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Nestled in a hidden valley, Lágrimas is the last stop for a host of eccentric and questionable souls. When Joyce arrives looking for her son on a tip from a hitchhiker who claims to have seen him there, she settles in a bit too quickly for the locals' comfort. Much to her crushing disappointment, the boy she's been led to is not her son, but an emotionally battered teenager who communicates solely through lines from The Tempest. The locals,...
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Frank Corso mysteries volume 5
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The accolades keep rolling in for G.M. Ford, who's gritty, explosive, lightning-fast brand of thriller has placed him in the upper ranks of contemporary crime fiction authors. Now, in his most relentlessly exciting novel to date, Ford's dark and complex protagonist, Frank Corso, finds himself drawn into a bizarre carnival of blood and death in the last place any sane person would willingly go ...No Man's Land Arizona's Meza Azul penitentiary is the...
3) Bird summons
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"When Salma, Moni, and Iman-friends and active members of their local Muslim Women's group-decide to take a road trip together to the Scottish Highlands, they leave behind lives often dominated by obligation, frustrated desire, and dull predictability. Each wants something more out of life, but fears the cost of taking it. Salma is successful and happily married, but tempted to risk it all when she's contacted by her first love back in Egypt; Moni...
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2015.
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"The first fifty or so years of Otto's journey were pretty good. He felt he had it all until one day he didn't. Looking for answers, he calls on his enlightened brother-in-law, Volya Rinpoche, a wise man with Russian roots, a Tibetan heritage, and an international reputation as a spiritual teacher ... Otto needs his brother-in-law's wisdom, ... and ... it turns out that Rinpoche himself is also looking for guidance. They embark on a road trip over...
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2011.
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Maxwell Sim is an ignored man with no meaningful connection to his father, his wife, or his daughter. Perhaps that's why he quit his job and accepted a strange business proposition to deliver a carload of toothbrushes to the Shetland Islands as part of a dental-hygiene promotion plan. Instead, he visits figures from his past, falling in love with the voice on his GPS system along the way.
6) Coyote dream
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Introspective artist Ben Lonefeather is content raising the orphaned coyote pups he rescued after their mother was killed on the highway. Meanwhile, New Yorker Sarah Friedman hurries west on a business trip to buy American Indian art for her popular store. When Sarah's car stalls near the reservation, Ben comes to her aid. Offering her a place to stay, if only for a short time, Ben soon finds himself falling into a passionate tryst with Sarah.
7) Sideways
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Sideways novels volume 1
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Miles and Jack, two friends facing mid-life crises, take a week-long road trip through California's wine valleys and evaluate their lives and their respective futures.
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