Elmore Leonard, author of Raylan

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Nevada Barr, author of The Rope: An Anna Pigeon Novel

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Nicole Baart, author of Far From Here

Danica Greene's happy marriage to a pilot crashes when her husband, Etsell, goes missing in Alaska. While she awaits news of his wherabouts, she must confront her hometown's wild speculation and her growing attraction to her single neighbor, a pastor named Ben. Finally Etsell's mystery is solved, and Danica must decide whether her life is about loss or love.

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Words Spoken True

Adriane Darcy was practically raised in her father's newspaper offices. She can't imagine life without the clatter of the press and the push to be first to write the news that matters. Their Tribune is the leading paper in Louisville in 1855. Then Blake Garrett, a brash young editor from the North with a controversial new style of reporting, takes over failing competitor the Herald, and the battle for readers gets fierce.

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January 2012

January’s roundup of Cool & New Books includes THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, John Green’s novel about a teenage cancer patient whose outlook on life changes when she meets a gorgeous new member of Cancer Kid Support Group; FRACTURE, a supernatural thriller about a teen who escapes death after falling into icy waters and now finds herself drawn to the dying; and THE PREGNANCY PROJECT, the memoir of a high school student who made national headlines in 2011 when she revealed she had faked her own pregnancy for a class project to find out how her community would react.

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