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21) Red Joan
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Publisher
Doubleday Canada
Language
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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English
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A deeply divided nation. Vicious politics. A shamelessly partisan media. A president loathed by half the populace. Smuggling and gang warfare along the Mexican border. Armed citizens are willing to stand their ground and take law into their own hands...That was America in 1881. All those forces came to bear on the afternoon of October 26 when Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers faced off against the Clantons and the McLaurys in Tombstone, Arizona....
25) Lies, lies, lies
Author
Language
English
Description
In a domestic thriller, Daisy finds her happy little family of three will never be the same again after her husband's drinking spirals out of control during a party.
Author
Series
Cotton Malone novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Ex-secret agent Cotton Malone and his partner, the enigmatic Cassiopeia Vitt, are pitted against ruthless Central Asian dictator Irina Zovastina as they scour the globe in search of the final resting place of Alexander the Great.
27) The collaborator
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Publisher
Overlook Press
Language
English
Description
A tale inspired by the Sicilian Mafia follows the efforts of a senior investigator who teams up with an Italian student in London who would protect her brother and risk lives by revealing insider secrets about her crime family.
28) Unsettled ground
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Language
English
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"Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people. At fifty-one years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. But when Dot dies suddenly, threats start raining down. Jeanie and Julius would do anything to preserve their small sanctuary against the perils of the outside world, even as their mother's secrets begin to unravel, putting everything they thought they knew about their lives at stake"--Publisher....
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English
Description
"Get ready for a thrilling, addictive novel about marriage, betrayal, and the secrets that push us to the edge ... There's a cottage on a cliff. Gabe and Pippa's dream home in a sleepy coastal town. But their perfect house hides something sinister. The tall cliffs have become a popular spot for people to end their lives. Night after night Gabe comes to their rescue, literally talking them off the ledge. Until he doesn't. When Pippa discovers Gabe...
30) Lie to me
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Language
English
Description
Sutton and Ethan Montclair's idyllic life is not as it appears. The couple seems made for each other, but the truth is ugly. As tensions mount, Sutton disappears, leaving behind a note saying not to look for her. As the police investigate, the lies the couple have been spinning for years quickly unravel. The path to the answers is full of twists that will leave the reader breathless.
31) Any minute now
Author
Publisher
Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Language
English
Description
Red Rover - the blackest of black ops teams is betrayed during a top-priority mission to capture and interrogate a mysterious Saudi terrorist. One of their own is killed; the remaining two barely get home alive. Then, without warning or explanation, the team is disbanded.
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Language
English
Description
When Mel receives an unexpected email from her oldest friend Abi, it brings back memories she thought she had buried forever. Their friendship belonged in the past. But Abi is in trouble and needs Mel's help, and she wants a place to stay. Just for a few days, while she sorts things out. It's the least Mel can do. Imagine the worst thing a friend could ever do. This is worse.
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English
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In the town of Ross Prairie, Caroline Webb and Sarah Bilyk are bound by family, duty, and a decades-old act of betrayal. On opposing sides of a long-simmering feud between their husbands' families, the two women meet again after years of estrangement when Caroline moves into the same nursing home as Sarah's father.
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English
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"When a treacherous betrayal ruins her chances for a full-time position at the illustrious merchant bank, Greene Brothers Hale, in NYC, intern Faye Walker, using her natural born gift for numbers, proves she is not one to be played with as she puts in motion a new plan"--Provided by publisher.
35) Limits of power
Author
Series
Paladin's legacy volume 4
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Language
English
Description
A re-emergence of magic after centuries of absence sparks brutal pogroms throughout the Eight Kingdoms, pitting a group of resolute heroes against the machinations of a vicious traitor.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
An enterprising sleuth, Marguerite Townsend, going undercover to obtain proof of a wife's infidelity, secures a position in the household of the women's lover who unexpectedly needs her help in proving his innocence in murder, drawing them both into a dangerous game of betrayal and seduction.
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Language
English
Description
"In 1938, Ruby, Helen and Grace, three girls from very different backgrounds, find themselves competing at the same audition for showgirl roles at San Francisco's exclusive "Oriental" nightclub, the Forbidden City. Grace, an American-born Chinese girl has fled the Midwest and an abusive father. Helen is from a Chinese family who have deep roots in San Francisco's Chinatown. And, as both her friends know, Ruby is Japanese passing as Chinese. At times...
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Language
English
Description
Larissa Lai (The Tiger Flu) returns with a sprawling historical novel about war, colonialism, and queer experience during Japan's occupation of Hong Kong during World War II. With great heart, The Lost Century explores the intersections of Asian relations, queer Asian history, underground resistance, the violence of war, and the rise of modern China--an expansive novel of betrayal, epic violence, and intimate passions.
39) Labor Day
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English
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"As the end of summer approaches and a long, hot Labor Day weekend looms, the life of lonely thirteen-year-old Henry Wheeler is irrevocably changed when he and his emotionally fragile mother show kindness to a stranger with a terrible secret."--back cover.
Author
Series
Maybe (Colleen Hoover) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
When she discovers that her boyfriend is cheating on her, Sydney, a college student, must decide what to do next. She becomes captivated by her mysterious neighbor Ridge, and can't stop listening to the passionate way he plays his guitar every evening out on his balcony. They soon find themselves needing each other in more ways than one.
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