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The Color of Death
by Trey Gowdy
Following the death of his wife and daughter, Colm Truesdale is left mentally scarred. After time off, and with no desire to return to the courtroom, Truesdale is brought back into the investigation of the murder of a young woman who ran a beauty salon outside of town. When a page from her appointment book goes missing, and then the crime scene burns down, it's up to Colm to untangle the web of deception that implicates a powerful judge and his family.
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Mayra
by Nicky Gonzalez
Ingrid's friend Mayra fled Hialeah, west of Miami, years ago for a Northeast college, but after Ingrid accepts Mayra's sudden invitation to a getaway in the Everglades where Mayra's boyfriend Benji is unexpectedly present, danger looms, and while exploring the mysterious house, Ingrid loses a sense of herself.
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The Continental Divide: Stories
by Bob Johnson
A country woman makes a Sophie's Choice regarding her family's survival. A small town marshal hunts his own son for murder. A former football hero must face his role in a brutal locker room ritual. Ferocious and real, the fourteen tales in Bob Johnson's blistering debut The Continental Divide explore the undertow of violence and sin along the St. Lawrence Divide in northern Indiana, where men, women, and children struggle to find their way in the darkness...of the divide.
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Wayward Girls
by Susan Wiggs
In 1968 Buffalo, six teenage girls are sent to the Good Shepherd Refuge, an institution controlled by the Sisters of Charity, for reasons ranging from being gay to rebellious, where they face forced labor, exploitation, and personal struggles while finding strength and solidarity.
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I See You've Called in Dead
by John Kenney
Bud Stanley is an obituary writer who is afraid to live. Yes, his wife recently left him for a 'far more interesting' man. Yes, he goes on a particularly awful blind date with a woman who brings her ex. And yes, he has too many glasses of Scotch one night and proceeds to pen and publish his own obituary. The newspaper wants to fire him. But now the company's system has him listed as dead. And the company can't fire a dead person. The ensuing fallout forces him to realize that life may be actually worth living. As Bud awaits his fate at work, his life hangs in the balance. Given another shot by his boss and encouraged by his best friend Tim, a worldly and wise former art dealer, Bud starts to attend the wakes and funerals of strangers to learn how to live.
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Great Black Hope
by Rob Franklin
A young Black man is caught between worlds of race and class, glamour and tragedy a friend's mysterious death and his own arrest.
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Cat Fight
by Kit Conway
When a rumored panther sighting sparks suburban hysteria in the posh London enclave of Sevenoaks, three women including a former zoologist must navigate secrets, rivalries and escalating tensions that reveal the true predators may be much closer to home.
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The Last Ferry Out
by Andrea Bartz
Abby travels to the storm-ravaged Isla Colel seeking answers about her fiancée Eszter's mysterious death, but as expats reveal chilling secrets and a key witness vanishes, she uncovers a web of lies that may put her own life in jeopardy.
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Hot Wax
by M. L. Rio
After witnessing a violent moment that shattered her father's rising rock band, Suzanne spends decades hiding from her past, until his death sends her on a wild road trip to uncover the truth and escape from her husband.
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Autocorrect: Stories
by Etgar Keret
A collection of darkly funny, surreal short stories explores the anxieties of modern life- combining technology and relationships in tales about a reality show contestant from another dimension and an asteroid set on a collision course with earth.
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Black Cherokee
by Antonio Michael Downing
As her hometown faces environmental and cultural collapse, Ophelia Blue Rivers embarks on a powerful journey to understand her Cherokee Freedmen heritage and what it means to truly belong when identity comes at a cost.
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Florida Palms
by Joe Pan
During the 2009 recession, three friends' furniture-moving job descends into a dangerous drug-running operation, forcing them to navigate betrayal, violence, and their own escalating addictions, testing their loyalty against the brutal realities of Florida's criminal underworld.
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