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Southland

by Nina Revoyr

Published: 2003-01-01

Paperback: 348 pages

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"[A]n absolutely compelling story of family and racial tragedy. Revoyr’s novel is honest in detailing southern California’s brutal history, and honorable in showing how families survived with love and tenacity and dignity."—Susan Straight, author of Highwire MoonSouthland brings us a...

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* * * * Persuasive,
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The Art of Detection

by Laurie R. King

Published: 2007-05-29

Mass Market Paperback: 495 pages

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In this thrilling new crime novel that ingeniously bridges Laurie R. King’s Edgar and Creasey Awards—winning Kate Martinelli series and her bestselling series starring Mary Russell, San Francisco homicide detective Kate Martinelli crosses paths with Sherlock Holmes–in a spellbinding ...

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Shell Games: A John Marquez Crime Novel

by Kirk Russell

Published: 2004-10

Paperback: 352 pages

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Masters of crime fiction immediately hailed Shell Games, which introduced a dynamic new hero and an exciting new author. Michael Connelly: "You know when you read this one that you are on to something good. Kirk Russell comes out of the gate with a story brimming with fresh characters and ...

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Sharpshooter: A Sunny McCoskey Napa Valley Mystery (Napa Valley Mysteries)

by Nadia Gordon

Published: 2002-06-01

Paperback: 272 pages

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Sunny McCoskey is the independent chef/owner of Wildside, a little cafe nestled in Napa Valley, where the food is exactly right. When the heir apparent to a major vineyard is shot dead, and Sunny's eccentric winemaker friend, Wade, is arrested for the murder, she launches her own investigation. The solution...

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* * * * * Inspiring,
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God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine

by Victoria Sweet

Published: 2013-04-02

Paperback: 432 pages

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Victoria Sweet's new book, SLOW MEDICINE, is on sale now!For readers of Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air, a medical “page-turner” that traces one doctor’s “remarkable journey to the essence of medicine” (The San Francisco Chronicle). San Francisco’s Laguna Honda Hos...

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Broken Pieces

by Rachel Thompson

Published: 2013-12-12

Paperback: 106 pages

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Not easy subjects -- love, loss, sexual abuse, date rape, grief -- but real ones, told in pieces (thus the title). Broken Pieces is a work of non-fiction. Poetry, prose, and essays to let you into one woman's life -- a searingly raw examination of topics most people avoid. Already a #1 best seller...

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Broken

by Karin Fossum

Published: 2008-07-02

Paperback: 272 pages

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A gripping novel set on the boundary between fact and fiction.A woman wakes one night to find that a strange man has walked into her bedroom. She lies there in terrified silence unable to move. The woman is an author and the man one of her prospective characters. So desperate is he to have...

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Social Crimes: A Novel

by Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Published: 2013-06-04

Paperback: 352 pages

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New York Times bestselling author Jane Stanton Hitchcock's Social Crimes is a riveting thriller of manners, obsession, and revenge that scales the heights and plumbs the depths of the New York social scene. When Jo Slater, one of New York’s premier socialites and a patron of the arts, b...

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The Wonderful World of Oz: The Wizard of Oz, The Emerald City of Oz, Glinda of Oz (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

by L. Frank Baum

Published: 1998-08-01

Paperback: 389 pages

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Three imaginative and innovative novels that reveal the true land of OzMost people are familiar with the land of Oz by way of the classic 1939 film. But the film's basis was only the first of fourteen books about Oz in which Baum developed his vision of a socialist paradise and which garnered an immense...

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The Wisdom Trail: In the Footsteps of Remarkable Women

by Janet Lieberman, Julie Hungar

Published: 2009-07-23

Hardcover: 224 pages

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An invitation to eavesdrop on a remarkable group of women who in their eighth and ninth decades reflect with candor and insight on the common threads in their well-lived lives The Wisdom Trail follows the life trajectories of extraordinary women, now in their seventies and eighties, who sh...