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Christopher's diary (V.C. Andrews) volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Language
English
Description
"A new novel from V.C. Andrews, the legendary author of Flowers in the Attic--now a hit Lifetime TV movie!"-- Publisher.
23) Like a bird
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English
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"Based in Manhattan, a fictional story about a young woman from an Indian-American family who, after experiencing a traumatic assault and being disowned by her parents, finds work at a cafe, rebuilds her network of community, and begins communicating with the ghost of her grandmother and another spirit"--Publisher.
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Finn fancy necromancy volume 1
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates book
Language
English
Description
Follows the experiences of Finn Gramaraye, who after enduring a long, wrongful exile for dark magic, struggles to identify a powerful adversary who would prevent his return to the mortal world.
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Trickster trilogy volume 1
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English
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With striking originality and precision, Eden Robinson, the Giller-shortlisted author of "Monkey Beach," blends humour with heartbreak in this compelling coming-of-age novel. Jared is only sixteen but feels like he is the one who must stabilize his family's life, even look out for his elderly neighbours. But he's puzzled over why his maternal grandmother has never liked him, why she says he's the son of a trickster, that he isn't human. Mind you,...
29) Parakeet
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
English
Description
"A darkly funny and warm-hearted novel about a young woman whose dead grandmother (in the form of a parakeet) warns her not to marry and sends her out to find an estranged loved one"--Publisher.
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English
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In 1969, Dixie Dupree is eleven-years-old and already an expert liar. Though Dixie Dupree is learning that the family she once believed was happy has deep fractures, even her vivid imagination couldn't concoct the events about to unfold. Only when Dixie desperately needs help and is met with disbelief does she realize how much damage her past lies have done. Donna Everhart's remarkable debut is a story about mothers and daughters, the guilt and pain...
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English
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"Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her...
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Tiny Reparations Books
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English
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"A coming-of-age novel told from the perspective of an eleven-year-old over the course of a single summer, as she tries to make sense of her new life with her estranged grandfather and sister after the death of her father and disappearance of her mother"--Publisher.
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English
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AÏcha lives with her mother in Montreal's Centre-Sud neighborhood. She's only thirteen, but claims to be older. She has never known her father, and resents her mother for leaving Hakim, her stepfather. Her only friends are Mel and Jo, two local prostitutes, and Baz, a musician in his twenties, who comes to her rescue one day and with whom she proceeds to fall in love. Her impossible love for Baz, her precociousness and her rebellious streak come...
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Dollanganger family series volume 8
Language
English
Description
"Continuing the events from Beneath the Attic and Out of the Attic, the prequel trilogy to the Dollanganger series comes to a riveting end with The Shadows of Foxworth, a passionate novel about Corrine Foxworth's intense desire to flee her overbearing life trapped in the Foxworth estate. Two generations before Corinne Foxworth locked her children in an attic, the life of her grandmother, a gorgeous young girl named Corrine Dixon changed forever. At...
36) The stone sky
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Series
Broken Earth novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women. Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe. For Nassun, her mother's mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late. She has seen the evil of the world, and accepted what her mother will not admit: that sometimes what is corrupt cannot be...
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Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Description
Mia and Michael Slate discover that a business partner and best friend has cheated them out of their wealth on the same night that their love-stricken son Finn passes out in the snow at a party, a mistake that costs him more than he realized was even possible. This is a story about power, financial dependence, instinct, sex, and survival in contemporary society, and if, or how, love fits in.
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English
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In this riveting debut novel, Sarah Schmidt recasts one of the most fascinating murder cases of all time into an intimate story of a volatile household and a family devoid of love. Shifting among the perspectives of the unreliable Lizzie, her older sister Emma, the housemaid Bridget, and the enigmatic stranger Benjamin, the events of that fateful day are slowly revealed through a high-wire feat of storytelling.
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Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Description
For two traumatic days, Livvy Higgs is besieged by a series of small heart attacks while the ghost of her younger self leads her back through a past devastated by lies and secrets. Tending to Livvy during her illness is her young next-door neighbour, Gen, a single mother, social-work student, and part-time drug dealer. Overnight, a violent scene embroils the two in each other's lives in a manner that will entwine them forever.
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English
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"College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Iverson is a dying Vietnam veteran--and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been...
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