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The lost book of Lancelot : a novel
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Hidden away on the Isle of Women, a nameless orphan has grown up among the island's sisterhood, but always at a distance. He hears whispers of a prophecy that may shed light on his destiny and his true identity: Lancelot. Determined to master the skills and knowledge worthy of the knight he is meant to be, he begins training alongside the handsome Galehaut. As the two grow closer, they guide one another toward their truest selves. But no matter how tightly they cling to one another, each has a role to play in the wizard Merlin's grand prophecies. As he grows closer to his fellow knights, Lancelot must keep an explosive secret to himself: the truth of what he left behind on the Isle of Women, of the man he truly is beneath the armor. All the while, Roman legionaries, too, scour far and wide for the grail. As an army encroaches on their kingdom, King Arthur and his knights must race to ensure that this powerful object doesn't fall into the wrong hands.
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FIC Gly
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Mrs. Benedict Arnold : a novel
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Peggy Shippen longs for the war she's living through to end. Though not always appreciated at home, she finds her curiosity is welcomed by a lively and influential circle of friends, including a glamorous rising star in the British army, Captain John Andre. When the war separates them, Peggy is devastated--both by his absence and the horrors of ongoing conflict--before finding consolation in a man whose heroics for the Patriots have captured the world's imagination: General Benedict Arnold. As she trades Loyalist balls for Patriot salons, entertaining the most prominent figures of early America, and navigating the country's lethal political currents, she conceives of an audacious scheme to achieve peace and her family's survival, unleashing what would become the most famous act of treason in history.
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Book
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FIC Par
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Afternoon hours of a hermit : a novel
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Five years after the death of his youngest brother, Dan Moran is now the published trans author of the auto-fictional novel Sorry to Disrupt the Peace. He is teaching fiction in Brooklyn and working on his next book, a psychological thriller, when a mysterious envelope arrives for him in the mail. Addressed to the wrong name, it includes a childhood photo of his deceased brother. But who would send such a thing, and why? Against his better judgment, Dan returns to his childhood home on the eve of his brother's memorial dinner. In a series of unsettling and destabilizing encounters, what he discovers is the irrevocable distance between who we are and how we are perceived.
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Book
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FIC Cot
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The dogwalkers' detective agency
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When Charlie Boardman and his Staffordshire bull terrier, Ruby, stumble across the corpse of the local pub landlord in the woods, the sleepy English coastal town of Framstone is rocked by the discovery. Charlie and his fellow dogwalkers take it upon themselves to try and sniff out any clues that might help the local police with their investigation. But what begins as idle speculation and gossip quickly becomes something more sinister when Charlie starts receiving anonymous threats warning him off the case. Then, a second body washes up on the beach.
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FIC Hog
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Ignore all previous instructions : a novel
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Kelli Reynolds loves creating stories more than anything in the world. But on Callisto, a generative AI company called Inspiration owns everything, including all the media, and only Inspiration determines which stories can be told. Kelli has a rare and coveted job where her autism is to her advantage: she precisely edits AI output into "appropriate" stories for Inspiration's massive TV audience. Her proudest creation is the pirate Orlando - a dashing do-gooder based on stories she used to tell friends. Then Kelli's ex-boyfriend Rowan, the person Kelli based Orlando on, drifts back on the scene. Back when they were teenagers, their relationship was a secret. Rowan is tangled up in the black market, desperate to find money for gender affirming surgery. He needs Kelli's help with something illegal.
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FIC Hof
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Inferno : a novel
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AD 60. Rome stands at the height of its power, glittering with wealth and drowning in intrigue. Nero Claudius Caesar rules as Emperor, a young man adored for his beauty and brilliance, feared for his temper, intoxicated by his own power. His empire stretches from the wilds of Britain to the deserts of Parthia, yet his enemies are never far: generals who command legions, senators who whisper in corridors, a people who cheer him in the circus but curse him on the streets. Nero has learned that power is never shared, only seized. Now Boudicca, queen of the Iceni, leads a revolt in the north. Closer to home, Gaius Julius Vindex, Roman by office but Gallic by blood, denounces Nero's corruption and declares open rebellion against the Emperor from Gaul. Rome is a city that devours its rulers. As the first sparks of revolt alight beyond its walls, an empire built on fire begins to burn from within.
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Book
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FIC Igg
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Meeting new people : a novel
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Fiftysomething, twice-divorced Barbara is at a crossroads. In the midst of her emotional uncertainty, she looks back on the dissolution of the nine best friendships of her life, in hopes of figuring out how to optimize finding her tenth, and hopefully last, best friend. She is acerbic, opinionated, and wrong about many things, but she also doesn't shy away when she's at fault. The crux of the issue hinges upon Barbara's choice between (too-young) Caitlyn and the (unsuitable) Other Barbara. Will she repeat the exciting mistakes of the past, or will she try a new kind of mistake for a change? She feels like an out-of-season Scrooge who is unexpectedly, and all at once, surprised and entirely transformed by the possibility of joy.
