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    The Substitute: The Wedding Pact #1 Megan Vandemeer meant to tell her parents about her broken engagement, but a month and a half later she finds herself boarding a plane home to her wedding. Having stretched avoidance to its limits, it’s time to come clean — a terrifying prospect since her mother is sure to blame her rather than her cheating, emotionally frigid ex. A couple of drinks and two Dramamine later, Megan finds herself spilling her sob story to the tall, dark, and handsome stranger in the seat next to her.

    With only one week left to save his business, Josh McMillan boards a plane to Kansas City in a last-ditch effort, leaving the details to chance. An unexpected answer is delivered in the form of the beautiful brunette beside him. Though she’s completely loopy, her honesty, openness, and humor charm him. So when she passes out before landing, he helps her off the plane — a good deed that leads to a colossal misunderstanding. Her parents assume he’s her fiancé. In a twist of fate, the mix-up might help Josh save his business, so he plays along, figuring he can help Megan too. All he has to do is stage a public break up convincing enough to appease her mother.

    Josh is only supposed to be a substitute groom, but the more time he and Megan spend together, the more their pretend engagement starts to feel real… and the less they want to break it off. Can a relationship that began as a farce turn into happily ever after?

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    Crown of Coral and Pearl Mara Rutherford’s Crown of Coral and Pearl follows a young woman from a village on the sea who must impersonate her twin on land to save everyone she loves from a tyrannical prince.

    For generations, the crown princes of Ilara have married the most beautiful maidens from the ocean village of Varenia. Nor once dreamed of seeing the mysterious mountain kingdom for herself, but after a childhood accident left her with a scar, she knew her twin sister, Zadie, would likely be chosen to marry the crown prince.

    Then Zadie is injured, and Nor is sent to Ilara in her place. She soon discovers her future husband, Prince Ceren, is as forbidding and cold as his home. And as she grows closer to Ceren’s brother, Prince Talin, Nor learns of a failing royal bloodline, a murdered queen…and a plot to destroy her village.

    To save her people, Nor must learn to negotiate the treacherous protocols of a court where lies reign and obsession rules…but discovering her own formidable strength may cost her everything she loves.

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    Modern Girls A dazzling debut novel set in New York City’s Jewish immigrant community in 1935…

    How was it that out of all the girls in the office, I was the one to find myself in this situation? This didn’t happen to nice Jewish girls.

    In 1935, Dottie Krasinsky is the epitome of the modern girl. A bookkeeper in Midtown Manhattan, Dottie steals kisses from her steady beau, meets her girlfriends for drinks, and eyes the latest fashions. Yet at heart, she is a dutiful daughter, living with her Yiddish-speaking parents on the Lower East Side. So when, after a single careless night, she finds herself in a family way by a charismatic but unsuitable man, she is desperate: unwed, unsure, and running out of options.

    After the birth of five children—and twenty years as a housewife—Dottie’s immigrant mother, Rose, is itching to return to the social activism she embraced as a young woman. With strikes and breadlines at home and National Socialism rising in Europe, there is much more important work to do than cooking and cleaning. So when she realizes that she, too, is pregnant, she struggles to reconcile her longings with her faith.

    As mother and daughter wrestle with unthinkable choices, they are forced to confront their beliefs, the changing world, and the fact that their lives will never again be the same…

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    Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus A maddened creature, frothing at the mouth, lunges at an innocent victim—and, with a bite, transforms its prey into another raving monster. It’s a scenario that underlies our darkest tales of supernatural horror, but its power derives from a very real virus, a deadly scourge known to mankind from our earliest days. In this fascinating exploration, journalist Bill Wasik and veterinarian Monica Murphy chart four thousand years in the history, science, and cultural mythology of rabies.

    The most fatal virus known to science, rabies kills nearly 100 percent of its victims once the infection takes root in the brain. A disease that spreads avidly from animals to humans, rabies has served throughout history as a symbol of savage madness, of inhuman possession. And today, its history can help shed light on the wave of emerging diseases, from AIDS to SARS to avian flu, that we now know to originate in animal populations.

    From Greek myths to zombie flicks, from the laboratory heroics of Louis Pasteur to the contemporary search for a lifesaving treatment, Rabid is a fresh, fascinating, and often wildly entertaining look at one of mankind’s oldest and most fearsome foes.

