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1) Gothikana
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After receiving an admission letter from a mysterious university in an old secluded castle on top of a mountain, Corvina Clemm gets tangled up in a chilling, century-old mystery as well as with a part-time professor.
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"The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she’s an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people-pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs. Honestly, it’s...
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Stephen King's HOLLY marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly's gradual transformation from a shy and reclusive (but also brave and ethical) homebody in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges's partner in Finders Keepers and End of Watch to a full-fledged, smart and occasionally tough private detective on her own in The Outsider and If It Bleeds. In this new novel, Holly once again claims the spotlight,...
4) Solas
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Grijalbo
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2023.
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428 pages : maps ; 23 cm
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Desaparecieron sin dejar rastro, pero nadie investigo, porque no le importaron a nadie. Agurtzane Loizaga, profesora de la universidad de Bilbao, se mudo hace poco con su pareja a un caserio de la comarca de Las Encartaciones. En ese baserri aislado se creian felices hasta que, de la noche a la manana, su novia desaparece. Aunque la policia le resta importancia, una serie de indicios le hacen sospechar que su marcha no ha sido voluntaria. Osmany...
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Random House
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[2023]
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239 pages ; 22 cm
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"A weekend spent antiquing is shadowed by the colonial atrocities that occurred on that land. A walk at dusk is interrupted by casual racism. A loving marriage is riven by mysterious tensions. And a remarkable cascade of voices speak out from a pulsing metropolis. Tunde, the man at the center of this novel, reflects on the places and times of his life, from his West African upbringing to his current work as a teacher of photography on a renowned New...
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Little A
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[2021]
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255 pages ; 22 cm
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Amy Butcher was an accomplished college professor mentor and writer but in her own home she was embarrassed and emotionally burdened by an increasingly abusive relationship. Exhausted and terrified Amy reached out to Instagram celebrity Joy "Mothertrucker" Wiebe--the nations only female ice road trucker. Invited by Joy to ride shotgun Amy found her escape on a road that was treacherous beautiful and exhilarating--an adventurous ride through the Alaskan...
8) Prophet song
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2023.
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"On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of a government turning toward tyranny. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, Eilish must contend with the dystopian logic of her new,...
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Simon & Schuster
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2024.
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While visiting his and his wife's closest friends, John and Sophie, a creative writing professor sleeps with Sophie, but instead of succumbing to his failures as a teacher, writer and husband, he believes a love affair could be the answer to earning everything he needs to be set for life.
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"Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it's love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two begin a friendship that changes the course of both their lives forever. Together, they run riot through the streets of Cork city, trying to maintain a bohemian existence while the threat of the financial crash looms before them. When Rachel falls in love...
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Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2023]
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501 pages ; 23 cm
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In 1954, Emilia Winthrop, a professor at Wellesley College, is summoned to CIA headquarters, where she is forced to confront the harrowing consequences of the summer she exposed a traitor amongst the New England elite and a choice that could destroy her chance for redemption all over again.
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Hay House, Inc
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2020
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xvii, 205 pages,16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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In Betty Reid Soskin's 96 years of living, she has been a witness to a grand sweep of American history. When she was born in 1921, the lynching of African-Americans was a national epidemic, blackface minstrel shows were the most popular American form of entertainment, white women had only just won the right to vote, and most African-Americans in the Deep South could not vote at all. From her great-grandmother, who had been enslaved until her mid-20s,...
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