Sallie Logan Library
New Book Releases - May 2015
This is a list of the new releases that will be available to borrow at the Sallie Logan Library in May 2015.
In addition to the title and release dates, a brief description of the book (from goodreads.com) has been
included. Some well-known authors include James Patterson (May 4), Jeffrey Deaver (May 12), Mary Kay
Andrews (May 19), Jonathan Kellerman (May 19), Clive Cussler (May 26), and Rita Mae Brown (May 26).
May 4, 2015
14th Deadly Sin by James Patterson
Detective Lindsay Boxer and her three best friends are back and recovering
from the events that pushed them all to the edge. After her near-death
experience, Yuki is seeing her life from a new perspective and is considering a
change in her law career. San Francisco Chronicle reporter Cindy has healed
from her gunshot wound and has published a book on the infamous serial
killers she helped to bring down. Lindsay is just happy that the gang are all
still in one piece...(more).
May 5, 2015
Way of the Warrior by Brockmann et. al.
Eight passionate love stories about amazing military heroes by bestselling
authors: Suzanne Brockmann, Julie Ann Walker, Catherine Mann, Tina
Wainscott, Anne Elizabeth, M.L. Buchman, Kate SeRine, Lea Griffith...(more).
Updated 5-1-2015
New Book Releases - May 2015 (cont.)
The Forgotten Room by Lincoln Child
New York Times bestseller Lincoln Child returns with a riveting new thriller
featuring the charismatic and quirky Professor Jeremy Logan...an investigator
who specializes in analyzing phenomena that have no obvious explanation. In
this newest novel Logan finds himself on the storied coastline of Newport,
Rhode Island, where he has been retained by Symposikon, one of the oldest
and most respected think tanks in America...(more).
Ming Tea Murder by Sarah McCoy
Normally Theodosia wouldn’t attend a black tie affair for all the tea in China.
But she can hardly say no to her hunky, handsome boyfriend, Max, who
directs public relations for the Gibbes Museum in Charleston. Max has
organized an amazing gala opening for an exhibit of a genuine eighteenth
century Chinese teahouse, and the crème de la crème of Charleston society is
invited...(more).
Far End of Happy by Kathryn Craft
After enduring years of a struggling marriage, Ronnie Farnham has decided to
divorce her husband and is beginning to hope for a happy future--until the
morning Jeff is supposed to move out, when he locks himself in their barn
with a rifle...(more).
Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen
Peyton, Sydney's charismatic older brother, has always been the star of the
family, receiving the lion's share of their parents' attention and—lately—
concern. When Peyton's increasingly reckless behavior culminates in an
accident, a drunk driving conviction, and a jail sentence, Sydney is cast adrift,
searching for her place in the family and the world. When everyone else is so
worried about Peyton, is she the only one concerned about the victim of the
accident...(more).
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New Book Releases - May 2015 (cont.)
Rock with Wings by Anne Hillerman
Navajo Tribal cops Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito, and their mentor, the
legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, investigate two perplexing cases...Doing a
good deed for a relative offers the perfect opportunity for Sergeant Jim Chee
and his wife, Officer Bernie Manuelito, to get away from the daily grind of
police work. But two cases will call them back from their short vacation and
separate them—one near Shiprock, and the other at iconic Monument
Valley...(more).
The Fall by John Lescroart
From New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart, a riveting new novel
of legal suspense featuring Dismas Hardy and his daughter, Rebecca, now
grown up and an associate in Hardy’s law firm. Late one night, a teenage
African American foster child named Tanya Morgan plummets to her death
from the overpass... But did she fall; or was she pushed...(more).
Venusian Gambit by Michael J. Martinez
In the year 2135, dangerous alien life forms freed in the destruction of
Saturn's moon Enceladus are making their way towards Earth. A task force
spearheaded by Lt. Cmdr. Shaila Jain is scrambling to beat them there while
simultaneously trying to save crewmember Stephane Durand, who was
infected during the mission to Saturn and is now controlled by a form of life
intent on reopening a transdimensional rift and destroying the human
race...(more).
