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Rabbit test and other stories
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A time-traveling fisherwoman keeps landing on the right shore, but at the wrong time. A pair of witches fight over the gate between life and death. A new consciousness, intent upon seeing all the wonders of the universe, visits a floating library. A rock-and-roll legend squares off against a town full of devils. Humanity makes first contact, but falters when put in charge of selecting the world's representatives. In her strange and emotional worlds, with stakes ranging from the epic to the personal, Mills creates ample room for humor and hope amidst tragedy and struggle."
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FIC Mil
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The dead ringer : a novel
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Montana, 1935. Bludgeoned and buried alive by his bank-robbing partner and half brother, Benjamin Kilt should have been a corpse. But now very much on this side of heaven, Kilt's quest for revenge will be unlike anything the West has ever seen. Kilt is joined on his journey by Bonnie, a thirteen-year-old Indigenous girl he somewhat reluctantly rescues from her abusive "keeper." It is through Bonnie's recollections in old age of Kilt's thorny quest for justice that Dane Bahr's masterful tale unwinds, showcasing the tragic, complicated history of the two brothers and leading to a showdown at the very ranch where they were raised.
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FIC Bah
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Bronze faces
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Soho, London. Childhood friends Timi, Sango, and Gbonka reunite on the eve of the British Museum's historic purchase of the works of Timi's father, the seminal Nigerian artist Adewale Balogun. Timi has been invited as a "guest of honor," but what the Museum is heralding as a triumphant acquisition, the trio see as nothing short of brazen cultural theft. Emboldened by a night of drinking and shared outrage, they concoct a bold scheme... to steal back the artwork themselves!
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FIC Sho
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My name was Gerry Sass : a crime novel
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Gerry Sass is not who he appears to be. On the surface, he is the proud owner of a local country music station outside of Mystic, Iowa. Beneath it, he's a mob-connected hitman-for-hire who launders money through the station WIOA. One morning in 1986, his life of crime catches up to him when two men march him out into the woods and shoot him in the back of the head. Plunged into purgatory, he's doomed to a painful examination of his life. Unbeknownst to the assassins, Gerry's closest friend, a Catholic priest named Father Dan, witnesses his execution yet does nothing to stop it. Meanwhile, Gerry's daughter, Early, jumps into his prized Mustang with a thirst for revenge. On her adrenaline-fueled hunt, she comes to realize that she's more like Gerry than she ever chose to admit.
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FIC Han
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Questions 27 & 28 : a novel
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In February 1942, shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order authorizing the secretary of war to remove 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes on the West Coast and corral them into inland concentration camps. To be considered for release, they were required to answer the so-called loyalty questionnaire. Question 27 asked the inmates--who had been imprisoned without cause by the US military--whether they were willing to serve in combat for the US military. Question 28 asked them--many of whom American citizens who had never visited Japan--to renounce allegiance to the Japanese emperor. Answering these questions caused volatile divisions within the camps, tore families and friends apart, and had lasting repercussions in the decades postwar. Questions 27 & 28 reaches backward and forward from the time of the questionnaire, chronicling the individuals who arrived in the US from Japan at the turn of the century, their children who came of age during war and incarceration, and their descendants who lived in its aftermath. Yamashita mixes fact with fiction and layers genres from James Bond movies to haiku to oral history, transfiguring an enormity of archival research into a chorus of stories. With her signature wit and aplomb, she gives voice to laborers, artists, scholars, informants, and activists who, over three generations, defined an immigrant community.
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FIC Yam
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One leg on earth : a novel
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Yosoye, a twenty-something recent graduate, arrives in Lagos to begin an internship at an architectural firm spearheading the construction of a glossy new city on the coast. Weeks after her arrival, Yosoye discovers she's pregnant, and greets the news with both joy and terror. Joy because for Yosoye, the severely lonely daughter of an emotionally distant mother, a new life brings the promise of connection and companionship, two things she's carved for a very long time. Terror because all over Lagos, rumors of a strange phenomenon has captured the city's imagination and held its residents in fear -- pregnant women are walking into water and drowning. -- Provided by publisher.
