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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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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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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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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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Book
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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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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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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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FIC Fin
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A neighbor's guide to murder
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It's rare for a room to open up in London's storied Columbia Mansions, and lonely Gwen is thrilled when her neighbor's new sub-letter, Pixie, brings a friendly breath of fresh air to its stuffy halls. Their unexpected bond soon becomes the bright spot in Gwen's quiet life. But Gwen can't help noticing cracks beneath Pixie's cheerful surface, especially when it comes to her questionable financial arrangement with her live-in landlord, Alec. As suspicions mount, Gwen's protective instincts go into overdrive, triggering a dangerous chain of events no one is prepared for. The last thing Columbia Mansions wants is a scandal on its hands, let alone a murder.
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Book
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FIC Can
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The door in Penrose Forest : a novel
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As a boy, Nico once accompanied his mother on a research trip to investigate a stalled migration of monarch butterflies. One night, upon hearing her sneak out of their rented cabin, he followed her to a clearing in the forest where a famed mansion once stood, and watched his mother climb a staircase and vanish, along with the stairs and the strange glowing door at its peak. No one believed his story, and as he grew older, he too stopped believing it was real. As an adult, Nico returns to his hometown to care for his ailing father, but something strange is happening to the town. There are unexplained power fluctuations, people are going missing, and, reportedly, phantoms are roaming the woods. When Nico finds his mother's field journal from the week she disappeared, including her account of the vanishing staircase, he begins to pick apart the mystery. All the tangled strings trail back to the same starting point: the Gilded Age family whose mansion burned down under mysterious circumstances in those very same woods where his mother vanished.
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Book
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FIC Rob
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Mia : a novel
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When Sally, an American living in San Miguel de Allende, meets Louise outside her children's school, she's eager to immerse herself more deeply in the city. Having lived in Mexico for a year with her architect husband, Sally is entranced by Louise, and especialy by her stories about Burroughs, Ginsberg, and Kerouac. The two become inseparable, and soon enough, Louise has begun calling her Mia and then playfully introducing Sally as her daughter to friends. Sally loves the idea of a new identity, but is troubled by Louise's hold over her, so attempts to keep the relationship a secret from her husband. But the specter of Sally's childhood looms, and Louise tightens her grip, leaving the two women testing the limits of reinvention.
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Book
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FIC Baz
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The hill in the dark grove : a novel
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Carwyn and his wife, Rhian, have been sheep farmers on his ancestral land in the Welsh mountains for decades. But recent years have taken their toll. They've lost friends lost to old age or rising prices, as well their own debts of farming. English tourists still come--littering, camping on private property, needing to be rescued when they misjudge the elements. Then Carwyn finds a stone head in a corner of the farm, realizing it must be one piece of something larger, and something old. Despite Rhian's protests, he becomes obsessed with unearthing the structure, neglecting the farm to dig. The sheep are falling, and an accident on market day threatens to leave Rhian with no way to pay creditors. But Carwyn is convinced that uncovering the site will be the key to solving everything.
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Book
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FIC Hig
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Big & Lily : novel
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For her entire life, Bridget "Big" Ackerman Petty has struggled to hold everything together. It all seems easy for her sister Lily, a woman with a magnetic personality, a thriving business, and adoring husband. When Lily uncovers a secret, her perfect life implodes. Devastated, she flees to Alaska to lose herself on a hardcore survival trek, dragging her reluctant sister along. No cell service, no easy exits. Just grizzlies, outdoor plumbing, and a group of strangers who know how to read a compass. As the sisters navigate freezing rivers, unmarked trails, and more than one near-death experience, the defenses they've used to protect themselves begin to crumble, and they're forced to face resentment, regret, envy, and the possibility that the other's life might not be as easy as it looks.
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Book
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FIC Roe
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Matcha on Monday
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All throughout the week, customers flock to the Marble Café that's tucked away behind the trees--except when it's closed on Mondays, when the Matcha Café opens in its place, offering its clientele a warm cup of matcha and restoration to start the busy week ahead. On this one day of the week, people from all walks of life frequent this cozy haven and experience the joys of human connection. Among them include: a singer who has just broken up with his lover, an unsociable young owner of a tea wholesaler, a husband who has made his wife angry, a designer and owner of a lingerie shop, a Kamishibai artist who doesn't get along with his grandmother. Spanning Tokyo and Kyoto over twelve months, this novel brings together a community of untold unfolding lives.
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Book
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FIC Aoy
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Hocus pocus, or, the whole art of legerdemain - VIEW IN CATALOG
Hocus pocus, or, the whole art of legerdemain
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Samuel Thomas is a young magician convinced that he is destined for greatness in a far-off land. He journeys from India to London to the fog-shrouded streets of Boston in 1816 -- the infamous Year Without a Summer. Samuel arrives in a city alive with ambition, contradiction, and tension. Enter Walter Mepham, a world away from Samuel, hailing from the upper echelons of Boston society, but also nursing a problem of his own. Proprietor of the New Boston Museum which is on the brink of bankruptcy, Walter is desperate to find ways to keep it open, and Samuel is an ideal fit for the first live addition to the collection. Though they solve each other's problems, the relationship between them becomes complicated as Walter is fascinated--obsessed--with the foreigner. As Samuel becomes more dependent on Walter, he learn what he's willing to give up for success.
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Book
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FIC Cha
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Runner : a novel
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Martha's Vineyard, 1923. Lena Jameson's father, Earl, is a successful rumrunner who's built a small fortune smuggling liquor. When he and his crew are lost in a shipwreck that some whisper was no accident, his loved ones are left reeling and penniless. Lena, weeks away from entering college, sees her future slipping away. She decides to take over the business, and finds a crew. There's Walter, her big brother, who leans too hard on the bottle. And Sam, her boyfriend, who wants her tethered to shore. Then there's Dee, a woman summering from Boston, offering Lena a glimpse of the future she wants. Their journey leads them through from the colorful streets of Oak Bluffs, gangland Boston, and the jazz-filled clubs of Harlem in its early Renaissance, looking for money--and answers. As secrets rise to the surface, and the criminal underworld pulls Lena in deeper, she fins herself precariously holding on to her heart, her family, and her place in a world ready to condemn women who want more.
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FIC Lat
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My best French wedding : a novel
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Once upon a time, Walter was Hildy's favorite person, until he crushed her teenage dreams. A decade later, her beloved is the magazine she built from the ground up. But getting rid of Walter isn't as easy as shedding her romantic illusions. He's always around, vying for scoops on the wedding circuit and provoking her into unhinged public displays. When she scores exclusive access to the wedding of the season in southern France, it's a chance for her magazine to make its mark. Except Walter's right there in France, trying to steal Hildy's story. Again. It's a head-to-head battle to see whose coverage will make it to print. But between the champagne and the chateaux, it's easy to lose sight of the prize. Hildy doesn't believe in fairy tales, but Walter is doing his best to convince her they could have a part deux.-- Provided by publisher.
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FIC Sel
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These walls remember
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Do not go into the attic, the note warned. But that's what sisters Mickie and Delilah do when they inherit a distant relative's house in Savannah, Georgia. The plan is to sell the property, divide the proceeds, and go their separate ways once and for all. But 724 Hartford Street has other ideas. The sisters' past wounds fester and spill into the present. And tensions flare between the sisters and the community, who are keeping silent about the house's history. When Delilah's behavior turns strange and then alarming, selling the home is no longer an option. Mickie must fight to save her sister, or they will both succumb to the house and its hunger.
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Book
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FIC San