Mapmaker’s Children by Sarah McCoy
When Sarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown, realizes that her
artistic talents may be able to help save the lives of slaves fleeing north, she
becomes one of the Underground Railroad’s leading mapmakers, taking her
cues from the slave code quilts and hiding her maps within her paintings. She
boldly embraces this calling after being told the shocking news that she can’t
bear children, but as the country steers toward bloody civil war, Sarah faces
difficult sacrifices that could put all she loves in peril...(more).
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New Book Releases - May 2015 (cont.)
Jack of Spades by Joyce Carol Oates
Jack of Spades is an exquisite, psychologically complex thriller about the
opposing forces within the mind of one ambitious writer, and the line
between genius and madness. Andrew J. Rush has achieved the kind of critical
and commercial success most authors only dream about: his twenty-eight
mystery novels have sold millions of copies ... But Rush is hiding a dark
secret...(more).
The Book of Joan by Melissa Rivers
Joan and Melissa Rivers had one of the most celebrated mother-daughter
relationships of all time. If you think Joan said some outrageous things to her
audiences as a comedian, you won’t believe what she said and did in private.
Her love for her daughter knew no bounds—or boundaries, apparently.
("Melissa, I acknowledge that you have boundaries. I just choose to not
respect them.")...(more).
The Book Of Aron by Jim Shepard
Aron, the narrator, is an engaging if peculiar young boy whose family is driven
from the countryside into the Warsaw Ghetto. As his family is slowly stripped
away from him, Aron and a handful of boys and girls risk their lives, smuggling
and trading things through the "quarantine walls" to keep their people alive,
hunted all the while by blackmailers and by Jewish, Polish, and German police
(not to mention the Gestapo)...(more).
Checked Out by Elaine Viets
Wealthy socialite Elizabeth Cateman Kingsley has hired Helen to find a
missing John Singer Sargent painting, owned by her late father. After his
death, many of Davis Cateman’s books were donated to the Flora Park library,
and his daughter suspects the small watercolor—worth millions—was tucked
away inside one of those dusty tomes...(more).
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New Book Releases - May 2015 (cont.)
May 11, 2015
The Green Road by Anne Enright
When her oldest brother Dan announces he will enter the priesthood, young
Hanna watches her mother howl in agony and retreat to her room. In the
years that follow, the Madigan children leave one by one: Dan for the frenzy
of New York under the shadow of AIDS; Constance for a hospital in Limerick,
where petty antics follow simple tragedy; Emmet for the backlands of Mali,
where he learns the fragility of love and order; and Hanna for modern-day
Dublin and the trials of her own motherhood...(more).
May 12, 2015
To Win Her Favor by Tamera Alexander
A gifted rider in a world where ladies never race, Maggie Linden is
determined that her horse will become a champion. But the one man who
can help her has vowed to stay away from thoroughbred racing for
good...Cullen McGrath left a once prosperous life in England because of a
horse racing scandal that nearly ruined him. He’s come to Nashville for a fresh
start, hoping to buy land and start a farm, all while determined to stay as far
away from thoroughbred racing as possible...(more).
Solitude Creek by Jeffery Deaver
A tragedy occurs at a small concert venue on the Monterey Peninsula. Cries of
"fire" are raised and, panicked, people run for the doors, only to find them
blocked. A half dozen people die and others are seriously injured. But it's the
panic and the stampede that killed; there was no fire. Kathryn Dance--a
brilliant California Bureau of Investigation agent and body language expert-discovers that the stampede was caused intentionally and that the
perpetrator, a man obsessed with turning people's own fears and greed into
weapons, has more attacks planned...(more).
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New Book Releases - May 2015 (cont.)
The Huntress of Thornbeck Forest
by Melanie Dickerson
Jorgen is the forester for the wealthy margrave, and must find and capture
the poacher who has been killing and stealing the margrave's game. When he
meets the lovely and refined Odette at the festival and shares a connection
during a dance, he has no idea she is the one who has been poaching the
margrave's game...(more).
