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An unexpectedly uplifting account of women's suffering and resilience in Stalin's forced labor camps, diligently transcribed in the kitchens and living rooms of nine survivors. The pain inflicted by the gulags has cast a long shadow over Soviet-era history. Zgustova's collection of interviews with former female prisoners not only chronicles the hardships of the camps, but also serves as testament to the power of beauty in the face of adversity. Where...
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On Friday night in the clay fields of Bethel Creek, seventeen-year-old Daniel Reyes is found brutally attacked and left for dead. On Saturday morning, Cora Maxwell finds her teenage son's clothes covered in blood.
A small town torn apart by a horrific hate crime. An investigative reporter hell bent on finding the truth. A mother's worst nightmare.
What really happened to the Reyes boy?
In the heart-stopping and timely suspense novel, Secrets Mothers...
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Derryen Plante knew her destination in life long before she reached it: she was going to be a special investigator for the federal government working on high-level crimes. Every step she took was in preparation for one day achieving that dream.
Then, without warning, her dream was shattered.
While completing a unit check at the juvenile prison where she worked, Derryen was violently attacked by one of the inmates. She suffered a traumatic brain...
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Bobbi Sue Baxter longs for the summer of 1988 to be over so she can leave her boring hometown of Wildcat Springs behind forever. Start using her journalism degree on stories with some excitement. She has no idea more excitement than she's ever wanted is about to come after her.
On her way home from a movie, Bobbi Sue stops to help an injured dog and spots what looks like an alien. A blinding light flashes, and when Bobbi Sue can see again, the creature...
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Have you heard the tale of the Glue Man? They say he roams the stables late at night, looking for horses. Some people think it's just an urban legend, but they're wrong. I know, because I met him myself once and I was never the same.Come into the stable and I'll tell you what happened…
"Soul Riders Ghost Stories" is a series of personal short stories from the world of Star Stable, where the four Soul Riders Alex, Lisa, Linda, and Anne, tell you...
46) Deadly Harmony
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Georgia Rae Winston's romance has broken up. But that's the least of her problems. Georgia and Detective Cal Perkins are through. Fine. Maybe it's an opportunity to give charmer Hamlet Miller a chance.
But there's no time for romance when Georgia hosts her stepsister and her roommate, Quincy, during a college chorale tour, and Quincy steals Georgia's car and disappears. When her car turns up in a cemetery with a cryptic note lying on the front seat,...
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An unnatural terror penetrating our reality preys on the dreams of its victims, in this darkly captivating novel set in the world of Arkham Horror
Professor Miranda Ventham is having bad dreams-nothing new in 1920s Arkham-but hers are horrifying glimpses of a dark future. Now seriously ill, she books herself into the new sanatorium, Stroud Home. With luck, the town's eldritch taint won't reach her there. And yet the nightmares worsen. Aided by her...
48) Tante Eva
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The story of a woman in Berlin and her American niece, a pair bound together and driven apart by loves, desires, frustrations, and addictions.
East Berlin, a few years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Eva, a retired nurse living in poverty in a slum-like apartment block, makes it through her day on a combination of stimulants and sleeping pills, wine and brandy. She waits for visits from her married lover and makes occasional attempts at contact...
49) The Legacy
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She wants to win the presidency, even when the odds seem stacked against her.
Kennedy has worked her entire life to prepare for the Culling-to follow in her parents' footsteps and win the presidency. But when she discovers her first love was just using her last name, Kennedy is now more determined to win than ever.
The obstacles just keep piling up, though. Kennedy's ex is surviving the Culling's cuts too, and he is making finding a new partner...
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Start a fun cozy mystery series with two determined female sleuths, a lovable collie mix, and two cheeky goats, with the first three books in the best-selling Little Leaf Creek Cozy Mystery Series in this box set.
Cassie's new home in the country comes with an antiquated historical society, an ornery next-door neighbor, and a murder victim on her front lawn….
After the sudden death of her husband, Cassie Alberta leaves city life behind and moves...
