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Agnes Canon's War
by Lincoln, DeborahAgnes Canon is tired of being a spectator in life, a small-town schoolmarm and an invisible daughter among seven sisters, meat for the marriage market. The rivers of her Pennsylvania countryside flow west, and she yearns to flow with them, explore new lands, know the independence that is the usual sphere of men...
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Behind Every Door
by Graham, Cynthia A.When a school secretary is found murdered alongside a ditch outside of Cherokee Crossing, Arkansas, none of the usual scenarios seem to fit. Hick Blackburn, a sheriff more interested in finding justice than keeping peace, is compelled to construct the last months of her life to unearth what may have led to her death...
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Below the Surface
by Graham, Cynthia A.Hick Blackburn is falling apart. Last year, the world had been full of hope and promise. after solving a murder and corruption case in nearby Broken Creek, attorney Carol Quinn's uncle, the head of the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department, had offered both Hick and Carol jobs in DC. Hick had a wife, two boys, and a baby on the way. Now, everything is different...
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Beneath Still Waters
by Graham, Cynthia A.The swamps and bayous around Cherokee Crossing, Arkansas have always been dark and mysterious, but on this summer day two boys stumble across the remains of a baby girl, headless and badly decomposed. Hick Blackburn, a reluctant sheriff with a troubled past is called to the scene...
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Between the Lies
by Graham, Cynthia A.96Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEWhen the corrupt sheriff of Broken Creek, Arkansas detains a young black boy on charges of accidental homicide, his sister asks Hick Blackburn, Sheriff of Cherokee Crossing, to investigate. Hick is reluctant at first...
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The Bricklayer of Albany Park
by Malik, Terry JohnIBPA-Benjamin Franklin Award, Gold Medal; MIPA-Midwest Publishers Association Award, Finalist; Great Midwest Book Festival, First Runner UpDoes it take a monster to catch a monster?As a student, Francis Vincenti asked his mentor, former Chicago PD detective Thomas Aquinas Foster, if it took a monster to catch a monster...
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Broken Homes & Gardens
by Kelley, RebeccaA girl, a guy, a broken-down house. Not exactly on-again, off-again, Malcolm and Joanna are in-again, out-again: in love, out of each other's arms, in an awkward co-living arrangement, out of the country. Their unconventional relationship is the only way, Joanna says, to protect herself from the specter of commitment, which inevitably leads to heartbreak...
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
by Martin, JackWhen President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s life is threatened, FBI Director Hoover has no choice but to dispatch Agent Harry Bierce, the one man he can trust to stop an assassination. Problem is, Bierce is no ordinary agent. With no verifiable history, Hoover has no way to control him or his methods...
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A Bullet Apiece
by Ryan, John JosephAll is not well in post-World War II St. Louis, and private eye Ed Darvis, a man pegged as liking justice too much, discovers there’s a fine line between solving a crime and being an accomplice.Ed Darvis, a St. Louis private eye, is pegged as a man who “likes justice too much.” Maybe that’s why business is slow; turns out not everyone in St. Louis is looking for justice...
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The Christos Mosaic
by Czyz, VincentA #1 BESTSELLER IN KINDLE HISTORICAL THRILLERSAncient scrolls hold the key to the origins of Christianity—but some will stop at nothing to hide the truthA suspicious death in Istanbul leaves one ancient scroll and clues to finding another in the hands of Drew Korchula, a thirty-two-year-old American expat, a Turkish dwarf named Kadir, and Zafer, a Special Forces washout...
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Graveyard of the Gods
by Newman, RichardAlthough the extra cash helps keep him solvent, hog farmer Gene Barnes isn’t proud of his role in disposing of the occasional body for an old Marine buddy mixed up with who knows what. Gene definitely doesn’t want to know and has been warned not to ask. That is, until he recognizes one of the bodies he’s about to feed to the hogs...
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The Hemingway Files
by Bush, H. K.The allure of literary letters and rare first editions captures the imaginations of three professors of English literature and leads to tragedy in the wake of the Great Kobe Earthquake of 1995.An English professor receives a mysterious package with several smaller packages within it, including a manuscript, from a recently deceased former student...
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I am Mrs. Jesse James
by Wahler, PatA penny for a promise will change her life forever.For Jesse James, the war will never be over. For Zee Mimms, the war is only the beginning.The long, bloody Civil War is finally at an end when Zee Mimms, the dutiful daughter of a Missouri preacher, is tasked with nursing her cousin, Jesse James, back to health after he suffers a near-fatal wound...
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The Ice Queen
by Macbain, BruceIn this second volume of his saga, Odd Tangle-Hair travels to Russia to take up his post as skald to Harald, the young renegade prince of Norway. Intrigue and danger await him when Odd finds himself ‘caught between two wolves’—the arrogant, bullying Harald and his sworn enemy, Ingigerd, Grand Princess of Novgorod, who schemes against Harald by seducing Odd...
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The Language of Trees
by Wiegenstein, SteveThe inhabitants of Daybreak, a quiet 19th-century utopian community, are courted by a powerful lumber and mining trust and must search their souls as the lure of sudden wealth tests ideals that to some now seem antique. And the courtship isn't just financial...
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The Lazarus Vector
by Obey, EricaWhen Professor Clare Malley, a medievalist teaching at a Catholic university in New York City, is asked to discover why sixteen-year-old Jonas Crosswell did not die in a drug-related shoot-out at a neighborhood church, the last thing she expects is a modern-day miracle...
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The Light from the Dark Side of the Moon
by Gautreau, Norman G.A remembrance of love in a time of war.
92-year-old Henry Budge defies most of his family by escaping a rehab hospital to make his way to France for the ceremonies of the 70th observance of D-Day...
