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Turtle Moon By Hoffman, Alice 1997-09 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425161289 Check Our Catalog This is Alice Hoffman's "captivating...truly original novel" (Cosmopolitan), the story of a divorced woman, her teenage son, and the events that change their lives. …More

1222 By Holt, Anne 2012-08 - Scribner Book Company 9781451634723 Check Our Catalog Awards: Macavity Award (2012) Translation previously published: London: Corvus, 2010. …More

The Snow Child By Ivey, Eowyn 2012-11 - Reagan Arthur Books 9780316175661 Check Our Catalog Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead--and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. …More

The Tilted World By Franklin, Tom Author Fennelly, Beth Ann 2014-06 - William Morrow & Company 9780062069191 Check Our Catalog Set against the backdrop of the historic flooding of the Mississippi River, The Tilted World is an extraordinary tale of murder and moonshine, sandbagging and saboteurs, and a man and a woman who find unexpected love, from Tom Franklin, the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, and award-winning poet Beth Ann Fennelly. …More

Long Man By Greene, Amy 2014-04 - Thorndike Press 9781410468420 Check Our Catalog In the summer of 1936, the TVA plans to build a dam in a Tennessee town at the same time a little girl goes missing--possibly stolen by a drifter determined to blow up the dam. …More

Salvage the Bones By Ward, Jesmyn 2012-04 - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 9781608196265 Check Our Catalog A big-hearted novel about familial love and community against all odds and a wrenching look at the lonesome, brutal, and restrictive realities of rural poverty, "Salvage the Bones" is revelatory, real, and muscled with poetry. …More