True crime journalist Bradley Ellison has come to the forgotten Tennessee town of Three Summers in a last-ditch effort to save his faltering career, writi...Show more
True crime journalist Bradley Ellison has come to the forgotten Tennessee town of Three Summers in a last-ditch effort to save his faltering career, writing about the nearby decrepit plantation and the strange, secretive town; Missy Holliday is just trying to find a quiet, peaceful place to escape her former life as a prostitute. Together they find mysteries and secrets that interlock like a strange puzzle, while a sense of menace builds around them. This Southern Gothic novel will appeal to fans of Jesmyn Ward or Karen Russell.
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True crime journalist Bradley Ellison has come to the forgotten Tennessee town of Three Summers in a last-ditch effort to save his faltering career, writi...Show more
True crime journalist Bradley Ellison has come to the forgotten Tennessee town of Three Summers in a last-ditch effort to save his faltering career, writing about the nearby decrepit plantation and the strange, secretive town; Missy Holliday is just trying to find a quiet, peaceful place to escape her former life as a prostitute. Together they find mysteries and secrets that interlock like a strange puzzle, while a sense of menace builds around them. This Southern Gothic novel will appeal to fans of Jesmyn Ward or Karen Russell.
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In 1898, Hazel has spent the last five years in a New York reformatory for a crime she did not commit. Upon her release, she uses an alias to apply for a ...Show more
In 1898, Hazel has spent the last five years in a New York reformatory for a crime she did not commit. Upon her release, she uses an alias to apply for a job as a “lady in attendance” for dentist Dr. Gilbert Watts, helping with procedures and making patients comfortable. Gilbert is impressed with her, but senses that she has something in her past that she isn’t revealing. Can Hazel find a way to clear her name and build a future with Gilbert? You’ll have to read the book to find out. Fans of Tracie Peterson or Jody Hedlund will enjoy this book.
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In 1898, Hazel has spent the last five years in a New York reformatory for a crime she did not commit. Upon her release, she uses an alias to apply for a ...Show more
In 1898, Hazel has spent the last five years in a New York reformatory for a crime she did not commit. Upon her release, she uses an alias to apply for a job as a “lady in attendance” for dentist Dr. Gilbert Watts, helping with procedures and making patients comfortable. Gilbert is impressed with her, but senses that she has something in her past that she isn’t revealing. Can Hazel find a way to clear her name and build a future with Gilbert? You’ll have to read the book to find out. Fans of Tracie Peterson or Jody Hedlund will enjoy this book.
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The town of Penobscot, Maine is struggling. When a group of foreign investors decides to reopen the local paper mill, built on the former Indigenous lands...Show more
The town of Penobscot, Maine is struggling. When a group of foreign investors decides to reopen the local paper mill, built on the former Indigenous lands on the river, Molly, a 14-year-old Indigenous girl, sets it on fire and it burns to the ground. Molly sends a statement to local newspaper THE LOWERING DAYS, claiming that the land belongs to the Penobscot people, and the mill was destroying the land and water with pollution. This sets off a tense conflict between the townspeople who were hoping for new jobs to be created, and those who are concerned about the rights of Indigenous people and the environment. Readers who liked THE OVERSTORY by Richard Powers or Kristin Hannah’s THE GREAT ALONE will want to read this one.
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The town of Penobscot, Maine is struggling. When a group of foreign investors decides to reopen the local paper mill, built on the former Indigenous lands...Show more
The town of Penobscot, Maine is struggling. When a group of foreign investors decides to reopen the local paper mill, built on the former Indigenous lands on the river, Molly, a 14-year-old Indigenous girl, sets it on fire and it burns to the ground. Molly sends a statement to local newspaper THE LOWERING DAYS, claiming that the land belongs to the Penobscot people, and the mill was destroying the land and water with pollution. This sets off a tense conflict between the townspeople who were hoping for new jobs to be created, and those who are concerned about the rights of Indigenous people and the environment. Readers who liked THE OVERSTORY by Richard Powers or Kristin Hannah’s THE GREAT ALONE will want to read this one.
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Dora Rodriguez works for an online magazine in Seattle as a copy editor and fact-checker; she is known for being obsessive about truth and accuracy. But w...Show more
Dora Rodriguez works for an online magazine in Seattle as a copy editor and fact-checker; she is known for being obsessive about truth and accuracy. But when a colleague starts investigating a murder, Dora realizes it is linked to her own concealed past as a survivor of a cult that mostly perished in a huge fire twenty years ago. Desperate to keep the truth hidden, she tries to keep the past hidden, but may be putting herself in danger doing so. Readers who like Lisa Unger or Paula Hawkins will enjoy this.
