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Southern Fried Women

by Pamela King Cable

Published: 2011-08-01

Paperback: 256 pages

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Pamela King Cable has woven together the music, the language, the religions, and the traditions of the South. The result is Southern Fried Women, a collection of nine short stories about Southern women, and a few men, struggling to find answers to unanswerable questions, hoping for forgiveness, seeking...

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Claiming Ground

by Laura Bell

Published: 2011-04-19

Paperback: 256 pages

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A Providence Journal Best Book of the Year In 1977, Laura Bell left her family home in Kentucky for a wild and unexpected adventure: herding sheep in Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin. The only woman in a man’s world, she nevertheless found a home among the strange community of drunks and eccen...

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Bellweather Rhapsody

by Kate Racculia

Published: 2014-05-13

Hardcover: 352 pages

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"For its darkness and its glee, I loved this novel."  —Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore A high school music festival goes awry when a young prodigy disappears from the most infamous room in the Bellweather Hotel, in a whip-smart novel sparkling with dark and...

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Stolen from the Garden: The Kidnapping of Virginia Piper

by William Swanson

Published: 2014-10-15

Hardcover: 288 pages

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On a July afternoon in 1972, two masked men waving guns abducted forty-nine-year-old Virginia Piper from the garden of her lakeside home in Orono, Minnesota. After her husband, a prominent investment banker, paid a $1 million ransom, an anonymous caller directed the FBI to a thickly wooded...

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The Cross-Country Quilters: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel (The Elm Creek Quilts)

by Jennifer Chiaverini

Published: 2009-09-22

Paperback: 368 pages

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Readers of The Quilter's Apprentice and Round Robin have been enchanted by Elm Creek Quilt Camp, where women gather each year for quilting, friendship, and fun. The third in the Elm Creek Quilts series introduces the Cross-Country Quilters, a group of far-flung friends who pledge to comple...

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The Cleaner of Chartres: A Novel

by Salley Vickers

Published: 2014-04-29

Paperback: 304 pages

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“If you enjoy the work of Marilynne Robinson, Penelope Fitzgerald, James Salter…you should be reading Vickers.” —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book WorldThere is something very special about Agnès Morel. A quiet presence in the small French town of Chartres, she can usually b...

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In a Rocket Made of Ice: Among the Children of Wat Opot

by Gail Gutradt

Published: 2014-08-12

Hardcover: 352 pages

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A beautifully told, inspiring true story of one woman’s volunteer experiences at an orphanage in rural Cambodia—a book that embodies the belief that love, compassion, and generosity of spirit can overcome even the most fearsome of obstacles. Gail Gutradt was at a crossroads in her life...

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Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation

by Deborah Davis

Published: 2013-02-05

Paperback: 320 pages

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In this revealing social history, one remarkable White House dinner becomes a lens through which to examine race, politics, and the lives and legacies of two of America’s most iconic figures. In 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to have dinner at the executi...

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The Butterfly and the Violin (A Hidden Masterpiece Novel)

by Kristy Cambron

Published: 2014-07-15

Paperback: 336 pages

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"Fresh. Fascinating. Unforgettable. The Butterfly and the Violin is a masterpiece of a debut." --Laura Frantz, author of Love's Reckoning". . . impossible to put down." --RT Book Reviews, 4 1/2 Stars, TOP PICK!A Mysterious painting breathes hope and beauty into the darkest corners of Ausc...

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Run: A Novel

by Andrew Grant

Published: 2014-10-07

Hardcover: 288 pages

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For fans of Harlan Coben’s Tell No One and Joseph Finder’s Paranoia—a high-octane thriller featuring a tech consultant who unwittingly steps into the rabbit hole of corporate cover-ups—and finds that his highly demanding job has suddenly become highly dangerous.   From Andrew Gran...