The Fatal Flame by Lindsay Faye
Against the gritty backdrop of the notorious Five Points in 1848, Timothy
Wilde is drawn yet again into a disturbing mystery... Someone is starting fires
on the streets of New York and Timothy has to unravel a knot of revenge,
murder and blackmail if he's to find out who is behind it all and stop them
before the whole city goes up in flames...(more).
Hyacinth Girls by Lauren Frankel
Thirteen year old Callie is accused of bullying at school, but Rebecca knows
the gentle girl she's raised must be innocent. After Callie is exonerated, she
begins to receive threatening notes from the girl who accused her, and as
these notes become desperate, Rebecca feels compelled to intervene. As she
tries to save this unbalanced girl, Rebecca remembers her own intense
betrayals and best-friendships as a teenager, when her failure to understand
those closest to her led to tragedy. She'll do anything to make this story end
differently. But Rebecca doesn’t understand...(more).
The Proposal at Siesta Key
by Shelley Shepard Gray
Penny Troyer never disobeys her parents. But tonight she's bending the rules
because Michael Knoxx—the most famous member of the Knoxx Family, a
traveling Mennonite evangelical family—is scheduled to speak. Penny has
heard of Michael—how he lost part of his leg in a terrible accident and uses
the experience to inspire others—and knows she must meet him . . . even if it
means challenging her parents' strict rules and taking the first step toward
her own independence...(more).
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New Book Releases - May 2015 (cont.)
Benefit of the Doubt by Neal Griffin
Benefit of the Doubt is a gripping thriller that exposes the dark underbelly of
policing in small-town America, where local police departments now deal
with big-city crimes and corruption. Ben Sawyer was a big-city cop, until he
nearly killed a helpless suspect in public. Now a detective in the tiny
Wisconsin town where he and his wife grew up, Ben suspects that higher-ups
are taking payoffs from local drug lords...(more).
Love Is Red by Sophie Jaff
This electrifying, addictive, and hypnotically beautiful debut spins suspense
and literary fantasy into a stunning epic—the first volume in the Night Song
Trilogy—ablaze with fear, mystery, and possibility. Katherine Emerson was
born to fulfill a dark prophecy centuries in the making, but she isn’t aware
that this future awaits. However, there is one man who knows the truth: A
killer stalking the women of New York, a monster the media dubs the “Sickle
Man” because of the way he turns his victims into canvasses for his
mesmerizing, twisted art...(more).
Dry Bones by Craig Johnson
Longmire, the TV adaptation of Craig Johnson’s Walt Longmire Mystery series,
has ratcheted up demand for the Wyoming sheriff’s written adventures.
When the largest, most complete fossil of a Tyrannosaurus Rex is discovered
in Absaroka County, it would appear to have nothing to do with Walt. That is,
until the Cheyenne rancher who finds her is found face down in a turtle pond.
As a number of parties vie for ownership of the priceless remains, Walt must
investigate a sixty-six million year-old cold case that’s starting to heat up
fast...(more).
Born of Defiance by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born an Outcast, Talyn Batur has spent the whole of his life fighting against
the prejudice of his people. An Andarion without a father is not something
anyone wants to be. But when his companion’s brother draws him into a plot
against the Andarion crown, he finds himself torn between the loyalty to their
planetary government that his mother has beaten into him and his own
beliefs of justice and right. Now, he must decide for himself to remain a pawn
of their government or to defy everything and everyone he’s ever known to
stand up to tyranny...(more).
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New Book Releases - May 2015 (cont.)
Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll
As a teenager at the prestigious Bradley School, Ani FaNelli endured a
shocking, public humiliation that left her desperate to reinvent herself. Now,
with a glamorous job, expensive wardrobe, and handsome blue blood fiancé,
she’s this close to living the perfect life she’s worked so hard to achieve. But
Ani has a secret. There’s something else buried in her past that still haunts
her, something private and painful that threatens to bubble to the surface
and destroy everything...(more).
The Mountain Story by Lori Lansens
On his 18th birthday, Wolf Truly takes the tramway to the top of the
mountain that looms over Palm Springs, intending to jump to his death.
Instead he encounters strangers wandering in the mountain wilderness, three
women who will change the course of his life. Through a series of missteps he
and the women wind up stranded, in view of the city below, but without a
way down. They endure five days in freezing temperatures without food or
water or shelter, and somehow find the courage to carry on...(more).
