Trailblazing Constance’s hard-won job as deputy sheriff is on the line in Miss Kopp Just Won’t Quit, the fourth installment of Amy Stewart’s Kopp Sisters series.
After a year on the job, New Jersey’s first female deputy sheriff has collared criminals, demanded justice for wronged women, and gained notoriety nationwide for her exploits. But on one stormy night, everything falls apart.
While transporting a woman to an insane asylum, Deputy Kopp discovers something deeply troubling about her story. Before she can investigate, another inmate bound for the asylum breaks free and tries to escape.
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In the latest installment of the beloved and best-selling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, Precious Ramotswe learns valuable lessons about first impressions and forgiveness.
Mr. Polopetsi tells Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi a troubling story about a woman who has been wrongly dismissed from her job. Never one to let an injustice go unanswered, Mma Ramotswe begins to investigate, but she soon discovers that the case is more complicated than she initially suspected.
Other surprises await our intrepid proprietress. Mma Ramotswe happens to hear of a local nurse named Mingie Ramotswe. Who is this mystery lady?
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Based on an astonishing true story of Kitty Payne, a woman born into slavery whose life has remained forgotten by history…until now.
Brought vividly to life by Emmy and Peabody Award winning journalist Jack Ford, Chariot on the Mountain is the story of an unlikely alliance between three extraordinary women—a young slave, her mistress, and the privileged daughter of the wealthiest plantation owner in the county. Rejecting the divisions of their time and bonding together to do what was right, these three strong women undertook one of the most sensational trials of the century,
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In a most improbable friendship, she found love. In a world where women were silenced, she found her voice.
From New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan comes an exquisite novel of Joy Davidman, the woman C. S. Lewis called “my whole world.” When poet and writer Joy Davidman began writing letters to C. S. Lewis — known as Jack — she was looking for spiritual answers, not love. Everything about New Yorker Joy seemed ill-matched for an Oxford don and the beloved writer of Narnia, yet their minds bonded over their letters. Embarking on the adventure of her life,
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International bestselling author Mario Escobar’s Auschwitz Lullaby is a deeply captivating WWII story of courage, resilience, and the immeasurable power of a mother’s love
On an otherwise ordinary morning in 1943, German police arrive at Helene Hannemann’s home and her worst fears come true. The police, under strict SS orders, demand that her five children and husband, all of Romani heritage, be taken into custody. Though Helene is German and safe from the forces invading her home, she refuses to leave her family—sealing her fate in a way she never could have imagined. After a terrifying trek across the continent,
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For fans of Jodi Picoult and Lionel Shriver, Jessica Pack’s thought-provoking and beautifully rendered work of literary fiction explores the truth and consequences of a small town shooting. Delving into the lives of the people and families most impacted by one terrible event, each healing in different ways, each coming to terms with a future they never expected, As Wide As the Sky is a raw, honest, compassionate and ultimately hopeful novel about the transformative power of choices in all of our lives.
Five a.m.: Amanda Mallorie wakes to the knowledge that her son Robbie is gone,
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