Marguerite Gavin
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An essential collection of classic stories that established Flannery O'Connor's reputation as an American master of fiction—now with a new introduction by New York Times bestselling author Lauren Groff In 1955, with the title story and others in this critical edition, Flannery O'Connor firmly laid claim to her place as one of the most original and provocative writers of her generation. Steeped in a Southern Gothic tradition...
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Hollows (Kim Harrison) volume 12
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Supernatural superhero Rachel Morgan must counter a strange magic that could spell civil war for the Hollows.
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"A year after getting divorced, Helen Carpenter, thirty-two, lets her annoying, ten years younger brother talk her into signing up for a wilderness survival course. It's supposed to be a chance for her to pull herself together again, but when she discovers that her brother's even-more-annoying best friend is also coming on the trip, she can't imagine how it will be anything other than a disaster. Thus begins the strangest adventure of Helen's well-behaved...
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Hollows (Kim Harrison) volume 8
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A malicious coven accuses witch detective Rachel Morgan of consorting with demons, which could mean imprisonment--or death.
7) Bad blood
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 20
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"New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow's latest finds Kate Shugak entangled in a bitter tribal rivalry and murder One hundred years of bad blood between the villages of Kushtaka and Kuskulana come to a boil when the body of a young Kushtaka ne'er-do-well is found wedged in a fish wheel. Sergeant Jim Chopin's prime suspect is a Kuskulana man who is already in trouble in both villages for falling in love across the river. But when the suspect...
8) Pale demon
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Hollows (Kim Harrison) volume 9
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Condemned to death for practicing witchcraft, bounty hunter Rachel Morgan is given three days to clear her name and get to the annual witches' convention in San Francisco, an effort that forces her to endure a cross-country drive with a motley crew of supernatural companions.
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 16
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Inside Alaska's biggest national park, surrounding the town of Niniltna, a gold mining company has started buying up land. The residents of the Park, are uneasy. "But gold is up to nine hundred dollars an ounce," is the refrain of Talia Macleod, the popular Alaskan skiing champ the company hired to improve their relations with Alaskans. And she promises much needed jobs to the locals. But before she can make her way to every village in the area to...
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"From Joan of Arc to Queen Elizabeth I, to Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, to Sally Ride and Jennifer Aniston, history is full of women without children. Some chose to forgo reproduction in order to pursue intellectually satisfying work--a tension noted by medieval European nuns, 1970s women's liberationists, and modern professionals alike. Some refused to bring children into a world beset by famine, pollution, or climate change. For others,...
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 1
Kate Shugak novel volume 1
Kate Shugak investigation volume 1
Brilliance audio on MP3-CD
Kate Shugak novel volume 1
Kate Shugak investigation volume 1
Brilliance audio on MP3-CD
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Kate Shugak is a native Aleut working as a private investigator in Alaska. She's 5 foot 1 inch tall, carries a scar that runs from ear to ear across her throat and owns half-wolf, half-husky dog named Mutt. Resourceful, strong-willed, defiant, Kate is tougher than your average heroine and she needs to be to survive the worst the Alaskan wilds can throw at her.
12) No fixed line
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 22
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"'... though there is no fixed line between wrong and right, There are roughly zones whose laws must be obeyed.' ... It is New Year's Eve, nearly six weeks into an off-and-on blizzard that has locked Alaska down, effectively cutting it off from the outside world. But now there are reports of a plane down in the Quilak mountains. With the National Transportation Safety Board unable to reach the crash site, ex-Trooper Jim Chopin is pulled out of retirement...
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Private investigator Clay Maynard routinely locates missing children for clients but has nearly given up hope of finding his own daughter, cruelly stolen from him by his ex-wife twenty-three years ago.Equine therapist Taylor Dawson has chosen to intern at Daphne Montgomery-Carter's stables so that she can observe the program's security director-her father, Clay Maynard. Trying to reconcile the wonderful man she's getting to know with the monster her...
14) A night too dark
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 17
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A Night Too Dark is New York Times bestselling writer Dana Stabenow's latest, the seventeenth in a series chronicling life, death, love, tragedy, mischief, controversy, nature, and survival in Alaska, America's last real frontier. In Alaska, people disappear every day. In Aleut detective Kate Shugak's Park, they've been disappearing a lot lately. Hikers head into the wilderness unprepared and get lost. Miners quit without notice at the busy Suulutaq...
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 19
Kate Shugak series) volume 19
Center Point large print edition
Kate Shugak mystery volume 19
Kate Shugak series) volume 19
Center Point large print edition
Kate Shugak mystery volume 19
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Aleut private investigator Kate Shugak and Alaska State Trooper Liam Campbell?the heroes of New York Times bestseller Dana Stabenow's most beloved series?team up for the first time ever when Liam needs Kate's help to clear his wife of the murder of a wealthy aviation entrepreneur. In their most challenging case to date, Kate goes undercover to find that the murder was only the beginning of a much larger conspiracy ranging from the darkest family secrets...
16) Play with fire
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 5
Kate Shugak novel volume 5
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Kate Shugak series) volume 5
Kate Shugak novel volume 5
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Kate Shugak series) volume 5
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After discovering a burned body in the woods, Private Investigator Kate Shugak sets out to solve the man's murder in a nearby religious community.
17) A fatal thaw
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On the first day of spring a young mans fancy turns to thoughts of massacre when he takes a .30-06 and kills nine of his neighbors in the Park. Or did he kill only eight? And if so, who killed the ninth victim, and why? It?s up to Kate to find out.
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 14
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Hired by a woman to clear her mother's name, Kate must confront twenty years of secrets and murder in one of Alaska's most powerful families.
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Having watched her life turn into a nor'easter, 34-year-old LeeLee Satterfield is back home in the South, ready to pick back up where she left off. But that's a task easier said than done. LeeLee's a single mom, still dreaming of the Vermonter who stole her heart. Accompanied by her three best friends who pepper her with advice and peach daiquiris, LeeLee opens another restaurant and learns she has to prove herself yet again.
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