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Other Birds
by Sarah Addison Allen
Arriving on Mallow Island, right off the coast of South Carolina, to claim her late mother's apartment, Zoey meets her eccentric and secretive neighbors, including a girl on the run, a lonely chef, a legendary writer and three ghosts, each with their own stories whose endings haven't been written yet.
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Pride of Eden
by Taylor Brown
Obsessed with replacing his wildlife sanctuary's escaped lion, a racehorse jockey and Vietnam veteran teams up with a former poacher and a veterinarian to battle underworld smugglers, breeders and trophy hunters.
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Razorblade Tears
by S. A. Cosby
When his son Isiah and his white husband, Derek, are murdered, ex-con Ike Randolph bands together with Derek's father, another ex-con, to rain down vengeance upon those who hurt their boys while confronting their own prejudices about each other and their own sons.
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The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
by Grady Hendrix
When her hectic but predictable life is upended by a vicious attack by an elderly local, Patricia unexpectedly bonds with a well-read neighbor who her senile mother-in-law claims to have known herself when she was a girl.
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Surviving Savannah
by Patti Callahan Henry
A tale based on the Pulaski disaster of 1838 follows the efforts of a Savannah history professor to guest-curate a museum collection of wreck artifacts while researching the stories of 11 family members who were aboard the doomed steamship.
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Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver
The son of an Appalachian teenager uses his good looks, wit and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves and crushing losses, in the new novel from the best-selling author of Unsheltered.
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The Water Keeper
by Charles Martin
Tending the grounds of an island church with no parishioners, retired priest Murphy Shepherd voyages down the Intracoastal waterway to scatter a friend's ashes before agreeing to help a woman whose daughter has been abducted into the world of trafficking.
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Biloxi
by Mary Miller
A collection building on the critically acclaimed The Last Days of California and Always Happy Hour takes readers into the Biloxi home of an aimless, newly single 63-year-old retiree who makes the impulsive, life-changing decision to adopt a dog.
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Midnight Atlanta
by Thomas Mullen
The stunning third novel in the award-nominated, critically acclaimed Darktown series sees a newspaper editor murdered against the backdrop of Rosa Parks' protest and Martin Luther King Jr.'s emergence.
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Hard Cash Valley
by Brian Panowich
Investigating a murder in a Jacksonville motel room, Dane Kirby and his FBI counterpart, Special Agent Roselita Velasquez, find themselves in a race against time to save a boy on the autism spectrum whose savant talents are being violently exploited.
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In the Valley: Stories and a Novella Based on Serena
by Ron Rash
A collection of 10 modern allegorical tales includes such acclaimed entries as "Baptism" and "Neighbors" as well as a novella starring fan-favorite villainess Serena Pemberton, who returns to North Carolina to finish the murderous job she started.
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Girl, Forgotten
by Karin Slaughter
Longbill Beach, 1982. Emily Vaughn gets ready for the prom. For an athlete, who is smart, pretty and well-liked, this night should be the highlight of her high school career. But Emily has a secret. And by the end of the evening, that secret will be silenced forever. Forty years later, Emily's murder remains a mystery. Her tight-knit group of friends closed ranks; her respected, wealthy family retreated inwards; the small town moved on from her grisly attack. But all that's about to change. US Marshal Andrea Oliver arrives in Longbill Beach on her first assignment: to protect a judge receiving death threats. But, in reality, Andrea is there to find justice for Emily. The killer is still out there—and Andrea must discover the truth before she gets silenced, too.
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Nick
by Michael F. Smith
A tale inspired by Fitzgerald's famous narrator imagines the life of Nick Carraway before Gatsby, depicting a war-traumatized, heavily drinking man who embarks on a doomed journey of redemption from Paris to New Orleans.
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The Break-up Book Club
by Wendy Wax
Four very different women leading very different lives, with the help of books, laughter and friendship, find the courage to seek their own versions of happily-ever-after.
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Now is Not the Time to Panic
by Kevin Wilson
Twenty years after secretly causing panic in her hometown through the written word and artwork, along with a fellow loner named Zeke, famous author, mom, and wife Frances Eleanor Budge gets a call that brings her past rushing back, threatening to upend everything.
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Red at the Bone
by Jacqueline Woodson
Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier, that very dress was measured and sewn for a different wearer: Melody's mother, for her own ceremony — a celebration that ultimately never took place.
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