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"When a betrayal tears apart three young friends living in the shadow of Biltmore Estate, their friendship may be fractured forever. Years later, one of them risks exposure as a fraud unless she can mend the relationships and solicit help to create an original woven design for Cornelia Vanderbilt's 1924 wedding"--
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"Helen, a jittery attorney with a self-destructive streak, is secretly reeling from a disturbing crime of neglect that her parents recently committed. Historically happy to compartmentalize- distracting herself by hooking up with lesbian couples, doting on her grandmother, and flirting with a young administrative assistant-Helen finally meets her match with Catherine and Katrina, a married couple who startle and intrigue her with their ever-increasing...
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Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2024]
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300 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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In 1924 London, when shy academic Lao She meets larger-than-life Judge Dee Ren Jie, these unlikely allies investigate the murders of Chinese immigrants, all stabbed to death with a butterfly sword and must connect the dots to catch a killer before they become victims themselves.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
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First edition.
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English
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Humanity is on the precipice of a great climate migration, and Americans will not be spared. Tens of millions of people are likely to be driven from the places they call home. Poorer communities will be left behind, while growth will surge in the cities and regions most attractive to climate refugees. America will be changed utterly. Abrahm Lustgarten's On the Move is the definitive account of what this massive population shift might look like. As...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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"There once was a very sleepy penguin, who was best friends with a not-so-sleepy lion... A pitch-perfect comedy for anyone who has ever craved sleep -- and anyone too full of energy to settle down." --
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
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First edition.
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289 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Set in Syracuse, Sicily, during the Peloponnesian War but told in contemporary Irish dialect, Glorious Exploits follows Lampo and Gelon, best friends since childhood. Thrilled to have survived the Athenians' recent invasion and as shocked by the Syracusan victory as everyone else, these unemployed potters are in a mood to celebrate. Of course, they hate the Athenians. Still, that doesn't mean you can't love the theatre of their great playwright Euripides,...
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Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2024]
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295 pages : color maps ; 22 cm
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English
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"Los Angeles, 1965. Tempers have boiled over in the Watts neighborhood, sparked by the traffic stop of two Black motorists, the Frye brothers, by the Highway Patrol. Freelance crime photographer Harry Ingram is on the scene, capturing images of the cops as they unleash batons, dogs, and water hoses on the predominantly Black crowd. When he snaps proof of an unarmed man being shot down by the LAPD, he winds up in the hospital, beaten, his camera confiscated....
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
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388 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Dami, a nonbinary former demonio, must cancel every deal they have ever made in order to tether their soul to earth and remain human, but first they must help a boy named Silas find Captain Kidd's treasure and break a family curse.
13) The audacity
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Soho
Pub. Date
[2024]
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278 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"In 72 hours, a blockbuster exposé will reveal Victoria Stevens' multibillion-dollar startup as a massive fraud. And Victoria has gone missing. Has she faked her death, leaving her husband Guy Sarvananthan to face the fallout-and potential jail time? Should Guy flee to his native Sri Lanka, an outcast and a failure? Or embrace denial? Why not: He takes the corporate jet to a private Caribbean island, where the 0.0001% have gathered to decide which...
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Berkley
Pub. Date
[2024]
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352 pages : map ; 24 cm
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English
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"On a sunny day in July 1815, thirty-eight-year-old Philippa, Lady McKinsey, takes her sixteen-year-old daughter, Emma, and her young niece and nephew, fifteen-year-old Arabella and thirteen-year-old Percy, on an outing to Richmond Park. But when Arabella and Percy go off to pick flowers, tragedy strikes. Shots echo across the park. Two young gentlemen investigate and find Lady McKinsey and her daughter dead. As the men gaze in horror at the strangely...
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Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
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294 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"Ivy Winslow has the house to herself for a week and her only plans are to binge-watch her favorite fantasy TV show, H-MAD, hang out with her best friend, Henry, and avoid her former best friend-turned enemy (and neighbor), Mack. But things go awry when Ivy wakes up one morning to find Weston, the gorgeous and very fictional main character of H-MAD, in her bedroom, claiming to be her soul mate. Ivy's fanfic writing has somehow brought Weston as she's...
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First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
217 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Mucus monsters! Rock-and-rollin' trolls! All-powerful rotting cat-mummies! What would YOU do if your boogers tried to take over the world? What if teen-girl ghosts unleashed an army of pooping cockroaches on you? You've got a front-row seat to see kids (and trolls, and vampires) just like you taking on the GROSSEST challenges IN THE WORLD! So hold your nose, grab your stomach, and get ready for the World's Most Repulsive Storyteller(TM) to send five...
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BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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"What ghost stories do ghosts tell, and what can they tell us about ourselves? After a deadly car accident of which they are the only survivors, father and daughter Lucas and Harmony Agate can see an overwhelming amount of the deceased, all with their own warnings, cries for help, and malevolence alike. But Lucas and Harmony aren't the only ones with this ability; there are other nearly-deads, some of which have malicious motivations..." --
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Dell Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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348 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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"Hathor Du Bell is on her own path to find love in the third installment of J. J. McAvoy's Regency romance series, following Aphrodite and the Duke and Verity and the Forbidden Suitor. Hathor Du Bell has always fought to break free from the shadow left by her revered older sister, Aphrodite. It has been two years since Hathor's debut, and while Aphrodite is a duchess, Hathor has been left with the most boring, incomparable suitors of the ton. With...
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Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
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190 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
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English
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"A sweet 'fake engagement' romance about quiet coworkers. The J.T.C. travel agency is looking for someone to manage its brand-new branch in Irkutsk. But for employees Oohara Takuya and Honjouji Rika, they'd rather just stay home in Tokyo! Thankfully, they've discovered a way out--their manager has narrowed down the recruits to bachelors, so what if they just...got married? The problem is they barely know each other at all! Can they convince their...
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