Category: Families
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The Ingenue by RACHEL KAPELKE-DALE
From the author of The Ballerinas, comes The Ingenue. When I think of the word ingenue, I think of someone young and naive. That is what you should be thinking when you read this. How young and naive. Saskia Kreis was once a piano prodigy. Now she is coming back to her family home, Elf […]
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The Wilderwomen by Ruth Emmie Lang
This is a YA, magical realism, fantasy story that is a bit of a mystery as well. Nora Wilder is coming unglued. Wandering at night, looking for something, forgetting who she is sometimes. Her two daughters, Zadie, and Finn know something is wrong, but Finn is young and Zadie doesn’t share her concerns about their […]
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NEVER NAME THE DEAD by D.M.ROWELL
Old grudges, tribal traditions, and outside influences collide for a Kiowa woman as forces threaten her family, her tribe, and the land of her ancestors, in this own-voices debut perfect for fans of Winter Counts. Mae is a long way from home. Fresh out of college and making a name for herself in Silicon Valley. […]
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LITTLE EVE by CATRIONA WARD
She’s back! The author who held us all in suspense with The Last House on Needless Street! With another wickedly delightful tale of horror, we could never imagine. I admire that in an author! And she does not disappoint either! “A great day is upon us. He is coming. The world will be washed away.” […]
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THINGS WE DO IN THE DARK by JENNIFER HILLIER
Paris Peralta comes to on the bathroom floor covered in blood and holding a straight razor. Oh, yes, and her thirty-year older husband is dead in the tub. Then the police arrive and she is arrested. Paris knows she didn’t kill her husband, but who did? She isn’t afraid of going to jail, she’s afraid […]
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RIZZOLI & ISLES: LISTEN TO ME by TESS GERRITSEN
Rizzoli and Isles #13 Detective Jane Rizzoli and Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles are investigating the gruesome murder of a nurse, whilst also protecting a young student from a stalker. But immersed in their day jobs, will they lose sight of something sinister happening much closer to home? Jane and Maura are back solving crimes. And […]
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MUDDLED THROUGH by BARBARA ROSS
A Maine Clambake Mystery #10 Mud season takes on a whole new meaning in the coastal town of Busman’s Harbor, Maine, when local business owners sling dirt at one another in a heated feud over a proposed pedestrian mall. Vandalism is one thing, but murder means Julia Snowden of the Snowden Family Clambake steps in […]
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Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
A dazzling novel about a young black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system–the debut of a blazingly original voice that “bursts at the seams of every page and swallows you whole” (Tommy Orange, best-selling author of There There) When I saw that the author wrote this […]
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HELLO JUNE! Spillin’ Tea!
Here it is June already. It hasn’t been the greatest few weeks, has it? Children are being murdered in their classrooms, here in a hospital, and craziness is rampant. I rarely turn on the news anymore. It’s soon primary time so all of the politicians in Oklahoma are bragging about being endorsed by the other […]
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THE ISLAND by ADRIAN McKINTY
From the Best Selling Author of The Chain comes a new and explosive new thriller. The Island grabs your attention on page one and doesn’t let up at all. Heather Baxter is still getting used to being married. A girl from a small island, she moved to Seattle and became a massage therapist. This is […]
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