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 In the tight-knit community of Mystic Beach, social worker Dr. Clara Starr appears to have conquered her troubled past.
But  when the body of local waterman Bobby Ward washes ashore, Clara's  darkest secret plunges her into the heart of a chilling mystery. As her  clients become the prime suspects in Bobby's murder, Clara must unravel a  web of deceit and betrayal.
Aided by her trusted assistant, Addie, they grapple with long-held secrets and the deadly consequences of past mistakes.
When  the shocking cause of Bobby's death is revealed, Clara finds herself on  the precipice of losing everything. She must decide whether to keep her  secret hidden and risk arrest or expose her past and face a devastating  truth. 

 Home-brewed medicines, a mysterious family of women making them,  and a threat to the local funding of the Abolition movement: 15-year-old  Almyra Alexander struggles with all of these, as well as adapting to  the rough, unpolished life in a northern Vermont village. She’s  determined to become a minister, like her politically involved but very  absent father. Moving in with her aunt and uncle in Vermont seems the  quickest way toward the higher education she craves, and a pulpit of her  own.

"This ambitious addition to the Winds of Freedom series brings the 1850s to vivid life through captivating details and a compelling story. The Bitter and the Sweet looks unflinchingly at serious topics, including class differences,  women’s health and rights, and efforts to abolish — and extend — slavery  in our nation. The crisp writing and fully developed characters will  enthrall young and older readers alike." — Charles Fergus, author of A Stranger Here Below and Lay This Body Down.

"When  most readers think of the American frontier, they imagine the western  United States. But in the early nineteenth century, there was another,  equally colorful frontier between Vermont and Canada that attracted a  colorful cast of lawbreakers: horse thieves, smugglers, and above all,  counterfeiters. ... Beth Kanell's entertaining novel brings to life a  world that flourished nearly two centuries ago." —Stephen A. Mihm,  author of A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States, and Professor, University of Georgia 

In  the early days of the pandemic, San Francisco realtor and part-time  bookie, Eddie Bilker, has two problems: his wife has been kidnapped, and  there’s a dead body in his Porsche. In this twisty tale, Eddie is forced to navigate two separate worlds. He goes toe-to-toe with the  wildly eccentric criminals, who may or may not be involved in the  kidnapping, while simultaneously trying to hold onto his straight life  as an upstanding member of society. “As the conspiracy unfolds, you’ll  meet characters who are all a bit compromised but each tethered to a  dramatic kidnapping that is not what it seems.” -Annie Gaus, SF Standard

 Aqua, the novel: saving pure water with a bird, a Greek goddess, and a pair of winged horses.

College  student Diana Carter returns to the family ranch after her first year  of school, anticipating a summer pack trip into the Wind River Mountains  with her father and Willy, their Eastern Shoshone and Crow family  friend and ranch hand. Her plans are upended when her grandmother breaks  her hip and her dad leaves to work in the oil fields of North Dakota.

Diana  learns she is destined to save pure water on our planet. The necklace  Willy gives Diana, telling her the elk is her animal, protects her as  she joins the Greek goddess Persephone and a little Mountain Bluebird  named Indigo on a quest to save clean water. 

 This bittersweet comedy and romance has touches of tragedy and magic.
Writing  during the pandemic and feeling nostalgia for what has been lost, the  narrator, Abe, recounts stories told around the dinner table on a  Caribbean cruise two years before.
Abe explains the title:
"I'm  writing from the midst of this crisis, not with the wisdom of hindsight.  Even if it gets no worse than it is right now, much has been lost.
"I'm hoping that we can gether. That's a word that isn't in the dictionary.
"To gether is to find new ways to be together, new ways to meet, to bond, to love.
"Even when physically isolated, we can come together in spirit, to  share experiences and emotions to the point that we are intimately  connected.”
"In any case, may we always treasure our normal life, knowing, as we now know, that it is fragile and should never be taken for granted." 

  The second installment of the Chesapeake Bay Murder Mysteries  plunges readers into a whirlpool of suspense. Here, family ties bind as  tightly as the secrets that sever them, and for Addie, the truth may lie  where she least expects it: at the crossroads of the bay's mysterious  abandoned boat and her own family secrets. 

 After a threat at her home, retired teacher Aggie May drives through a  blizzard to return to the Lodge, the quiet retirement village that  serves as a meeting place for a group of senior time travelers who solve  mysteries from the past. She reconnects with Lodge director Abe Irving  and other friends and is soon involved in a new mission. The source for  the mission is Chaya Reese, an elderly woman who escaped Nazi Germany as  a child when her parents put her on the Kindertransport. In a  bid to understand what was happening in America as Hitler rose to power,  Chaya asks the time travelers to investigate the German American Bund  and America First, two pro-fascist groups active in the United States in  the 1930s. As Aggie and Abe explore this dark history, they grow  closer. But when their safety is threatened by unexpected danger, they  are forced to confront their obligation to act against evil. 

