Mark Powell

• Sep-2006
• / General Fiction
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Set in the South Carolina foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the late summer of 1970, Blood Kin tells the story of the Burden family and the community of outcasts that surrounds them. James Burden is the eldest son in the Burden family. A Korea...

• Aug-2012
• / General Fiction
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“A haunting, evocative novel. In Prodigals, Mark Powell depicts a lost American landscape -- the small towns and logging camps of the South during World War II, with their subculture of fugitives and transients. I can't get the desperate hero out o...

• Dec-2012
• / Literary
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“The best Appalachian novelist of his generation.” -- Ron Rash, author of Serena and The Cove“The Dark Corner is one of the most riveting and beautifully written novels that I have ever read.  Trouble drives the story, as it does in all gr...

• Sep-2013
• / Thriller
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• Aug-2014
• / Action Adventure
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"'You set yourself up as judge, jury, and executioner,' Pamela had said, but that was wrong: you set yourself up as angel, and await the word of God." Luther Redding lost his job, and almost lost his wife, Pamela, and teenaged daughters Katie and Luc...

• Jan-2018
• / Thriller
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With writing that is both devastating and tender, Mark Powell (The Sheltering) brings his acclaimed eye to an American marriage on the verge of rupture, spinning an all-too-current tale of the world we live in and the world we fear -- and how we may ...

• Apr-2019
• / General Fiction
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Orphaned at age 5, Danny Dare, a city dwelling boy, withdrew from the world. Aged 11, with tousled brown hair, green eyes and long gangly legs, he now lives with his Grandparents in a rambling old country mansion called Downe Hall, in England. Set am...

• Oct-2019
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-2019
• / General Fiction
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SNAP is a fast=paced, contemporary tale of belonging, brutality and escape. Set in the East End of London, it tells the story of two brothers who, through tragedy and desperation, set out on two different journeys away from home. The plot is intense,...

• Jan-2020
• / General Fiction
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In this stunning new literary thriller, a U.S. arms deal gone south takes you into the underground world of political operatives, Ivy League criminals, and a hedge fund billionaire with eyes on the presidency.

The plan was simple: foment a smal...

• Apr-2022
• / General Fiction
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“Emotionally wrenching. . . . Haunting (and haunted) in the best possible way.” -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Darkly compelling.” -- Tom PerrottaIn the fall of 2018, a bomb goes off at a water-bottling plant in the mountains of so...

• Oct-2023
• / Literary
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Shy Walsh might be the greatest female fighter of her time, but a loss in a Vegas title fight, and the sneaking suspicion that she wanted to lose, sends her reeling back to her Central Florida home and her dying mother. She needs some perspective, sh...

• Apr-2024
• / General Fiction
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The Greaves family is the pillar of Germantown, a small South Carolina community that nestles in the folds of the Appalachian Mountains. Richard and Clara Greaves live in a stone manor paid for by the bank Richard founded three decades ago. Their old...