Narrative theme: sense of place
Celadon Books Cape May
Book SynopsisInside this mesmerizing tale of sexual desire and discovery, naive newlyweds Henry and Effie are honeymooning in Cape May, N.J., in 1957, tentatively navigating intimacy. Then they meet Clara and Max, hard-partying lovers who dazzle the innocent pair until they've lost more than their virginity. Cheek's sensual first novel leaves you wanting more. PEOPLE Henry and Effie's honeymoon is meant to be their introduction to the pleasures of the body, but in the company of Clara and her promiscuous cohort they lose all track of boundaries. A dozy, luxurious sense of enchantment comes over the story, until the rude awakening at its finale.... Cape May does something better than critique or satirize: It seduces. The Wall Street Journal Cape May is a raw, provocative portrayal of a young 1950s couple on the cusp of a sexual awakening, and the temptations that upturn their honeymoon and reshape their m
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St Martin's Press An Irish Country Girl
Book SynopsisAn Irish Country Girl is another captivating tale by Patrick Taylor, a true Irish storyteller, from the beloved Irish Country series.Mrs. Kinky Kincaid is an unflappable housekeeper who looks after two frequently frazzled doctors in the colourful Irish village of Ballybucklebo. She is a trusted fixture in the lives of those around her, and it often seems as though Kinky has always been there.Nothing could be farther from the truth.Some forty-odd years before and many miles to the south, the girl who would someday be Kinky Kincaid was Maureen O''Hanlon, a farmer''s daughter growing up in the emerald hills and glens of County Cork. A precocious girl on the cusp of womanhood, Maureen has a head full of dreams, a heart open to romance, and something more: a gift for seeing beyond the ordinary into the mystic realm of fairies, spirits, and even the dreaded Banshee, whose terrifying wail she first hears on a snowy night in 1922.Maureen finds h
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Holt McDougal Love Like That
Book SynopsisNamed a Best New Book of 2021 by Vogue and Refinery29Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Lit HubNamed one of 5 Hot Books by The National Book ReviewLonglisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for a Debut Short Story CollectionFor a friend who needs a reminder that love is weird, humans are complicated, and bad things often get better or at least later become funny stories to tell our friends. Vanity FairA sharp, witty book about brilliant, broken women that are just the right amount wrong.Whether diving into complicated relationships or wrestling with family ties, the girls and women who populate Love Like Thatmisfits and misanthropes, bickering sisters, responsible daughters, and unhappy wivesdon''t always find themselves making the best decisions. A woman struggles with a new kind of love triangle when she moves in with a
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St Martin's Press An Irish Country Yuletide
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St. Martin's Press Small Town Dreams First Impressions and Less of a
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St Martin's Press The Net Beneath Us
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE WISCONSIN WRITERS: EDNA FERBER FICTION BOOK AWARD!In her debut novel, Carol Dunbar draws from her own lived experiences, vividly describing the wonder and harshness of life off the grid. Told over the course of a year, The Net Beneath Us is a lyrical exploration of loss, marriage, parenthood, and self-reliance; a tale of how the natural worldwithout and within usoffers us healing, if we can learn where to look.Dunbar delivers both a tumble through the shifting light of grief, and a forgiving forest floor on which to land. Leif Enger, New York Times bestselling author of Peace Like a River and Virgil WanderHe promised her he would never let go. She's willing to risk everything to hold on.In the aftermath of her husband's logging accident, Elsa has more questions than answers about how to carry on while caring for their two small children in the unfinished house he was building for them
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St Martin's Press Project Namahana
Book SynopsisAn enthralling tale of disappearances, deaths, dark secrets, and corporate evil.Douglas Preston, #1 bestselling co-author of the Agent Pendergast series Nothing stays hidden forever...Two men, unified by a string of disappearances and deaths, search for answersand salvationin the jungles of Kauai. Together, they must navigate the overlapping and complicated lines between a close-knit community and the hated, but economically-necessary corporate farmsand the decades old secrets that bind them.John Teschner''s Project Namahana takes you from Midwestern, glass-walled, corporate offices, over the Pacific and across the island of Kauai; from seemingly idyllic beaches and mountainous inland jungles to the face of Mount Namahana; all the while, exploring the question of how corporate executives could be responsible for evil things without, presumably, being evil themselves.
