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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
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In Cold Blood
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Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #3)
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The Virgin of Small Plains
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The Persian Pickle Club
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Doc
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Mary Doria Russell (Goodreads Author)
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The Good Lord Bird
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James McBride (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 37,514 ratings
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Caroline: Little House, Revisited
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Sarah Miller (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 14,376 ratings
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Moon Over Manifest
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Not Without Laughter
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The Chaperone
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Laura Moriarty (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 63,876 ratings
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Under the Rainbow
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Celia Laskey (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 4,017 ratings
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The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals
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Becky Mandelbaum (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 1,009 ratings
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A Dog Named Christmas (A Dog Named Christmas #1)
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Greg Kincaid (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 5,971 ratings
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The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
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Jane Smiley (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 2,787 ratings
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Cloudsplitter
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3.94 avg rating — 5,118 ratings
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The Topeka School
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3.51 avg rating — 27,853 ratings
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Dark Places
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Gillian Flynn (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 823,389 ratings
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The Exact Nature of Our Wrongs
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Janet Peery (Goodreads Author)
3.32 avg rating — 524 ratings
score: 300,
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Make Me (Jack Reacher, #20)
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Lee Child (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 82,663 ratings
score: 286,
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The Winter Widow (Susan Wren, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 252 ratings
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The Scent of Rain and Lightning
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3.82 avg rating — 19,553 ratings
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Hearts Unbroken
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Cynthia Leitich Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 2,754 ratings
score: 280,
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Kansas Troubles (Benni Harper, #3)
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4.02 avg rating — 2,596 ratings
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A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)
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Lee Child (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 88,789 ratings
score: 271,
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The Great Unknowable End
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Kathryn Ormsbee (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 349 ratings
score: 265,
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Letters Never Sent
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4.33 avg rating — 684 ratings
score: 200,
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No Saints in Kansas
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Amy Brashear (Goodreads Author)
3.16 avg rating — 640 ratings
score: 196,
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The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)
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Mary Robinette Kowal (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 37,178 ratings
score: 196,
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The Chicken Sisters
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K.J. Dell'Antonia (Goodreads Author)
3.40 avg rating — 36,960 ratings
score: 195,
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Bleeding Kansas
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Sara Paretsky (Goodreads Author)
3.33 avg rating — 2,038 ratings
score: 194,
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While I'm Falling
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Laura Moriarty (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 4,811 ratings
score: 194,
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The Roanoke Girls
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Amy Engel (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 34,493 ratings
score: 191,
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Fallout (V.I. Warshawski, #18)
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Sara Paretsky (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 5,210 ratings
score: 190,
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Rifles for Watie
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3.94 avg rating — 10,945 ratings
score: 188,
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The Deepest Roots
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Miranda Asebedo (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 1,298 ratings
score: 188,
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A Constellation of Roses
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Miranda Asebedo (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 2,094 ratings
score: 188,
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Someplace to Call Home
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4.10 avg rating — 1,172 ratings
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The Center of Everything
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Laura Moriarty (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 10,484 ratings
score: 186,
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Now It's Time To Say Goodbye
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3.58 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Bum Steer (Jenny Cain, #6)
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3.67 avg rating — 441 ratings
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John Brown
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4.32 avg rating — 762 ratings
score: 180,
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Red Menace
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3.49 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Violet
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3.54 avg rating — 2,673 ratings
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Kill Creek
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3.76 avg rating — 22,647 ratings
score: 178,
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The Wolf Wants In
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Laura McHugh (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 2,801 ratings
score: 177,
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Found Documents from the Life of Nell Johnson Doerr: A Novel
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Thomas Fox Averill (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 32 ratings
score: 176,
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The Reckless Oath We Made
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Bryn Greenwood (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 14,227 ratings
score: 176,
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Willow Whip
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The Victory Garden
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3.72 avg rating — 165 ratings
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Bad Kansas: Stories (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction)
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Becky Mandelbaum (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 212 ratings
score: 175,
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Red Beans and Vice (Heaven Lee, #6)
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3.58 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Riddle of the Prairie Bride (American Girl History Mysteries, #12)
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Kathryn Reiss (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 673 ratings
score: 174,
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Holly Blues (China Bayles, #18)
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Susan Wittig Albert (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 2,251 ratings
score: 172,
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Before the Lark
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3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Sophia's Journal
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Najiyah Maxfield (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 86 ratings
score: 168,
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The Healer's Daughter
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4.27 avg rating — 116 ratings
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In the Face of Danger (Orphan Train Adventures, #3)
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4.03 avg rating — 819 ratings
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Wichita: 1860-1930
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The Van Gogh Cafe
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3.96 avg rating — 1,341 ratings
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Does Anybody Care About Lou Emma Miller?
