Tom Stechschulte
1) The road
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Traces the journey of a father and his son as they walk alone after a great fire has consumed the nation and left everything in ashes.
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Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin, and more than $2 million in cash. Packing the money out, he knows, will change everything. But only after two more men are murdered does a victim's burning car lead Sheriff Bell to the carnage out in the desert, and he soon realizes how desperately Moss and his young wife need protection. One party in the failed transaction hires an ex-Special Forces...
5) Blue moon
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Story of four generations of the Keating family and how the love they share can survive even when crisis hits.
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The most riveting and ambitious novel to date in Jefferson Bass' New York Times bestselling Body Farm mystery series, The Inquisitor's Key takes forensic investigator Dr. Bill Brockton to Avignon, France, and embroils him in a deadly religious mystery that could shake the Vatican itself to its very foundations. Another sterling crime novel in the vein of Patricia Cornwell, Kathy Reichs, and Karin Slaughter, as well as TV's C.S.I., The Inquisitor's...
8) Plainsong
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IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
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Guthrie, a high school teacher left alone to raise his two young sons, becomes involved in the lives of Victoria, a homeless, pregnant teenager, and two elderly bachelors.
9) Night game
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New York Times best-selling author Christine Feehan titillates fans with sizzling romance, daring suspense, and blasts of paranormal intrigue. Night Game plunges Cajun GhostWalker Gator Fontenot into the sultry swamps of the Louisiana bayou as he tracks Flame, a beguiling redhead who possesses the same extraordinary physical and psychic powers. Sex and violence soon become dangerously entwined.
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Robust, often bawdy, heartwarming, and intimate, That Old Ace in the Hole tracks the vast waves of change that have shaped the American landscape and character over the past century. In leading man Bob Dollar, Proulx has created one of the most irresistible characters in contemporary fiction.
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Tres has taken a short-term teaching job at the University of Texas at Austin. He is living with his brother Garrett, a computer wizard, and enjoying this easy assignment. But when Garrett's business partner is murdered, Tres must switch from professor to detective. Rick Riordan, teacher, Texan, and multiple award-winner, creates a masterful mixture of local color and mystery in each Tres Navarre mystery.
13) Head games
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Set in 1957, Head Games is a quirky, action-packed caper. When Senator Prescott Bush demands the mummified head of Poncho Villa for Yale's Skull & Bones Society's trophy case, a pulp writer named Lassiter winds up holding the bag.
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Matthew Scudder finally has his life together when he encounters an old friend, Jack Ellery, who is inspired by the change in Matthew and decides to join AA and get sober, but when Jack is shot while trying to atone for his past sins, Matthew is pulled back into the dangerous world of his past as he tries to find his friend's killer.
15) American rust
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Author Philipp Meyer presents his dramatic debut novel, American Rust-a moving tale of friends in a fading Pennsylvania steel town and the murder that forces them to question their assumptions about each other and those around them. Unfolding at a relentless pace, Meyer's dark vision of an environment in flux is propelled by characters drawn with keen insight into human pathos. Before the last act is staged, loyalties will be tested as old paradigms...
16) Ava's man
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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
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Pulitzer prize-winner author of All Over but the Shoutin', Rick Bragg builds a monument to his grandfather Charlie Bundrum. Known for being a passionate family man with a special talent for living and surviving, Bundrum was a master roofer, carpenter, whiskey-maker, fisherman, banjo player, and buck dancer. Unable to read, he asked his wife Ava to read him the newspaper every night so he would not be ignorant. Set in the Great Depression, Bundrum's...
17) Mind game
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Christine Feehan's blend of sizzling romance, high-stakes action and paranormal phenomena has landed this exciting author on the New York Times, USA Today and Publishers Weekly best-seller lists. Mind Game is a suspenseful gem seething with passion. The telekinetic Dahlia Le Blanc can make objects burst into flames. When she is targeted by assassins, skilled warrior Nicolas Trevane arrives just in time to rescue her-and ignite an incendiary passion."...
18) The dying animal
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Philip Roth, one of the best-known and award winning literary masters of our time, engages his readership with insightful and challenging novels of the human condition. With The Dying Animal, he revisits the character David Kepesh. At age 60, Kapesh is drawn out of his carefully ordered existence and into an obsessive affair with one of his students.
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Philip Craig's best-selling mystery series reveals a side of Martha's Vineyard that summer folk rarely see. A retired policeman, J.W. lives a quiet life on the Vineyard with his wife and children. But he can't resist investigating the unusual crimes that occur in this quaint land of prime real estate.
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After a hard day's ranching, Wyatt Black wants to kick back with a cold beer. But when he steps onto his porch, he has unexpected company-his tiny abandoned niece! Against her better judgment, Wyatt's neighbor Elli Marchuk agrees to help him for a few days. Elli soon falls in love with baby Darcy, but it's the child's grouchy, gorgeous protector who's got her head over heels...