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2023.
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English
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"Jackie Newsome's best friend is dead, and everyone knows who killed her. Jackie is an ex-emotional eater and mother of four, who has finally lost the weight she long yearned to be free of. But leaving her old self behind proves harder than she ever imagined. She believes she should be happier, but misery still chases her, and motherhood threatens to consume her. Her only salve is Theresa, her best friend whose life she desperately covets. Their bond...
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English
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"When a treacherous betrayal ruins her chances for a full-time position at the illustrious merchant bank, Greene Brothers Hale, in NYC, intern Faye Walker, using her natural born gift for numbers, proves she is not one to be played with as she puts in motion a new plan"--
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"The paths of two women on opposite ends of a high-profile sexual abuse scandal set them on a devastating collision course. On a sultry summer night in Paris, two women meet on line at an ice cream kiosk in the Ile de la Cité. One is tall, fair, striking, with an indeterminate accent. The other, a troubled American TV star, is hiding her beauty and identity under a shapeless sweatshirt, wearing sunglasses even in the darkness. When two leering male...
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Struggling artist Skyler Moore is flabbergasted when she receives a suspicious phone call from a lawyer she's never met regarding a "private matter." As soon as she arrives at the law firm's office, she learns she's the recipient of a large inheritance, a life-changing sum that will allow her to realize her long-held dream of becoming a mother. But who was her benefactor, Christopher Whaley? The late man's name means nothing to Skyler, and she has...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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For Piglet -- an unshakable childhood nickname -- getting married is her opportunity to reinvent. Together, Kit and Piglet are the picture of domestic bliss -- effortless hosts, planning a covetable wedding ... But if a life looks too good to be true, it probably is. Thirteen days before they are due to be married, Kit reveals an awful truth, cracking the facade Piglet has created. It has the power to strip her of the life she has so carefully built,...
6) Out of body
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Publisher
Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"When 17-year-old Megan Allen is betrayed by her best friend, LC, and targeted by LC's enemies, she is plunged into a waking nightmare and must claim what makes her uniquely herself to get her life back-- or die trying"--
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Cal Sounder is a detective working for the police on certain very sensitive cases. So when he's called in to investigate a homicide at a local apartment, he is surprised at first to see that the victim appears to be a rather typical, milquetoast techie. But on closer inspection, he finds the victim is over seven feet tall. And even though he doesn't look a day over thirty, he is actually ninety years old. Clearly, he is a Titan-one of this dystopian,...
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Daughters of war volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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In 1960s Marrakech, a young girl, travels to meet her estranged grandmother. Vicky Baudin steps on to the train through Morocco looking for the truth about the woman who gave her father up for adoption decades before. Clemence Petier lives in a kasbah on the edge of the Atlas Mountains, her background shrouded in mystery. But the past holds secrets that threaten them both. A face from Clemence's childhood threatens to expose everything she has built...
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Powder mage trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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When invasion looms... Tamas's invasion of Kez ends in disaster when a Kez counter-offensive leaves him cut off behind enemy lines with only a fraction of his army, no supplies, and no hope of reinforcements. Drastically outnumbered and pursued by the enemy's best, he must lead his men on a reckless march through northern Kez to safety, and back over the mountains so that he can defend his country from an angry god, Kresimir. But the threats are closer...
10) Reckless
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Series
Chestnut Springs romances volume 4
Publisher
Bloom Books, an imprint of Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"He's scorching-hot trouble wrapped up in a drool-worthy package. And he's looking at her like she might be his next meal. Theo Silva. Rowdy bull rider. Notorious ladies' man. Winter Hamilton knows exactly what it means when he eyes her like that. But she's almost free of her toxic marriage and has sworn off men entirely. So all she sees when she looks back at Theo is temptation served up with a heaping side of heartbreak. The man is hard to trust--but,...
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Tainted blood duology volume 1
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"A brilliant new voice brings us a brilliant new epic fantasy novel: Ehigbor Okosun’s first book in an action-packed, poignant duology inspired by Nigerian mythology—full of magic and emotion and set in a highly atmospheric, complex world in which a young woman fights to survive a tyrannical society, having everything stripped away from her, and seeks vengeance for her mother’s murder and the spilled blood of her people. In the midst of a tyrannical...
12) The cuckoo
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Series
Under the northern sky volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Albion continues to be divided by revolt and bloodshed, as alliances collapse and are made anew. Driven obsessively for glory, the upstart Bellamus and his exiled queen Aramilla are marshalling resistance and building a powerful army. Returning to the Hindrunn, Keturah is forced to fend for herself, battling enemies on all sides just when she is most in need of a place of safety. And all the while, the young Black Lord must deal not only with the...
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Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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A catastrophic disaster in China triggers a mother's heartbreaking choice and a daughter's reconciliation with the past in a powerful novel by the author of A Single Swallow and Where Waters Meet. In the summer of 1976, an earthquake swallows up the city of Tangshan, China. Among the hundreds of thousands of people scrambling for survival is a mother who makes an agonizing decision that irrevocably changes her life and the lives of her children. In...
14) The enforcer
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
Description
Miami's top mob enforcer Cuda sacrifices it all to tear down the criminal organization he's spent his whole life building up when he discovers his boss Estelle is putting a young runaway's life in grave danger. Now he has one last chance to make up for his past and find redemption, both for himself and his family, before the mob hunts him down for his betrayal.
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"One rainy night fifteen years ago, a knock at the door changed Liss Kehoe's life forever. On that night, Ashley Hay stood on Liss's front porch and handed over her brand-new baby Callan. She was never seen or heard from again. Since then, Liss has raised Callan as her own, and loves him as fiercely as any mother would. But in the back of her mind, she's always wondered whether Ashley is still out there somewhere -- and feared what might happen if...
16) Shield maiden
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Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Fryða has grown up hearing tales of her uncle, King Beowulf, and his spectacular defeat of the monstrous Grendel. Her one desire is to become a shield maiden in her own right, but a terrible accident during her childhood has thwarted this dream. Yet still, somehow, she feels an uncontrollable power begin to rise within herself. The last thing Fryða wants is to be forced into a political marriage, especially as her heart belongs to her lifelong friend,...
17) Be that way
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Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books/Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"It's January 1, 1996, and high school junior Christine wants more than anything to be that cool girl everyone notices, like her gorgeous best friend, Landry. She usually hates New Year's resolutions, but this year she vows to be that shiny kind of girl--and record it all in her diary through prose, illustration, and comics. When Landry drops her, Christine is surprised to discover just how much she doesn't miss her and her drama. But a misguided...
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Synneful spinsters volume 3
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
Description
When the Duke of Balgair, the husband who betrayed her years ago, arrives on the remote isle of Synne, determined to bring her back to Scotland, Seraphina, although the attraction still burns strong between them, doesn't know if they'll ever find their way back to each other.
19) River's edge
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Publisher
Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From renowned author, Kyoko Okazaki, the creator of Helter Skelter and Pink, comes a story of adolescence filled with friendship, drama and intertwined relationships of six high school friends. At the edge of the city not far from the sea, a field of goldenrod sways in the breeze, its veil of amber flowers obscuring secrets underneath. Old bones and forgotten memories rest in silence, waiting for someone to dig them up. This is where the lives of...
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Light We Lost comes a sweeping story of two star-crossed lovers in post-World War II Italy, and a blossoming relationship generations later that will reveal a long-buried family secret"--
Genoa, Italy, 1946. Vincenzo and Giovanna fall in love at twenty-one the moment they set eyes on each other. The son of a count and the daughter of a tailor, they belong to opposing worlds. Despite this, the undeniable...
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