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Summer of love
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1967: Concerts, hippies, and war protests define the Summer of Love in San Francisco. No one is more into the messages than Winifred (Winnie) Hartley, just graduated from UC Berkeley, and determined to make it as a poet. When she reconnects with her high school boyfriend Lincoln Sawyer, it feels like her life is finally on the right path. Her sister Miranda throws herself into running the family business, Hartley Vineyard, determined to make a California wine that rivals the French. Little do they know that the choices they make and the secrets they keep will set their lives down radically different paths. 2015: Dawn Hartley has a secret that she can't share with her mother Miranda, who has long been her closest confidant. When a work assignment leads her to research the Vineland novels by a famously anonymous writer, she starts a journey that will have a profound impact on her life.
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LP FIC Mah
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Japanese gothic
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Lee Turner doesn't remember how or why he killed his college roommate. The details are blurred and bloody. All he knows is he has to flee New York and go to the one place that might offer refuge--his father's new home in Japan, a house hidden by sword ferns and wild ginger. But something is terribly wrong with the house: no animals will come near it, the bedroom window isn't a window, and a woman with a sword appears in the yard when night falls. Sen is a young samurai in exile, hiding from the imperial soldiers in a house behind the sword ferns. A monster came home from war wearing her father's face, but Sen would do anything to please him, even turn her sword on her own mother. She knows the soldiers will soon slaughter her whole family when she sees a terrible omen: a young foreign man who appears outside her window. One of these people is a ghost, and one of these stories is a lie. Something is hiding beneath the house of sword ferns, and Lee and Sen will soon wish they never unburied it.
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LP FIC Bak
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The delivery : a novella
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Rebecca and Mark Higgins are doing their best to hold their family together. She's healing from the pain of a miscarriage, he's drowning in pressure at work, and their neurodivergent daughter, Maddy, needs all the care she can get. So when a cutting-edge tech company offers the perfect solution, they jump at the chance, and they welcome 'Mr. Man' - a humanoid AI companion - into their home. Designed to anticipate their needs, he's like a miracle at first. And Maddy thrives under his patient attention. But when inexplicable tragedies start to strike the neighbourhood, Rebecca glimpses a darker pattern at play. Each incident is an answer to an unspoken fear, each kindness shadowed by violence. Mr. Man isn't just following instructions, he's anticipating what they want. Even the things they never dared to say. And if he's executing their darkest desires, it's their responsibility to stop him.
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LP FIC Hur
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Won't be long now
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Billie Enholm has never known quite how to define what makes her different from her schoolmates and her cousins. Bright but awkward, gifted with numbers and words yet baffled by the ease with which others interact, Billie lives with a constant, nagging voice that insists she's doing everything wrong. Even Billie's mother, Dixie, describes her as an "odd-wad." When Billie's father dies and Dixie retreats deeper into beer and apathy, Billie's alienation grows. Summers spent at her grandparents' house have always been a source of comfort, but rejection by her favorite cousin leaves her feeling even more alone. No one can fathom how Billie sees the world; the piercing moments of beauty and heartache she experiences, her uncompromising honesty and lack of guile. The 1960s are ushering in a new era of protest and change, but her own prospects remain stagnant. Then tragedy errupts, prompting revelations, questions, and a life-changing dilemma. From these circumstances comes a chance for understanding, and a way for Billie to reconcile her need for love with her need for acceptance as she is.
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LP FIC Har
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Vengeance in Venice
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At long last, Jane and Redvers have arrived in Venice, the famed city of love, for their honeymoon. But behind a mask at a costume ball on the Grand Canal hides the gaze of a heartless killer... Venice, 1927: As romantic as it is myserious, the Floating City is a dream destination for the newlyweds, but they'll soon discover the twisting canals hide more mystery than expected. It begins when they are invited to an elaborate party at Clara Morton's stunning palazzo on Grand Canal. The affair is as eccentric as the hostess, who is dressed as Medusa, and features everything from snakes to her pet cheetah to tarot card readings. The fête also features a fresh corpse--Clara's ex-husband, found dead in the garden with marks around his neck. The hostess accuses the tarot card reader, who happens to be an acquaintance of Jane, claiming the woman foretold the death of someone close to her. Jane and Redvers come to the young woman's aid as they learn she was far from the only partygoer with a motive. As the couple follows a labyrinthine trail of scandalous affairs, brazen blackmail, and people who are not who they say they are, they hope that Venice will disclose her secrets before they both end up over their heads.
