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What Kind of Paradise 

by Janelle Brown  

 Growing up in an isolated cabin in Montana in the mid-1990s, Jane  knows only the world that she and her father live in: the woodstove that  heats their home, the vegetable garden where they try to eke out a  subsistence, the books of nineteenth-century philosophy that her father  gives her to read in lieu of going to school. Her father is elusive  about their pasts, giving Jane little beyond the facts that they once  lived in the Bay Area and that her mother died in a car accident, the  crash propelling him to move Jane off the grid to raise her in a  Waldenesque utopia.

As Jane becomes a teenager she starts pushing  against the boundaries of her restricted world. She begs to accompany  her father on his occasional trips away from the cabin. But when Jane  realizes that her devotion to her father has made her an accomplice to a  horrific crime, she flees Montana to the only place she knows to look  for answers about her mysterious past, and her mother’s death: San  Francisco. It is a city in the midst of a seismic change, where her  quest to understand herself will force her to reckon with both the  possibilities and the perils of the fledgling internet, and where she  will come to question everything she values.

In this sweeping,  suspenseful novel from bestselling author Janelle Brown, we see a young  woman on a quest to understand how we come to know ourselves. It is a  bold and unforgettable story about parents and children; nature and  technology; innocence and knowledge; the losses of our past and our  dreams for the future. 

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 Corby Ledbetter is struggling. New fatherhood, the loss of his  job, and a growing secret addiction have thrown his marriage to his  beloved Emily into a tailspin. And that’s before he causes the tragedy  that tears the family apart. Sentenced to prison, Corby struggles to  survive life on the inside, where he bears witness to frightful acts of  brutality but also experiences small acts of kindness and elemental  kinship with a prison librarian who sees his light and some of his  fellow offenders, including a tender-hearted cellmate and a troubled  teen desperate for a role model. Buoyed by them and by his mother’s  enduring faith in him, Corby begins to transcend the boundaries of his  confinement, sustained by his hope that mercy and reconciliation might  still be possible. Can his crimes ever be forgiven by those he loves?