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Meredith thought she'd done it all right - married the perfect man, had the perfect daughter - but as she grows increasingly restless, she can't help but wonder if she got the love part wrong. Josie has been happily single for years, but she wants a child of her own so much she's one bad Match.com date away from heading straight for the baby carriage all on her own. These sisters, whose relationship was strained by the tragic death of their older...
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A hostile relationship with her sister and a complicated past with her father's second wife have kept Robin estranged from her family for many years. But when her father's new family is attacked in their house, she returns home determined to put her experience as a therapist to use to help mend fences. It looks like a random robbery gone awry, but as Robin spends more time with her family members, she learns they all had their secrets - and one of...
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"Malibu 1983. Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of one night, each of their lives will be changed forever in this propulsive novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six. Malibu is buzzing with anticipation for Nina Riva's annual party. Everyone wants to be in the company of the famous Rivas: Nina, the surfer and model; her brothers, Jay and Hud, one a championship...
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Doubleday Canada
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This ambitious new work is set in a vanished time, 1912, in the fantastically rich world of vaudeville. In gorgeous prose and through three unforgettable sisters, Marina Endicott takes us onto the brightly lit stage and then into the shadows that lurk behind the curtain, and reveals how the art of vaudeville - in all its variety, madness, melodrama, hilarity and sorrow - echoes the art of life itself.
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Doubleday Canada
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From the author of the international bestseller "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry" comes another exquisite and emotionally resonant novel about the search for the truth and unconditional love. On a foggy spring morning in 1972, twelve-year-old Byron Hemming and his mother are driving to school in the English countryside. On the way, in a life-changing two seconds, an accident occurs. Or does it? Byron is sure it happened, but his mother, sitting...
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Doubleday Canada
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With the same propulsion that captivated millions of readers around the world in her novel "The Girl on the Train," Paula Hawkins unfurls a gripping, twisting, layered plot, interwoven with a powerful understanding of human instincts and the damage they can inflict.
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Inheriting their late grandmother's sprawling, book-filled home in London, siblings Grace and Andrew Easton move in together and initially enjoy a shared life that is complicated by Andrew's gay relationship with a strident novelist, the shattering murder of a friend, and Grace's discovery of a long-lost manuscript.
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Doubleday Canada
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"A twisty new thriller from the acclaimed author of The House Swap. After the death of his first wife, Alex has been given a second lease on life with Natalie, to whom he is newly married. Living in Brighton with Alex's thirteen-year-old daughter, Jade, the couple seem to be made for one another. But their idyllic domestic calm is soon shattered when Alex returns home one night to find that Jade and Natalie have narrowly escaped from a devastating...
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Walsh family volume 6
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Doubleday Canada
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From author Marian Keyes comes the sequel to Rachel's Holiday. Back in the long ago nineties, Rachel Walsh was a mess. But a spell in rehab transformed everything. Life became very good, very quickly. These days, Rachel has love, family, a great job as an addiction counsellor; she even gardens. Her only bad habit is a fondness for expensive running shoes. But with the sudden reappearance of a man she'd once loved, her life wobbles. She'd thought she...
10) Forest of ruin
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Age of legends volume 3
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Doubleday Canada
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Desperate to outmaneuver the evil Alvar Kitsune, Moria allies with Gavril, while Ashyn discovers that she is the key to a ritual that could reawaken an ancient dragon and turn the tide of the coming battle in their favor.
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Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister Angela and her family to join him for a week at a vacation home in the English countryside. Richard has just re-married and inherited a willful stepdaughter in the process and Angela has a feckless husband and three children who sometimes seem alien to her. Because of Haddon's extraordinary narrative technique, the stories of these eight people are anything but simple. Told through the alternating...
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A powerful suspenseful story narrated by a young girl who must fend for herself and her little brother after a brutal bear attack. Claire Cameron has imagined what transpires if a couple brought small children with them on a hike in Algonquin Park and the parents are mauled by a bear. "The Bear" grabs you by the throat and will not let you go. Written by an author who has experience of both wilderness survival and motherhood, it is a brilliant examination...
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"The thrilling second novel from the author of The Chalk Man, about a teacher with a hidden agenda who returns to settle scores at a school he once attended, only to uncover a darker secret than he could have imagined. Joe never wanted to come back to Arnhill. After the way things ended with his old gang--the betrayal, the suicide, the murder--and after what happened when his sister went missing, the last thing he wanted to do was return to his hometown....
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IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
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Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce is an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. In the summer of 1950, a series of inexplicable events strikes Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that her family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp pinned to its beak. Later, Flavia finds a man dying in the cucumber patch. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. (Bestseller)...
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