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Someone to cook for
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Yuko has had four different surnames and has been brought up in several families. The parental figures in her life, despite not being related by blood, have always cared deeply for her. Through it all, pragmatic and resilient and Yuko has navigated life's changes and its occasional conflicts, always managing to find a kind of equilibrium. As an adult, Yuko falls in love with and marries Hayase, a talented pianist she's known since her school years. A married woman, she embarks on a journey to reconnect with the various parental figures from her past to seek their blessing for her marriage. Along the way, she revisits her former life and the people in it and gains a deeper understanding of what truly defines a family.
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FIC Seo
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Tata
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When Agnes hears from the local police her Aunt Colette has died, she can't believe her ears. Her father's sister Colette, her Tata, died three years ago and has been resting in peace in the cemetery of Gueugnon. Agnes is called to identify the body: there is no doubt, it's Aunt Colette. But then, who rests under the stone engraved with Colette's name? And why did she fake her own death? So begins an investigation back in time, as Agnes pieces together the multitude of stories that lie behind her aunt's second death.
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FIC Per
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The ghost city
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Once you've made your first ten billion, what's more money? What any billionaire really wants isn't money, it's power, and Shan Zhang has the perfect plan to achieve that. The discovery of a manuscript from the renowned explorer Marco Polo leads to an ancient city buried under the snows of Antarctica. Within that city lies the key to a forgotten technology that will transform modern society, but that transformation may cause the deaths of millions. Professional treasure hunter and adventurer Ethan Cain is working on the Mekong River in Vietnam when the massive waterway suddenly goes dry. It's a stunning ecological disaster. One that Ethan can't ignore. His quest for answers will lead him to Zhang and ultimately a confrontation from which only one of them will emerge.
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FIC Pot
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Names have been changed : a novel
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Ophir is a podcaster whose tale begins in Singapore, where a petty crime spins out of control, estranging her from home and family. Resorting to false identities and forged passports, she crisscrosses the globe from a Paris-themed hostess bar in Tokyo, to a bustling Chinese restaurant in London, to a snowbound mountain town in Colorado and beyond. Broadcasting from an undisclosed location, Ophir is funny, prickly, tough, and vulnerable, entrancing her listeners with an irresistible, no-holds-barred recounting of not only her crimes, but also her deepest secrets and regrets. Even as she moves across class lines and continents, she grapples with the shock of relentless dislocation, a painful reexamination of identity, and a deep yearning for home. But she can't help attracting trouble, and soon faces an unexpected choice that could change her fate forever.
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FIC Bal
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Men like ours : a novel
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When Matthew Pillai is found dead, slumped over the wheel of his BMW, the women of Willow Road are roped into the investigation of their friend's death. At the center of the case are the Sharmas: Anita, a widow whose husband introduced Matthew to the neighborhood, and her boundary-pushing daughter, Leila, who called him Uncle. To Anita, who has been in freefall since her arrival in America as a young woman, Matthew's presence offered hope, including a promise of betterment for Leila. The truth, however, is far stranger. In this darkly funny debut, the women of Willow Road find that despite their internecine quarrels, casual backstabbing, and generational feuds, in the end, there is no one to turn to but each other.
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FIC Ban
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The reimagining of Thornwood House
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Evelyn Sharpe is accustomed to dealing with natural disasters as a land witch, but she longs for a life with a little less danger for her and her adopted daughter, Ruby. So when the opportunity to take over as Caretaker of Thornwood House, a sentient home that acts as the magical heart of the village of Iskendra, arises, it seems almost fated. When they arrive, Evie and Ruby find the house is nothing like what they expected: First of all, it has walked away from the address. Thornwood House is also grumpy, guarded, and extremely hesitant to allow the two witches through its doors. Armed with gentle hearts and wild magic, Evie and Ruby begin to form tentative bonds with the house and the citizens of the small town. But there's something deeply damaged about the building seeping into the forests surrounding Iskendra, and Evie will have to use all her power to protect the roots she's started to grow.
