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Lawyered to Death

by Alan J. Couture

Sexual harassment and murder charges embroil the administrator of a large hospital. It’s bad enough when a beautiful hospital staff worker accuses him of sexually harassing her, but when his wife, who was a patient at the hospital... Read More

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Song of the Bones

by Mark Terry

Chantalene Morrell has been asked to help find her friend Thelma Patterson’s husband, a ranch hand who hasn’t been heard from in thirty years, since shortly after their wedding when Thelma was young. A representative from an oil... Read More

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The Rock Holler Gang

by Johanna Massé

Take one ten-year-old budding detective with an inquiring mind and place her in a small town with secrets to spare and you have a mystery story appropriate for elementary— and middle-school—aged children. A year after her mother... Read More

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How My Breasts Saved the World

“It’s gross, sticky, smelly. It caused me to bleed and experience terrifying pain,” the author tells visitors the weekend after giving birth to her daughter. She’s talking not about childbirth, but breastfeeding. Shapiro shares... Read More

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Border of a Dream

by Naomi Millán

One can only approach Antonio Machado’s poetry with a reverential and grateful heart. One of the foremost poets of Spain, of the genius Generation of ’98, his poems bring a spare and accurate voice that pierces through to the... Read More

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Faster Than a Speeding Bullet

by Marlene Satter

Graphic novels have risen high on the book sales chain, attracting both critical acclaim (read Pulitzer) and marketing success ($100 million in sales). How did comic books, once looked down on as something to be feared and discouraged,... Read More

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Soldiers of God

by Carol Lynn Stewart

Why do people kill in the name of God? What would motivate people to strap bombs to their bodies and detonate them in crowded places? In this book, the author, retired faculty from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and an... Read More

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