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FIC Agu
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But won't I miss me : a novel
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In an alternate reality where drastic measures averted the global environmental crisis, humans too are now subject to great transformation. Vivi should be happy she's pregnant. But she's troubled by a looming reality that seemingly bothers no one else: having a baby also means birthing an identical, nearly indestructible self who will eat her and take her place. But as Vivi's unborn child develops, so does her fear. In a rare turn of events, Vivi emerges from rebirth weakened rather than strong. When her husband cannot tolerate her defects, they divorce and Vivi relocates to the country with her baby to work for her old boss. Chronically exhausted, mentally struggling, and on her own, Vivi must move on. But swapping old for new isn't as straightforward as it seems. When Vivi finally discovers what went wrong during childbirth, it will rewrite her life future, present, and past.
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FIC Tsa
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Absence
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People are "popping," disappearing one-by-one, into thin air: an ongoing global cataclysm known as Spontaneous Human Absence. In a world where prospects for survival are increasingly grim, hopelessness prevails, political rifts widen, and doomsday predictions flourish. Harvey Ellis works the night shift for the Bureau of Depopulation Affairs, an ad hoc federal agency meant to contain and catalogue the crisis. His job is to investigate claims of Absence, and, if validated, issue a standard government stipend to boost morale. Still recovering from losses of his own, Harvey is content in his routine-until his life is shaken up by an unexpected assignment from the central office. A woman long thought Absent has reappeared in her hometown of Dawnville, Kansas, claiming she's been to the other side and back. Is her story true, or is she just the latest false prophet, offering hope to a world desperate for answers?
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FIC Hud
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Five-star summer
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Running a five-star Cornish hotel should have been Evie Hamilton's dream job. But restoring it to its former glory is going to take a miracle, and all Evie has is grit and a hoard of unruly staff who love to speculate about her love life. Enter Abby Jones. Brought in by the hotel's umbrella company for the summer, Abby thinks Evie could be the best friend she never had. But Abby has her own agenda, and if her real motives are uncovered, their friendship is going to melt away faster than an ice cream in the summer sun. But Abby's arrival also starts a chain reaction, and with the help of a charming chef and a gruff pub owner, they begin to embrace their true selves and the bonds that unite them. But it's not just the hotel's five-star reputation that needs rebuilding; Evie and Abby will also have to brave facing themselves to reshape their futures.
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FIC Mor
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The forgotten midwife
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New Jersey, 2023 -- Riley Carmichael is getting married and finally joining a huge, loving family. For Riley, it’s been just her and her grandmother, Betty, but Betty is in late-stage dementia. On one of Riley’s visits to Betty’s nursing home, her grandmother has a rare moment of lucidity, and shares with Riley a birth certificate for an unknown baby born in Ireland in the 1950s. Full of questions, Riley embarks on a trip to Ireland to find a sense of home, identity, and belonging. Tipperary, Ireland, 1954 -- Margaret Lannigan’s life is made up of weekly dances and the love of her life, Joseph. But when Margaret’s older sister dies suddenly, it falls to her to fulfill the family’s commitment to the Catholic Church: the eldest daughter of the Lannigan family always joins a local convent. Margaret is sent to Ballyvale Home for Fallen Girls to care for expectant mothers who fell pregnant outside of marriage. With no training or midwifery skills, she fights to provide the compassionate care for these these women amidst cruelty they face. When Margaret meets Delia O’Rourke, she must find the strength she needs to protect her and her baby in the face of a system built to ensure they disappear.
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FIC Ant
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The silent house of sleep
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No one who meets Dr. Jack Cuthbert forgets him. Tall, urbane, and brilliant, the Scottish pathologist is the best that Scotland Yard's new detective chief inspector has seen. But Cuthbert is also a damaged man, a man who lives with secrets, and who still battles demons brought back from the trenches even ten years after the end of the Great War. When not one but two corpses are discovered in a London park in the winter of 1929, Cuthbert must use every tool at his disposal, including cutting-edge forensics of the period, to solve the mystery of their deaths. In the end, the horrifying truth is more shocking than even he could have imagined.
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FIC Gaw
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A Harlem wedding : a novel
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A century ago, Harlem’s glittering social scene had a single princess: Yolande Du Bois, the only child of N.A.A.C.P. icon W.E.B. Du Bois. A true daddy’s girl, Yolande followed her father’s advice on everything: from where she went to college to which sorority she joined. But in matters of the heart, Yolande and her father did not agree. Dr. Du Bois himself curated a string of handsome suitors for her, but Yolande’s true love was jazz musician Jimmie Lunceford, son of a working-class family from far-off Denver, Colorado. Their romance was an open secret, and more than a little scandalous. Despite it all, Yolande wound up marrying her father’s choice: famed poet Countee Cullen. Their lavish uptown wedding was the hottest social ticket of 1928. But, immediately after the wedding, Yolande’s carefully constructed fairy tale begins to crumble. Torn between the expectations of her father and society and her heart’s true desire, Yolande is forced to decide whether she must leave Harlem to create a more authentic life on her own terms.
