Rex Stout meets Agatha Christie with a fresh twist in the new Pentecost and Parker Mystery, a delightfully hardboiled high-wire act starring two daring woman sleuths dead set on justice as they...
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Author: Spotswood, StephenSummary:
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Author: Lucas, CassidySummary:
Dani and six friends gather at "Celestial Ranch," eighteen acres of rugged mountainside, where they'll spend three days relaxing. But as the weekend unfolds, old secrets emerge.
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Author: Casey, SusanSummary:
From Susan Casey, bestselling author of The Devil's Teeth, an astonishing book about colossal, ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out. For centuries, mariners have spun...
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Author: Tóibín, ColmSummary:
In Ireland in the early 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one of many who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving behind her family...
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Author: Tóibín, ColmSummary:
Eilis Lacey is unable to find a job in Ireland in the years following World War II. An Irish priest from Brooklyn, New York offers to sponser her to live an work in America, so she decides she...
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Author: Holland, EvaSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2021 BC and Yukon Book Prizes' Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
A personal story about not only facing but conquering fears.In 2015, Eva Holland was forced to...
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Author: Morell, VirginiaSummary:
Noted science writer Virginia Morell explores the frontiers of research on animal cognition and emotion, offering a surprising and moving exploration into the hearts and minds of wild and...
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Author: Lapena, ShariSummary:
Anne and Marco Conti seem to have it all--a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby, Cora. But one night when they are at a dinner party next door, a terrible crime is...
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Author: Katsu, AlmaSummary:
The Hunger is a tense and gripping reimagining of one of America's most fascinating historical moments: the Donner Party with a Walking Dead-style twist. Tamsen Donner must be a witch. That...
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Author: Burrowes, GraceSummary:
If it's not weddings, then hapless widows are expected to attend christenings ... Lady Violet returns with St. Sevier to her family seat, and finds Derwent Hall at sixes and sevens upon the...
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Author: Gray, Shelley ShepardSummary:
Anna, fleeing her abusive boyfriend, runs to an Amish inn. The family lets her stay, dressed in Plain clothing. But the older brother resents the intrusion--for a while. Anna feels she's found a...
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Author: Gray, Shelley ShepardSummary:
For a split second, Katie feels certain she's about to receive everything she's ever wanted... Twenty-year-old Katie Brenneman has always quietly fancied Jonathan Lundy. So when the brokenhearted...
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Author: Isenberg, NancySummary:
The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement. They were alternately known as "waste people," "offals," "rubbish," "lazy lubbers," and "...
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Author: Kirkpatrick, JaneSummary:
So begins this story of one woman's restoration from personal grief to the meaning of community. Based on the life of German-American Emma Wagner Giesy, the only woman sent to the Oregon Territory...
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Author: Wolf, MaryanneSummary:
A developmental psychologist evaluates the ways in which reading and writing have transformed the human brain, in an anecdotal study that reveals the significant changes in evolutionary brain...
Genre: Psychology, Math and science