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The Days When Birds Come Back

Deborah Reed · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

An emotionally searing novel of second chances from an author whose "gorgeous and wise prose" (Cheryl Strayed) will stay with you long after you're done June is undoubtedly in transition. Reeling from her divorce, trying to stay sober, and faced with a completely stalled...
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Steal Away Home

Billy Coffey · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

Owen Cross grew up with two loves: one a game, the other a girl. One of his loves ruined him. Now he's counting on the other to save him.Owen Cross's father is a hard man, proud in his brokenness, who wants nothing more than for Owen to succeed where he failed. With his innate talents...
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Watch Me: A Gripping Psychological Thriller

Jody Elizabeth Gehrman · St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

"Riveting, chilling, and page-turning. Be prepared to stay up all night." -- New York Times bestselling author Lisa ScottolineFor fans of dark and twisty psychological thrillers, Watch Me is a riveting novel of suspense about how far obsession can go.Kate Youngblood is disappearing....
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A Kind of Freedom: A Novel

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton · Counterpoint
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

"A brilliant mosaic of an African American family and a love song to New Orleans...written with deep insight and devastating honesty but also with grace and beauty." -- Dana Johnson, author of Elsewhere, California Evelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height...
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Beyond the High Blue Air

Lu Spinney · Blackstone Audiobooks
Format: Audio CD

When Lu Spinney's twenty-nine-year-old son, Miles, flies up on his snowboard, "he knows he is not in control as he is taken by force up the ramp," writes his mother, "skewing sideways as his board clips the edge and then he is hurtling, spinning up, up into the free blue...
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Montpelier Parade: A Novel

Karl Geary · Catapult
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Montpelier Parade is just across town, but to Sonny it might as well be a different world. Working with his father in the garden of one of its handsome homes one Saturday, he sees a back door easing open and a beautiful woman coming down the path toward him. This is Vera, the sort of person...
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The Animal Gazer

EDGARDO FRANZOSINI · New Vessel Press
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

A hypnotic novel inspired by the strange and fascinating life of sculptor Rembrandt Bugatti, brother of the fabled automaker. With World War I closing in and the Belle Époque teetering to a close, Bugatti leaves his native Milan for Paris, where he encounters Rodin and casts his bronzes...
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