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4.20 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Away West (Scraps of Time, #2)
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3.73 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Fig
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Sarah Elizabeth Schantz (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 901 ratings
score: 160,
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Sprout
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3.75 avg rating — 3,250 ratings
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Journey to a Promised Land: A Story of the Exodusters
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4.12 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Gabriel's Story
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David Anthony Durham (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 268 ratings
score: 152,
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Mysterious Skin
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4.16 avg rating — 12,164 ratings
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Follow Me Down to Nicodemus Town: Based on the History of the African American Pioneer Settlement
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A. LaFaye (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 121 ratings
score: 138,
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Willow Chase: Kansas Territory, 1847
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3.70 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Those Miller Girls!
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4.44 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Steal Away Home
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3.78 avg rating — 814 ratings
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A Voice for Kanzas
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Debra McArthur (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 51 ratings
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The Middle of Somewhere
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3.46 avg rating — 177 ratings
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In Awe
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3.63 avg rating — 347 ratings
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Who Needs Rainbows?
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To the Stars Through Difficulties
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Romalyn Tilghman (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 957 ratings
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Butcher's Crossing
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4.18 avg rating — 33,008 ratings
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Rising Calm (Rising Calm #1)
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Haley Fisher (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Wichita Haunts (Other
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2.92 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Seven Ways We Lie
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Riley Redgate (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 6,992 ratings
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Never Enough Flamingos
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Janelle Diller (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Just Visiting
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Dahlia Adler (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 837 ratings
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Strange Visitors (Smallville, #1)
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3.67 avg rating — 235 ratings
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The Rocking Horse
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Gloria Zachgo (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 178 ratings
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Bloodline (The Saint and the Sinner, #2)
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J.D. Martin (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Artifacts: A Flint Hills Story
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Still Life With Crows (Pendergast, #4)
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Douglas Preston (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 41,321 ratings
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The Last Cattle Drive: 30th Anniversary Edition
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4.04 avg rating — 212 ratings
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Wolf's Christmas: A Christmas Story of renewed Faith, Hope, and Love
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Gilead (Gilead, #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 122,004 ratings
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After Hours on Milagro Street
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Angelina M. Lopez (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 3,611 ratings
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Lizzy Albright and the Attic Window (Lizzy Albright, #1)
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Ricky Tims (Goodreads Author)
4.57 avg rating — 129 ratings
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All The Blood We Share
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Camilla Bruce (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 2,272 ratings
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Blast from the Past
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Jeb Wright (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 84 ratings
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The Night I Died
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Anne Frasier (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 6,671 ratings
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The Saint of Wolves and Butchers
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Alex Grecian (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 1,842 ratings
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Throw Like a Girl
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Sarah Henning (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 5,285 ratings
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The Poppy Fields
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Bent Road
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Lori Roy (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 3,995 ratings
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Cozy in Kansas: In the Dead of Winter/Bye, Bye Bertie/For Whom the Wedding Bell Tolls
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Dec 27, 2019 05:07PM
A Wanted Man is listed twice... needs to be combined? #50 & #61
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