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Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsRuth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years' experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she's been reassigned to another patient. The parents are white supremacists and don't want Ruth, who is African American, to touch their child...Categorized as:
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![Aue by Becky Manawatu]()
Aue by Becky Manawatu
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWINNER OF THE JANN MEDLICOTT ACORN PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE MITOQ BEST FIRST BOOK OF FICTIONWINNER OF THE NGAIO MARSH AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVELauē (verb) to cry, howl, groan, wail, bawl. (interjection) expression of astonishment or distress.Taukiri was born into sorrow... -
![Felon: Poems by Reginald Dwayne Betts]()
Felon: Poems by Reginald Dwayne Betts
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA searing volume by a poet whose work conveys “the visceral effect that prison has on identity” (New York Times).Felon tells the story of one man in fierce, dazzling poems― canvassing his wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood, and grace― and, in doing so, creates a travelogue for an imagined life... -
![A Pelican Pointe Christmas by Vickie McKeehan]()
A Pelican Pointe Christmas by Vickie McKeehan
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRocked by tragedy, Naomi Townsend arrives in Pelican Pointe with a past she’s trying to forget. A new start is just what she needs to restore her broken spirit.Settling in means getting to know her neighbors. Not an impossible task when people are so friendly. When she meets Colt Del Rio something inside her clicks. She soon realizes his generous heart is matched only by the inner pain he carries... -
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![Heartbeat: A Courageous Love Novel by Terreece M. Clarke]()
Heartbeat: A Courageous Love Novel by Terreece M. Clarke
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMaya Anderson only knows success: set a goal, create a plan, achieve. Everything she can control she does, down to her color-coordinated closet. Then someone tried to kill her. Now, she has a new goal: stay alive. New town. New identity. No men... -
![The Flaw by Antonis Samarakis]()
The Flaw by Antonis Samarakis
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA man is seized from his afternoon drink at the Café Sport by two agents of the Regime - though what exactly he is suspected of we do not know, and neither, apparently, does he.What follows is a journey by car toward Special Branch headquarters, and the interrogation that undoubtedly awaits him there... -
![My Heart is Your Secret by Chelsea Maria]()
My Heart is Your Secret by Chelsea Maria
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI can’t breathe. And I don’t want to breathe. I don’t want to breathe my air. I’d rather embed our veins together so his oxygen can flow into me. I’d rather us be one… Keatyn had no idea how much I needed her. With each passing day that went by without touching her… kissing her… I became more ill... -
![The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters]()
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a community, and remains unsolved for nearly fifty years.July 1962. A Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, vanishes...Categorized as:
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![Jaded by Ela Lee]()
Jaded by Ela Lee
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA young lawyer wakes up the morning after a work gala with no memory of how she got home the previous night and must figure out what, exactly, happened—and how much she's willing to put up with to make her way to the top of the corporate ladder.Jade isn’t even my real name. Jade began as my Starbucks name, because all children of immigrants have a Starbucks name... -
![Blood Trail by C.J. Box]()
Blood Trail by C.J. Box
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA Joe Pickett novel from #1"New York Times-"bestselling author C.J. Box. Game wardens have found a man dead at a mountain camp-strung up, gutted, and flayed as if he were the elk he'd been hunting... -
![Trickster's Point by William Kent Krueger Unabridged MP3 CD Audiobook 2012 by Kent Krueger]()
Trickster's Point by William Kent Krueger Unabridged MP3 CD Audiobook 2012 by Kent Krueger
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsTrickster's Point by William Kent Krueger... -
![Bella Mafia by Sienna Mynx]()
Bella Mafia by Sienna Mynx
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRuthless.... Cold hearted.... Sworn to revenge... La donna nera è il capo... The capu di tutti capi has fallen by an assassins’ bullet. If he does recover it is unlikely he will be the same. The doctor's tell Mirabella to prepare for the worst. His capu’s warn her to prepare for war... -
![Secret by Nia Forrester]()
Secret by Nia Forrester
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShayla has a secret. She’s very different than the person she used to be three short years ago; that woman she finally feels like she’s left behind and never wants to be again. And she’s been doing fine so far with her plan to reinvent herself. Trey Denison wasn’t going to put even a dent in those plans... -
![Coyote Songs by Gabino Iglesias]()
Coyote Songs by Gabino Iglesias
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn Gabino Iglesias’ second novel, ghosts and old gods guide the hands of those caught up in a violent struggle to save the soul of the American southwest.A man tasked with shuttling children over the border believes the Virgin Mary is guiding him towards final justice. A woman offers colonizer blood to the Mother of Chaos... -
