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This is Heat's summer 2009-2010 edition, with a range of essays on literary topics, beginning with James Ley's portrait of the great Samuel Johnson, on the occasion of his three hundredth birthday, so awkward in his personal life, so balanced in his moral judgements and his prose.

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When writer and arts researcher Dee Schwartz meets famous actor Ryder Field outside a bar one night, the romance that blossoms seems like a fairy tale . . . until Dee disappears into thin air after an awards ceremony, making everyone wonder if the fairy tale will have a darker ending than anyone could have anticipated.

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Zoes most devout wish is to keep her family safe. Her greatest fear is that she cannot. When threats begin to surface on all sidesher husband, Jay, diagnosed with cancer; a serial arsonist setting fires during drought season near the woods where she and Jay live with their three children in the Northwestit seems her fear is about to be realized.

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Francesca Bodins near perfect life is upended when a snowmobiling accident lands her, her husband Ben, and their four-year-old daughter in frozen lake. When he gets out, leaving them to die, she realizes her life isnt as perfect as she thought it was.

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After David Herron takes his life in the wake of the bursting lending bubble of 2008, those left behindhis wife and daughter, the detective who investigated the suicide, and the banker who called in the loanlearn, as they struggle to remake their worlds, that there is power in forgiveness and unlimited possibility in the unknown.

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After spicy, forty-something soap star Jo Randolph manages in twenty-four hours to burn all her bridges in Hollywood, along with her director/boyfriends beach house, she spends a crazy summer back in her West Texas hometownand it makes her question whether her life in the limelight is worth reclaiming.

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World-famous rock hero Ryan Adams reveals his prodigious talents as a poetry and fiction writer.

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A really uplifting novel about a neurodivergent young man who unexpectedly builds a community and saves a friend in need by following in a way only he can advice from his mother.

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When Josie Serafinis brother, Vic, loses his family in a tragic accident, she drops everything and goes to LA to help him. While there, she confronts broken relationships with her estranged father and rebellious, singer-songwriter daughter and begins a long-distance relationship with the equine veterinarian caring for her beloved horses back home in New York.

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With the threat of invasion and bombing by Germany hanging heavily over England at the start of World War II, twenty-year-old Kate is devastated when she's forced to postpone her dream of a singing career to help out at home. When she finds herself responsible for the well-being of a young Jewish girl--her priorities change in ways she never imagined.

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Tired of watching Michigan's forests devastated by fracking as leaders refuse to act on climate change, four eco-minded students, a few seasoned activists, and some wildly creative locals stand together to say, "No more!"

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A masterly and compelling collection of tales about Australia's North from one of the country's literary legends.

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When graduate student Cassie Lyman discovers that shes related to the woman shes decided to write her doctoral dissertation aboutKate Easton, the founder of the Birth Control League of Massachusettsher quest to discover the truth about Kate unearths some unpleasant family secrets.

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Half a world apart, soul mates Nettie and Andy struggle to surviveone in a hospital with ugly secrets and treacherous people, the other in the dangerous shadows of the Vietnamese jungle.

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Two Catholic priests fall in love amid deadly conflicts in the Amazon between the Colombian government, insurgent groups, and drug cartels.

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A widowed violinist and her teenage granddaughter are trapped in wartime Leningrad while the men they love fight to break Hitlers grip in this epic tale of struggle and survival, of devotion, duty, and family, and of love lost and sometimes found again.

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An exceptional portrayal of life and love in Indonesia among foreign residents after the 1965 coup.

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