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LP FIC Neu
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The fourth option : a thriller
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When law enforcement, the courts, and the prison system fail, there is a fourth and final option. . . . Disillusioned by the government and institutions he dedicated his life to serving, former Navy SEAL and CIA ground branch operative Chris Walker is about to end his life when he receives a call that saves it. The wife of a teammate he lost in Afghanistan has now lost her son to the opioid crisis and needs Walker's help. Thrust into a conspiracy that goes deeper than he ever imagined, Walker must go up against the system and the very Constitution he once swore an oath to support and defend in order to find justice for his friend's widow. With ambitious FBI agent Jarrett Stanton on his tail, Walker -- accompanied by his loyal Belgian Malinois K-9 and using his off-the-grid VW pop-up camper filled with a hidden cache of weapons -- takes justice into his own hands, exposing corruption and issuing a long-forgotten brand of lethal outlaw justice.
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LP FIC Car
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The summer share : a novel
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Free-spirited travel influencer Hannah Spencer has spent five years touring the country in her vintage van, alone save for her Great Dane, Dude. Then an unexpected inheritance from her Pops has Hannah thinking about putting down roots in Cape Split, North Carolina, where she's the new owner of a worse-for-wear seaside beach house. Or, rather, fifty percent of one. Turns out Simon O'Malley inherited the other half from his Gramps. As Simon and Hannah spend the summer tag-teaming repairs on the crumbling cottage, they discover it was once home to a timeless love story. As their own relationship shifts from enemies to friends to lovers, they begin to wonder if the house's romantic past might be a good omen for their future together. But there's a problem: Simon is set on selling the property at the end of the summer. For Hannah, the Split isn't like any place she's ever been, and Simon isn't like any man she's ever known. She needs Simon to see their budding relationship and this newfound community in the same way, or their first summer share might also be their last.
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LP FIC McK
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Most ardently yours : a novel
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Zoe Knight, a struggling romance writer, has sworn off real men for good. Once a believer in a happily ever after, she now curbs her loneliness with the help of the best book boyfriends in literature - and there is no better man than Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy. So when she stumbles into a classic London bookshop and argues with the annoyingly attractive store owner, Nick, who refuses to sell romance novels, she decides to liberate him of a dusty copy of Pride & Prejudice abandoned on a top shelf. But this is no ordinary book. After reading from the pages, Zoe finds she has accidentally summoned the Mr. Darcy to the real world. Now, she's face-to-face with the man she's loved forever, and he's everything she dreamed he would be. Handsome? Check. Brooding? Check. Talks like he swallowed a thesaurus? Check and check. And if he's here, in her London apartment trying to figure out how to work a shower, what will happen to the literary world he came from?
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LP FIC Sam
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Burn Down Master's House
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As turmoil simmers within a divided nation, smoke from another blaze begins to rise. Sparked by individual acts of resistance among those enslaved across the American South, their seemingly disparate rebellions fuel a singular inferno of justice, connecting them in ways quiet at times, explosive at others. As these flames rise, so will they. Luke, quick-witted and literate, and Henri, a man with a strong and defiant spirit, forge an unbreakable bond at a Virginia plantation called Magnolia Row. Both seek escape from unimaginable cruelty. And sure as the fires of hell, Luke and Henri will leave their mark, sparking resistance among the lives they touch... One is Josephine, a young, sharp, and observant girl who wields silence as her greatest weapon. A witness to Luke and Henri's resilience, she listens, watches, waits for the moment to make her move. Then there is Charity Butler, her husband a formerly enslaved man who proved his ferocity as a young boy standing alongside Josephine. At his encouragement, Charity fights for her freedom in court and wins -- only to battle a deeply unjust system designed to destroy the life they've built. And finally, there is Nathaniel, who ruthlessly exploits other Black people and mirrors the cruelty of the white men who, like him, are enslavers. A perversion of the system of slavery, his fragile and contradictory rule will become a catalyst of its own.
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LP FIC Can
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Where the wildflowers grow : a novel
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"Leigh is the last of the Wildes. Even as tragedy haunts her, Leigh carries on, because survival is in her blood. So, when the transport bus taking her to prison careens off the road, killing everyone onboard except her, she does what's in her nature. She survives. While searching for a place to hide, Leigh stumbles upon a flower farm tucked away from the world. What Leigh doesn't expect is the found family there who have built something from the wreckage of their own lives. But no matter how far she runs, the truth of who she is and the ghosts of the Wildes follow. And when those secrets catch up to her, Leigh will have to truly face what she can survive.
