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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Call Number:
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
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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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Book
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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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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
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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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Book
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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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Book
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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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Book
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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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Book
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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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Book
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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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Book
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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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Book
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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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Book
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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
Call Number:
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
Call Number:
FIC Fur