September 12: The Water Keeper by Charles Martin
\nMurphy Shep herd lives alone\, doing maintenance work for a church that no one attends and trying to heal from scars gained rescuing others who dwell in the mar gins. His specialty is finding young girls bought and sold in the flesh tr ade\, and leading them from brokenness to freedom\, but Shepherd thinks he has given everything he has and it may be time to retire. His hermetic he aling process is interrupted when he rescues a woman named Summer in Flori da's Intercoastal Waterway and gets drawn into a hunt after a gang of inte rnational human traffickers. -- Library Journal
\nOctober 10: The Enchanted Hacienda by J. C . Cervantes
\nWhen Harlow Estrada is abruptly fired from her dre am job and her boyfriend proves to be a jerk\, her world turns upside down . She flees New York City to the one place she can always call home -- the enchanted Hacienda Estrada. The Estrada family farm in Mexico houses an a bundance of charmed flowers cultivated by Harlow's mother\, sisters\, aunt \, and cousins. By harnessing the magic in these flowers\, they can heal h earts\, erase memories\, interpret dreams-but not Harlow. So when her moth er and aunt give her a special task involving the family's magic\, she pan ics. How can she rise to the occasion when she is magicless? But maybe it' s not magic she's missing\, but belief in herself. When she finally embrac es her unique gifts and opens her heart to a handsome stranger\, she disco vers she's far more powerful than she imagined.
\nNovember 14: The River We Remember by Wil liam Kent Krueger
\nOn Memorial Day\, 1958\, as the people of Je wel\, Minnesota gather to remember and honor the sacrifice of so many sons in the wars of the past\, the half-clothed body of wealthy landowner Jimm y Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River\, dead from a shotgun bla st. Investigation of the murder falls to Sheriff Brody Dern\, a highly dec orated war hero who still carries the physical and emotional scars from hi s military service. Even before Dern has the results of the autopsy\, vici ous rumors begin to circulate that the killer must be Noah Bluestone\, a N ative American WWII veteran who has recently returned to Jewel with a Japa nese wife. As suspicions and accusations mount and the town teeters on the edge of more violence\, Dern struggles not only to find the truth of Quin n's murder but also put to rest the demons from his own past.
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