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FIC War
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The tapestry of fate
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Amina al-Sirafi thinks she's struck gold. Tasked with hunting down arcane artifacts for the council of immortal peris, she can savor the occasional rollicking adventure on the high seas with her cherished criminal companions while still returning home to raise her beloved daughter, Marjana. But when Raksh, the spirit of discord with whom she is reluctantly wed, provokes the council's wrath, Amina is charged with a seemingly impossible quest: steal a spindle capable of rewriting fate from a mysterious sorceress on an island no one can escape. Forced to leave Marjana -- who is increasingly frustrated at being peddled what are clearly lies about her mother's life and her own past -- Amina finds her mission almost immediately thrown into peril. But deadly storms, an erratic poison mistress, and old enemies are the least of her worries. For the peris' story is unraveling, hinting at a far deadlier game whose rules Amina must swiftly puzzle out. A game that sets her against an adversary more cunning and powerful than she has ever faced. A game that not everyone on her crew wants her to win.
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FIC Cha
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Palaces of the crow : a novel
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Neriya, a young Jewish girl who dreams of becoming a biologist, has befriended a local flock of crows in her shtetl. Czeslaw is an underage Polish soldier who deserts the Red Army and runs into the freezing Lithuanian woods. Kezia is a Roma horse trader whose family is on the run from Soviet collectivization. As the German blitzkrieg crashes across the border in June 1941, all three are caught up in the onslaught. Along with Innokentiy, an abandoned boy who cannot speak, they are driven into the primeval forest, where they survive by forming an unbreakable bond with one another, with Neriya's intelligent crows' help. As the war goes on, the crows warn the children of danger and help them hide from the human threats of the forest, not only the Germans but also Russian deserters, Polish partisans, fascist Lithuanian police, and the other bandits and outcasts wandering the benighted landscape.
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FIC Nay
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Soon by you
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Arielle Becker is one hora away from a meltdown. After one too many bridesmaid gigs, complete with Spanx, heels, and hideous dresses, she's officially over love and its overpriced trappings. Especially when they keep coming with the same smug, judgmental wedding singer. Judah Klein is New York's go-to Modern Orthodox wedding singer and most eligible bachelor. Years of failed setups have left him jaded, until repeated clashes with a fiery bridesmaid wake him right up. But when snarks turn to sparks, and fights turn to feelings, things get complicated. Arielle is not a girl who settles down. And Judah is not a guy who hooks up. So why does walking away feel impossible?
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FIC Adl
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It's hard to be an animal : a novel
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Strolling through Central Park on a blind date with the hilarious, irrepressible Molly Bent, Henry Parsons is feeling hopeful for the first time in years. Then a migratory warbler, the sweetest of little birds, tells him to f*** off. A gentle soul, troubled enough by the unkindness of fellow humans, Henry tries to brush the moment aside as a hallucination. But soon he's hearing voices everywhere: dogs mocking their owners, sparrows fat-shaming each other, police horses profiling attendees at a street fair, even a pontificating, misogynistic snake. The man who never speaks up for himself is now besieged by animals who do. When he overhears three rats discussing a corpse in the New York subway, he lets it slip to Molly. She's keen to investigate, and Henry's desperate for a second date, so he follows her nervously into an abandoned tunnel under the West Fourth Street Station. There, sure enough, they find a body, and the murderers find them. Cue the most terrifying week of this cautious man's life.
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FIC Isa
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A kiss of crimson ash
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In the bountiful land of Abhaya, tradition is king, but seduction reigns. On the surface, it is an alluring land with even more alluring people. But look closer and lecherous kings, forbidden magic, and a wicked emperor hide in plain sight. Linked by desire, destiny, and a dangerous foe, four heirs must summon the power of an ancient Goddess and chart a course through the empire's brothels, temples, taverns, and glittering palaces to defend their kingdoms as a wicked power threatens everything and everyone they love.
