 | Swimming by Nicola Keegan
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $6.00 Absolutely my favorite book in years. What makes an Olympic champion? What happens after the Olympics? How do sports save some of us from our dysfunctional lives? Friendship, rivalries, love, grief. It's all here.
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 | Shanghai Girls: A Novel by Lisa See
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $10.00 Wonderful book by the always-entertaining Lisa See. It's grittier than Snow Flower, but I liked her story of immigrants.
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 | Fall by Colin McAdam
Buy new: $18.68 / Used from: $1.34 Amazing voice and suspense.
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 | Eve: A Novel of the First Woman by Elissa Elliott
Buy new: $16.32 / Used from: $4.50 This book awakens a desire to think about the Bible and the stories we "know" so well. Very well researched and entertaining as "The Red Tent."
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 | Dark Places: A Novel by Gillian Flynn
Buy new: $16.32 / Used from: $4.62 Creepy as all-get-out as a woman searches to find the truth of her family's murder, a murder she already testified that her brother committed.
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 | Sworn to Silence (Kate Burkholder) by Linda Castillo
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $5.16 Excellent new voice in the police procedural genre. Lots of gory detail and a heroine to root for.
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 | The Year of Fog (Bantam Discovery) by Michelle Richmond
Buy new: $8.64 / Used from: $0.01 Beautifully written and a complex mystery.
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 | Sleep Toward Heaven: A Novel by Amanda Eyre Ward
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 I love all of Ms. Ward's books. This one is particularly hard to pull yourself away from.
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 | The Myth of You and Me: A Novel by Leah Stewart
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $0.01 Fascinating.
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 | You're Not You: A Novel by Michelle Wildgen
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.74 Great story of two women learning how to deal with what life has dealt them.
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 | The Kindness of Strangers by Katrina Kittle
Buy new: $10.76 / Used from: $0.01 Mesmerizing.
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 | Come Back: A Mother and Daughter's Journey Through Hell and Back (P.S.) by Claire Fontaine
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $1.85 Like "Beautiful Boy," a parent's journey to retrieve a child from the drug world.
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 | Coming Back to Me: A Novel by Caroline Leavitt
Buy new: $15.38 / Used from: $0.65 Loved, loved, loved this book.
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 | The Pirate Primer: Mastering the Language of Swashbucklers & Rogues by George Choundas
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $6.99 Hilarious and also educational.
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