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Book
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FIC Lav
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The black cat detectives
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Precocious kittens Bippity, Boppity, and Boop are exceedingly loyal to their human, the twenty-eight-year-old up-and-coming magician Mila. She saved them from starving to death in a dingy Corvin's Crossing alleyway and has been nothing but loving ever since, even though her own life is in shambles. So when Mila's sketchy boyfriend and business manager turns up dead at the end of her big magic show, she's the prime suspect. With evidence mounting, there's nothing stopping the sheriff from hauling away Mila to the human pound. Unless the kittens can solve the crime and clear her name.
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Book
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FIC Gra
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We dance upon demons : a novel
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As a reproductive health care worker in Chicago, Nisha is barely staying afloat in the ocean of abortion bans, screaming protesters, and her own all-consuming depression. When she escapes to the Indian art exhibit at her favorite museum for a brief respite, Nisha suddenly she finds herself bleeding, disoriented, and collapsed on the floor. The last thing she remembers is the statue that beckoned her to touch it. In the days that follow, Nisha feels a strange power coursing within her, one that attracts a host of dangerous and enigmatic characters who covet it for themselves.
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Book
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FIC Pat
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Abyss
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Severance meets Lovecraft in this surreal tale of corporate horror and existential dread. Joe always had potential, but he doesn't expect much, and he hopes that his new job as an admin assistant won't expect much of him. But when he enters the offices of Ponos-a company he's never heard of and knows nothing about-he discovers that potential is exactly what they want from him. A feverish dive into the inhumanity of both late-stage capitalism and the crippling anxieties of modern life, Abyss adds a new level of meaning to 'wage slave.'
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Book
Call Number:
FIC Bin
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Burnout summer
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Four years after graduation, life isn't going the way Camille Luna expected. Her corporate career is soul-sucking, she's in debt from student loans, and her breakup with her ex has created a serious rift between her college best friends. When her spiraling lands her in jail for the night, it's Danny -- the lovable burnout from their college clique -- who bails her out and offers the perfect solution to her quarter-life crisis: a summer by the beach. Cam lets herself be whisked away to Elswick, Rhode Island where Danny, who never had his own life together but was always there for Cam, has taken over his uncle's seaside restaurant and turned it into the spot. Danny, once the designated slacker of their friends, is now a beloved boss and doting dog dad. The hazy summer days start to blur between shifts at the restaurant, dips in the ocean, and a reignited passion for writing, all alongside Danny who makes her laugh like nobody else. But summer can't last forever, and Cam's looming student debt reminds her at every turn that the frigid air of corporate office life is waiting.
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Book
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FIC Ram
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Field guide for the formerly villainous
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When Oaklin Nettlewood accidentally joined an evil world-ending cult, mind control magic forced them to do unspeakable things. Years later, the realm's heroes have finally saved the day, defeated the villain, and shattered the last remnants of the spell, leaving destruction in their wake. And so, with a spell-damaged memory and whole bushel of trauma, Oaklin escapes to a small farm on the edge of Mossley's Rest and swears an oath: they will never use it again. The no-nonsense ghost granny who lives in Oaklin's house has other ideas. As she coaxes Oaklin out of their shell and back into the world, they find companionship, friendship, and tentative romance. Magic even seems possible again, though strictly for foraging mushrooms and protecting the farm from bugs. So what does it mean when an inquisitor comes to town to hunt former cultists?
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Book
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FIC Eng
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What came west : a novel
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Since childhood, Silas Hall has never been at ease with people. He is relentlessly bullied by classmates and even proximity to his own family fills him with dread. Still, he manages to forge a connection with Delia, a non-verbal housekeeper, and is surprised by the strength of the bond he feels with the child they come to share. But as his son, Elisha, grows up, even that closeness becomes more than Silas can bear. So, he leaves his family to travel west, journeying ever farther in search of a life in which he might belong. By late 1840, he is one of few white people to have crossed the Sierra Nevada, where he coexists with the native Nisenan villagers at a mutually wary distance. But this fragile peace is disrupted when the promises of the Gold Rush bring a sudden flood of other whites west, leading Silas to commit an act of violence that will drive the last chapter of his life and incur upon the world he loves the full wrath of the world he fled.
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Book
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FIC Wei
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The summer girlfriend
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Noelle Lewis doesn't have time for fun. She's saving up to go back to college. After getting laid off from her bookseller job, her main income is being a 'stand-in' bridesmaid, which doesn't pay enough for the upcoming semester's tuition. Jeremiah Smith II, grandson of the founder of Smith's Sweets, once lived a life of frivolity. but since his grandfather's death, Jeremiah's tried to clean up his act, but when his family requests he join them at their summer house, he's reminded where his most painful memory lies. To avoid going, Jeremiah claims he already has plans with his girlfriend. But his family tells him to bring her, of course, and he doesn't actually have a girlfriend. After a chance meeting, Noelle and Jeremiah come to an agreement: he'll hire her to be his girlfriend for the weekend, and then she'll have money toward her tuition. but it gets complicated for her when Jeremiah's family turns out to be lovely, and Jeremiah is even lovelier.
