NEW FICTION
Once again my critera for this list was attention-getting titles. This time around, I disqualified mysteries:
Christopher Buckley's Florence of Arabia--US government employee Florence Farfaletti implements a plan to free the oppressed, apt-to-be-executed-over-(to our eyes)trivia women of fictional Middle East country Wasabia
Matthew Carnahan's Serpent Girl--small-time-circus "Freaks" search for a payroll thief who, in turn, is looking for his traitorous caper-sharing buddies who have dumped him in the desert
Peter Craig's Hot Plastic--grifter father-son team add a teenage girl to their scams as they travel across the US in the 1980's
Gideon Defoe's Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists--pirates board Charles Darwin's ship, The Beagle, and then join him on a rescue mission to save Darwin's brother from the "evil bishop of Oxford"
Anita Desai's Zigzag Way--an American at loose ends while his girlfriend works on field observations investigates his grandfather's past history in Mexico
Julian Fellowes' Snobs--"Wodehouse-like" tale of middle-class social-climber Edith Lavery's attempt by marriage to an Earl to achieve acceptance by upper-crust Londoners in the 1990's
Helen Fielding's Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination--reporter Olivia Joules stumbles onto a possible terrorist plot and is recruited by MI6 as a spy
Clare Morrall's Astonishing Splashes of Color--Kitty Wellington's life has unraveled following a miscarriage; separation from her equally-disfunctional husband, the "ability" to see people's auras, and a misconceived kidnapping ensue (2003 Booker Prize Finalist)
Christopher Moore's The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror--the accidental murder of a man dressed like Santa is witnessed by a young boy whose prayer for help brings Archangel Raziel to the small California town to make things right
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough's Cleopatra 7.2--an experiment involving "blending" of DNA from a modern person with that of a person from the past (here, Cleopatra), results in two Cleopatras and their archaeologist DNA contributors and their problems with government regulations, kidnappers, and plots to restore Egypt to its past glory (sequel to 2002's Channeling Cleopatra)
Sarah Stonich's The Ice Chorus--Canadian filmmaker goes to live in rural Ireland after her marriage breaks up, documenting the local inhabitants' stories while waiting for her former lover, an artist, to appear
Christopher Buckley's Florence of Arabia--US government employee Florence Farfaletti implements a plan to free the oppressed, apt-to-be-executed-over-(to our eyes)trivia women of fictional Middle East country Wasabia
Matthew Carnahan's Serpent Girl--small-time-circus "Freaks" search for a payroll thief who, in turn, is looking for his traitorous caper-sharing buddies who have dumped him in the desert
Peter Craig's Hot Plastic--grifter father-son team add a teenage girl to their scams as they travel across the US in the 1980's
Gideon Defoe's Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists--pirates board Charles Darwin's ship, The Beagle, and then join him on a rescue mission to save Darwin's brother from the "evil bishop of Oxford"
Anita Desai's Zigzag Way--an American at loose ends while his girlfriend works on field observations investigates his grandfather's past history in Mexico
Julian Fellowes' Snobs--"Wodehouse-like" tale of middle-class social-climber Edith Lavery's attempt by marriage to an Earl to achieve acceptance by upper-crust Londoners in the 1990's
Helen Fielding's Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination--reporter Olivia Joules stumbles onto a possible terrorist plot and is recruited by MI6 as a spy
Clare Morrall's Astonishing Splashes of Color--Kitty Wellington's life has unraveled following a miscarriage; separation from her equally-disfunctional husband, the "ability" to see people's auras, and a misconceived kidnapping ensue (2003 Booker Prize Finalist)
Christopher Moore's The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror--the accidental murder of a man dressed like Santa is witnessed by a young boy whose prayer for help brings Archangel Raziel to the small California town to make things right
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough's Cleopatra 7.2--an experiment involving "blending" of DNA from a modern person with that of a person from the past (here, Cleopatra), results in two Cleopatras and their archaeologist DNA contributors and their problems with government regulations, kidnappers, and plots to restore Egypt to its past glory (sequel to 2002's Channeling Cleopatra)
Sarah Stonich's The Ice Chorus--Canadian filmmaker goes to live in rural Ireland after her marriage breaks up, documenting the local inhabitants' stories while waiting for her former lover, an artist, to appear
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