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How the Deer Moon Hungers Susan Wingate For people who enjoy books like Where the Crawdads Sing and My Sister's Keeper. Mackenzie Fraser witnesses a drunk driver mow down her seven-year-old sister and her mother blames her. Then she ends up in juvie on a trumped-up drug charge. Now she’s in the fight of her life... |
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The Big Dead Dry Portia Stanton-Noble Would you drive into a small Australian town in drought, packed with intrigue, lust and murder? Brumby Flat, a small country town in South Australia, suddenly rises to notoriety and becomes the centre of the world through a baffling series of murders and accidental deaths. Raquel Willaston and her son, Steve, have just... |
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21 Days Donald R. Dragovich 21 Days is the chronological countdown to David's death as described by his brother, Donald. His written thoughts document what was happening to his brother David as he quickly succumbed to esophageal cancer. Donald describes his emotional turmoil in dealing with his... |
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Daughter of Drum Mountain: The Remarkable Life of Muriel Caldwell Pilley Gail Pilley Harris This is the story of a brilliant woman who struggled to understand Christianity in the midst of war, loss, and depression. |
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Stay, Daughter Yasmin Azad "We did not stay in our houses. Not in the way our grandmothers had, or our mothers. We went out a little more and veiled ourselves a little less," begins this coming-of age memoir. Suffused with love, humor and compassion this poignant story gives an intimate glimpse into a traditional Muslim... |
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Arnold Falls Charlie Suisman Spend time in the funny, oddball village of Arnold Falls, where larger-than-life characters deal with the smallest of problems. Somehow, it all comes out right in the end. Given the choice of go big or go home, nine times out of ten the townspeople of Arnold Falls will go home, get back into their house... |
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Before & After Tudor Robins When the world changes overnight, Aspen has her own, immediate, world to protect. Her horses, her land, and the business she’s been building are all threatened by the shutdown and the virus causing it. For years Aspen’s been wishing long-lost love, Dob, would return, and now – living alone, with so much responsibility on... |
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Godfrey's Crusade Mark Howard Godfrey's Crusade is the first installment of the Griffin Legends series. It's a fantasy novel with a mixture of martial and religious themes; we're going on a crusade here after all if the title didn't give it away, it has a carefully chosen combination of fantasy and real historical elements, its plot structure is increasingly complex throughout... |
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After Effects Andrea Gilats To grieve after a profound loss is perfectly natural and healthy. To be debilitated by grief for more than a decade, as Andrea Gilats was, is something else. In her candid, deeply moving, and ultimately helpful memoir of breaking free of death’s relentless grip on her life, Gilats tells her story of living with prolonged, or "complicated," grief... |
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Vapour Trails Abdul Qadir Two friends living a legally questionable life decide one day to leave it all behind and turn over a new leaf. They soon realize that actions have consequences, and getting out is much harder than getting in. A transgressive tour of Pakistan, Vapor Trails describes a world that is painted in strange... |
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A Touch of Terror Gary Ponzo A rogue Russian agent known as The Machine has infiltrated the U.S. border with a case of uranium powerful enough to destroy the entire west coast. FBI agent Nick Bracco recruits his mafia-connected cousin Tommy to help track down the case and try to save the nation from... |
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The Universe in 3/4 Time Leona Francombe When a mysterious World War II piano appears on a Brussels street one winter’s night, no one could have imagined the events it would set in motion... least of all Audrey Nightingale, the pianist who comes across it. The instrument, of finest rosewood, bears the name of an obscure Czech manufacturer... |
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The Retired Detectives' Club: See No Evil Shawn Scuefield Meet retired police detective Robert Raines. After devoting forty-three years of his life to serving and protecting the streets of Chicago, he has called it a career. But good cop instincts die hard—if they die at all. Before long, he finds himself teamed with two fellow retired cops, Dale Gamble and Ashe, as... |
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A Time to Seek Susan Pohlman With wisdom, reverence, and grace, Susan Pohlman delivers a lyrical meditation on midlife and motherhood while traveling the cobblestoned streets of Florence, Genoa, and Rome. A Time to Seek is a must for those navigating the empty nest or a period of personal transition. As the journey through Italy unfolds, Pohlman... |
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One in a Billion Nancy Pine This heart-wrenching story immerses readers in the dramatic survival of one outspoken man who illuminates the souls of a billion ordinary Chinese citizens. An Wei—a stubborn, hardworking peasant who has lived by his values and stood up for his convictions—has succeeded against all odds in the authoritarian environment of China. |
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Digesting Foods and Fads Judi Nath It is time to tease sense out of the nonsense when it comes to eating smartly. This book offers advice on how to eat nutritiously every day without all the guilt, money, and discomfort wasted on the latest, greatest fad. Using the best scientific nutrition research available, this book will show how to navigate the... |
