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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Amanda Cole is a brilliant young CIA agent, following in the footsteps of her father, Charlie. But Amanda's posting in Rome is a sleepy one. She's listless and looking for action when, on a hot summer day, it walks right through the door of her office. A lowly Russian operative is desperate, begging to speak to her. He tells her that a US Senator is about to be assassinated on an overseas trip to Cairo. Amanda believes he's telling the truth, but...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The most profound book yet from the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story In Melissa Broder's astounding new novel, a woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has fled to the California desert to escape a cloud of sorrow-both for her father in the ICU and a disabled husband whose illness is worsening. What the motel provides,...
Author
Series
Coyote Canyon volume 2
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Ellen Truesdale isn't here to make friends but to make trouble. She plans to put her father out of business, as payback for his abandoning her. But will her plans be derailed by her father's business partner's charm?
4) Dazzling
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press, an imprint of ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Treasure and her mother lost everything when Treasure's father died. Haggling for scraps in the market, Treasure meets a man who promises to change their fortunes, but his feet are hovering just a few inches above the ground. He's a spirit, and he promises to bring Treasure's beloved father back to life if she'll do one terrible thing for him first.Ozoemena has an itch in the middle of her back. It's an itch that speaks to her patrilineal destiny,...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
With her past set on haunting her, Simone, whose father was convicted of murdering her mother ten years ago, finds a chance encounter with her childhood next-door neighbor revealing a shocking secret that could prove her father's innocence or destroy her carefully rebuilt life.
Author
Series
House of Falconer volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"James Falconer -- a tycoon and a self-made man -- seems to have the world in the palm of his hand. But the Great War looms, and James decides to fight for king and country. The fighting is bloody and brutal, and James returns a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental. His beloved wife is dead, but a new woman returns to help nurse him back to health. Georgiana Ward once held James in her thrall, but years have passed and bitterness has...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The witty and entrancing story of a young woman trapped in a ramshackle English playhouse-and the mysterious figure who threatens the theater's very survival. The year is 1901. England's beloved queen has died, and her aging son has finally taken the throne. In the eastern city of Norwich, bright and inquisitive young Edith Holler spends her days among the boisterous denizens of the Holler Theatre, warned by her domineering father that the playhouse...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When tragedy forces Delphine Auber, an aspiring writer on the cusp of adulthood, from her home in postwar Paris, she seizes the opportunity to embark on the journey she's long dreamed of: finding the father she has never known. But her quest -- spanning from Paris to New York's Harlem, to Havana and Key West -- is complicated by the fact that she believes him to be famed luminary Ernest Hemingway, a man just as elusive as he is iconic. She desperately...
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Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
A harrowing and redemptive immigrant story for readers of Pachinko. A Chinese railroad worker and his young daughter--sold into servitude--in 19th century California search for family, fulfillment, and belonging in a violent new land. "Heaven and earth do not pick and choose. They see everything as straw dogs." A sweeping historical novel of the American West from the little-seen perspective of those who helped to build it, Straw Dogs of the Universe...
10) Catfish rolling
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books, a registered trademark of Harry N. Abrams, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Years after a major earthquake in Japan creates different zones in which time passes differently, Sora and her father secretly investigate the off-limit zones in order to find the answer behind the time anomalies and the disappearance of Sora's mother.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
New to Cincinnati, where her father is now coach of the University basketball team, eighth-grader Aurora (called Rory) finds herself isolated by the heated team rivalries--especially when it turns out her new friend Abby's father has a mysterious feud with Rory's father that threatens her new friendship.
Series
Who made me a princess volume 3
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The hit full-color fantasy webtoon/manhwa (comic)--in English print for the first time! When a modern woman is reincarnated as the doomed princess in a romance novel, she reaches out to grab a new future with both baby fists!The story of Athanasia, forsaken princess of the Obelian Empire, ends with her execution at the hands of her own father--or does it? Her tragic tale is the plot of the novel The Lovely Princess. But now, a modern woman who read...
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of being sexually assaulted by her pastor, sixteen-year-old Amina struggles to regain her footing until she finds the strength within herself to confront her abuser in court.
"Sixteen-year-old Amina Conteh has always believed in using her words as her weapon--even when it gets her into trouble. After cursing at a classmate, her father forces her to volunteer at their church with Pastor Johnson. But Pastor Johnson isn't the holy man everyone...
Author
Publisher
LB Ink/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Perfect for fans of Narwhal and Jelly, this charming and hilarious take on classic fairy tales tackles the family chaos of bedtime. Did you know that Jack was looking for hot dogs when he climbed up the beanstalk? Or that he was led there by a talking fox named Wendy? Ok, maybe that’s not how the real story goes, but when Estella’s dad, Andrew, tells her bedtime stories, she’s always in for a bit of twist! A hilarious modern retelling of...
Publisher
Sony
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Having left the hollers of Kentucky 15 years ago, Raylan Givens now lives in Miami, a walking anachronism balancing his life as a U.S. Marshal and part-time father of a 15-year-old girl. His hair is grayer, his hat is dirtier, and the road in front of him is suddenly a lot shorter than the road behind. A chance encounter on a desolate Florida highway sends him to Detroit. There he crosses paths with Clement Mansell, aka The Oklahoma Wildman, a violent,...
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Lust: "Amira James has always had everything she ever the home, the clothes, and the rich daddy. However, there was a fire deep inside of her that wanted more and more . . . and more. So when she stumbles across the entrance of an underground sex club, she welcomes the new kind of high. Secretly, out of the gaze of the watchful eye of her prominent lawyer father, Amira slips deeper and deeper into this new and exciting life, taking on the name Lust...
Author
Series
Campus diaries volume 1
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Gigi Graham has exactly three goals: qualify for the women's national hockey team, win Olympic gold, and step out of her famous father's shadow. So far, so good, except for two little things. Fine-a little thing and a big, grumpy thing. She needs to improve her game behind the net, and she needs help from Luke Ryder. Ryder is six-foot five, built, opinionated, rude...and sexy as hell. But he's still the enemy. Briar's new hockey co-captain has his...
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Fumi may have already resolved to give up on Akatsuki, but her heart clearly hasn't gotten the memo yet. And unfortunately, summer vacation has started...which means staying home all day...which means being around the novelist 24-7! To make matters worse, Gorou invites Fumi along on his and Akatsuki's research trip--but promptly returns to Tokyo on urgent business, leaving the two housemates alone in Kyoto! As the unfamiliar city reveals facets of...
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