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"TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm--except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can't get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ's world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered one of the clients, an accountant he'd confronted with...
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St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2023.
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305 pages ; 21 cm
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"Anita Hughes's Christmas at the Lake is a heartwarming holiday romance set in a charming Christmas village on the shores Lake Tahoe. On Christmas Eve, just hours before their wedding, Rebecca Huntley is left at the altar by Ben Cole, her college sweetheart and fellow co-founder of the hugely successful dating app, Dealbreakers. He's fallen in love with the app's head of legal, and they are going to leave for three weeks in St. Bart's. Rebecca is...
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"Grace Evans, an overworked New Yorker looking for a total escape from her busy life, books an Airbnb on a ranch in the middle of Wyoming. When she arrives at the idyllic getaway, she's pleased to find that the owner is a handsome man by the name of Calvin Wells -- and he's eager to introduce her to his easygoing way of life. But there are things Grace discovers that she's not too pleased about: A lack of cell phone service. A missing woman. And a...
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Bloomsbury YA
Pub. Date
2023.
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374 pages ; 22 cm.
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Reeling from the death of her cousin, Hannah concocts a risky plan to enroll in her cousin's elite private school and find who gave her the lethal pills, but the deeper Hannah goes the more she risks losing everything.
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"What's the harm in a pseudonym? Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn't write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American--in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author R. F. Kuang in the vein of White Ivy and The Other Black Girl. Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut...
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Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022.
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265 pages ; 24 cm.
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"Las ficciones tragicomicas reunidas en este libro tienen un comun denominador: la irrupcion de una voluntad avasalladora en las vidas de hombres y mujeres vulnerables que renacen o se desmoronan bajo el influjo de sus fantasmas. En que se transforman los seres proclives a dejarse invadir, ya sea en la entrega amorosa, en la idolatria, o en la sumision a un artifice traicionero? Siete cuentos de humor negro relatan ese apocalipsis intimo desde el...
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Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
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376 pages ; 21 cm
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Two employees of a bumbling royal reluctantly agree to fake a relationship after a clumsy moment leads to a questionable tabloid photo and swirling rumors in the new novel by the author of Battle Royale
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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 series....
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2023]
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324 pages ; 24 cm.
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"Business has been booming since Morgan Carter solved the case of the monster living in Lake Michigan. The Odds and Ends bookstore is thriving, of course, but Morgan is most excited by the doors that were opened for her as a cryptid hunter. Recently, there have been numerous sightings of a Bigfoot-type creature in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest area of Bayfield County, Wisconsin. After a man is found dead from a vicious throat injury in the...
10) The fake mate
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"Mackenzie Carter has had some very bad dates lately. Model train experts, mansplainers, guys weirdly obsessed with her tail—she hasn’t had a successful date in months. Only a year out of residency, her grandmother’s obsession with Mackenzie finding the perfect mate to settle down with threatens to drive Mackenzie barking mad. Out of options, it feels like a small thing to tell her grandmother that she’s met someone. That...
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"When Erin and Will walk into Maggie’s office for a marriage counseling session, Maggie believes they are an ordinary couple with ordinary problems: communication, intimacy, the usual. But as Maggie struggles to get the couple to open up about what brought them here, she begins to sense that not all is as it seems. When Erin mentions something connected to Maggie’s past that she couldn’t possibly know, Maggie is disturbed and...
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Material world (Alexis J. Hall) volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2023]
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391 pages ; 21 cm.
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"Fake amnesia. Real feelings? Real problems. Sam Becker loves-or, okay, likes-his job. Sure, managing a bed and bath retailer isn't exactly glamorous, but it's good work and he gets on well with the band of misfits who keep the store running. He could see himself being content here for the long haul. Too bad, then, that the owner is an infuriating git. Jonathan Forest should never have hired Sam. It was a sentimental decision, and Jonathan didn't...
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MR (Editorial Planeta Mexicana)
Pub. Date
septiembre de 2023.
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502 pages ; 23 cm
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"M̌xico, junio de 1872. Un carruaje se estaciona frente al gran p̤rtico del sal̤n donde se celebra un baile en honor a Benito Jùrez. Una mujer misteriosa baja de ̌l, atrayendo la mirada de todos, especialmente de Sebastìn Lerdo de Tejada, ministro e ̕ntimo amigo del presidente. Ella se hace llamar Emilia, pero antes tuvo otros nombres y otras vidas. Siendo una nįa tuvo que huir tras presenciar el brutal asesinato de su madre. Desde entonces,...
14) The fraud
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper--and cousin by marriage--of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also skeptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully...
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Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
2023.
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220 pages, 16 numbered pages of plates at the end : portraits and illustrations, ; 23 cm
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"'Te escribo desde el campo de trabajo de Birkenau, donde me encuentro ahora. Estoy sano, trabajo y espero noticias tuyas.' Esta es una carta que uno de los presos judíos escribió para tranquilizar a sus familiares y ocultar la horrible realidad de los campos de concentración. Esta fachada es parte de la Brief-Aktion, 'Operación Cartas,' un intercambio epistolar entre los presos de Auschwitz y sus allegados que buscaba encubrir las atrocidades...
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