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  • The river we remember
    Author:
    Krueger, William Kent
    Summary:

    AN EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE. In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by a shocking murder, pouring fresh fuel on old grievances in this dazzling novel, an instant New York Times bestseller and "a work of art" ( The Denver Post...
  • The return
    Author:
    Sparks, Nicholas
    Summary:

    Tending to his grandfather's beehives while gearing up for a second stint in medical school, Trevor isn't prepared to fall in love, and yet he senses a connection with deputy sheriff Natalie Masterson.
  • The rebel : Johnny Yuma
    Author:
    Fenady, Andrew J.
    Summary:

    After the Civil War, Johnny heads home to Texas to find the mother and sister of a close friend who died beside him in battle. What Johnny doesn't know is that a merciless saloon owner has staked his claim on the sister, and the brute...
  • The peripheral
    Author:
    Gibson, William
    Summary:

    William Gibson returns with his first novel since 2010's New York Times-bestselling Zero History. Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran's...
  • The mosaic
    Author:
    Berkhout, Nina
    Summary:

    Twyla Jane Lee has one goal. To finish senior year so she can get out of her military hometown of Halo, Montana. But to graduate, she needs to complete forty hours of community service, and that means helping out a rude and reclusive...
  • The master butchers singing club
    Author:
    Erdrich, Louise
    Summary:

    With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious set of knives, Fidelis sets out for America, getting as far as Argus, North Dakota, where he settles, building a business and a home for his family, which now includes Eva...
  • The madman of Piney Woods
    Author:
    Curtis, Christopher Paul
    Summary:

    Even though it is now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves) and Chatham, Canada are still haunted by two events of half a century before--the American Civil War, and the Irish potato famine, and...
  • The long take
    Author:
    Robertson, Robin
    Summary:

    Winner, Roehampton Poetry Prize, Finalist, Man Booker Prize, Finalist, Goldsmiths Prize. Walker is a D-Day veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder; he can't return home to rural Nova Scotia, and looks instead to the city for...
  • The life we bury
    Author:
    Eskens, Allen
    Summary:

    An ordinary writing assignment for a college English class brings Joe face-to-face with a dying Vietnam veteran, who is also a convicted murderer.
  • The last letter
    Author:
    Yarros, Rebecca
    Summary:

    " The Last Letter is a haunting, heartbreaking and ultimately inspirational love story."- InTouch Weekly. Beckett, If you're reading this, well, you know the last-letter drill. You made it. I didn't. Get off the...
  • The Jack Ford Story : Newfoundland's POW in Nagasaki
    Author:
    Fitzgerald, Jack
    Summary:

    The Jack Ford Story: The Newfoundlander in Nagasaki is an amazing story of endurance, courage and survival. In 1940, Jack Ford was an employee of the Newfoundland Railway in a remote settlement of Newfoundland. Having volunteered for...
  • The haunting of Maddy Clare
    Author:
    St. James, Simone
    Summary:

    Sarah Piper is sent to assist ghost hunter Alistair Gellis, who has been summoned to investigate the spirit of nineteen-year-old maid Maddy Clare. Soon Sarah is caught up in a desperate struggle, for Maddy’s ghost is real, she is angry...
  • The harder they come : a novel
    Author:
    Boyle, T. Coraghessan
    Summary:

    This novel explores the volatile connections between three damaged people--an aging ex-Marine and Vietnam veteran, his psychologically unstable son, and the son's paranoid, much older lover-as they careen towards an explosive...
  • The greatest beer run ever : a memoir of friendship, loyalty, and war
    Author:
    Molloy, J. T., Donohue, John
    Summary:

    Chickie takes us thousands of miles on a hilarious quest laced with sorrow, but never dull. You will laugh and cry, but you will not be sorry that you read this rollicking story."--Malachy McCourtSoon to be a major motion picture...
  • The great stink
    Author:
    Clark, Clare
    Summary:

    When a putrid odor fills the city during a heat wave, massive repairs to London's sewer system are called for. While most find the subterranean world a dark carnival of horrors, William May, a haunted survivor of the Crimean War, finds...
  • The great alone : a novel
    Author:
    Hannah, Kristin
    Summary:

    In Kristin Hannah's The Great Alone, a desperate family seeks a new beginning in the near-isolated wilderness of Alaska only to find that their unpredictable environment is less threatening than the erratic behavior found in human...
  • The great alone
    Author:
    Hannah, Kristin
    Summary:

    A desperate family headed by a former POW seeks a new beginning in the near-isolated wilderness of Alaska only to find that their unpredictable environment is less threatening than the erratic behavior found in human nature.
  • The five
    Author:
    McCammon, Robert R.
    Summary:

    A struggling rock band on the verge of breaking up is touring in the American Southwest when they are noticed by a damaged Iraq War veteran. This crossing of paths changes all their lives.
  • The famished lover
    Author:
    Cumyn, Alan
    Summary:

    In this much anticipated follow-up to The Sojourn, Alan Cumyn continues the story of Ramsay Crome, an artist who never quite came home from the First World War. The horrors of his years in a German prisoner of war camp continue to haunt...
  • The family gathering
    Author:
    Carr, Robyn
    Summary:

    Robyn Carr is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Virgin River and Thunder Point series. Her Trade Women's Fiction novel Four Friends debuted at #5 on the NYT. Wherever You Are is the third book in her bestselling...

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