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81) Looking for Jane
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this powerful debut novel inspired by true stories, three women's lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother's love, and a secret network of people fighting for the right to choose. 2017: When Angela Creighton discovers a mysterious letter containing a life-shattering confession, she is determined to find the intended recipient. Her search takes her back to the 1970s when a group of daring women operated an illegal underground abortion...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Raised in a wealthy family in Sepphoris with ties to the ruler of Galilee, Ana is rebellious and ambitious, a relentless seeker with a brilliant, curious mind and a daring spirit. She yearns for a pursuit worthy of her life, but finds no outlet for her considerable talents. Defying the expectations placed on women, she engages in furtive scholarly pursuits and writes secret narratives about neglected and silenced women. When she meets the eighteen-year-old...
83) Closer still
Author
Series
Brodie Farrell novels volume 8
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Although she has been trying to put her work, running a one-woman detective agency, on hold while she cares for her new baby, Jonathan, Brodie Farrell soon learns that taking time off is not as easy as it sounds. Not only does Jonathan have a rare disease that may leave him blind, his father, Detective Superintendent Jack Deacon, is going after the nastiest crook in town, Joe Loomis, who quickly retaliates by threatening Brodie and little Jonathan....
Author
Publisher
Fat Cat Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A dragon with a past full of secrets. A woman who is the literal definition of a fated mate. And an irreverent demon in Newfoundland form with a serious Candy Crush addiction. Handsome, erudite, and sexy-as-sin Drake Vireo may look human, but he's a dragon through and through. One known for his prowess with the ladies...especially when enjoyed in multiples. Despite loudly proclaiming the fact that no woman could hold his attention for long, he falls...
85) Salt lane
Author
Series
Alexandra Cupidi novels volume 1
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
No-one knew their names, the bodies found in the water. There are people here, in plain sight, that no-one ever notices at all. DS Alexandra Cupidi has done it again. She should have learnt to keep her big mouth shut, after the scandal that sent her packing - resentful teenager in tow - from the London Met to the lonely Kent coastline. Even murder looks different in this landscape of fens, ditches and stark beaches, shadowed by the towers of Dungeness...
86) American demon
Author
Series
Hollows (Kim Harrison) volume 14
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"What happens after you've saved the world? Well, if you're Rachel Mariana Morgan, witch-born demon, you quickly discover that something might have gone just a little bit wrong. That the very same acts you and your friends took to forge new powers may have released something bound by the old. With a rash of zombies, some strange new murders, and an exceedingly mysterious new demon in town, it will take everything Rachel has to counter this new threat...
87) House of hearts
Author
Publisher
Rare Bird
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"***Bad shit happens in the desert*** Izzy Ames lives with her high school sweetheart, Cyrus Rivera, in the Salton Sea. They cling to each other and their close friends Nephy and Seth to cope with the trauma of their pasts. Until one morning Izzy awakes to find Cyrus has vanished. Trapped by the idea that everyone is on their own in the desert, Izzy decides to look for Cyrus on her own. After weeks of looking for him with no luck, she finds a clue...
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Street-savvy, almost-thirteen-year-old Aaron Broom is guarding his father's car when he witnesses a robbery gone wrong in a jewelery store across the street. To Aaron's shock, his father, a traveling watch salesman in the wrong place at the wrong time, is fingered as the prime suspect in the murder. Despite seeing the real killer flee the scene, Aaron can't do much to help in the moment--no one will take a kid's word for it. Undaunted, Aaron enlists...
89) Rattlebone
Author
Publisher
McNally Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Irene Wilson knows that a 'no-name invisible something' has settled over her parents' marriage, and she suspects that her glamorous new teacher is to blame. Irene is not alone in her suspicions. In Rattlebone, a Black neighborhood of Kansas City in the segregated 1950s, secrets are hard to keep, and growing up is a community affair. As Irene is initiated into adult passion and loss, her family story takes its place in a tightly woven tapestry of...
