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  • Dancing Woman

    Elaine Neil Orr, born in Nigeria to expat parents, brings us an indelible portrait of a young female artist, torn between two men and two cultures, struggling to find her passion and her purpose.It’s 1963 and Isabel Hammond is an expat who has accompanied her agriculture aid worker husband to Nigeria, where she is hoping to find inspiration for her art and for her life. Then she meets charismatic ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Testimony After Trauma

    Preparing Public Safety Personnel Before, During and After the Courts

    This book provides initial and critical insights into the area of lived experience of testifying in court. It examines the role of those who testify in a court proceeding and those who support them. Specifically, the information is intended to help public safety personnel members after they have encountered or experienced a traumatic event because of their duties at work. The book outlines risk ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Swimming Between Worlds

    From the critically acclaimed writer of A Different Sun, a Southern coming-of-age novel that sets three very different young people against the tumultuous years of the American civil rights movement...Tacker Hart left his home in North Carolina as a local high school football hero, but returns in disgrace after being fired from a prestigious architectural assignment in West Africa. Yet the culture ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

  • A Different Sun

    A Novel of Africa

    A “lush, evocative, breathtaking”* debut novel from Elaine Neil Orr, “reminiscent of Barbara Kingsolver's magnum opus, The Poisonwood Bible, with elements of Joseph Conrad and Louise Erdrich.”*Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.When Emma Davis reads the words of Isaiah 6:8 in her room at a Georgia women’s college, ... Read more

    Was $8.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • Gods of Noonday

    A White Girl's African Life

    The daughter of medical missionaries, Elaine Neil Orr was born in Nigeria in 1954, in the midst of the national movement that would lead to independence from Great Britain. But as she tells it in her captivating new memoir, Orr did not grow up as a stranger abroad; she was a girl at home—only half American, the other half Nigerian. When she was sent alone to the United States for high school, she ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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    Swimming Between Worlds

    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 31 min

    From the critically acclaimed writer of A Different Sun, a Southern coming-of-age novel that sets three very different young people against the tumultuous years of the American civil rights movement...Tacker Hart left his home in North Carolina as a local high school football hero, but returns in disgrace after being fired from a prestigious architectural assignment in West Africa. Yet the culture ... Read more

    $22.50 USD

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    **“Delightful. . . funny and poignant.” --PeopleWith a kick like the best hot sauce, this is the laugh-out-loud story of a girl determined to keep up with her aging, crazy-as-a-fox mother"If you ever pined for a mother who would take a hunting falcon as her wingman to a parent-teacher conference, Polly is the gal for you. Delicious." --Mark Childress, author of Crazy in Alabama**Willow Havens is ... Read more

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  • A Midwinter's Tail

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    Kathleen Paulson is snowed under running her library and caring for her extraordinary felines, Owen and Hercules. But when a holiday fund-raiser turns deadly, she’ll have to add sleuthing to her already full schedule...Winter in Mayville Heights is busy and not just because of the holidays. Kathleen is hard at work organizing a benefit to raise money for the library’s popular Reading Buddies ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Serafim and Claire

    by Mark Lavorato ...
    From one of Canada’s brightest emerging writers comes an unforgettable tale of love, art, and life. Set in the vividly imagined streets of 1920s Montreal, Serafim and Claire is the beautiful, moving, and compulsively readable story of two dreamers whose worlds become forever connected.Claire Audette is a dancer whose reputation in the vaudeville houses of 1920s Montreal is rapidly on the rise. ... Read more

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  • Still Life with Bread Crumbs

    A Novel

    by Anna Quindlen ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “marvelous romantic comedy” (The New York Times Book Review) from Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anna Quindlen“[A] wise tale about second chances, starting over, and going after what is most important in life.”—Minneapolis Star TribuneStill Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Pictures of You

    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**“Magically written, heartbreakingly honest.” —Jodi PicoultLeavitt’s new novel, Days of Wonder, is coming April 23, 2024. Pre-order now!**Two women running away from their marriages collide on a foggy highway, killing one of them. The survivor, Isabelle, is left to pick up the pieces, not only of her own life, but of the lives of the devastated husband and fragile son ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • All the Birds in the Sky

    Entertainment Weekly's 27 Female Authors Who Rule Sci-Fi and Fantasy Right NowWinner of the 2017 Nebula Award for Best NovelFinalist for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best NovelPaste's 50 Best Books of the 21st Century (So Far) List**“The book is full of quirkiness and playful detail...but there's an overwhelming depth and poignancy to its virtuoso ending.” —NPRFrom the former editor-in-chief of io9.com ... Read more

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