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Get Cozy with a Few Literary Gems BY ELIZABETH SHAW
Between Tides ANGEL KHOURY In her debut novel, Angel Khoury tells a fictitious tale based on a true story. In the 1890s, Gil Lodge leaves his wife and his job at a Chatham Beach Lifesaving Station and escapes to the Outer Banks where he begins anew. In the 1940s, his daughter is on her way to help the war effort when she takes a detour to meet her father’s first wife on Cape Cod. This story of family, betrayal, grief, and passion blends history and rich, human realities that spans not only decades, but tides. Khoury was inspired after meeting the real “Gil’s” daughter in the 1990s and hearing her story. Originally planning on writing a nonfiction account of the family, Khoury found herself filling in the multitude of missing parts and chose to tell a different story.
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An independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted by a former patron, and the newly employed, formerly incarcerated Tookie must help the lost soul.
