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Series
Icarus saga volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
"For years Gregory Roarke and his Kadolian partner Selene worked as crocketts, combing through the atmospheres of uninhabited worlds for places that might be colonized or hold valuable resources. Now, they quietly work for the Icarus Group, a top-secret government organization hunting for portals created by a long-vanished alien race, portals that can teleport a person hundreds or thousands of light-years in the blink of an eye. Roarke and Selene...
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Series
Magical fortune cookie novel volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 17 cm.
Description
"Felicity Jin grew up literally hanging onto Mom's apron strings in their magical bakery in the quaint town of Pixie, California. Her mother's enchanted baked goods, including puffy pineapple buns and creamy egg tarts, bring instant joy to all who consume them. Felicity has always been hesitant in the kitchen herself after many failed attempts, but a takeout meal gone wrong inspires her to craft some handmade fortune cookies. They become so popular...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 25 cm
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Lois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure her loneliness. But as picture-perfect as her husband is, she is suffocating in their loveless marriage. In 1951, though, unhappiness is hardly grounds for divorce-except in Reno, Nevada. At the Golden Yarrow, the most respectable of Reno's famous "divorce ranches," Lois finds herself living with half a dozen other would-be divorcees, all in Reno for the six weeks' residency that...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
469 pages ; 25 cm.
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"As late summer 1951 descends on Elmira, New York, Myra Larkin, thirteen, the oldest child of a large Catholic family, meets a young man she believes to be Mickey Mantle. He chats her up at a local diner and gives her a ride home. The matter consumes her until later that night, when a triple homicide occurs just down the street, opening a specter of violence that will haunt the Larkins for half a century. As the siblings leave home and fan across...
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 22 cm
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"When her grandmother comes off the airplane in Houston from Pakistan, Mahnoor knows that having Dadi move in is going to disrupt everything about her life. She doesn't have time to be Dadi's unofficial babysitter-her journalism teacher has announced that their big assignment will be to film a documentary, which feels more like storytelling than what Maha would call "journalism." As Dadi starts to settle into life in Houston and Maha scrambles for...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Eight translators arrive at a house in a primeval Polish forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the world-renowned author Irena Rey, and they are there to translate her magnum opus, Gray Eminence. But within days of their arrival, Irena disappears without a trace. The translators, who hail from eight different countries but share the same reverence for their beloved author, begin to investigate where she may have gone while proceeding with...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 23 cm.
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"Daphne Bell believes the universe has a plan in store for her. Ever since she was young, whenever she met a new guy, Daphne would find a slip of paper with exactly how long they'd spend together--4 months, two weeks, one night. That's how she met her ex-boyfriend and current best friend, Hugo, the only person in Daphne's life who knows of her secret. Followed by a string of men and countless dates, Daphne resigned herself to the fact that she was...
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 23 cm.
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When his new wife and her daughter disappear, widower Luke Driskell, with no trace of their whereabouts, discovers the woman he loves is not who she seems as he sets out on a cross-country pursuit of the truth, soon discovering that finding her could destroy all their lives.
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Pub. Date
[2024]
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336 pages. ; 23 cm
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"When human bones are found beneath an old chapel in the woods, evidence suggests the remains could be linked to the decades-old case of missing teen Annalise Jansen. Homicide detective Jane Munro--pregnant and acutely attuned to the preciousness of life--hopes the grim discovery will finally bring closure to the girl's family. But for a group of Annalise's old friends, once dubbed the Shoreview Six by the media, it threatens to expose a terrible...
10) A tempest of tea
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Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Arthie Casimir, a criminal mastermind, transforms her tearoom into an illegal bloodhouse for vampires, but when her establishment is threatened, she forms an unlikely alliance and assembles a misfit crew to infiltrate vampire society and uncovers a world-threatening conspiracy.
11) The tainted cup
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Series
Shadow of the leviathan volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
410 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Description
"An eccentric detective and her long-suffering assistant untangle a web of magic, deceit, and murder in fantasy reimagining of the classic crime novel"--
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Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 25 cm.
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"Best friends don't always have the best intentions. On a brisk fall night in a New York apartment, 35-year-old Billie West hears terrified screams. It's her lifelong best friend Cassie Barnwell, one floor above, and she's just realized her infant daughter has gone missing. Billie is shaken as she looks down into her own arms to see the baby, remembering--with a jolt of fear--that she is responsible for the kidnapping that has instantly shattered...
13) Big time
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Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 25 cm
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The New York Times best-selling author of The Quiet Boy returns with a speculative, corporate espionage thriller that takes the adage "Time is money," and makes it literally, frighteningly so.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 24 cm
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One dark evening on New York City’s Upper West Side, two strangers meet by chance. Over drinks, Amanda and Wendy realize they have much in common, especially loneliness and an intense desire for revenge against the men who destroyed their families. As they talk into the night, they come up with the perfect plan: if you kill for me, I’ll kill for you. In another part of the city, Ruth is home alone when the beautiful brownstone she shares with...
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 25 cm
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"Two parents, desperate to find their missing daughter, stand accused of murder. How far will they go to find the truth? Someone is guilty. For the last seventeen years, everything Harry and Zara King have done has been for their crown jewel, Sophie, their one and only daughter. When she goes missing, Harry and Zara will stop at nothing to find her. Someone knows what happened. The police have no leads, and as the weeks pass there's little news. Harry...
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
395 pages ; 24 cm
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Young, brazen, beautiful, and unapologetically brilliant, Margaret Fuller accepts an invitation from Ralph Waldo Emerson, the celebrated Sage of Concord, to meet his coterie of enlightened friends. There she becomes “the radiant genius and fiery heart” of the Transcendentalists, a role model to a young Louisa May Alcott, an inspiration for Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne and the scandalous Scarlet Letter, a friend to Henry David Thoreau...
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Aim©♭e Leduc investigation volume 21
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
"Parisian private investigator Aim©♭e Leduc has been framed for the murder of her daughter's father-now she's on the lam, and must find the real killer to clear her name in this thrilling 21st installment of Cara Black's New York Times bestselling mystery series. Aim©♭e Leduc's ex Melac, her daughter's father, has been hounding her for weeks, pressuring her to move little Chloe to Brittany, threatening to take her to court for custody-all but...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 24 cm
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The daughters of one of England's most famous portrait artists of the 1700s, Peggy and Molly Gainsborough are inseparable due to Molly's bouts of mental confusion, and as Peggy goes to great lengths to protect her sister's secret, she falls in love with a charming composer, which sparks the bitterest of betrayals.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
162 pages ; 21 cm
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Diagnosed with Sudden Deafness, an artist in her late twenties keeps a record of her year-one filled with a series of fleeting and often humorous encounters--as she reorients her relationship to the world while living alone in a New York City studio apartment with her dog.
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Pub. Date
[2024]
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321 pages : map ; 24 cm
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It is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built. For Francisco, a local fisherman who resents the foreign powers clamoring for a slice of his country, nothing is more upsetting than the decision of his son, Omar, to work as a digger in the excavation zone. But for Omar, whose upbringing was quiet and lonely, this job offers a chance to finally find connection. Ada Bunting is a bold sixteen-year-old...
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