Month: October 2017
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A Weeks Worth of Reading!
From a writer who’s been praised for her intelligence, heart, wit” (Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls),The Ice House follows the beleaguered MacKinnons as they weather the possible loss of the family business, a serious medical diagnosis, and the slings and arrows of familial discord. If you knew the date of your death, how…
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A Dress the Color of the Sky, A Novel by Jennifer Irwin
For too many years, Prudence Aldrich has been numbing the pain in her life with random sexual encounters. Her marriage to cold, self-centered Nick is, not surprisingly, on the rocks. But after several dangerous experiences with strangers, Prudence finally realizes she needs therapy to stop her self-destructive behavior, and so she checks into the Serenity…
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Scion of the Fox (The Realms of Ancient) by S.M. Beiko * RELEASE DAY*
As the winter ice begins to thaw, the fury of a demon builds — all because one girl couldn’t stay dead . . . Roan Harken considers herself a typical high school student — dead parents, an infected eyeball, and living in the house of her estranged, currently comatose grandmother (well, maybe not so typical) — but…
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House Of Shadows by Nicola Cornick
London, 1662: There was something the Winter Queen needed to tell him. She fought for the strength to speak. ‘The crystal mirror is a danger. It must be destroyed – ‘ He replied instantly. ‘It will’. Ashdown, Oxfordshire, present day: Ben Ansell is researching his family tree when he disappears. As his sister Holly begins…
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Little Secrets by Anna Snoekstra
Blurb A town reeling in the wake of tragedy An arsonist is on the loose in Colmstock, Australia, most recently burning down the town’s courthouse and killing a young boy who was trapped inside.. An aspiring journalist desperate for a story The clock is ticking for Rose Blakey. With nothing but rejections from newspapers piling…
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A Plague of Giants by Kevin Hearne (Book One of the Seven Kennings)
In the start of an enchanting new series, the New York Times bestselling author of The Iron Druid Chronicles creates an unforgettable fantasy world . . . one that is forever changed when an army of giants invades. The kingdom’s only hope? The discovery of a form of magic that will call the world’s wondrous beasts to…
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PECAN PIES AND HOMICIDES * A Charmed Pie Shoppe Mystery* by Ellery Adams
Her Charmed Pie Shoppe is open for business, but baker Ella Mae LeFaye is about to discover solving a murder is not as easy as pie… Owning the Charmed Pie Shoppe and serving enchanted treats in the magical town of Havenwood, Georgia, seemed like a little slice of heaven for Ella Mae LeFaye. But now…
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Meet Cozy Author Leslie Budewitz!
Leslie is the author of The Spice Shop Mysteries, set in Seattle’s Pike Place Market as well as the author of The Food Lover’s Village Mysteries featuring Erin Murphy and The Merc in Jewel Bay, Montana. Music and festivals are a big part of my life in Northwest Montana, and I’m…
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THE PRAGUE SONATA BY BRADFORD MORROW (Atlantic Monthly Press)
From the critically acclaimed author Bradford Morrow, a literary quest novel that travels from Nazi-occupied Prague to turn-of-the-millennium New York as a young musicologist seeks to solve the mystery behind an eighteenth-century sonata manuscript Music and war, war and music—these are the twin motifs around which Bradford Morrow, recipient of the Academy Award in Fiction…
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