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In 'Where the Crawdads Sing' by Delia Owens, the quiet town of Barkley Cove has long been haunted by rumors of the mysterious 'Marsh Girl.' When a handsome man named Chase Andrews is found dead in 1969, locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the Marsh Girl. However, Kya is not what they believe. She is a sensitive and intelligent woman who has lived...
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In Where the Crawdads Sing (2018), Delia Owens juxtaposes a coming of age story and a murder mystery. She reminds readers of the child that is within them, while also subjecting them to the violent yet beautiful secrets of nature.
Isolation influences behavior, and Kya, the protagonist, endures much mistreatment and abandonment by her parents, siblings,...
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The Secret city of Chelyabinsk is the most radioactive city on earth. Here the Soviet Union manufactures its nuclear weapons. Here salamanders glow.Why has an Afro-Russian named Mikhail Khalatsyn, fresh out of the GRU's Military-Diplomatic Academy, been specially chosen to investigate a charge of treason against a Russian scientist works at a top secret facility in Chelyabinsk? Is it because Mikhail has graduated first in his class, the best and the...
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WELCOME TO SOUTH CAROLINA, WHERE THE HOSPITALITY IS WARM AND THE MURDER IS STONE-COLD.
Attorney sleuth Avery Andrews has quickly built up a reputation for being the go-to girl when a mystery arises.
So when she is called to historic Charleston to get to the bottom of a fresh and perplexing case, she is more than ready for the challenge.
A local man goes on a shooting rampage. He was known to have a short temper and wasn't the most popular guy in...
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WELCOME TO SOUTH CAROLINA, WHERE THE HOSPITALITY IS WARM AND THE MURDER IS STONE-COLD.
Since attorney Avery Andrews left her high-flying law firm to return to her hometown of Dacus, there has been no end to the run-of-the-mill problems walking through her door.
But Avery likes the perplexing cases. And it's been a while since she's dug into one.
So she's intrigued to hear of a young woman who was found dead on a tombstone twenty years ago, her...
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WELCOME TO SOUTH CAROLINA, WHERE THE HOSPITALITY IS WARM AND THE MURDER IS STONE-COLD.
Attorney Avery Andrews has returned to her humdrum hometown of Dacus, South Carolina, leaving her job at a powerful law firm in the rearview mirror. But with her Donna Karan suits she's struggling to fit back in. Is it still a place she's able to call home now that she's swapped her prestigious clients for high school bullies and formidable aunts?
She finds sanctuary...
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In 1944 in war-torn Dubrobvnik Branko Milisic holds his newborn daughter Safranka and wishes her a better future. But while the Nazis are finally retreating, the arrival of the partisans brings new dangers for Branko, his wife Dragica and their new baby… As older sister to two half-siblings, Fran has always known she has to fit in. But now, for the first time in her life Fran is facing questions about who she is and where she comes from. All Fran...
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WELCOME TO SOUTH CAROLINA, WHERE THE HOSPITALITY IS WARM AND THE MURDER IS STONE-COLD.
Attorney sleuth Avery Andrews is back in her humdrum hometown of Dacus, South Carolina. The only problem is she's swapped illustrious city cases for a town where the biggest news is a pig on the loose.
And while there's no end to the people queuing outside her door for help, paying clients are scarce. Or so she thinks.
A woman enters Avery's office claiming her...
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WELCOME TO SOUTH CAROLINA, WHERE THE HOSPITALITY IS WARM AND THE MURDER IS STONE-COLD.
It's summer and the Fourth of July carnival has come to Dacus. The only problem is that the fright house isn't impressing attorney Avery Andrews.
Until a leg falls off a blood-spattered, chainsaw-wielding mannequin. A very real-and very dead-leathery body is revealed. This has quickly become the most realistic fright house she's ever experienced.
For the first...
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'I can see you don't believe me, girl, but I'm telling you that there's magic in the moon and that big sea out there.' Grandma Mary cleared her throat and winked. 'Dreams come true for them as take those old tales to heart.' 1938One midnight in June, 15-year-old Lamorna Williams throws a message in a bottle into the Atlantic at Magic Cove, hoping to meet her one true love – and someone writes back. 1997On the other side of the world, Lamorna tells...
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Voted Number One, Best Books of 2022 on Goodreads! Longlisted in the Mystery and Mayhem Chanticleer Book awards. In a small town in the West Australian wheatbelt, a ramshackle house and town rebel once provided refuge for gutsy orphan, Lola.Lola makes a homecoming for a funeral and discovers a town reeling with the return of an insidious attacker who terrorises young women, and a familiar boy who freshens bittersweet memories.Alone in the old house,...
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A woman fights for her life as a refugee, slave, mother, and farmer, in this "saga with many layers . . . [A] riveting, addictive journey" (Joanne Hardy, author of The Girl in the Butternut Dress).
After the deaths of her white father and mixed-race mother, young Eliza is left with neither home nor family in the newly forming frontier of Texas.
Enslaved by men who treat her body as their property, she eventually escapes, marries, becomes a...
13) Go as a river
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"Seventeen-year-old Victoria Nash runs the household on her family's peach farm in the small ranch town of Iola, Colorado--the sole surviving female in a family of troubled men. Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past, displaced from his tribal land and determined to live as he chooses. Victoria encounters Wil by chance on a street corner, a meeting that profoundly alters both of their young lives, unknowingly igniting as much passion...
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"In her small hometown, librarian Ruth Cornier has always felt like an outsider, even as her beloved father rains fire-and-brimstone warnings from the pulpit at Holy Fire Baptist. Unfortunately for Ruth, the only things the townspeople fear more than the God and the Devil are the myths that haunt the area, like the story of the Low Man, a vampiric figure said to steal into sinners' bedrooms and kill them on moonless nights. When a skull is found deep...
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How to Be Dead - A Love Story by Laurel Schmidt explores what it means to be fully alive - even in the afterlife. A tale told with humor, heart and intelligence, it celebrates the power of memory and the lifesaving potential of an excellent espresso.
Frances Beacon, longevity guru and best-selling author of Sex, Drugs and Social Security, is at the peak of her second career when a New York City cab catapults her into the afterlife. Shocked, confused,...
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'What a wonderful escape to perfect Cornwall…truly magical! More please!' Faith Hogan #1 eBook bestseller When journalist Rosa Fernley's ailing gran, Jocelyn, passes on a long-held secret of her past in her dying days, Rosa embarks on a quest to Cornwall to find answers and resolution to free her grandmother from guilt and pain as she leaves this earth. But in the wild, beautiful landscape of Tintagel, Rosa encounters something she could never imagine...
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Spending the days searching for truths on an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp, eleven-year-old Dorothy Zook, the granddaughter of an herbalist and eccentric healer, finds her childhood upended by family secrets, passionate love, and violent men where the only bridge across the water is her wayward mother.
18) Scrublands
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"In the vein of The Dry and Before the Fall, a town's dark secrets come to light in the aftermath of a young priest's unthinkable last act in this arresting and searing debut thriller. In Riversend, an isolated rural community afflicted by an endless drought, a young priest does the unthinkable, killing five parishioners before being taken down himself. A year later, accompanied by his own demons from war-time reporting, journalist Martin Scarsden...
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Perfect for fans of Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah, and Sal by Mik Kitson, with its celebration of the natural world, its misunderstood central characters living on the outside of society's norms, their survival in the wilderness, and the ultimate fight for justice.What people are saying ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is a truly lovely book, full of heart. It's a gripping and moving plot about two young people separately...
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