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The Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers will battle it out in Super Bowl XLVII on February 3 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans. You couldn’t get a more geographically diverse match-up. Help your patrons get the lay of the land with these description-rich titles.

 Baltimore

• Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman (and subsequent Tess Monaghan titles)
• The Other Wes Moore: The Story of One Name and Two Fates by Wes Moore
• The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

 San Francisco

• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
• The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
• Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin (and subsequent books in the series)
• 1^st to Die by James Patterson (and subsequent Women’s Murder Club titles)
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

New Orleans

• The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke (and subsequent Dave Robicheaux titles)_
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
• The Client by John Grisham
• The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
• Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (and subsequent Vampire Chronicle titles)
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

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