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Dora Rodriguez works for an online magazine in Seattle as a copy editor and fact-checker; she is known for being obsessive about truth and accuracy. But w...Show more
Dora Rodriguez works for an online magazine in Seattle as a copy editor and fact-checker; she is known for being obsessive about truth and accuracy. But when a colleague starts investigating a murder, Dora realizes it is linked to her own concealed past as a survivor of a cult that mostly perished in a huge fire twenty years ago. Desperate to keep the truth hidden, she tries to keep the past hidden, but may be putting herself in danger doing so. Readers who like Lisa Unger or Paula Hawkins will enjoy this.
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This unique novel begins at the end of the story; Angel and Theo, once a happy couple, have broken up after five years together. As she thinks back, she w...Show more
This unique novel begins at the end of the story; Angel and Theo, once a happy couple, have broken up after five years together. As she thinks back, she wonders how everything went wrong; and then they author takes us back through their story, showing how things fell apart while going further and further into the past to see how their relationship came to be. The author has created a complex, layered and bittersweet love story that will draw the reader in. If you like Julia Glass or Alice McDermott, this would be a good choice.
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This unique novel begins at the end of the story; Angel and Theo, once a happy couple, have broken up after five years together. As she thinks back, she w...Show more
This unique novel begins at the end of the story; Angel and Theo, once a happy couple, have broken up after five years together. As she thinks back, she wonders how everything went wrong; and then they author takes us back through their story, showing how things fell apart while going further and further into the past to see how their relationship came to be. The author has created a complex, layered and bittersweet love story that will draw the reader in. If you like Julia Glass or Alice McDermott, this would be a good choice.
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Maeve Martin is a retired professional dancer who is recovering from an abusive marriage; her husband has died and left her with two children, and she wan...Show more
Maeve Martin is a retired professional dancer who is recovering from an abusive marriage; her husband has died and left her with two children, and she wants to start her own dance company. She leaves her children with her mother and heads to High Water Center for the Arts, a beautiful but remote lodge in the Rocky Mountains, to take time to figure out how to make her dream happen. At first everything is wonderful, but then a deadly avalanche strikes, leaving the guests without power, heat, phone service, or a clear road back to the nearest town. When a terrible act of violence occurs, Maeve realizes she is trapped with a group of strangers, and no way to escape. This tense thriller would be a good choice for readers who like Chevy Stevens or Michael Robotham.
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Maeve Martin is a retired professional dancer who is recovering from an abusive marriage; her husband has died and left her with two children, and she wan...Show more
Maeve Martin is a retired professional dancer who is recovering from an abusive marriage; her husband has died and left her with two children, and she wants to start her own dance company. She leaves her children with her mother and heads to High Water Center for the Arts, a beautiful but remote lodge in the Rocky Mountains, to take time to figure out how to make her dream happen. At first everything is wonderful, but then a deadly avalanche strikes, leaving the guests without power, heat, phone service, or a clear road back to the nearest town. When a terrible act of violence occurs, Maeve realizes she is trapped with a group of strangers, and no way to escape. This tense thriller would be a good choice for readers who like Chevy Stevens or Michael Robotham.
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Wanhope Lyons is trying to trace the history of his family in the neighborhood known as the Bramble Patch, the Black section of the Midwestern city of Nap...Show more
Wanhope Lyons is trying to trace the history of his family in the neighborhood known as the Bramble Patch, the Black section of the Midwestern city of Napoleonville. Through a series of newspaper clippings, interviews, first-person accounts and academic articles, he recreates the story of his family’s lives in the city, starting in 1909 and moving on to the recent past. The neighborhood has always been a place filled with racism and poverty, but things kept getting worse as a demonic entity known as the Barghest feeds off the despair of the people trapped there. This atmospheric horror novel is a powerful story of the Jim Crow era and the strength needed to survive; fans of THERE, THERE by Tommy Orange or Honore Jeffers' THE LOVE SONGS OF W.E.B. DUBOIS should try this.
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Wanhope Lyons is trying to trace the history of his family in the neighborhood known as the Bramble Patch, the Black section of the Midwestern city of Nap...Show more
Wanhope Lyons is trying to trace the history of his family in the neighborhood known as the Bramble Patch, the Black section of the Midwestern city of Napoleonville. Through a series of newspaper clippings, interviews, first-person accounts and academic articles, he recreates the story of his family’s lives in the city, starting in 1909 and moving on to the recent past. The neighborhood has always been a place filled with racism and poverty, but things kept getting worse as a demonic entity known as the Barghest feeds off the despair of the people trapped there. This atmospheric horror novel is a powerful story of the Jim Crow era and the strength needed to survive; fans of THERE, THERE by Tommy Orange or Honore Jeffers' THE LOVE SONGS OF W.E.B. DUBOIS should try this.
