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Henry Wise

EDGAR AWARD WINNER FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL OF THE YEAR“Holy City is an amazing piece of work. A Southern novel that examines the pathos and ethos of small-town life and the weight of both grief and hatred. Love it.”—S.A. CosbyNo one innocent. No one free. Nothing sacred.Holy City is the captivating debut from Henry Wise about a deputy sheriff who must work alongside an unpredictable p...

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Henry Wise

“[A] new master of Southern gothic."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Word is bond—until the past threatens to break itFrom the Edgar Award-winning author comes a decisive sequel to Holy City in which a missing person case forces deputy sheriff Will Seems to confront the way history anchors, corrupts, and defines the presentDeep within southside Virginia lies the Snakefoot—a wild swampland t...

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Henry Wise

From Edgar Award-winning author Henry Wise comes a decisive sequel where word is bond—until the past threatens to break it.This forceful sequel to Holy City brims with Wise's trademark examination of the pathos and ethos of small-town life, the equal weights of grief and hatred.As detectives in a missing persons case search for answers, the sum of their investigation illuminates the hard fact that there is a price for progress, and a cost for living by the ...

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Henry Wise

'Rarely has dysfunctional small-town life been so movingly portrayed.' Daily Express'A dense, brilliantly rendered novel by a new master of Southern gothic' KirkusAfter a decade of exile precipitated by the tragic death of his mother, Will Seems returns home from Richmond to rural Southern Virginia, taking a job as deputy sheriff in a landscape given way to crime and defeat. But his attempts to start again are wrecked when...

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Henry J. Wise

This book explains, “what an appraiser thinks about when his client is the court.” It is based on real world experiences that are interesting to appraisers, attorneys and businessmen. The stories are also interesting to the general public who usually don't have to think about the meaning of the value of something. The most likely market for the book consists of the 50,000 or more commercial real estate appraisers and business appraisers working here and in other countries that follow our g...

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Henry Augustus Wise

SPREADING THE STRANDS. Shout three times three, like Ocean's surges, Join, brothers, join, the toast with me; Here's to the wind of life, which urges The ship with swelling waves o'er sea! Masters, I can not spin a yarn Twice laid with words of silken stuff. A fact's a fact; and ye may larn The rights o' this, though wild and rough My words may loom. 'Tis your consarn, Not mine, to understand. Enough –

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Henry Wise

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Chris Henry Coffey

No one innocent. No one free. Nothing sacred.After a decade of exile precipitated by the tragic death of his mother, Will Seems returns home from Richmond to rural Southside Virginia, taking a job as deputy sheriff in a landscape given way to crime and defeat. Impoverished and abandoned, this remote land of tobacco plantations, razed forests, and boardedup homes seems stuck in the past in a state that is trying to forget its complex history and move on.Will’s efforts to go ...

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Joseph Loconte, Karl Barth, John Bennett, Paul L. Blakely, Fortune Magazine, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Georgia Harkness, John Haynes Holmes, Lynn Harold Hough, Manifesto by American Churchmen, Charles Clayton Morrison, Lewis Mumford, Reinhold Niebuhr, Albert W. Palmer, Ernest Fremont Tittle, Henry P. Van Dusen, Stephen S. Wise

The rise of Islamic radicalism has led to heated discussions about how best to address the threat of religious terror. Disputes covering the right and wrong of war with Iraq, and the even bigger war on terrorism, continue to rage across America. But this is not the first argument of this nature-America was faced with a similar moral dilemma on the eve of World War II. Fascism was conquering Europe, and religious leaders across the nation vehemently debated how to confront Nazi Germany....

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Henry Hary

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Digital Voice Bill-Wise, Mature, Balanced E, Digital Voice Lily E, Digital Voice Adam E

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.What if the person you meet in this life is someone your soul has known before?In The Shadows of Our Souls, love, memory, and longing echo beyond the boundaries of a single lifetime.When the narrator meets Dao in a Japanese language class, an unexplainable sense of familiarity emerges—an intuition that their connection may reach far deeper than memory alone. As their quiet rel...

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Bailey Seybolt

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Cassandra Campbell, Chris Henry Coffey, Jackie Sanders, Jason Culp

Bloomsbury presents Coram House by Bailey Seybolt, read by Chris Henry Coffey, Jason Culp, Jackie Sanders, and Cassandra Campbell.'Twisty and compelling' Tracy Sierra'I'll be following Bailey Seybolt the way I follow Tana French' Kate BrodyEveryone has heard the rumours. But who knows the real story of Coram House?True crime writer Alex Kelley is struggling after her last book tanked her career. Her ...

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Sarah Easter Collins

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Christina Cole, Nathalie Buscombe, Emily Lucienne

Brought to you by Penguin.She could be anyone. She could be you.Nobody ever found out what happened to Laika Martenwood, the girl who vanished without a trace on her way to school one morning. But for her sister Willa, life shattered into tiny pieces that day, and she has never been able to put them back together again.Willa sees Laika everywhere: on buses, at parties, in busy streets. It’s been twenty-five years, and the o...

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Chris Offutt

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Charlie Thurston

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Mick Hardin Novels

Master storyteller Chris Offutt’s acclaimed crime series has been praised by Ian Rankin as “righteous Kentucky noir with top notes of Daniel Woodrell and S. A. Cosby,” and in this breakneck new novel, sheriff Mick Hardin navigates the treacherous terrain of a town’s festering secrets and the violent forces who want to keep them hidden.Lauded as a “masterclass in the craft of crime fiction” (CrimeReads), Chris Offutt’s beloved and critically acclaimed Mick ...