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Alice in Wonder

by Jill Allen

Alice Lancaster, a wealthy, Caucasian international relations worker, lives with her family in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia. After an unsettling encounter with a Chinese mystic, she finds her paradigms shifting; she sees the world in a new... Read More

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The Burning Veil

by Claire Rudy Foster

The novelist Eudora Welty said, “Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.” That could easily be the epigraph for Jean Grant’s finely crafted new novel "The Burning Veil". The story of an American... Read More

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Till the Eagle Screams

by Pat Avery

In "Till the Eagle Screams", author Paul Rawlings takes the reader on a wild ride based on a series of “what ifs” that seem to have special significance in today’s political climate. Sheriff Mike Bonner has a quiet life as the head... Read More

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Shalimar

by Jill Allen

British writer Audrey Peyton, author of three Harlequin romance suspense novels, a biography of a lion and his trainer, and a post-apocalyptic survival novel, weaves together time travel, history, romance, and daring rescues in her... Read More

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Riding the Giant Catfish

by Rachel Jagareski

Los Angeles has just been hit by a massive earthquake. There is a huge loss of life from building and highway collapses, natural gas explosions, and fires. The runways at LAX are damaged, a tsunami has taken out the harbor, and there are... Read More

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Lyin' Like a Dog

by Dawn Goldsmith

In Lyin’ Like a Dog, the sequel to The Red Scarf, R. Harper Mason takes readers to 1940s’ America and the village of Norphlet, Arkansas. Richard, the story’s protagonist, relives his twelfth birthday and a year of adventure shared... Read More

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How Did She Get There?

by Catherine Thureson

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Caro Barrone is devastated when her best friend Marcie is killed. Caro’s husband Zach has been dead for five years, and her daughter Abby lives in London. Caro and Marcie had planned to spend the summer in a... Read More

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Brutus

by Linda Salisbury

Remote areas, such as swamps, often serve as habitats for mythic, legendary creatures. Such is the setting for Larry McCollum’s fictional tale of "Brutus", the Swamp Man. Brutus is the child of English colonists who paid pirates to... Read More

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