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FIC Joh
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Muñeca
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It is 1968 Oakland, and Natalia Fuentes has been hearing rumors about the beautiful Violeta Miramontes. The young heiress to Spanish colonial wealth has been left paralyzed by a mysterious illness. But Nati knows a thing or two about witchcraft, and she is certain that this is the work of dark magic. Armed with a plan to break the spell and earn a handsome reward, Nati works her way into the house as Violeta's caretaker, and immediately discovers her suspicions are true. As feelings between the two women bloom into romance, Nati grows more and more reckless, and is forced to face her own ghosts--ones she hoped would stay gone forever.
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FIC Gom
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A lady's handbook to gadgets and guile
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Wheelchair user Margaret Kingsley secretly crafts gadgets for the Daughters of Genius Society, a covert team of lady inspectors disguised as harmless bluestocking spinsters. When her expertise is needed to infiltrate the domain of London's most prolific inventor, she teams up with the inventor's secretary, Charles Noble. Charles Noble sacrificed his career as a musician to support his family after his father's stroke. Then the chance to take a temporary job as event coordinator for a famous inventor commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of his mechanical empire appears, and he can't turn it down. As strange occurrences cause Charles' event planning to collide with Margaret's case, and together they must unravel a plot of sabotage while grappling with serious sparks of attraction.
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FIC Bel
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Retro : a novel
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When Ash spots an ad for Retro during an Instagram scroll, she's surprised the algorithm sent it her way. Then she sees the caption: "Come away with us! We're hiring." And suddenly, Ash becomes aas a Time Travel Agent, leading wealthy tourists on vacations to historical hotspots. It's thrilling, outrageous, and totally surreal. Despite Ash's tendency toward cynicism, she finds herself swept up in her dazzling new job. It's like Ash's life is a movie, complete with an impossible love triangle. How is she supposed to choose between her mysterious office crush and the handsome private eye pursuing her in 1937? For the first time in years, Ash's life feels enviable. So she's not really paying attention to what's happening to her memory and relationships outside Retro.
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FIC Gol
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The sixth nik
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Deep into space, far past the triworld outposts, beyond range of the lethal trollbot internet, soars The Sickness: a ship woven from biomatter and capable of reacting to every need of its human crew. Sisilla, a nine-year-old cultist with a brain enhanced by arcane tech known as 'niks,' has boarded to investigate the enigma of Fém, a plague-riddled planet that has abruptly gone rogue. The mysterious crew includes a faceless assassin, a beautiful engineer jigsawed by plastic surgery, a peyote-addicted medic, and a rugged, NonModded captain with a score to settle with Sisilla. Unsurprisingly,there are other dangers, including a hacked robot who begins to believe Sisilla is its daughter, The Sickness itself is mutating, and the secret of Fém is more horrific than anyone could have imagined. To survive, Sisilla will need to embrace the unknown.
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FIC Kra
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The novel detective
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2020: Teresa, a Cuban-born mystery writer now living in America, gets an unexpected call from her childhood best friend, Estrella, inviting her to Havana. Estrella is determined to get answers about a case that has haunted them: the murder-suicide of a teacher and a student at their high school. Teresa doesn't understand why Estrella is so invested, but she's along for the ride, as she always wanted to write a novel about it. 1980: Fourteen-year-old bespectacled Teresita, is "nosy, but not a tattletale." She knows who's skimming the amphetamines in her mother's pharmacy, which teacher has cyanide at school, and that their classmate Yoyi is sleeping with their English teacher. One day, Teresita gets closer than ever to learning the "Truth of Life" (her catch-all term for adult existence) "and Death."
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FIC Dov
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Miss Bates : Emma revisited
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Henrietta Bates, the iconic bore of Emma, is the opposite of handsome, clever, and rich Emma: she is plain, ill-educated, and impoverished. An unmarried woman of quite a different order from that novel's proudly single heroine, she is an object of scorn and pity, whose survival depends upon the generosity of her neighbors. But what if the woman we see in Emma were actually deliberately assuming a role, donning a mask, as a means of managing an untenable situation? Miss Bates chronicles Henrietta Bates's unexpected and, at times, violent life, navigating a world with no ready-made opportunities, where the stakes are of the highest order.
