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  The Sedalia Code - A WWII...

  Patricia Raybon

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  A courageous young woman struggles to rise above her dirt-poor beginnings and outsmart a Nazi threat on U.S. soil during WWII in this thrilling Southern tale of bravery, love, and forgiveness.Sedalia, North Carolina, 1943. While war rages overseas, Laurette Lowe faces a more personal battle when she lands a job teaching math at La Porte Academy, a prestigious Black finishing school. Determined to rise above her sharecropping roots, deep family hurt, and the suffocating limits of Jim Crow, Laurette quickly learns that survival and success demand constant vigilance, carefully measuring every step and word to earn her place among the social elite.A chance encounter with Nev Pierce, a handsome Army lieutenant from nearby Camp Butner, threatens to derail her plans. Though she first dismisses him as an unwelcome distraction, she’s drawn in by his request to decipher a cryptic message passed to him by an Italian POW. What begins as an intellectual puzzle becomes a chilling revelation: details of a Nazi plot to assassinate the U.S. president.Cracking the cipher, however, only brings a more troubling puzzle. Army officials at the segregated base are unlikely to heed a Black schoolteacher’s warning and Nev could land in serious trouble for involving an unauthorized civilian. With time running out, Laurette and Nev enlist a small circle of allies from the school in a cunning and courageous ploy, boldly risking their futures and lives to stop a deadly threat no one else sees coming.Standalone World War II historical fiction by award-winning author Patricia Raybon, featuring a setting inspired by the real Palmer Memorial Institute in Sedalia, North CarolinaPerfect for fans of Susan Elia MacNeal, Rhys Bowen, Vanessa Miller, Sarah Sundin and Roseanna M. WhiteIncludes discussion questions for book clubs

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  Darkness Volume One - The Fall...

  Jason R. Cash

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  When the sky erupts with fire and the power grid collapses, the world Greg and his family knew disappears in an instant. What begins as a quiet evening in the Smoky Mountains turns into the first night of a new reality—one without lights, without safety, and without answers. Families that once gathered at the park for laughter and friendship now face the unthinkable: nuclear detonations in the sky, an electromagnetic pulse that silences every machine, and a country plunged into chaos overnight. 
  Drawn into the underground shelter of a hardened survivor named Jeff, Greg, Lori, and their children are forced to reckon with more than fear of the outside world. Confined in darkness with friends and strangers alike, they must confront hunger, uncertainty, and the unsettling question of who can truly be trusted when civilization falls away. 
  Darkness Volume One: The Fall of a Nation is the opening chapter in Jason R. Cash’s gripping survival saga—an intimate and unflinching look at ordinary families thrust into extraordinary times. As bonds are tested and secrets emerge, one truth becomes clear: surviving the end of the world is only the beginning.

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  Protector - The Ryker Returns...

  Rob Sinclair

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  A teenager goes missing after surviving the massacre of her family, in this fast-paced novel of corruption and conspiracy from the author of Vigilante . . . 
   
  James Ryker and his protégé, Henrik Svenson, travel to the small alpine town of St Vincent, recently rocked by the triple murder of a prominent family. The sole survivor of the horrific crime, teenager Sophie Thibaud, has since been cared for by her aunt. Upon their arrival, however, Ryker and Svenson discover that Sophie is now missing too, and it’s not long before Ryker uncovers evidence of a wider conspiracy at play. 
   
  Their search for Sophie and the truth takes them to Lyon and beyond, crossing paths with ruthless mobsters and corrupt police on the way as Ryker looks to expose those involved in enriching themselves through any means possible. But in searching for answers against all odds, can Ryker remain protector to those who need him most? 
   
  Praise for the bestselling novels of Rob Sinclair 
   
  “A must read for fans of Lee Child and Robert Ludlum.” —Chelle’s Book Reviews 
   
  “This is a real page-turner, impossible to put down.” —Publishers Weekly

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  Cat on a Hyacinth Hunt - A...

  Carole Nelson Douglas

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  After a holiday trip to the Big Apple, Midnight Louie, a hard-boiled, hairy-chested, 19-pound black tomcat detective, returns home to death on the Nile. Two battling Egyptian barges outside the Oasis hotel cause a dead body to rise to the surface. The soggy victim is well known to Temple Barr— Louie's redheaded, high-heeled human companion— and her two best beaux both have reasons to want him dead. Maybe by finding out which one is the killer, Temple can finally choose between handsome hotline counselor Matt Devine and mysterious magician, Max Kinsella. And then there is a winsome Siamese cat, who may solve Louie's problems by giving him the key to her heart— or help him unravel the mystery.

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  Mad as Helen

  Susan McBride

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  In the second River Road Mystery from USA Today bestselling author Susan McBride, Helen Evans must find a killer before her granddaughter is arrested for murder! 
   
   
   
  When tiny River Bend, Illinois, is hit by a string of burglaries even Sheriff Frank Biddle can't solve, the clients of LaVyrle's Cut 'n' Curl can hardly talk of anything but. There are no signs of forced entry and no fingerprints, and valuables are missing from secret hiding places, as if the thief knew what he wanted and just where to look. 
   
   
   
  Helen Evans wonders what the world has come to if even their once-quiet town isn't safe anymore. Then Grace Simpson, a big-city psychotherapist who had opened up shop in River Bend, is found dead on her bedroom floor, and Helen's granddaughter is caught with the murder weapon in hand. 
   
   
   
  Sure of the girl's innocence, Helen embarks on a little investigation of her own and turns up plenty of folks who aren't grieving a bit now that Grace is dead . . .

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  We Don't Talk About Emma - A...

  E.J. Findorff, J.D. Barker

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  When is cold-blooded murder justified? 
    
  New Orleans Detective Nikki Mayeaux has decided it’s when a technicality sets a serial rapist free. 
    
  Jaded and frustrated, this latest injustice brings her to a boiling point. She arrives at the monster’s home intending to end his reign of terror, only to find someone else got there first. His throat slit, his lifeless body left in the front seat of his car. 
    
  Only one person wanted him dead more than her - his final victim - a girl of only sixteen who has vanished in the seedy underbelly of the French Quarter where residents will go to great lengths to protect their own, even when their own is a killer. 
    
  When is cold-blooded murder justified? 
    
  End a killer. 
    
  End a cop. 
    
  Sometimes, both.

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