Looking for Garbo
by Miller, Jon James"Blending hard-boiled noir and romance into a compelling historical tale, Looking for Garbo is filled with heart and action." ~ Foreword ReviewsJames Main has a film to make.Seth Moseley has a story to tell.Neither have any idea how looking for Garbo would change their lives...
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Madagascar
by Holgate, StephenAn American diplomat--reformed alcoholic, unreformed gambler, and inveterate smart-ass-- finds himself under threat of disgrace and murder even as he seeks love and redemption on the strange and spirit-ridden island of Madagascar. Author Steve Holgate brings the mystery and mysticism of Madagascar to life in his haunting and exciting second novel.
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A Matter of Mercy
by Hugo, LynneCaroline Marcum thought she'd escaped the great mistake of her life by leaving Wellfleet harbor, but is forced to face it when she returns, reluctantly, to care for her dying mother. Ridley Neal put his past-and his prison term-behind him to return home to take over his father's oyster and clam beds...
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The Moment Before
by Makansi, JasonAmerica’s global ambitions are reduced to one father, his daughter, and the two men who seek to reunite them. The unflinching story of an American-Arab’s life in limbo. Tricked by the two people closest to him, Elias Haddad leaves his beloved daughter Cheryl Halia for what he believes is a short trip home to Syria to visit his dying father...
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Most Improved Sophomore
by Killeen, KevinLove, death, sex, homework—it's all part of the same problem when you're sixteen.Tony Vivamano steps out of the shower—steaming hot naked—and tries to eat a roast beef sandwich while he shaves and admires his muscles. It's clear to him that he is a millionaire in biological gold and he should be prepared to share his riches...
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Nemesis
by Yogerst, JoeForget Deadwood, Dodge, and Tombstone, the biggest, baddest boomtown of the 1880s was San Diego, California. The attraction wasn’t gold or silver but cheap land, the promise of an oceanfront paradise where it never snows and rarely rains, and the too-good-to-be-true deals offered by local real estate merchants...
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Nemesis
by Yogerst, JoeForget Deadwood, Dodge, and Tombstone, the biggest, baddest boomtown of the 1880s was San Diego, California. The attraction wasn’t gold or silver but cheap land, the promise of an oceanfront paradise where it never snows and rarely rains, and the too-good-to-be-true deals offered by local real estate merchants...
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Never Hug a Nun
by Killeen, KevinKevin Killeen's debut novel, winner of a Silver Benjamin Franklin award from the Independent Book Publishers Association, is written with a keen sense of comic timing, and is a sweet, laugh-out-loud look at the innocence of childhood in the leafy Webster Groves suburbs of 1960s Saint Louis...
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Odin's Child
by Macbain, BruceAn old grudge erupts into violence as Odd Tangle-Hair refuses to back down from the men he believes shamed his father and betrayed their heritage by turning away from the old gods in favor of the White Christ. But when the violence escalates and Odd's family bears the brunt of it, he must leave his beloved Iceland behind and find his own way in the world...
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Oracles of Delphi
by Savage, MarieAll Althaia wants on her trip to Delphi is to fulfill her father's last wish and enjoy time away from her tiresome new husband. Finding the body of a young woman on the altar of Dionysos in the theater of the Sacred Precinct on her first day in town is not in her plans...
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Purchase
by Doyle, ChristopherO, what will a man give in exchange for his soul?An unlikely friendship between a black fugitive from the law and a white fugitive from an abusive home changes their lives, their fortunes, and the foundations of country music. When Isaiah and A.D...
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Red Sun Rogue
by Zajonc, TaylorAn unknown enemy wreaks havoc in the South China Sea while blaming the destruction on Jonah Blackwell and the crew of the Scorpion, forcing them to untangle a deadly conspiracy rooted in a lost technology from World War II...
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Royal Beauty Bright
by Byrnes, RyanAfter an autistic man ends up in the trenches of World War I, a nun-turned-journalist dances with treason to care for him, and a candy store clerk posing as Santa Claus risks everything to bring him home. Luther Baker is a kind-hearted autistic man with a savant’s knack for making chocolate truffles...
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Slant of Light
by Wiegenstein, SteveSet during the brink of the Civil War, this beautifully written novel traces James Turner, a charming, impulsive writer and lecturer; Charlotte, his down-to-earth bride; and Cabot, an idealistic Harvard-educated abolitionist as they are drawn together in a social experiment deep in the Missouri Ozarks...
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Snow Globes and Hand Grenades
by Killeen, KevinEight long years of grade school and nuns is about to end in freedom. Graduation! But only if Mimi Maloney and her classmates Patrick and Tony can outsmart investigators who suspect, and rightly so, they’re guilty of the worst crime ever in parish history...
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- Agnes Canon's War
- B
- Behind Every Door
- Below the Surface
- Beneath Still Waters
- Between the Lies
- Bricklayer of Albany Park, The
- Broken Homes & Gardens
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
- Bullet Apiece, A
- C
- Christos Mosaic, The
- G
- Graveyard of the Gods
- H
- Hemingway Files, The
- I
- I am Mrs. Jesse James
- Ice Queen, The
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- Language of Trees, The
- Lazarus Vector, The
- Light from the Dark Side of the Moon, The
- Looking for Garbo
- M
- Madagascar
- Matter of Mercy, A
- Moment Before, The
- Most Improved Sophomore
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- Nemesis
- Nemesis
- Never Hug a Nun
- O
- Odin's Child
- Oracles of Delphi
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- Purchase
- R
- Red Sun Rogue
- Royal Beauty Bright
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- Slant of Light
- Snow Globes and Hand Grenades
- Son of the Sea, Daughter of the Sun
- Song of Songs
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- Tangier
- This Old World
- Try to Kiss a Girl
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- Varangian, The
- W
- Windigo Moon
- Wrecking Crew, The
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