Genre Fiction

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“. . . an engaging story . . .”

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“. . . a fun, slapstick kind of story . . .”

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“Gavin Extence has written a book that is richer, more lucid than it seems on its surface.”

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“I often wonder if happiness isn’t knowing what should and should not be explained.”

“But how can we tell which is which?”

“Hmmm,” said the Abbe Paul. “That, I suppose, is wisdom”

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Love, loss, and family are the backbone of Luanne Rice’s newest novel, The Lemon Orchard. Five years after the loss of her ex-husband and daughter, Julie is still reeling from their loss.

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“. . . it works because of the originality and the fascinating detail wrought in the author’s capable prose.”

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On a fairly ordinary train ride from Edinburgh to London four strangers, three men and one woman end up in a conversation about love and how it can change a person’s life.

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“. . . both a literary mystery and a macabre thriller . . .”

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“. . . a fascinating read—sometimes terrifying, often witty, always engagingly written.”

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Earth after World War IV wasn’t a pleasant place to be. Green spaces were annihilated, food was dangerously low, and humans were on the point of extinction.

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“. . . an enthralling legal thriller.”

The Alligator Man
is an enthralling legal thriller set in Florida.

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It took more than an opportunity to drive her estranged grandmother’s vintage Rolls Royce across the country to get Anna Rosenthal into the driver’s seat— especially when she knew her cantankerous

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The Raven’s Gift is Don Rearden’s debut novel. In it he shares stories he learned from elder residents as he grew up on the tundra of Southwestern Alaska.

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“. . . a meaty slab of literary realism in the tradition of Charles Dickens, Honoré de Balzac, and Émile Zola . . .”

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The choice of whether to live in the present or the past is a difficult one for many people, but not Corrie, the protagonist of Sherri Wood Emmons’ newest book, The Weight of Small Things.

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“Powerful stuff, honest and brutal.”

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“. . . there is a sense that Mr. North’s visually acute, action-packed style in this book is likely headed for the silver screen . . .”

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What would your reaction be if you had fallen overboard into the Arctic Ocean in 1906 and reanimated in a lab in present-day Boston?

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Peggy Hesketh’s debut novel Telling the Bees is a tender portrait of Albert Honig, a lifelong beekeeper and elderly bachelor.

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“You will not be disappointed.”

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“. . . a rallying cry for anyone who laments the rose-colored remembrances of things past and needs to wake up and smell the coffee.”

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“. . . narrated in gorgeous, elegiac prose . . . a very enjoyable and strongly recommended read. . . .

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