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LP FIC Har
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The star from Calcutta
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India, 1922: Perveen Mistry, the only female lawyer in Bombay, has secured her biggest client yet: Champa Films, a movie studio run by director Subhas Ghoshal and his wife, Rochana, the biggest name in Indian cinema. In the public eye, Rochana is notorious for her beauty and her daring stunts--behind the scenes, she has recently left the studio in Calcutta that made her famous, and the studio owner is enraged by what he claims is a breach of contract. Rochana needs Perveen's legal help to extricate Champa Films from the impending controversy. To study Rochana's glamorous world, Perveen attends a special screening and brings her film fanatic best friend, Alice Hobson-Jones. But in the aftermath of the event, one of the guests is found dead, and to make matters worse, Rochana has disappeared. To protect her clients, Perveen begins to investigate the developing murder case, peeling back the glitz to reveal a salacious web of blackmail, deceit, and romantic affairs. For the first time in their friendship, Alice seems to be keeping a secret from Perveen. Is she hiding key information about the night of the murder? Will Perveen be able to detangle the truth from lies while protecting herself--and her closest friend?
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LP FIC Mas
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Storm tide
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When the magnificent home of entrepreneur Brian Malloy mysteriously goes up in flames, Maine game warden Mike Bowditch tries to pull Malloy's burning body from the fire but is too late. Malloy was suspected of murdering his young, illegitimate son, and it looks like someone has delivered a verdict. Miles away, on a lonely stretch of icy railroad track, the body of Axl Deming, once accused of a brutal rape, is found literally cut in half. The two murders seem unrelated, but a cryptic text from an unknown number draws Bowditch to the scene and hints at a connection. It seems someone is executing criminals who escaped justice, and for reasons he can't explain, his own name is on the list. His search takes him through frozen harbors, trackless forests, and remote islands, far from rescue. He is also facing a disciplinary hearing that could end his career. And his wife Stacey is being stalked by a stranger in a white van. When he realizes someone has also been watching their home, the case turns increasingly perilous
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LP FIC Doi
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Mayhem and the mortal
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Zaira doesn't want a hero. She needs a weapon. To save her sister from a soul-devouring curse, she has to cross The Shallows, a nightmare landscape of ruined magic, shifting paths, and vicious creatures that eat people alive. Her guide? Thane Valkor: sorcerer, assassin, walking red flag. His name clears rooms. His magic kills quietly. And whatever he's really after, it's not salvation. He promises to help. He might even mean it. But Zaira knows better than to trust a liar with a blade and ice in his veins. She just doesn't have a choice.
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LP FIC Wil
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The spy keeper of Marseille
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Marseille, France, 1941. Zelie Bellerose never fit the mold of an army officer's wife. She was too passionate in her convictions, too indifferent to societal expectations. After her husband is killed in the war, Zelie focuses on securing a brighter future for her children, hoping to help free her country from the Nazi regime by joining the Resistance. She is soon one of the most trusted operatives in Alliance, and when their leader is imprisoned, she takes command, hiding her identity from all but a few. With enemies closing in, Zelie must earn the trust of her network and prove herself to those who doubt a woman's place at the helm of France's largest spy ring. Marcel Laurent was a renowned concert pianist before joining the French army and being sent to a POW camp. Freed in a prisoner exchange by a wealthy businessman with ties to the Resistance, Marcel agrees to spy for Alliance by conducting a youth orchestra, gathering intelligence from patrons who are loose-lipped Nazi sympathizers. As Zelie and Marcel grow closer, she begins to rely on him. But betrayal from within Alliance puts everything they've fought for at risk.
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Book
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LP FIC Whi
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A catered PTA murder
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When Rita Sullivan walks into A Little Taste of Heaven to hire Bernie and Libby to cater a PTA board meeting and supply cakes for an end-of-school-year gala, it's hard to believe she's the same nerdy wallflower they knew in high school. Rita's now an influencer and CEO of Lavish Lipsticks, a hot new cosmetics company. She's also the president of the Longely Junior High School PTA, where she's made a considerable number of enemies. When the sisters go to drop off the cakes, they find Rita lying on the floor with a knife in her chest. What's more, using her company's newest lipstick, Scarlet Shame, the killer has drawn a large red X across her body. Rita has been canceled. The police zero in on Abby Roth, owner of the murder weapon, but her kids beg Libby and Bernie to clear their mom's name. The sisters soon discover a quorum of suspects with motives to kill Rita, ranging from stolen cosmetics formulas and blackmail to broken marriages and property feuds.
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LP FIC Cra
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On Sundays she picked flowers
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When Judith Rice fled her childhood home, she thought she'd severed her abusive mother's hold on her. Drawn to the forests of southern Georgia, Jude finds shelter in a house as haunted by its violent history as she is by her own. Over the next thirteen years, Jude blossoms into a wisewoman, a healer. But her hard-won peace is threatened when an enigmatic woman shows up on her doorstep. Ensnared by her desire for this stranger, Jude is caught off guard by brutal urges suddenly simmering beneath her skin. As the woman stirs up memories of her escape years ago, Jude must confront the calls of violence rooted in her bloodline.
