New never read #fiction #romance #love #hardcover #janetevanovich #neverreadit #small-town #suspense 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

Love in a nutshell

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#hardcover #fiction #epic #comingofage #drama #small-town #growingup 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New York

An epic novel of a boy growing up in a religious community and how his intellectual development creates controversy for him and how his unconventional attitude threatens his romance with a beautiful but devout girl.

The Adventures of Audie Dale Smith

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#hardcover #fiction #friendship #lauraingallswilder #smalltown #ya #family #juvenilefiction 

North Carolina

A life on the prairie is not all its cracked up to be for one girl whose mom takes her love of the Little House series just a bit too far. Charlotte’s mom has just moved the family across the country to live in Walnut Grove, “childhood home of pioneer author Laura Ingalls Wilder.” Mom’s idea is that the spirit of Laura Ingalls will help her write a bestselling book. But Charlotte knows better: Walnut Grove is just another town where Mom can avoid responsibility. And this place is worse than everywhere else the family has lived—it’s freezing in the winter, it’s small with nothing to do, and the people talk about Laura Ingalls all the time. Charlotte’s convinced her family will not be able to make a life on the prairie—until the spirit of Laura Ingalls starts getting to her, too.

Laura Ingalls Is Ruining My Life

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#hardcover #fiction #adultfiction #cedarcove #debbiemacomber #popular #romance #smalltown #romantic #romanticfiction 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Oregon

Jo Marie Rose opens the Rose Harbor Inn bed and breakfast in Cedar Cove in order to start a new life, but the inn and its first guests bring surprises into Jo's life.

The Inn at Rose Harbor

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Never read. #hardcover #fiction #contemporay #katiemcgarry #romance #youngadult #smalltown 

Arkansas

The sheltered daughter of a motorcycle club leader falls unexpectedly in love with a blue-eyed youth who aspires to join the club by protecting her from vindictive rivals. Simultaneous eBook.

Nowhere but Here

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Janet Evanovich

Dorien Kelly

Washington

Lacking the money to open a bed and breakfast in her parents' summer house in Michigan, former magazine editor Kate takes a questionable undercover job from a brewery owner who wants to find out who has been sabotaging his company, a situation that is compromised by Kate's distaste for beer and her crush on her employer. Co-written the best-selling author of the Stephanie Plum series. 1 million first printing.

Love in a Nutshell

Virginia

Hattie Owen enjoys the familiarity of her small town life, but during the summer she turns 12, her world is turned upside down with the arrival of an uncle no one has ever spoken about. Now that Hattie's uncle's "school" - an institution for the mentally disabled - is closing, Hattie's family must deal with a childlike young man whose existence they've denied for years.

A Corner of the Universe

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Louisiana

Garrison Keillor

In this collection of stories about small-town life, Dale takes a step toward manhood and Darlene sets off for Minneapolis to begin a new life

Leaving Home

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Suzanne Kingsbury

Deserted by her mother and raised by her whiskey-drinking, gun-shooting father, beautiful Haley has broken the heart of every boy in town. Yet she hides two intimate and explosive secrets that empower her just as they threaten to undermine everything she holds dear. Haley is engaged in a dangerous flirtation with one of her father's friends when Fletcher Greel, the Judge's son, comes home for the summer, having just graduated from a New England prep school. Fletcher's friend Riley is in love with a blues-singing black girl named Crystal, and Fletcher falls instantly for Haley. These four soon become inseparable, intoxicated by love, desire, and the new-found freedoms of late adolescence.
But Houser Banks is a small town where attitudes harken back to a time of racism and hatred. As the summer wanes, disapproval of Riley and Crystal's romance takes increasingly violent turns, and Haley's secrets surface to devastating results.

New Hampshire

A Novel

Haley Ellyson falls in love with Fletcher Greel, the judge's son.

The Summer Fletcher Greel Loved Me

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

NY Times bestselling author Ginny Baird is back with another sweet, heartfelt, and unique take on the wedding genre.