3 generations
2 families
1 terrible truth
Suki Hayashida’s  family had their home, their business and their property stolen when  they were interned along with 120,000 other Japanese Americans during  WWII. Now, 75 years later, if Suki can survive both legal and personal  attacks, she will have the opportunity to right that wrong, not only for  her own family, but for hundreds of others. 

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 In 1967, Buffalo River is a nice, quiet place ... until a strange new  restaurant comes to town. Everybody loves Happy Bird Hamburgers. Except  Avery and his dad.
Avery's life spirals out of control when his  father disappears and is presumed dead. Avery believes otherwise, but no  one believes him.
All seems lost until Avery is befriended by a bug  from another world who takes the form of a superhero. Together, they  discover that Happy Bird Hamburgers is run by extraterrestrial birds who  want to control humanity.
To find his father, Avery must deciide who to trust. And find the courage to face the challenge.
It's bugs against birds in a contest for planetary supremacy. 

 Shakespeare's twin sister wakes up in the body of a 99-year-old woman in a nursing home in 1987. She has quite a tale to tell:
-- her coming-of-age story, posing as a boy to get an education,
-- twins separated at birth sorting out the mystery of their otherworldly connection to one another,
-- a lifelong three-way love story,
-- soul projection and transference linking individuals to one another and connecting past to present,
-- and the story of a young reporter who falls in love with the soul he finds in the body of an old and dying woman.
As a cross-dressing sword-fighting teenager, Kate beats Mercutio, captain of the King's Musketeers, in a duel in Paris.
As Will's double and writing partner, Kate enables him to do the work of two geniuses.
This  outlandish view of Shakespeare's life and times stays true to the  facts, while presenting explanations that are intriguingly plausible. 

 Snatched from the safety of her day-to-day life, young Crysalline wanders in search of the world she has lost.
Alone, she searches for refuge in a wild land of the 1840s.
When  her own deep, yet undeniable, yearnings begin to surface, she sets off  into her life adventure. The new path only reveals itself after she  takes the risk and seeks what lies ahead.
This is the story of a life richly lived. 

 The Taj Mahal was completed in 1648 inside the city of Agra in  India and is still listed as one of the Seven New Wonders of the World,  exquisitely alive in its marble purity and grand architecture. And the  architect is no other than Shah Jahan, the fifth Moghul Emperor of  India. His other wonder, the Peacock Throne, didn’t survive the ravages  of wars and invasions. Its jewels were scattered much like the jewels of  Moghul Empire by the tyranny of his son Aurangzeb who dethroned the  emperor and murdered his own brothers. Taj Mahal is the monument of love  in memory of Shah Jahan’s beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal, who died young.  Great love of the emperor for his empress is enshrined on earth and in  heavens, for it is believed to be built as a replica of the Garden of  Irem—Islamic Paradise so vividly delineated by the Muslim writers and  historians. This is the story of this Moghul Emperor and his Taj. 

 What if the world knew your deepest secrets? What if the government had a monopoly on your thoughts?
In  the City of Catonis, everything you think is written across giant  screens for public scrutiny, and revolution can only be cloaked with  meditation.

Things are the opposite in the Hollow Forest, where  people are executed for writing, and ink is rationed for only the tribal  council’s use. When the love of her life is killed, Kitaba Mahahara  must leave her village and launch a cultural war for human freedom, but  she’ll need help. Cybermonks, hactivists, and tech gurus will unite as  tradition runs face to face with the oppression that passes for  progress.

Two civilizations, one without self-expression, and one  forced to reveal everything, will pave a new way for humanity if they  don’t destroy it first. 

 In 2050, the fires and radiation of World War III strip the earth  bare. A handful of human survivors, a religious sect on retreat, hunker  down in a cavern on far northern Baffin Island. A million years later,  their progeny still lives on, much changed and permanently weakened. Not  so the Prairie Dogs who sheltered in the same cavern, becoming big and  brainy while soaking up the sect’s all-too-human wiles.

Three  prescient twentieth-century families time-travel those million years to  Baffin Island to restore mankind. Instead of an unpopulated wilderness,  they find the sect’s descendants under the Prairie Dogs’ control. As the  human population languishes, the prairie dogs plan a genocidal war to  be fought in the name of religion.

The families face their own  calamity—the deadly wounding and disappearance of their idealistic  leader, Sequoyah. Soon the young teens and adults are caught up in the  war. Amid the clashing factions, they search for Sequoyah even as their  own desires and destinies propel them forward along tortuous and  sometimes visionary paths. At every turn they learn more about their  strange connection to the isle that had been predicted a million years  in the past.

“Day of the Jumping Sun does  just that. It jumps into the readers’ thoughts and takes hold of their  attention and doesn’t let go until the last page. For the human in us,  all will feel the ink bubbling like lava.” —Martin Shone, poet and  author 

 Aqua, the novel: saving pure water with a bird, a Greek goddess, and a pair of winged horses.

