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2024.
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English
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"Welcome to the twisted world of the Bird twins, where one sister's lies sends the other into the dangerous past"--
"When Kat Bird wakes up from a coma, she sees her mirror image: Jude, her twin sister. Jude’s face and name are the only memories Kat has from before her accident. As Kat tries to make sense of things, she believes Jude will provide all the answers to her most pressing questions: Who am I? Where am I? What actually happened? Amid...
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"From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who has lived his life through and for literature, unaware that his own experience is a poignant and affecting narrative in itself. Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books and small comforts in a mint-colored house in Portland, Oregon. One morning on his daily walk he encounters a confused elderly woman lost in a market...
3) Los llanos
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Series
Narrativas hispánicas volume 658
Publisher
Anagrama
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
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A man reflects and writes about his fleeting encounters with the people who pass by his rural town and his own life experiences that led him there.
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English
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"An award-winning international sensation-with a second-act dystopian twist-Time Shelter is a tour de force set in a world clamoring for the past before it forgets. "At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created," begins Time Shelter's enigmatic narrator, who will go unnamed. "In the mid-seventeenth century, the Irish bishop Ussher calculated not only the exact year, but also a starting date: October...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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""A lyrical, emotional novel...Reminiscent of HBO's hit The White Lotus, Bishop's tale will draw readers in with its realistic descriptions of the island. The obvious read-alike is My Dark Vanessa, and the plot-driven tension will appeal to fans of psychological suspense." --Booklist (starred review) Rachel has been in love with Alistair for fifteen years. Even though she's now married to someone else. Even though she was a teenager when they met....
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Secret projects volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A man awakes in a clearing in what appears to be medieval England with no memory of who he is, where he came from, or why he is there. Chased by a group from his own time, his sole hope for survival lies in regaining his missing memories, making allies among the locals, and perhaps even trusting in their superstitious boasts. His only help from the "real world" should have been a guidebook entitled The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval...
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Mira
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"The only thing harder than finding someone in a time loop is losing them. Grieving her best friend's recent death, neuroscientist Mariana Pineda’s ready to give up everything to start anew. Even her career--after one last week consulting at a top secret particle accelerator. Except the strangest thing happens: a man stops her…and claims they've met before. Carter Cho knows who she is, why she's mourning, why she's there. And he needs...
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Kamogawa food detectives volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series, for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold. What's the one dish you'd do anything to taste just one more time? Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner serves up deliciously extravagant meals. But that's not the main reason customers stop by . . . The father-daughter...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Imperfectionists, the story of a chameleonic writer desperate to finish her final book, and the indelible characters from her own life who intrude on those efforts with increasingly unpredictable results. Dora Frenhofer, a once successful but now aging and embittered novelist, knows her mind is going. She is determined, however, to finish her final book, and reverse her fortunes, before time...
10) Prophet: a novel
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Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Adam Rubenstein and Sunil Rao have been nemeses and reluctant partners since their Uzbekistan days. Adam is a seemingly unflappable American Intelligence officer and Rao is an ex-MI6 agent, an addict and rudderless pleasure hound, with the uncanny ability to discern the truth of things--about everyone and everything other than Adam. When an American diner turns up in a foggy field in the UK and is followed by a mysterious death, Adam and Rao are...
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Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"For fans of Matt Haig and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue comes a big-hearted novel following a man who can never be remembered and his journey to become unforgettable... On an ordinary night in an ordinary year, Tommy Llewellyn's doting parents wake in a home without toys and diapers, without photos of their baby scattered about, and without any idea that the small child asleep in his crib is theirs. That's because Tommy is a boy destined to never...
12) Austral
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Series
Narrativas hispánicas volume 694
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
[bril 2022]
Language
Español
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Una deslumbrante novela sobre las huellas que dejamos, las huellas que borramos y las huellas que buscamos reconstruir. En esta brillante novela hay tres pérdidas y tres búsquedas. La escritora inglesa Aliza Abravanel intenta, en batalla con la afasia, terminar su libro. Un último hablante indígena se confronta con el desvanecimiento de su cultura y su idioma mientras un antropólogo lucha por evitarlo. A través de la construcción de un esotérico...
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Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"Margaret Murphy is a weaver of fantastic tales, growing up in a world where the truth is too much for one little girl to endure. Her first memory is of the day her friend Agnes died. No one blames Margaret. Not in so many words. Her mother insists to everyone who will listen that her daughter never even left the house that day...Margaret wills herself to forget these unbearable memories, replacing them with imagined stories full of faith and magic--that...
14) Austral
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"From the author of Natural History, a dazzling novel about legacy, memory, and the desire to know and be known"--
"From Carlos Fonseca comes a dazzling novel about legacy, memory, and the desire to know and be known. Julio is a disillusioned professor of literature, a perpetual wanderer who has spent years away from his home, teaching in the United States. He receives a posthumous summons from an old friend, the writer Aliza Abravanel, to uncover...
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Two Dollar Radio
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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''* An ABA "December 2023 Indie Next List" pick. From the award-winning author of A Questionable Shape and White Dialogues, a brilliant, anxious, and hilarious new collection. A man lends his phone to a stranger in the mall, setting off an uncanny series of Unknown calls that come to haunt his relationship with jealousy and dread. A well-meaning locavore tries to butcher his backyard chickens humanely, only to find himself absorbed into the absurd...
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