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So Much Beauty
$17.99
Contemporary songs of great beauty and approachability. Most of the songs are world premiere recordings. This is also the first compact disk recording of Dan Locklair's "In the Almost Evening." Carol Sams wrote her three song cycle for the recording, based upon the poetry of Arthur Mampel. The album was recorded on location in Lagerquist Concert Hall on the campus of Pacific Lutheran University.

Almost Blue (City Lights Italian Voices)
$12.95
Carlo Lucarelli is one of Italy's best crime writers and "Almost Blue" certainly adds to his reputation as a thoughtful and creative author.
The setting for this story is Bologna, a major university center, where a serial killer is at work among the student population. It has taken the Italian police sometime to reach the conclusion that six murders are connected, but the elite forensic science unit that has made the connection is on the scene in the persona of Inspector Grazia Negro. She becomes one of the three narrators of this tale and her own personal/professional stories become part of the telling.

The rest of the story's narration is shared by the serial killer and Simone Martini, a young blind man who lives an isolated world of others' radio/phone conversations and colors that he assigns to their voices. It is Simone who holds the key to the serial killer's identity and it is Simone who eventually becomes the killer's obsession and target.

Lucarelli has created an intense and complex story that grabs the reader after a few pages of adjustment to the tone and organizaton of the book. Highly recommended.

Almost Innocent (Voices of the South)
$17.95
I just loved reading this book. I loaned out my original copy, the person to whom I loaned it to moved away, so of course I bought another. It is one of my favorite books, made me wished I lived in New Orleans. Loved the descriptions of the place and although I am a little younger than the author, can relate to pre-Vatican II memories.

I Can Almost See You
$0.99