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Never the Same River Twice books perfect to read right here in "River City" |
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by Taylor Brown
Two brothers, a college student and a Navy SEAL, travel the storied past and present of Georgia's "Little Amazon" Altamaha River to scatter their enigmatic father's ashes while exploring the work of 16th-centry artist Jacques Le Moyne and sharing what they know about their father's death. Also available in Large Print. |
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by Robert Olen Butler
The story of a single North Florida family shaped and overshadowed by the Vietnam War and the estrangements between the fathers, sons and brothers who supported or protested against it. Also available in Large Print, and as an eBook. |
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by Erica Ferencik
Struggling with a soul-crushing job, a beloved sibling's death and a divorce, Wini joins her friends on a hiking and rafting trip. They become stranded away from their survival gear and targeted by sinister rescuers who force the women to reconsider their loyalties and secrets. Also available as an eBook. . |
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by Sarah Gailey
In the early 20th Century, the United States government concocted a plan to import hippopotamuses into the marshlands of Louisiana to be bred and slaughtered as an alternative meat source. This is true. Other true things about hippos: they are savage, they are fast, and their jaws can snap a man in two. This was a terrible plan. But this novel imagines "what if" the swamps were overrun with feral hippos. |
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by Carol Goodman
Wrongly accused in a hit-and-run accident that has killed a favorite student, a creative-writing professor is shunned by the same community that once rallied around her when her own daughter was killed in an eerily similar accident six years earlier. |
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by Jim Harrison
This stellar collection of novellas provides profound insight into the human condition as a 60-year-old art history academic embarks on an unexpected journey of rediscovery, a dog catcher who goes on the road looking for love and a young Midwestern farm boy whose love of water has unforeseen consequences. |
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by Peter Heller
Two college students on a wilderness canoe trip find their survival skills and longtime best friendship tested by a wildfire, white-water hazards and two mysterious strangers. |
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by Vanessa Hua
Betrayed by the boss who is also the father of her unborn child, an undocumented Chinese factory worker is forced to flee and reinvent herself in San Francisco's Chinatown in the desperate hopes of securing American citizenship for her baby. |
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by S. M Hulse
A former prison guard and talented fiddler returns to his Montana hometown to bury his wife and confront an inmate who, 20 years earlier, held him hostage during a prison riot. |
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by J. Robert Lennon
After her artist parents move the family to upstate New York, Irina becomes obsessed with the brutal murders that took place years earlier in her new home. |
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by Siobhan MacDonald
Two families, one in Ireland and one in Manhattan, agree to swap houses for much-needed vacations, and to work on their troubled marriages, but a murdered woman discovered in the driveway of the house in Limerick causes shocking secrets to be revealed. Also available as an audio CD. |
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by Carla Neggers
Hired to organize an entrepreneurial boot camp, a successful party planner reconnects with a childhood friend who has become a high-flying businessman and whose professional ambitions complicate their growing bond. Also available in Large Print. |
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by Brian Payton
Desperate to understand the war that claimed the life of his brother, journalist John Easley heads to the Territory of Alaska to investigate the Japanese invasion of the Aleutian Islands, a story censored by the U.S. government, while the wife he left behind is forced to reimagine who she is and what she is capable of doing after he disappears. |
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by Virginia Pye
Embarking on a search through the windswept plains of northwestern China in search of his kidnapped son, an American missionary is lost in a rugged, corrupt countryside of opium dens, nomadic warlords and traveling circuses before being dubbed a Ghost Man by the peasantry and subjected to a spiritual journey to reunite with his pregnant wife. |
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by Bee Ridgway
Waking up in a modern London hospital 200 years after meeting his death on a Napoleonic battlefield, Nick Falcott is indoctrinated into a time-traveling society and returned to the side of a woman he loves to reclaim a vital talisman, a mission that places the fate of the future in his hands. |
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by Karin Salvalaggio
Investigating the murder of a veteran in a drought-stricken Montana ranching community, Detective Macy Greeley uncovers ugly small-town politics and dark secrets about the victim's friends and family members.
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by Diane Setterfield
When the seemingly dead body of a child reanimates hours after arriving at an ancient inn on the Thames, three families try to claim her.
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by Scott Spencer
Meeting at a vast Hudson River estate, two couples become estranged by unexpected successes and reactions that shape the lives of diverse friends and family members over the course of two decades.
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by Wendy Wallace
Feeling her life is over in the face of disabilities that render her isolated and overprotected, Harriet leaves Victorian London with her mother and God-fearing aunt for a trip to volatile Egypt, where the trio's sense of empowerment is threatened by Harriet's mother's long-hidden past. |
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by Ellen Marie Wiseman
Explores one young woman's determination to put an end to child labor in a Pennsylvania mining town.
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