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"Orphans Gig and Rye Dolan don't have a penny to their names. The brothers work grueling, odd jobs each day just to secure a meal, and spend nights sleeping wherever they can with other day laborers. Twenty-three-year-old Gig is a passionate union man, fighting for fair pay and calling out the corrupt employers who exploit the working class. Eager to emulate his older brother, Rye follows suit, though he can't quite muster Gig's passion for the cause....
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Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed , in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first historical novel. Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much...
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Smoke volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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In an alternate England, where people who are wicked in thought or deed are marked by the Smoke that pours from their bodies, Thomas, Charlie, and Livia notice that some people appear to be able to lie without triggering Smoke. As they dig deeper, they discover teachers who have mysterious ties to warring political factions, a sumptuous estate which hides attic rooms and laboratories, revolutionaries who are fighting against a secret police force....
5) Shadow rites
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Jane Yellowrock novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Jane is keeping the peace between visiting groups of witches and vamps in the city, but then trouble comes knocking on her doorstep. When her house is magically attacked, the wild chase to find her assailants unearths a mystery that has literally been buried deep. A missing master vampire, presumed long deceased, is found chained in a pit--undead, raving mad, and in the company of two human bodies. Now it's up to Jane to find out who kept the vampire...
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"An electrifying debut novel that unfolds in the course of a single day inside one genteel New York City apartment building, as tensions between the building's super and his grown-up daughter spark a crisis that will, by day's end, have changed everything"--
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Cottonbloom novels volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperback
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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When Cade Fournette, the man who saved her life long ago, unexpectedly returns to Cottonbloom, physical therapist Monroe Kirby is determined not to let the scars and secrets of the past divide them once more.
8) Cake eater
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HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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In the year 3070, App sensation, style icon, and social influencer Marie Antoinette arrives in Versailles to marry Louis-Auguste and together, after witnessing people outside of their gilded world suffering and starving, risk everything to set things right.
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Signet
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Joining the Black Dagger Brotherhood's training center program to learn how to fight and think for herself, Paradise, the blooded daughter of the king's First Advisor, is tested in ways she never imagined when she falls in love with a common civilian and an act of violence threatens to destroy the entire program.
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Angie had come to make peace with the past, and Simon. When Angie had taken the money Simon's parents offered her to leave, she'd accepted her part in a drama of manipulation and betrayal. She hoped by returning the money now--12 years later--that she could leave the past behind. But as determined as she was to move on, neither her heart, nor her body, nor Simon, would allow it.
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Nina Browning is living the good life after marrying into Nashville's elite. Her husband's tech business is booming, and her adored son, Finch, is bound for Princeton. Tom Volpe is a single dad working multiple jobs. His adored daughter, Lyla, attends Nashville's most prestigious private school on a scholarship. But amid the wealth and privilege, Lyla doesn't always fit in. Then one devastating photo changes everything. Finch snaps a picture of Lyla...
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Mira
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"Ash and Pia move from hipster Brooklyn to rustic Vermont in search of a more authentic life. But just months after settling in, the forecast of a superstorm disrupts their dream. Fear of an impending disaster splits their tight-knit community and exposes the cracks in their marriage. Where Isole was once a place of old farm families, rednecks and transplants, it now divides into paranoid preppers, religious fanatics and government tools, each at...
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Henry Farrell novels volume 1
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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"The lone policeman in a small township on the sparse northern border [of Pennsylvania], Henry Farrell expected to spend his mornings hunting and fishing, his evenings playing old-time music. Instead, he has watched the steady encroachment of gas drilling bring new wealth and erode neighborly trust. The drug trade is pushing heroin into the territory. There are outlaws cooking meth in the woods, guys Henry grew up with. When a stranger turns up dead,...
16) Little nothings
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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Liv Travers never knew real friendship until she met fellow mums Beth and Binnie. The three women become inseparable as they muddle through early parenthood together. Then along comes Ange... Ambitious, wealthy and somehow able to do it all. Under Ange's guiding presence, the group finds new vigour and fresh aspirations - bigger houses, better schools, dinners at exclusive restaurants. But Liv can't keep up and is increasingly edged out. When the...
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Wild cards volume 22
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
When residents of Jokertown begin going missing, an inexperienced lieutenant hoping to prove himself teams up with a motley group of unlikely Jokers to identify and stop the culprits.
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Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The earthshaking year of 1968 comes to a sweeping and dangerous close as Detectives Breen and Tozer battle the most powerful members of London society in their probe into a case going back years--the murder of Tozer's younger sister.
19) Blackfish City
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Publisher
Ecco Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering, complete with geothermal heating and sustainable energy. Now crime and corruption have set in, the contradictions of incredible wealth alongside poverty are spawning unrest, and a new disease called "the breaks" is ravaging the population. When a strange new visitor arrives--a woman riding an orca, with a polar bear...
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House of secrets (V. C. Andrews) volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Fern and her mother live as servants in Wyndemere House, the old gothic mansion of the Davenport family. And her friendship with Dr. Davenport's son Ryder was never a problem... until they came of age. An intimate encounter following the high school prom brings the pair near-tragic consequences. But the real threat to their happiness is something no one can control: the past, and the truths that lurk there. -- adapted from jacket
The daughter of...
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