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Charlotte Brontë Before Jane Eyre by Glynnis Fawkes

  Intriguing and informative… Fawkes’s exciting biography of Charlotte Brontë takes readers on Brontë’s journey of becoming a writer as she explores Bronte’s loss ridden childhood and difficult youth — from co-authoring the dramatic saga of a fantasyland, Glass Town,…
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The Lying Room by Nicci French

  Predictable but suspenseful… In the pseudonymous French’s (the husband-wife writing team of Nicci Gerrard and Sean French) latest standalone, a married woman finds her lover killed and pushes herself into a tangled web of lies. When Neve Jennifer Connolly…
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A Better Man (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #15) by Louise Penny

  A brilliant mystery… Former chief superintendent of the Sûreté du Québec Armand Gamache investigates murder of a pregnant woman at Three Pines as he returns to work after a nine-month suspension and demotion in Penny’s latest marvelous mystery. Armand…
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Someone We Know by Shari Lapena

  Entertaining and twisty… After Amanda Pierce went missing, no one in the neighborhood thought much about it. But after rumors of a teenager breaking into people’s homes and hacking into their computers start circulating, the lives of neighborhood residents…
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Nature is Unlimited Broadcasting Station: Flowers She Wore on Her Feet by Bertha Mkwelele, Edward Mkwelele

  A short, beautiful account of a young life gone too soon… Bertha Mkwelele and Edward Mkwelele chronicle the short life span of their only daughter and first child Neema Mkwelele in this short biography. After graduating in BA (Hons)…
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Don’t Mind Me, I’m Just Having a Bad Life: A Memoir by Lewis Kempfer

  A candid, bare-it-all, and highly engrossing memoir… With unsparing candor, Lewis Kempfer chronicles decades of his drug and sex addicted life in intimate detail in Don’t Mind Me, I’m Just Having a Bad Life: A Memoir. Kempfer started struggling…
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DEAD BEFORE MORNING (Rafferty and Llewellyn Police Procedural Series #1) by Geraldine Evans

  A lively and highly engrossing British mystery… Evans’s first installment in Rafferty and Llewellyn Police Procedural Series see DI Rafferty and Sergeant Llewellyn investigating vicious murder of a young woman at an unlikely place. Recently promoted Detective Inspector Joe…
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The Legend of Decimus Croome: A Halloween Carol by Kevin Purdy

  A spooky, delightful Halloween read… A happy, content Decimus Croome changed for worst after his wife’s untimely demise and is a bitter old man now who despises every festival, especially Halloween. A cranky recluse, he lives in his gloomy…
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Cold Woods: Northampton County, Book 2 by Karen Katchur

  A well-done mystery… When the long-buried bones of a man surface in the middle of chilling winter in a small Pennsylvania town, it becomes imperative for the homicide detective Parker Reed to solve the crime at the earliest possible.…