90) A man named Doll
Author
Series
Happy Doll volume 1
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
From the creator of HBO's Bored to Death, a deliciously noir novel about idiosyncratic private detective Happy Doll and his quest to help a dying friend in a sun-blinded Los Angeles as "quirky, edgy, charming, funny and serious" as its protagonist (Lee Child). Happy Doll is a charming, if occasionally inexpert, private detective living just one sheer cliff drop beneath the Hollywood sign with his beloved half-Chihuahua half-Terrier, George. A veteran...
Series
Call the name of the night volume 3
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Anxious about taking a single step off the property, Mira is crestfallen to learn that her favorite author will be signing books nearby. Can a goat-in-fluffy-costume escort help make her dream come true?!"-Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"From a decorated Marine war veteran and National Book Award Finalist, an astonishing reckoning with the nature of combat and the human cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. Toward the beginning of [this book], Elliot Ackerman sits in a refugee camp in southern Turkey, across the table from a man named Abu Hassar, who fought for al-Qaeda in Iraq and whose connections to the Islamic State are murky. At first, Ackerman pretends to have been...
93) DARLING GIRLS
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Get ready for another twisty domestic thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of THE SOULMATE. From the outside, Alicia, Jessica and Norah might seem like ordinary women you'd meet on the street any day of the week. Sure, Jessica has a little OCD and Norah has some anger issues. And Alicia has low self-esteem that manifests itself in surprising ways. But these three have a bond that no one can fully understand. It's a bond that takes...
94) Wilde love
Author
Series
Dark Horse Dive Bar novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Lyric Wilde's not whipping up the best food in town at the Dark Horse Dive Bar, she's making a name for herself as a rising singer-songwriter. And if any of her online followers cross the line from friendly to fanatical, well, Lyric figures it goes with the territory--she can take care of herself. But there's one fan she wants to get to know better--a silent, sexy biker named Viper. A man who makes her think mine every time she looks at him....
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Bono, artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2, has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he's lived, the challenges he's faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him. 'When I started to write this book, I was hoping to draw in detail what I'd previously only sketched in songs. The people, places, and possibilities in my life. Surrender...
96) Begging for it
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The provocative author of Asking for It once again explores the dark side of erotic obsession, and the secrets that make it as dangerous as it is irresistible. Some secrets should only be shared in the dark. Jonah and Vivienne's erotic bond--living out raw scenarios of captivity and force--began as no-strings sex between strangers who shared the same desires. Now the intimacy between them is turning into love, but it's a love built on fantasies so...
Author
Publisher
JC Lattès
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
"À Seabrook, petite ville de Floride, le jeune avocat Keith Russo est tué à coups de fusil alors qu'il travaille un soir dans son bureau. L'assassin n'a laissé aucun indice. Aucun témoin, aucun mobile. Mais la police trouve bientôt un suspect, Quincy Miller, un homme noir et ancien client de Russo. Quincy est jugé et condamné à une peine de réclusion à perpétuité. Pendant vingt-deux ans, il se morfond en prison et ne cesse de clamer son...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking, controversial dive into the role psychedelics have played in the human experience of the Divine throughout Western history, and the answer to a 2,000 year old mystery that could shake the Church to its foundations. The Immortality Key connects the lost, psychedelic sacrament of Greek religion to early Christianity-exposing the true origins of Western Civilization. In the tradition of unsolved historical mysteries like David Grann's...
Publisher
Shout Mouse Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"During an era characterized by both hijabi fashion models and enduring post-9/11 stereotypes, ten Muslim American teenagers came together to explore what it means to be young and Muslim in America today. These teens represent the tremendous diversity within the American Muslim community, and their book, like them, contains multitudes. Bilal writes about being a Muslim musician. Imaan imagines a dystopian Underground. Samaa creates her own cartoon...
100) Spellbound
Author
Series
Publisher
Marvel Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old T'Challa can't wait to go back to America to visit his friends Sheila and Zeke, who are staying with Sheila's grandmother in Beaumont, a small Alabama town, over their summer break. He's thrilled to be on vacation away from his duties as the Prince of Wakanda for a few weeks, and he's taking full advantage of his access to the amazing food and the South's rich history. But as T'Challa continues to explore the town, he finds that...
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