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"Gastner's capabilities are plausible for a septuagenarian, and Havill peoples the book with believable characters." -Publishers Weekly STARRED review
What do you do when you inherit $330 million after taxes? If you're New Mexico rancher Miles Waddell, you build a dream. Waddell's dream is NightZone, an astronomy-based theme park complete with giant radio telescope, a bank of smaller scopes linked to a theater, five-star dining in a restaurant with...
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2007 - Florida Book Award Bronze Medal Winner
"As an archeological tour alone the book would be worth reading, but it's the fascinating and complex characters that give the story life and vibrancy." -Rhys Bowen, New York Times bestselling author
Faye Longchamp and Joe Wolf Mantooth have traveled to Neshoba County, Mississippi, to help excavate a site near Nanih Waiya, the sacred mound where tradition says the Choctaw nation was born. When farmer...
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Attending the Yaqui tribe's Easter Ceremonies in Tucson should be a dream come true for Cheyenne-wannabe-shaman Mad Dog. But immediately after his arrival, he is accused of being a witch. Then a policeman is murdered, and suddenly Mad Dog and his wolf-hybrid, Hailey, are targets of a city-wide manhunt with shoot-first overtones. Mad Dog's niece, Heather English, a part-time deputy for her father in Kansas, comes to Tucson to arrange a peaceful surrender...
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Southeast Ohio's Hocking Hills is known for its waterfalls, recess caves, and gorges. Hocking Hills Day Hikes recommends the best hiking trails in the region. Each featured hike entry provides a trail description, trailhead directions, a descriptive photo, and an easy-to-read trail map. Additionally, find tips on other nearby hikes, and find hike listings by length or features.
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1941 Britain: Children are vanishing from the village. Is it the powers of an ancient stone circle at work, or a modern predator? In mid-1941, children evacuated to the remote Shropshire village of Noddweir to escape the Blitz begin to vanish. It was not uncommon for city children faced with rural rigors to run away. But when retired American professor Edwin Carpenter, pursuing his study of standing stones, visits the village and discovers bloody...
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Surviving the 1941 Blitz and the predator in her small Shropshire village, policeman's daughter Grace Baxter moves to Newcastle-on-Tyne. Situated on the northern bank of the River Tyne, the ancient northeast city developed around the Roman settlement Pons Aelius - named for the Emperor Hadrian who built the famous wall right at the edge of the then civilized world. No matter its later history as a wool trade, then coal mining center, and the ship...
7) Six for Gold
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The Singularity-the looming point of no return when Artificial Intelligence surpasses human cognitive abilities, with consequences no one can foresee, and only a handful of people understand.
Rusty Mullins, ex-Secret Service, has never heard of the Singularity. He only knows that after the deadly challenges of his last job for security firm Prime Protection, he swore he'd stop risking his life on assignments. Then his good friend Ted Lewison, head...
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Barnes & Noble pick for "20 Favorite Indie Books of 2018"
"Casey expertly nails the extended Tucker family-some 20 people-and combines these convincing characters, a superb sense of time and place, and a solid plot in this marvelously atmospheric historical." -Publishers Weekly STARRED review
Some people who have experienced a shocking, dangerous, or terrifying event develop Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It is recognized today as a debilitating...
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"This blithe series puts itself on the side of the angels by merrily, and staunchly, subverting every tenet of political correctness."-The Independent
For many years Westonbury Cathedral has been dominated by a clique of High Church gays, so when Norman Cooper, an austere, intolerant, happy-clappy evangelist, is appointed dean, there is shock, outrage and fear.
David Elworthy, the gentle and politically innocent new bishop, is distraught at the...
10) Two for Joy
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Autumn, 1282
As Edward I wages a bloody conflict with Wales, Prioress Eleanor escorts her younger brother, Robert, and his wife, who is in labor, from their Marcher lands to greater safety at a Wynethorpe manor in a village just inside the English border. They are joined by Brother Thomas, the Prioress's trusted friend, and Sister Anne, who helps navigate the difficult birth and delivers a baby girl.
Mother and child may be healthy, but Death never...
