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  • Chenneville
    Chenneville: A Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance
    Paulette Jiles
    Paperback: 09/24/2024
     
    Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawless post&#...
  • The Ascent
    Adam Plantinga
    Paperback: 09/10/2024
     
    When a high-security prison fails, a down-on-his luck cop and the governor's daughter are going to have to ...
  • The Flower Sisters
    Michelle Collins Anderson
    Paperback: 04/23/2024
     
    From the new Fannie Flagg of the Ozarks, a richly-woven story of family, forgiveness, and reinvention for ...
  • James
    James: A Novel
    Percival Everett
    Hardcover: 03/19/2024
     
    A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny...
  • Jack
    Marilynne Robinson
    Paperback: 04/06/2021
     
    Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of ...
  • Heart of Junk
    Luke Geddes
    Paperback: 01/12/2021
     
    A hilarious debut novel about an eclectic group of merchants at a Kansas antique mall who become implicated in...
  • Savage Country
    Robert Olmstead
    Paperback: 09/04/2018
     
    A gripping narrative of the infamous hunt which drove the buffalo population to near extinction--the story of ...

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