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The Sea and the Silence
Peter Cunningham
Genre: Literary Fiction | War
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A spellbinding novel of love and courage that traces the life of a beautiful woman in a changing Ireland. The war in Europe is over, and change is about to brush away the old order. Soaring across the decades that follow Ireland’s newly won independence, sweeping across the fierce class issues and battles over land ownership that once defined Irish society, The Sea and the Silence is an epic love story set inside the fading grandeur of the Anglo-Irish class. A powerful novel from one of Ireland’s best writers on the turbulent birth of a nation, and the lovers it divides.
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No Way Out (Jack Davis Thrillers Book 3)
Joel Goldman
Genre: Mystery | Crime Fiction
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Meeting ex-FBI agent Jack Davis in the middle of a shootout is the best thing that could have happened to Roni Chase. As Jack follows Roni into a lethal web of deceit, years in the making, the only thing that can save them – time – is running out. Think James Patterson meets Michael Connelly and you’ve got Joel Goldman in No Way Out!
“No Way Out has a most compelling main character. He’s driven by his own demons and past mistakes. He has what would seem to be an insurmountable flaw. When he develops the shakes and crashes to one knee, he pulls himself up and you, the reader, with him.” Helen Ginger
Jump on Now Way Out and hang on for a rockin’ ride!
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The Birthday Girls
Pauline Lawless
Genre: Women’s Fiction | Literary Fiction | Contemporary Fiction | Classics | Humor & Satire
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They’d met on their first day at school four little girls who were all very different from each other but who somehow became close friends. Their friendship has now lasted thirty-five years. As their birthdays all fall in the same week they long ago made a pact to spend each big decade birthday together. So far they’d managed it. Now as their thirty-ninth birthday looms, Angel, a famous Hollywood actress, announces that this will be her last birthday. Terrified of aging, she absolutely refuses to turn forty. So Lexi, the mother hen of the group and an artist, invites them to Florida for a week-long celebration of this, their last birthday together. Brenda, mother to five grown-up children, flies in from Dublin, eagerly looking forward to her first foreign holiday ever. Mel, however, has to be prised away from New York where she is a successful partner in a law firm – Mel is a workaholic with no other friends or love in her life. The four come together for the celebration but soon things start to unravel and the week ends disastrously. Lexi is distraught. Can their friendship endure? Only time will tell.
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The Treasure of Namakagon
James A. Brakken
Genre: Action & Adventure | Historical Fiction
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A twisting, turning, thrilling adventure based on records from the northern Wisconsin timber boom of the 1880s.
Tor Loken, son of a lumber camp owner, and his mentor, Chief Namakagon, join with the lumberjacks from their camp to foil a ruthless timber tycoon and protect the secret silver mine — a mine that truly existed and has yet to be found. The clues are within. 43 exciting chapters written for all ages. Plus illustrations by the author, a conservationist and life-long resident of northwestern Wisconsin.
In this action-adventure, Tor Loken, 16, is rescued from a danger-filled, Chicago child labor scheme and reunited with his father, owner of a lumber camp in far northwestern Wisconsin. Tor meets Chief Namakagon who takes him under his wing and shares with Tor knowledge of his secret silver mine. (This mine is based actual newspaper accounts from the 1880s. The silver has never been found. Many still search! Clues are within these pages.) Among the many colorful lumberjacks in the story is Tor’s Uncle Ingman. He turns the tables on a crooked lumber baron who then seeks revenge by trying to stop the Loken outfit from driving their timber down the river. Only a camp vs camp showdown can settle the dispute. (Also based on true events.) Besides being an exciting adventure story, this novel is a journey into the past. Be up before 5 o’clock for breakfast with the men in the cook shanty before you go out into the cuttings where you’ll work as a sawyer, teamster, swamper or road monkey. Hook up the Clydesdales to the water tanker and ice down the trails for the big timber sleighs. Take a dog sled through the deep snow, trying to catch the southbound train to the city. Spin a yarn or sing along with the other ‘shanty boys’ in the bunkhouse after supper. Go to town for a Saturday night of lumberjack merriment but dress warm, it’s a 5 hour sleigh ride back to camp at twenty below zero. Day after day, November through March, often waist-deep in snow, you will help your camp harvest a hundred thousand giant pine logs by spring. Now imagine driving those same logs down a thundering icy river, jumping from log to log as they rush downstream. After the pine reaches the mill you’ll get your winter’s pay and join with thousands of other lumberjacks in town to celebrate. Keep an eye out for sinister, crooked businessmen out for an easy swindle. Keep your pocketbook buttoned up… there are loose women, charlatans, pickpockets, bandits and thugs out there who want to separate you from your dollar-a-day wages! Open these pages and become one of the many thousands of lumberjacks who brought prosperity to Wisconsin’s land of lakes and streams during the height of the industrial revolution. Put on your red and black wool mackinaw and your calked boots. Grab your peavey or a pike pole. You’re in for a good look at life in the great northern pinery in the 1880s… and a twisting, turning, fact-based adventure story that will often leave you breathless! And the lost silver mine? The legendary silver cache of Chief Namakagon, who died in 1888, will, most likely, be discovered one day. It’s out there to be found. This book offers some clues about where to begin your search.
THE TREASURE OF NAMAKAGON is a glimpse into Wisconsin’s single greatest economic event, the cutting of the virgin pine in the late 1800s and the devastation of the land. Hundreds of thousands of lumberjacks descended on the north hoping to harvest the ‘green gold’. Many northern Wisconsin towns sprang up and then boomed into bustling cities, full of life, fast money, fortune seekers, loose women and lumberjacks. This is the setting for this fact-filled fictional adventure, written for all ages. An exception: The lumberjacks were renowned for their crude, profane language. This novel is written for all readers and, like it or not, the profanity has been limited to less than that now allowed on network television.
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The Forest and the Farm
Vance Huxley
Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Fantasy
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Billi has always been different, and how could he not be? A man with one leg was uncommon enough. Then a three-legged Hound, Rabbit, came from the Forest and sat by his wheelchair, and he had to learn to be a Hunter. Paired for life, Hunters and Hounds are vital to their Village for hunting and protection in the Forest. They share a wordless song which allows them to know each other’s moods and warn of danger. Rules about the Farm and Forest keep the villagers safe – no living tree can be cut, and any man without a Hound is prey once in the Forest. But an unexpected turn of events leads Billi into new territory. A solitary life evolves as he explores the Forest and finds friends in unlikely places. Now Billi must learn about gifts, chasing, catching and sparkuls as he includes others in his life. Light on magic, but big on heart, Billi’s story rings a chord with anyone who’s ever felt they don’t fit in. Join Billi on a world-building journey through a land you almost feel you recognize that still has the ability to surprise you.
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