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Hap and Leonard: Blood and Lemonade

JOE R LANSDALE · TACHYON PUBNS
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

A new novel celebrating the second season of the Sundance TV Hap and Leonard series starring Michael K. Williams (The Wire) , James Purefoy (The Following) , and Christina Hendricks (Mad Men) .Hap Collins is becoming a man - just not the man he's expected to be. His East Texan childhood...
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Tying the Knot: A Southern Quilting Mystery

Elizabeth Craig · NAL
Format: Print book

Wedding bells are ringing in Dappled Hills, North Carolina. But when the festivities take an unexpected turn, quilter Beatrice Coleman must get crafty and catch a killer wedding crasher....Everyone loves a wedding, and with the sister of Beatrice's beau, Wyatt, about to say "I...
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Ghostly : a collection of ghost stories

Audrey Niffenegger · Scribner
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

Collected and introduced by the bestselling author of The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry - including her own fabulous new illustrations for each piece, and a new story by Niffenegger - this is a unique and haunting anthology of some of the best ghost stories of all time.From...
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Bones & All: A Novel

Camille DeAngelis · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 294
Format: Print book

2015 Alex Award Recipient!Maren Yearly is a young woman who wants the same things we all do. She wants to be someone people admire and respect. She wants to be loved. But her secret, shameful needs have forced her into exile. She hates herself for the bad thing she does, for what it's...
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Finding Sky

Susan O'Brien · Henery Press
Format: Hardcover

AN ENGAGING COZY DEBUT... "Author Susan O'Brien deftly combines motherhood and mayhem in this lively tale of a single mom tracking down a missing teen. Lots of fun!"- Laura Levine, Author of the Jaine Austen Mystery Series Sub-Genre Tags: Humorous Mysteries, Amateur Sleuths,...
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The Ghost Runner: A Makana Mystery

Parker Bilal · Bloomsbury, 2014.
Pages: 413
Format: Print book

It is 2002 and as tanks roll into the West Bank and the reverberations of 9/11 echo across the globe, tensions are running high on Cairo's streets.Private Investigator Makana, in exile from his native Sudan and increasingly haunted by memories of his wife and daughter, is shaken out of his despondency...
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The Teflon Queen 6

Silk White · Good2Go Publishing
Pages: 195
Format: Print book

The Teflon Queen is back But this time she's out of the game. Angela settles down with, Nick a nice gentleman that has no clue about her past. Things in, Angela's life couldn't be better until she gets a visit from, her protege, Ashley informing her that a well known terrorist has stolen...
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The Idol of Mombasa: Vera & Tolliver #2

Annamaria Alfieri · Felony & Mayhem
Pages: 255
Format: Paperback

The British don't belong in Africa. Their skins are too pale, their clothing too heavy and elaborate, their morality all wrong. And yet here they are in 1912 in the British Protectorate of East Africa, tangled in an uneasy peace with the Sultan of Zanzibar.Much of the tangle in this new mystery...
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Lake of Tears: A Claire Watkins Mystery

Mary Logue · Tyrus Books
Pages: 207
Format: Paperback

"Logue writes beautifully about rural Minnesota life while telling a good mystery. For fans of J.A. Jance and Margaret Maron." --Library JournalDeputy Sheriff Claire Watkins has had an easy summer in Fort St. Antoine, Wisconsin; the only problem is that her daughter Meg is leaving...
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Cries from the Static

DARREN SPEEGLE · Raw Dog Screaming Press
Pages: 226
Format: Paperback

This collection of stories winds through the twisting streets of the unconscious mind with the grace and power of an experienced traveler. The exotic sensations of lands beyond dreamscapes and nightmares mingle with the harsh truths of reality in tales unbound by borders or convention.Speegle's...
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Some Other Town: A Novel

Elizabeth Collison · Harper Perennial
Format: Print book

Channeling the emotional intensity of Susan Minot and Amy Bloom—and infused with a witty, dream-like surrealism reminiscent of Margaret Atwood—this mesmerizing debut takes us inside the unsettling world of Margaret Lydia Benning, which turns upside down when she falls in loveand then...
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Murder at the Grand Raj Palace

VASEEM KHAN · Redhook
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

For a century the iconic Grand Raj Palace Hotel has welcomed the world's elite. From film stars to foreign dignitaries, anyone who is anyone stays at the Grand Raj. The last thing the venerable old hotel needs is a murder... When American billionaire Hollis Burbank is found dead - the day after...
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The Semi-Sweet Hereafter

Colette London · Kensington Pub Corp
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

As an authority on all things chocolate, Hayden Mundy Moore is traveling across the pond to lend her expertise to the owner of a posh London "chocolaterie-patisserie. "From coconut truffles to chocolate flapjacks, Hayden s mouthwatering creations quickly impress her client. But her knowledge...
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Nantucket Red Tickets

Steven Axelrod · Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Hardcover

It's Christmas Eve on Nantucket and prominent businessman Jackson Blum is about to live out his own version of A Christmas Carol. No visions, no ghosts-just the exhumed skeleton of his old partner Ted Coddington with a bullet from Blum's Ruger pistol in its skull. Ted was a horribly...
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