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    Sara's Game: A Psychological Thriller (The Sara Winthrop Series Book 1) Over 1,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Two years ago, Sara’s husband left for the gym one morning… and never came back. His car was found. He wasn’t. Unbelievably, the police report said, “No foul play suspected.” There were a few unreliable sightings over the following months, but little else.

    Now, on the last day before summer break, her three children have gone missing from their schools, all at the same time.

    And the note under her windshield wiper asks one foreboding question: Are you ready to play the game?

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    The Next Mrs. Blackthorne (Bitter Creek Book 6) The New York Times bestselling author of The Cowboy and The Rival returns to the Bitter Creek series with this thrilling and passionate novel that reveals who will become Clay Blackthorne’s wife.

    A lavish summer wedding is being planned at Bitter Creek ranch. In one month, Clay Blackthorne will wed socialite Jocelyn Montrose. But when she hears stirrings of a corporate takeover by the family’s arch rival, North Grayhawk, Jocelyn covertly heads to North’s ranch to offer a valuable commodity—herself—if North will call off his plans. Striking a deal to spend the summer with the steely, seductive North, Jocelyn fails to see that her sacrifice to protect the man she loves may have dire consequences.

    Stunned by his fiancee’s rejection, Clay, a newly appointed federal judge, begins presiding over an incendiary terrorism trial, which brings him face to face with his first love, Libby Grayhawk. As tensions mount, forces beyond Clay’s control threaten the women most precious to him in the past and the present. And only in a daring act of sacrifice will he know which woman will become the next Mrs. Blackthorne.

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    We A book to look out for…
    — George Orwell, author of 1984

    In one thousand years there is only "One State", a totalitarian goverment ruled by the Benefactor. Life is unconditionally regulated, with glass walls denying physical privacy while individuality is suppressed. In endless columns, people march through the gleaming streets to predetermined destinations under the watchful eyes of the Guardians, every moment of life is prescribed and scheduled.

    The narrator D-503 is a mathematician and the chief builder of a spaceship that will conquer unknown worlds and subjugate them under the grateful yoke of reason. After meeting I-330, a woman who can circumvent the One State’s rules with impunity, D-503 finds himself caught up in a conspiracy to take control of the spaceship and overthrow the One State.

    We is a powerful, sobering novel, with perhaps more of a glimmer of hope at the end than is the case for Winston Smith in the book We inspired, 1984.

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    The Cheesecake Fake: A Culinary Cozy Mystery Set In Sunny Florida (Slice of Paradise Cozy Mysteries Book 2) Faith Franklin feels like she’s walking on air since moving to beautiful, sunny Florida.

    Her café, Slice of Paradise, is thriving. She’s met the man of her dreams. And, together with her friend, Laura, she has even begun writing a recipe column for the local paper, The Paradise Gazette.

    Everything is falling into place!

    So, when she’s asked to prepare some of her delicious treats for a boat party hosted by the newspaper, no one is surprised when her catering is a huge hit. What is a surprise, however, is the drowning that occurs when the fashion columnists falls overboard.

    Was the fashionista’s death an accident? The Sheriff’s Department seems to think so. But something just doesn’t sit right with Faith. And she’s determined to discover the truth…

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    Finding Home Twenty-four-year old Phoebe Hawley is on a quest to find her family a home. On the road with two siblings, twelve-year-old Maydean and five-year-old Willie-Boy, Phoebe is out of money, out of gas, and out of patience. The only things she owns in abundance are backbone and pride–neither of which she can trade for food or gas.

    A collision with Gage Morgan puts Phoebe’s mission in even worse jeopardy–until Phoebe discovers Gage owns the perfect place for her clan. However, she soon discovers that Gage is the unlikeliest man in the universe to offer a helping hand.

    Phoebe wields all the country smarts she owns to worm her way into Gage’s heart, but nothing works. With time running against her family, she plies one last inducement–her scarce feminine wiles.

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    The Hard Kill: An Action Packed Military Pulp Thriller (A John Stone Action Thriller Book 1) They want power. He’s going to bring them a war.

    Retired Army Ranger John Stone has settled into his life as a bar owner in Great Falls, Montana. But news about the death of a brother-in-arms and the kidnapping of his goddaughter shakes his world apart.

    John discovers the murder and abduction might involve the ex-wife of his fallen brother, and a prototype technology that could threaten the security of the free world.

