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The Giant’s House

nico — Sun, 04 May 2014 21:04:43 +0000

The year is 1950, and in a small town on Cape Cod twenty-six-year-old librarian Peggy Cort feels like love and life have stood her up. Until the day James Carlson Sweatt — the « over-tall » eleven-year-old boy who’s the talk of the town — walks into her library and changes her life. Two misfits whose lonely paths cross at the circulation desk, Peggy and James are odd candidates for friendship, but nevertheless they find their lives intertwined in ways that neither one could have predicted. And as James grows — six foot five at age twelve, then seven foot, then eight — so does Peggy’s heart and their most singular romance.

A Walk to Remember

nico — Sun, 04 May 2014 21:04:14 +0000

Every April, when the wind blows from the sea and mingles with the scent of lilacs, Landon Carter remembers his last year at Beaufort High. It was 1958, and Landon had already dated a girl or two. He even swore that he had once been in love. Certainly the last person in town he thought he’d fall for was Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town’s Baptist minister.

Message in a Bottle

nico — Sun, 04 May 2014 21:03:45 +0000

Thrown to the waves, and to fate, the bottle could have ended up anywhere. Instead, it is found just three weeks after it begins its journey. Theresa Osborne, divorced and the mother of a twelve-year-old son, discovers it during a seaside vacation from her job as a Boston newspaper columnist. Inside is a letter that opens with « My Dearest Catherine, I miss you my darling, as I always do, but today is particularly hard because the ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together. » For Garrett, the message is the only way he knows to express his undying love for a woman he has lost.

Iron Lake

nico — Sun, 04 May 2014 21:02:52 +0000

William Kent Krueger joined the ranks of today’s best suspense novelists with this thrilling, universally acclaimed debut. Conjuring « a sense of place he’s plainly honed firsthand in below-zero prairie » (Kirkus Reviews), Krueger brilliantly evokes northern Minnesota’s lake country — and reveals the dark side of its snow-covered landscape. Part Irish, part Anishinaabe Indian, Corcoran « Cork » O’Connor is the former sheriff of Aurora, Minnesota. Embittered by his « former » status, and the marital meltdown that has separated him from his children, Cork gets by on heavy doses of caffeine, nicotine, and guilt.

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master — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 17:48:22 +0000

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