Nancy Wu
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Violet is one of the most celebrated courtesans in Shanghai. Abandoned by her mother, Lucia, and uncertain of her father's identity, Violet's quest to truly love and be loved will set her on a path fraught with danger and complexity - and the loss of her own daughter. Lucia's search for penance and redemption will bring her to a startling reunion with Flora, Violet's daughter, and will undo all that Violet believed she knew about her mother. Spanning...
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A Library Reads “Top Pick”
Finalist, Colorado Book Awards, Mystery
“Another compelling mystery” in Timber Creek’s “vivid Colorado setting” that is “sure to appeal to fans of Margaret Coel or Nevada Barr” (Shelf Awareness)
Two brutal murders, a menacing band of poachers, and a fearsome creature on the loose in the mountains plunge...
Finalist, Colorado Book Awards, Mystery
“Another compelling mystery” in Timber Creek’s “vivid Colorado setting” that is “sure to appeal to fans of Margaret Coel or Nevada Barr” (Shelf Awareness)
Two brutal murders, a menacing band of poachers, and a fearsome creature on the loose in the mountains plunge...
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After the sight of a night sky filled with stars makes eight-year-old Uma feel very small, she asks people how they think about infinity and gets a variety of answers before realizing the comfort in knowing that some things go on forever.
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On a rugged Colorado mountain ridge, Mattie Cobb and her police dog partner Robo make a grisly discovery-and become the targets of a ruthless killer. Colorado's Redstone Ridge is a place of extraordinary beauty, but this rugged mountain wilderness harbors a horrifying secret. When a charred body is discovered in a shallow grave on the ridge, officer Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner Robo are called in to spearhead the investigation. But this is no ordinary...
6) Hunting hour
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Deputy Mattie Cobb is in a dark place and has withdrawn from Cole Walker and his family to work on issues from her past. When she and her K-9 partner, Robo, get called to track a missing junior high student, they find the girl dead on Smoker's Hill behind the high school, and Mattie must head to the Walker home to break the bad news. But that's only the start of trouble in Timber Creek, because soon another girl goes missing-and this time it's one...
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Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her. For her part, in the convenience store she finds a predictable world mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the workers should act and what they should say, and she copies her coworkers' style of dress and speech...
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When Deputy Ken Brody's sweetheart goes missing in the mountains outside Timber Creek, Mattie Cobb and Robo are called to search. But it's mid-October and a dark snow storm is brewing over the high country-and they're already too late. By the time they find her body, the storm has broken and the snow is coming down hard.
While Brody hikes down to bring back the forensics team and veterinarian Cole Walker gathers supplies to protect them from the...
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After the sudden death of her ex-husband, Brian, Lauren helps Brian's much-younger widow, Jessica, arrange the funeral and settle his affairs. Although they were once adversaries in the battle for Brian's heart, Lauren agrees to pitch in for the sake of their troubled sixteen-year-old daughter, Emily. But Lauren gets much more than she bargained for when information comes to light about Brian's shady business deals with his old college friend Jordan...
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A dazzling new fantasy from New York Times and Indie bestselling author Joan He, Strike the Zither is a powerful, inventive, and sweeping fantasy that reimagines the Chinese classic tale of the Three Kingdoms.
The year is 414 of the Xin Dynasty, and chaos abounds. A puppet empress is on the throne. The realm has fractured into three factions, and three warlordesses hope to claim the continent for themselves.
But Zephyr
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"A Chinatown Christmas" refers to the saying that you can always find a restaurant open on Christmas day in Chinatown when all the other restaurants are closed.
Billionaire Jake Austin, has spent the last five years working through Christmas as he built his start up to a billion-dollar corporation. Every year, he's spent Christmas Day eating at the Chen Family Cuisine Restaurant, located in his local Chinatown down the street from his house. It was...
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When her father is murdered, Princess Hesina of Yan is thrust into power, suddenly the queen of an unstable kingdom. Determined to find her father's killer, Hesina engages the aid of a soothsayer. It is a treasonous act, punishable by death, because in Yan, magic was outlawed centuries ago. Using the information provided, Hesina turns to Akira, an investigator who's also a convicted criminal with secrets of his own. With the future of her kingdom...
13) Standing dead
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"Deputy Mattie Cobb and her sister, Julia, travel to Mexico to visit their mother, but when they arrive, they discover that she and her husband have vanished without a trace. Back in Timber Creek, Mattie finds a chilling note on her front door telling her to look for "him" among the standing dead up in the high country. The sheriff's department springs into action and sends a team to the mountains, where Mattie's K-9 partner, Robo, makes a grisly...
14) Battle magic
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Circle reforged volume 3
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 19
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When messengers arrive in Gyongxe "inviting" Dedicate Initiate Rosethorn and her two young companion mages, Evumeimei and Briar, to court to celebrate the birthday of the Emperor of Yanjing, Rosethorn is eager to go, but Briar suspects that there is an ulterior motive behind the invitation.
15) Striking range
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Called to help investigate the murder of a young woman who had recently given birth on the mountain, Mattie and her team search for the missing baby while going up against a criminal mastermind who is behind several murders, including her father's.
16) A time to swill
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Saloon owner Chloe Jackson must help prove her friend Ralph's innocence in his wife's murder when her skeletal remains are found twelve years after she disappeared--a case that reveals some bone-chilling secrets.
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"As the world's second-largest economy, China is extending its influence across the globe with the complicity of democratic nations. Joanna Chiu has spent a decade tracking China's propulsive rise, from the political aspects of the multi-billion-dollar 'New Silk Road' global investment project to a growing sway on foreign countries and multilateral institutions through 'United Front' efforts. Chiu offers readers background on the protests in Hong...
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While helping her late friend's grandmother Vivi run the Sea Glass Saloon in the Florida Panhandle, Chloe Jackson must clear Vivi's name when she is accused of murdering one of her regular customers, and she soon discovers that Vivi is not the only one in Emerald Cove with secrets.
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Vampire queen Betsy Taylor makes a deal with the devil in order to discover the secrets of the Book of the Dead. Just one catch: she and her sister must go to hell to do it. Just long enough to make nice with her mother, aka Lucifer, and take a detour through time...
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As he continued to stare, I wanted to point to my cheek and remind him, But you were the one who wanted this, remember? You're the one who asked-and I repeat-Why not fix your face?
It's hard not to notice Terra Cooper.
She's tall, blond, and has an enviable body. But with one turn of her cheek, all people notice is her unmistakably "flawed" face. Terra secretly plans to leave her stifling small town in the Northwest and escape...
It's hard not to notice Terra Cooper.
She's tall, blond, and has an enviable body. But with one turn of her cheek, all people notice is her unmistakably "flawed" face. Terra secretly plans to leave her stifling small town in the Northwest and escape...