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Double Cross: The Explosive Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America

by Sam Giancana, Chuck Giancana

Published: 2014-01-02

Paperback: 496 pages

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Featuring a brand-new introduction by the author, this New York Times bestseller presents an inside exposé  of mob boss Sam Giancana—talented businessman, Las Vegas entrepreneur, ruthless killer, and outside player for the CIA’s dirtiest deeds. Giancana clawed his way ...

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The Beekeeper's Ball (Bella Vista Chronicles)

by Susan Wiggs

Published: 2015-03-31

Mass Market Paperback: 432 pages

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs returns to sun-drenched Bella Vista, where the land's bounty yields a rich harvest…and family secrets that have long been buried Isabel Johansen, a celebrated chef who grew up in the enchanting Sonoma town of Archangel, is transforming he...

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* * * * Graphic,
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel

by Richard Flanagan

Published: 2015-04-14

Paperback: 416 pages

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Winner of the Man Booker Prize“Nothing since Cormac McCarthy’s The Road has shaken me like this.” —The Washington PostIn The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan displays the gifts that have made him one of the most acclaimed writers of contemporary fiction. Moving deft...

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* * * * Optimistic,
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Taken

by Dee Henderson

Published: 2015-04-28

Paperback: 432 pages

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An investigator who knows tragic loss firsthand, and his new client, missing far too long...Abducted at the age of sixteen and coerced into assisting the Jacoby crime family, Shannon Bliss has finally found a way out. She desperately wants to resume some semblance of normal life, but she a...

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* * * * Dramatic,
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Girl Underwater

by Claire Kells

Published: 2015-03-31

Hardcover: 304 pages

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An adventurous debut novel that cross cuts between a competitive college swimmer’s harrowing days in the Rocky Mountains after a major airline disaster and her recovery supported by the two men who love her—only one of whom knows what really happened in the wilderness. Nineteen-year-ol...

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The Crow Eaters

by Bapsi Sidhwa

Published: 2015-04-16

Paperback: 304 pages

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Faredoon (Freddie) Junglewalla is either the jewel of the Parsi community or a murdering scoundrel. Freddie???s mother-in-law, Jerbanoo, thinks he is planning to do away with her, but Freddie has always been a pragmatist: if the old woman were to die (be murdered?) the body would have to b...

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The Ice Queen: A Novel

by Nele Neuhaus

Published: 2015-01-13

Hardcover: 352 pages

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The body of 92-year-old Jossi Goldberg, Holocaust survivor and American citizen, is found shot to death execution style in his house near Frankfurt. A five-digit number is scrawled in blood at the murder scene. The autopsy reveals an old and unsuccessfully covered tattoo on the corpse's ar...

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Hopi Summer

by Carolyn O'Bagy Davis

Published: 2007-04-23

Paperback: 160 pages

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In 1927 Maud Melville, a wealthy New Englander, and Ethel Muchvo, a Hopi potter, struck up a remarkable friendship. Using diaries, letters, and photographs of Ethel and Maud, biographer and historian Carolyn O'Bagy Davis delves into the touching relationship that blossomed between two very different...

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Between

by Debra Samson

Published: 2013-04-03

Paperback: 224 pages

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Between the two of them, Carolyn and Barbara's 30-year friendship embraced all that life offers: passionate love, crazy families, good and bad marriages, a fabulous circle of friends, loads of laughter, sickness, health and, ultimately, death. When Barbara is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer she has...

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* * * * * Inspiring,
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Saving Simon: How a Rescue Donkey Taught Me the Meaning of Compassion

by Jon Katz

Published: 2014-10-07

Hardcover: 224 pages

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In this heartfelt, thoughtful, and inspiring memoir, New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz tells the story of his beloved rescue donkey, Simon, and the wondrous ways that animals make us wiser and kinder people.   In the spring of 2011, Jon Katz received a phone call that would chall...