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  The Secret War of 1834

  B. LeClere

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  A Tale of Transformation and Innovation. 
  A good man's quest had gone horribly wrong, causing a war weary young nation to struggle to survive. 
  In 1834 a doctor was searching for a way to cure his family and patients. He accidentally created a condition more terrible than the world has ever known. Two warring cultures must now band together to combat this new foe. 
  Across a mostly untamed America, where steamships and horseback are the fastest means of transportation, they knew they must outrun this enemy that was sweeping through the country like a virus. 
  Creating new weapons and adapting forgotten methods, they needed to prepare for an altogether different kind of war. 
  For if invention's mother is necessity, it's father must surely be desperation.

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  Hot Iron

  Elmer Kelton

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  In the early days of the Texas panhandle, starting a new life is hard--but keeping it is even harder. Espy Norwood is a troubleshooter who's got troubles of his own--and more troubles find him when he lands a job on a ranch on the Texas plains. Bitter landowners plot against him, determined cattle thieves sneak right under his nose, and his own son refuses to trust or even know him. Can he catch the thieves, save the ranch, and win his son's love?

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  The Five Towns - A Novel

  Leslie Tonner

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  Set against the backdrop of post–World War II America, this sweeping novel follows three very different families as they search for love and fulfillment in Long Island’s fabled gilded ghetto, the Five Towns In 1950, the Five Towns are a burgeoning suburban destination for those in search of a better life. Arthur Freundlich is one of those pioneers. With the recent influx of Jews to Long Island, the former GI has relocated his mother, pregnant wife, and three-year-old daughter from a tiny apartment in Queens to a split-level house in Cedarhurst—a world apart from the cramped quarters of Brooklyn and Queens that Arthur knew.   In his wealthy, insulated corner of this formerly WASP-y small-town community, Harvard-educated John Dodge lives with his wife and their son Christopher, who causes a scandal when he falls in love with beautiful, Jewish Melanie Miller.   A black woman struggling to raise her family in turbulent times, Lulu Pearce leaves blue-collar Inwood every morning to work as a maid in middle-class homes in Woodmere. But an unwanted pregnancy could forever alter the course of her future.   As America comes of age, these three families battle bigotry, racism, and dramatically changing mores in one of Long Island’s most famous suburban enclaves.

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  Pipe Dream

  Solomon Jones

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  Solomon Jones is an Essence best-selling author and  Kirkus Reviews raves that Pipe Dream is an “impressive  debut.” Black, formerly known as Samuel Jackson, is a  crack addict caught in the violent world of the drug trade  on Philadelphia’s mean streets. But that doesn’t mean  Black is guilty of murdering city councilman Johnny  Podres. And his innocence doesn’t mean that he won’t be  tried and convicted for his crime. He and three other of  his friends are going down for the killing, and Black has only one chance to turn  things around.  “This powerful, mature first novel stretches the boundaries of crime fiction far  beyond the confines of formula.”—Booklist

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  White River Red - A Novel

  Becky Marietta

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  In 1906, fifteen-year-old Forrestina Bradley runs away from her stifling life of ease and joins the circus as a tightrope walker. After a tragedy forces her to leave the circus, she embarks on a life of nomadic adventure, running a carnival rat-game and becoming involved in an illegal dance hall and moonshine business near the banks of the White River in Arkansas during Prohibition. Along the way, she meets and loves three men—Max, Jack, and George—who each break her heart in vastly different ways. It’s a good thing that Forrestina is tough enough to survive the men in her life.Tough enough to become a legend.In 1972, Betty, a young reporter desperate to break into the boys' club of journalism, offers to interview the now-elderly Forrestina. What she discovers in Forrestina's story is a lesson of strength, resilience, friendship, and faith. She learns that though defying normal is often painful, for some brave souls it's the only way to truly live.Inspired by a true story, White River Red: A Novel vividly portrays the tumults and triumphs of a rough, generous soul who touched countless lives with her kindness and courage.

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  The Silent Boy

  Andrew Taylor

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  From the No. 1 bestselling author of THE AMERICAN BOY comes a brilliant new historical thriller set during the French Revolution. Selected as Historical Novel of the Year by The Times and Sunday Times, and picked as one of Radio 4’s Crime Books of the Year. 
  Paris, 1792. Terror reigns as the city writhes in the grip of revolution. The streets run with blood as thousands lose their heads to the guillotine. Edward Savill, working in London as agent for a wealthy American, receives word that his estranged wife Augusta has been killed in France. She leaves behind ten-year-old Charles, who is brought to England to Charnwood Court, a house in the country leased by a group of émigré refugees. 
  Savill is sent to retrieve the boy, though it proves easier to reach Charnwood than to leave. And only when Savill arrives there does he discover that Charles is mute. The boy has witnessed horrors beyond his years, but what terrible secret haunts him so deeply that he is unable to utter a word? 
  In the rural town of Charnwood, the suspense of the mystery that surrounds the mute boy, Charles, is palpable. The top-notch thriller, penned by the Sunday Times bestselling author, keeps you on the edge of your seat. 
  For fans of S G Maclean (The Bookseller of Inverness), S. W. Perry (The Heretic's Mark), Rory Clements (Munich Wolf), Laura Shepherd-Robinson (The Square of Sevens), and Robert Harris (V2).

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