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"Meticulously reported, exquisitely written, and grippingly told, Say Nothing is a work of revelation." --David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon From award-winning New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged...
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"The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women...
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Book Hoard Press
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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Why have you come to Carterhaugh? Seven years ago, after a mysterious fire and tragedy, Janet's childhood friend Tam was presumed dead, leaving her desolate. Now of marriageable age, Janet asks her father for the ruined Lane family estate as a wedding dowry. But when she arrives on the water-soaked and blooming grounds of Carterhaugh, she encounters a man who looks eerily familiar. Stranger still, he insists the roses she tries to pick are his. Janet...
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dpilz
Pub. Date:
2016
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English
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An ancient shaman, aghast that his final chance for renewed life has just slipped away, curses the thwarted lovers who have foolishly eaten his last mushrooms of immortality. Millenia later, among the boggy dunes of the Southern Oregon Coast, Johnny Wander's vision quest leads to mind-blowing encounters in the eerie grove on the edge of the haunted bog. Meanwhile, farmer Ole Gorseman baffles fellow cranberry growers with his change of heart, the Confederated...
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The University of South Carolina Press
Pub. Date:
[2025]
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English
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"The Cheese Biscuit Queen returns with signature sass, spirited stories, and 80 new recipesQueen Mary Martha Greene's ear for stories, heart for telling them, and taste for all the ingredients that whip up a good time whisk together in The Cheese BiscuitQueen, Kiss My Aspic!: Southern Recipes, Saucy Stories, and More Rambunctious Behavior - the memoir, cookbook, and hilarious sequel to her best-selling book The Cheese Biscuit Queen Tells All. In the...
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Image Comics
Pub. Date:
2016
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English
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The Head Lopper, Norgal, and the nagging severed head of Agatha Blue Witch arrive on the Isle of Barra to find it overrun with beasts: minions of the Sorcerer of the Black Bog. When Queen Abigail hires Norgal and Agatha to slay the Sorcerer, our heroes trek across the island reliving the horrors of their heads and playing right into the hands of a master manipulator.
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Collective Ink
Pub. Date:
2015
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English
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An amber bead. A gold and glass drinking horn. A ring engraved with Thor's hammer, all artifacts from a Germanic tribe that carved a space for itself through brutality and violence on a windswept land. Brimhild weaves, peace and conveys culture to the kingdom, until the secret of her birth threatens to tear apart the fragile political stability. This is her story, the tale of Grendel's Mother. She is no monster as, portrayed in the Old English epic,...
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Clean & Wholesome Romance Club
Pub. Date:
2018
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English
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Jessica Stone grew up in the South Bronx to an alcoholic mother and an abusive father. Determined to overcome her dysfunctional childhood, and the poverty she was born into, Jessica became a successful and wealthy real estate agent with an apartment in Manhattan. At thirty-two years old she has it all. The large apartment, the expensive sports car, and money in the bank. But, despite her continuing achievements, there is something missing in her life....
10. Florida Hustle
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Findaway Voices
Pub. Date:
2023
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English
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"Embark on a rollicking Florida escapade through the vivid pages of this masterfully crafted, wickedly funny comic novel. Set in 1980s Florida, this coming-of-age adventure follows the journey of a 17-year-old aspiring horror filmmaker captivated by a B-movie scream queen. Stealing away from his family's Palm Beach mansion, he joins forces with an aging con man and his ambitious girlfriend. Together, they race into the heart of the Everglades, where...
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Doublejoy Books
Pub. Date:
2020
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English
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They were stolen in the dark to work for a night and a day, building a tower for the wizard Krummholz on faraway Copper Island, in a place where the trees grow twisted in a poisoned bog. Some of the unwilling workers were returned bewildered, bruised, and marked by whips -- others died as the uncaring wizard called new workers to his tower. Now Jenia is the only one left of her family willing to leave her orchards and walk five hundred miles in search...
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Princeton University Press
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English
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"This is a follow-up volume to Gracie's Spring Wildflowers of the Northeast. This new book treats 35 species of summer blooming wildflower some common, others less so concentrating on each species life history and, in the same manner as the earlier book, providing intriguing insights into the biology, ecology, folklore, and, where relevant, ethno-botany of each flower. Each species account is richly illustrated with a range of color photos"--
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Fulton Books, Inc
Pub. Date:
2016
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English
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Universally generations have been captivated by Mississippi River Legends and mystique, however no one can truly know the great river unless they clutch a paddle for 2,300 miles or read "Willow Sieve Chronicles." One can read Twain and everything written since or perhaps take an expensive excursion on Delta Queen, however, one will never come to know the sight, sound, smell, taste and touch of the "Mighty Muddy" unless they climb aboard the battered,...
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Green Book Publishing
Pub. Date:
2019
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English
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A collection of 3 standalone Clean and Wholesome romance short stories with guarantee HEA and no cliffhangers.Escape to ParadiseVictoria Martin once had the perfect marriage. Now, five years after tragedy left her alone to raise her daughter Katie, Victoria decides to take a vacation in Australia. She's excited to see her best friends, and Katie wants to reconnect with her own. During her stay Victoria meets the charismatic Nick who manages a surf...
17. That Day
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Deana Farrady
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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The man I had a crush on is now my enemy.HarrietThe dreamiest guy I've ever met insulted me cruelly, dashing all my hopes that we were meant to be together. Naturally I unleashed my righteous fury upon him.So, funny thing. It turns out I You might say we had an ugly misunderstanding. Ha ha.You know what I hate? When characters in novels get bogged down by pointless misunderstandings. Like, this is not Jane Austen, people. This is real life and adults...