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  • Death in the Land of Enchantment

    by Holly Harrison

    Patrol Officer Louise Sanchez knows the Northern New Mexico roads, yet when she fills in for a detective who’s been put on leave, she finds herself in unfamiliar territory. The first week on the job, she is assigned a murder case—that of a high-powered attorney found with a butcher knife in his heart and a date-rape drug in his system—and immediately knows she’s out of her league. There is no sign of a break-in or struggle, and the only clues are twenty-one dollars of play money and a photocopy of a woman from an online dating site. The evidence leads to three women connected to Madison but offers little to solve the case. Feeling pressure from a growing number of details that don’t add up, Sanchez decides to forgo standard police procedures and follow her intuition. But as she blazes her own trail to solve the murder, she may lose the case to higher powers.

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  • One Rogue Raider: Death of the White Swan

    by Larry Allen Lindsey

    In late June 1914, two gunshots in Sarajevo have changed the course of history. Archduke Franz Ferdinand is dead, and World War I begins. Across the world, the German dreadnought SMS Emden is sent to the Far East to disrupt Allied shipping. The Emden is outnumbered sixty to one, but the men on board will do their duty. What follows is a three-month cat-and-mouse chase with the Royal Navy. Under the leadership of “gentleman pirate” Captain Karl Friedrich Max von Müller, the elusive “White Swan of the East” manages to sink sixteen civilian Allied vessels without a single loss of life on either side before meeting her demise. Solidly grounded in history, One Rogue Raider imagines the thoughts and dreams and deeds of Emden’s crew, her pursuers, and First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill himself, bringing to life what was perhaps the last instance of a conflict at sea where tonnage sunk and body counts did not trump human decency and honor.

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  • Night of the Bear

    by Alan Cockrell and Richard Hess

    Reverend Bobby Chatman is a successful television preacher and the United States president’s spiritual adviser—though he’s hiding a dark secret. Immigrating to the US from Russia, he and his two assistants are deep-cover Russian intelligence operatives who have devised a plan to bring the United States to its knees with just four cruise missiles launched from within its borders.
    Captain Mark “Suds” Matthews is an F-15 Eagle pilot stationed in Massachusetts. Frustrated with bureaucracy within the US Air Force, he’s prepared to leave his job and fly his final Eagle ride. Meanwhile, the career of his girlfriend, FBI Agent Darryl McCormick, seems to only be at its outset.
    The night of the Russian attack is a desperate race to deliver the weapons and exit American airspace before being discovered, performed by an aircrew forced to risk their lives for a mission they don’t believe in. Unbeknownst to him, Captain Matthews’s last ride as an F-15 pilot may just be his most important.

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  • Mud Season

    by Jeff Kramer

    Mud Season tells the story of Woody Hackworth, a newspaper reporter laid off amid whispers that he made up a source. Resentful, bored, and looking for a way to get back at his ex-employer, Woody makes a fateful decision: To write an environmental thriller and post chapters online as he goes. His novel-in-progress gains traction in the gossipy, snow belt city of Icarus, N.Y. but not for reasons Woody wanted. His readers believe Woody is using his fiction to expose his in-laws and their successful family-owned construction business. With each new post, Woody’s domestic discord grows, but how can he stop now? He’s almost famous? Mud Season merrily wallows in the classic conflict between ambition and family, digs into the murky perils of online notoriety, and slings a comic-tragic elegy to the once-mighty institution of the daily newspaper.

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  • No Stones Left Unturned

    by Marie-Claude Gingras

    Martha and Jeff are desperate. Stephan, their five-year-old child, has vanished. He is one of the many children who have disappeared over the last decade in the region of a peaceful village in Vermont. Jeff calls on his friend Ryan, an elite tactical rescue unit member whose approach is based on tangible facts and ground research. Martha recruits Leila, a young woman with perceptive abilities and telepathic skills. Friction between them runs high while crimes of different natures keep unfolding. They finally make a truce. After facing life-threatening adventures together, leading them as far as Alaska and Montana, the case finally seems to reach its conclusion. But is it really solved? In an incredible turn of events, the entire case is slipped open.