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Celadon Books If Were Being Honest
Book SynopsisFor fans of We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange and All Adults Here by Emma Straub, Cat Shook's debut novel If We're Being Honest is the snappy, smart, heartwarming story of the Williams family, and the sweltering summer that rewrote their history.When Gerry, the beloved Williams patriarch, dies suddenly, his grandchildren flock from across the country to the family home in Eulalia, Georgia. But when Gerry's best friend steps up to the microphone to deliver his eulogy, the funeral turns out unlike anyone expected. The cousins, left reeling and confused, cope with their fresh grief and various private dramas. Delia, recently heartbroken, refuses to shut up about her ex. Her sister Alice, usually confident, flusters when she spots her high school sweetheart, hiding a secret that will change both of their lives. Outspoken, affable Grant is preening in the afterglow of his recent appearance on The Bachelorette and looking to reignite an old flame with
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St Martin's Press The Bitter Past
Book SynopsisIn the tradition of Craig Johnson and C. J. Box, Bruce Borgos''s The Bitter Past begins a compelling series set in the high desert of Nevada featuring Sheriff Porter BeckPorter Beck is the sheriff in the high desert of Nevada, north of Las Vegas. Born and raised there, he left to join the Army, where he worked in Intelligence, deep in the shadows in far off places. Now he''s back home, doing the same lawman''s job his father once did, before his father started to develop dementia. All is relatively quiet in this corner of the world, until an old, retired FBI agent is found killed. He was brutally tortured before he was killed and clues at the scene point to a mystery dating back to the early days of the nuclear age. If that wasn''t strange enough, a current FBI agent shows up to help Beck''s investigation.In a case that unfolds in the past (the 1950s) and the present, it seems that a Russian spy infiltrated the nuclear testing site and now someone i
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Minotaur Books The Night Shift
Book SynopsisFrom the author of the breakout thriller Every Last Fear, comes Alex Finlay''s electrifying next novel The Night Shift, about a pair of small-town murders fifteen years apartand the ties that bind them.One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2022: PopSugar Goodreads Book Riot BookBub The Nerd Daily SheReads Crime by the BookThe night was expected to bring tragedy. So begins one of the most highly-anticipated thrillers in recent years.It's New Year's Eve 1999. Y2K is expected to end in chaos: planes falling from the sky, elevators plunging to earth, world markets collapsing. A digital apocalypse. None of that happens. But at a Blockbuster Video in New Jersey, four teenagers working late at the store are attacked. Only one inexplicably survives. Police quickly identify a suspect, the boyfriend of one of the victims, who flees and is never s
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Minotaur Books Hard Rain
Book SynopsisFrom the Tony Hillerman Prize-winning author of Pay Dirt Road comes Hard Rain, Samantha Jayne Allen''s mesmerizing next novel set in a hardscrabble Texas town dealing with disaster.In shock and found clinging to a tree branch, Bethany Richter is pulled from thrashing floodwaters that have decimated the town of Garnett, Texas and killed a dozen others.Six months after solving the murder of a local waitress, Annie McIntyre is working as an apprentice P.I. when she''s handed her first solo case: uncover the identity of the man who rescued Bethany before he was swept downriver.When Annie''s search turns up a different victimshot dead, not drownedAnnie questions if the hero they seek is actually a killer.Flexing her new skills while relying on the wisdom of her eccentric, ex-cop grandfather, the case leads Annie into a web of drug dealers, preachers, and wayward drifters trying to make sense of life after a disaster. Annie''s own convi
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Minotaur Books Murder at Havens Rock
Book SynopsisNew York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's Rockton Novels had one of the most unique towns in crime fiction. Murder at Haven''s Rock is a spinoff, a fresh start... with a few new dangers that threaten everything before it even begins.Haven's Rock, Yukon. Population: 0Deep in the Yukon wilderness, a town is being built. A place for people to disappear, a fresh start from a life on the run. Haven's Rock isn't the first town of this kind, something detective Casey Duncan and her husband, Sheriff Eric Dalton, know first-hand. They met in the original town of Rockton. But greed and deception led the couple to financing a new refuge for those in need. This time around, they get to decide which applicants are approved for residency.There's only one rule in Haven's Rock: stay out of the forest. When two of the town''s construction crew members break it and go missing, Casey and Eric are called in ahead of schedule to track them d