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![Hallowed Ground by Lori G. Armstrong]()
Hallowed Ground by Lori G. Armstrong
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGrisly murders are rocking the small county of Bear Butte where Julie Collinshas spent the last few months learning the PI biz. She takes a case involvinga missing Native American girl who could be the innocent pawn in her parents'child custody dispute, or a hostage in a fight to keep a casino from opening.Original... -
![Boy Made of Dawn by R. Allen Chappell]()
Boy Made of Dawn by R. Allen Chappell
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFollow Charlie Yazzi and Thomas Begay as stolen children and a sniper assassin bring danger and intrigue to the nation's largest reservation. Old and new characters emerge to unravel ongoing corruption. An irascible Ute family and their shrewd ranch-woman neighbor become caught up in the plot to place certain tribal leaders above the law... -
![Mink River by Brian Doyle]()
Mink River by Brian Doyle
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLike Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood and Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, Brian Doyle’s stunning fiction debut brings a town to life through the jumbled lives and braided stories of its people... -
![The Road Beasts: Bear : Mature Romance Over 40 by Kimberly Smith]()
The Road Beasts: Bear : Mature Romance Over 40 by Kimberly Smith
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLica Nichols is used to being at a disadvantage. Having lost most of her sight in her late twenties, she has learned to live a full and purposeful life using her remaining senses, especially her hearing. Lica is a renowned expert in her field of audiology. She often works with police and the FBI to help them solve crimes...Categorized as:
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![Blanche Passes Go by Barbara Neely]()
Blanche Passes Go by Barbara Neely
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPraise the Ancestors! After three years of housekeeping for Boston's haughty elite, Blanche White is finally coming home to North Carolina for an entire summer. And like a sign from above that she's headed in the right direction, Blanche has already lined up a date with the handsome train conductor she met somewhere between Boston and Baltimore... -
![Blood Money by Thomas Perry]()
Blood Money by Thomas Perry
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"Thomas Perry just keeps getting better," said Tony Hillerman, about Sleeping Dogs--and in this superb new novel by one of America's best thriller writers, Jane Whitefield takes on the mafia, and its money.Jane Whitefield, the fearless "guide" who helps people in trouble disappear, make victims vanish,has just begun her quiet new life as Mrs... -
![Brown Dog by Jim Harrison]()
Brown Dog by Jim Harrison
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNew York Times best-selling author Jim Harrison is one of America’s most beloved writers, and of all his creations, Brown Dog, a bawdy, reckless, down-on-his-luck Michigan Indian, has earned cult status with readers in the more than two decades since his first appearance...Categorized as:
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![Desolation Mountain by William Kent Krueger]()
Desolation Mountain by William Kent Krueger
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Edgar Award-winning author William Kent Krueger delivers another heart-pounding thriller filled with “dynamic action scenes” (The New York Times) as Cork O’Connor and his son Stephen work together to uncover the truth behind the death of a senator on Desolation Mountain and the mysterious disappearances of several first responders... -
![Tarnished Silver by Chautona Havig]()
Tarnished Silver by Chautona Havig
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNovember 15-December 24–the busiest time of the year for most businesses, and The Confectionary owner, Audrey Seever is no exception. Buried in new ice cream flavors, bon bons, pies, breads, cakes, and other tempting treats, Audrey hardly has time to sleep, much less do things like cook for herself, clean up after herself, or do any holiday decorating... -
![Legend by Dinah McCall, Sharon Sala]()
Legend by Dinah McCall, Sharon Sala
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAs teenagers, Raine Beaumont and Joseph Colorado tasted the joys of first love, until her father's lies destroyed their fragile bond. Now, twelve years later, Raine receives news that will take her back to her hometown of Oracle, Arizona, where she will face her lost love again.Haunted by the memory of the boy she once adored, Raine was not prepared for the mysterious, seductive man before her... -
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![Sara's Angel by Sharon Sala]()
Sara's Angel by Sharon Sala
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Sara Beaudry got the note from her brother saying that she had to find his former partner, Mackenzie Hawk, if she wanted to stay alive, she knew this was no exaggeration. Without a moment to waste, Sara left the modeling shoot, trading her car for a motorcycle, and rode off in search of the tall, stoic man of Native American descent, whom she'd never met... -
![When These Mountains Burn by David Joy]()
When These Mountains Burn by David Joy
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAcclaimed author and "remarkably gifted storyteller" (The Charlotte Observer) David Joy returns with a fierce and tender tale of a father, an addict, a lawman, and the explosive events that come to unite them.When his addict son gets in deep with his dealer, it takes everything Raymond Mathis has to bail him out of trouble one last time... -
