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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Daphne Bell believes the universe has a plan in store for her. Ever since she was young, whenever she met a new guy, Daphne would find a slip of paper with exactly how long they'd spend together--4 months, two weeks, one night. That's how she met her ex-boyfriend and current best friend, Hugo, the only person in Daphne's life who knows of her secret. Followed by a string of men and countless dates, Daphne resigned herself to the fact that she was...
2) Mélusine
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
“[An] extraordinary first fantasy novel focuses on two captivating characters . . . [A] highly original writer with her own unique voice.” -- Publishers Weekly, starred review From an award-winning author, the first book in the spellbinding series, The Doctrine of Labyrinths Welcome to Mélusine , a city as wondrous as it is corrupt. Within its walls lies a stronghold of power and magic, a shining setting for the brilliant Felix Harrowgate. A...
3) Iron flame
Author
Series
Empyrean volume 2
Language
English
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"Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College--Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet's already wondering how she'll get through. It's not just that it's grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it's designed to stretch the riders' capacity for pain beyond endurance....
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Katie lives alone in a stone house on Jacob's Ladder island. The neighboring island of Ringrock houses a secret: a government research facility. And now two agents have arrived on Jacob's Ladder in search of someone or something they refuse to identify. Although an air of menace hangs over these men, an infinitely greater threat has arrived, one so strange even the island animals are in a state of high alarm. Katie soon finds herself in an epic and...
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Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
"After a period of imprisonment, Nealon returns to an empty house in the west of Ireland to find his wife and young son missing. Then he gets a call from a man who claims to know what's happened to them--a man who'll tell Nealon all he needs to know in return for a single meeting. In a hotel lobby, in the shadow of an unfolding terrorist attack, Nealon and the man embark on a conversation shot through with secrets and unknown dangers, a verbal game...
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Series
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Moving to Montana is the chance Thomas Kemp needs to open his own business and seek a wife--while keeping his shameful past hidden. Except the beautiful Amish widow who catches his eye wants financial independence, not marriage. When Emma Fisher's toddler bonds with the newcomer, she believes Thomas is everything she wants in a husband. But can she accept his past...for the chance at a future together?"--
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Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From the author of the bestselling Phryne Fisher Series comes Ruddy Gore, the next historical mystery featuring the unstoppable, elegant amateur sleuth. Can Miss Fisher use her theater ties to take care of a phantasm haunting a Gilbert and Sullivan show?
"The appeal of this story is the glimpse it provides into the 1920s theater world and the opportunity it affords to observe Phryne and Lin Chung's romance from its inception."-Booklist
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8) Ilium
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Language
English
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"Fast-paced and powerful, gripping and immersive, this subtly crafted and suspenseful novel, set in the present and the immediate past, in the dark world of international espionage in London, Mallorca, Croatia, Paris, and Cap Ferret is told through its young female protagonist who unwittingly becomes a perfect asset in the long overdue finale of a special op. The young English narrator briefly tells us of her unhappy family life in London, wanting...
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Six lies killed Huw Jones. On New Year's Eve 2011, Huw Jones disappeared from his bedroom while his father and five friends were downstairs. His body was later discovered on the nearby cliffs at St Non's. That night, all six friends lied in their statements to the police. Over a decade later, Huw's mother, Heledd is found dead. Mallory Dawson must uncover the lies lurking in the tight-knit community of St Davids. But someone has kept their secrets...
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Publisher
Bloodhound Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A twisting new thriller from the author of The Replacement: Is the man she married in trouble-or is he just trouble?
Kate and Jake agreed when they got married that they would always give each other space. But lately, Jake seems to want a lot more space than Kate's comfortable with. He's growing more distant with every day. In an angry attempt to figure out why, she doesn't take the turn for their road on the way home from work. She keeps on driving...
12) One last secret
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Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"I'll drop anything for a new Adele Parks: she nails it every time"-Lucy Foley, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Apartment
"Absolutely gripping"-Lisa Jewell, New York Times bestselling author of The Family Remains
"Whip-smart protagonist, immensely satisfying"-Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author of Girl, Forgotten
"Parks gets better and better"-Gillian McAllister, New York Times bestselling author of Wrong Place...
13) Anna O: a novel
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A forensic psychologist and expert in sleep-related homicides is the last hope for solving a case where a woman with a rare psychosomatic disorder stabbed two people to death while she slept.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake's longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she's warily drawn back to the town--and people--she left behind almost a decade earlier. But Hazel's not the only relic of the past to return: a drought has descended on the region, and as the water level in the lake drops, long-hidden secrets begin to emerge ... including evidence that may help finally explain the mystery of her mother's...
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Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The actions of two young working men with secrets ignite the passions and violence of a small Wisconsin town still haunted by the unsolved disappearance of three boys in the 1970s"--
"What if? What if Sean Courtland's old Chevy truck had broken down somewhere else? What if he'd never met Denise Givens, a waitress at a local tavern, and gotten into a bar fight defending her honor? Or offered a ride to Dan Young, another young man like Sean, burdened...
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Publisher
Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The Expectant Detectives is first in a delightful new mystery series following a group of pregnant women who meet at a prenatal class and team up to solve the murder of someone in their village"--
For Alice and her partner Joe, moving to the sleepy village of Penton is a chance to embrace country life and prepare for the birth of their first child. He can take up woodwork; maybe she'll learn to make jam? But the rural life they'd hoped for doesn't...
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In Boston, as the Golden Age of Piracy comes to a bloody close, Hannah Masury--bound out to service at a waterfront inn since childhood--is ready to take her life into her own hands. When a man is hanged for piracy in the town square and whispers of a treasure in the Caribbean spread, Hannah is forced to flee for her life, disguising herself as a cabin boy in the pitiless crew of the notorious pirate Edward "Ned" Low. To earn the freedom to choose...
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