College  student Diana Carter returns to the family ranch after her first year  of school, anticipating a summer pack trip into the Wind River Mountains  with her father and Willy, their Eastern Shoshone and Crow family  friend and ranch hand. Her plans are upended when her grandmother breaks  her hip and her dad leaves to work in the oil fields of North Dakota.

Diana  learns she is destined to save pure water on our planet. The necklace  Willy gives Diana, telling her the elk is her animal, protects her as  she joins the Greek goddess Persephone and a little Mountain Bluebird  named Indigo on a quest to save clean water. 

 We think of neighbors as those that live nearby. But we’re all  linked to other people, places, and time periods. Sometimes those  connections reflect love and joy, sometimes danger and darkness.

This  collection includes stories about coal mining, vaudeville, the Nazi’s  exhibition of “degenerate art,” the Coney Island ride A Trip to the  Moon, tightrope walking, wasps, poisonous plants, space debris falling  from the sky, old people falling in love, young people falling in love,  Grand Central Station, Munich in 1937, Central Park in 1873,  synesthesia, Picasso’s Bust of Francoise, the Wright Brothers, affordable housing, and the meaning of life.

Neighbors explores relationships we have with other people, with ideas, with history, and with ourselves. 

 The Magnificent and Marvelous Book Club (the MAMs) return in this  adventure to explore their Irish roots. The ancient spirits of a  leprechaun, St. Brigid, and an African-American matriarch conspire to  awaken the travelers to possibilities. Grieving, reluctant Abigail  considers opening her heart. Black ex-convict Welby and Reagan, a white  nurse in recovery, find attraction, yet come from opposite ends of the  political divide. The group explores the Emerald Isle, pauses for  listening circles, retreats at the well of St. Brigid, gathers at a  peace center in Northern Ireland and, ultimately, finds new hope for  their own lives and America.   

 After a threat at her home, retired teacher Aggie May drives through a  blizzard to return to the Lodge, the quiet retirement village that  serves as a meeting place for a group of senior time travelers who solve  mysteries from the past. She reconnects with Lodge director Abe Irving  and other friends and is soon involved in a new mission. The source for  the mission is Chaya Reese, an elderly woman who escaped Nazi Germany as  a child when her parents put her on the Kindertransport. In a  bid to understand what was happening in America as Hitler rose to power,  Chaya asks the time travelers to investigate the German American Bund  and America First, two pro-fascist groups active in the United States in  the 1930s. As Aggie and Abe explore this dark history, they grow  closer. But when their safety is threatened by unexpected danger, they  are forced to confront their obligation to act against evil. 

3 generations
2 families
1 terrible truth
Suki Hayashida’s  family had their home, their business and their property stolen when  they were interned along with 120,000 other Japanese Americans during  WWII. Now, 75 years later, if Suki can survive both legal and personal  attacks, she will have the opportunity to right that wrong, not only for  her own family, but for hundreds of others. 

Running a holiday sale or weekly special? Definitely promote it here to get customers excited about getting a sweet deal.

  Beginning in 1960, covering a span of twenty years, The Elbow Grease Legacy begins with a young girl’s growing awareness of her family’s  dysfunctionality. Events solidify hate of her alcoholic father. Frequent  household relocations make a mess of Tallulah’s high school years.  College art classes build a sense of confidence, the value of different  perspectives, and an essential habit of personal honesty, be it  unpretty, be it rage.
Employment, marriage, and pregnancy do not wait  for her brain to clear the contaminated cobwebs. She craves sources of  logic when her father’s sudden death demolishes every defense she had  built against him. Like it or not, she must understand him before she  can understand herself. 

 Shakespeare's twin sister wakes up in the body of a 99-year-old woman in a nursing home in 1987. She has quite a tale to tell:
-- her coming-of-age story, posing as a boy to get an education,
-- twins separated at birth sorting out the mystery of their otherworldly connection to one another,
-- a lifelong three-way love story,
-- soul projection and transference linking individuals to one another and connecting past to present,
-- and the story of a young reporter who falls in love with the soul he finds in the body of an old and dying woman.
As a cross-dressing sword-fighting teenager, Kate beats Mercutio, captain of the King's Musketeers, in a duel in Paris.
As Will's double and writing partner, Kate enables him to do the work of two geniuses.
This  outlandish view of Shakespeare's life and times stays true to the  facts, while presenting explanations that are intriguingly plausible. 

 Snatched from the safety of her day-to-day life, young Crysalline wanders in search of the world she has lost.
Alone, she searches for refuge in a wild land of the 1840s.
When  her own deep, yet undeniable, yearnings begin to surface, she sets off  into her life adventure. The new path only reveals itself after she  takes the risk and seeks what lies ahead.
This is the story of a life richly lived.