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[2024]
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Growing up in West Virginia, Chef William Dissen began his culinary journey in his grandmother's kitchen. There, family meals were cooked with local ingredients, many from the home's bountiful garden. In this ambitious debut cookbook, Dissen reinterprets the flavors of his youth, putting a modern spin on recipes grounded in the traditions of sustainable agriculture, local cuisine, and the hills and valleys of his Appalachian community. Thoughtful...
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BEHOLD THE GORILLA-GIRL! Charlotte Alexandra Long is determined to leave all she knows: her ill-fitting office job, her unreliable boyfriend, and the city she has lived in since adolescence. But leaving that life requires leaving her haunted father who wants nothing but the best for her yet reminds her of a past he's not ready to let go. After joining a traveling amusement company as a sideshow performer, where an old theater trick blurs illusion...
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2023.
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"Cuando Louise se enterade que sus padres han muerto, teme volver a casa. No quiere dejar a su pequeña con su ex y volar a Charleston. No quiere enfrentarse a la residencia donde se amontonan los restos de la vida académica de su padre y de la constante obsesión de su madre por los títeres y los muñecos. No quiere aprender a vivir sin las dos personas que mejor la han conocido y más la han querido del mundo entero. Sobre todo, no quiere...
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April 1913—Belle Newbold hasn’t seen mountains for seven years—since her father died in a mining accident and her mother married Indiana gas magnate, Shipley Newbold. But when her stepfather’s friend, Henry Ford, invites the family on one of his famous Vagabonds camping tours, she is forced to face the hills once again—primarily in order to reunite with her future fiancé, owner of the land the Vagabonds are using for their campsite,...
5) Safe House
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A deadly virus is bearing down on the world and Emerson Mackenzie, CEO of PharmaScience Technologies-now back in its ancestral home of Port Kenneth, Tennessee-opens up the historic Mackenzie house on the family's defunct sheep farm to six people: himself, his wife Tess Cartieri, his house manager, two members of his board of directors, and his executive assistant, Taylor Alexander. Taylor won't abandon Emerson, but at the same time, they don't want...
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The screenplay for McCarthy's classic film, bearing in full measure his gift-the ability to fit complex and universal emotions into ordinary lives and still preserve all of their power and significance
In the spring of 1975 the film director Richard Pearce approached Cormac McCarthy with a screenplay idea. Though already a widely acclaimed novelist, the author of such modern classics as The Orchard Keeper and Child of God, McCarthy had never before...
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Seven years ago, a hidden betrayal scattered three young friends living in the shadow of Biltmore Estate. Now, when Biltmore Industries master weaver Lorna Blankenship is commissioned to create an original design for Cornelia Vanderbilt's 1924 wedding, she panics knowing she doesn't have the creativity needed. But there's an elusive artisan in the Blue Ridge Mountains who could save her-if only she can find her.
To track the mysterious weaver down,...
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In 1914, with the world on the brink of war, Isaac, a nature-loving artist whose past is mysterious to all, including himself, meets Kemper, a defiant heiress caught in the rivalry between her brothers. Kemper's older brother Angel is hiding a terrible secret about his sexuality, and her younger brother Red possesses a capacity for violence that frightens even the members of his own brutal family. Together Isaac and Kemper build a refuge on their...
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Shortly before his death at a tragically young age, author Thomas Wolfe presented his editor with an epic masterwork that was subsequently published as three separate novels: You Can't Go Home Again, The Hills Beyond, and The Web and the Rock.
The Web and the Root features the three initial sections of the The Web and the Rock, widely considered to be the book's strongest material. A prequel to You Can't Go Home Again, it is the story of George Webber's...
10) End of the Road
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Amelia never expected to have her heart broken twice in her lifetime, but that's exactly what happened. She lost everything when her husband died unexpectedly, leaving her to pick up the pieces of her heart. Every corner reminded her of the man she was supposed to spend forever with, making her feel as though she hit the end of the road for love. Amelia is forced to face all her demons when her past collides with her present, testing her in ways she...
