Small Town & Rural Fiction

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Every Moment Since is a neatly crafted story about lives connected and changed by one night.”

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“Sullivan is a strong writer, and each of her separate narratives is interesting in and of itself.”

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“the book’s language is lyrical and poetic throughout, making even difficult passages somehow beautiful to read even as they raise goosebumps.”

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Crow Talk is a many-layered story of grief and healing. Of lessons learned from solitude and nature.”

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“a fighting novel, and one with a great heart.”

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“In spite of the earlier wanderings throughout the story . . . Elmendorf provides the reader with an engaging story that is hard to put down, and satisfying at the end.”

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This book is about blood. Not the kind that immediately comes to mind—there is very little violence or bloodshed in its pages.

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Middletide is a mystery novel whose twists and turns will keep the reader intrigued and turning pages.”

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With a primary setting in the backwoods of Montana in the late 1970s with some spillover into the earliest eighties, Old King tells the story of Duane Oshun, a divorcé who leaves Salt Lake

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“An exceptional story dealing with an author’s dilemma as he recreates the story of an old crime as seen through newer eyes several years removed from the incident.”

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“An admirably creative story readers will long remember, leaving authors wondering why they didn't think of it first.”

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Help Wanted is a novel about characters who some might call “ordinary people,” in this case the workers at a big box store very much like Walmart.

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“Deep in characterization and entertaining in its narrative, this book makes a very philosophical point about how well we are aware of those we consider ourselves close to . .

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“French, an unhurried and confident author, has always been willing to let her stories ease forward.

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“a haunting, chilling, and thought-provoking work by this award-winning author.”

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Meagan Church begins her historical novel about the Baby Scoop of the sixties in the summer of ’64 with a drowning.

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Sara Shepard’s Pretty Little Liars young adult novels were on the New York Times bestseller list for 62 weeks, and those books and the Lying Game volumes became televisio

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“I tell other people's stories for a living.

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“A dark read, Twenty-Seven Minutes succeeds in its dreariness in a satisfying way.”

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“This book belongs on the shelf until the next library book sale.”

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“Richard Russo once again brings to life a world of closely connected, interdependent-in-spite-of-themselves characters who feel remarkably familiar and gut-bustingly real.”

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“Farris Smith is in top form at the layered story’s breathtaking climax, masterfully guiding disparate variables from a slow burn to an incendiary ending with suspenseful detail, multi-sens

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“A book about how history repeats itself . . .”

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“Characters discover that the pain of growth is worth embracing rather than escaping . . .”

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