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581) A million things
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"A bursting, heartfelt debut following fifty-five days in the life of ten-year-old Rae, who must look after herself and her dog when her mother disappears. For as long as Rae can remember, it's always just been her, Mum, and their dog, Splinter. They don't have a lot, but that's fine, because they like keeping their world small. They have their walks, their cooking routines, and sometimes Mum will disappear for a little while to clear her head, but...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"This summer, meet your neighbors. The residents of the exclusive cul-de-sac on Alton Road are entangled in a web of secrets and scandal utterly unknown to the outside world, and even to each other. On the night of the annual Summer block party, there hasbeen a murder. But, who did it and why takes readers back one year earlier, as rivalries and betrayals unfold-discovering that the real danger lies within their own block and nothing-and no one-is...
583) Sweet salt air
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English
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Charlotte and Nicole were once the best of friends, spending summers together in Nicole's family's island house, but they have since grown apart. A successful travel writer, Charlotte lives on the road, while Nicole, a food blogger, lives in Philadelphia with her surgeon-husband, Julian. When Nicole returns to the island house in order to write a book about island food, she invites her old friend Charlotte for both sentimental and practical reasons....
584) Alas de sangre
Author
Series
Empyrean volume 1
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
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"Bestseller del New York Times Un drag��n sin su jinete es una tragedia. Un jinete sin su drag��n est�� muerto. ���Art��culo uno, secci��n uno del C��digo de jinetes de dragones Violet Sorrengail cre��a que a sus veinte a��os se unir��a al Cuadrante de los Escribas para vivir una vida tranquila, estudiando sus amados libros y las historias antiguas que tanto le fascinan. Sin embargo, por ��rdenes de su...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Les, a long-time sheriff nearing retirement, contends with the ravages of poverty and crystal meth on his small Appalachian town. Nestled in a beautiful hollow, his is a tight-knit community rife with secrets and suspicious of outsiders. Becky, a park ranger, arrives in this remote patch of North Carolina hoping to ease the anguish of a harrowing past. Searching for tranquility amid the verdant stillness, she finds solace in poetry and the splendor...
586) Love
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Two old friends reconnect in Dublin for a dramatic, revealing evening of drinking and storytelling in this winning new novel from the author of the Booker Prize winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Davy and Joe were drinking pals back in their Dublin youth. Davy rarely sees Joe for a pint anymore--maybe one or two when Davy comes over from England to check on his elderly father. But tonight Davy's father is dying in the hospice, and Joe has a secret that...
587) The oxygen farmer
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Publisher
CamCat Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Sabotage, murder, cover-ups. Just another day on the Moon. After 35 years of living on the Moon, cranky old oxygen farmer Millennium Harrison has stumbled onto a hidden facility in the shadows of the Slayton Ridge Exclusion Zone with a radiation leak and a deadly secret. Mil's discovery leads to the death of a young astronaut, sabotage, murder, and cover-ups that may go all the way to the Chief Administrator of the space agency. Unfortunately, she...
588) The retreat
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Sherri Smith illuminates the dark side of the self-care and wellness industry in a thrilling ride of revenge perfect for fans of Liane Moriartys Nine Perfect Strangers. The Retreat is a twisting, bone-chilling suspense that asks: how well do you really know your friends? four women. Four secrets. A weekend that will change them foreverif they survive. Katie Manning was a beloved child star until her mid-teens when her manager attacked and permanently...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Two women. Two secrets. One terrible night. PAXOS, GREECE The vacation house is a luxurious getaway for a wealthy English family, windows open to sun and the sea, a sparkling swimming pool, and a verdant garden. One hot summer night, while the parents and their friends drink wine and amuse themselves, a young woman—the teenage daughter of the Greek caretaker—ventures for a walk on their private beach. Her life will never be the same again....
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"When a professor's student disappears and is presumed dead, he passes off her manuscript as his own-only to find out it implicates him in an unsolved murder in this new thriller from the USA Today bestselling author of The Request. After years of struggling to write after the deaths of his wife and son, English professor Connor Nye publishes his first novel, a thriller about the murder of a young woman. There's just one problem: Connor didn't write...
