An epic story of survival and betrayal for fans of Station Eleven and The Road. Nico Storm and his father Willem drive a truck through a desolate land. They are among the few in South Africa to have survived a devastating virus that...
FICTION / General
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Author:Meyer, Deon, Seegers, K.L.Summary: -
Author:Lane, John, Cash, WileySummary:On a placid Blue Ridge mountain lake on Labor Day Weekend in 1935, three locals sightseeing in an overloaded boat drown, and the cotton mill scion who owns the lake is indicted for their murders. Decades later Ben Crocker — witness to...
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Author:Bond, LarrySummary:Three men uncover a plot to launch nuclear weapons at China's port cities in this heart-pounding military thriller from New York Times bestselling author Larry Bond. Jerry Mitchell, skipper of USS North Dakota, receives a message from...
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The trauma of childbirth and shock of motherhood compel Amanda to show up unannounced on the doorstep of her estranged best friend, and to trace the tangled roots of friendship and family in her own life.
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Author:Ifkovic, EdSummary:In 1904 Edna Ferber is a 19-year-old girl reporter for the Appleton, Wisconsin Crescent, an occupation that many townspeople, including her own family, consider scandalous for a proper young girl. By chance, she interviews Harry Houdini...
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Author:Boswinkel, WimSummary:Johan comes to Africa to manage a tea plantation. He meets Erina, and his life changes forever. The story takes a leap into the unknown, cleverly blending an African setting with the fantastic premise at its core: the arrival of a black...
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Author:Hayes, J. M.Summary:On a bleak Christmas morning, Sewa Tribal Police Officer Heather English patrols a desolate canyon on the Arizona reservation. Her father, the Benteen County, Kansas Sheriff, is lonely enough with no family around to go work at his...
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Author:Boland, KatieSummary:With unsentimental prose and ironic dialogue, Katie Boland brings to life a variety of characters who all have one thing in common—a need for something more. A literary debut by a refreshing new voice in fiction, the stories...
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Author:Clemens, JudySummary:It’s been years since Casey Maldonado visited her hometown, and the only reason she’s returning now is to get her brother Ricky out of jail, where he sits after being arrested for the brutal murder of Alicia McManus, his girlfriend of...
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Author:Corwin, C. R.Summary:Maddy Sprowls gets to The Hannawa Herald-Union on the stroke of nine. She makes her first mug of Darjeeling tea and settles down at her desk to read the obituaries. The obits are the best part of her day, she admits. But not today....
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Author:Webb, BettySummary:Polygamy can be murder! That’s what private detective Lena Jones learns when she helps 13 year old Rebecca escape from Purity, a polygamy compound hidden in a desolate area near straddling Utah/Arizona border. When Rebecca’s mother is...
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Author:Lopez, Barry HolstunSummary:A freelance writer and photographer invites the reader to walk with him through the desert where life is clear and elemental.
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Author:Webb, BettySummary:While scouting locations for a film documentary on the Arizona’s Apache Wars, Private Investigator Lena Jones and Oscar-winning director Warren Quinn, discover the mutilated body of a young girl. The gruesome manner of the child’s death...
- Author:Smith, Mark HaskellSummary:
When the greedy owner of a Las Vegas movie catering company tries to muscle in on a local, family-owned business in Honolulu, it leaves a very bad taste in the mouths of the natives, and the battle for paradise begins for Joseph, a...
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Author:Charles, KateSummary:In a culture obsessed with celebrity, baby Muffin’s death is big news. Crib death or something more sinister? Everyone wants to know, including the police. Whatever the truth, the bereaved parents, celebrity couple Jodee and Chazz, live...
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Author:Greenwood, KerrySummary:Driving home late one night, Phryne Fisher is surprised when someone shoots out her windscreen. When she alights she finds a pretty young man with an anarchist tattoo dying on the tarmac just outside the dock gates. He bleeds to death...
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Author:Hinger, CharlotteSummary:Layers of deadly intrigue bind generations of families in historian Lottie Albright’s Western Kansas community. When false accusations threaten senatorial candidate Brian Hadley’s political career, secrets whispered to Lottie as editor...
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Author:Levine, GailSummary:Dave's carefree life of pranks and stickball in his Lower East Side New York neighborhood ends the day his papa dies. No one wants the 11-year-old 'rascal,' so Dave is shuffled off to the Hebrew Home for Boys, a.k.a. the Hell Hole for...
- Author:Homa, AvaSummary:
Leila dreams of making films to bring the suppressed stories of the Kurdish people onto the global stage. But when her brother's activism leads to his disappearance, Leila begins a campaign to save him.
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Author:Johnston, LucindaSummary:Costume and Bone’s two stories are set in downtown Toronto during the 1980s, when Queen Street West was lined with hotel taverns and crumbling shops overlaid with the dwellings of its residents. In “Raine,” an anorexic who embraces...
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