By Robert Goolrick

This book set in rural Wisconsin, 1909, is getting a lot of attention. In the bitter cold, Ralph Truitt, a successful
businessman, stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered
his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps
off the train from Chicago, she's not the "simple, honest woman" that Ralph is
expecting. She is both complex and devious, haunted by a terrible past and
motivated by greed. Her plan is simple: she will win this man's devotion, and
then, ever so slowly, she will poison him and leave Wisconsin a wealthy widow.
What she has not counted on, though, is that Truitt - a passionate man with his
own dark secrets -has plans of his own for his new wife. Isolated on a remote
estate and imprisoned by relentless snow, the story of Ralph and Catherine
unfolds in unimaginable ways.
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By Chris Cleave
A husband and wife are vacationing on a beach in Nigeria, they approach two
young African sisters who  are being threatened by local police officers.
Fast forward to the United States and the couple's home, as one of the sisters
appears, asking for help. I thought the book was horrible because of the
horror it holds, but also sweet, funny and dear. $24.00
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By Geraldine Brooks
Hanna
Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a
lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famous Sarajevo Haggadah,
which was rescued during the Bosnian war. When Hanna discovers a series
of tiny artifacts in the book's ancient binding, she begins to unlock
its mysteries. Geraldine Brooks (author of March and Year of Wonders )
has constructed a marvelously intertwined narrative with one strand
tied to the contemporary world and the other leading us back into
European history, into wars and inquisitions and family tragedies, all
of this making up a vividly narrated, powerfully emotional quest.
$15.00 Accompanied by a folding map of the global journey of the Sarajevo Haggadah, as imagined in the book (while supplies last)
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