How to Start a Fire by Lisa Lutz
When UC Santa Cruz roommates Anna and Kate find passed-out Georgiana
Leoni on a lawn one night, they wheel her to their dorm in a shopping cart.
Twenty years later, they gather around a campfire on the lawn of a New
England mansion. What happens in between-the web of wild adventures,
unspoken jealousies, and sudden tragedies that alter the course of their livesis charted with sharp wit and aching sadness in this meticulously constructed
novel...(more).
And Sometimes I Wonder About You
by Walter Mosley
In the fifth Leonid McGill novel, Leonid finds himself in an unusual pickle of
trying to balance his cases with his chaotic personal life. Leonid's father is still
out there somewhere, and his wife is in an uptown sanitarium trying to
recover from the deep depression that led to her attempted suicide in the
previous novel. His wife's condition has put a damper on his affair with Aura
Ullman, his girlfriend. And his son, Twill, has been spending a lot of time out
of the office with his own case...(more).
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New Book Releases - May 2015 (cont.)
Where by Kit Reed
In a coastal town on the Outer Carolina Banks, David Ribault and Merrill
Poulnot are trying to revive their stale relationship and commit to marriage,
and a slick developer claiming to be related to a historic town hero, Rawson
Steele, has come to town and is buying up property. Steele makes a romantic
advance on Merrill and an unusual 5 a.m appointment outside of town with
David...(more).
The Teller by Jonathan Stone
Twenty-three-year-old Elaine Kelly doesn’t earn much as a bank teller, and
most of her salary goes toward caring for her terminally ill mother. When a
lonely old man who deposits money at her bank every week gets hit and
killed by a delivery truck, Elaine—a good Irish girl from Queens—thinks she’s
found the answer to her problems. She’ll just transfer $1 million from the
dead man’s account into hers...(more).
The Guest Cottage by Nancy Thayer
Wendy Anderson is 35, the mother of two children, and happily married—
until she discovers her husband Zack has cheated on her. Confused, angry,
and lost, she rents a house on Nantucket for two summer months. When she
and her children arrive at Isle Stay, she discovers that Trevor Black, 30,
recently widowed, and his son Dylan, 5, have also rented the house. Neither
one is willing to give up their much-needed vacations, so Wendy and Trevor
devise a plan to share the house for the summer...(more).
May 19, 2015
Beach Town by Mary Kay Andrews
Greer Hennessy is a struggling movie location scout. Her last location shoot
ended in disaster when a film crew destroyed property on an avocado grove.
Now Greer has been given one more chance—a shot at finding the perfect
undiscovered beach town for a big budget movie. She zeroes in on a sleepy
Florida panhandle town. There’s one motel, a marina, a long stretch of
pristine beach and an old fishing pier with a community casino—which will be
perfect for the film’s climax—when the bad guys blow it up in an all-out
assault on the townspeople...(more).
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New Book Releases - May 2015 (cont.)
Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker
The Scarlet Gospels takes readers back many years to the early days of two of
Barker's most iconic characters in a battle of good and evil as old as time: The
long-beleaguered detective Harry D'Amour, investigator of all supernatural,
magical, and malevolent crimes faces off against his formidable, and intensely
evil rival, Pinhead, the priest of hell. Barker devotees have been waiting for
The Scarlet Gospels with bated breath for years, and it’s everything they've
begged for and ...(more).
The Well by Catherine Chanter
Ruth Ardingly has just been released from prison to serve out a sentence of
house arrest for arson and suspected murder at her farm, The Well. Beyond
its borders, some people whisper she is a witch; others a messiah. For as soon
as Ruth returns to The Well, rain begins to fall on the farm. And it has not
rained anywhere else in the country in over three years...(more).
Hanged Man by P.N. Elrod
On a freezing Christmas Eve in 1879, a forensic psychic reader is summoned
from her Baker Street lodgings to the scene of a questionable death.