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St Martin's Press Murder at Havens Rock
Book SynopsisNew York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's Rockton Novels had one of the most unique towns in crime fiction. Murder at Haven''s Rock is a spinoff, a fresh start... with a few new dangers that threaten everything before it even begins.Haven's Rock, Yukon. Population: 0Deep in the Yukon wilderness, a town is being built. A place for people to disappear, a fresh start from a life on the run. Haven's Rock isn't the first town of this kind, something detective Casey Duncan and her husband, Sheriff Eric Dalton, know first-hand. They met in the original town of Rockton. But greed and deception led the couple to financing a new refuge for those in need. This time around, they get to decide which applicants are approved for residency.There's only one rule in Haven's Rock: stay out of the forest. When two of the town''s construction crew members break it and go missing, Casey and Eric are called in ahead of schedule to track them d
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Forge An Irish Country Doctor
Book SynopsisThe start of the beloved New York Times, USA Today, and Globe and Mail bestselling series from author Patrick Taylor, An Irish Country DoctorBarry Laverty, M.D., can barely find the village of Ballybucklebo on a map when he first sets out to seek gainful employment there, but already he knows that there is nowhere he would rather live than in the emerald hills and dales of Northern Ireland. The proud owner of a spanking-new medical degree, Barry jumps at the chance to secure a position as an assistant in a small rural practice.At least until he meets Dr. Fingal Flahertie O''Reilly.The older physician, whose motto is to never let the patients get the upper hand, has his own way of doing things, which definitely takes some getting used to. At first, Barry can''t decide if the pugnacious O''Reilly is the biggest charlatan he has ever met, or possibly the best teacher he could ever hope for.Ballybucklebo is long way from
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Forge An Irish Country Village
Book SynopsisBeautifully evocative of a gentler, simpler time, Patrick Taylor''s An Irish Country Village magically captures the charm, wit, and ribald humor of a vanished Irish countryside and its people.Welcome Back to the Village of Ballybucklebo.Come and say hello again to Dr. O''Reilly''s odd-as-two-left feet patients, his housekeeper, Mrs. Kinky Kinkaid, and O''Reilly''s pets, Arthur Guinness, the beer-swilling black Lab and Lady MacBeth, the demonically possessed white cat.And of course, to young Dr. Barry Laverty.After Barry''s first month as an assistant to crusty Dr. O''Reilly, he has been offered a permanent spot. But Laverty''s excitement is dashed when one of his patients unexpectedly dies. The damage to his reputation is enormous, and he and O''Reilly must work to resolve the question of Barry''s responsibility for the death.They also have to figure out how to save the four-hundred-year-old village pub. Plans are afoot to not re
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St Martin's Press Two Nurses Smoking
Book SynopsisFinalist for the 2023 Joyce Carol Oates PrizeA new collection of stories by David Means, a visionary master of the form (The Observer). Two nurses meet in the hospital parking lot to share a cigarette. They flirt and imagine a future together. They tell stories of patients lost and patients saved, of the darkest corners of human suffering and the luminous moments that break through, even here, in the shadow of death.In David Means's virtuosic new collection, time unfolds in unexpected ways: a single, quiet moment swells with the echoes of a widower's complicated marriage; a dachshund, given a new name and a new life by a new owner, catches the scent of the troubled man who previously abandoned her; young lovers become old; estranged couples return to their vows; and those who have died live on in perpetuity in the memories of those whom they touched. The stories in this collectionwhich have won the O. Henry Prize and the Pushcart Prize, a
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Tor Nightfire Camp Damascus
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St Martin's Press Always Unique
Book SynopsisAlways Unique gathers together three popular Unique novellas from the New York Times bestselling, African-American powerhouse author Nikki Turner.I: With only two hundred dollars, Unique packed her suitcase and headed to New York City for a brand new start. It''s there that Unique meets big time boxing promoter, Kennard, and it is love at first sight. After nine months of living in the lap of luxury with Kennard, skeletons from Unique''s past show up and it will cost her a cool million dollars to not only keep her relationship but her life. Unique isn''t about to lose it all. With the help of her best friend, she devises a major heist, to pull it off all she has to do is stay alive. II: Living the life she has always dreamed of, Unique isn''t about to let her past ruin her future with her fiancé, Kennard. But the tables are turned on her and Unique is fighting for her very life. As for Kennard, he is stunned to learn about her past, but more impo
