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Sophia Alexander, the beautiful daughter of a famous surgeon in Berlin, has had to grow up faster than most young women. When her mother falls ill, Sophia must take charge of her younger sister, Theresa, and look after her father and the household, while also volunteering at his hospital after school. Meanwhile, Hitler's rise to power and the violence in her very own town have Sophia concerned, but only her mother is willing to share her fears openly....
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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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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Palace of rogues volume 7
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Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"A London season is the chance of a lifetime for Catherine Keating. But the ton's glitter and decadence and casual cruelty threaten to crush her hopes of finding a husband before her season even begins...until she accidentally acquires one of the most scandalous men in England as a secret chaperone. Famously fiery Lord Dominic Kirke can hold the House of Commons -- and any woman he chooses -- in thrall. But when his house goes up in flames in the...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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In 2007 Ukraine, after Yefim Shulman, beloved husband, grandfather and World War II veteran, passes away, his widow Nina finds a letter to the KGB in his briefcase that reveals his lifelong secret, which forces them to reassess the man they thought they knew and the country he defended.
5) INANNA
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Sumerians novels volume 1
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Inanna is an impossibility. The first full Anunnaki born on Earth in Ancient Mesopotamia. Crowned the goddess of love by the twelve immortal Anunnaki who are worshipped across Sumer, she is destined for greatness. But Inanna is born into a time of war. The Anunnaki have split into warring factions, threatening to tear the world apart. Forced into a marriage to negotiate a peace, she soon realises she has been placed in terrible danger. Gilgamesh,...
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Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"London, 1894. Albertine Honeycombe never wanted a husband and certainly not the one with fifteen children that her cousin, Aubrey, is trying to marry her off to. She reinvents herself as Countess Von Dagga, a private detective aiding the upper echelons of women in society. As the Countess, she is a married woman, with a conveniently absent husband who doesn't exist, which allows her far more freedom than being single. When Lord Grendel, from whom...
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Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"When infamous outlaw Butch Cassidy decides to go straight, he discovers that too many of the powerful men he crossed won't let bygones be bygones. To have a chance at a new life, he'll have to become someone else entirely. A brief, fateful encounter with the celebrated singer Jane Touissant on the eve of his escape offers a glimpse of what might have been, but Butch disappears, leaving her behind, until their paths unexpectedly converge again in...
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Puggleton park volume 1
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Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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In a park of Regency-era London, Penelope, a little Pug, gets separated from her Lady and is found by Lady Diggerton, so Penelope does her best to mind her manners in order to stay with her new Lady.
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France. Founded by millionaire Anne Morgan, this group of international women help rebuild devastated French communities just miles from the front. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen-children's libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains...
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Puggleton park volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Penelope the Pug accompanies Lady Diggleton to Windsor Castle, but when the Queen's diamond ring goes missing and the snooty dog Duchess stands accused, Penelope finds a way to prove her innocence.
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"London, 1600. With no legitimate heir to Queen Elizabeth's throne, and no clear successor, England finds itself in a supremely perilous moment. When spymaster Anthony Bacon commands esteemed playwright William Shakespeare to write a play on the poisonoushistory of Queen Elizabeth and the rival monarch she executed, Catholic Mary Queen of Scots, Will knows that Elizabeth's one-time favorite, the powerful Earl of Essex, will use the play to try to...
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Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Based on survivor accounts, this gripping novel opens days after the attack on Pearl Harbor and details three years of sea battles that spanned between Hawaii and the shores of Okinawa with the crew of one of the most decorated ships of the Pacific War. Onboard the heavy cruiser USS Salt Lake City, Lieutenant Commander Justin Collier was 230 miles west of Pearl Harbor accompanying the USS Enterprise on a secret mission when Japan attacked the United...
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Maeva Ediciones
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
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Palm Beach, 1960. Beatriz Pérez, una chica rebelde e independiente, vive en Estados Unidos desde que tuvo que exiliarse de Cuba junto a su familia. Sin embargo, no puede superar la pérdida de su hogar, de sus amigos y de su hermano. Mientras la Guerra Fría se extiende como un huracán sobre las costas del estrecho de Florida, Beatriz se ve atrapada entre el choque de la política cubanoamericana y un romance prohibido. Cuando las cambiantes mareas...
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Apothecary diaries volume 11
Publisher
Square Enix Manga & Books, a division of Square Enix, Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Having figured out the trick to navigating the corridors of the ancient mausoleum found within the Inner Court, Maomao does an admirable job solving the current mystery in front of the emperor and Jinshi. And then the Empress Dowager comes to Maomao, asking her to investigate the late Emperor's curse. Jinshi's past and parentage are revealed!"--
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Richard Sharpe volume 23
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe... And the impossible is exactly what the formidable Major Sharpe is asked to do when he's dispatched on an undercover mission deep in the Spanish countryside. For a remote village is about to become the center of a battle for the future of Europe. Sitting high above the Almaraz bridge, it is the last link between two French armies, one in the north, the other to the south; if they meet, the British...
16) MAO: 14
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Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Nanoka continues to make progress controlling her sword, Akanemaru, but when Mao's life is on the line, will it be enough? Then, our friends come between a pair of jealous sisters. Don't they know it's dangerous to interfere with a domestic dispute? Plus, an ambiguous hug followed by an unofficial date...at the public baths?!"--
17) MAO: 13
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Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"One of our friends confesses to setting the Goko clan treasure house on fire centuries ago. But why did they do it? Then, Mao has a revelation about Byoki the cat demon, the gang takes on a corrupt polluting industrialist, and Mei, the guardian of the Garden of Longevity, reveals new facets to her personality. Plus, a mysterious water wielder appears--whose side is he on?"--
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