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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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2023 National Book Award Fiction Longlist
2024 Aspen Words Literary Prize Longlist
2024 Carnegie Medal for Fiction - Shortlist
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2024 Aspen Words Literary Prize Longlist
2024 Carnegie Medal for Fiction - Shortlist
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"The explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black, about two top women gladiators fighting for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly-popular, highly-controversial, profit-raising...
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
While Petra handles the breakfast rush at the Cackleberry Club, the café's other two owners, Suzanne and Toni, head to Memorial Cemetery to help prepare for its 150th-anniversary celebration. But as they search the winding paths for the historical society tent, they discover something else out of place. The body of ex-prison warden Lester Drummond is lying facedown in someone else's freshly dug grave. In the small town of Kindred, everyone knows...
Series
Beasts of Abigaile volume 2
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"As punishment for disrupting class, Nina and Roy find themselves working at the secret parties held by the school's human instructors. But Nina's duties quickly become far more sinister than just waiting tables. The highlight of every party is a fight-- wolf vs. luga-- and it's not long before she finds herself thrust into the ring. But that's not the only trouble Nina's sticking her nose into. Between picking forbidden roses and standing up for...
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 29
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Nearly twenty years ago, college freshman April Goss was found dead in her bathtub, an apparent suicide. Suspicion soon fell on her boyfriend; Dan Corbeil was convicted of her murder and sent to prison. Case closed. Or is it? After Campbell's sister has a chance meeting with Amos Walker, she hires him to prove her brother's innocence. But nobody else is eager to see this very cold case reopened... even Dan himself, who has given up any hope of bring...
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