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Babakar the obstetrician lives in Guadeloupe, trying to cope with his grief over the deaths of his mother and his wife by remembering his childhood in Mal...Show more
Babakar the obstetrician lives in Guadeloupe, trying to cope with his grief over the deaths of his mother and his wife by remembering his childhood in Mali and avoiding intimacy. When Reinette, an undocumented Haitian immigrant, dies while in labor, he decides to adopt the child, Anais. When he discovers that her mother wished for her child to grow up in her native Haiti, where Reinette’s family still lives, Babakar goes to Haiti to search for the baby’s relatives, finding help and support along the way from other displaced people, and forming a new family to raise baby Anais. However, life in the desperately poor and violence-plagued island is not easy. Readers who enjoyed CLAIRE OF THE SEA LIGHT by Edwidge Danticat or GHOST FOREST by Pik-Shuen Fung will want to try this.
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Babakar the obstetrician lives in Guadeloupe, trying to cope with his grief over the deaths of his mother and his wife by remembering his childhood in Mal...Show more
Babakar the obstetrician lives in Guadeloupe, trying to cope with his grief over the deaths of his mother and his wife by remembering his childhood in Mali and avoiding intimacy. When Reinette, an undocumented Haitian immigrant, dies while in labor, he decides to adopt the child, Anais. When he discovers that her mother wished for her child to grow up in her native Haiti, where Reinette’s family still lives, Babakar goes to Haiti to search for the baby’s relatives, finding help and support along the way from other displaced people, and forming a new family to raise baby Anais. However, life in the desperately poor and violence-plagued island is not easy. Readers who enjoyed CLAIRE OF THE SEA LIGHT by Edwidge Danticat or GHOST FOREST by Pik-Shuen Fung will want to try this.
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Originally written in the 1940s and only recently published, this novel tells the story of Blue Bird and her daughter, Waterlily, two women of the Dakota ...Show more
Originally written in the 1940s and only recently published, this novel tells the story of Blue Bird and her daughter, Waterlily, two women of the Dakota tribe living in the Sioux country of the nineteenth century. The author creates a fascinating picture of what everyday life was like for Indigenous people during the time the United States was expanding into their territory, making following the old ways more difficult. Readers who enjoy the novels of Louise Erdrich or Leslie Marmon Silko should try this.
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Originally written in the 1940s and only recently published, this novel tells the story of Blue Bird and her daughter, Waterlily, two women of the Dakota ...Show more
Originally written in the 1940s and only recently published, this novel tells the story of Blue Bird and her daughter, Waterlily, two women of the Dakota tribe living in the Sioux country of the nineteenth century. The author creates a fascinating picture of what everyday life was like for Indigenous people during the time the United States was expanding into their territory, making following the old ways more difficult. Readers who enjoy the novels of Louise Erdrich or Leslie Marmon Silko should try this.
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Sergeant Matthew Petticrew arrives in France as part of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I, trying to help end years of brutal slaughter as t...Show more
Sergeant Matthew Petticrew arrives in France as part of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I, trying to help end years of brutal slaughter as the war drags on. He and his men are feeling overwhelmed by the horror of trench warfare, but one night they hear a beautiful, mysterious lullaby coming from the surrounding forest; the men start calling it the “Angel of Argonne.” When Matthew finds a young woman, Mireilles, alone in the forest after her father went to war and her grandfather died, he realizes that she is the mysterious “Angel” and that he must try to help her. They make a perilous journey to Paris, and a possible future. Fans of Kristy Cambron or Connilynn Cossette will enjoy this one.
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Sergeant Matthew Petticrew arrives in France as part of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I, trying to help end years of brutal slaughter as t...Show more
Sergeant Matthew Petticrew arrives in France as part of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I, trying to help end years of brutal slaughter as the war drags on. He and his men are feeling overwhelmed by the horror of trench warfare, but one night they hear a beautiful, mysterious lullaby coming from the surrounding forest; the men start calling it the “Angel of Argonne.” When Matthew finds a young woman, Mireilles, alone in the forest after her father went to war and her grandfather died, he realizes that she is the mysterious “Angel” and that he must try to help her. They make a perilous journey to Paris, and a possible future. Fans of Kristy Cambron or Connilynn Cossette will enjoy this one.
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