Jane Langton, Author Viking Books $19 (384p) ISBN 978-0-670-84260-5
Liberally laced with wry Yankee humor, Langton's eighth Homer Kelly mystery, after The Dante Game , chides the American propensity to glorify the new while destroying the old. Few people in Concord, Mass., seem concerned when residents of Pond View...
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Jane Langton, Author Viking Books $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-88210-6
In her 14th Homer Kelly mystery (after The Face on the Wall), Langton's sparkling prose and inimitable wit offer a delectable feast for the discriminating reader. Homer, a policeman-turned-scholar, and his professor wife, Mary, have ventured to...
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Jane Langton, Author Viking Books $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-89462-8
Despite an annoying hero who should have grown up by the 15th book in a popular and long-running series (The Dante Game; etc.), Langton delivers another solid effort. As Charlottesville, Va., prepares for a presidential visit celebrating the...
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Jane Langton, Author HarperCollins Publishers $15.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-028437-4
""If my great-grandmother Ola hadn't died, I might never have known her,"" begins 10-year-old Josie in this sketchy novel about her pilgrimage into the Ozarks to attend Ola's memorial service. During Josie's journey, Stone (Girl on the Bluff)...
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Jane Langton, Author Viking Books $21.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-670-87674-7
Langton's impish sense of humor enlivens this latest in her deftly illustrated Homer Kelly series (Dead as a Dodo, 1996), which is further enriched by modern parallels to ancient folk tales. Homer, a retired Massachusetts detective, and his sensible
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Jane Langton, Author Viking Books $19.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-670-84710-5
As this enormously appealing tale winds its way through the byzantine complexities of town and gown, smug Harvard professor and former detective Homer Kelly, in his 11th appearance (after Divine Inspiration), figures out whodunit well after his wife,
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Jane Langton, Author Penguin Books $49.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-778904-4
Another civilized mystery from Langton, elegantly constructed around a literary scavenger hunt taking place in passionate, sun-drenched Florence, Italy. Viking will publish Langton's God in Concord in June. (June)
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Jane Langton, Author . Viking $22.95 (242p) ISBN 978-0-670-03067-5
Relying on the illusory art of Dutch printmaker M.C. Escher as a binding device and a source of clues, Langton's 16th offbeat Homer Kelly book follows crystallographer Leonard Sheldrake as he pursues the enigmatic Frieda, who disappears after...
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Jane Langton, Author Viking Books $6.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-670-83439-6
In another of her civilized, literary mysteries, Langton ( Emily Dickinson Is Dead ) sends professor Homer Kelly, previously at work in New England academic and historical settings, to teach at an American school in a crumbling villa in Florence,...
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Jane Langton, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-312-33865-7
This agreeably malevolent book has a goodly number of its scenes set in the Old West Church of Nashoba, where far too many of the seemingly virtuous and righteous villagers have murder on their minds. The interplay of the pious teachings from the...
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Jane Langton, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (353p) ISBN 978-0-312-01479-7
Within the palatial walls of Boston's Gardner Museum, paintings by Botticelli and Titian shed artistic light on a hodgepodge of lesser collectibles, all forever fixed in place as decreed by the inflexible terms of Isabella Stewart Gardner's will,...
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Jane Langton, Author Viking Books $21.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-670-86221-4
Unbridled egos. Ruthless ambition. Uncontrollable lust. Rage. Brutality. Murder. An evening with the NYPD? No, it's just the usual scholars assembling for the beginning of their academic year at England's stately Oxford University. Visiting Harvard...
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Jane Langton, Author Penguin Books $6.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-14-016594-4
Liberally laced with wry Yankee humor, Langton's eighth Homer Kelly mystery chides America's throwaway society with a tale of mysterious deaths occuring near Walden Pond and the municipal dump in Concord, Mass. Illustrations. (May)
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Jane Langton, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $24.95 (295p) ISBN 978-0-312-30195-8
At the start of Langton's 18th Homer Kelly mystery (after 2003's The Deserter
), the Harvard professor and sometime sleuth resolves to spice up Steeplechase
, the book about Massachusetts churches he's writing, with a scandal. To that...
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Jane Langton, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/ Dunne $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-30186-6
Civil War buffs will especially appreciate Langton's 17th Homer Kelly mystery (after 2002's The Escher Twist), in which the Harvard professor/sleuth and his wife, Mary, plunge into research in an effort to exonerate Seth Morgan, Mary's...
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Jane Langton, Author, Alse Plume, Author, Alice Plume, Translator Hyperion Books $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-1-56282-178-4
Everyone thinks Ivan the Fool, the youngest of a wealthy merchant's three sons, is too preoccupied with such questions as whether the world is round or flat to be trusted with a sailing expedition of his own. But Ivan protests and is given a boat...
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Jane Langton, Author, Alse Plume, Author, Alice Plume, Translator Hyperion Books $5.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56282-681-9
``Richly patterned illustrations,'' ``fairy-tale vocabulary'' and ``graceful prose'' distinguish this retelling of a classic Russian folktale, said PW . Ages 5-9. (Apr.)
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Jane Langton, Author, Ilse Plume, Illustrator , illus. by Ilse Plume. Godine $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56792-320-9
With a smooth storyteller's pacing and an eye for kid-friendly detail, Langton (The Fledgling
) retells the legend of how Saint Francis of Assisi used kindness to negotiate peace between the people of Gubbio and the wolf that was terrorizing...
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