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"The moment builds; it swells and builds -- the moment when I realize we have lost." ~ from Louise Doughty's Apple Tree Yard
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Queen Sugar
by Natalie Baszile
Why Charley Bordelon's late father left her eight hundred acres of sugarcane land in rural Louisiana is as mysterious as it was generous. With a chance to start over, Charley and her eleven-year-old daughter, Micah, say good-bye to Los Angeles. They arrive just in time for growing season. As the sweltering summer unfolds, Charley must balance the challenges of her farm with the demands of a homesick daughter, a bitter and troubled brother, and the startling desires of her own heart.
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| Euphoria by Lily KingHistorical Fiction. Loosely based on the life of pioneering American anthropologist Margaret Mead, Euphoria introduces husband-and-wife anthropologists Nell Stone and Schyler "Fen" Fenwick. Upon arriving in 1930s Papua New Guinea, where they plan to undertake an ethnographic study of the Tam people, they encounter brilliant but troubled Englishman Andrew Bankson, who's studying the nearby Kiona tribe. As the three collaborate, Nell and Andrew connect in ways that strain her already troubled marriage to Fen, who's threatened by his wife's greater fame and professional reputation. This atmospheric, richly detailed story, told in lyrical language, will transport listeners to another time and place. |
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| The Arsonist: A Novel by Sue MillerFiction. After years of traveling the world as a relief worker, Frankie Rowley decides to take a break from her globe-trotting lifestyle and spend some time with her parents, Sylvia and Alfie, who have retired to Pomeroy, New Hampshire. As Frankie begins a relationship with local journalist Bud, Sylvia struggles with Alfie's increasingly erratic behavior, which may indicate dementia. Meanwhile, tensions between vacationers and year-round residents come to a head when an arsonist begins targeting summer homes. |
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| Landline: A Novel by Rainbow RowellFiction. Georgie McCool has got it all, or so she thinks. Deftly balancing a successful career and a wonderful family, Georgie's life reaches the next level when she and her writing partner sell their television pilot to a network -- on the condition that they deliver four scripts by December 27. That obviously conflicts with the family's annual Christmas vacation, so when she opts out in favor of meeting her deadline, her husband Neal takes the kids and heads to Nebraska without her. When a panicked Georgie calls from her mother's landline, Neal picks up. However, it's not present-day Neal she's speaking to -- it's Neal from the past, shortly before they got engaged. Handed an improbable opportunity to reexamine (and possibly alter) her past, Georgie must evaluate her life and decide what to do about her own future. |
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| Have a Nice Guilt Trip by Lisa Scottoline and Francesca SerritellaNonfiction. The mother-daughter duo of mystery writer Lisa Scottoline and Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Francesca Serritella, authors of Meet Me at Emotional Baggage Claim, team up once again to present a collection of witty, upbeat essays on a wide array of topics including (but certainly not limited to) pets, dating, politics, gardening, familial bonds, and twerking. |
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Notorious : a novel
by Allison Brennan
A debut entry in a new hardcover series by the best-selling author of Cold Snap introduces Maxine Revere, a nationally renowned investigator of cold cases who resolves in the wake of a suspicious suicide to prove an old friend's innocence of murder. Read by Eliza Foss.
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I've got you under my skin : a novel
by Mary Higgins Clark
Five years after her husband's murder, Laurie Moran, an award-winning TV producer and single mother, starts filming a new "cold case" series in which four women involved in the unsolved murder of a wealthy Westchester matron reunite to recreate the scene of the crime—along with the real killer.
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| Apple Tree Yard: A Novel by Louise DoughtySuspense Fiction. Despite her happy marriage, scientist Yvonne Carmichael gave in to a moment's impulse and began a passionate affair with a stranger. Now, sitting in a courtroom with her lover, both accused of murder, Yvonne revisits her relationship in the cold light of day, reflecting on the man she clearly didn't know quite well enough. To say more would spoil the ending, but Booklist calls Yvonne's story "spellbinding, shocking, seductive, and wickedly intense." |
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| The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert GalbraithMystery. Private investigator Cormoran Strike's life is a mess. The 35-year-old former military policeman, who lost a leg in Afghanistan, is currently living in his bare-bones London office after a relationship-ending fight with his long-term girlfriend and trying to figure out how to fire his newest employee, Robin Ellacott, the bright and resourceful temp he'd love to keep but can't afford. Given his nonexistent caseload, Strike has no choice but to devote his full attention to his investigation of Lula Landry's shocking death. According to the press, the famous model committed suicide by jumping from the top of her penthouse apartment. However, her brother insists that she was murdered. Entering the surreal realm of the rich and famous, Strike and Robin question celebrities and fashionistas, trying to uncover the truth in this pseudonymous series opener by J.K. Rowling. |
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| Joyland by Stephen KingMystery. In the summer of 1973, college student Devin Jones takes a job at Joyland, a North Carolina amusement park. When he's not dressing up as the park's mascot, operating rides, or cleaning up the resulting vomit, Devin explores his surroundings. An ominous warning from a boardwalk fortune-teller soon leads to his investigation -- aided by terminally ill child psychic Mike and fellow employee Erin Cook -- of one of the park's perennial mysteries: why do so many young women go missing in Joyland? |
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The Ways of the Dead
by Neely Tucker
"When the teenage daughter of a powerful Washington, D.C., judge is found dead, three local black kids are arrested for her murder--but reporter Sully Carter suspects there's more to the case. From the city's grittiest backstreets to the elegant halls of power, wry yet wounded Sully pursues a string of cold cases, all the while fighting against pressure from government officials, police, suspicious locals, and his own bosses at the newspaper. Based on the real-life 1990s Princeton Place murders"
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