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FIC Cli
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The flayed man
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Ellis Karsten spends nights working triage in a Sin City emergency department and days babysitting her mom. Early-onset dementia makes every interaction an exhausting, landmine-laden ordeal, but the real challenge is their curse: Ellis's family belongs to an ancient race of creatures who must feed daily on blood-or risk becoming grotesque predators. To make matters worse, her mom's impossible demands soon devolve into panicked warnings about a fabled monster, the Flayed Man, a creature of pure id who tempts all of Ellis's kind to give in to their baser nature. When Ellis's uncle suddenly vanishes, Ellis hitches a ride to the desert with Veer, a prickly and intoxicating paramedic wrestling with her own demons. A series of enigmatic clues points Ellis toward a tantalizing new blood source as well as her uncle's whereabouts, but following the trail risks delivering herself, her mom, and Veer right into the maw of the Flayed Man himself.
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FIC Lau
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The witch below the dreaming wood
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Wales, 1941. As war rages across the globe and bombs fall from the sky, people all over the world begin to dream of King Arthur. The dreams spread like a plague, flooding people's sleep night after night. Whispers arise of wonders and unexplained sights: dragons in the London Underground, and strange lights over Stonehenge. Self-proclaimed prophets claim they are miracles, heralding Arthur's return at the time of Britain's greatest need. Elaine Ambrose, a librarian at the British Museum, has never dreamed of Arthur, and she doesn't believe in miracles. She wants only to protect the museum's collection from the London Blitz. Instead she is sent to catalogue a professor's private library in North Wales. Soon Ellie must confront what she's tried to ignore: she dreams of Nimue - the Lady of the Lake, and her dreams promise not salvation, but a return to the darkness of the last days of Camelot.
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FIC Par
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Mudlark : a novel
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Jenny Sweet's marriage is ending, and with it her band, and maybe even her fragile relationship with her thirteen-year-old daughter, Neko. A reluctant wife and mother, Jenny plans a new journey of self-discovery after one more gig at Burning Man. When Neko disappears amid the chaos of the festival, Jenny fears that everything that mattered to her has been lost. She finds herself thrown into the past, and into the heart of a gathering storm. Now twenty-five, Neko is a mudlark: a trained recruit who braves the rival factions and feral survivalists in the ruins of a crumbling, flooded Manhattan for resources that grow scarcer by the day. When she stumbles upon the master of her mother's long-lost solo album and later hears that someone else is searching for it, she embarks on a perilous adventure that will take her from treetop societies to decadent raves to the underground bunker where she will confront her fate.
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FIC Spe
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Murder at the end of the world
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A meteor is on a collision course with Earth. The entire human race has 3 months to live. Uncontrollable panic has set in across the globe, but 23-year-old Haru is still determined to finally get her driver's license. When Haru and her ex-cop driving instructor Isagawa open their car trunk one day to find the corpse of a murder victim inside, they feel duty-bound to investigate. Together, they set off on a road trip through the crumbling landscape around them to hunt for the killer. As more bodies start appearing, more questions surge. Why would a serial killer begin work 3 months before the end of the world? And does justice lose its meaning with humanity on the brink of extinction?
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FIC Ara
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Harbour of hungry ghosts
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The Au family serve the people of Hong Kong: blessing shrines, honouring the dead and dealing with dangerous monster incursions. The expectations on eldest daughter Kiamling are high, which is not something her strict grandmother will let her forget. When the British disrupt the Hungry Ghosts festival and her grandmother is seized by a strange new monster, Kiamling must step up and lead the search. She is aided by unexpected allies: Archie, an earnest civil servant, Hoi gor, childhood sweetheart turned merchant-pirate and Jingling, her younger sister keeping secrets of her own. Kiamling must figure out who is behind the incursion and more importantly, how to defeat them. With British fables mingling with local Chinese monsters, can Kiamling prove herself, when the old rules no longer seem to apply?
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Book
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FIC Cha
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Hustle, baby : a novel
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Teenager Dilo hustles to help her family get by, on top of school and caring for her baby cousin Maysha. After her born-again Christian mother, Mary, and Aunt Anji relocated the family from Sri Lanka fleeing the civil war, one thing's become clear: the fairytale they were promised is bullshit. They operate on the margins, working constantly to earn just enough to pay off their last meal. They can only ignore overdue rent notices for so long, and when both matriarchs unexpectedly lose their jobs, desperation sets in. With eviction imminent, they meet Mark, a day-trader, who promises to turn their small initial investment into thousands of dollars overnight on the stock exchange. At last, a miracle, and the family quickly become his apostles, recruiting investors by spreading the good word of his perpetual 10% returns. But they soon discover what really fuels Mark's seemingly endless generosity, and when the markets turn they are left to navigate treacherous but familiar terrain.
