Barbara Taylor Sissel
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Authors: the Bronte sisters, W. Somerset Maugham, Tolstoy & Dostoyevsk
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Crooked Little Lies
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2015
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Faultlines
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2016
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The Truth We Bury
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Evidence of Life
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2013
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What Lies Below
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Tell No One
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2019
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The Volunteer
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2011
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Safe Keeping
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2014
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The Ninth Step
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2011
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The Last Innocent Hour
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The Ninth Step
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Six years after he vanished, Livie Saunders’ lost love Cotton O’Dell reappears, tearing open old wounds. Livie wants answers. Cotton, newly sober, wants forgiveness. Then Livie learns the truth and her world shatters. In one reckless moment, Cotton destroyed their future and devastated another man’s family. Now consequences hang over his head like an anvil. Caught between love and loss, mercy and revenge, Cotton is ready for the ninth step. But will he live to take it?
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Suspenseful and poignant from the first page THE MOONLIGHT CHILD is the story of mothers and children, one child in particular, who from a neighboring mother’s vantage point appears to be in danger, in need of rescue. But how far should she go to fin ...more | |
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Spinning with suspense as hotly lethal as the wind turbines that forest the west Texas ranchland where the novel takes place, DEADLY TEXAS SUMMER begins with a woman already on the edge, one on the run from a past she’d just as soon forget. But other ...more | |
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Spinning with suspense as hotly lethal as the wind turbines that forest the west Texas ranchland where the novel takes place, DEADLY TEXAS SUMMER begins with a woman already on the edge, one on the run from a past she’d just as soon forget. But other ...more | |
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A history of mental illness troubles the water of this emotional and suspenseful story that dives deep into the territory of family relationships and the nature of forgiveness. Even as a building hurricane off the coast of the Florida Keys tightens i ...more | |
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“I died as mineral and became a plant,
I died as plant and rose to animal, I died as animal and I was human, Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? Yet once more I shall die human, To soar with angels blessed above. And when I sacrifice my angel soul I shall become what no mind ever conceived. As a human, I will die once more, Reborn, I will with the angels soar. And when I let my angel body go, I shall be more than mortal mind can know.” Rumi Jalal ad'Din |
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“Tara said, “Sorry is such a useless little word.” “It’s better than nothing,” Lauren said. “Sometimes it’s all we have.”
― Crooked Little Lies
― Crooked Little Lies
“This was the place where they lived, on the dark, unraveling edges of doubt and lost faith, love that was uncertain.”
― Crooked Little Lies
― Crooked Little Lies
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“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
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“When you follow your bliss...doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else. ”
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“She couldn't change who she was, and she no longer wanted to, even if she could. She knew that who you are is a stone set deep inside you. You can spend all your life trying to dig that stone out, or you can build around it. Your choice.”
― First Frost
― First Frost
“People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continue to exist. We can rediscover them. Their humor, their tone of voice, their moods. Through the written word they can anger you or make you happy. They can comfort you. They can perplex you. They can alter you. All this, even though they are dead. Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in the ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic.”
― The Thirteenth Tale
― The Thirteenth Tale
“I died as mineral and became a plant,
I died as plant and rose to animal,
I died as animal and I was human,
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
Yet once more I shall die human,
To soar with angels blessed above.
And when I sacrifice my angel soul
I shall become what no mind ever conceived.
As a human, I will die once more,
Reborn, I will with the angels soar.
And when I let my angel body go,
I shall be more than mortal mind can know.”
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I died as plant and rose to animal,
I died as animal and I was human,
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
Yet once more I shall die human,
To soar with angels blessed above.
And when I sacrifice my angel soul
I shall become what no mind ever conceived.
As a human, I will die once more,
Reborn, I will with the angels soar.
And when I let my angel body go,
I shall be more than mortal mind can know.”
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