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  Running to Fall

  Kalisha Buckhanon

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  A suspenseful, truthful look into the lives of women who drink to survive or just to cope, with a provocative narrator who carries readers along an emotional journey to acceptance. 
   
  Tragedy and Victor Powell have moved to the desirable but dark Grayson Glens enclave of dream homes just outside of Chicago. Stressed urbanites, they’ve got to live large in real life to stay large online. With only a few blacks in their elite  
  gated community, they settle in but never quite feel at home. Then, a missing young black woman floats up in the Grayson River. 
   
  Is the spirit of the mysterious scarlet-lettered woman, Raven McCoy, haunting Grayson during the pandemic? 
   
  Tragedy, haunted by her own difficult checkered past versus Victor’s sterling history, thinks so. The pressure to manage his image for profit drives her to drink, even when his trying teen daughter visits. But Victor’s ex-wife, the Grayson gossip  
  and a female detective all close in on Tragedy’s unraveling life. Then Tragedy spirals into addiction, past secrets and the local women’s fight for justice for a woman.

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  The Crest Hill Mu7ders

  Issac Brooks

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  A sleepy town with a disturbing secret. An unstable man seduced by evil whisperings. And a stubborn detective whose life is more intertwined with the killer she hunts than she could ever imagine. 
    
  Just when the residents of Crest Hill are getting past a shocking unsolved murder in the nearby groves, their greatest unspoken fear materializes: a string of serial killings amongst their own citizens. There is now no mistaking the fact that one member of their small population is not what they seem to be. 
    
  Earl Hughes is a regular guy outwardly. What lurks beneath, however, is a mind warped by a marred childhood which seeks to purge his world of a perceived evil. His deep recesses of obsession, as deranged as they may be, only act to further his cunning. 
    
  Detective Anita Heath finds herself perplexed at the crime scenes when the bodies begin turning up. Something about these murders just doesn’t profile right. As her suspicions are soon bent in unusual directions, she discovers she has attracted the attention of the culprit—and inadvertently enters into a sinister game of cat and mouse. 
    
  The Crest Hill Mu7ders is a suspenseful new page-turner with haunting twists that may forever alter the way you view your fellow citizens’ pasts—and possibly even your own.

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  A Dream in the Dark - A Novel

  Robert Justice

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  With striking prose and inspired by real wrongful conviction cases, this layered takedown of the criminal justice system follows one woman’s quest for answers as the fate of two innocent men hangs in the balance. 
   
  Denver, 1992. Claudette Cooper, Moses King, and Dexter Diaz have been failed by the justice system. Claudette was sexually assaulted. Blinded by her perpetrator, she’s not able to identify him until she has a dream. As a result of that dream, Moses is wrongfully convicted. Dexter gave a false confession to murder after a grueling and unethical interrogation. Now, he faces a sentence of life without the possibility of parole. 
   
  Musician turned lawyer Liza Brown has seen firsthand the failings and shortcomings of the justice system. Her father, Langston Brown, also suffered the injustice of a wrongful conviction. As she's working at a nonprofit to free those who have been wrongfully imprisoned and helping Dexter’s case, Moses reaches out to her. Liza sees the cracks in the evidence against Moses, and when he confesses that he knew her father, she’s determined to help even though his case doesn't qualify for the young innocence project. 
   
  Recruiting her old friend Eli Stone to both men’s causes, Liza sets out to prove their innocence. But Eli is dealing with demons of his own. Corrupt cops are targeting the black residents of Denver, and when his nephew is beaten by the cops, Eli doubles down on his efforts to expose them. 
   
  Frustrated, Liza turns to Moses’s accuser, Claudette, for help. But Claudette is hiding a dark secret, and as political tensions in Five Points rise, the city of Denver erupts in protests and riots. In the aftermath of injustice, destruction, and desperation, will hope 
  persevere?

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  View to a Crime

  Winnie Reed

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  Darcy’s got an interview with a local paper. Cool, right? 
  Well, maybe not. Why’s she got reservations about doing the interview when anyone she tells about it encourages her to jump at the chance. So, Darcy jumped. Only she finds her remote interview over Zoom comes to an untimely end when her interviewer is attacked. 
  Luckily, Darcy manages to extricate herself from the situation unscathed because the attacker doesn’t know who the witness to the crime was. Until he does. Now Darcy’s in a race to find out who the perpetrator is before he can find her.

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  A Strange Manuscript Found in a...

  James De Mille

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  "A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder" is the most popular of James De Mille's works. It was serialized posthumously in Harper's Weekly, and published in book form by Harper and Brothers of New York City in 1888. This satiric romance is the story of Adam More, a British sailor. Shipwrecked in Antarctica, he stumbles upon a tropical lost world of prehistoric animals, plants, and a cult of death-worshipping primitives. He also finds a highly developed human society which has reversed the values of Victorian society. Wealth is scorned and poverty revered; death and darkness are preferrable to life and light. Rather than accumulating wealth, the natives seek to divest themselves of it as quickly as possible. At the beginning of each year, the government imposes wealth (the burden of "reverse taxation") upon its unfortunate subjects as a form of punishment. A secondary plot about the four yachtsmen who find the manuscript forms a frame for the central narrative. [Condensed from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Strange_Manuscript_Found_in_a_Copper_Cylinder ]

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  Carson: The Untold Story

  Andrea Smith

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  G-Man, Book 8 
  (Can be read/listened to as a stand-alone as this is the Next-Gen sub-series!) 
  Sometimes life is just too damned complicated.  
  I've been through an horrific experience, one that left me clinging to life in the hospital.  
  Everyone has questions. I don't have the answers to give them.  
  You see, I have no clue as to the details leading up to my accident. But there are people out there that  
  have the answers, and I'm determined to find them - before they find me.  
  Enter Krew Beckett, who unexpectedly crosses my path once I return to Columbia University,  
  He was my physical therapist after my attack, but he quickly becomes more than that in the ensuing weeks ahead.  
  He understands my need to find the answers that are locked away in my mind. 
  But is Krew hiding secrets, or am I simply afraid to trust anyone? 
  Come take this journey with me. 
  ADULT CONTENT

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