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End of the Roadie: A Mystery for D. I. Costello

Elizabeth Flynn · Lion Fiction
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Brendan Phelan, rock star, is playing in a stage show that includes guns and whips. As it reaches its climax, a shot rings out - but it's not part of the show. The body of Oliver Joplin, one of the road crew, lies lifeless outside the stage door. Detective Inspector Angela Costello...
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South Pole Station: A Novel

ASHLEY BENITES · Picador
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

DO YOU HAVE DIGESTION PROBLEMS DUE TO STRESS? DO YOU HAVE PROBLEMS WITH AUTHORITY? HOW MANY ALCOHOLIC DRINKS DO YOU CONSUME A WEEK? WOULD YOU RATHER BE A FLORIST OR A TRUCK DRIVER?These are some of the questions that determine if you have what it takes to survive at South Pole Station,...
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The Book of Formation

ROSS SIMONINI · Melville House
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

This debut novel - told in interviews - spans 20 years in the rise and fall of the charismatic leader of a seductive self-help movement.In the 1990s, a talk show host leads the "personality movement," an integrative approach to radical self-transformation. Mayah, the movement's...
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The Fortune Teller: A Novel

GWENDOLYN WOMACK · Picador
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE MEMORY PAINTER COMES A SWEEPING AND SUSPENSEFUL TALE OF ROMANCE, FATE, AND FORTUNE.Semele Cavnow appraises antiquities for an exclusive Manhattan auction house, deciphering ancient texts -- and when she discovers a manuscript written in the time of Cleopatra,...
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Delivering the Truth

Edith Maxwell · Midnight Ink
Pages: 312
Format: Print book

Quaker midwife Rose Carroll hears secrets and keeps confidences as she attends births of the rich and poor alike in an 1888 Massachusetts mill town. When the town's world-famed carriage industry is threatened by the work of an arsonist, and a carriage factory owner's adult son is stabbed...
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Dreamweaver

C S Friedman · Daw Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

When Jessica Drake learned that her DNA didn't match that of her parents, she had no idea that investigating her true heritage would put her family's lives in danger, and ultimately force her to cross into another world.There, in an alternate Earth dominated by individuals with...
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Once Upon a Spine (Bibliophile Series #11)

Kate Carlisle · Berkley Prime Crime
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

In another Bibliophile Mystery by the New York Times bestselling author of Books of a Feather, San Francisco bookbinder Brooklyn Wainwright stumbles through the looking glass in a tale of murder, rare books, and a quest for the perfect pie ... Brooklyn's oh-so-proper future in-laws are traveling...
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Journeyman: A Novel

Marc Bojanowski · Soft Skull Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

From the author of The Dogfighter, hailed by Geoff Dyer as "the most exciting debut ... by an American writer since Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides," comes Journeyman, a tightly wound novel about dwelling, building, belonging, love, and the value of a place to call home. Nolan...
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The Miner's Lady

Tracie Peterson · Bethany House Publishers
Pages: 336
Format: Book

Tracie Peterson Delivers Romance and AdventureWhen Chantel Panetta's younger sister claims to be in love with Orlando Calarco, Chantel knows there is no hope. The Panettas and Calarcos have been sworn enemies for decades, and young love cannot heal the deep wounds between the two iron-mining...
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Trilemma

Jennifer Mortimer · Oceanview Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Maverick executive Lin Mere takes over as CEO for a new telecommunications company trying to compete with the big boys in Wellington, New Zealand.  With the clock ticking, Lin has to give up almost everything to tackle the demands of the job. An Asian-American, Lin has followed her father's...
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First Light

Bill Rancic · Putnam
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A moving story of love, family, and survival against all odds from beloved entrepreneur and reality TV star Bill Rancic. A father from Chicago takes a road trip to the city of Whitehorse, in Yukon Territory, with his wife and son. During the car ride, they reveal to the boy their harrowing...
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Blood, Salt, Water: An Alex Morrow Novel

Denise Mina · Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Pages: 295
Format: Print book

Detective Alex Morrow discovers that the darkest secrets never stay buried as she investigates the criminal underbelly of a seemingly tranquil seaside town.For reasons she can't quite explain, Alex Morrow is addicted to watching surveillance footage of Roxanna Fuentecilla--a gorgeous Spanish...
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Design for Dying: A Lillian Frost & Edith Head Novel

Renee Patrick · Forge
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Los Angeles, 1937. Lillian Frost has traded dreams of stardom for security as a department store salesgirl . . . until she discovers she's a suspect in the murder of her former roommate, Ruby Carroll. Party girl Ruby died wearing a gown she stole from the wardrobe department at Paramount...
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Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood

Nathan Hale · Amulet Books
Pages: 124
Format: Print book

World War I set the tone for the 20th century and introduced a new type of warfare: global, mechanical, and brutal. Nathan Hale has gathered some of the most fascinating true-life tales from the war and given them his inimitable Hazardous Tales twist. Easy to understand, funny, informative,...
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Back in the Saddle

Ruth Logan Herne · Center Point Pub
Pages: 500
Format: Large print book

It s been a long time since Colt Stafford shrugged off his cowboy legacy for shiny Manhattan loafers and a promising career on Wall Street. But when stock market manipulations leave him financially strapped, the oldest son of legendary rancher Sam Stafford decides to return to the sprawling...
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