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Shadow Man
by Alan Drew
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Alan Drew's debut novel, Gardens of Water, was an ambitious work of literary fiction set amid turmoil in Turkey. So what led this critically acclaimed, Iowa Writers'...
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Norah Piehl
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The Night Stalker Killer
California seems to have had more than its fair share of serial killers over the years, and the so-called Night Stalker killer—who shares more than a few parallels with the killer in Shadow Man—is probably one of the more ... Beyond the Book
The Noise of Time
by Julian Barnes
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Confession: I do two terrible – some say unforgivable – things while reading a book. First, I grunt or laugh or moan when things strike me. Second, with pen in hand,...
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Donna Chavez
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The Cult of Personality
Although, historically speaking, the Cult of Personality is not a new concept, modern technology has streamlined the process for creating it. By employing Twentieth Century print and visual media, leaders like Mao, Putin, Kim Jong-il and his son Kim ... Beyond the Book
Smoke
by Dan Vyleta
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In Dan Vyleta's universe, set in an alternate Victorian England, people engaging in sinful thought or behavior are marked by a cloud of dark smoke manifesting their ...
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Lisa Butts
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London Fog
Vyleta's Smoke draws inspiration from the very real issue of smog in Victorian London, the result of fog off the Thames river mixing with smoke from early industrialization and coal-burning fires in homes. This is hinted at when the novel's young ... Beyond the Book
Golden Hill
by Francis Spufford
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Spufford brings American history to raucous life through the story of Mr. Richard Smith, a mysterious British stranger arriving in New York in 1746 to collect a debt owed by a...
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Lisa Butts
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Guy Fawkes Night
In one of the most memorable sequences in Golden Hill, the protagonist, Mr. Smith, attends a Guy Fawkes Night celebration that goes terribly awry after an effigy of the Pope is burned. Smith is taken for Catholic and pursued by an angry drunken mob. ... Beyond the Book
The Almost Sisters
by Joshilyn Jackson
A powerful, emotionally resonant novel of the South.
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The Necklace
by Claire McMillan
For readers of The Nest, the intelligent, intoxicating story of long-simmering family secrets.
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The One-in-a-Million Boy
The story of your life never starts at the beginning. Don't they teach you anything at school?
The incandescent story of a 104-year-old woman and the sweet, strange young ...
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Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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Combining the emotional depth of The Art of Racing in the Rain with the magical spirit of ...
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Sharry Wright
A dazzling novel from bestselling writer Maggie O'Farrell, winner of the Costa Novel Award...
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Kate Braithwaite
Page-Turners to Pack - and to Discuss in Your Book Club!
News of the World
by Paulette Jiles
What an amazing story. Could not put it down! Capt. Jefferson Kyle Kidd takes on a captured 10 year old girl for a most dangerous trip in 1870 through Texas. Could not ...
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Cruel Beautiful World
by Caroline Leavitt
Lucy, 16 and naive, runs away with her High School teacher. Their life together in an isolated, and isolating, rural area is not what Lucy expected.
Lucy is portrayed...
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
by Gail Honeyman
“Even the circus freak side of my face – my damaged half – was better than the alternative, which would have meant death by fire. I didn’t burn to ashes. I emerged from ...
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Lily and the Octopus
by Steven Rowley
It's got an adorable dog. It's got a guy who loves the adorable dog. In addition, he named the dog Lily (as opposed to something like Schnitzel) because he knew the dog...
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House of Names
by Colm Toibin
I tell you this man can take a muddy puddle and make you think it is a fresh spring shower!!
I thought I was done with mythology back in college. I had two literature ...
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Beneath a Marble Sky
by John Shors
John Shors was able to present a history lesson in a way that would make any person want to study the Taj Mahal. I am often surprised when people say they will only read...
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