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Georgia Rae Winston believes she's found her happily-ever-after. But life is about to prove her very wrong.
Georgia is back with Detective Cal Perkins, and they're looking toward a blissful future. But her ex-boyfriend's family isn't thrilled with that idea. And neither are Cal's multiple admirers.
When a package containing a beef heart shows up at Georgia's door with a note that reads, "A dead heart for Georgia Rae the Heartbreaker", they sense...
52) Deadly Heritage
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Georgia's life has finally settled down. Or so she thought. She couldn't be more wrong.
Georgia Rae Winston's life in the farming community of Wildcat Springs, Indiana, has found a nice, quiet rhythm. She's dating Detective Cal Perkins, and everyone predicts wedding bells-if only Cal weren't so consumed with work.
But then Clara Alspaugh, the town prodigal, comes home after thirty-eight years. She just so happens to be the woman who broke Georgia's...
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In this powerful middle-grade novel from the acclaimed author of Things You Can't Say, a young girl navigates the social growing pains of middle school and struggles to find her place while her older brother fights to overcome opioid addiction.
When Emma starts sixth grade, things finally begin to change. She may still be in the shadow of her older brother, Austin, the popular high school quarterback, but she's made artsy new friends who get her...
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Welcome to the world of women's gymnastics and figure skating-the real world that happens away from the cameras, at the training camps and in the private lives of these talented teenage competitors. From starvation diets and debilitating injuries to the brutal tactics of tyrannical gymnastics guru Bela Károlyi, Little Girls in Pretty Boxes portrays the horrors endured by girls at the hands of their coaches and sometimes their own families-and is...
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I made a deal with the devil. And there's going to be hell to pay. My troubles haven't ended with the school year.
I'm alive. I'm out of the Hells. I've become one of the most powerful people in mage society overnight. Also, it's summer break.
But there's no rest for the wicked.
I witnessed dark magic and darker crimes in the Hells. Now, I stand with allies I struggle to forgive, against a mortal enemy who once held my heart in his hands.
Powerful...
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A marriage of convenience . . . so tempting. Brooke Ponzio can't argue against Cole's flawless logic. The divorce settlement will solve all the money-troubles for Brooke and her unborn child. If only Cole wasn't so mouth-wateringly delicious. Should she risk having her heart broken again?
Cole Miller refuses to fall in love. Not ever! That's why he chose Brooke to get him out of his ill-advised contract. All she wants is sole custody of her baby,...
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Her new home in the country comes with an antiquated historical society, a sour-faced next-door neighbor, and a murder victim on her front lawn....
Cassie Alberta needs a fresh start. Leaving the big city to put her husband's death behind her, she's immediately charmed by the quaint little town of Little Leaf Creek, even though her first encounter with her neighbor's dog and goats shows her that she has a lot to learn about country life. But her...
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A daring actress and a barnstorming pilot team up to save the world from supernatural disaster in this uncanny pulp adventure set in the world of Arkham Horror
Betsy Baxter is the plucky stunt-actor star of the 1920s serial adventure, The Flapper Detective. While researching a wing-walking scene, she meets the fearless Winifred Habbamock and discovers a shared background of eerie encounters and eldritch phenomena. For years, Betsy has been investigating...
59) The FBI Bride
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A forbidden FBI romance, a wedding that never happens, and the tragedy that changes them forever.
The moment Chloe Romano meets Liam Esposito, sparks flare like lightning between them. But the handsome stranger disappears without so much as asking for her number. Shaking off her disappointment, Chloe continues on to the Quantico Training Academy with her best friend Jenna so they can pursue their life-long dream of becoming FBI agents.
Once she...
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Through inspiring real-life testimonies, Paula Rinehart writes as both a kindred spirit and a compassionate counselor to women feeling robbed of their passions and trapped by life's disappointing realities. Women who long to be released from the burden of hard choices and perpetually empty souls will be empowered to rediscover dreams long lost and refocus energy misguided. Strong Women, Soft Hearts cries out for women to embrace passion and approach...