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THE WRITING CLASS by Jincy Willett — Amy Gallup was a promising writer once, published and highly praised at 22. It was all downhill from there, and now, year in and year out, she teaches a writing workshop at the local university extension. And this semester begins just the same as the others. But then there’s a threatening phone call, followed by obscene threats worked into the student’s peer evaluations. Then a murder — and every one of the students is a suspect. The clues are hidden in their writing, and she (and we) can solve the murder only by looking more closely at each writer’s attempts at fiction.
THE NIGHT OF THE GUN by David Carr — David Carr redefines memoir with the story of his years as an addict and chronicles his journey from crackhouse regular to regular columnist for THE NEW YORK TIMES. Built on 60 videotaped interviews, legal and medical records, and three years of reporting, THE NIGHT OF THE GUN uses the tools of journalism to fact-check the past. Carr’s investigation of his own history reveals that his odyssey through addiction, recovery, cancer and life as a single parent was far more harrowing — and, in the end, more miraculous — than he allowed himself to remember. Over the course of the book, he digs his way through a past that continues to evolve as he reports it.
DIE FOR YOU by Lisa Unger — Isabel Raine thought she had everything: a successful career, a supportive family, a happy marriage to the man she loved. Then one morning, her husband, Marcus, kisses her goodbye and simply vanishes. All her calls to him go straight to voicemail; the messages she leaves go unreturned, too. Panicking after finally receiving a call from his cell phone in which all she can hear is a man’s terrified cry, Isabel calls the police. But they aren’t interested. Men leave, they tell her. Desperate to find her husband, she races to his office. But instead of finding him, she finds herself in the middle of an FBI raid. Hours later, she awakens in the hospital with a severe concussion and a homicide detective by her bedside waiting to question her about Marcus Raine — the real Marcus Raine.
LITTLE LAMB LOST by Margaret Fenton — Social worker Clare Conover honestly believed she could make a difference in the world until she gets the phone call she’s dreaded her entire career: One of her young clients, Michael, has been found dead and his mother, Ashley, has been arrested for his murder. And who made the decision to return Michael to Ashley? Claire. Ashley had seemingly done everything right: gotten clean, found a place to live, worked two jobs and earned back custody of her son. Devastated but determined to discover where her instincts failed her, Claire vows to find the truth about what really happened to Michael. What Claire finds is no shortage of suspects.
BRASS DRAGON CODEX by R.D. Henham — Never start a conversation with a brass dragon — it might never end! In another volume of the companion series to A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO DRAGONS, orphaned baby brass dragon Kyani ventures out into the desert to find something to eat, and finds a gnome named Hector instead. Hector is not so sure he wants a chatty, hungry brass dragon following his every move. But several groups ready to go to blows over the marvelous invention Hector guards with his life, he may need the help that only a fun-loving brass dragon can provide.
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