Alexandrina Victoria Pendlebury (named after her godmother, the current
Queen of England) is adamant that the death in question is a magically
compromised murder and not a suicide, as the police had assumed, after the
shocking revelation contained by the body in question, Alex must put her
personal loss aside to uncover the deeper issues at stake, before more bodies
turn up...(more).
Skies of Ash by Rachel Howzell Hall
Los Angeles homicide detective Elouise “Lou” Norton and her partner, Colin
Taggert, arrive at the scene of a tragic house fire. Juliet Chatman perished in
the blaze, along with her two children. Left behind is grieving husband and
father Christopher Chatman, hospitalized after trying to rescue his family.
Chatman is devastated that he couldn’t save them...(more).
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New Book Releases - May 2015 (cont.)
The Perfect Letter by Chris Harrison
Chris Harrison, the beloved longtime host of ABC's The Bachelor, explores the
perils and rewards of risking everything for love in his first novel. As the
longtime host of ABC's hit shows The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, Chris
Harrison has witnessed the joys and heartbreak of men and women searching
for everlasting love. A true romantic at heart, he believes that everyone
deserves their own fairytale ending. Now, in his first work of fiction, Chris
draws on his unique insights and wisdom in a remarkable debut novel that
explores love and its consequences--a must-read for Bachelor fans and
hopeless romantics everywhere...(more).
I, Ripper by Stephen Hunter
In the fall of 1888, Jack the Ripper slaughtered five prostitutes in London’s
seamy Whitechapel District. He did not just kill—he ripped with a butcher’s
glee—and then, after the particularly gruesome slaying of Mary Jane Kelly, he
disappeared. For 127 years, Jack has haunted the dark corners of our
imagination, the paradigm of the psychotic killer. We remember him not only
for his crimes, but because, despite one of the biggest dragnets in London
history, he was never caught...(more).
Eighth Grave After Dark by Darynda Jones
With twelve hellhounds after her, pregnant Charley Davidson takes refuge at
the only place she thinks they can’t get to her: the grounds of an abandoned
convent. But after months of being cooped up there, Charley is ready to pop.
Both metaphorically and literally since she is now roughly the size of a
beached whale. Fortunately, a new case has captured her attention, one that
involves a murder on the very grounds the team has taken shelter
upon...(more).
The Murderer’s Daughter by Jonathan Kellerman
#1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Jonathan Kellerman
delivers a riveting standalone thriller featuring the unforgettable Grace
Blades. Master psychologist by day, seductive adrenaline junkie by night,
Grace has a very dark past—one that’s about to bleed into a terrifying
present...(more).
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New Book Releases - May 2015 (cont.)
Disclaimer by Renee Knight
Finding a mysterious novel at her bedside plunges documentary filmmaker
Catherine Ravenscroft into a living nightmare. Though ostensibly fiction, The
Perfect Stranger recreates in vivid, unmistakable detail the terrible day
Catherine became hostage to a dark secret, a secret that only one other
person knew--and that person is dead. Now that the past is catching up with
her, Catherine’s world is falling apart. Her only hope is to confront what really
happened on that awful day even if the shocking truth might destroy
her...(more).
The Ice Twins by S.K. Tremayne
A year after one of their identical twin daughters, Lydia, dies in an accident,
Angus and Sarah Moorcraft move to the tiny Scottish island Angus inherited
from his grandmother, hoping to put together the pieces of their shattered
lives. But when their surviving daughter, Kirstie, claims they have mistaken
her identity – that she, in fact, is Lydia – their world comes crashing down
once again...(more).
When the Heavens Fall by Marc Turner
The first of an epic swords & sorcery fantasy series for fans of Patrick
Rothfuss, When the Heavens Fall features gritty characters, deadly magic, and
meddlesome gods. If you pick a fight with Shroud, the Lord of the Dead, you
had better make sure you end up on the winning side, else death will mark
only the beginning of your suffering. A book that gives its wielder power over
the dead has been stolen from a fellowship of mages that has kept the
powerful relic dormant for centuries. The thief, a crafty, power-hungry
necromancer, intends to use the Book of Lost Souls to resurrect an ancient
race...(more).