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Delve into this scandalous friends-to-lovers romance, part of the Lockwood Lightning series from USA TODAY bestselling author Jules Bennett. Their engagement may be fake but the chemistry is as real as it gets! Especially when one kiss with her best friend… changes everything. Josie Coleman has the perfect plan to get rid of her bothersome ex-husband: pretend she's about to marry again. But her fake engagement to her best friend, Reese Conrad,...
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From Sherry Parnell, author of Let The Willows Weep, comes a long-awaited new novel that unwinds a family's darkest secrets and takes an unflinching look at life in the rural South.
Effie Bilfrey has lived her entire life on Talon Ridge, a dead-end Appalachian town that generations have tried, and failed, to leave. When her only daughter Sarah disappears without explanation, leaving her two-year-old daughter Lottie behind, Effie is left to search...
13) Country Dark
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Chris Offutt is an outstanding literary talent, whose work has been called "lean and brilliant" (The New York Times Book Review) and compared by reviewers to Tobias Wolff, Ernest Hemingway, and Raymond Carver. He's been awarded the Whiting Writers Award for Fiction/Nonfiction and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Fiction Award, among numerous other honors. His first work of fiction in nearly two decades, Country Dark is a taut, compelling novel...
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Luc Barbon, upon discharge from the army, was on autopilot heading to the Ozarks. His plan was to bury himself in an educational foxhole, insulated from the insanity of the Vietnam War and national angst. Somewhere he could rewrite his story.He is on a mission to leave a past of self-doubt and fear of commitment behind only to find himself in an enclave of passion and prejudice. Love and learning dissolve in an unforeseen twist of fate.After an inhospitable...
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In "Wolf World" by Jo Ann Lordahl, the prologue and chapters one and three depict a complex emotional journey experienced by the protagonist, Christine Forrester, as she grapples with the death of her father. The prologue sets the stage for Christine's introspective exploration, expressing her struggle with the past and her determination to understand and reconcile her experiences. Chapter one delves into Christine's emotional turmoil as she prepares...
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Lindbergh’s Pharmacy is an Athens, Georgia, institution—the type of beloved mom and pop shop that once dotted every American town but has mostly disappeared. But Lindbergh’s has recently become the object of attention of a local fourth grade teacher Tina Lamm (“Ms. Lamm to my students”). Tina is certain something very, very bad is happening behind its famous black door and she intends to do something about it.
Her suspicions—and the drastic...
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On a sultry South Carolina island, sunlight teases out the darkest secrets of the heart, in this novel from the author of An Undisturbed Peace.
Joe and Abigail Becker, a Jewish couple from Boston, have inherited a house on Sweetgrass Island in South Carolina's Lowcountry. Though they feel like fish out of water, the couple is excited to give the South a try-and maybe even find it a place to finally call home.
Their Boston friends are convinced...
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A pregnant runaway bride on the road to Nashville is rescued by a handsome music producer in this sweet romance.
Country music producer Tucker Tate is laser focused. But finding a pregnant runaway bride forces him to slow down. Zoe Parker has a voice like an angel-and nowhere to go. So when he moves her and her baby into his condo, it's just business . . . until it's not. Will broken rules lead to broken hearts? Or is Tucker writing his very own...
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After ten years of silence, Bruce Colletto shows up at Lydia's door asking her to marry him, and he just expects her to go along with it? Wildest idea ever, right? Yet, she finds herself agreeing to his crazy scheme. Will this end up being her greatest blessing or the worst decision of her life?A Promise so Sweet is the conclusion to the Something Borrowed collection. You can read Hanady and Keenan's story in Always Been Yours by Jaycee Weaver, Leilah...
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In the USA Today–bestselling author's Southern holiday romance, a woman's Christmas wish is a sexy billionaire's command.
After he broke her heart years ago, Mazie Tarleton is definitely immune to the charms of Charleston billionaire J.B. Vaughan. Now the Southern belle has him right where she wants him-and it's payback time. But her plan is upended when a moment of white-hot desire takes them both by surprise! Suddenly, revenge is getting complicated....
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