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  The Northern - A Novel

  Jacob McArthur Mooney

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  “The Northern is both a tender-hearted, contemplative coming-of-age novel and adventure-filled road trip story that brings a unique time in sports history to life.” — Zoe Whittall, author of The Fake and The Best Kind of People
  		 
  “W.P. Kinsella has company: Jacob Mooney has written another classic Canadian novel about baseball.” — Ben Lindbergh, co-host of Effectively Wild and author of The MVP Machine and The Only Rule Is It Has to Work
  		 
  It is the summer of 1952 and three men — well, one man and two boys — are on a spiritual and commercial mission. Dispatched from Minnesota to Western Ontario, they have been hired by an upstart Mormon baseball card company to find licensees for their products among the young men filing out Korean War–era rosters in the Northern League, at the bottom-most rung of professional baseball. What the Northern has for them, and the secrets and deceptions they have for each other, will drive their two weeks in Canada into ever-growing chaos.
  		 
  In a vision of early 1950s Ontario that emphasizes accuracy but remains robustly anti-nostalgic and contemporary, the three businessmen have themselves an adventure of personal discovery, interpersonal hardship, and more than a little danger. With a world shaped by the trauma of World War II and the generations of deflated adults and orphaned children left behind by it, the story sets out on a clear-eyed and psychologically precise character study taking on grief, fantasy, adolescence, and family. As the narrator for this story of salesmen and ambitious athletes, 12-year-old Chris is a budding acerbic, able to be carried away by the — often empty — hopes of others and put his feet in the ground to stop them.
  		 
  A novel concerned with sports, labor, growing up, and God, The Northern is a funny and heartbreaking book about the series of disappointments that characterize the progress of growing up.

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  The Sins of the Past

  Jason Wallace

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  Kevin Kendrick must come to terms with his grandfather not being who he's always been thought to be and that he killed Kevin's real grandfather decades ago.  As times wears on, Kevin feels his mind slipping away, with each tick of the clock stealing something from him.  Can he learn to forgive and put everything in the past, where it's always been, or can he, a mild-mannered man, bring justice full circle?

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  Forgiven

  Michelle L. Levigne

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  The hardest thing Nikki has ever done is go home to Tabor Heights, to the people who know how far she fell, and the hearts she broke. Four years after she ran away with Brock Pierson, she has turned her life around, getting right with her family and with God. Now, working for the Arc Foundation, she is sent to assess the Mission for funding. She refuses to fail the God who has forgiven her, and let down her home church. 
    
  Turning against his drug-runner boss and working for the DEA was just the first step for Brock to pay for his crimes. Released from prison, he follows Nikki home. Now that he has given his life to God, he wants more than anything to win her back, and make sure their love is the right kind. Shadows from his past might prevent that, just when redemption is within reach. 
    
  Nikki knows she won't find full healing until she forgives Brock, but she discovers she has to forgive herself, first.

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  The Legend of Hera

  Susan Fenelon

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  Hera, the Goddess of the Gulls, is the loneliest gull in Sealand. She is reputed to be the only gull able to converse with the Sea, an age-old tradition in Sealand; but old Hera failed to teach her successor the Sea language before she died. It seems the Sea language is lost forever to the proud, hard gull race. If the gulls found out Hera's lonely secret, they would kill her. Just when all seems lost, the Sea language finds Hera - and her life, and mind, are forever transformed.

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  Found Innocent - A Dark...

  Carolyn Arnold

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  Some crimes refuse to stay buried. 
  Some truths demand everything. 
  A pregnant young woman is found in a shallow grave in a quiet neighborhood. At first glance, how she died looks like suicide—but Detective Madison Knight knows better. The dead don’t bury themselves. 
  The victim, Lacy Rose, appeared to be rebuilding her life. But as Madison digs deeper, a darker past emerges—and the people closest to her had reasons to want her silenced. 
  An abusive ex-lover. 
  An estranged father. 
  Both had motive. Both had opportunity. 
  Then Madison uncovers a chilling link to another recent death—a man found in a motel room, his case ruled a suicide. Madison isn’t convinced. And if she’s right, the two deaths are connected in a way no one wants to acknowledge. 
  As pressure mounts, Madison’s judgment is questioned and her career put at risk. And when she pushes anyway, it becomes clear the danger isn’t just professional anymore. 
  This time, the truth could get her killed. 
  A dark, high-stakes crime thriller for readers who love relentless female detectives in their police procedurals. 
  Book four in the Detective Madison Knight series.

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  Concubi Dreams - An Erotic...

  Leslie Kurt, C. Marie

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  “This was the absolute epitome of an extreme horror erotica.”—Peter Topside, author of Love and Pieces and horror connoisseur. 
  Shannon is a wild child who lives life by the seat of her pants. In her mid-thirties, she is living it up and is not near the point of settling down. 
  Cody is a professional who puts his career and financial stability before anything else. He has given up on relationships at this point in life. 
  They are two emotionally unavailable strangers who live nearby and seem to have little in common other than loneliness. They both start having vivid, realistic dreams of an attractive person. These attractive people turn out to be more than either can handle.

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