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Book
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FIC For
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Glyph
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Ghosts don't exist. They don't. End of. Story, however. It is haunting. Everything tells it. It all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a horrifying story from the past and find themselves making up a ghost. Is it imaginary? Is it real? Then it all starts again thirty years later when Petra, now estranged from Patch, finds a phantom horse kicking the furniture to pieces in her bedroom. In a chiaroscuro dance through our increasingly antagonistic era, Glyph asks if we're attending to the history that's made us and to the history we're making.
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Book
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FIC Smi
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Make me better
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Celia is so tired of being alone. All she wants is to have a family-to belong to someone. That's why she's going to Kindred Cove for the annual Salt Festival held by the secluded community that lives there. They promise that healing is possible. They promise that transformation is inevitable. There is no grief at Kindred Cove, because there is no suffering. Nothing is ever lost. Celia knows that, at that mysterious island surrounded by that impossible, ever-growing reef -- she will find herself. She's ready to be healed. She's ready to be transformed. She's ready to believe.
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Book
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FIC Gai
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Valet
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Cy is a VALET: a helper bot who wants nothing more than to be useful, raise his utility score, and receive the next update for his operating system. But then he's tasked with helping his owner's thirty-five-year-old son, Grayson. Grayson is nothing like his go-getter, CEO sister, Charlotte. He's fine eating synthesized mozzarella sticks and making pottery at his studio, Kilning Time. When he learns of Charlotte's plan to sell the company to a tech conglomerate, Grayson does what anyone would do: he steals the flash drive with his father's most important work stored on it and plans a corporate takeover. To make matters worse, a fellow VALET deserts his owner and asks Cy to help him hightail it out of town, Grayson's first real date keeping showing up at inopportune times, and the behemoth tech company wants this deal closed yesterday. Grayson, Cy, and their trusty golden retriever, Sasha III, must go on the lam until they figure out exactly what to do, and whom to trust.
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Book
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FIC Lac
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Missing in Soho
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Misty Divine is bold, beautiful and back in action. She's barely settled into her new role as the glamorous hostess of Lady's Bar when a private detective arrives out of the blue. He's been stabbed. With what might be his final breath he whispers a cryptic message. "You're in danger, Misty... you must find Jeremy." As Misty dives wig first into the investigation, she gets up close and personal with a number of shady characters, including a notorious televangelist, a group of mysterious financiers, and a bunch of drunken bachelorettes at a drag brunch. And when it becomes clear that Misty's beloved Lady's Bar is under threat, she'll have to seek help in the unlikeliest of allies to solve the case, save the bar, and find Jeremy before he disappears for good.
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Book
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FIC Sta
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Our sister's keeper
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Mississippi, 1927. The groanings are coming. No town is perfect, but East Cobb comes close. It's a wealthy all-Black Free Town--untouched by white oppression--where ambitious Thea Elliot and her husband plan to make good on their big dreams. Little do they know that the idyllic town teems with ghoulish, walking nightmares . . . that only the women can see. Marah knows the groanings well. She is one of the carriers--women with the ability to pull traumatic memories from men. Populated by men entirely freed of their pain, East Cobb has flourished, even as the remnants of their memories haunt the town's women. When an unexpected death drives Marah to discover more about her own power, Thea's and Marah's worlds collide. The sisters must confront the rotten core at the heart of East Cobb's prosperity and choose what--and who--will survive the reckoning. A gripping blend of historical fiction and Southern gothic psychological horror, Our Sister's Keeper is a fierce exploration of Black sisterhood, rage, and resistance.
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Book
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FIC Hol
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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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Book
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FIC Seo
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No god but us : a novel
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When Delbar--a hapless twenty-something with dreams of becoming a drag queen--is spectacularly outed, he flees the insular immigrant-dense suburbs of Washington, DC to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt in Istanbul. There, he discovers a vibrant community of dissidents, sex workers, activists, poets, and heretics. Among them are Leif and his boyfriend, Mansur, with whom Delbar quickly develops a blazing fascination. But Mansur also nurses a wounded heart, having left his own family, and his first love, behind in Iran. He has learned not to dream bigger than his own survival, keeping a low profile, sending money back, and remaining faithful to Leif--at least until his refugee status is granted. When riot police descend on attendees of the annual Istanbul Pride march, Mansur and Delbar are thrust into dangerous proximity.
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Book
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FIC Say
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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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Book
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FIC Per
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Murder at the Spirit Lounge
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When Dolores Chimes, a famous medium, arrives in Gore-on-Sea, even surly Detective Inspector Rideout is lured in by her promises of messages for the afterlife. But after a reading goes disastrously wrong, Dolores loses her life, and the six sitters at the seance with her fall victim to supernatural deaths themselves in the days following the nightmare of a reading. Determined to unveil the truth, Nora finds herself chasing a ghostly serial killer she believes to be responsible, before the sixth victim--Detective Rideout himself--perishes along with the others.
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Book
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FIC Kid
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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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Book
Call Number:
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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Book
Call Number:
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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Book
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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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Book
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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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Book
Call Number:
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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Book
Call Number:
FIC Gol