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WW Norton & Co The Five Wounds
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Masterly...Quade has created a world bristling with compassion and humanity. The characters and the challenges they face are wholly realized and moving; their journeys span a wide spectrum of emotion and it is impossible not to root for [them]." -- Alexandra Chang - New York Times Book Review"[A] fine-grained domestic saga...Quade is masterful with [her characters'] fragility... [A] big-hearted novel." -- Mark Athitakis - USA Today"Gorgeously textured... [Quade's] sinewy sentences and emotional daring astound... Quade glides elegantly across a silken tightrope between comedy and tragedy, twists of fate that buoy her narrative to its resonant conclusion. The Five Wounds is destined to be one of this year's most celebrated works of fiction." -- Hamilton Cain - Minneapolis Star Tribune"Kirstin Valdez Quade's debut novel hooked me on page one...It's a wholehearted, radiant, and darkly funny exploration of family, faith, and forgiveness." -- Arianna Rebolini - Buzzfeed"A gorgeously written, epic tale of one Latinx family's via dolorosa." -- O Magazine"A masterful novel of family, faith, doubt. Quade's storytelling gift is her ability to capture the mysterious pulse of belief and ground them in visceral ritual on the page." -- The Millions"In this cruel and divisive era, Kirstin Valdez Quade has brought healing and regeneration with The Five Wounds. It is bracing and wise, and it breaks us in the best ways. Then builds us back up again. It should find many grateful readers." -- Luis Alberto Urrea, author of House of Broken Angels"Kirstin Valdez Quade writes with exquisite precision about the fragility and resilience of the Padilla family…I loved The Five Wounds, which reminded me that growing pains are not confined to adolescence and that people can be newborn at any age. Even its most excruciating moments are charged with a luminous compassion." -- Karen Russell, author of Orange World and Other Stories"The characters in this engrossing novel are created in luminous and memorable detail. Just as the pacing is perfect, so too are the tact and care with which each scene is made. Kirstin Valdez Quade, by concentrating on the truth of small moments, has brought a whole world into focus." -- Colm Tóibín, author of The Magician"With deep empathy, fierce intelligence, and subtle wit, Kirstin Valdez Quade has crafted an indelible portrait of a family living in precarity. The characters in The Five Wounds are so vivid, their grasping efforts toward love and redemption so finely wrought, and each page full of such immaculate prose, that I read this novel with ever-increasing breathless urgency." -- Phil Klay, author of Missionaries"You hold in your hands a small, complete universe vibrating with joy and grief, humor and absurdity and delight. All the fabulous mess of humanity is, somehow, in these pages. The Five Wounds is bighearted, tender, wise, and shot through with moments of pure grace." -- C Pam Zhang, author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold"With beautifully layered relationships and an honest yet profoundly empathetic picture of a rural community?where the families proudly trace their roots back to the Spanish conquistadors while struggling with poverty and a deadly drug epidemic?this novel is a brilliant meditation on love and redemption. Perfectly rendered characters anchor a novel built around a fierce, flawed, and loving family." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"Penetrating...The well-developed characters convey palpable emotion as Amadeo's failures as a father, partner, entrepreneur, and even as Jesus translate into fits of rage and frustration. Quade's rendering of a singular community is pitch perfect." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Profoundly affecting...Expertly crafted, this story of family and community introduces us to often needy characters for whom readers come to care deeply. Highly recommended." -- Library Journal (starred review)"Quade ably delivers a story that is nuanced and authentic without a whiff of melodrama...[A] generous tale of characters who understand the inevitability of fate but try to forge ahead anyway in the hope of breaking free." -- Booklist (starred review)
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WW Norton & Co The Uncollected Stories of Allan Gurganus
Book SynopsisOne of “the best writers of our time” (Ann Patchett) offers this hilarious yet haunting cycle of stories—all previously uncollected.
