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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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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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In 1921 Penang, when "Willie" Somerset Maugham a famed writer and old friend of her husband's, arrives for an extended stay, Lesley, as her friendship with Willie grows, makes a dangerous decision to confide in him about life in the Straits Settlement of Penang, including her relationship with a charismatic Chinese revolutionary-a confession that has devastating consequences.
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Five contestants have been chosen to compete for ten million dollars on the game show One Lucky Winner. The catch? None of them knows what (or who) to expect, and it will be live streamed all over the world. Completely secluded in an estate in Northern California, with strict instructions not to leave the property and zero contact with the outside world, the competitors start to feel a little too isolated. When long-kept secrets begin to rise to the...
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"Meg works for a casino in LA, catching cheaters and popping a few too many pain pills to cope, following a far different path than her sister Haley, a famous actress. But suddenly reports surface of Haley dying at the remote rehab facility where she had been forced to go to get her addictions under control. There are whispers of suicide, but Meg can't believe it. She decides that the best way to find out what happened to her sister is to check in...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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In 1943, 14-year-old Massimo, rescued by a mysterious man called Pietro Houdini who preserves the treasures within the Benedictine abbey's wall, accompanies him on a World War II art-heist adventure where they lie, cheat, steal, fight, kill and sin to survive, while smuggling Renaissance masterpieces they've rescued from the "safe keeping" of the Germans.
7) The guest
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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When their friend Laure moves in after her husband reveals he’s had a child with another woman, Iris and Gabriel, with Laure acting increasingly unhinged and broken relationships and hidden motives linked to a recent tragedy piling up around them, must reckon with whether their happy life has been an illusion.
8) Think twice
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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When his former client, renowned basketball coach Greg Downing, who is deceased, has been placed at the scene of a double homicide, sports agent Myron Bolitar and Win, his longtime friend and colleague, search for answers, but the more they discover about Greg, the more dangerous their world becomes.
10) Ilium
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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A young woman unwittingly finds herself plunged into the world of international espionage when she becomes a perfect asset in the long overdue finale of a covert special operation coordinated by the CIA and Mossad.
11) Matterhorn
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Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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When his son Will dies following in his footsteps, former CIA agent Mac Dekker, forced into hiding after being framed for treason, returns to the field to uncover the secrets Will was hiding and finds himself working to stop a terrorist plot that threatens thousands.
12) The teacher
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English
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"Something isn't right at Caseham High School. Last year, the school was rocked by scandal: a teacher was accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student. Now, Addie is a pariah and will do anything to get through the year. More than that, she's desperate to keep the truth from coming to light. Evie, a colleague of the disgraced teacher, is horrified to find Addie in her class. She knows the girl can't be trusted and soon realizes she's...
13) Two dead wives
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English
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Living in a small village while she recovers from illness, Stacie Jones, shielded from the outside world by her father, finds her reclusive life shattered when she is linked to a scandalous and sad case of a missing woman with a shocking secret.
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Kindom trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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When she discovers a secret that could take down Kindom, the ruling power of the galaxy, occasional thief Jun Ironway is hunted by the two most brutal clerics of the Kindom while a ghost from their shared pasts, known only as Six, tracks all three.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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In 1999 Texas, Lia Cope, when her grandmother Mineko moves in, connects with her over stories of the Turtle House in Japan and the secrets they both carry, and when Mineko is forced to live in an assisted living community, she and Lia devise a plan to bring a beloved lost place to life.
16) Tourist season
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English
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Trapped alone in her fiancé's family 'cottage' as a hurricane bears down on Mariners Island, Ismay Chalmers, as she prepares for the storm, discovers some disturbing items hidden in a closet that have her questioning everything she knows about the seemingly perfect Windsor family.
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Harpervia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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When their best friend Avishay, who is dead, is up for the Nobel Prize for Economics, his four closest friends conspire to conceal Avishay’s corpse until the committee’s announcement and must decide how far they’ll go to help their friend die a winner.
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Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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When she realizes there is something off about her new boyfriend, Mica Angeles finds herself living in a horror novel and must find a way to leave him without bringing an end to everything she knows and loves.
19) Gaslight
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Series
Philip Taiwo mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A shadow has fallen over the megachurch in Ogun State, Nigeria: the beloved Bishop Dawodu has been arrested for the murder of his wife. Sade Dawodu has vanished without a trace and although no body has been found, the police have acted based on what they claim is damning evidence. Philip Taiwo returns to solve the case, and in so doing, uncovers dark secrets the church has worked tirelessly to hide.
20) Wolf of Wessex
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Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
AD 838. Deep in the forests of Wessex, Dunston's solitary existence is shattered when he stumbles on a mutilated corpse. Accused of the murder, Dunston must clear his name and keep the dead man's daughter alive in the face of savage pursuers desperate to prevent a terrible secret from being revealed. Rushing headlong through Wessex, Dunston will need to use all the skills of survival garnered from a lifetime in the wilderness. And if he has any hope...
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