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Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
The only author to win all three major Russian literary prizes (including the Russian Booker Prize), Mikhail Shishkin is one of the most acclaimed contemporary Russian literary figures. The" Guardian "said of Shishkin's writing: "richly textured and innovative. . . arguably Russia's greatest living novelist." "The Wall Street Journal" raved that "Shishkin has created a bewitching potion of reality and fantasy, of history and fable, and of lonely need...
Author
Series
Jake Trent novel volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
"The gripping debut thriller featuring attorney-turned-fishing-guide Jake Trent, whose idyllic life is upended by a series of grisly killings. Early summer in Jackson, Wyoming, finds former East Coast prosecutor Jake Trent wading through a swift current of local politics, introspection, and tragedy. After leaving law behind, Jake escaped big-city life to pursue his dream: setting up as a fishing guide and opening a small bed-and-breakfast in the West....
Author
Series
Death and Sparkles volume 2
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
When Sparkles' horn begins to glow and he receives a message from his parents he and Death set out on a quest to find out what this means--and whether it has anything to do with a revolt by the servant moles.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
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Description
"Twelve letters. That's what Lauren decides to leave her husband when she finds out she's dying. Twelve letters to see him through the first year without her, and to lead him on a heartrending, beautiful, often humorous journey to find happiness again in the new novel from New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins."--
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
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Description
In the Old South of the 1930s, when a gentle giant of a man is sentenced to death for the murder and rape of two little girls, the fact that he is Black and the girls are white is inflammatory enough, but the situation is further complicated by his near muteness and gift for healing.