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Siracusa

Delia Ephron · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

"Delia Ephron's Siracusa is a stunning portrait of two marriages coming unraveled during the stress of travel abroad. Insightful and engaging. A must-read!" - Sue Grafton, author of X "Siracusa is an Italian aria, a Greek tragedy and a modern American master­piece written...
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The Innocents

Ace Atkins · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 367
Format: Print book

"She was just seventeen, a high school dropout named Milly Jones, found walking down the middle of the highway, engulfed in flames. Even in a tough Mississippi county like Tibbehah, it shatters the community, and it is up to Sheriff Quinn Colson, back on the job after a year away,...
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Champion of the World

Chad Dundas · Putnam
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

In this stunning historical fiction debut set in the world of wrestling in the 1920s, a husband and wife are set adrift in a place where everyone has something to hide and not even the fights can be taken at face value. Late summer, 1921: Disgraced former lightweight champion Pepper Van Dean...
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Prayers the Devil Answers: A Novel

Sharyn McCrumb · Atria Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Sharyn McCrumb, New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Ballad series set in Appalachia, explores the ties between a reluctant female sheriff and a condemned man in this stunning and powerfully written Depression-era novel.Years later, after the tragedy, someone remembered the Dumb...
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The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror

Joyce Carol Oates · Mysterious Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

From one of our most important contemporary writers, The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror is a bold, haunting collection of six stories.In the title story, a young boy becomes obsessed with his cousin's doll after she tragically passes away from leukemia. As he grows older, he begins...
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