    Now, with time running out, John must rely on the abilities of his former life to save his goddaughter from the same fate as her father.

    A fast-paced thriller, with adrenaline-fueled action, The Hard Kill is a modern day revenge story that captures the feel of classic 80s action movies.

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    Cattleman's Choice (Mira) New York Times bestselling author Diana Palmer delivers a fan-favorite tale of opposites attract, originally published in 1982

    Carson Wayne has shown up on Mandelyn Bush’s doorstep with the ultimate request: to teach him how to treat a lady. No doubt he’s asked the right person—Mandelyn is as polished and refined as Carson is rough and reclusive. And she’s the only person who can reason with him when his temper gets the better of him.

    Mandelyn finds the challenge of turning Carson into a gentleman too intriguing to turn down. She suspects that he might just be a sensitive man beneath that hardened shell, but she’s never counted on her own growing feelings for the irresistible rebel.

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    Without Her Consent: a heart-stopping psychological thriller She’s been in a coma for years. How can she be pregnant?

    When a coma patient starts to have contractions and gives birth to a baby boy, the child’s arrival triggers an investigation into serious sexual assault.

    Detectives McQuillan and Blalock are handed the case, while the internal hospital team collects data to help with the investigation.

    When Dr. Angela Crawford, who helped deliver the baby, learns that the child will be put in foster care, she and her husband agree to take the little boy in.

    Meanwhile, a young nurse, Jenny O’Hearn, helps compile data on the rapist and discovers several strange things. When Jenny is attacked, it forces the detectives to look at the case from a different perspective.

    Could a staff doctor, male nurse or the chaplain be the rapist?

    Sometimes the truth isn’t always obvious.

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    Summer Desserts Over 150 5-Star Reviews!

    Savor this fan-favorite about a whirlwind summer romance!

    When Summer Lydon, dessert chef extraordinaire, is approached to revamp the kitchen at Blake Cocharan’s Philadelphia hotel, she’s hesitant. Yet the project and the cordon bleu chef are too attractive to deny. Accustomed to traveling the world, Summer gets her first real taste of staying in one place—and all the pleasures to be savored when love is on the menu. Now Summer is planning a meal from start to finish—and creating a perfect ending all her own.

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    Son of the Shadows: Book Two of the Sevenwaters Trilogy (The Sevenwaters Series 2) Son of the Shadows continues the saga of beautiful Sorcha, the courageous young woman who risked all to save her family from a wicked curse and whose love shattered generations of hate and bridged two cultures.

    It is from her sacrifice that her brothers were brought home to Sevenwaters and her life has known much joy. But not all the brothers were able to escape the spell that transformed them into swans, and those who did were all more–and less–than they were before the change.

    It is left to Sorcha’s daughter Liadan who will take up the tale that the Sevenwaters clan is destined to fulfill. Beloved child, dutiful daughter, she embarks on a journey that opens her eyes to the wonders of the world around her…and shows her just how hard-won was the peace that she has known all her life.

    Liadan will need all of her courage to help save her family, for there are forces far darker than anyone chould have guessed and ancient powers conspiring to destroy this family’s peace–and their world. And she will need the strength to stand up to those she loves best, for in the finding of her own true love, Liadan’s course may doom them all…or be their salvation.

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    The Body in the Apartment (A Jazzi Zanders Mystery Book 4) The charming homes of River Bluffs, Indiana make perfect projects for house-flipper Jazzi Zanders. Less charming is her hothead brother-in-law, who’s a bit of a fixer-upper himself. But could he also be a murderer?

    Jazzi married her gorgeous contractor Ansel—not his family. But somehow she keeps living with them. So she’s delighted to help Ansel’s brother Radley move out of their home and into his own place, in the same building as his work supervisor, Donovan. But when Donovan is shot and his apartment ransacked following an argument with Ansel and Radley’s older brother Bain, their sibling becomes a suspect—especially after his missing gun turns up as the murder weapon.

    Told not to leave town by Detective Gaff, big brother moves in with… Jazzi and Ansel. Now Jazzi needs to prove Bain’s no killer, not only to keep him out of jail—but to get him out of their house. What was the killer looking for in Donovan’s apartment? And what will happen to the next person who gets in the way?