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FIC Var
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Babylon, South Dakota : a novel
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When Saul Keng Hsiu and his wife, Mei Lee, move from China to the United States to take possession of a 160-acre homestead bequeathed to them by a distant relative, all they have are the possessions on their back, some hidden gold, and a pocketful of chrysanthemum seeds. After a rocky start and a long, harsh winter, the couple find themselves successfully raising chrysanthemums and livestock, and soon after, a daughter, Mara. But when representatives from the US Army Corps of Engineers buy an acre of the Hsiu's farmland and begin building a missile silo, the inexplicable starts to occur: Mara can commune with the animals on the farm. Mei develops a hidden talent for augury. And the chrysanthemums become impervious to everything. When the Hsius learn that the project on their farm is an effort to make America's nuclear deterrent invulnerable, they see firsthand the long arm of power and empire.
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FIC Lin
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The bush tea murder : a novel
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Food journalist Naomi Sinclair doesn't expect a side of murder with her passion fruit juice. But when her return to Saint Thomas heralds a series of troubling cases, ranging from petty theft to cold-blooded murder, that threaten her tight-knit community, that is exactly the kind of unsavory treat she must sink her teeth into. Luckily for her neighbors, Naomi is as adept at solving puzzles as rolling johnnycake dough-- That's a good thing, since her island community, though small, keeps serving up plenty of trouble. With the help of her friends and her crush, Mateo, Naomi must navigate the tumultuous turquoise waters of life in the Caribbean, all as her beloved father battles an illness that keeps tugging her back to her island amid her rising career stateside.
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FIC Ber
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Treat them as buffalo : a novel
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"In 1885, Nikosis 'Niko' Eriksen spends his days playing buffalo hunter, even though it's been many years since a member of his tribe has actually seen one of the once-ubiquitous animals. But when beloved Cousin goes missing, things start to fall apart. With law enforcement failing--indeed refusing--to investigate the disappearance, the community members take matters into their own hands, rallying around the leadership of a sawn-off shotgun-slinging rancher named Kate McCannon. The resultant women-led coalition of freedom fighters strikes back against the Mounted Police as they investigate the boys' disappearance and take their futures into their own hands. But violence continues to haunt Niko, and boys continue to disappear. As he leaves his boyhood behind and draws closer to finding Cousin, Niko's investigation points to a harrowing revelation about his own heritage, which heels closer to violence that any boy would wish to know."--Amazon.
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FIC Yox
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The roots of my hair : a graphic novel
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"Rose is a mixed-race woman from Réunion Island who struggles to love her konyé ("kinky") hair in a world that tells her to tame it. She moves to mainland France to study and work, experimenting with different hair-straightening techniques, visiting beauty salons, and adopting social camouflage. But Rose also explores her Black identity by questioning the deeper issues behind her hair: race, beauty standards, colonialism, and belonging. A graphic novel blending original research and fiction, to speak to anyone who has ever felt pressure to fit in. It is a powerful reminder that identity starts at the roots.
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FIC Lub
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The hive
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The residents of Mariner's Cove are changing. In the aftermath of a violent storm, a collective obsession is rapidly developing among the people of this quaint suburban neighborhood. Random, everyday items left scattered upon the lawns, the streets, and the shoreline all seem to call out to them. There is an item for almost everyone, and each item has a certain hold over the person who finds it, a hold that soon turns into unwavering infatuation. They hide their items from each other, obsess over them, and they will do anything-- anything--to protect them. Among the residents, a young boy finds himself the possessor of a strange and inexplicable power. Has he been granted this power in order to thwart whatever is about to happen in this small, bayside community, or is there a more sinister purpose?
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FIC Mal
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The British are coming : the graphic edition. Volume 1 - VIEW IN CATALOG
The British are coming : the graphic edition. Volume 1
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From the battles at Lexington and Concord in the spring of 1775 through the Siege of Boston in 1776, American militiamen and the newly created Continental Army take on the world's most formidable adversary: the British Empire. The gripping saga is alive with astonishing characters: Henry Knox, the former bookseller with an uncanny understanding of artillery; Nathanael Greene, the blue-eyed bumpkin who becomes a brilliant battle captain; Benjamin Franklin, the self-made man who proves to be the wiliest of diplomats; and George Washington, the commander in chief who learns the difficult art of leadership when the war seems all but lost. It also includes stories from the British perspective, making the mortal conflict all the more compelling. The British Are Coming is a tale of heroes and knaves, of sacrifice and blunder, of redemption and profound suffering.
