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Freeing David McCallum: The Last Miracle of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter

by Ken Klonsky

Published: 2017-10-01

Paperback: 304 pages

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For ten years before Rubin “Hurricane” Carter’s death, he and his friend and coauthor Ken Klonsky had been working to help free another wrongfully convicted man, David McCallum. McCallum was eventually exonerated and freed after serving twenty-nine years in prison. This is the story ...

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The Master Butchers Singing Club: A Novel

by Louise Erdrich

Published: 2016-08-23

Paperback: 416 pages

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Still Waters

by Lindsey Brackett

Published: 2017-09-08

Paperback: 274 pages

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Cora Anne Halloway has a history degree and a plan: avoid her own past—despite being wait-listed for graduate school. Then her beloved grandmother request—and her dispassionate mother insists—that she spend the summer at Still Waters, the family cottage on Edisto Beach, South Carolin...

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* * * * * Dark,
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My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

by Emil Ferris

Published: 2017-02-28

Paperback: 416 pages

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Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka...

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Only the Dead Know Burbank: A Novel

by Bradford Tatum

Published: 2016-10-18

Paperback: 400 pages

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With Lon Cheney and Boris Karloff among its characters, this sweeping and stylish love letter to the golden age of horror cinema tells the wonderful, tragic story of Maddy Ulm. It takes readers through her rise from the complicated shadows of Berlin’s first experiments with expressionist...

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Her Deadly Secret: A gripping psychological thriller with twists that will take your breath away

by Chris Curran

Published: 2017-08-24

Paperback: 304 pages

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A family built on lies…A dark and twisty psychological thriller, in which a young girl is abducted and her family is confronted with a horror from deep in their past. Perfect for fans of BA Paris and Sue Fortin.A young girl has been taken. Abducted, never to be seen again.Joe and Hannah,...

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Wee Gillis (New York Review Children's Collection)

by Munro Leaf

Published: 2006-05-30

Hardcover: 80 pages

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A Caldecott Honor Book by the creators of the beloved Story of FerdinandWee Gillis lives in Scotland. He is an orphan, and he spends half of each year with his mother's people in the lowlands, while the other half finds him in the highlands with his father's kin. Both sides of Gillis's fam...

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* * * * Optimistic,
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Mr. Dickens and His Carol: A Novel

by Samantha Silva

Published: 2017-10-31

Hardcover: 288 pages

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“A charming, comic, and ultimately poignant story about the creation of the most famous Christmas tale ever written. It’s as foggy and haunted and redemptive as the original; it’s all heart, and I read it in a couple of ebullient, Christmassy gulps.” ?Anthony Doerr, #1 New York Tim...

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Winnie: The True Story of the Bear Who Inspired Winnie-the-Pooh

by Sally M Walker

Published: 2015-01-20

Hardcover: 40 pages

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Who could care for a bear?When Harry Colebourn saw a baby bear for sale at the train station, he knew he could care for it. Harry was a veterinarian. But he was also a soldier in training for World War I. Harry named the bear Winnie, short for Winnipeg, his company's home town, and he brou...

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Comes to Pass

by Barbara Maria Kelly

Published: 2017-10-18

Paperback: 276 pages

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In the year of 1797 Grace Wells, an educated woman and daughter of Irish immigrants meets Alexander Monet, a soldier that has migrated from Canada. They were married in St. Louis where they met and make their home another twenty miles west up the Missouri River in St. Charles. Too late Grace discovers...