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The Janus Stone (Ruth Galloway)

by Elly Griffiths

Published: 2011-01-21

Hardcover: 352 pages

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It's been only a few months since archaeologist Ruth Galloway found herself entangled in a missing persons case, barely escaping with her life. But when construction workers demolishing a large old house in Norwich uncover the bones of a child beneath a doorway?minus its skull?Rut...

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* * * * Dark,
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Jar City: A Reykjavík Thriller

by Arnaldur Indridason

Published: 2005-10-01

Paperback: 289 pages

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From Gold Dagger Award--winning author Arnaldur Indridason comes a Reykjav�k thriller introducing Inspector Erlendur�When a lonely old man is found dead in his Reykjav�k flat, the only clues are a cryptic note left by the killer and a photograph of a young girl's grave. Inspector Erlendur ...

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Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles

by Anthony Swofford

Published: 2005-10-18

Paperback: 260 pages

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* * * * Informative,
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Jarrettsville: A Novel

by Cornelia Nixon

Published: 2009-09-29

Paperback: 340 pages

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Based on a true story from the author’s family history, Jarrettsville begins in 1869, just after Martha Jane Cairnes has shot and killed her fiancé, Nicholas McComas, in front of his Union cavalry militia as they were celebrating the anniversary of the Confederate surrender at Appomatto...

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Jasmine

by Bharati Mukherjee

Published: 1999-04-05

Paperback: 256 pages

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When Jasmine is suddenly widowed at seventeen, she seems fated to a life of quiet isolation in the small Indian village where she was born. But the force of Jasmine's desires propels her explosively into a larger, more dangerous, and ultimately more life-giving world. In just a few years, ...

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* * * * Interesting,
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The Jasmine Moon Murder (Tea Shop Mystery)

by Laura Childs

Published: 2005-08-02

Mass Market Paperback: 272 pages

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Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is catering a Charleston benefit, a "Ghost Crawl" through Jasmine Cemetery, when the organizer drops dead—and it looks like foul play. Theodosia stirs things up with her own investigation, and gets into hot water up to her neck.

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* * * Informative,
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Jasmine Nights

by Julia Gregson

Published: 2012-02-01

Paperback: 416 pages

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From the bestselling author of EAST OF THE SUN comes an extraordinary love story. It is 1942 and the war is tearing Europe apart, shattering lives and devastating countries. But for some, it will be the greatest of adventures. Saba, a striking, headstrong singer from Wales defies her family to...

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Jasmine Nights: A Novel

by Julia Gregson

Published: 2012-06-05

Paperback: 432 pages

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From the award-winning author of East of the Sun, a powerful love story set against the unstable and exotic cities of Cairo and Istanbul during the height of World War II.At twenty-three, Saba Tarcan knows her only hope of escaping the clamor of Cardiff Bay, Wales, lies in her voice. While...

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* * * * Graphic,
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Jasper Jones

by Craig Silvey

Published: 2012-03-27

Paperback: 320 pages

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A 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor BookCharlie Bucktin, a bookish thirteen year old, is startled one summer night by an urgent knock on his bedroom window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in their small mining town, and he has come to ask for Charlie's help. Terribly afraid but despera...

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* * * * Beautiful,
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Jayber Crow

by Wendell Berry

Published: 2001-09

Paperback: 384 pages

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“This is a book about Heaven,” says Jayber Crow, “but I must say too that . . . I have wondered sometimes if it would not finally turn out to be a book about Hell.” It is 1932 and he has returned to his native Port William to become the town's barber. Orphaned at age ten, Jayber Cr...