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Turner, Finley
"A gripping novel about two sisters who are left homeless by their mother's death and the lengths the fierce older sister will go to protect her beloved young charge. The hardscrabble Chase women -- Mary, Hannah, and their mother Diane -- have been eking out a living running a ti...
Poor, orphaned Grace Parkes is in a horrible situation. Her illegitimate child has just died in childbirth, so she's traveled to the Brookwood Cemetery to place the small infant's body in a rich lady's coffin. Following the advice of a kindly midwife, this is the only way that Gr...
A New York Times Editors' Choice * A Paris Review Staff Pick * An Indie Next Pick "Hypnotic and glowing." - New York Times Book Review "An intriguing mystery with clues, suspense, enigmas galore, and an exhilarating, witty, poignant paean to the unexplainable, the unsolva...
Warren Botts is a disillusioned Ph.D., taking a break from his lab to teach middle-school science. Gentle, soft-spoken, and lonely, he innocently befriends Amanda, one of his students. But one morning, Amanda is found dead in his backyard, and Warren, shocked, flees the scene. A...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST "A feminist jeremiad nested inside a brilliant comic novel-a book that makes you laugh so hard you don't notice till later that your eyebrows have been singed off."-Ron Charles, The Washington Post FINALIST FOR THE...
This is a gripping novel about two sisters who are left homeless by their mother's death and the lengths the fierce older sister will go to protect her beloved young charge. The hardscrabble Chase women-Mary, Hannah, and their mother Diane-have been eking out a living running a ...
"Boggs is among the best western writers at work today." - Booklist "Boggs is unparalleled in evoking the gritty reality of the Old West." - The Shootist 'Til Death Do Us Part Stranded in the Mojave Desert, Micah Bishop is about to cash in his chips for good when he's rescue...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Just the sort of thing that Philip Roth or John Updike might have produced in their prime (except, of course, that the author understands women)."-Elizabeth Gilbert "This is a remarkable debut from one of the most distinctive writers around."-To...