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    Wounds of Honour: Empire I (Empire Series Book 1) Thrilling, authentic and action-packed, this novel introduces soldier hero Marcus Valerius: a centurion stationed on Hadrian’s Wall in the second century during a revolt against the Roman Empire.

    Marcus Valerius Aquila has scarcely landed in Britannia when he has to run for his life — condemned to dishonorable death by power-crazed emperor Commodus. The plan is to take a new name, serve in an obscure regiment on Hadrian’s Wall and lie low until he can hope for justice. Then a rebel army sweeps down from the wastes north of the Wall, and Marcus has to prove he’s hard enough to lead a century in the front line of a brutal, violent war.

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    Life Lessons: She thought she was learning to be a midwife...she was learning to be herself. (The Lessons of a Student Midwife Book 1) Life Lessons is a new adult chick-lit medical drama, with splashes of clean romance. Expect an unputdownable emotional page-turner that will take you deep into the life lessons of a student midwife.

    Violet wants to be a midwife, but she has struggled with anxiety throughout her teenage years. But with her best friend Zoe at her side, she gets a place at University and starts training for her dream job.

    Can she overcome her fears and find the self-confidence to make it through her first year?

    Will Zoe’s romance with their housemate spell dating disaster?

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    Soulbound (The Return of the Elves Book 1) Arlyn’s quest is simple: Find her father and let him know her mother is dead. After all, Arlyn had promised her mother she’d go. The problem? Her father’s people are myths and legends, and he doesn’t even live on Earth. But despite a long journey through the mysterious mists of the Veil, finding him turns out to be the easy part.

    After five hundred years, Kai has given up on finding his soulbonded. So when he stumbles across Arlyn after returning from his latest mission and recognizes her as his mate, Kai starts their bond in haste. But he never could have imagined that his bonded is his best friend’s newfound daughter. Whoops.

    Though the sight of Kai makes Arlyn’s heart pound, she isn’t sure she can forgive him for starting their bond without her permission. But her love life is the least of her problems. Her father is an elf lord, and his sudden acknowledgment of a half-human heir reignites the same conspiracy that took him away from her mother in the first place. Now Arlyn and her family must face iron wielding assassins, bigotry, and her newly awakened magical abilities if they hope to come through in one piece.

    Arlyn thought she would return to Earth after meeting her father. Now she must fight to save the family she never knew she wanted.

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    Oasis (The Last Humans Book 1) A new dystopian/post-apocalyptic series from New York Times bestselling author Dima Zales.

    My name is Theo, and I’m a resident of Oasis, the last habitable area on Earth. It’s meant to be a paradise, a place where we are all content. Vulgarity, violence, insanity, and other ills are but a distant memory, and even death no longer plagues us.

    I was once content too, but now I’m different. Now I hear a voice in my head, and she tells me things no imaginary friend should know. Her name is Phoe, and she is my delusion.

    Or is she?

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    Sisters of the Coven (Daughters of the Warlock Book 1) Her mother’s death unleashes her biggest secret…the secret that could destroy them all.

    When Ava’s mother dies, the responsibility of her daughters safety falls to the eldest of the three. Heir to the Coven, she must locate the most powerful warlock in all the realms: her father.

    Only problem is, he has no idea he has a daughter, and the Council of Warlock’s is not about to allow an illegitimate heir to inherit their power.

    Now Ava must hide who she is…or risk the wrath of the most powerful warlocks in the Universe. But hiding the power inside her isn’t as easy as it sounds, and soon, she finds her life and the life of her sisters in danger.

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    Regretting You Over 1,500 5-Star Reviews!

    Morgan Grant and her sixteen-year-old daughter, Clara, would like nothing more than to be nothing alike.

    Morgan is determined to prevent her daughter from making the same mistakes she did. By getting pregnant and married way too young, Morgan put her own dreams on hold. Clara doesn’t want to follow in her mother’s footsteps. Her predictable mother doesn’t have a spontaneous bone in her body.

    With warring personalities and conflicting goals, Morgan and Clara find it increasingly difficult to coexist. The only person who can bring peace to the household is Chris—Morgan’s husband, Clara’s father, and the family anchor. But that peace is shattered when Chris is involved in a tragic and questionable accident. The heartbreaking and long-lasting consequences will reach far beyond just Morgan and Clara.

