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Set in the 1950s, when Ward Just's narrator, Wilson Ravan, is just 19, AN UNFINISHED SEASON traces a series of events in the lives of Wilson and his father, Teddy. Teddy owns a printing company threatened by union members striking for strikers. Young Wilson has a summer job at a local newspaper, where for the first time in his life he mixes with working-class colleagues and begins to see that the world in which he has grown up isn't quite as morally coherent as he'd thought. At the same time, he falls in love with a debutante named Aurora, whose father is hiding a shattering secret from his own past. The story of innocence lost but a measure of truth found, AN UNFINISHED SEASON is Just's 14th novel, and takes place in the Midwest, near Chicago, where he himself grew up. A New York Times Notable Book for 2004.
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Murder is, surprisingly, not all that uncommon on timy Broward's Rock, an idyllic sea island community off the South Carolina coast. Annie Darling's popular mystery bookshop, Death on Demand, is where the locals come to discuss the juicy details of each criminal offense--under the watchful gaze of a pampered feline prima donna named Agatha. But now Annie's dear friend (and best customer) Henny Brawley stands accused of murdering a Women's Club volunteer-cum-blackmailer. So Annie rouses her husband Max into action, and together they dive into the shark pool of dotty eccentrics and imperious belles who constitute the island's smart set. Because only there can the Darlings prove hapless Henny innocent--by detemining who among the well-heeled had the dirtiest little secret...and would kill to protect it.
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Tully Mars lights out from Wyoming for a warmer climate after he incurs the wrath of his boss, who raises poodles for a living and has hired a squad of goons to track him down. As he heads south, Tully meets the woman of his dreams, leaves her with reluctance, evades the evil posse, and, after a series of adventures, ends up in the Caribbean. There he's hired by a wealthy woman (aged 103) who wants him to restore a lighthouse. What follows is typical Jimmy Buffett-land, where the order of the day is good sex, good fishing, good pot, and plenty of hanging out with the colorful locals.
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