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Other Birdsby Sarah Addison AllenFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Garden Spells comes an enchanting tale filled with magical realism and moments of pure love that won't let you go. Between the real and the imaginary, there are stories that take flight in the most extraordinary ways. Right off the coast of South Carolina, on Mallow Island, The Dellawisp sits–a stunning cobblestone building shaped like a horseshoe and named after the tiny turquoise birds who, alongside its human tenants, inhabit an air of magical secrecy.
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Summers at the Saint
by Mary Kay Andrews
The widowed owner of the St. Cecelia, a landmark hotel, Traci Eddings has one summer season to restore it to its former glory. When a tragic death changes everything, she must put wrongs to right, put guilty parties in their place, and maybe even find a new romance along the way.
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Swamp Story
by Dave Barry
Stumbling across a long-lost treasure, single mother Jesse Braddock must figure out how to keep it out of the hands of villains, while Ken Bortle, to lure tourists to his failing store, invents the "Everglades Melon Monster," inspiring a horde of TikTokers to swarm the swamp, inciting mayhem and hilarity.
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A historical drama based on the Battle of Blair Mountain, pitting a multi-ethnic army of 10,000 coal miners against mine owners, state militia, and the United States government in the largest labor uprising in American history.
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by Percival EverettFrom Percival Everett–a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards–comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. |
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The Trackers
by Charles Frazier
Commissioned to create a mural representing Dawes, Wyoming, for their new Post Office, Val Welch, a painter in Depression-era America, stays with a wealthy art lover, his wife, and a mysterious elder cowboy where he turns up secrets that could spark formidable changes for all of them.
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Shark Heart: A Love Story
by Emily Habeck
When her husband Lewis, a few weeks after their wedding, receives a rare diagnosis–his physical body will gradually turn into a great white shark–Wren, struggling with his fate, finds his developing carnivorous nature activating long-repressed memories which forces her to make an impossible choice.
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Long After We are Gone
by Terah Shelton Harris
Told from alternating points of view from all four siblings, this emotional story about the power of family and letting go, follows CeCe, Junior, Nance, and Angeline, each fighting their own personal battles, as they return home to save their ancestral land–and themselves–after the death of their father.
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The Caretaker
by Ron Rash
In 1951, Blackburn Gant, the sole caretaker of a hilltop cemetery in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, is charged with caring for his best friend's wife, Naomi, when he is drafted to serve overseas. As Blackburn and Naomi grow closer and closer, a shocking revelation upends numerous lives.
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Silent Are the Dead
by D. M. Rowell
While back on tribal land, Mud Sawpole uncovers an illegal fracking operation underway that threatens the Kiowas' ancestral homeland. But there's an even greater threat: a local businessman involved in artifact thefts is murdered, and a respected tribe elder faces accusation of the crime. After being roped in by her cousin, Denny, they begin to investigate the death while also pursuing evidence to permanently stop frackers from destroying Kiowa land, water, and livelihoods. When answers evade her, Mud heeds her grandfather's and great-aunt's words of wisdom and embraces Kiowa tribal customs to find the answers that she seeks. But her ceremonial sweat leads to a vision with answers wrapped in more questions. Mud and Denny race against the clock to uncover the real killer and must face the knowledge that there may be a traitor–and a murderer–in their midst. It's already too late for one victim–and Mud may be next.
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All We Thought We Knew
by Michelle Shocklee
1969. When Mattie Taylor's twin brother was killed in Vietnam, she lost her best friend. Mama's last wish is that Mattie would read some old letters stored in a trunk...she insists they hold the answers Mattie is looking for. 1942. Ava Delaney is picking up the pieces of her life following her husband's death at Pearl Harbor. As Ava works to process legal documents for the military, she crosses paths with Gunther Schneider, a German who is helping care for wounded soldiers. Faced with the possibility of losing Gunther, Ava must choose whether loving someone deemed the enemy is a risk worth taking, even if it means being ostracized by all those around her.
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Silver Alert
by Lee Smith
Rather than give up his independence, Herb, a stubborn elderly man, heads off on one last joy ride to Key West in his Porsche along with Dee Dee, his new young friend, setting off a Silver Alert.
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Let Us Descend
by Jesmyn Ward
In the years before the Civil War, Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, struggles through the miles-long march. She seeks comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother, opening herself to a world beyond this world.
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