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62) The awakening
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Dragon heart legacy volume 1
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English
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Bestselling author Nora Roberts returns with the first in a brand new series where parallel worlds clash over the struggle between good and evil.
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Flatiron Books
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English
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"A gritty, voice-driven thriller about a former getaway driver who thought he had escaped the criminal life who is pulled back in by race, poverty, and his own former life of crime. Beauregard "Bug" Montage is a man with many different titles: husband, father, friend, honest car mechanic. But before he gave it up, Bug used to be known from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida as the best Wheel Man on the East Coast. After a series...
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English
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In a terrifyingly familiar near-future, with massive floods that lead to rampant homelessness and devastation, a government-sanctioned regime called the Boots seizes the opportunity to force communities of colour, the disabled, and the LGBTQ2S into labour camps in the city of Toronto. In the shadows, a new hero emerges. Kay joins the resistance. Guiding them in the use of weapons and close-quarters combat is Beck, a rogue army officer who helps them...
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English
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As the daughter of an American-born Chinese mother and blue-blooded New York father, Lucy Churchill has always sublimated the Asian side of herself in favour of the WASP establishment world. When Lucy sets eyes on George Zhao, she instantly can't stand him. But three years later, when George unexpectedly appears at a tennis match, Lucy can't help but kiss George again. Soon, Lucy finds herself spinning a web of deceit that involves her family, her...
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Little Bridge Island volume 2
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English
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As Little Bridge Island Public Library's head of children's services, Molly Montgomery hopes the messiest thing in her life will be her sticky-note covered desk. But fate, in the form of a newborn left in the restroom, has other ideas. So does the sheriff who comes to investigate the "abandonment."
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Bloomsbury Publishing
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English
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"On a cold day in 1997, student Sara Morgan was killed in the woods surrounding her liberal arts college in upstate New York. Her boyfriend, Blake Campbell, confessed, his plea of temporary insanity raising more questions than it answered. In the aftermath of his acquittal, the case comes to haunt a strange and surprising network of community members, from the young woman who discovers Sara's body to the junior reporter who senses its connection to...
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English
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It's the season of Fallow, the first century AD. In a misty northern bog surrounded by woodlands and wheat fields, lies a settlement far beyond the reach of the Roman invaders. A girl named Devout comes of age. She flirts sweetly with a young man envisioning a future of love and abundance. Seventeen years later, however, the settlement is a changed place. Devout's young daughter has an extraordinary gift. As worlds collide and peril threatens, it...
69) Magic lessons
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Simon & Schuster
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English
Description
In the 1600s, under the care of Hannah Owens, Maria learns about the "Unnamed Arts." Hannah recognizes that Maria has a gift and she teaches the girl all she knows. It is here that she learns her first important lesson: always love someone who will love you back. When Maria is abandoned by the man who has declared his love for her, she follows him to Salem, Massachusetts. Here she invokes the curse that will haunt her family. And it is here that she...
70) The choice
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Language
English
Description
"A captivating, ingenious novel by the author of The Good Sister about a woman faced with an impossible choice after attacking an unknown assailant, urging readers to ask themselves: What would you do?"--Publisher.
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Series
Underwater Investigation Unit volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Language
English
Description
"Coming from scandalous Florida treasure hunters and drug smugglers, Sloan McPherson is forging her own path, for herself and for her daughter, out from under her family's shadow. An auxiliary officer for Lauderdale Shores PD, she's the go-to diver for evidence recovery. Then Sloan finds a fresh kill floating in a canal--a woman whose murky history collides with Sloan's. Their troubling ties are making Sloan less a potential witness than a suspect....
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English
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"An unforgettable tale of what we owe to those we love, and those we have left behind In 1927, as Natalia Faber travels from Berlin to Prague with her mother, their train is delayed in Saxon Switzerland. In the brief time the train is idle, Natalia learns the truth about her father and meets a remarkable woman named Dr. Magdalena Schaefferová, whose family will become a significant part of her future. Shaken by these events, Natalia arrives at a...
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Harvill Secker
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English
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"In her therapist's waiting room in Damascus, Suleima meets the strange and reticent Nassim and soon the two begin a strained relationship. But when Nassim, a writer, flees Syria for Germany, he gives Suleima the manuscript for his most recent novel, whose protagonist's life bears discomforting similarities to her own. Whose story is it? What is fact and what is fiction? Narrated in alternating chapters by Suleima and the mysterious woman in Nassim's...
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One World
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English
Description
"Lucas and Margo are fed up. Margo is a brilliant programmer tired of being talked over as the company's sole black employee, and while Lucas is one of many Asians at the firm, he's nearly invisible as a low-paid customer service rep. Together, they decide to steal their tech start-up's user database in an attempt at revenge. The heist takes a sudden turn when Margo dies in a car accident, and Lucas is left reeling, wondering what to do with their...
78) Dead west
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Series
Nils Shapiro novels volume 4
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English
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Nils Shapiro accepts what appears to be an easy, lucrative job: find out if Beverly Mayer's grandson is foolishly throwing away his trust fund in Hollywood, especially now, in the wake of his fiancée's tragic death. Nils quickly suspects that his fiancée was murdered, and that Ebben himself may have been the target. As Nils moves into Ebben's inner circle, he discovers that everyone in his professional life - agent, manager, a screenwriter, a producer...
79) Sweet sorrow
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English
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"From the best-selling author of One Day comes a bittersweet and brilliantly funny coming-of-age tale about the heart-stopping thrill of first love-and how just one summer can forever change a life"--Publisher.
80) Dark song
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English
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"The next exhilarating novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan's Carpathian series. In the Carpathian mountains, alive with danger and the unknown, these lifemates must fight to stay together and surrender to desire"-- Publisher.
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