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1081) House of cotton
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Language
English
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"Nineteen years old, broke, and effectively an orphan, Magnolia doesn't have much to look forward to. She feels stuck and haunted: by her overdrawn bank account, by her predatory landlord, by the ghost of her late grandmother Mama Brown. One night while working at her dead-end job, a mysterious, slick stranger named Cotton walks in and offers to turn Magnolia's luck around. He offers her a lucrative "modeling" job at his family's funeral home. Magnolia...
1082) Mad about you: a novel
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Language
English
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After turning down a proposal from her long-time partner, in-demand wedding photographer Harriet Hatley moves in with a new roommate, a hopeless romantic who makes her question everything about her life and her past when her heavily guarded secret comes to light.
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Finds Botswana's premier detective agency as busy as ever, with no shortage of sensitive situations requiring Mma Ramotswe's keen eye and discerning input. Through it all, Mma Ramotswe will demonstrate that there are solutions to all manner of difficulties, there to be discovered as long as one is led by kindness, grace, and logic, and can rely on the wise counsel of close friends and loved ones. Sometimes, she reminds us, the best solutions to life's...
1084) The beach trees
Author
Publisher
New American Library Accent
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
From the time she was twelve, Julie Holt knew what a random tragedy can do to a family. At that tender age, her little sister disappeared-never to be found. It was a loss that slowly eroded the family bonds she once relied on. As an adult with a prestigious job in the arts, Julie meets a struggling artist who reminds her so much of her sister, she can't help feeling protective. It is a friendship that begins a long and painful process of healing for...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 1945 Malaya, when her family is in terrible danger due to a choice she made 10 years earlier, Cecily Alcantara, who was lured into a life of espionage for the invading Japanese forces during World War II, finds her actions catching up with her and will do anything to save those she loves.
1086) The last animal
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Jane is a serious scientist on the cutting-edge team of a bold project looking to "de-extinct" the wooly mammoth. She's privileged to have been sent to Siberia to hunt for ancient DNA, but there's a catch: Jane's two teen daughters are there with her in the Arctic, and they're bored enough to cause trouble. Brilliant, fiery, sharp-tongued Eve is fifteen and willing to talk back to the male scientists in a way her mother is not. And sweet, thirteen-year-old...
1087) This side of hell
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Series
Widowmaker Jones volume 4
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Card player extraordinaire Poker Alice is betting on master gunman Newt "Widowmaker" Jones to protect her - and her money - on a treasure hunt in the California desert. Legend has it that a shipwreck is buried in the Salton sands. Some say it's a Spanish galleon that got stuck when the sea ran dry. Others say it's a Chinese junk full of pearls or a Viking ship filled with Aztec treasure. Either way, a lot of very mean and dangerously violent folks...
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Series
Jason Bourne series volume 17
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Fast on the trail of Lennon, a dangerous and cruelly inventive assassin, Jason Bourne, believing Lennon’s employer is the Pyramid, a corrupt conglomerate, draws his ex-lover, reporter Abbey Laurent, into his investigation and must keep her safe when Lennon sets his sights on her.
1090) Fellside
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Language
English
Description
Confronting the possibility that she might be forced to spend the rest of her life in a maximum security prison on the edge of the Yorkshire Moors, Jess Moulson discovers that the prison is haunted by the ghost of a little boy who imparts a chilling message.
1091) Wild rain
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Series
Women who dare volume 2
Language
English
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Description
In the wake of the Civil War, Spring Lee, running her own ranch in Paradise, Wyoming, second guesses her resolve to avoid men when a reporter arrives to interview her brother and becomes enamored with her instead.
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Series
Thea Stilton (Graphic novels) volume 3
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When an intact Viking ship is found near Mouse Island, the students at Mouseford Academy want to save it and its treasures, but when the Thea sisters market perfume like that from the ship as a fundraiser, they attract troublemakers.
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Series
Slayton volume 1
Publisher
Embla Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
On Halloween night in Slayton, five girls go to Blackhall Manor to play the Midnight Game. They write their names on a piece of paper and prick their fingers to soak it in blood. At exactly midnight they knock on the door twenty-two times - they have invited the Midnight Man in. It was supposed to be a game, but only four girls come home. Detective Sarah Noble has just returned to the force, and no one knows more about Blackhall Manor than her. It's...
1094) The others
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Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Sheila and her oldest friend Dina had joined a group of women who swore they would never have children. Instead, they would follow the example of the Others, women the Torah considered childless, but they saw as willingly child-free. Sheila has upheld her vow year after year, even as her friendship with Dina fell apart. But now, Dina has been found murdered, and as more women turn up dead, each transformed into a mother against her will, Sheila must...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In 1760, Deborah Samson is born to Puritan parents in Massachusetts. When her father abandons the family, Deborah is bound out as an indentured servant. From that moment on, she yearns for a life of liberation and adventure. Twenty years later, as the American colonies begin to buckle in their battle for independence, Deborah, impassioned by the cause, disguises herself as a soldier and enlists in the Continental Army. But as Deborah fights for her...
1096) Assembly
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The narrator of Assembly is a black British woman. She is preparing to attend a lavish garden party at her boyfriend's family estate, set deep in the English countryside. At the same time, she is considering the carefully assembled pieces of herself. As the minutes tick down and the future beckons, she can't escape the question: is it time to take it all apart? Assembly is a story about the stories we live within--those of race and class, safety...
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Jane Howard is a professor in Boston, in love with a brilliant, erratic man named Theo, and she becomes pregnant. Motherhood turns out to be a great welcome surprise--but when a devastating turn of events tears her existence apart she has no choice but to flee all she knows and leave the world. Just when she has renounced life itself, the disappearance of a young girl pulls her back from the edge and into an obsessive search for some sort of personal...
Author
Series
Arkady Renko novels volume 10
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
While dealing with his Parkinson's disease diagnosis, Russian detective Arkady Renko agrees to search for an acquaintance's missing daughter whom he discovers was an anti-Putin activist, as the country's leaders begin to plot an invasion of Ukraine.
1099) Buried in books
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Brooklyn's triple-checked her wedding to-do list, and everything is on track for the upcoming ceremony with the love of her life, security expert Derek Stone. Brooklyn's prewedding calm is shattered when one of her formerly feuding friends is found murdered and Brooklyn determines that one of the rare books they had given her is a forgery. She can't help but wonder if the victim played a part in this fraud, or if she was targeted because she discovered...
1100) Honey drop dead
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Series
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English
Description
Tea shop owner Theodosia investigates after a phony beekeeper shows up at a community event and sprays toxic smoke at park goers, and a candidate for state legislature is murdered.
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