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Amy Stewart

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A Kopp Sisters Novel

Based on the Kopp sisters’ real-life adventures, the first three novels in best-selling author Amy Stewart’s sparkling series tell the riveting story of a woman who defied expectations, forged her own path, and tackled crime along the way.In Girl Waits with Gun, we meet Constance Kopp. Constance doesn’t quite fit the mold. She towers over most men, has no interest in marriage or domestic affairs, and has been isolated from the world since ...

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Amy Stuart

In this tense, spellbinding thriller set over the course of a single day, a woman prepares for a party that goes dreadfully wrong—for fans of Ashley Audrain and Lisa Jewell.Nadine Walsh’s summer garden party is in full swing. The neighbors all have cocktails, the catered food is exquisite—everything’s going according to plan.But Nadine—devoted wife, loving mother, and doting daughter—finds herself standing over a dead body in her basement while her guests c...

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Amy Stuart

**From the bestselling author of Still Mine and Still Water—PI Clare O’Dey is on the hunt for two missing persons. Little does she know she’s the one being hunted.Malcolm is gone. Disappeared. And no one knows where or why.His colleague and fellow private investigator, Clare, is certain she can find him, as she holds the key to his past. She arrives in the oceanside city where he last lived and starts digging around. Not only is Malcolm gone witho...

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Amy Stuart

In this “haunting psychological thriller” (Robert Dugoni, New York Times bestselling author) one woman searches for answers when another woman goes missing from a desperate, drug-addled mountain town where everyone is implicated in her disappearance.Clare is on the run. From her past, from her husband, and from her own secrets. When she turns up alone in the remote mining town of Blackmore asking questions about Shayna Fowles, a young woman who has gone mi...

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Amy Stuart

From the internationally bestselling author of Still Mine comes a “riveting, twisty…stay-up-all-night read” (Karma Brown, bestselling author of In This Moment) about the hunt for a missing mother and son in a town that is drowning in deception—perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell and Shari Lapena.How do you find the truth in a town full of secrets?Sally Proulx and her young boy have mysteriously disappeared in the stormy town of High River. Cla...

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Amy Stewart

Fifty vignettes of remarkable people whose lives have been transformed by their obsessive passion for trees—written and charmingly illustrated by the New York Times bestselling author of The Drunken Botanist“I love everything Amy Stewart has ever created, but this book is my favorite yet. I’m giving this book to everyone I know. Because it, like its subject, is a gift.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray LoveWh...

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Amy Jane Stewart

A feverishly told, dark and unsettling Scotland-set fairy-tale about a safe haven for women which transforms them into vessels of revenge, perfect for fans of T. Kingfisher, A. G Slatter and Julia Armfield.ELLYElly is running. Pregnant and still in her wedding dress, she flees the cottage that her new husband has rented for their wedding night. Because he's not what people think he is – and she knows that, one day, he'll hurt her in a way she can't fix. Fre...

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Amy Stewart

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A Kopp Sisters Novel

NATIONAL BESTSELLER. The first in the Kopps Sisters Novel Series, Girl Waits with Gun is an enthralling work of historical fiction based on the forgotten true story of one of the nation’s first female deputy sheriffs.Constance Kopp doesn’t quite fit the mold. She towers over most men, has no interest in marriage or domestic affairs, and has been isolated from the world since a family secret sent her and her sisters into hiding fifteen years ago. One day a belligerent and powerful s...

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Amy Stewart

From a beloved best-selling author, a surprising tale of avian elections, state rivalries, and the birds who definitely did not ask for this.What were we thinking, a century ago, when we elected the cardinal or the mockingbird as our state’s official bird? Amy Stewart went looking for answers and found early conservationists imploring the public to admire birds, rather than shoot them; schoolchildren on their first trip to the ballot box; and exasperated women’s cl...

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Amy Stuart

**THE NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER**THE PLANNING TOOK MONTHS. THE MURDER JUST MOMENTS . . .'Seductive and twisted. Highly recommended!' SHARI LAPENA'A dazzling and dark 'locked room' murder mystery. A searing and compulsive mystery with deliciously dark twists' 5***** READER REVIEW'Wow. Once started I could not put this book down. It had me gripped from the first to last page. Secr...

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The Best American Series

This anthology collects some of the year's best science and nature writing—from climate change to killer beetles, an exposé of nail salons, and more.As guest editor Amy Stewart says in her introduction, "science writers get into the game with all kinds of noble, high-minded ambitions. We want to educate. To enlighten…But at the end of the day, we're all writers. We're just like novelists, memoirists, and poets. We're entertainers." The writers in this anthology pul...

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Amy Stewart

Bestselling author and bookstore owner Amy Stewart takes an offbeat and lighthearted look at the future of the book.After the ebook renders bookstores obsolete, a young couple finds themselves in the unlikely position of owning one of the last bookstores in America. But if it isn't keeping itself afloat selling books, what is it selling? A hilarious glimpse at a future that is almost here.Nothing is what it seems in the offbeat and out-of-the-way town of Eureka, California....