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2024.
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English
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Amor Towles shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of compromise which operate at the heart of modern marriages. In Towles's novel, Rules of Civility, the indomitable Evelyn Ross leaves...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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In 1976 Long Island, Ellis Lacey, an Irishwoman in her 40s with no one to rely on in this still-new country, discovers her husband got a woman pregnant and the woman’s husband refuses to raise it, forcing Ellis to decide what she will do and not do in this unexpected situation.
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During World War II, Sophia Alexander, after her mother dies and her father is sent to a concentration camp, becomes increasingly involved in the resistance and while working with the convent nuns, the Sisters of Mercy she risks everything to help those in need—no matter what the cost.
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Pub. Date
2024
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English
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With her husband and son off at war, and the burden of running the farm falling to her, Joetta, shunned because she doesn't support the Confederacy's position on slavery, finds one act of kindness bringing her family to the edge of even greater disaster.
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A time for swords volume 2
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Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Northumbria, AD 794.Those who rule the seas, rule the land. None know the truth of this more than the Vikings. To compete with the seafaring raiders, the king of Northumbria orders the construction of his own longships under the command of oath-sworn Norseman, Runolf. When the Vikings attack for the second year, the king sends cleric turned warrior, Hunlaf, on a mission across the Whale Road to persuade the king of Rogaland into an alliance. But Runolf...
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Pub. Date
2024
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English
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR FOR 2024 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view
"Genius"—The Atlantic • "A masterpiece that will help redefine one of the classics of American literature, while...
"Genius"—The Atlantic • "A masterpiece that will help redefine one of the classics of American literature, while...
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Pub. Date
2024
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English
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A TODAY Show Read With Jenna Book Club Pick!
A powerful novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored there
It is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built. For Francisco, a local fisherman who resents the foreign powers clamoring for a slice of his country, nothing is more
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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A disgraced doctor’s quest for surgical renown in 19th-century America leads him down a horrifying path of experimentation on marginalized women at a New Jersey asylum, until his obsession with a young Irish indentured servant brings about his ultimate destruction.
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Pub. Date
2024
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “mouthwatering” (The New York Times) adventure through the food, art, and fashion scenes of 1980s Paris—from the bestselling author of Save Me the Plums and Delicious!
“An enchanting and irresistible feast . . . As with a perfect meal in the world’s most magical city, I never wanted this sublime novel to end.”—Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney,...
“An enchanting and irresistible feast . . . As with a perfect meal in the world’s most magical city, I never wanted this sublime novel to end.”—Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney,...
10) Anne dares
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Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Anne is excited to be a guest at a party at Diana Barry's home. But when the dares start, mean Josie Pye dares Anne to climb the house and walk along the ridgepole! The dangerous dare ends in injury . . . and teaches Anne an important lesson. But Anne must pluck up her courage again when she is chosen to recite at a Christmas concert! And what is shy Matthew Cuthbert hiding from the family?
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A time for swords volume 1
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Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Lindisfarne, AD 793. There had been portents – famine, whirlwinds, lightning from clear skies, serpents seen flying through the air. But when the raiders came, no one was prepared. They came from the North, their dragon-prowed longships gliding out of the dawn mist as they descended on the kingdom's most sacred site. It is 8th June AD 793, and with the pillage of the monastery on Lindisfarne, the Viking Age has begun. While his fellow monks flee...
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Set in Syracuse, Sicily, during the Peloponnesian War but told in contemporary Irish dialect, Glorious Exploits follows Lampo and Gelon, best friends since childhood. Thrilled to have survived the Athenians' recent invasion and as shocked by the Syracusan victory as everyone else, these unemployed potters are in a mood to celebrate. Of course, they hate the Athenians. Still, that doesn't mean you can't love the theatre of their great playwright Euripides,...
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Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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During World War II, Catherine Duquette and Maggie McCleod come from different worlds but are thrown together on a USO variety show touring North Africa. While they each have secret reasons for accepting the job, neither anticipates the danger and intrigue they'll encounter performing so close to the front lines.
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LK Wilde
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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People say you get one life, but I've lived three. I was born Ellen Hardy in 1900, dragged up in Queen Caroline's Yard, Norwich.There was nothing royal about our yard, and Mum was no queen. At six years old Mum sold me. I became Nellie Westrop, roaming the country in a showman's wagon, learning the art of the fair. And I've been the infamous Queenie of Norwich, moving up in the world by any means, legal or not. I've been heartbroken, abandoned, bought...
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Pub. Date
2022
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IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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From critically acclaimed author Barbara Dee comes a "thought-provoking...wonderful" (School Library Journal) middle grade novel about a young girl who channels her anxiety about the climate crisis into rallying her community to save a local river.
Twelve-year-old Haven Jacobs can't stop thinking about the climate crisis. In fact, her anxiety about the state of the planet is starting to interfere with her schoolwork, her friendships,...
Twelve-year-old Haven Jacobs can't stop thinking about the climate crisis. In fact, her anxiety about the state of the planet is starting to interfere with her schoolwork, her friendships,...
16) Master of war
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Master of war (David Gilman) volume 1
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Head Of Zeus
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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1346: For Thomas Blackstone the choice is easy - dance on the end of a rope for a murder he did not commit, or take up his war bow and join the king's invasion. As he fights his way across northern France, Blackstone learns the brutal lessons of war - from the terror and confusion of his first taste of combat, to the savage realities of siege warfare. Vastly outnumbered, Edward III's army will finally confront the armoured might of the French nobility...
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Pub. Date
2024
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English
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
One of the NY Post's Best Beach Reads, an US Weekly pick for "mystery novels to read on the beach”, an Eater food-filled beach read for your summer vacation ("an appealing mix of romantic escapism, whodunit intrigue, and feminist introspection.")
From bestselling author and award-winning journalist Jo Piazza, comes "A Journey to the Boot of Italy, With Murder, Romance and...
One of the NY Post's Best Beach Reads, an US Weekly pick for "mystery novels to read on the beach”, an Eater food-filled beach read for your summer vacation ("an appealing mix of romantic escapism, whodunit intrigue, and feminist introspection.")
From bestselling author and award-winning journalist Jo Piazza, comes "A Journey to the Boot of Italy, With Murder, Romance and...
18) The familiar
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2024.
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English
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During the Spanish Golden Age, Luzia Cotado, gifted with magic, garners the attention of the disgraced secretary to Spain’s king, plunging her into a world where the lines between magic, science and fraud blur—and where she must enlist the help of an embittered immortal familiar whose deadly secrets could destroy them both.
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In Victorian era New York, when Louisa, a reporter researching the dangers of patent medicines, is found strangled in New Century Magazine’s lobby after interviewing her, midwife Sarah Malloy and her PI husband, with the police hinting Louisa got what she deserved, take it upon themselves to catch a cold-blood killer.
20) The heist
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Detective Isaac Bell investigates an attack on the Federal Reserve being led by a master thief and his assassin accomplice in 1914 Washington, D.C.
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