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Queen of the Oil Club by Anna Rubino is the biography of business woman Wanda Jablonski. It is the first biography of a journalist, publisher, and power broker so influential in the oil world that she was called the mid-wife of OPEC. With her gift for pulling explosive secrets out of otherwise laconic men, Jablonksi challenged the control of the oil titans and became the most powerful woman in this most powerful of industries.

For a great literary mystery set in culture of Ireland, check out the new paperback In The Woods by Tana French, a favorite of Stephanie’s. Her second book, Likeness comes out in July.

Another favorite of Stephanie’s is Craig Johnson. Another Man’s Moccasins creates a fascinating western setting. This Wyoming based mystery features returning character Sheriff Walt Longmire attempting to unravel two murders that connect across 40 years.

As the book jacket explains, David Sedaris is "Mastre of Nothing, at the dead center of his game, proving that when you play with matches, you sometimes light the whole pack on fire." His newest collection, When You Are Engulfed in Flames is, as always, a milk-squirting-out-your-nose delight.

The Edict: A Novel From The Beginnings of Golf, by Bob Cupp. In the middle-ages St. Andrews was famous for its cathedrals and universities and for the game developed out in the linksland by bored shepherds using balls and clubs. This colorful tale is set in 1457, the year parliament banned golf.

Mr. Gatling’s Terrible Marvel, a history biography, by Julia Keller is about the gun that changed everything and the misunderstood genius who invented it.

Basho: The Complete Haiku. For the first time in a single volume collection, the complete haikus by renowned Japanese poet Matsuo Basho.

We think this is so cool. What People Wore When: A Complete Illustrated History of Costume From Ancient Times to the Nineteenth Century for Every Level of Society, by Melissa Leventon. 325 pages with 1,000 full color pictures throughout.

Satan vs. Santa: The Official Compendium of Imaginary Fights, by Jake Kalish. How many times have you gotten into a brawl at the local bar because some idiot next to you kept talking about how Batman could take out Superman?

Why I Came West: A Memoir, by Rick Bass, from the author of The Book Yaak and The Lives of Rocks. Western landscape writing at its best.

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir, by Haruki Murakami, the renowned and prize winning author of many books from Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore to Norwegian Wood. Equal parts training log, travel log and reminiscence; this covers his four month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon.

Inspector Rostnikov returns in Stewart Kaminsky’s People Who Walk in Darkness. After a long absence, Kaminsky’s award winning character is back in a mystery that takes you through Siberia to investigate a murder that takes place at a diamond mine.

The Ghost Train to the Easter Star: 28,000 Miles in Search of the Railway Bizarre, by travel writer Paul Theroux returns 30 years after his classic, The Great Railway Bizarre. Theroux revisits Easter Europe, Central Asia, India, China, Japan and Siberia. His adventure shares with us the extreme and phenomenal geo-political changes that have occurred over the past 30 years and how it has changed the people and places along the railway bizarre.

Now in paperback, national bestseller Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient. Divisadero takes us from San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada’s casinos and eventually to the landscapes of southern France. Lose yourself in contemporary literary fiction at its finest.

Known for her books on Arab-American themes, Crescent, Arabian Jazz and The Language of Baklava, Abu-Jaber makes a departure in her new in paperback Origin, into a whole new world of mystery, alienation and unanswered questions. Lena Dawson is a fingerprint expert in Syracuse, New York, at the time that SIDS is, unaccountably, on the rise. When cribs start showing up in the evidence lab, everyone is uncomfortable, Lena more than anyone. She doesn't believe in coincidence; she thinks that there is a serial baby-killer loose.

Great summer reads from Penguin Classics with the young reader in mind, beautifully packaged for this summer season, include a range of titles from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle and The Call of the Wild by Jack London, to Little Women by Loiusa May Alcott and The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson.

And when you are down, down, down…and in the dark depths of despair, or just need a mid-day giggle break, there is always Roger and Roger Hangs Out, by Jeremy Gerlis, Alan Capel and Tim Cordell. “No words. No worries. No trousers.”