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  • Drinking From the Stream

    by Richard Scott Sacks

    By turns action/adventure, political thriller, historical and literary fiction, Drinking from the Stream is set during 1971 and 1972, a time of violent upheaval when the Vietnam War and the Chinese Cultural Revolution marked a generation. The action leapfrogs ten countries, from the United States to Tanzania, in a coming-of-age tale of youth colliding with post-independence Africa. Jake Ries, a twenty-two-year-old Nebraska farm boy turned oil roughneck, becomes a fugitive when he unintentionally kills a homicidal White supremacist on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. On the run, he meets Karl Appel, a restless, disillusioned Oxford dropout and former anti-war activist. Throwing caution to the wind and both struggling with personal demons, the two young men plunge into the Ethiopian and East African hinterland, where they discover that dictatorship and mass murder are facts of life.

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  • Improvising in Italian

    by Jennifer Artley

    In the summer of 2017, Jennifer and her husband Michael, seasoned jetsetters, spontaneously move to Modena in Northern Italy, far from the grandeur and splendor of Rome, Florence, and Venice. They immerse themselves in Italian food and visit castles and wineries and become close friends with an eclectic group of Italians and expats. But as they build their dream life, navigating through Italy’s notoriously corrupt bureaucracy, Michael’s business in Italy collapses. To hang on, he attempts other business deals, involving everything from Italian football clubs to Stratovarius violins, which introduces the couple to colorful, unsavory characters. Then in 2020, an unknown virus spreads like wildfire, and Italy is at the epicenter. This prompts one of the strictest lockdowns in world history, and Jennifer and Michael are brought to the precipice of personal and financial ruin until an unexpected twist of fate arrives. Improvising in Italian is a frank, honest appraisal of the romance and pitfalls of being a global nomad. It follows the couple as they survive innumerable slaps, cultural faux pas, missteps, and devastating setbacks, culminating in the realization that, even in Italy, there is no such thing as the perfect place to live.

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  • Not the Trip We Planned

    by Linda N. Edelstein & Carol G. Kerr

    Chickie and Maddy are aging in their typical yin and yang styles when old friend Lena’s husband, Edward, suddenly dies. Maddy, a retired social worker, is eager to offer support; Chickie, a chronically underemployed journalist, is peeved at the inconvenience. Friendship prevails and the two reluctantly return to Chicago, where they’d all met decades earlier. They soon learn that Lena requires more than comfort or casseroles—she is certain Edward was murdered and demands answers. Chickie and Maddy dismiss her suspicions as grief but agree to help. They’re soon astonished to discover they have a penchant for unraveling mysteries, learning more about Edward than they ever wanted to know. As tensions mount and secrets tumble forth, the women must choose to remain silent or pursue justice . . . or is it revenge?

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  • The Bank

    by Brandon Currence

    The Bank continues the saga of Daniel Furman, a brilliant and talented athlete whose tranquil life is shattered by forces beyond his control. After a harrowing face-off with a terrorist culminates in the savage drugging and rape of his fiancé, Sarah, Daniel waits in Maine while Sarah heals. He wonders if he will ever again find the peace he had ripped from him. As Daniel considers his future, his mentor and uncle, Victor, offers a new course for him. He becomes embroiled in a world of technology that can provide for the welfare of the Earth and redefine the center of world power. Will he ever find the quiet life with Sarah he desperately desires? Or will his intelligence drive him to a destiny shaped by unimaginable forces the world may not be ready to accept. Daniel must choose between challenging the most powerful institution in history and losing everything he has worked so hard to build.

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  • A Life Made From Scratch

    by Marie Newman

    A Life Made From Scratch is a brutally honest, frequently funny memoir about Marie Newman’s rise to “controversial” congresswoman, mother of a transgender daughter, antibullying activist, and CEO. Marie shares the stories of her hard-fought business and political wins and losses, while managing her family's transitions and mental health struggles. At its heart, this is the story of a woman who has moved mountains and built movements. Her invaluable lessons illustrate how movements, life solutions, careers, and families are built from a person’s motivation to solve a problem. Completely unvarnished, she shares the inside story of congressional life, her unsuccessful bid for reelection, ever-present misogyny throughout her career, and the devastating sequence of events that would crush her political career and, paradoxically, be the fire that would finally free her.

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