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Cormorant Lake A Novel By Faith Merino
When Evelyn Van Pelt returns home with two children who are not her own, she discovers that deeply held secrets always rise to the surface.
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On a cold November night, Evelyn Van Pelt steals her roommate’s two underfed and neglected little girls from their beds and drives to the northwestern hometown she 8ed fourteen years earlier—Cormorant Lake. There, hidden in the mountains and woods, dense with fog and the cold of winter, Evelyn grapples with the guilt of what she’s done, and as she attempts to reconcile her wild independence with the responsibilities of parenthood, she reconnects with the two women who raised her—her foster mother, Nan, and her biological mother, Jubilee. But by coming home, she has set in motion a series of events that will revive the decades-old tragedy that haunts Cormorant Lake—and lead her to confront the high cost of protecting her secret.
At once fantastical and deeply rooted in the natural world, Faith Merino’s deeply affecting and spirited debut novel explores the shape of family, the enduring bonds of friendship, and the imperfections of motherhood—messy and beautiful, instinctive and learned, temporal but permanently life-altering.
FAITH MERINO studied English at University of the Paci7c and New York University. Her short 7ction has won awards and honorable mentions from The Moth, the Jabberwock Review, Glimmer Train, and Boulevard, among others. A former journalist, she lives in Sacramento with her husband, sons, and dogs.
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THE SILENT GODS SERIES, BOOK 2 MASTER ARTIFICER BY JUSTIN T. CALL
WHAT IF YOU HEP THE POWER OF A GOD, BUT YOU COULDN'T CONTROL IT?
Annev and his friends have survived the destruction of Chaenbalu, but greater threats await them in the capital city of Luqura. As Annev navigates the city’s perilous streets, he must also evade those who seek to possess and destroy him while seeking answers to the questions that continue to haunt him: Who orchestrated the attack on his village … and why? Who is Reeve, and why did Sodar want Annev to find him? Can Annev trust him?
Most importantly, can Annev learn to control his nascent magic, and will he find a way to remove the cursed artifact now fused to his body? If so, what will it ultimately cost him?
ALSO AVAILALBE BOOK 1 OF THE SILENT GODS SERIES MASTER OF SORROWS
JUSTIN TRAVIS CALL is a graduate of Harvard University and the author of Master of Sorrows, Book 1 of the Silent Gods series. He is also CEO of Broomstick Monkey Games and co-designer of the board games Imperial Harvest and Royal Strawberries. Justin currently lives in Park City, Utah, with his wife, his two sons, his Great Dane (Pippa) and his Saint Bernard-mastiff (Herbie).
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“Master of Sorrows is a rousing and imaginative high fantasy novel—a promising beginning to a new series.” —FOREWORD REVIEWS
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JOHN J. JACOBSON ALL THE COWBOYS AIN'T GONE
MODERN TIMES CAN’T HOLD HIM BACK
All the Cowboys Ain’t Gone is the rollicking adventure story of Lincoln Smith, a young Texan living at the beginning of the twentieth century, who thinks of himself as the last true cowboy. He longs for the days of the Old West, when men like his father, a famous Texas Ranger, lived by the chivalric code. Lincoln finds himself hopelessly out of time and place in the fast-changing United States of the new century. When he gets his heart broken by a sweetheart who doesn’t appreciate his anachronistic tendencies, he does what any sensible young romantic would do: he joins the French Foreign Legion. On his way to an ancient and exotic country at the edge of the Sahara, Lincoln encounters a number of curious characters and strange adventures, from a desert hermit who can slow up time to a battle with a crocodile cult that worships the god of death. He meets them all with his own charming brand of courage and resourcefulness.
Though JOHN J. JACOBSON didn’t join the French Foreign Legion after being jilted by a girlfriend, or over his displeasure of missing the last great cattle drive, he has, borrowing Churchill’s phrase, lived a rather variegated life. He was born in Nevada, grew up in the West, surfed big waves in Hawaii, circled the world thrice, survived the sixties and seventies, corporate America, and grad school. Among other degrees he has an MA in Renaissance literature from Claremont Graduate University.
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