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Harper Perennial Sympathy
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Canary Street Press Renegade
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Harlequin Bestselling Author Collection Lionhearted Christmas Guardian
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Canary Street Press McKettricks of Texas Tate
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Harlequin Bestselling Author Collection Springtime in Salt River Love Thine Enemy
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Hqn The Forever Farmhouse
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Hqn The Beach Reads Bookshop
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Hqn The Wish List
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Harlequin The Christmas Cabin
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Canary Street Press The Single Dad Project
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Hqn Sweet Laurel Falls
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Hqn Alaska for Christmas
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Hqn Country Born
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Hqn A Lawmans Christmas
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Hqn Always a Cowboy
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Harlequin A Snow Country Christmas
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Silhouette Books Late Summer Love
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Harlequin Bestselling Author Collection Cherish Amish Redemption
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Harlequin Books Second Chance Spring
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Hqn Unbridled Cowboy
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Hqn The Path to Sunshine Cove
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Hqn Snowfall on Lighthouse Lane
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Hqn Merry Christmas Cowboy
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Harlequin Books Forget What You Know
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Tyndale House Publishers Under a Cloudless Sky
Book SynopsisA charming and engrossing novel for fans of Southern fiction and the recent hit memoir Hillbilly Elegy about a lush and storied coal-mining townand the good people who live therein danger of being destroyed for the sake of profit. Will the truth about the town's past be its final undoing or its saving grace?1933. In the mining town of Beulah Mountain, West Virginia, two young girls form an unbreakable bond against the lush Appalachian landscape, coal dust and old hymns filling their lungs and hearts. Despite the polarizing forces of their fathersone a mine owner, one a disgruntled miner Ruby and Bean thrive under the tender care of Bean's mama, blissfully unaware of the rising conflict in town and the coming tragedy that will tear them apart forever.2004. Hollis Beasley is taking his last stand. Neighbors up and down the hollow have sold their land to Coleman Coal and Energy, but Hollis is determined to hold on to his family legacy on Beulah Mou
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Abrams Undocumented A Workers Fight
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Remarkable…The artwork is deliberately evocative of Mesoamerican logography, with figures and perspectives that feel at once bizarre and totally familiar.” -- Vulture“Undocumented, featuring multi-award winning author/illustrator Tonatiuh's (The Princess and the Warrior) vibrant, stylized illustrations, is an all-too-real discussion about fair pay and the hostility U.S. citizens often display toward undocumented immigrants.” -- Shelf Awareness“By focusing on the narrative of one immigrant worker, Tonatiuh breaks the mammoth issues of immigration and workers rights into an easy-to-swallow bite, allowing the reader to easily engage with an often intimidating topic. The personal is again political. Highly recommended.” -- Kirkus"Multiple Pura Belpré Medal and Honor–awarded Tonatiuh (Diego Rivera, 2011) channels his interest in the Mixtec codex format to create a superb modern odyssey, stupendously illustrated in his signature contemporary adaptation of pre-Columbian art forms, presented on accordion pages in a handsome slip-case." -- Booklist online“Although Juan is a fictional character, the story is a very real one: many undocumented workers are mistreated by employers, but are too afraid to speak up.“ -- GeekDad“The book gives eloquent voice to the millions of undocumented people who come here with dreams of helping their families and work hard, contributing so much to this country.” -- Booklist online
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Thorndike Press Large Print The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek Thorndike
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Large Print Press We Begin at the End
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