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2024
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Sumptuous and addictive, An Education in Malice is a dark academia tale of blood, secrets and insatiable hungers from S.T. Gibson, author of the cult hit A Dowry of Blood.
Deep in the forgotten hills of Massachusetts stands Saint Perpetua’s College. Isolated and ancient, it is not a place for timid girls. Here, secrets are currency, ambition is lifeblood, and strange ceremonies welcome students
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Harlequin romantic suspense volume 2270
Pub. Date
[2024]
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280 pages ; 17 cm
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"My bestselling-mystery-author career had come to a standstill, and I was plagued with writer's block. So I asked myself: What would my favorite fictional girl detective do? She would find a suspect to inspire her to finish the case, of course! Luckily, I have a new, mysterious and very dreamy private investigator next door to follow. I'm going to help him solve the case and finally finish this book of mine. Then maybe the two of us can pursue The...
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[2024]
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215 pages ; 17 cm
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"To expose a crooked adoption agency, military investigators Thalia Renner and Phillip Campbell pose as a married couple at a mountain resort. But when they become the target of unknown enemies and deadly assaults, they wonder if their cover has been blown. As they investigate, they learn the truth is far more sinister...and the consequences could cost them their lives." --
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Sebastian Jones's day starts badly enough. He's beaten up – twice. Then he's nearly killed. He doesn't think life can get much worse. He's wrong. When his delivery for El Duce goes awry, Sebastian takes the money and runs – all the way to the Rigel system. There, he meets Philippe LaGrain, a con-man who double-crosses Sebastian and leaves him to die on an airless asteroid. Sebastian claws his way back to civilization, but Philippe has organized...
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Synneful spinsters volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
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xii, 308 pages : map ; 18 cm
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"Iain MacInnes, Duke of Balgair, has spent the last thirteen years believing his wife is dead--until he receives word that she is very much alive and living under an assumed name on the remote Isle of Synne. He sets off with only one goal in mind: bring his wife back to Scotland where he can divorce her and expose her for the liar she is. After a devastating deception by the man who was supposed to love her, Seraphina did what was necessary to keep...
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Billy is a happy little Billy goat Kid, who lives alone with his mother in a field, on a farm, by a hillside, where he can explore the world and enjoy all the world has to offer. He believes he has seen it all. But then, one day he discovers something new; something he has never seen before. Follow Billy on his adventure where he learns more about nature, consequences and respect and friendship along the way. Ranging from Curiosity, to Fascination,...
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"I only have one life to live on this beautiful planet, and I don't want to regret not doing the things I wanted to do at the end of it on my deathbed."
"Our capacity for happiness is inversely proportional to our capacity for sadness. You won't feel happiness without experiencing sadness. The sadder you feel, the greater your capacity for happiness becomes.
"Instead of dying peacefully without an adventurous life, I would love to die while...
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The story begins as an earthquake shakes a mountain, sending tons of rocks and boulders downward into a tranquil forest. From the rubble, a fossilized dinosaur egg appears, sparking interest among seven unalike forest creatures. Lightning strikes the object, and it magically becomes real. Soon a Tyrannosaurus rex hatches, and the lives of those forest inhabitants are forever changed.
It's been documented that wild animals often protect and parent...
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Barbara Fasano, who writes under the name Elaine Cornell, was a teacher for almost 35 years. She has taught kindergarten through college as adjunct faculty, a long-term substitute, and a librarian. She has taught throughout Northern California, from the Oregon border to Sacramento.
This book is about children who live in a private school where they are sent to learn the rules for being good students.
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Often it is difficult to broach certain sensitive situations with children. And the People Carried Signs is an introduction to the Black Lives Matter Movement from the eyes of a pre-teen child. This book is designed to raise awareness with youth and help classroom discussions that center around race, equity, justice- and hope.
14) The Latchkey
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It's 11:00 p.m. Do you know where your children are?
Years ago, that question was asked of every parent as it aired nightly on national television. It was a simple question that prompted a simple answer: "Yes, I do" or "No, I don't." We live in a much different world today, a world in which the answer to that once simple question is not so simple anymore. While we may find relief in knowing that our child is at home in their room, typing away on...
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This book is a sequel to Callie Finds a Home which told about a rescued Calico kitten abandoned and left to her own instinct to survive. Even though she misses her own family, she feels safe and cared for. The second book introduces a new friend for Callie, Simba, an apricot miniature poodle who becomes Callie's best friend. When Simba is gone due to an accident, Callie grieves for him and teaches the family that pets have feelings, too. A new cat,...
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Lewee the Light is a very inquisitive alien who wants to learn all about the Earth. Lewee travels from Lolaperse, a planet in outer space, to a magical place on Earth called Mariala. Lewee has been sent on a quest by the Queen of Lolaperse to find the Dazzling Diamond of Colors to give color to Lolaperse. Lewee's journey has many weird and magical creatures which teach Lewee all about primary and secondary colors, what colors are created when different...
17) Alice
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But, the servants! Anything might happen to them. They might go in a train to Woolwich and meet the love of their lives, or be murdered almost for the asking. Not that one wanted to be murdered exactly, but there was frustration in being denied the possibility.
From an author The Queen called "a humorist of the first order" comes the deliciously dark tale of the strange and woeful young womanhood of Margaret, the narrator of Elizabeth Eliot's debut...
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Harmony Harringdon is a teenager with her whole life ahead of her. She is beautiful, sweet, and talented. Harmony and her best friend Jake Butler are inseparable. As the pair grow from children to teenagers, their friendship becomes love. They weren't to know what fate has planned for them. It would all become too much for Harmony, despite having Jake there to support her.
Fleeing the shame and devastation she believes she has caused, Harmony leaves...
19) Life Drawing
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"Art gotta be high up and dangerous," the graffiti artist tells his mother. It has to be practiced diligently like playing the piano, the longtime members of a life drawing studio believe, and if your view of the model is the model's backside, you don't move for a better view. Art is a mysterious way into your model's sorrow when words fail. Art can open the rooms of your childhood. It existed before there was perspective. It can even be a dinner...
20) Orpheus' Blues
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We first meet Jack Stewart on his way back to his apartment in New York City, where he is pursuing a career as a jazz musician.As the novel unfolds, we learn of the difficulties he encounters, of the friendship he develops with George, his roommate-also a jazz musician-and the women he meets in the city. But more importantly, we learn of the very close relationship he has with his mother, who writes to him regularly from Southern Virginia. Through...
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