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Nolan Jackson is a journeyman carpenter by trade and a wanderer by nature. In 2007, while fellow Americans fight in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Nolan builds tract homes across California, travelling between jobs. Following a shocking workplace accident in his temporary home of Las Vegas, he uproots himself from the tentative relationships he has made and heads west towards the ocean. On his way he passes through his brother's town where circumstances...
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Within this dizzying investigation into the mystery of death is another mystery: who is the companion igniting these memories? This enigmatic novel blurs the line between fiction and nonfiction, story and eulogy, poetry and obituary. Wry yet somber, astringent yet tender, The Disintegrations confronts both the impossibility of understanding death and the timeless longing for immortality.
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In his debut collection, Michael Croley takes us from the Appalachian regions of rural Kentucky and Ohio to a village in South Korea in thirteen engaging stories in which characters find themselves, wherever they are, in states of displacement. In these settings, Croley guides his characters to some semblance of home, where they circle each other's pain, struggle to find belonging, and make sense of the mistakes and bad breaks that have brought them...
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Marcia Butler's debut novel, Pickle's Progress , is a fierce, mordant New York story about the twisted path to love. Over the course of five weeks, identical twin brothers, one wife, a dog, and a bereaved young woman collide with each other to comical and sometimes horrifying effect. Everything is questioned and tested as they jockey for position and try to maintain the status quo. Love is the poison, the antidote, the devil and, ultimately, the hero....
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Life in tiny Lake Eden, Minnesota, is usually pleasantly uneventful. Lately, though, it seems everyone has more than their fair share of drama -- especially the Swensen family. With so much on her plate, Hannah Swensen can hardly find the time to think about her bakery -- let alone the town's most recent murder. . . Hannah is nervous about the upcoming trial for her involvement in a tragic accident. She's eager to clear her name once and for all,...
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Banned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller's Tropic of Cancer chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank portrayal of life in Brooklyn's ethnic neighborhoods and Miller's outrageous sexual exploits, it is now considered a cornerstone of modern literature. --From publisher description.
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Martin Odum is a CIA field agent turned private detective, struggling his way through a labyrinth of past identities-"legends" in CIA parlance. Is he really Martin Odum? Or is he Dante Pippen, an IRA explosives maven? Or Lincoln Dittmann, Civil War expert? These men like different foods, speak different languages, have different skills. Is he suffering from multiple personality disorder, brainwashing, or simply exhaustion? Can Odum trust the CIA psychiatrist?...
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2022 Christy Award Winner!
Stephen Curry's March 2022 Literati Book Club Pick
Parade Magazine pick for Fall 2021 "Mysteries We Love"
PBS Masterpiece's "Best Mystery Books of 2021: As Recommended by Bestselling Authors"
CrimeReads "Best Debut Novels" pick for October 2021
BookBub's "16 Best Historical Mysteries of 2021"
From award-winning author Patricia Raybon comes a compelling new historical mystery series about...
Stephen Curry's March 2022 Literati Book Club Pick
Parade Magazine pick for Fall 2021 "Mysteries We Love"
PBS Masterpiece's "Best Mystery Books of 2021: As Recommended by Bestselling Authors"
CrimeReads "Best Debut Novels" pick for October 2021
BookBub's "16 Best Historical Mysteries of 2021"
From award-winning author Patricia Raybon comes a compelling new historical mystery series about...
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In this remarkable book, Martha Hailey DuBose has given those multitudes of readers who love the mystery novel an indispensable addition to their libraries. Unlike other works on the subject, Women of Mystery is not merely a directory of the novelists and their publications with a few biographical details. DuBose combines extensive research into the lives of significant women mystery writers from Anna Katherine Green and Mary Roberts Rinehart with...
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