11) Five For Silver
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"An excellent regional mystery, full of local color and historical detail." -Library Journal
Former Chief Warrant Officer Sam Blackman lost a leg in Iraq and emerged from the V.A. hospital in Asheville, NC, as a bitter civilian without a job or a future. But when he solved a series of local murders, Sam found new meaning for his life. Now he and his partner, Nakayla Robertson, are opening a detective agency. They have high hopes that the thriving...
12) Ten for Dying
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"Realistic characters, natural dialogue, well-integrated historical detail and a surprise twist ending mark this as superior mystery fare."-Publishers Weekly STARRED review
To think of Chicago in the 1930s is to conjure up pictures of the Chicago Outfit and its earlier crime lords like Capone. Even the storied history of the Cubs or of the city's merchant princes and philanthropists can't quite shake the city's gritty image.
It's time for a new...
13) One for Sorrow
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Kanab, Utah is bitterly divided by the politics of land management. When environmentalist David Greenbriar is found dead, County Sheriff, Charley Sutter, seeks help from newly appointed Law Enforcement Ranger, J. D. Books. Books discovers that the victim's widow has been having an affair with Lance Clayburn. Physical evidence links Clayburn to the killing. Books connects Greenbriar's murder to a corrupt Kane County Sheriff's deputy and a Las Vegas...
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When Stella Crown hires a new farmhand to help run her Pennsylvania dairy business, she gets more than she bargained for.
Her new helper is a Mennonite widow who arrives burdened not only with grief, but with rumors of infidelity and murder...and a young child. Before you know it, Stella, battling her own deep sorrow over the loss of her long-time friend and employee Hank as well as worries over her shaky finances, copes with an influx of nasty in-laws,...
15) Unwitting Mystic
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What happens when an agnostic healthcare executive in Washington, DC begins to inexplicably venture into heavenly realms encountering Jesus, Buddha and angels? It sets off an unsustainable roller coaster of ecstasy and confusion that ultimately ends in a devastating crash. And for Mary Reed, a truly miraculous resurrection. Surrendering to her Divine calling, Mary is swiftly guided into a mystical journey that is astounding by any measure. Her new...
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ONCE UPON A WINTER NIGHTBlue Hills is a picturesque city where life is good all year round. Ally happily fills her days with work-her successful blog-and family and friends. When she and her friends head out to the woods for the annual Winter Night festival, she cannot even imagine the surprises it holds in store. The discovery of the body of a man who left Blue Hills years ago sends the whole town into an uproar. Intrigued by his story, Ally quickly...
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Abused, Conquered, Alive is a touching memoir of the effects of abuse and the hope that victims might be able to find peace. Author Mary Proctor Reed talks about the different types of abuse she experienced as a child and as an adult. She also chronicles the life she lived as an adultas a loving wife and mother. She explains the forms that abuse can take and how each person can conquer the abuse and take back his or her life. The good news is that...
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Release the pain and find a life of pure joy.
Discover why you are struggling and finding it difficult to connect. Do you feel you're just surviving? The Bible refers to joy and a peace beyond our circumstances. I wanted joy and contentment in my life. This set me on a quest to find pure joy. God led me on a path to relinquish the pain of the past. He had me revisit the events of my birth. He had a plan of action to quench my negative internal thinking....
19) Once Upon a Song
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ONCE UPON A SONGBlue Hills is a quaint and picturesque small town where life is good all year long. Ally fills her days working on her successful blog and spending time with friends and family. When her favorite singer gives a concert in Blue Hills, she's thrilled to get the chance to meet him. But the meeting never takes place-the singer is found stabbed to death in his dressing room.Erica, his assistant, is first on the list of suspects and she...
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Approaching forty, unemployed but well-off, talented but unknown, functional but depressed, former musical actress Cecilia Morrison is in a serious slump. Although she once won leading roles, Cecilia now can't bring herself to audition for parts. She finally-reluctantly- seeks therapy, hoping it will make a difference... but in the end a runaway teenager who cons her out of sixty bucks, not therapy, is what changes her life.
Whether at the apex of...