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FIC Atk
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The body in the kitchen garden
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Pudding Corner is abuzz: the enigmatic Lord Hugh Darlington has returned to his crumbling ancestral home after years away. With his fiancée, he plans to revive the grand Darlington Hall, and who better to help than antique-hunting Daphne Brewster? Daphne is enchanted by the estate's stained-glass windows, regal turrets, and sprawling kitchen garden. But amidst the overgrown greenery, she stumbles upon something far less picturesque. She finds a body that no one can identify. As the shocking murder rocks the village, Daphne dusts off her sleuthing skills, despite the local PC's warnings to stay out of trouble. When Lord Darlington is attacked and a string of burglaries shakes Pudding Corner, it's clear that no one is safe.
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FIC Sut
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All them dogs
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Tony Ward has landed back in Lucan with his chest puffed up and a chip on his shoulder. After five years in the UK, staying out of trouble just like he'd been told to do, he's returned home to his west Dublin estate ready to reinstate himself into the gangland scene. But Tony's old mentor is dead and his best pal Kenny Boyle has gone on the straight and narrow. When an opportunity arises to work directly for Darren 'Flute' Walsh, an enforcer of notorious crime boss Aengus Lavelle presents itself, it seems like a no brainer. Working as his left-hand man offers a level of security against repercussions for the crimes he'd gone on the run for as well as giving him a way into the life he wants. None of that stops the big-man Lavelle making it clear that any trouble from his past will be Tony's alone to answer for. With the fragments of his past life still in the rearview and a whole new gang of headbangers to contend with, Lavelle is a pull too hard to resist. As Tony turns his back on the paper-thin structures that support him, he looks for stability in his new, brutal surroundings. But where is there room for love in a world like this, where anything that's buried is always unearthed and retribution is never far away?
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FIC Whi
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Now then : a novel
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Liliana Soto Walker is an 18-year-old freshman who arrives at Harvard from the humble Appalachian home of her Cuban immigrant mother and Black American father. Lily feels out of place in this new world of privilege, but her roommate Hana and a budding romance with Vikram stirs a new sense of belonging. As Lily navigates the complexities of college life, her mother, Marisol, finally begins to reveal her past through heartfelt letters, sparking Lily's journey to uncover hidden histories and discover what it means to endure--and find happiness again.
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Book
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FIC Rad
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The Dorians : a novel
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On a remote island in the Canadian wilderness, five elderly volunteers from different walks of life are given a tantalizing offer: to stall their biological clocks or even reverse them, restoring their lost youth. It's the chance to put death on pause, perhaps forever. The remarkable secret lies in the high-tech harnessing of an ancient and extraordinary biological agent, one with no conscience, yet possessed with a single-minded purpose. This purpose has helped it persist for eons, and it is the will to survive.
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FIC Cut
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The temptation of Charlotte North
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In 1910, on a small, remote island that boasts more sheep than people, the fates of Charlotte North, Jasper Hill, and Ruth Russel are perched on the edge of a cliff, and a strange wind is blowing. When an ancient tower, rumored to have once imprisoned a witch, crumbles, it releases something powerful. A restless spirit knocks inside the walls and sends household objects flying. A spirit that seems to be drawn to Charlotte, who sees in it a potential for power and change. But first she must overcome Jasper's piety and Ruth's fierce determination to banish the terrifying entity. Only then will she gain the power to claim the life that she desires.
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FIC Bru
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A perfect hand
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Miss Alice Lockey, daughter of a tenant farmer, has raised herself to the lofty status of lady's maid at Marlecombe Park. Alice has thus far resisted the temptations of matrimony among the neighboring widowers and pig farmers, more content to enjoy the fruits of her labor -- or at least the portion of them her father will share after they are paid to him. She spends her days arranging Lady Jemima Alderwick's blond hair into the latest French styles, her lady's petticoats, and carefully sewing all manner of fripperies to bonnets and gowns. But when a visiting valet named Charlie Wells, catches her eye, Alice begins to understand the constraints of her position. To spend more time with Charlie, she sees to arranging a romance between Lady Jemima and his employer, Nigel Deverell. If they fall in love, then Alice and Charlie might live together as man and wife. Unfortunately, Lady Jemima's loves another, and Lord Wynstowe has a personality that's eccentric at the very least, so Alice must use all of her cunning to bring about this romance.
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Book
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FIC Wal