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Zapped

Zapped
by Carol Higgins Clark  Find this book in our catalog.

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"New York Times" bestselling author Carol Higgins Clark is back with a fun, fast-paced mystery set in New York City where newlyweds Regan and Jack Reilly uncover some disturbing facts when they renovate their lower Manhattan apartment. More...

Wit's End

Wit's End
by Karen Joy Fowler  Find this book in our catalog.

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The author of "The Jane Austen Book Club" presents another highly inventive novel--one that ensnares readers in cunning deceptions, challenging them to separate the truth from fiction. More...

Winter Haven

Winter Haven
by Athol Dickson  Find this book in our catalog.

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In this exquisitely-crafted suspense novel, one woman's search for answers into her brother's death opens dark secrets in a town's past--and explores God's response to her questions. More...

The Winding Ways Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel

The Winding Ways Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel
by Jennifer Chiaverini  Find this book in our catalog.

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Chiaverini's bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series continues with "The Winding Ways Quilt," in which the arrival of newcomers to the Circle of Quilters illuminates the power of friendship to navigate life's unexpected pathways. More...

Waterloo Sunset

Waterloo Sunset
by Martin Edwards  Find this book in our catalog.

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A notice announcing that Harry Devlin died suddenly on Midsummers Eve arrives at the office of his law firm one June day. Harry isnt happy to read it especially as Midsummers Eve is less than a week away. His partner Jim Crusoe treats the message as a joke, but Harry isnt so sure.... More...

Three Girls and Their Brother

Three Girls and Their Brother
by Theresa Rebeck  Find this book in our catalog.

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In this sharp-edged drama that unfolds in New York's celebrity fast lane, it takes an awful incident with a famous movie star to blast three famous girls--and their brother--out of their self-destructive spiral. More...

South of Shiloh: A Thriller

South of Shiloh: A Thriller
by Chuck Logan  Find this book in our catalog.

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"South of Shiloh" is a pulse-pounding thriller set in the South and in the seldom seen world of hardcore Civil War reenactors. More...

The Sorrows of an American

The Sorrows of an American
by Siri Hustvedt  Find this book in our catalog.

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"The Sorrows of an American" is a soaring feat of storytelling about the immigrant experience and the ghosts that haunt families from one generation to another. More...

Small Favor

Small Favor
by Jim Butcher  Find this book in our catalog.

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Jim Butcher delivers the new novel in his "New York Times" bestselling Dresden Files series. An old bargain has placed Harry in debt to Mab, monarch of the Winter Court of the Sidhe. She's calling in a small favor he can't refuse--one that will strain his skills and loyalties to their very limits. More...

Seven for a Secret: A John the Lord Chamberlain Mystery

Seven for a Secret: A John the Lord Chamberlain Mystery
by Mary Reed  Find this book in our catalog.

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Who killed the mosaic girl? As Lord Chamberlain, John spends his days counseling Emperor Justinian while passing the small hours of night in conversation with the solemn-eyed little girl depicted in a mosaic on his study wall. He never expected to meet her in a public square or afterwards find her red-dyed corpse in a subterranean cistern.... More...

Sepulchre

Sepulchre
by Kate Mosse  Find this book in our catalog.

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From the author of the "New York Times" bestselling novel "Labyrinth" comes another haunting tale of secrets, murder, and the occult set in both 19th-century and 21st-century France. More...

Searching for Paradise in Parker, PA

Searching for Paradise in Parker, PA
by Kris Radish  Find this book in our catalog.

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From the bestselling author of "The Sunday List of Dreams" comes a poignant, funny, and uplifting novel of a woman at midlife whose search for happiness within her marriage--and within herself--turns a whole town upside down. More...

Lavinia

Lavinia
by Ursula K. Le Guin  Find this book in our catalog.

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In "The Aeneid," Vergil's hero fights to claim the king's daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a this novel set in the half-wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was a muddy village near seven hills. More...

River of Heaven

River of Heaven
by Lee Martin  Find this book in our catalog.

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The highly anticipated new novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Martin tells the story of two brothers, a lifetime of estrangement, and the secret that lies buried between them. More...

The Painter from Shanghai

The Painter from Shanghai
by Jennifer Cody Epstein  Find this book in our catalog.

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Reminiscent of "Memoirs of a Geisha," this novel is a re-imagining of the life of Pan Yuliang and her transformation from prostitute to post-Impressionist. More...

Peace

Peace
by Richard Bausch  Find this book in our catalog.

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Taut and propulsive, "Peace" is a feat of economy, compression, and imagination, an unmistakably contemporary commentary on the corrosiveness of violence and the human cost of war. More...

Orange Mint and Honey

Orange Mint and Honey
by Carleen Brice  Find this book in our catalog.

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This haunting, exquisitely written story about mothers and daughters and the power of healing and forgiveness marks the stunning debut of a new novelist. More...

Olive Kitteridge

Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout  Find this book in our catalog.

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"New York Times" bestselling author Strout binds together 13 rich, luminous narratives through the presence of one larger-than-life, unforgettable character: Olive Kitteridge, who offers profound insights into the human condition. More...

Infected

Infected
by Scott Sigler  Find this book in our catalog.

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The world's most successful podcasting author leaps from Internet sensation to superstar novelist with this no-holds-barred thriller about a bioengineered parasite infecting humanity. More...

The Marvellous Adventure of Cabeza de Vaca: Also Malinche

The Marvellous Adventure of Cabeza de Vaca: Also Malinche
by Haniel Long  Find this book in our catalog.

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In 1528 Cabeza de Vaca led a Spanish expedition to the Americas, where, shipwrecked in the Gulf of Mexico, he traveled for eight years across North America enduring starvation and enslavement until his eventual rescue by Native Americans. Based on historical fact and acting as a celebration of the human spirit and the brotherhood of all men, this touching novella asks such questions as "What is Christian behavior?" and "What are the universal obligations that bind all humanity together?" Though it is considered a spiritual classic, it is also often seen as a seminal work in ecological awareness. A complete description of the slave girl who acted as Cortes's translator while he conquered Mexico is also included in this moving work.

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