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  Legacy of Masks

  by Sallie Bissell

  This killer is so evil, he wears the most deceptive face of all…. Legacy of Masks Ex-prosecutor Mary Crow didn’t expect a hero’s welcome when she returned home to Pisgah County, North Carolina. But what she did expect was the job she’d been promised in the D.A.’s office. Instead she found she’d worn out her welcome before she even arrived–and that she has more than a few enemies among the supporters of the... (more)
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  Little Audrey

  by Ruth White

  “What else would you wish for?” Daddy says. “If you could have anything in the world, what would you wish for?” I shrug. “Oh, I don’t know. Maybe . . .” “Maybe what?” “For us to live better than we do.” He does not say anything.   In 1948, award-winning author Ruth White lived in Jewell Valley, a coal camp nestled between the hills of southwestern Virginia, with her mother, still mourning for a baby... (more)
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  All That You Love Will Be Taken Away

  by Linda Hewitt

  Maggie McLendon, born Maggie Edith Mosteller, was a beauty in the fair-complexioned Gibson Girl mode, with a wide brow, straight nose, large light-blue eyes and masses of light-brown hair piled atop a shapely head. The descendant of farming storekeepers and plantation owners, she was born 14 November 1890 in Shelby County, Alabama, in a crossroads community named after her father's family. She loved reading,... (more)