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Southern California is where dreams come true-or so Scarlett Gardner thought. When she moved there and opened the Palm Trees and Page Turners bookshop, she thought her boyfriend and business partner would be part of the story. When he leaves her for a better job, Scarlett finds herself struggling to keep her new business afloat. That's not the only thing she has to worry about--she discovers something underneath the pier by her bookshop that she didn't...
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The screenplay for McCarthy's classic film, bearing in full measure his gift-the ability to fit complex and universal emotions into ordinary lives and still preserve all of their power and significance
In the spring of 1975 the film director Richard Pearce approached Cormac McCarthy with a screenplay idea. Though already a widely acclaimed novelist, the author of such modern classics as The Orchard Keeper and Child of God, McCarthy had never before...
4) Safe House
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A deadly virus is bearing down on the world and Emerson Mackenzie, CEO of PharmaScience Technologies-now back in its ancestral home of Port Kenneth, Tennessee-opens up the historic Mackenzie house on the family's defunct sheep farm to six people: himself, his wife Tess Cartieri, his house manager, two members of his board of directors, and his executive assistant, Taylor Alexander. Taylor won't abandon Emerson, but at the same time, they don't want...
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From Sherry Parnell, author of Let The Willows Weep, comes a long-awaited new novel that unwinds a family's darkest secrets and takes an unflinching look at life in the rural South.
Effie Bilfrey has lived her entire life on Talon Ridge, a dead-end Appalachian town that generations have tried, and failed, to leave. When her only daughter Sarah disappears without explanation, leaving her two-year-old daughter Lottie behind, Effie is left to search...
6) Not Dark Yet
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A pledge made in college between two friends becomes a harsh reality three decades later when Henry calls unexpectedly upon Charlie to honor their pact to exit the planet on acceptable terms. The feisty Henry is determined to control his final days in order to maintain his dignity and minimize the impact on his wife, teenage son, ailing mother and friends. A veiled ulterior motive is to force Charlie to accept his own unavoidable fate and fully embrace...
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Shortly before his death at a tragically young age, author Thomas Wolfe presented his editor with an epic masterwork that was subsequently published as three separate novels: You Can't Go Home Again, The Hills Beyond, and The Web and the Rock.
The Web and the Root features the three initial sections of the The Web and the Rock, widely considered to be the book's strongest material. A prequel to You Can't Go Home Again, it is the story of George Webber's...
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Delve into this scandalous friends-to-lovers romance, part of the Lockwood Lightning series from USA TODAY bestselling author Jules Bennett. Their engagement may be fake but the chemistry is as real as it gets! Especially when one kiss with her best friend… changes everything. Josie Coleman has the perfect plan to get rid of her bothersome ex-husband: pretend she's about to marry again. But her fake engagement to her best friend, Reese Conrad,...
9) Country Dark
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Chris Offutt is an outstanding literary talent, whose work has been called "lean and brilliant" (The New York Times Book Review) and compared by reviewers to Tobias Wolff, Ernest Hemingway, and Raymond Carver. He's been awarded the Whiting Writers Award for Fiction/Nonfiction and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Fiction Award, among numerous other honors. His first work of fiction in nearly two decades, Country Dark is a taut, compelling novel...
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Luc Barbon, upon discharge from the army, was on autopilot heading to the Ozarks. His plan was to bury himself in an educational foxhole, insulated from the insanity of the Vietnam War and national angst. Somewhere he could rewrite his story.He is on a mission to leave a past of self-doubt and fear of commitment behind only to find himself in an enclave of passion and prejudice. Love and learning dissolve in an unforeseen twist of fate.After an inhospitable...
11) End of the Road
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Amelia never expected to have her heart broken twice in her lifetime, but that's exactly what happened. She lost everything when her husband died unexpectedly, leaving her to pick up the pieces of her heart. Every corner reminded her of the man she was supposed to spend forever with, making her feel as though she hit the end of the road for love. Amelia is forced to face all her demons when her past collides with her present, testing her in ways she...
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In 1914, with the world on the brink of war, Isaac, a nature-loving artist whose past is mysterious to all, including himself, meets Kemper, a defiant heiress caught in the rivalry between her brothers. Kemper's older brother Angel is hiding a terrible secret about his sexuality, and her younger brother Red possesses a capacity for violence that frightens even the members of his own brutal family. Together Isaac and Kemper build a refuge on their...
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Lindbergh’s Pharmacy is an Athens, Georgia, institution—the type of beloved mom and pop shop that once dotted every American town but has mostly disappeared. But Lindbergh’s has recently become the object of attention of a local fourth grade teacher Tina Lamm (“Ms. Lamm to my students”). Tina is certain something very, very bad is happening behind its famous black door and she intends to do something about it.
Her suspicions—and the drastic...
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Marsh Point volume Book 1
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From beyond the grave, Ashton’s mother leaves a mysterious legacy that upends her world. Eileen Darby, the heiress to the Merriweather fortune, has entrusted her oldest daughter with the family's waterfront estate on Catawba Sound in South Carolina's Lowcountry, bequeathing virtually nothing to her other three children. This lavish bequest is more than a gift; it's a cryptic message, a puzzle interlaced with the troubled history of their dysfunctional...
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A pregnant runaway bride on the road to Nashville is rescued by a handsome music producer in this sweet romance.
Country music producer Tucker Tate is laser focused. But finding a pregnant runaway bride forces him to slow down. Zoe Parker has a voice like an angel-and nowhere to go. So when he moves her and her baby into his condo, it's just business . . . until it's not. Will broken rules lead to broken hearts? Or is Tucker writing his very own...
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On a sultry South Carolina island, sunlight teases out the darkest secrets of the heart, in this novel from the author of An Undisturbed Peace.
Joe and Abigail Becker, a Jewish couple from Boston, have inherited a house on Sweetgrass Island in South Carolina's Lowcountry. Though they feel like fish out of water, the couple is excited to give the South a try-and maybe even find it a place to finally call home.
Their Boston friends are convinced...
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Dallas billionaires club volume 3
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In this contemporary romance, a socialite enlists her brother's BFF to pose as her husband for the holidays, but their pretend love soon gets all too real.
Headstrong socialite Stefanie Ferguson is in hot water. She needs a fake husband to deflect a rumor that could wreck her family's political ambitions. Desperate, she turns to the only available bachelor she knows, security specialist Emmett Keaton-who has to say yes to her proposal because he's...
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Sometimes a family treasure hunt unfurls new paths in life.
The Russell family members all seem to have . . . gifts. Eldest sister Penelope naturally infuses strength or joy or love-whatever the wearer requires-into the fabric of the dresses she designs as a seamstress. Her younger sister, Lilith, is never without whatever she needs-despite the free-spirited and nomadic life she lives with her daughter. There's always a person nearby who just happens...
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After testifying against her husband in a harrowing human trafficking case, Julia Becker is thrust into the secluded world of Witness Protection. Faced with a future in isolation, she manages a daring escape, seeking refuge in a quaint small town in South Carolina's lowcountry. But rather than the serene haven she'd envisioned, Julia stumbles upon a new kind of peril. Will Darby is his own worst enemy. His anger management issues have gotten into...
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After ten years of silence, Bruce Colletto shows up at Lydia's door asking her to marry him, and he just expects her to go along with it? Wildest idea ever, right? Yet, she finds herself agreeing to his crazy scheme. Will this end up being her greatest blessing or the worst decision of her life?A Promise so Sweet is the conclusion to the Something Borrowed collection. You can read Hanady and Keenan's story in Always Been Yours by Jaycee Weaver, Leilah...