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2) Embassytown
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English
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Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist on a distant planet populated by the Ariekei, sentient beings famed for their unique language, returns to Embassytown after many years of deep space exploration to find she has become a living simile in the Ariekei language even though she cannot speak it, and she is torn by competing loyalties when hostilities erupt between humans and aliens.
3) A better man
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Searching for a missing woman amid a catastrophic flood and blistering social media attacks, a demoted Armand Gamache bonds with the victim's distraught father, who contemplates a murder of his own.
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English
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"Two criminal empires together control all of New England. Until a beautiful modern-day Helen of Troy comes between the Irish and the Italians, launching a war that will see them kill each other, destroy an alliance, and set a city on fire. Danny Ryan yearns for a more “legit” life and a place in the sun. But as the bloody conflict stacks body on body and brother turns against brother, Danny has to rise above himself. To save the friends he loves...
5) The taster
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Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
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In early 1943, Magda Ritters parents send her to relatives in Bavaria, hoping to keep her safe from the Allied bombs strafing Berlin. Young German women are expected to do their duty working for the Reich or marrying to produce strong, healthy children. After an interview with the civil service, Magda is assigned to the Berghof, Hitlers mountain retreat. Only after weeks of training does she learn her assignment: she will be one of several young women...
6) Gotcha!
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Series
Sisterhood series volume 21
Language
English
Description
Sometimes, justice is a long time coming. That's the case with Julie Wyatt, whose story strikes close to home for the original founder of the Sisterhood, Myra Rutledge, and her best friend--and fellow Sister--Annie. Julie is convinced her greedy daughter-in-law Darlene had something to do with the mysterious circumstances surrounding her son Larry's death.
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Series
Hector Cross novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Hector Cross left behind a career of high risks and warfare when he married his beloved Hazel Bannock. But after his new life is tragically upended, he recognizes the ruthless hand of an old enemy behind the attack. Determined to fight back, Hector draws together a team of his most loyal friends and fellow warriors to hunt down those who pursue him and his loved ones. For he and Hazel have a child, a precious daughter, whom he will go to the ends...
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English
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To save himself from the hangman's noose, John Wesley Hawkins agrees to infiltrate the Irish resistance against English rule by seducing the rebels' secrets from Caitlin MacBride, a headstrong Irishwoman who spurns his advances, making no secret of her loyalty to her countrymen.
11) Whiskey
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Publisher
MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A family moves violently through their lives, fierce with each other yet deeply loyal.
Two self-destructive, but fiercely loyal brothers find themselves entwined in domestic troubles, alcoholic benders, their parents' frequent collisions with the law, and religious fanaticism.
12) Trespasses
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"“Brilliant, beautiful, heartbreaking.”٬٢٠١٤؛J.Courtney Sullivan, New York Times Book Review “TRESPASSES vaults Kennedy into the ranks of such contemporary masters as McCann, Claire Keegan, Colin Barrett, and fellow Sligo resident, Kevin Barry.” —Oprah Daily Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between allegiance to community and a dangerous passion. Amid daily reports...
13) The broken blade
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Series
Knight of Eldaran trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Lion Fiction
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Despite being the second-in-command to the ruler of the River Realm, Eamon Goodman becomes the victim of vengeful plots engineered by the other Quarter Hands. Eamon finds himself powerless to stop them, and the people he cares for are under threat. He then discovers that the Nightholt--the book he long ago delivered to the Master's Hands--holds the key to the Master's power, which will become absolute upon the death of the King. Thus the stage for...
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
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In a dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate through a Machiavellian experiment how easily loving couples, caring friends, and devoted siblings can betray their loyalties. As puppet master, Julius artfully plays on the human tendency to embrace drama and intrigue and to prefer the distraction of confrontations to the difficult effort of communicating openly and...
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Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Alex Cohen, a twenty-six-year-old Jewish Bostonian, is living in southern China, where his father runs their family-owned shoe factory. Alex reluctantly assumes the helm of the company, but as he explores the plants vast floors and assembly lines, he comes to a grim realization: employees are exploited, regulatory systems are corrupt and Alexs own father is engaging in bribes to protect the bottom line. When Alex meets a seamstress named Ivy, his...
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Publisher
37 Ink/Atria
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In the far north of Italy lies the valley of the ice-cream makers: about a dozen villages where, for generations, people have specialized in making ice cream. Giuseppe Talamini claims it was actually invented here. Every spring his family sets off for the ice-cream parlour in Rotterdam, returning to the mountains only in winter. Eldest son Giovanni Talamini decides to break with this tradition by pursuing a literary career. But then one day his younger...
17) Ciudad en llamas
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Publisher
HarperCollinsEspanol
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
Providence, Rhode Island, 1986. Danny Ryan, de veintinueve anos, es un estibador muy trabajador, un esposo amoroso, un amigo leal y, ocasionalmente, un "musculo" del sindicato del crimen irlandes que supervisa gran parte de la ciudad. Anhela algo mas y suena con empezar de cero, en algun lugar lejano. Pero cuando una Helena de Troya moderna desencadena una guerra entre facciones mafiosas rivales, Danny se ve envuelto en un conflicto del que no puede...
Author
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In Jesus, Judas believes he has found the One-- a miracle-worker. The promised Messiah and future king of the Jews, destined to overthrow Roman rule. Galvanized, Judas joins the Nazarene's followers, ready to enact the change he has waited for all his life. But Judas' vision of a nation free from Roman rule is crushed by the inexplicable actions of the Nazarene himself, who will not bow to social or religious convention-- who seems in the end to even...
19) A game of lies
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Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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"In preparation for the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the Nazis have rid the streets of anti-Semitic material and other propaganda, and present a peace-seeking face to the world. Journalist and part-time spy for the British, Hannah Vogel, shudders to think of what lies under the temporary coat of gloss. Posing as travel reporter Adelheid Zinsli and lover of SS officer Lars Lang, Hannah has been collecting Nazi secrets from Lang and smuggling them back to...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Presented by Hemingway's grandson Seán Hemingway, with a personal foreword by the authors son Patrick Hemingway, this new enhanced Library Edition of Ernest Hemingway's masterpiece about an American in the Spanish Civil War features early drafts and supplementary material, including three previously uncollected short stories on war by one of the greatest writers on the subject in history. In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil...
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