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The Things We Keep
The Things We Keep
by Sally Hepworth
Reviewed: Aug 25, 2015
 
Published: Jan 19, 2016
 
With honesty and true understanding, Sally Hepworth pens this poignant story of one of today's nightmares: early-onset Alzheimer's.
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(4.5/5)
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Hunters in the Dark
Hunters in the Dark
by Lawrence Osborne
Reviewed: Oct 19, 2015
 
Published: Jan 12, 2016
 
From the novelist the New York Times compares to Paul Bowles, Evelyn Waugh and Ian McEwan, an evocative new work of literary suspense.
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(3.9/5)
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Fallen Land
Fallen Land
by Taylor Brown
Reviewed: Oct 19, 2015
 
Published: Jan 12, 2016
 
Searching for a home in a ravaged landscape, two star-crossed lovers flee a ruthless band of bounty hunters, from the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina to Sherman's March through Georgia in the final years of the Civil War.
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(4.6/5)
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The Sound of Gravel
The Sound of Gravel : A Memoir
by Ruth Wariner
Reviewed: Oct 19, 2015
 
Published: Jan 5, 2016
 
A riveting, deeply-affecting true story of one girl's coming-of-age in a polygamist doomsday cult.
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(4.6/5)
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The Secrets of Midwives
The Secrets of Midwives
by Sally Hepworth
Reviewed: Nov 17, 2014
 
Published: Dec 29, 2015
 
The Secrets of Midwives tells the story of three generations of women devoted to delivering new life into the world - and the secrets they keep that threaten to change their own lives forever.
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(4.3/5)
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Home by Nightfall
Home by Nightfall : A Charles Lenox Mystery
by Charles Finch
Reviewed: Aug 25, 2015
 
Published: Nov 10, 2015
 
Blending Charles Finch's trademark wit, elegance, and depth of research, this new mystery, equal parts Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, may be the finest in the series.
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(4.2/5)
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The Good Neighbor
The Good Neighbor
by Amy Sue Nathan
Reviewed: Jul 27, 2015
 
Published: Oct 13, 2015
 
Izzy Lane never thought of herself as a liar. In fact, she's always played by the rules.
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(4.1/5)
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The Devil in Jerusalem
The Devil in Jerusalem
by Naomi Ragen
Reviewed: Jun 15, 2015
 
Published: Oct 13, 2015
 
From the international bestselling author of The Tenth Song, a commanding new novel based on the true story of a man who starts a dark, secret sect in Israel, corrupting a young Orthodox family.
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(4.0/5)
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