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Budgie and Sissy's Adventure
Growing up on a farm in the 1930s couldn’t have been easy, but Jane Lowrey-Christian (Sissy) and her older brother Bernard (Budgie) had a close and loving family to help them make the best of it. In nine brief stories, Lowrey-Christian...
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The Gang of Three
Maria Johs follows up her first cozy mystery, Deadly Encounter, with another story of murder in the small town of Peartree, Scotland. For the first time in forty years, wealthy Elmer MacFarland has taken his wife out on the town to...
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Voice of Conscience
In rural Turkey in the 1960s, during the week-long marriage celebration of a young couple, the bride and her parents become the victims of revenge killings. With the help of his aunt and uncle, the girl’s teenage brother escapes,...
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Feathers, Beads and Bones
In Kerosene Cowboys, retired tactical naval aviator Randy Arrington takes readers inside a drill weekend of the New Orleans-based VA-204 River Rattlers, a navy reserve squadron. The book takes place over the course of six months,...
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Ancient Egypt
Egyptian cargo boats, ancient pyramids, and erupting volcanoes spring from the pages in these new pop-up books, part of the publisher’s “Explore It” series. The subjects of the books come to life and offer readers aged ten and up a...
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Earthquakes & Volcanoes
Egyptian cargo boats, ancient pyramids, and erupting volcanoes spring from the pages in these new pop-up books, part of the publisher’s “Explore It” series. The subjects of the books come to life and offer readers aged ten and up a...
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The Merry Misogynist
Colin Cotterills Dr. Siri Paiboun is back for his sixth adventure. The seventy-three-year-old is the only medical examiner in Laos in the mid-1970s, but hed rather be out solving crimes than working in his lab. In "The Merry Misogynist",...
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Millstone
Alex Stone has just finished murdering his seventh victim a man who keeps children’s teeth in his refrigerator when his escape is interrupted by the police. As he jumps from the balcony he is shot to death by the officers and plummets...