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The mysterious death of a mentally disabled boy sends his stepsister on the run in this historical novel.
Rural North Carolina, 1950s. When young Adam Finney is found dead in a river, his teenaged stepsister, Jess Booker, is sought for questioning by the police. Making a desperate escape, Jess treks and hitchhikes across four states to a boarding house in tiny Lula, Alabama.
Pursued by a mysterious car with a faded "I Like Ike" sticker, she is also...
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David Rabe is one of America's finest dramatists. In A Question of Mercy, he explores the controversial and emotional issue of euthanasia, delving deep into the ties that bind friends and lovers. Thomas and Anthony are lovers struggling with Anthony's final, exhausting battle with AIDS. Joined by their friend Susanah and a retired doctor, whose help Thomas has requested, they fashion a heartbreaking friendship as they work through the stages of a...
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It's not the first time the local press has made a mistake, but this one has consequences for Dr. Hugh Westlake. An article about an advocate of euthanasia has switched the name of the old quack named Westbrook to "Westlake," which leads to Hugh getting summoned in the middle of an icy winter night for a mercy killing.
The poor, fatally ill woman is the matriarch of a new, wealthy family in town. Ethically, all Hugh can do is ease her pain, so he...
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A man haunted by the death of his brother and a forty-year-old secret returns to his Tennessee hometown in this novel by the author of A Question of Mercy.
A novel of homecoming, loss, and the power of story, Familiar Ground follows the return of Jacob Bechner to rural Sweetwater, Tennessee, summoned by Callie, a dying woman nearly one hundred years old. Jacob aims to confront a moment of violence from forty years in his past that cost him the...
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"When Greta Mercy's brothers disappear from the Barlowe Theater in 1915, she will do anything to uncover what threat lurks beneath the stage. Decades later, revealing what happened to the boys falls on Kit Boyd, who must determine whether she's willing topay the price to end the pattern of evil that has marked their hometown for a century"--
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BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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The rebellion touches down! No backup, no help, no mercy. The clones square off against the Glomrat Empire in an epic battle that will change everything! It's clone vs. clone as the unforgettable sci-fi epic finally answers the question: what makes us human? Witness the jaw-dropping finale to the ultimate Insurrection!
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Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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Private detective Jerome K. Jerome Bloche is hired by his friend Father Arthur, a former boxer turned Catholic priest, to look into a series of blackmail letters extorting money from his parishioners that share one odd detail: the money is to be donated to the church to repair its famous organ! Meanwhile Jeromes girlfriend Babette gets a shocking surprise when her father, whom she believed to have died when she was a child, shows up on her doorstep....
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Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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Anastasia was just a little girl when she first came to Los Angeles with her mother in 1926, to pursue her mothers dream of conquering Hollywood. But it wasnt her mother under the spotlightsit was her. She became the star her mother wanted, but at a terrible price. The fame that endears her to millions also puts her in shackles, at the mercy of those who control her. How long will it take before she cracks? And what will she do then? This is a story...
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"Walt Longmire faces one of his most challenging crime scenes as he tries to reckon with the revelations of his last case where he confronted the ghosts of his past and questioned the very nature of justice and mercy in the hard country of the West. Deep in the heart of the Wyoming countryside, Sheriff of Absaroka County, Walt Longmire, is called to a crime scene like few others that he has seen. This crime brings up issues that go back to Walt's...
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Zando
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"In Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow, Steve Almond employs the radical empathy he displayed as co-host (with Cheryl Strayed) of the podcast Dear Sugars to explore the joys and trials of storytelling, and to explode the myths that hold us back from writing our deepest and truest work. The book includes chapters on plot, character, and chronology, but travels far beyond the earnest intentions of most craft books. It includes essays on humor, sex,...
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Amara, an imprint of Entangled Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
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"It's the Magic 8 Ball's fault. All of it. One teeny little question, and suddenly Simone Alexander is chucking her whole life out the window. So long, being a chef in California--it's time for law school. In Michigan. Where there's actual winter. And law school's nothing like the romantic comedies said it was. Simone is tragically underprepared. Hell, she's already behind before classes have even begun, and her hard-as-nails Contracts professor is...