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Lucy Lovejoy married her childhood sweetheart at sixteen-years-old, but there is no longer any warmth or love at the centre of Lucy's family: her children have watched their father belittle her for years and are following in his footsteps. With her fortieth birthday approaching, Lucy discovers that her husband is having an affair with her sister and it shatters her. Mustering all her courage, she decides to leave her family and the home she's devoted...
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Arriving at an ancient stone prison, the Lady, an investigator who searches for information from prisoners's pasts that can save those awaiting execution, digs into the past of a killer named York, who can sense what others cannot, and unearths shocking secrets of her own.
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"Autumn Rose lives in a sleepy seaside town in the south-west of England, but buried deep under the surface of her quiet life are dark secrets. Her grandmother is dead, murdered eighteen months before, and the whirling social scene of London in which shewas brought up is a world away. Even worse, at her new school she is shunned and condemned - all because of the swirling marks on her skin that prevent her from blending in the crowd. But the appearance...
5) The guardian
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 19
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Four years after losing her husband, twenty-nine-year-old Julie Barenson considers falling in love again and wonders if she should choose sophisticated Richard, who treats her like a queen, or down-to-earth Mike, who is her best friend.
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"Gabby and Elliott have been happily married for eighteen years. They have two teenaged daughters; they have built a life together. So why does forty-three-year-old Gabby feel like she has only three more minutes left of youth? Why do her friends so desperately try to hang on to their attractiveness? And why does she ever even look at the handsome guy--ten years younger--at the other end of the bar one night? Gabby is the last person to have an affair--a...
7) Carthage
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When a young girl disappears near a community in the Adirondacks, the people of the town of Carthage must face the fact that an Iraq War veteran is the prime suspect.
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A deeply moving story of the coming of age of a country and a boy at the time of Barbados' independence from Britain in 1966. Fourteen-year-old Christopher Lucas and Stephanie King have been neighbours and best friends since they were born a few months apart. Through a series of triumphs and catastrophes, they determine their places in the world and take control of their lives. Rich with details of Bajan culture - from food preparation to political...
9) Watching you
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Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
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"Before I Go to Sleep meets When a Stranger Calls in Robotham's taut and nuanced new thriller. Marnie Logan often feels like she's being watched: a warm breath on the back of her neck, or a shadow in the corner of her eye that vanishes when she turns her head. Now her life is frozen. Her husband Daniel is missing. She can't access his bank accounts or his life insurance. Depressed and increasingly desperate, she seeks the help of clinical psychologist...
10) Dust
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Alfred A. Knopf
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"A novel that opens with a young man's murder on the day of the tumultuous 2007 election in Kenya, but then goes into the history of his family and of the splintered African nation around them--in scenes stretching back to a shocking political assassination in 1969 and the Mau Mau uprisings against British colonial rule in the 1950s"-- Publisher.
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In the 1931 war-ravaged Mexico border town of Coraz n de la Fuente, where the only enterprise in town is a brothel, Dr. Romulus Brinkley decides to build a gargantuan new radio tower to broadcast his miraculous "goat gland operation" said to cure sexual impotence. Inspired by the shenanigans of a real life American con man.
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Doubleday Canada
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The follow-up to the bestseller "The Winter Palace." Catherine the Great reflects on the decisions that gained her the world and brought her enemies to their knees. And before her last breath, shadowed by the bloody French Revolution, she sets up the end game for her last political maneuver, ensuring her successor and the greater glory of Russia.
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In 1943, seventeen-year-old Juliet Dufresne receives a cryptic letter from her enlisted older brother pleading for help, and then finds out he's been reported missing overseas. She lies about her age and volunteers as an army nurse to find him. Juliet is thrust into the bloody chaos of a field hospital, where she is increasingly consumed by the plight of her patients. One in particular, Christopher Barnaby, a deserter awaiting court martial, may hold...
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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...
18) Evening stars
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Sisters Nina and Averil Wentworth deal with life and love--and their tenuous relationship with each other--on Blackberry Island.
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Elle has been told she's a product of her mother's sinful mistake. Convinced that their granddaughter is infected with evil, her grandparents believe that only the harshest child-rearing methods will prevent Elle from becoming an instrument of the devil. When Elle's mother returns home and tells a different story of her conception, Elle worries her grandparents are right. But with the help of a handsome boy vacationing nearby, Elle is finally about...
20) Life after life
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The staff and residents at Fulton, North Carolina's retirement facility, share the realities of their lives, from a prominent lawyer who feigns dementia to escape life with his son, to a woman who keeps a scrapbook of every local crime.
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