Kelli Tager
1) Dust spells
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"She thought a dust storm was getting in the way of her dreams, but there are storms more deadly than dust. Ever since the dust storms arrived and turned her world upside down, ambitious Stella Fischer spends her mornings hiding moonshine in laundry stacks for delivery before returning home to help her sisters--Lavinia and Mattie--run their family home turned boarding house, hoping to make enough money to finally escape to Hollywood. She has no time...
2) Mobility
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National Bestseller
Longlisted for the 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize
One of Powell's Best Books of 2023
One of TIME's Best Books of 2023
One of Vulture's Best Books of 2023
"A masterpiece of misdirection." —Geraldine Brooks
"Mobility is a truly gripping coming-of-age story about navigating a world of corporate greed that's both laugh-out-loud funny and
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In her gripping follow-up to the widely acclaimed Dust Bowl Mystery Death of a Rainmaker, Laurie Loewenstein brings 1930s Oklahoma evocatively to life.
*A finalist for the 2023 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award for Best Historical
"For Temple Jennings, the small-town Oklahoma sheriff who returns in Laurie Loewenstein's...
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"Her Country is veteran Nashville journalist Marissa R. Moss's story of how in the past two decades, country's women fought back against systems designed to keep them down, armed with their art and never willing to just shut up and sing: how women like Kacey Musgraves, Mickey Guyton, Maren Morris, The Chicks, Miranda Lambert, Rissi Palmer, Brandy Clark, LeAnn Rimes, Brandi Carlile, Margo Price and many more have reinvented the rules to find their...
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A new collection of stories by one of America's greatest writers
These new, recent, and reformulated stories by Joyce Carol Oates, collected here for the first time, showcase a wide range of crime fiction and psychological suspense. A young, insecure woman finds her relationship changing as she grows more and more dependent on a man who likes to take her on long walks beside a dangerously roaring creek. Another...Author
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"With witty banter and a clever, self-aware plot, this romantic gem marks Micciche as a writer to watch." -Publishers Weekly STARRED Review
DESPERATELY SEEKING FICTIONAL HERO FOR HAPPILY EVER AFTER
Broke up with, broke, and with a vicious case of writer's block, romance writer Gracie Landing is a hot mess. She can hardly be blamed for drinking one (or a few) too many cocktails when out with her besties in an attempt to cheer herself up. Sometime...
7) You couldn't ignore me if you tried: the Brat Pack, John Hughes, and their impact on a generation
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You can quote lines from Sixteen Candles ("Last night at the dance my little brother paid a buck to see your underwear"), your iPod playlist includes more than one song by the Psychedelic Furs and Simple Minds, you watch The Breakfast Club every time it comes on cable, and you still wish that Andie had ended up with Duckie in Pretty in Pink. You're a bonafide Brat Pack devotee-and you're not alone.
The films of the Brat Pack-from Sixteen Candles...
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Marian Elliott Adams, an outspoken advocate for sensible undergarments for women, sweeps onto the Chautauqua stage under a brown canvas tent on a sweltering August night in 1917, and shocks the gathered town of Emporia with her speech: How can women compete with men in the work place and in life if they are confined by their undergarments? The crowd is further appalled when Marian falls off the stage and sprains her ankle, and is forced to remain...
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"Watch out for karaoke mishaps that result in a fake engagement...because weddings are forever... When librarian Cecily Jane Allerton and hotshot struggling author Nate Ellis are caught in a compromising position during their MFA program, they decide to get married to keep the haters from destroying their careers. To the horror of Cecily's family, which is a big fan of big white weddings, they elope to City Hall. Now they're back on Block Island,...
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A ruthless enemy is out for vengeance...
and it's up to a K-9 team to stop him
Sergeant Tyson Wilkes is determined to protect his Rocky Mountain K-9 Unit—especially against an unknown assailant with a taste for explosives. Fortunately, Denver detective Skylar Morgan has the toughness and smarts to help Tyson and K-9 Echo find answers...even if she's stepping into the crosshairs with them. But can they disarm this volatile killer before the next...
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"After surviving a sudden avalanche, mountain survival expert Jayla Hoyt and her search-and-rescue K-9 discover that it was no accident - someone deliberately triggered the mountain explosion. To uncover the culprit, she'll have to partner with Alaska park ranger Bryson Clarke, a man she doesn't trust. But when the investigators become targets, can they capture the criminal mastermind - before they're buried alive?" --
13) Broken Trust
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Hotel rooms often come with perks. A corpse isn't one of them.Ghostwriter Megan Scott and investigative reporter Michael Elliott discover the body of a young woman in their Ottawa hotel room. Not what they expected on a business trip to Canada's capital. She's wearing a black lace teddy. A carafe of red wine and two glasses sit on a table. A closer look inside her purse reveals thousands of dollars, three business cards, and a supply of pills.Who...
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Liz Bennet is fortunate with love, and she knows it. She's married to a wealthy, handsome, bright, all-around charming man. Arno, a wonderful husband and adoring father to their daughter Emma, is the outward picture of perfection. But, when Liz sees a text on Arno's phone with a couple of kissy-faces attached, she begins to spiral - second guessing her idyllic suburban life and everything she once thought to be true.
As any sensible wife would, as...
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Since her return home to Berlin, Goldie Schatzman has reconnected with her childhood friend, Leni, a free spirit who has swept Goldie into the Weimar lifestyle that is overflowing with artists and writers, but also with debauchery. Goldie had spent the last nineteen years living a dull life with a spiritless husband. And now she has been set free.
As Goldie's daughter, Alma, is coming of marriageable age, her grandparents are determined to find her...
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This Passover is starting to feel like the ten plagues might be coming back to haunt them before the weekend is over... one hilarious misstep after the next.
Gaby Fineberg just wants to get through Passover Seder without her "well meaning" family playing matchmaker. She needs a date, just for one simple meal-that includes singing, the history of her forefathers, and not one bit of yeast. The hot guy at her gym would be perfect. He probably hates...
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"Her cheating husband was murdered and she's the prime suspect. Proving her innocence is one thing. Evading a killer who wants her dead is something else."BETRAYAL. JEALOUSY. REVENGE.Montreal ghostwriter Megan Scott falls under police suspicion when her husband and a female companion are found murdered. In what a Québec detective calls a crime of passion, startling evidence surfaces to also implicate Michael Elliott, a young investigative reporter...
18) About That Night
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Izzy Fineberg can take on any challenge-and she's had some big ones lately. After one fateful night with the hottest Deaf man she'd ever met, Izzy found she was pregnant with his child. And she never caught his name. She's been doing the single mom thing for nine months now, and surely, nothing could be more challenging than that. But her first day at her new job, she meets her supervisor... and recognizes him immediately.
Nolan Holtzman never expected...
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When an old enemy from the KKK, who had once tormented Sam Schatzman, appears back in his life, will he rise above his hatred, or will he allow it to consume him?
In Berlin, Esther and Ted Birnbaum are faced with leaving everything and everyone they love behind in an effort to survive Hitler's vicious attack on the Jews of Germany.
They have no one to turn to for help except their oldest employee, Hans Hubermann. But Hans's son, Erwin, is showing...
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Explore strategies, ideas, and advice for overcoming loneliness.
Anyone, whatever their age, gender, culture, or abilities, can find themselves separate and disconnected from others and feeling lonely. If you feel lonely you are lonely. And it's not nice. But your situation can change for the better!
The book recognizes that as social beings, we each need to interact with others; to connect in positive ways, and feel that we are understood, that...