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Book
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FIC Gun
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When Mikan Road was ours : a novel
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When Murano receives a call that his great-uncle Benjiro has died, he doesn't really care. After all, he's been estranged from that side of his family for years, he needs to grade his students' English papers, and cope with his recent cancer diagnosis. But Benjior's memoirs are given to him, and he finds himself transported back to 1930s California, back to a family farm he never knew existed, and faced with questions he never knew to ask. Through the memoirs, letters, and family artifacts, the stories of the Murano family are brought back from the dead, taking Murano through his grandfather Tomoya's childhood, to internment during World War II, and beyond. The vibrant setting of California's agricultural heartlands and the crossroads of Japanese and American culture come into breathtaking focus, where the complexities of heritage, the resilience of family bonds, and the struggle to reconcile a past filled with both pain and hope.
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Book
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FIC Fur
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Savvy Summers and the po'boy perils : a mystery - VIEW IN CATALOG
Savvy Summers and the po'boy perils : a mystery
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Savvy has her work cut out when an old friend hires her to cater a company luncheon at a nearby office building on Chicago's South Side. Stepping out of her traditional soul food comfort zone, Savvy whips together a menu of Creole classics: mini po'boys with assorted fillings, sunburst salad, and bread pudding using Great Aunt Essie's famous buttermilk biscuits. But when someone is found dead in the company's conference room, the culinary creations are in the spotlight for the wrong reasons, and Savvy's café becomes the center of a murder investigation once again. Caught within a web of gossip, miscommunication, and fraught coworker relationships, she will have to settle the confusion to clear her name. Somebody's hiding something, and with the help of Penny Lopés, Savvy sets out uncover exactly who is to blame.
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Book
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FIC Jac
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The felicity complex, or a brief forever in heaven underground - VIEW IN CATALOG
The felicity complex, or a brief forever in heaven underground
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Welcome to the Felicity Complex! Constructed during the height of the Cold War, our unique hotel is prepared to protect you, the billionaire class, from nuclear annihilation! Shielded from radiation and supplemented with closed air systems and hydroponic gardens, this resort bunker offers a prime existence full gymnasium and spa, gourmet meals, top-tier medical care, and the best in entertainment. Meet Hallelujah! Grown in a lab and educated in the ways of concierge hospitality, she believes in her duty to comfort the Lord-anointed refugees of the apocalypse. Don't worry, everyone is safe from communists in the Felicity Complex! Look, Hallelujah, guests have finally arrived! Hallelujah and her sister specimens have waited ages for you.
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Book
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FIC Cla
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The forest becomes her
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In historic, Concord, Massachusetts, a centuries-old forest has been removed to make way for a new, eco-friendly housing development. The locals are upset by the destruction, but out-of-towners like Hazel Stoddard are flocking to put down roots in their new guilt-free dream homes. Soon a tragedy leaves Hazel unmoored in her new life, and she begins to feel the pull of the absent forest. And Hazel is not alone; her neighbors, real estate agent Stella Flint and teenage environmentalist Polly Bauer, each have their own trauma and relationship to the land. The three women are drawn together to save the last remaining oak tree, or they risk losing themselves to lingering shadows that only they can see.
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FIC Dal
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The castle & the cloister
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Two centuries ago, the Inver clan conquered the nation of Honoria, ushering in an era of blood. Now, after a period of fragile peace, a king's whims may reignite the engines of war. At the last stronghold of Honoria's sun goddess, Fia, a young postulant, seeks safety for her child, but the price of the cloister's protection will tear her from what she loves and thrust her into a game of deception. Within the Inver's mountain fortress, Ariana is known as the apostate queen after abandoning her faith for a king. But old loyalties aren't easily severed. Ariana treads a dangerous path, striving for peace in a court made for conquest. Deep in the heart of the mountain, the Inver Priest bides his time with small acts of rebellion. Blinded in the fight for the throne, he harbors a grudge that could lead to Honoria's ruin or renewal.