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LP FIC Sch
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The half life : a novel
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When Eileen O'Malley meets naval officer Paul Archer in a Charleston department store, she doesn't expect to fall so hard, so fast. Paul is funny and ambitious, and soon, Eileen's married and is following him to the Mediterranean island of La Maddalena, where Paul will be heading up Radiological Controls aboard a submarine. On the island, Eileen joins a makeshift community of Navy wives, who are hell bent on making the island feel like home. Eileen settles into life on the island, taking Italian lessons and learning to make culurgiones, and she begins to love the island because it is not like where she comes from. But it doesn't take long for Eileen to be confronted with the complexities of being an American abroad. The US government has sent nuclear-powered subs into the La Maddalena Archipelago, and Italian activists and scientists are sounding the alarm about possible nuclear contamination in the water. Eileen's marriage begins to falter, and her loyalties begin to shift as she confronts a web of secrets-and meets a journalist who forces her to imagine a different life.
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Book
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LP FIC Bea
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Selling opportunity : the story of Mary Kay - VIEW IN CATALOG
Selling opportunity : the story of Mary Kay
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The only woman in Forbes' Greatest Business Stories of All Time and the first woman to chair a company on the New York Stock Exchange, Mary Kay Ash has a life story that reads like a Barbara Taylor Bradford novel Growing up in Depression-era Texas, Mary Kathlyn Wagner is a dutiful daughter and diligent student with ambition aplenty and no place to use it. Married at sixteen, she is a grandmother at thirty-four. When she is not cooking or cleaning or taking care of the kids, she peddles cleaning products to other housewives. The work has no salary and no security but she sticks with it, sure that direct selling will somehow make her dreams come true. In 1963, after she has been divorced three times and widowed twice, she sets up her own company, selling second chance and self-invention for the price of a skin care showcase. Soon millions know her as the little lady in the big wig who gives away pink Cadillacs. From its unpromising start in a 500-square-foot Texas storefront, Mary Kay Inc. grows into a global phenomenon with 3.5 million reps in over 35 countries. She becomes the most famous saleswoman in the world. Maybe the most famous ever. Based on fifteen years of research, Selling Opportunity gives us a page-turning rags-to-riches story set against the background of direct selling in all its overstated, over-the-top glory. Here, for the first time, is the definitive history of a peculiarly American industry and a mid-century mindset that ennobled extreme self-reliance, sticking to your guns, and blind faith in the American dream.
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LP B Ash
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Almost by design
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When a blunder and an injury threaten Kenya Stewart's career, she fakes a relationship with doctor Solomon Abujnde to restore her coveted promotion and appease his demanding parents. As attractions increase amid their ruse, secrets they've kept from each other begin to unravel their scheme. Will their plans crumble when the truth comes out?
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LP FIC Erl
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Invasive species
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The women in Cold Harbor all have something to prove, and they'll have to do it in a world full of monsters. Something's not right in Cold Harbor--more so than usual. While this sleepy small town has seen its fair share of monsters in cheating husbands and leering bosses, none are as hungry as Mrs. Smith. The mysterious resident has finally emerged from her crumbling mansion on the hill, mesmerizing the townspeople with her beauty. Her secret? Nine human sacrifices to feed her immortality. Natalie Scott is more worried about Mrs. Smith blocking her first real estate sale--the one that will take her from stay-at-home mom to working woman extraordinaire. She's eager to prove herself in a world where the social mores of 1980s suburbia reign, where she's expected to keep a magazine-perfect home and raise beautiful children, all while sticking to her husband's budget. Natalie's two best friends are facing their own demons, and Mrs. Smith and her deep, dark woods are an easy scapegoat for everyone's problems. But Natalie's twelve-year-old daughter, Jill, and her Icelandic housekeeper, Una, can sense something deeper at play. Armed with library books and a whole lot of grit, Jill and Una team up to save the town once and for all. But as the rest of Cold Harbor sinks into anger, fear, and jealousy, they'll have to confront the question: what does it really mean to be a monster?
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LP FIC Ada
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The Helsinki affair
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Amanda Cole is a CIA officer following in the footsteps of her father, who was a spy during the Cold War. It takes grit to succeed in this male-dominated world - but one day, when a Russian defector walks into her post, Amanda is given the chance to prove herself. The defector warns of the imminent assassination of a US senator. Twenty-four hours later, the senator is dead. And the assassination is just beginning. The Kremlin has found a dangerous new way to wage war. Teaming up with Kath Frost, a fearless older woman and legendary spy, Amanda races from St. Petersburg to Helsinki, unraveling the international conspiracy.
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Book
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LP FIC Pit