The Matchmaker Bride

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#smalltown #humor #fiction #hardcover ex library book

Indiana

The Serpent King meets Girl in Pieces in this moving and darkly funny story about a teenage girl coming of age and learning how to grieve in small-town Montana.

Tiffany Templeton is tough. She dresses exclusively in black, buys leather jackets that are several sizes too big, and never backs down from a fight. She's known in her tiny Montana town as Tough Tiff, and after her shoplifting arrest and a stint in a reform school, the nickname is here to stay.

But when she comes back home, Tiffany may not be the same old Tough Tiff that everybody remembers. Her life is different now: her mother keeps her on an even shorter leash than before, she meets with a probation officer once a month, and she's still grieving her father's recent death.

As Tiffany navigates her new life and learns who she wants to be, she must also contend with an overbearing best friend, the geriatric cast of a high-maintenance drama production, her first boyfriend, and a town full of eccentric neighbors--not to mention a dark secret she's been keeping about why the ex-football coach left town.

The Small Crimes of Tiffany Templeton

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Bob Greene

As a World War II buff, this book is totally different than the ones I normally read …. A very welcomed change. Excellent read!!

Book is in like new condition. It does have a sticker on the first page of the former fuck owner.

Maryland

The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen

A portrait of the North Platte Canteen in Nebraska describes how its citizens transformed the train depot into a haven of companionship, home-cooked food, and music for passing World War II servicemen.

Once upon a Town

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Elizabeth Berg

Former library copy. See photos.

The feel-good book of the year: a delightful novel of friendship, community, and the way small acts of kindness can change your life, by the bestselling author of The Story of Arthur Truluv
 
Lucille Howard is getting on in years, but she stays busy. Thanks to the inspiration of her dearly departed friend Arthur Truluv, she has begun to teach baking classes, sharing the secrets to her delicious classic Southern yellow cake, the perfect pinwheel cookies, and other sweet essentials. Her classes have become so popular that she’s hired Iris, a new resident of Mason, Missouri, as an assistant. Iris doesn’t know how to bake but she needs to keep her mind off a big decision she sorely regrets.

When a new family moves in next door and tragedy strikes, Lucille begins to look out for Lincoln, their son. Lincoln’s parents aren’t the only ones in town facing hard choices and uncertain futures. In these difficult times, the residents of Mason come together and find the true power of community—just when they need it the most.

“Elizabeth Berg’s characters jump right off the page and into your heart” said Fannie Flagg about The Story of Arthur Truluv. The same could be said about Night of Miracles, a heartwarming novel that reminds us that the people we come to love are often the ones we don’t expect.

Praise for Night of Miracles

“Happy, sad, sweet and slyly funny, [Night of Miracles] celebrates the nourishing comfort of community and provides a delightfully original take on the cycles of life.”—People (Book of the Week)

“Find refuge in Mason, a place blessedly free of the political chaos we now know as ‘real life.’ In Berg’s charming but far from shallow alternative reality, the focus is on the things that make life worth living: the human connections that light the way through the dark of aging, bereavement, illness and our own mistakes. . . . As the endearing, odd-lot characters of Mason, Missouri, coalesce into new families, dessert is served: a plateful of chocolate-and-vanilla pinwheel cookies for the soul.”—USA Today

“Full of empathy and charm, every chapter infuses the heart with a renewed sense of hope.” —Woman’s World