    While struggling to rebuild everything that crashed around them, Morgan finds comfort in the last person she expects to, and Clara turns to the one boy she’s been forbidden to see. With each passing day, new secrets, resentment, and misunderstandings make mother and daughter fall further apart. So far apart, it might be impossible for them to ever fall back together.

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    That Summer Night (Callaways Book 7) Over 250 5-Star Reviews!

    Once Reid Becker was the best of the best, an elite soldier whose career ended abruptly in a mission gone awry. Derailed after a decade of intense focus, Reid is spending far too much time in his best friend’s bar. Then Shayla Callaway walks into his life with a desperate plea for help. How can he resist a beautiful blonde?

    The last thing Shayla was looking for was trouble. After years of medical school, she is months away from finishing her residency when a stint with a research team lands her in the middle of a game of drugs and money, and the only person who can help her is a burned out ex-soldier with a hot body and a cocky attitude.

    Reid and Shayla have always put duty and career first. But as the danger heats up, so do the summer nights. Suddenly, it’s not just about saving the world but about saving each other and a love they never expected…

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    The Past Is Never: A Novel A compelling addition to contemporary Southern Gothic fiction, deftly weaving together local legends, family secrets, and the search for a missing child.

    Siblings Bert, Willet, and Pansy know better than to go swimming at the old rock quarry. According to their father, it’s the Devil’s place, a place that’s been cursed and forgotten. But Mississippi Delta summer days are scorching hot and they can’t resist cooling off in the dark, bottomless water. Until the day six-year-old Pansy vanishes. Not drowned, not lost… simply gone. When their father disappears as well, Bert and Willet leave their childhoods behind to try and hold their broken family together.

    Years pass with no sign, no hope of ever finding Pansy alive, and as surely as their mother died of a broken heart, Bert and Willet can’t move on. So when clues surface drawing them to the remote tip of Florida, they drop everything and drive south. Deep in the murky depths of the Florida Everglades they may find the answer to Pansy’s mysterious disappearance… but truth, like the past, is sometimes better left where it lies.

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    AMONG WOLVES (Children Of The Mountain Book 1) Over 1,000 5-Star Reviews!

    You carry no metal… You keep within hollering distance… You stay out of the dark places…

    These are the rules Gabriel lives by.

    There are no exceptions.

    It has been ten years since the iron virus laid waste to the land, and still the children huddle deep inside the mountain, waiting for the day it will be safe to venture out again. But through the long winters the ash-storms continue to rage, and supplies are running low. Kane says it will be okay, but Gabriel isn’t so sure. Gabriel’s their scavenger. He’s seen what it’s like out there.

    Then one day Gabriel finds a bloodstained map. The blood’s not a problem, nor are the long-dried remains of the person it once belonged to. Gabriel’s used to seeing dead bodies; there’s worse waiting in any Walmart or Piggly Wiggly you care to wander into. Except this one he recognizes, and it shouldn’t be all the way out here. Now all Gabriel can think is how he’s going to make it back to the bunker to let the others know what he’s found.

    But the map Gabriel has stumbled on is the key to a secret, one that has lain buried for a decade. Gabriel’s about to learn that inside the mountain not everything is as it seems. And if he can’t get Mags and the others out, a fate worse than death awaits them all…

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    The Earl Takes a Fancy: A Sins for All Seasons Novel She’s looking for a nobleman to wed. He’s looking to escape his title. Together, they discover an unlikely love…

    Though born out of wedlock, Fancy Trewlove is determined to fulfill her mother’s wish that she marry into nobility. Fancy’s keen intellect and finishing school manners make her the perfect wife for any gentleman—if he’s willing to overlook her scandalous lineage. But Fancy’s plans are thrown into chaos when an intriguing commoner begins visiting her bookshop—and she finds herself unable to stop thinking about him.

    Widowed just a year ago, the reclusive Matthew Sommersby, Earl of Rosemont, has been besieged by women hoping to become his next wife. Desperate for anonymity, he sheds Society life to search for the peace that eludes him. Fancy’s shop is his one refuge, until the night their passion erupts into a kiss that nearly leads to her ruin—and leaves both longing for much more.

