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Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal

Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal

by Julie Metz

"Heart-wrenching but triumphant." -- Glamour "A lyrical, haunting, and utterly gripping memoir." -- Redbook "A dark, evocative memoir from a woman forced to come to terms with her husband's death and the revelation of his infidelity." -- Shelf Awareness "A fascinating memoir." -- People "A delectable summer read." -- USA Today "She brings refreshing candor to a startling,... (more)

O Pioneers!

by Willa Cather

"The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman." . . . "The land belongs to the future . . . that's the way it seems to me. . . . I might as well try to will the sunset over there to my brother's children. We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it -- for a little while." -- Willa Cather, O Pioneers! Willa Cather... (more)

The King of Lies

by John Hart

John Hart creates a literary thriller that is as suspenseful as it is poignant, a riveting murder mystery layered beneath the southern drawl of a humble North Carolina lawyer. When Work Pickens finds his father murdered, the investigation pushes a repressed family history to the surface and he sees his own carefully constructed façade begin to crack. Work’s troubled sister, her combative girlfriend, his gold... (more)