many lives—from London to Mexico to Berlin—when he returns to France in 1922. Where better to work on his novel than among su...

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