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The story keeper

Lisa Wingate · Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Format: eBook

When successful New York editor Jen Gibbs discovers a decaying slush-pile manuscript on her desk, she has no idea that the story of Sarra, a young mixed-race woman trapped in Appalachia at the turn of the twentieth century, will both take her on a journey and change her forever.
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Where Reasons End: A Novel

Yiyun Li · Random House
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

A brilliant writer confronts grief and transforms it into art, in a book of surprising beauty and love. The narrator of Where Reasons End writes, "I had but one delusion, which I held on to with all my willpower: We once gave Nikolai a life of flesh and blood; and I'm doing it over...
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The Sweetheart: A Novel

Angelina Mirabella · Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

In a "powerful tale of a person's capacity for reinvention" (Kirkus Reviews) , a teenage girl from Philadelphia leaves her old life behind to become The Sweetheart, one of America's most infamous female wrestlers.It's 1953 and seventeen-year-old Leonie Putzkammer...
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All for a Song

Allison Pittman · Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

Dorothy Lynn Dunbar has everything she ever wanted her family, her church, her community, and plans to marry the young pastor who took over her late fathers pulpit. Time spent in the woods, lifting her heart and voice in worship accompanied by her brothers old guitar, makes her life complete...
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The Old Deep and Dark: A Jane Lawless Mystery

Ellen Hart · Minotaur Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Renowned theater director Cordelia Thorn is working to restore a historic theater in downtown Minneapolis that she and her actress sister, Octavia, recently bought. Cordelia has a vision for the playhouses future, but the more she learns about the building, the more fascinated she becomes...
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Whiskey and Charlie

Annabel Smith · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 327
Format: Print book

"A sharp, perceptive novel about family and forgiveness, Whiskey & Charlie will stay with me for a very long time." Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train

A captivating debut novel of brothers who have drifted apart and the accident...

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Read and Gone: A Haunted Library Mystery

ALLISON BROOK · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Right in time for the holidays, comes Allison Brook's second Haunted Library mystery, a perfect present for readers of Jenn McKinlay and Leslie Meier.

Seven-million dollars' worth of missing gems bring Carrie Singleton's long-lost and larcenous dad back into her life and it's...
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Murder Once Removed

S. C. Perkins · Minotaur Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

S.C. Perkins' Murder Once Removed is the captivating first mystery in the Ancestry Detective series, in which Texas genealogist Lucy Lancaster deals with murders in both the past and present.

Except for a good taco, genealogist Lucy Lancaster loves nothing more than tracking...

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People of the Morning Star: A Novel of North America's Forgotten Past

Kathleen O'Neal Gear · Tor Books
Pages: 492
Format: Hardcover

Award-winning archaeologists and New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear begin the stunning saga of the North American equivalent of ancient Rome in People of the Morning Star.
The city of Cahokia, at its height,...

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A Book of Bones: A Thriller

John Connolly · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pages: 688
Format: Hardcover

A USA TODAY Bestseller

"Complex, pulse-pounding...Connolly's nuanced characterizations and facility at creating spooky atmospherics make it easy to suspend disbelief about the threat of cosmic horror from other dimensions." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)...
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Wise Men: A Novel

Stuart Nadler · Reagan Arthur Books; First Edition edition
Format: Print book

Almost overnight, Arthur Wise has become one of the wealthiest and most powerful attorneys in America. His first big purchase is a simple beach house in a place called Bluepoint, a town on the far edge of the flexed arm of Cape Cod.It's in Bluepoint, during the summer of 1952, that...
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Maud's Line

Margaret Verble · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 294
Format: Print book

A debut novel chronicling the life and loves of a headstrong, earthy, and magnetic heroine Eastern Oklahoma, 1928. Eighteen-year-old Maud Nail lives with her rogue father and sensitive brother on one of the allotments parceled out by the U.S. Government to the Cherokees when their land...
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Death by Surprise

Carolyn Hart · Seventh Street Books
Format: Paperback

A woman is out to clear her cousin of murder charges after a blackmailer targeting the wealthy Carlisle family turns up dead. K.C. Carlisle and her cousin Kenneth Carlisle both grew up rich. Kenneth is a corporate lawyer in an exclusive Northern California seaside community while K.C. has a storefront...
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I'll Eat When I'm Dead

Barbara Bourland · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover

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Valentine Candy Murder

Leslie Meier · Kensington
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

It's Valentine's Day in Tinker's Cove, Maine, but when it comes to foul play, Pennysaver reporter Lucy Stone can't sugar-coat the truth . . . VALENTINE MURDER Lucy has barely arrived at her first library board meeting when the new librarian is found dead in the basement....
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