Mislaid by Neil Zink
Stillwater College in Virginia, 1966. Freshman Peggy, an ingénue with literary
pretensions, falls under the spell of Lee, a blue-blooded poet and professor,
and they begin an ill-advised affair that results in an unplanned pregnancy
and marriage. The couple are mismatched from the start—she’s a lesbian,
he’s gay—but it takes a decade of emotional erosion before Peggy runs off
with their three-year-old daughter, leaving their nine-year-old son
behind...(more).
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New Book Releases - May 2015 (cont.)
May 26, 2015
The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
In the American Southwest, Nevada, Arizona, and California skirmish for
dwindling shares of the Colorado River. Into the fray steps Angel Velasquez,
detective, leg-breaker, assassin and spy. A Las Vegas water knife, Angel "cuts"
water for his boss, Catherine Case, ensuring that her lush, luxurious arcology
developments can bloom in the desert, so the rich can stay wet, while the
poor get nothing but dust. When rumors of a game-changing water source
surface in drought-ravaged Phoenix, Angel is sent to investigate...(more).
Tail Gait by Rita Mae Brown
Spring has sprung in Crozet, Virginia—a time for old friends to gather and bid
farewell to the doldrums of winter. Harry and her husband, Fair, are enjoying
a cozy dinner with some of the town’s leading citizens, including beloved
University of Virginia history professor Greg “Ginger” McConnell and several
members of UVA’s celebrated 1959 football team. But beneath the cloak of
conviviality lurks a sinister specter from the distant past that threatens to put
all their lives in jeopardy...(more).
Pirahna by Clive Cussler
In 1902, the volcano Mt. Pelée erupts on the island of Martinique, wiping out
an entire city of thirty thousand—and sinking a ship carrying a German
scientist on the verge of an astonishing breakthrough. More than a century
later, Juan Cabrillo will have to deal with that scientist’s legacy. During a
covert operation, Cabrillo and the crew meticulously fake the sinking of the
Oregon—but when an unknown adversary tracks them down despite their
planning and attempts to assassinate them, Cabrillo and his team struggle to
fight back...(more).
Radiant Angel by Nelson DeMille
After a showdown with the notorious Yemeni terrorist known as The Panther,
Corey has left the Anti-Terrorist Task Force and returned home to New York
City taking a job with the Diplomatic Surveillance Group. Although Corey's
new assignment with the DSG-following Russian diplomats working at the
U.N. Mission-is thought to be "a quiet end," he's happy to be out of the FBI.
But Corey realizes something the U.S. government doesn't...(more).
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New Book Releases - May 2015 (cont.)
Letters to the Lost by Iona Grey
Late on a frozen February evening, a young woman is running through the
streets of London. Having fled from her abusive boyfriend and with nowhere
to go, Jess stumbles onto a forgotten lane where a small, clearly unlived in old
house offers her best chance of shelter for the night. The next morning, a
mysterious letter arrives and when she can’t help but open it, she finds
herself drawn inexorably into the story of two lovers from another
time...(more).
Constant Fear by Daniel Palmer
When Jake Dent’s dreams of baseball glory fell apart in a drunk-driving
incident, his marriage did too. In those dark days, a popular survivalist blog
helped to restore Jake’s sense of control. He’s become an avid Doomsday
Prepper, raising his diabetic son, Andy, to be ready for any sudden
catastrophe...(more).
Things You Won’t Say by Sarah Pekkanen
Every morning, as her husband Mike straps on his SIG Sauer and pulls on his
heavy Magnum boots, Jamie Anderson tenses up. Then comes the call she has
always dreaded: There's been a shooting at police headquarters. Mike isn't
hurt, but his long-time partner is grievously injured. As weeks pass and her
husband's insomnia and disconnectedness mount, Jamie realizes he is an
invisible casualty of the attack...(more).
Dietland by Sarai Walker
When Jake Dent’s dreams of baseball glory fell apart in a drunk-driving
incident, his marriage did too. In those dark days, a popular survivalist blog
helped to restore Jake’s sense of control. He’s become an avid Doomsday
Prepper, raising his diabetic son, Andy, to be ready for any sudden
catastrophe...(more).
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