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FIC Wey
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Daughters of Naples : a novel
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Naples, 1940. The three Cozzolino sisters, Leta, Marcella, and Bianca live together in their small home during Mussolini's domination. Leta runs the De Rosa dress shop where she takes care of her mother-in-law while her husband is at war. Marcella is an apprentice to a midwife, bringing up the next generation of Italian soldiers, much to the pride of her boyfriend who is inspired by Mussolini's rule. But when their youngest sister, Bianca, decides to join the Italian resistance, the partigiani, after her childhood sweetheart is sent to war, familial tensions are brought to light. The sisters are soon at odds, questioning where they stand in the war effort. When Leta's old flame, Pasquale, asks if he can use the dress shop to send messages for the partigiani, she refuses. When Naples is bombed, the sisters are forced to reevaluate their stances and how far they are willing to go for each other and their country. With the threat of Nazism looming over the city after Mussolini is ousted, the Cozzolino sisters will have to confront what they are willing to sacrifice, and their loyalties to each other and to their country.
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Book
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FIC Gio
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The inklings detective agency : a novel
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It's 1936 in Oxford, England, and when J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and their fellow literary masterminds, known as the Inklings, are called upon to catch a killer, they trade their pens for magnifying glasses. With time running out, they get a helping hand from Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers to unravel a sinister web of secrets. These fantasy and mystery giants must confront a real-life menace in a race against the clock. Will dark forces prevail, or will these literary giants crack the case before the murderer strikes again?
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Book
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FIC Kel
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Surviving the lie
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After the death of his two oldest sources, Russell trades in his life as a former journalist turned private investigator for peace and quiet at home. Aside from the occasional reporting online under the safety of an alias, Russell is enjoying being a normal guy with a normal girlfriend and suburban bliss just within reach. Until his onetime mentor disappears. Russell soon learns that other journalists in the area have gone missing, too, all under mysterious circumstances. Unable to resist the pull of a good story, he quickly finds himself at odds with a violent band of conspiracy theorists and ex-cops convinced that reporters are the "enemy of the people." Russell sacrificed two careers to the belief in the power of truth. But now, face-to-face with an America where facts are more fluid than Newark's Passaic River, he must decide if the truth is still worth fighting for.
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Book
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FIC Que
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Stitched : a novel
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Betty Lou Dearden has been a member of the Ogden Quilters Association for more than twenty years. Then it is announced that the biggest quilting competition in the country is coming to Utah. With the clock ticking and a chance to finally beat their long-time rival quilting circle, the women welcome two young gay men to their group. With bickering steadily increasing, will this group make their way to an award-worthy entry in the cutthroat world of competitive quilting?
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FIC McC
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The dungeon book : as told by Cornelius the Skull - VIEW IN CATALOG
The dungeon book : as told by Cornelius the Skull
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Bait doesn't remember a time before the dungeon. Before the dragon stole her from her cot. She doesn't know what her name was before she was handed over to the monstrous denizens of the dungeon beneath the sorcerer's tower. Luckily, they decided not to eat her. And so, she grew up in the dark, the goblins as her adopted family, a vengeful minotaur her protector, a sentient skull her tutor, and a faithful blob of corridor slime as her main source of nutrition. But the labyrinthine dungeon, with its haunted halls, buried temples and forgotten magics, draws treasure hunters like moths to flame. As the outside world starts to intrude, Bait will learn what it means to be monstrous, and she will have to decide where she truly belongs.
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Book
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FIC Ryd
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The nudge
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Late one night, a wounded man checks into a remote roadside hotel. He's running from something he can't explain or escape. And over the course of a night, he'll tell the hotel's proprietor how his life fell apart. It started with his wife. Subtle changes. Smiles that didn't belong to her. Then violence--sudden, intimate, almost casual. Therapy offered hope. Recovery seemed possible. Until it wasn't. He believes a hidden influence has attached itself to him, one that never forces, never commands. It whispers. It suggests. Nudges people toward their worst impulses. Now the man wanders the country as a fugitive, hoping to break free from the evil that's wormed its way into him. But as our narrator's story unfolds, he begins to question whether he's fled far enough.
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Book
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FIC Fin