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As the Russia of Nicholas and Alexandra rushes toward
catastrophe, the Grand Duchess Elisavyeta is ensconced in the lavish and
magnificent Romanov court. In the same city, but world apart, Pavel is a
simple village man in search of a better life. When his young wife, Shura,
is shot and killed by tsarist soldiers during a political demonstration,
Pavel dedicates his life to overthrowing the Romanovs. Pavel's underground
group assassinates Elisavyeta's husband, the Grand Duke, changing her life
forever.
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Meg Waite Clayton might
have titled her novel "The Wednesday Sisters
Writing Society," except that it is as much
about shared lives—children and laughter,
illness and eccentricity, miscarriage and
divorce—as it is about shared literary
dreams. THE WEDNESDAY SISTERS begins in the
late 1960s and brilliantly and movingly
tells the intertwined stories of five women
who support one another through the best and
worst of times. It may remind some readers
of Marilyn French’s 1970s classic novel...
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In Maggie Barlow’s world,
reality is overrated. So what if her singing
career has hit a sour note or she’s no
longer the ingénue that she used to be? So
what if she drinks and smokes a bit too much
or likes to chat with a fairy godperson who
appears to her from time to time? She’s the
queen of denial and an actress to boot—she
can just take on the role of someone she
likes better than her sorry self.
Regrettably, that role is currently Dorothy
in the Little Britches Theater Company’s
production...
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In the dog days of summer,
just as the Republican National Convention
comes to town, private investigator Augie
Boyer learns how far a fringe political
group will go to force their agenda. A
rollicking topical novel for this or any
political season.
Pothead private eye Augie Boyer is out of
sorts. He's been smoking too much
Ponchartrain Pootie and scarfing down an
excess of fried food. He can't stop thinking
of his therapist wife, who left him for
another therapist...
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What if Jesus suddenly
appeared and announced that he planned to
run for President of the United States? Yes,
that Jesus. And what if a well-meaning but
utterly inexperienced band of disciples not
only helped him mount a seat-of-the-pants
campaign but ran it well, getting millions
of people to support him and, in the
process, throwing the two major-party
candidates—as well as the world’s news
media—into a frenzy as they scramble to...
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The year is 1929, and
newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton arrive
from Boston in the North Carolina mountains
to create a timber empire. Although George
has already lived in the camp long enough to
father an illegitimate child, Serena is new
to the mountains—but she soon shows herself
the equal of any worker, overseeing crews,
hunting rattlesnakes, even saving her
husband’s life in the wilderness...
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A sophisticated thriller that takes
readers on a wild ride through a clandestine plot to assassinate Fidel
Castro.
Former CIA agent Carolina Perez has spent
five years working deep undercover for a
very secret and very powerful organization.
Their mission is to bring down Castro and
Free Cuba from the grip of his long and
troubled regime. She believes in her heart
that the cause she works for is just,
even...
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Celebrating the art, passion, and
culture of fifteenth-century Italy, THE MIRACLES OF PRATO brings to life the
romantic story of the famed painter-monk Fra Filippo Lippi and the beautiful
Florentine nun who was to become his muse, lover, and the mother of his
children.
The novel opens with a child born in secrecy at the Convent Santa Margherita
and taken from his mother by the head of the
church’s Augustinian...
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From the Author of Bread Alone comes a Tale of One Woman’s
Struggle to Remake Herself in the Wake of Loss and Deception
In 1989 Sunny Cooper escaped to Albuquerque.
Fourteen years later she’s still there,
struggling to make a living, to shore up her
floundering relationship, and to forget her
childhood on a commune, where a freak
accident killed her younger sister, Mari...
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Julian Donahue is in love with his
iPod.
Each song that shuffles through “that greatest of all human inventions”
triggers a memory. There are songs for the girls from when he was single;
there’s the one for the day he met his wife-to-be, and another for the day
his son was born. But when his family falls apart, even music loses its hold
on him, and he has nothing.
Until one snowy night in Brooklyn...
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From the bestselling author of The
Space Between Us comes an emotionally charged story of life, death, despair,
and hope, and the lengths we will go to in the name of love.
When Frank and Ellie Benton lose their only
child, seven-year-old Benny, to a sudden
illness, the perfect life they'd built is
shattered. Filled with wrenching memories,
their Ann Arbor home becomes unbearable...
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In the spring of 1844,
American naturalist Henry David Thoreau
accidentally set fire to 300 acres of woods
near Walden Pond in Massachusetts. The
consequences of this fire, told through the
lives of four main characters, form the
narrative heart of this wonderful debut
novel.
WOODSBURNER brilliantly interweaves the
story of Thoreau, a young pencil maker by
trade; the unforgettable...
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In this second detective Kubu mystery,
Michael Stanley’s memorable, large detective faces another challenging case
that mixes murder and smuggling in politically-charged northern Botswana.
When a guest is founded murdered at a tourist camp on the lovely Linyanti
River, Detective Kubu is sent in to help the local police stage an
investigation. The victim is quickly identified as...
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Laurie Viera Rigler’s debut novel, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict,
was a hit with fans and critics, and a BookSense and Los Angeles Times
bestseller. Its open-to-interpretation ending left readers begging for
more—and RUDE AWAKENINGS OF A JANE AUSTEN ADDICT delivers. While Confessions
took twenty-first-century free spirit Courtney Stone into the social
confines of Jane Austen’s era, Rude Awakenings tells the parallel story of
Jane Mansfield, a gentleman’s...
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"Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious
thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not
comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most
unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is
fiction."
--Eudora Welty
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Fiction coming out in 2012
January:
THE
WORLD WE FOUND by Thrity Umrigar,
MORE THAN WORDS CAN
SAY by Robert Barclay,
THE FOUR MS BRADWELLS by Meg Waite Clayton, paperback.
February:
THE HEALING
by Jonathan Odell,
THE
GOLDEN HOUR by Margaret Wurtele,
THE TRAGEDY OF ARTHUR by Arthur Phillips, paperback.
March:
MAY THE
ROAD RISE TO MEET YOU by Peter Troy,
THE
KING OF DIAMONDS by Simon Tolkien paperback,
THE
LITTLE COFFEE SHOP OF KABUL by Deborah Rodriquez,
paperback (formerly A Cup of Friendship in hardbound).
April: THE COVE
by Ron Rash.
June:
THE
GIRL IN THE GARDEN Kamala Nair, paperback.
August:
I GAVE MY HEART TO KNOW THIS by Ellen Baker, paperback.
October: KILLER LIBRARIAN by Mary Lou Kirwin, IN NEED
OF A GOOD WIFE by Kelly O'Connor McNees, AMERICAN GHOST
by Janis Owens.
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