Michigan

The feel-good book of the year: a delightful novel of friendship, community, and the way small acts of kindness can change your life, by the bestselling author of The Story of Arthur Truluv Lucille Howard is getting on in years, but she stays busy. Thanks to the inspiration of her dearly departed friend Arthur Truluv, she has begun to teach baking classes, sharing the secrets to her delicious classic Southern yellow cake, the perfect pinwheel cookies, and other sweet essentials. Her classes have become so popular that she's hired Iris, a new resident of Mason, Missouri, as an assistant. Iris doesn't know how to bake but she needs to keep her mind off a big decision she sorely regrets. When a new family moves in next door and tragedy strikes, Lucille begins to look out for Lincoln, their son. Lincoln's parents aren't the only ones in town facing hard choices and uncertain futures. In these difficult times, the residents of Mason come together and find the true power of community--just when they need it the most. "Elizabeth Berg's characters jump right off the page and into your heart" said Fannie Flagg about The Story of Arthur Truluv. The same could be said about Night of Miracles, a heartwarming novel that reminds us that the people we come to love are often the ones we don't expect. Advance praise for Night of Miracles "Elizabeth Berg is a master storyteller and one of my personal favorites. Night of Miracles is full of charming, entertaining characters that tug at the heart."--Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling author "The thing about an Elizabeth Berg novel is, it'll always make you feel hopeful. True to form, Night of Miracles is wise and funny, not shying away from life's troubles but spotlighting the shining small miracles and pleasures of ordinary days. And, of course, there are delicious cakes."--Jenna Blum, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us

Night of Miracles

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Amy Scheibe

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Nebraska

Coming of age in her parents' mid-20th-century rural Lutheran world, Emmeline and her sister, Birdie, are swept up in an ugly family secret when she tries to step outside of strict expectations and marry according to her heart.

A Fireproof Home for the Bride

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Dreams and Nightmares of the American Small Town

Broadway, the main street that runs through Robert Pinsky’s home town of Long Branch, New Jersey, was once like thousands of other main streets in small towns across the country. But for Pinsky, one of America’s most admired poets and its former Poet Laureate, this Broadway is the point of departure for a lively journey through the small towns of the American imagination. Thousands of Broadways explores the dreams and nightmares of such small towns—their welcoming yet suffocating, warm yet prejudicial character during their heyday, from the early nineteenth century through World War II. The citizens of quintessential small towns know one another extensively and even intimately, but fail to recognize the geniuses and criminal minds in their midst. Bringing the works of such figures as Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Alfred Hitchcock, Thornton Wilder, Willa Cather, and Preston Sturges to bear on this paradox, as well as reflections on his own time growing up in a small town, Pinsky explores how such imperfect knowledge shields communities from the anonymity and alienation of modern life. Along the way, he also considers how small towns can be small minded—in some cases viciously judgmental and oppressively provincial. Ultimately, Pinsky examines the uneasy regard that creative talents like him often have toward the small towns that either nurtured or thwarted their artistic impulses. Of living in a small town, Sherwood Anderson once wrote that "the sensation is one never to be forgotten. On all sides are ghosts, not of the dead, but of living people." Passionate, lyrical, and intensely moving, Thousands of Broadways is a rich exploration of this crucial theme in American literature by one of its most distinguished figures.

Thousands of Broadways

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Excellent like new condition from a smoke free home

Ohio

H. G. Bissinger

New Jersey

A Town, a Team, and a Dream

Return once again to the timeless account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa--the winningest high-school football team in Texas history. Odessa is not known to be a town big on dreams, but the Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this small, dusty town going. Socially and racially divided, its fragile economy follows the treacherous boom-bust path of the oil business. In bad times, the unemployment rate barrels out of control; in good times, its murder rate skyrockets. But every Friday night from September to December, when the Permian High School Panthers play football, this West Texas town becomes a place where dreams can come true. With frankness and compassion, H.G. Bissinger chronicles a season in the life of Odessa and shows how single-minded devotion to the team shapes the community and inspires--and sometimes shatters--the teenagers who wear the Panthers' uniforms.

Friday Night Lights

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Charlaine Harris

First Edition 
First book in a new series 

Take a trip to the small Texas town where only outsiders fit in with the first novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris’ paranormal mystery series.

Ex-library book in very good condition with the exception of library stickers on the front cover and spine as well as library stamp on 1 of the first pages

A Novel of Midnight, Texas

The first book in a new trilogy from the best-selling author behind the Sookie Stackhouse series describes what happens in Midnight, Texas, a dried-up, one traffic light town when a mysterious new resident, Manfred Bernardo, moves in.

Midnight Crossroad

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#hardcover #smalltown #funny #tender #moving #drama 

Susan Mallery, the bestselling author of Daughters of the Bride, delivers a captivating new novel about the problem with secrets, the power of love and the unbreakable bond between sisters. Watch for The Secrets of the Tulip Sisters, coming soon!