    As Fancy finds herself torn between her family’s expectations and her growing feelings for Matthew, secrets are exposed—secrets that force Fancy to question if she can trust her heart’s desire…

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    American Witches: A Broomstick Tour through Four Centuries The history of American witches is way weirder than you ever imagined. From bewitched pigs hell-bent on revenge to gruesome twentieth-century murders, American Witches reveals strange incidents of witchcraft that have long been swept under the rug as bizarre sidenotes to history.

    On a tour through history that’s both whimsical and startling, we’ll encounter seventeenth-century children flying around inside their New England home “like geese.” We’ll meet a father-son team of pious Puritans who embarked on a mission that involved undressing ladies and overseeing hangings. And on the eve of the Civil War, we’ll accompany a reporter as he dons a dress and goes searching for witches in New York City’s most dangerous neighborhoods.

    Entertainingly readable and rich in amazing details often left out of today’s texts, American Witches casts a flickering torchlight into the dark corners of American history.

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    The Fiction Writer's Guide to Dialogue: A Fresh Look at an Essential Ingredient of the Craft Dialogue is often overlooked as a necessary and potent instrument in the novelist’s repertoire. A novel can rise or fall on the strength of its dialogue. Superb dialogue can make a superb novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “Action is character.” George V. Higgins said, “Dialogue is character.” They were both right, because dialogue is action. It comprises much, if not all, of the clarifying drama of any novel. How much physical action can there be in 300 pages, even in a crime novel or a thriller? And all conflict, even physical, begins as dialogue.

    Hough explains how dialogue can reveal a character’s nature as well as his or her defining impulses and emotions. He says there must be tension in every colloquy in fiction, and shows the reader ways to achieve it. Hough illustrates his precepts with examples from his own work and from that of the best modern writers of dialogue, including Cormac McCarthy, Kent Haruf, Joan Didion, Annie Proulx, Lee Smith, Elmore Leonard, George V. Higgins, William Kennedy and Howard Frank Mosher. He cites early 20th century writers who refined and advanced dialogue as an art form: Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Dorothy Parker, and William Saroyan.

    Hough on Dialogue will give writers and aspiring writers a fresh look at one of the essential ingredients of their craft.

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    The Crime Beat: New York (A Cole & Warren Crime Thriller Book 1) Perched on the soft tar of a New York City rooftop, a mysterious sniper fires a single round from a fifty caliber rifle. Five stories below, his target collapses on the marble steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, dead.

    Crime reporter Jane Cole needs this story badly. Suspended NYPD cop Robert Warren is desperate to clear his name. They don’t trust each other, but they make the perfect team. And as Cole and Warren track the killer, they uncover a plot so ruthless it shocks the conscience, a crime so expansive it will rock the world.

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    The Dirty Parts of the Bible: A Novel The Dirty Parts of the Bible is a humorous novel set during the Great Depression — a rollicking tale of love and liquor, preachers and prostitutes, trains and treasure, sure to appeal to fans of Water for Elephants, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Mark Twain, and Johnny Cash…

    It’s 1936, and Tobias Henry is stuck in the frozen hinterlands of Michigan. Tobias is obsessed with two things: God and girls. Mostly girls, of course. But being a Baptist preacher’s son, he can’t escape God. When his father is blinded in a bizarre accident (involving hard cider and bird droppings), Tobias must ride the rails to Texas to recover a long-hidden stash of money. Along the way, he’s initiated into the hobo brotherhood by Craw, a ribald vagabond-philosopher. Obstacles arise in the form of a saucy prostitute, a flaming boxcar, and a man-eating catfish. But when he meets Sarah, a tough farm girl under a dark curse, he finds out that the greatest challenge of all is love.

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    Qualify (The Atlantis Grail Book 1) You have two options. You die, or you Qualify.

    The year is 2047. An extinction-level asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, and the descendants of ancient Atlantis have returned from the stars in their silver ships to offer humanity help.

    But there’s a catch.

    They can only take a tiny percent of the Earth’s population back to the colony planet Atlantis. And in order to be chosen, you must be a teen, you must be bright, talented, and athletic, and you must Qualify.

    Sixteen-year-old Gwen Lark is determined not only to Qualify but to rescue her entire family…

    But there is only one problem… Gwen is a klutz and a nerd. While she’s a hotshot in classics, history, science, and languages, the closest she’s come to sports is a backyard pool and a skateboard.

    This time she is in over her head, and in for a fight of her life, against impossible odds and world-class competition… Because every other teen on Earth has the same idea.

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