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After losing his prestigious job as head of a film studio, Hollywood executive Andy Westfield retreats to a tiny coastal village in England to figure out his next move. There he hires a local woman, an unemployed former journalist and aspiring novelist named Violet, to help him get his affairs in order. When Violet leaves her unfinished manuscript at Andy's house, Andy reads it and realizes it could be adapted into a great film. Could this be the...
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Dear committee members volume 3
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Chaperoning Payne University’s annual “Experience: Abroad,” beleaguered Professor Jason Fitger strives to navigate safe passage for 11 undergrads, including a claustrophobe, a pair of unreconciled lovers and a young woman who has never been away from her cat before, through a sea of personal, institutional and international troubles.
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Unfairly dismissed from her position as housekeeper for the grandest home in Mayfair, Mrs. King, along with an eclectic group of women, plans a daring heist on the night of the house’s highly anticipated costume ball, where she’ll get something she wants even more than money: the truth.
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When she makes a wish to skip to the good part of her life, 26-year-old Lucy Young wakes up to a handsome husband, a high-powered job and two perfect children, and as she embraces the new relationships and the perks of maturity, she must ask herself some difficult questions.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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When the body of Jem Rosco—sailor, adventurer and legend—is found in a dinghy, anchored off Scully Cove, DI Matthew Venn returns home to investigate where he is faced with superstition and rumor as another body is found, placing him and his team in danger.
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Royal match volume 4
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English
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The Countess of Dearborn, keeping her no-good husband's family believing he's alive and well so they don't kick her out, is stunned when the Weslorian Earl of Marlaine arrives from Egypt, duty bound to return her deceased husband's precious pocket watch, and draws him into her ruse.
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After the Great War, American heiress Ruby Vaughn, delivering a box of books to Penryth Hall, the home to her once dearest friend, Tamsyn, is drawn into a mystery when Tamsyn’s husband is murdered and the crime is blamed on a curse—one that could claim Tamsyn’s life as well.
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As World War I draws the young men of Britain away to fight, Peggy, who works in the bindery at Oxford’s university press, sees the possibility of another future when refugees arrive from Belgium, but as war and illness reshape her world, her love for a Belgian soldier threatens to hold her back.
11) Knockout
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Hell's belles volume 3
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English
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One of the Hell's Belles--a group of vigilantes operating outside the notice of most of London--Lady Imogen Loveless, who has a penchant for experiments and explosives, meets her match in a brilliant detective who, caught up in her chaotic world, tempts her like no other.
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Cormoran Strike novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside. The Universal Humanitarian Church is, on the surface, a peaceable organization that campaigns for a better world. Yet Strike discovers that beneath the surface there are deeply sinister undertones, and unexplained deaths. In order to try to rescue Will, Strike's business partner, Robin Ellacott,...
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Blackbird trilogy (Heather Graham) volume 2
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English
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Following in the footsteps of notorious serial murderer Jack the Ripper, a killer is stalking the streets of London. FBI agents Della Hamilton and Mason Carter must shine a light on the shadowy corners in a city almost 2,000 years old to draw out evil.
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The Parisian Oprhan volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In 1940, Evelyne Redfern, a secretary for Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the cabinet war rooms, uses all of her amateur sleuthing expertise garnered from years of reading mysteries to solve a murder, teaming up with a cagey minister’s aide to expose a traitor in their midst.
16) Small worlds
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Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Set over the course of three summers, Small Worlds follows Stephen, a first-generation Londoner born to Ghanaian immigrant parents, brother to Ray, and best friend to Adeline. On the cusp of big life changes, Stephen feels pressured to follow a certain track-a university degree, a move out of home-but when he decides instead to follow his first love, music, his world and family fracture in ways he didn't foresee. Now Stephen must find a path and...
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Drop dead dukes volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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To salvage his reputation, Giles Drew, the Duke of Basingstoke, needs a wife and proposes to prim and penniless Francesca Stanhope, but finds their union turning into a clash of wills as they each attempt to tame each other, especially in the bedroom.
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2023.
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English
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When Agnes and the other inhabitants of Sunset Hall, a house share for the old and unruly in the sleepy English countryside, investigate the murder of their neighbor while covering up another, they step out of their comfort zone to tangle with inept criminals, the local authorities and their own dark secrets.
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English
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In 1931, the world’s greatest detective, Hercule Poirot, finds his plans for a much-needed, restful Christmas holiday thwarted by a murder investigation and has less than a week to solve the crime and prevent more murders while someone plans to wreak holiday havoc on his life.
20) The fraud
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In 1873 Victorian London, with the city mesmerized by the “Tichborne Trial,” wherein a lower-class butcher from Australia claims he is the rightful heir of a sizable estate and title, Mrs. Eliza Touchet becomes determined to find out if he’s really who he says he is or if he’s a fraud.
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