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1) Dead lions
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Slough House volume 2
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When a Cold War-era colleague is murdered far from his usual haunts, a team of disgraced MI5 spies under the leadership of Jackson Lamb uncovers secrets that lead to a man who hides his dangerous powers behind a false identity.
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Discovering a tattered letter that says she is to open it only in the event of her husband's death, Cecelia is unable to resist reading the letter and discovers a secret that shatters her life and the lives of two other women.
Three women. One letter. And a secret that will change everything. One day Cecilia stumbles on an envelope that says it's only to be opened upon the death of her husband. Her husband is very much alive. She mentions her discovery...
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"Hellgoing" is Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Lynn Coady's second collection of short fiction, and one of her fiercest, funniest, and most searching books to date. With astonishing range and depth, Coady gives us eight unforgettable new stories, each of them grabbing our attention from the first line and resonating long after the last.
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MaddAddam trilogy volume 3
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English
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Bringing together characters from "Oryx and Crake" and "The Year of the Flood," this thrilling conclusion to Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction trilogy confirms the ultimate endurance of humanity, community, and love. Months after the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of humanity, Toby and Ren have rescued their friend Amanda from the vicious Painballers. Meanwhile, Zeb searches for Adam One, founder of the God's Gardeners, the pacifist...
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Sigma Force novels volume 9
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Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force set out to uncover the truth tied to the fall of the Roman Empire, to a mystery going back to the birth of Christianity, and to a weapon hidden for centuries that holds the fate of humanity.
6) The guts
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A triumphant return to the characters of Booker Prize-winning writer Roddy Doyle's breakout first novel, "The Commitments," now older, wiser, facing cancer, and battling through midlife. Jimmy Rabbitte is forty-seven-years-old, happily married, with four children, and he's just been diagnosed with colon cancer. As he struggles to come to terms with the news, he must also juggle the additional demands and delights of his business (reviving one-hit...
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A tale spanning one hundred fifty years and two continents reimagines the peace efforts of democracy champion Frederick Douglass, Senator George Mitchell, and World War I airmen John Alcock and Teddy Brown through the experiences of four generations of women.
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It's been two months since private investigator Cal Weaver's teenage son Scott died in a tragic drug-related accident. A drenched young girl tapped on Cal's window as he sat at a stoplight and asked for a ride. And even though he knew a forty-something man picking up a teenage hitchhiker is a fool, he let her in the car - she was the same age as Scott and maybe she could help him find the dealer who sold his son the drugs that killed him. Soon Cal...
10) Hidden
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While walking home from work one evening, Jeff Manning is struck by a car and killed. Not one but two women fall to pieces at the news: his wife, Claire, and his co-worker Tish. Told through the three voices of Jeff, Tish, and Clair, "Hidden" explores the complexity of relationships, our personal choices, and the responsibilities we have to the ones we love.
11) Going home again
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When Charlie Bellerose reunites with his flamboyant brother Nate after two decades apart, their youthful rivalry seems forgotten. But Charlie's chance encounter with his first love, Holly, now happily married, unravels his past and complicates his present, plunging him back to his bittersweet college days in Montreal and forward into Nate's dangerous attraction to Holly's sixteen-year-old daughter, Riley. Yet even Charlie, with all he now knows about...
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Rose Harbor novels volume 2
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English
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The sequel to "The Inn at Rose Harbor," featuring a fresh group of guest who each have a heartwarming story to tell.
13) Extraordinary
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Over the course of one Saturday night, a man and his half-sister meet at her request to spend the evening preparing for her assisted death. They drink and reminisce fondly, sadly, amusingly about their lives and especially her children, both of whom have led dramatic and profoundly different lives. "Extraordinary" is a gentle consideration of assisted suicide, and also a story about siblings - about how brothers and sisters turn out so differently;...
14) True love
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Alix Madsen is just finishing her degree in architecture when she's bequeathed the use of a charming eighteenth-century home in Nantucket for one year. Alix discovers that nearly everyone she knows has their own agenda as to how she should spend her days while in Nantucket. But all she wants to do is meet Jared Montgomery, the sexy man living in the guest house on the property. Little does she know that Jared is also trying to charm her. He owes his...
16) Red Joan
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Doubleday Canada
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English
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Joan Stanley has a secret. For fifty years she has been a loving mother, a doting grandmother and an occasional visitor to ballroom dancing and watercolour classes. Then one sunlit spring morning there is a knock on the door.
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Doubleday Canada
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With his curly black hair and his wicked grin, everyone swoons and thinks of Frank Sinatra when Navy musician Jackson Lewis takes the stage. It's World War II, and while stationed in St. John's, Newfoundland, Jack meets the well-heeled, romantic Vivian Clift. But when Vivian meets Jack's mother and brother, everything she thought she knew about her new husband gets called into question. They don't live in the dream home that Jack depicted, they all...
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Whispers on the moors novels volume 1
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English
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Heiress Amelia Barrett promises to raise her dying friend's infant baby, but when the baby is kidnapped, Amelia and Graham, the baby's father, must accept God's sovereignty so they can grasp the future he has for planned for them.
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