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  • Silver Lies A Silver Rush Mystery / Volume 1
    Author:
    Parker, Ann
    Summary:

    As 1879 draws to a close, this Rocky Mountain boomtown has infected the world with silver fever. It’s not much different than the dot.com mania or the corporate scams that heat up over a century later. Unfortunately for Joe Rose, a...
  • Shakespeare's The Tempest A Modern English Translation
    Author:
    Shakespeare, William
    Summary:

    The book is, quite simply, a line-by-line translation of Shakespeare's play The Tempest translated into modern English. The original play's five act structure has been preserved, with a one-to-one correspondence between each...
  • Seam Busters A Novella
    Author:
    Hood, Mary
    Summary:

    Mary Hood's novella Seam Busters explores the connections we make to one another, from the simplest of acts to those moments that define life and death. When Irene Morgan returns to Frazier Fabrics, a family-owned cotton mill in...
  • Scare the Light Away
    Author:
    Delany, Vicki
    Summary:

    Recently widowed Rebecca McKenzie, a successful Vancouver businesswoman, returns to small-town Hope River after an absence of 30 years to attend her mother’s funeral. Estranged from her father and two older siblings, she’s left a brutal...
  • Running With Mother
    Author:
    Mlalazi, Christopher
    Summary:

    Unsentimental and unselfpitying, this short but powerful novel by Chris Mlalazi vivifies an account by Rudo, a fourteen-year-old school girl who observes the terrifying events that take place in her village. Running With Mother provides...
  • Rough Paradise
    Author:
    Butler, Alec
    Summary:

    Rough Paradise is a unique and moving novella about identity and growing up Intersex in a violent, unwelcoming, heteronormative world. Terry Tomey was born with an Intersex condition, which wreaks havoc with his puberty. He is on the...
  • Retina Green
    Author:
    Filter, Reinhard
    Summary:

    “If people think your life’s shot to hell, they don’t want to waste time on you. They don’t want to hold you back from some bus about to run you down, they don’t want to have a coffee with you, and nobody bends over backwards in the...
  • Resistance women : a novel
    Author:
    Chiaverini, Jennifer
    Summary:

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker, an enthralling historical saga that recreates the danger, romance, and sacrifice of an era and brings to life one courageous, passionate American-Mildred Fish...
  • Recipes for a beautiful life : a memoir in stories
    Author:
    Barry, Rebecca
    Summary:

    Writing with a delicate balance of humor and truth, critically acclaimed author Rebecca Barry reflects on motherhood, work, and marriage in her new memoir about trying to build a creative life. When Rebecca Barry and her husband moved...
  • Reapers A Botswana Mystery / Volume 2
    Author:
    Ramsay, Frederick
    Summary:

    The World Cup, which arrives in June, has ripple effects on all South Africa’s neighbors. The arrival of soccer fans, team owners, sponsors, and world dignitaries makes southern Africa, particularly Botswana, ripe for all sorts of...
  • Raw Deal A John Deal Novel / Volume 2
    Author:
    Standiford, Les
    Summary:

    John Deal's life is finally coming together; he is reunited with his lovely wife, they have a beautiful baby, and DealCo, his Miami construction business, is booming with post-Hurricane Andrew contracts rolling in. The future looks...
  • Race for the Dying A Dr. Thomas Parks Mystery
    Author:
    Havill, Steven F.
    Summary:

    A newly minted graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1890, Dr. Thomas Parks heads to the big timber country of Puget Sound to practice trauma medicine. An hour after stepping off the boat he's nearly crushed...
  • Rabbit foot bill
    Author:
    Humphreys, Helen
    Summary:

    A lonely boy in a prairie town befriends a tramp in 1947 and then witnesses a shocking murder. Based on a true story. Canwood, Saskatchewan, 1947. Leonard Flint, a lonely boy in a small farming town befriends the local tramp, a man...
  • Privileged to Kill A Posadas County Mystery / Volume 5
    Author:
    Havill, Steven F.
    Summary:

    Rolling stone Wesley Crocker seems a harmless enough free spirit when Posadas County Undersheriff Bill Gastner offers him a lift on the road and spots him a free dinner. Crocker beds down for the night with his gear on the high-school...
  • Piece of my heart
    Author:
    Clark, Mary Higgins
    Summary:

    In the latest thrilling collaboration from #1 New York Times bestselling author and "Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke, television producer Laurie Moran must solve the kidnapping of her fiancée's...
  • Payback ain't enough
    Author:
    Clark, Wahida
    Summary:

    Picking up where the suspenseful Payback with Ya Life left off, we're plunged back into the hip-hop drama, where the men are hot and dangerous, the women know their shoes from their Choos, and they will stop at nothing to get what they...
  • Parrots Prove Deadly A Pru Marlowe Pet Noir / Volume 3
    Author:
    Simon, Clea
    Summary:

    Parrots will repeat anything; they don’t talk sense. Or do they? When Pru Marlowe is called in to retrain a foul-mouthed African gray after its owner’s death, the bad-girl animal psychic can’t help hearing the bird’s words as a replay...
  • Out stealing horses
    Author:
    Petterson, Per
    Summary:

    Sixty-seven-year-old Trond Sander lives secluded in a far corner of Norway. Casting his mind back to 1948, he recalls a horse stealing prank with his best friend that turned tragic and changed his life forever.
  • One true heart
    Author:
    Thomas, Jodi
    Summary:

    Millanie McAllen is always logical. But after returning to her childhood home, she learns that some things are beyond explanation- like her undeniable passion for Drew Cunningham- After finding success as a singer on the road, Beau...
  • On turpentine lane
    Author:
    Lipman, Elinor
    Summary:

    An endearing romantic comedy from the beloved best-selling author of The Family Man and The View from Penthouse B At thirty-two, Faith Frankel has returned to her claustro-suburban hometown, where she writes institutional thank-you...

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