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Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of In an Instant comes the moving story of a family grappling with grief and a woman with the power to help them through it—or stand in their way. After a tragic accident claims the life of one of her children, Marie Egide is desperate to carve out a fresh start for her family. With her husband and their three surviving children, Marie travels to New Hampshire, where she plans to sell a family estate and then, just...
Author
Publisher
Scott Douglas Prill
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From Scott Douglas Prill, the author of the historical fiction novels Into the Realm of Time and From the Realm of Time, comes a story of mystery and murder that begins in Iowa in 1940 and ends thirty years later in 1970. In November 1940, a businessman abruptly vanishes from a rural town in Iowa, never to be seen again. Three decades later, a decorated but disillusioned Vietnam War veteran dies in the same town, a death some view suspiciously....
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles, 1965. Tempers have boiled over in the Watts neighborhood, sparked by the traffic stop of two Black motorists, the Frye brothers, by the Highway Patrol. Freelance crime photographer Harry Ingram is on the scene, capturing images of the cops as they unleash batons, dogs, and water hoses on the predominantly Black crowd. When he snaps proof of an unarmed man being shot down by the LAPD, he winds up in the hospital, beaten, his camera confiscated....
5) Meadow Falls
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inheriting Meadow Falls, the farm that's been in her Texas family for generations, Angela Marie, saddled with a legacy she never wanted, comes to see this as a precious gift by coming to terms with her past with the help of a handsome veteran she hires as a farmhand.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 2007 Ukraine, after Yefim Shulman, beloved husband, grandfather and World War II veteran, passes away, his widow Nina finds a letter to the KGB in his briefcase that reveals his lifelong secret, which forces them to reassess the man they thought they knew and the country he defended.
7) Held
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
"A breathtaking and ineffable new novel from the author of the international best sellers Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault-a novel of love and loyalty across generations, at once sweeping and intimate. 1917. On a battlefield near the River Aisne, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory as the snow falls-a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with...
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