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Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.

Fiction

• Slab Rat
  Author: Heller, Ted
  Publisher: Scribner $ 23 ISBN: 0684864967 Date: 2000
  Kirkus Booklist
  In the pitch-perfect tradition of Nick Hornsby, Christopher Buckley, and Martin Amis comes Ted Heller with a razor-sharp, highly comic novel of ambition, deception and lethal office politics.
  Suggested Reading: Humorous Fiction

Nonfiction

• The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devasting Plague of All Time
  Author: Kelly, John
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 25.95 ISBN: 0060006927 Date: 2005
  Booklist
  Kelly plunges the reader into the world of the Middle Ages, telling an age-old story with an air of immediacy and intimacy never before seen in plague literature, while drawing on the latest research to paint a new picture of the Black Death.
  Updated 3.3.05