![Redemption by Deborah J. Ledford]()
Redemption by Deborah J. Ledford
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom award-winning author Deborah J Ledford comes a thrilling new series featuring a Native American sheriff’s deputy who risks it all to find a friend who’s gone missing.After four women disappear from the Taos Pueblo reservation, Deputy Eva “Lightning Dance” Duran dives into the case. For her, it’s personal... -
![I Wish I Had a Red Dress by Pearl Cleage]()
I Wish I Had a Red Dress by Pearl Cleage
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCleage captures the mores, culture, and rhythm of black urban youth and the romantic tensions between mature black adults as she weaves contemporary issues into a love story.Joyce Mitchell was widowed far too young when her beloved husband, Mitch, died in a tragic accident five years ago... -
![After Story by Larissa Behrendt]()
After Story by Larissa Behrendt
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen Indigenous lawyer Jasmine decides to take her mother Della on a tour of England's most revered literary sites, Jasmine hopes it will bring them closer together and help them reconcile the past.Twenty-five years earlier the disappearance of Jasmine's older sister devastated their tight-knit community... -
![Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie]()
Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSherman Alexie offers nine poignant and emotionally resonant stories about Native Americans who find themselves at personal and cultural crossroads. In 'The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above', an intellectual feminist Spokane Indian woman saves the lives of dozens of white women all around her, to the bewilderment of her only child...Categorized as:
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![Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko]()
Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA dark and funny new novel from the multi-award-winning author of Mullumbimby. Wise-cracking Kerry Salter is part of an Aboriginal family living on the mid-north coast of New South Wales. She has spent a lifetime avoiding two things - her hometown and prison. But now her Pop is dying and she's an inch away from the lockup, so she heads south on a stolen Harley...Categorized as:
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![Hell of a Book by Jason Mott]()
Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 20 ratings***2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER*** ***THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER***Winner of the 2021 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize Finalist, Willie Morris Award for Southern Writing Shortlist, and the 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! An Ebony Magazine Publishing Book Club Pick! One of Washington Post's 50 Notable...Categorized as:
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![The Heaviness of Things That Float by Jennifer Manuel]()
The Heaviness of Things That Float by Jennifer Manuel
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJennifer Manuel skilfully depicts the lonely world of Bernadette, a woman who has spent the last forty years living alone on the periphery of a remote West Coast First Nations reserve, serving as a nurse for the community... -
![The Wolf Hunt by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen]()
The Wolf Hunt by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAward-winning author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen returns with a timely exploration of the fault lines in a community, a school, and a family, as a mother begins to suspect her teenage son of committing a terrible crime... -
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![The Simple Art of Killing a Woman by Patrícia Melo]()
The Simple Art of Killing a Woman by Patrícia Melo
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom best-selling Brazilian crime novelist Patrícia Melo comes a genre-defying tale of women in the Amazon and their reckoning with brutal oppression―by turns poetic, humorous, dark, and inspiring...Categorized as:
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![The Valley of Lost Children by David Barbur]()
The Valley of Lost Children by David Barbur
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt starts with a footprint. It ends with a murder.Wildlife tracker and wilderness survival expert Tye Caine just wants to live in the woods and be left alone, but a killer haunts the misty forests of the Pacific Northwest. When someone attempts to abduct a child, and a local resident is murdered, Tye is drawn into a web of hidden secrets and madness... -
![Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham]()
Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeA Lambda Literary Award FinalistIn this “razor-sharp” and “dangerously hilarious” novel that “hooks readers from the beginning” ( Los Angeles Times ), a trans woman reenters life on the outside after more than twenty years in a men’s prison, over one consequential Fourth of July weekend—from the author of the PEN/Faulkner Award winner Delicious Foods...Categorized as:
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![Crow Winter by Karen McBride]()
Crow Winter by Karen McBride
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNanabush. A name that has a certain weight on the tongue—a taste. Like lit sage in a windowless room or aluminum foil on a metal filling.Trickster. Storyteller. Shape-shifter. An ancient troublemaker with the power to do great things, only he doesn’t want to put in the work.Since coming home to Spirit Bear Point First Nation, Hazel Ellis has been dreaming of an old crow... -
