Contemporary

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If Specters were as good as its opening line “The valley was full of ghosts” it could have been intriguing, but it is not.

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Nora MacKenzie lost everything.

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Todd Johnson’s debut novel is not to be missed. This tale of five ordinary southern women will touch the reader’s heart. Set in a nursing home in rural Johnston County, N.

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Mullaby, North Carolina, is a sleepy town full of the rich scent of barbecue and the sound of closely kept secrets, secrets that glow in the dark and smell of sparkling sugar and vanilla.

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Still Missing is Chevy Stevens’s debut novel—it is that good. Stevens writes as if she has been doing it for years.

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Martyrdom Street, by Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, is an interesting and informative book about life in Iran and America during the Revolution and after the Iran-Iraq War from about 1979 to 1993

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Mary Gooch has heard the comment so many times.

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