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Hope on the Inside by Marie BostwickHope Carpenter finds new purpose in a new phase of life when her husband's forced retirement strains both their savings and their marriage. Seeking inspiration and a financial boost, Hope gets a job teaching crafts to inmates at a local women's prison with surprising results. Embarking on an ambitious quilting project, Hope and her students begin to bond. Together, piece by piece, they learn to defy expectations--their own and others'--and to see that it's never too late to stitch together a life that, even in its imperfections, is both surprising and beautiful.
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Little Faith by Nickolas ButlerA Wisconsin family grapples with the power and limitations of faith when one of their own falls under the influence of a radical church. Set over the course of one year and beautifully evoking the change of seasons, Little Faith is a powerful and deeply affecting inter-generational novel about family and community, the ways in which belief is both formed and shaken, and the lengths we go to protect our own. By the author of The Hearts of Men and Shotgun Lovesongs.
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Crown Jewel by Christopher ReichMonte Carlo's most lavish casinos have become the targets of an efficient, brutal, and highly successful group of criminal gamblers; a casino dealer has been beaten to death; a German heiress's son has been kidnapped. Who better to connect the crimes, and foil the brilliant plot, then Simon Riske, freelance industrial spy? In one of the most clever, enjoyable, and entertaining new series to come along in years, this sequel to The Take gives readers what they want most: a hero we can root for, locales we wish we were in, and a plot that never lets up.
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Marrying My Cowboy by Diana PalmerTake a walk down the aisle--western style--with these short tales of unbridled love, from a trio of "New York Times"-bestselling authors who know the way to a cowboy's heart. Contains "The Rancher's Wedding" by Palmer, "Wind River Wedding" by Lindsay McKenna, and "The Cowboy Lassoes a Bride" by Kate Pearce.
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Robert B. Parker's Buckskin by Robert KnottItinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch pursue a vicious killer ... After marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch lay Appaloosa's sheriff to rest, an emerging handful of men eagerly vie for the deceased sheriff's vacant office. No sooner are various campaigns under way when gold is discovered in the foothills just outside of town, sending Appaloosa buzzing with excitement. With the strike, a slew of new problems develop for Cole and Hitch.
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Sunset Beach by Mary Kay AndrewsDrue Campbell's life is adrift. Out of a job and down on her luck, life doesn't seem to be getting any better when her estranged father ... shows up at her mother's funeral after a twenty-year absence. Worse, he's remarried--to Drue's eighth grade frenemy, Wendy, now his office manager. And they're offering her a job ... With no other prospects, Drue begrudgingly joins the firm, spending her days screening out the grifters whose phone calls flood the law office ... But when a suspicious death at an exclusive beach resort nearby exposes possible corruption at her father's firm, she goes from unwilling cubicle rat to unwitting investigator, and is drawn into a case that may or may not involve her father.
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The Yankee Widow by Linda Lael MillerGifted storyteller Linda Lael Miller explores the complexities and heartbreak that families experienced as men took up arms to preserve the nation and defend their way of life. Told in a smart, assured and compelling voice, this is the story of Caroline, the young wife and childhood sweetheart of Jacob, who together live on a farm raising their daughter, Rachel, just outside of Gettysburg. When Jacob joins the Northern army to do his duty and help save the Union, no one anticipates he will not return. Caroline gets news that he is wounded and has been taken to Washington, DC, with his regiment, and so she must find her way there and navigate the thousands of other wounded soldiers to find him. Thus begins this novel that focuses on the strong women and men of both sides and both races who sacrificed so much and loved so well during this critical juncture in American history.
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Redemption Point by Candice FoxWhen former police detective Ted Conkaffey was wrongly accused of abducting Claire Bingley, he hoped the Queensland rain forest town of Crimson Lake would be a good place to disappear, but Claire's devastated father has a brutal revenge plan. Meanwhile,Ted and Amanda assist Detective Inspector Pip Sweeney's investigation of the murders of two young bartenders and the hunt for the truth will draw them into a violent dance with evil. Redemption is certainly in the cards--but it may well cost them their lives.
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Resistance Women by Jennifer ChiaveriniResisting the power grabs of an increasingly formidable Nazi Party in 1930s Berlin, the courageous American wife of a German intellectual and her circle of women friends engage in a clandestine battle to sabotage Hitler's regime. Inspired by actual events, Resistance Women is an enthralling, unforgettable story of ordinary people determined to resist the rise of evil, sacrificing their own lives and liberty to fight injustice and defend the oppressed.
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Courting Mr. Lincoln by Louis Bayard A page-turning literary historical novel about the relationships between the brilliant, melancholic future President and the two people who knew him best: his handsome and charming confidant (and roommate) Joshua Speed and the spirited young debutante Mary Todd. Told in the alternating voices of Mary Todd and Joshua Speed, and inspired by historical events, Courting Mr. Lincoln creates a sympathetic and complex portrait of Mary unlike any that has come before; a moving portrayal of the deep and very real connection between the two men; and most of all, an evocation of the unformed man who would grow into one of the nation's most beloved presidents.
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