![We Have Lost The Chihuahuas by Paul Mathews]()
We Have Lost The Chihuahuas by Paul Mathews
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLondon, 2046. The British Republic has a new First Lady. She’s Californian, ‘in-your-face, for sure’ and she’s got big plans for a Buckingham Palace refurb. When her three Chihuahuas go missing, one man is determined to avoid getting dragged into it all. His name is Pond. Howie Pond – presidential spokesperson, retired secret agent and cat lover... -
![Undying Affinity by Sara Naveed]()
Undying Affinity by Sara Naveed
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTrue love never dies. It might vanish, but if it is true, it will always find its way backTwenty-two-year-old Zarish has everything in life she could ever ask for. She is rich, beautiful and popular. She and Haroon, her handsome childhood sweetheart, are inseparable until a new finance professor joins their university-Ahmar Muraad. Every girl in the university has eyes for him... -
![When We Fell Apart by Soon Wiley]()
When We Fell Apart by Soon Wiley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA drama that untangles the complicated ties that bind families together--or break them apart--as a young Korean American man's search for answers about his girlfriend's mysterious death becomes a soul-searching journey into his own bi-cultural identity When the Seoul police inform Min that his girlfriend Yu-jin has committed suicide, he's sure it can't be true... -
![Rider on Fire by Sharon Sala]()
Rider on Fire by Sharon Sala
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLike a bat out of hell, undercover DEA agent Sonora Jordan jumps on her motorcycle and takes off to parts unknown, escaping the deadly drug dealers who had put a price on her head. All the while, she is haunted by dreams of a man whose place in her life she is yet to discover. When she literally comes face-to-face with the man of her dreams, it’s as if time stands still... -
![All Beautiful Things by Nicki Salcedo]()
All Beautiful Things by Nicki Salcedo
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe scars. She'll never forgive her attacker. Seven years ago, a knife-wielding stranger left socialite Ava Camden for dead on the sidewalk of an upscale Atlanta restaurant. She survived, but her face was brutally scarred... -
![About Hana by K.T. Bowes]()
About Hana by K.T. Bowes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHana Johal is an English immigrant, who settled in New Zealand with her husband and two children. Cruelly widowed in her thirties, Hana has raised her teenagers alone. Now older and wiser, she has become bored with her predictable life working in an all boys' school in the Waikato region of the North Island... -
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![The Black Girls Left Standing by Juliana Goodman]()
The Black Girls Left Standing by Juliana Goodman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSixteen-year-old Beau Willet has dreams of being an artist and one day leaving the Chicago projects she's grown up in. But after her older sister, Katia, is killed by an off-duty police officer, Beau knows she has to clear her sister's name by finding the only witness to the murder; Katia's no-good boyfriend, Jordan, who has gone missing...Categorized as:
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![The Sentence by Louise Erdrich]()
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsThe Sentence asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book.A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store...Categorized as:
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![Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson]()
Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe daughter of an affluent Black family pieces together the connection between a childhood tragedy and a beloved heirloom in this moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake, a Read with Jenna Book Club PickWhen ten-year-old Ebby Freeman heard the gunshot, time stopped...Categorized as:
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![Tumbled Graves by Brenda Chapman]()
Tumbled Graves by Brenda Chapman
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA missing child. A dead mother. Kala Stonechild is about to discover what one betrayal can lead to.When Adele Delaney and her daughter, Violet, go missing, Jacques Rouleau is called upon to investigate. However, struggling with the impending death of his ill ex-wife, he sends Kala Stonechild and Paul Gundersund instead... -
![Shallow End by Brenda Chapman]()
Shallow End by Brenda Chapman
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsStill waters run deep.Teacher, mother, wife, and convicted child molester Jane Thompson makes parole after losing everything — her husband, her children, her career, and her reputation. But just as she begins trying to build a life out of the public eye, the bludgeoned body of the student she abused four years earlier is found on the shores of Lake Ontario... -
![The Tiger and the Cosmonaut by Eddy Boudel Tan]()
The Tiger and the Cosmonaut by Eddy Boudel Tan
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA noirish page-turner about a mysterious disappearance and a moving portrait of a Chinese Canadian family navigating insecurities, expectations, and simmering anger in their small BC town.Casper Han grew up the dutiful son of immigrants who never felt entirely welcome in their remote corner of British Columbia...
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