591) Sun damage: a novel
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English
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"In a tiny village in Provence, nine guests arrive at a luxury holiday home. The visitors know each other well, or at least they think they do. The only stranger among them is Lulu, the young woman catering their stay. But Lulu is not exactly the woman onthe video the guests thought they'd hired. Turns out Lulu has plenty to hide-and nowhere to run as the heat rises. In this seemingly idyllic getaway, under the scorching sun, loyalties will be tested,...
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English
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Part coming-of-age story, part mystery, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep is a quirky and utterly charming debut about a community in need of absolution and two girls learning what it means to belong.
“I loved this book. Its one of those books that you just want to give to everybody.” Nancy Pearl on NPRs Morning Edition. Part coming-of-age story, part mystery, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep is a quirky and utterly charming debut about a community...
593) Double threat
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Double Threat is a new stand-alone thriller from New York Times bestselling author F. Paul Wilson. Daley has a problem. Her 26-year life so far has been unconventional, to say the least, but now she's got this voice in her head. It claims to be a separate entity that's going to be sharing her body from now on. At first she thinks she's gone schizophrenic, then considers the possibility that maybe she really has been invaded - but by what? Medical...
594) Barefoot beach
Author
Series
Harmony Harbor volume 8
Publisher
Forever, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Can a summer of love make up for a lifetime of secrets? Wedding fever has taken over Harmony Harbor this summer, and the local matchmakers have set their sights on Theia Lawson, a former navy pilot who's in town for a stay at Greystone Manor. And while Theia's got her reasons to put this small town behind her as fast as she can, there's a certain tall, dark, and irresistible man that she can't seem to get off her mind. Firefighter Marco DiRossi wants...
595) The shallows
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Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When her daughter innocently uploads footage of her secretive neighbor's brutal murder, Emma, terrified the killer will know what they've seen, discovers her husband knows more than he's revealing as he forces them to escape on their yacht, and questioning what they're hiding from, wonders who else knows her own secret"--
""An exhilarating and accomplished action-packed thriller."―B. A. Paris Her best friend is dead. Emma and Ariella, neighbours...
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Publisher
Amara, an imprint of Entangled Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
''Governess Miss Viola Winslow is quite familiar with the rules of society, and her place in it. Still, it hasn’t stopped her from being horribly in love with the Duke of Huntington for years. But while the duke knows little of her foolish passions, the same cannot be said of Viola’s charge—a precocious fourteen-year-old obsessed with her governess’s secret romance. As a confirmed bachelor with no interest in marriage, the Duke of Huntington...
597) Magic in the weave
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Series
Gabriel Taverner novels volume 4
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"October, 1604. Plague has hit London, and the theatres are closed. But the capital's loss is Plymouth's gain, when a London theatre troupe, the Company, arrive on their 'Plague Tour'. Country physician Gabriel Taverner is both bewitched and unnerved by the Company's sexually charged staging of Othello. The play thrums with magic and witchcraft - perilous subjects, with the King's deadly spies lurking around every corner. When Gabriel's good friend,...
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Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When nineteen-year-old Jill Moss goes missing near the Utah-Arizona border, everyone has an opinion. Only Norma Gallagher, a search and rescue volunteer, knows the real story. Norma’s already found Jill, huddled in a cave and terrified that her abusive boyfriend, Jake, will kill her. If he ever sees her again. To protect Jill from a dangerous man, Norma quietly delivers the girl to her grateful parents in California, even though she’s...
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Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"A new life in paradise should have healed her wounds. But for a woman struggling to hold on to her family and her sanity, one stormy night could change everything. Blow by blow, Annie Lin’s life crumbles. Her dance studio goes bankrupt. Her mother and beloved dog are gone the same year. Then a terrible accident leaves her young son traumatized. It’s time for a change. Palm trees, mai tais, peace and quiet—Annie should be at ease, safe in her...
600) The raging storm
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"Ann Cleeves―New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows―returns with The Raging Storm, the extraordinary third installment in the Matthew Venn series. Fierce winds, dark secrets, deadly intentions. When Jem Rosco―sailor, adventurer, and legend―blows into town in the middle of an autumn gale, the residents of Greystone, Devon, are delighted to have a celebrity in their...
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