The Secrets of the Tulip Sisters

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When her mother dies and her father remarries, Martha is so unhappy living in the dried-up town of Oak Grove, that she convinces two unusual brothers who long to return to the ocean to run away with her.

Indigo

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Shreve Stockton

Kentucky

A Story of Love, Survival, and Trust in the Wilds of Wyoming

Southern California
5th Edition - December 1, 2013

The Pacific Crest Trail Pocket Map Series is a complete and concise set of topographic maps created with digitized base maps covering every step of the 2,655 mile trail from Mexico to Canada.

The land cover, hydrology and contour data used to create these maps has been collected within the last 5 years, presented in a completely uniform manner across all 381 maps. No other complete PCT map set available can say this!

Features:
+ 381 full color, digitized topographic maps
+ Seamless. Uniform styles, colors, fonts and unit of measure.
+ Beautiful 3D hill shading
+ Highly detailed elevation chart on each map
+ Last 5 years of fire perimeters
+ Section overview maps with sub-sections and legends
+ 6" x 9" (15.2cm x 22.9cm) format for easy pack stowage
+ Accumulated trail mileage every mile
+ Resupply locations within 90 miles of map center
+ 1:38500 scale with NAD83 decimal degree tick marks
+ Data book information printed at each locale on the maps
+ Accurate trail trace is a hybrid of USFS, postholer.com, et al.
+ Over 2,400 resupply, water, trail junction, camp site, etc, locations


Part of a 3 volume set, these 6" x 9" full color topographic maps are designed to stow easily into your pack, without sacrificing the detail required by a hiker in the back country.

All 3 Pacific Crest Trail Pocket Maps volumes are: Southern California, Northern California and Oregon/Washington.

The Daily Coyote

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Nancy Thayer

Known for her heartwarming observations of family life, New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer showcases her beloved Nantucket's snowy off-season in this emotionally gratifying and utterly entertaining story.
 
Holidays on this Massachusetts island are nothing short of magical, and the season's wonderful traditions are much loved by Nicole Somerset, new to Nantucket and recently married to a handsome former attorney. Their home is already full of enticing scents of pine, baking spices, and homemade pie.
 
But the warm, festive mood is soon tempered by Nicole's chilly stepdaughter, Kennedy, who arrives without a hint of holiday spirit. Determined to keep her stepmother at arm's length--or, better yet, out of the picture altogether--Kennedy schemes to sabotage Nicole's holiday preparations. Nicole, however, is not about to let anyone or anything tarnish her first Christmas with her new husband.
 
Nancy Thayer's wonderful tale reminds us that this is the season of miracles. Before the gifts are unwrapped, surprise visitors appear, and holiday joy comes to all, both naughty and nice.
 
Praise for Nancy Thayer

A Nantucket Christmas

"Thayer's Christmas story is as sweet and warm as a fresh-baked cookie. . . . heart-twisting moments and a yuletide miracle will get readers in the holiday mood."--RT Book Reviews
 
"Thayer gives readers of women's fiction another enjoyable foray to Nantucket."--Library Journal
 
Moon Shell Beach
 
"Nancy Thayer has a deep and masterly understanding of love and friendship, of where the two complement and where they collide."--New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand
 
"A beautifully textured story about love, friendship, and forgiveness, a great beach read. It will make you want to pack your bags for Nantucket."--New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah
 
Beachcombers
 
"Thayer's sense of place is powerful, and her words are hung together the way my grandmother used to tat lace."--Dorothea Benton Frank
 
"A charming and fun summer read . . . Readers will love this story of family and love."--The Plain Dealer
 
Summer Breeze
 
"Nancy Thayer is the queen of beach books. . . . All [these characters] are involved in life-changing choices, with all the heart-wrenching decisions such moments demand."--The Star-Ledger
 
"An entertaining and lively read that is perfect for summer reading indulgence."--Wichita Falls Times Record News

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