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"The book revolves around Crissy, the star of a beloved Princess Diana tribute show in Las Vegas, and her estranged sister Betsy, a therapist who works with children and adolescents in Vermont. Betsy's boyfriend Frankie works in a mysterious branch of cryptocurrency and, seemingly out of nowhere, proposes that they move to Las Vegas together. Betsy and Crissy must navigate how to go about their newfound physical proximity to one another and their...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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Spending the days searching for truths on an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp, eleven-year-old Dorothy Zook, the granddaughter of an herbalist and eccentric healer, finds her childhood upended by family secrets, passionate love, and violent men wherethe only bridge across the water is her wayward mother.
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Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
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311 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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When Eden Smith moves into the bizarre old mansion housing her grandfather, Vulcan Smith, she discovers a strange society of metalworkers whose mastery verges on the magical, and when her grandfather is punished for rebelling against the guild, Eden must complete a series of deadly feats to save him.
4) Mercury
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Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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Arriving in Mercury, Pennsylvania, in 1990, gorgeous teenager and perpetual loner Marley West marries one of the Joseph brothers and tries to lead this family of roofers to stability in this hardworking, blue-collar town by helping them escape their unwieldy fathers shadow.
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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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Planeta Internacional
Pub. Date
2023.
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452 pages ; 23 cm
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"Matelda, la matriarca de la familia Cabrelli, siempre ha sido una mujer fuerte y decidida, pero es hasta ahora, al final de su vida, que está determinada a desentrañar la gran historia de amor de su madre, Domenica. Un secreto guardado durante años: el triángulo amoroso que involucra a Silvio, un amigo de la infancia, y al apuesto capitán escocés, John Lawrie McVicars, el padre que Matelda nunca conoció. Mientras acompañamos a Domenica Cabrelli...
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"A sweeping and gorgeously rendered exploration of grief and yearning, following the fracturing of an multinational family in the wake of its patriarch's death. In the early hours of June 14, 2017, the world watches as flames leap up the sides of a residential high-rise in West London, devouring Grenfell Tower and the makeshift lives it houses-those of London's immigrants, its refugees, its working class. At the same time across town, another spark...
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Espasa
Pub. Date
[2022]
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462 pages ; 23 cm
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"Londres, 2017. Lucille adora a su abuela Sylvie, y cuando esta le pide ayuda para recuperar una reliquia, la joven no duda en subirse a un tren rumbo a Par�is tras la pista de un Dior de valor incalculable. Lo que Lucille no sabe es que detr�as de ese vestido se esconde un gran secreto familiar que podr�ia cambiar su vida por completo. Par�is, 1952. La Francia de la posguerra est�a llena de lujos y excesos, y Alice forma parte de ese privilegiado...
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Duomo Ediciones
Pub. Date
2022.
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346 pages : plans, genealogical table ; 22 cm
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"Doce dias. Doce pistas. Que empiece el juego. Desde que su madre murio, hace 21 anos, Lily Armitage no habia regresado a la mansion familiar, hasta que recibe una invitacion de su tia para volver a participar en la tradicion de su familia: el juego de Navidad. Cual es el reto? Descifrar doce pistas y encontrar doce llaves junto a sus primos y parientes. Este ano el premio es mucho mas tentador, ya que consiste en la escritura de la casa. Son doce...
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"Sara Marsala barely knows who she is anymore after the failure of her business and marriage. On top of that, her beloved great-aunt Rosie passes away, leaving Sara bereft with grief. But Aunt Rosie's death also opens an escape from her life and a window into the past by way of a plane ticket to Sicily, a deed to a possibly valuable plot of land, and a bombshell family secret. Rosie believes Sara's great-grandmother Serafina, the family matriarch...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
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"It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the "peasants"--ordinary people, his readers, easy tabloid fodder. His star seems set to rise when he stumbles across a sensational scoop: a dead child on a London estate, grieving parents beloved across the neighborhood, and the finger of suspicion pointing at one reclusive family of Irish immigrants and "bad apples": the...
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"Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, hoping for a respite in the French countryside, are instead caught up in a case that turns both bewildering and intensely personal After their recent adventures in Transylvania, Russell and Holmes look forward to spending time with Holmes' son, the famous artist Damian Adler, and his family. But when they arrive at Damian's house, they discover that the Adlers have fled from a mysterious threat. Holmes rushes after...
13) Mothtown
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Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
2023.
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353 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
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"David is growing up in a world where something is very badly wrong but everyone is protecting David from knowing what it is. People are going missing, bodies are showing up with wings, or bones in nests if you believe the rumours from the kids at school. David doesn’t really know because his parents turn off the news whenever he might get a handle on what is happening around him and his older sister just doesn’t seem interested in sharing....
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Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
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374 pages ; 24 cm
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A huge-hearted, redemptive coming-of-old-age tale, a love story, and an ode to good food. Nothing could be more out of character, but after fifty-nine years of marriage, as her husband Bernard's health declines, and her friends' lives become focused on their grandchildren--which Jenny never had--Jenny decides she wants a little something for herself. So she secretly applies to be a contestant on the prime-time TV show Britain Bakes. Whisked into an...
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Plaza y Janes
Pub. Date
[ebrero de 2023]
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359 pages ; 23 cm
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"En los albores de la Segunda Republica, las hermanas Asorey afrontan la muerte de su padre, un reputado medico. Tilde, la mayor, es autoritaria y pragmatica, mientras Tea, la segunda, es inestable y sufre una fuerte depresion. Eloisa, la tercera, es moderna y emancipada,y Celia, la menor, tiene como principal objetivo casarse. Las cuatro pactan por motivos secretos esconder el cadaver. Pero cuando una joven lavandera que trabajaba para la familia...
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Vingtage Espanol
Pub. Date
2023.
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395 pages ; 23 cm
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El dia del cumpleanos de su hija, Beatriz reune en el precioso jardin de su casa a sus amigos y familiares mas cercanos. Sin embargo, llega el momento de soplar las velas y todavia falta Marco, el marido de Beatriz y el padre de la nina. Poco despues lo encuentran muerto, con una pistola en la mano y un tiro en la cabeza… En esta trepidante historia varias familias intentan desesperadamente mantener una imagen de perfecta bondad. Pero cuando...
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