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Chicago Stars volume 10
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When Brett, the hottest sports agent in the business, and Rory, the sister of his superstar client, meet and have a disastrous one-night stand, resulting in murder, they find things getting messy, dangerous, heartbreaking and sexy as they struggle with themselves, each other and love.
2) Goodbye girl
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 18
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 24 cm
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A Miami criminal defense lawyer helps a Grammy-winning popstar who signed an onerous contract as a teen that leaves her ex-husband with all her royalties.
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"In an isolated lighthouse on the California coast, Rowan Winterbourne lives a solitary life with only her secrets for company. For she has a mission that drives her -- to avenge herself against Gregory Torval, the powerful drug and arms dealer who murdered her mother and vowed to eliminate everyone in her family. Then Joe Grantham arrives at her door and, for the first time, Rowan lets her guard down -- a dangerous mistake when he blackmails her...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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In 1908 Manchuria, Bao, a detective with an uncanny ability to sniff out the truth, is hired to uncover the identity of a dead courtesan, while a secretive woman named Snow, seeking vengeance for her lost child, navigates the myths and misconceptions of fox spirits to find a murderer.
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Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2024.
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383 pages ; 21 cm
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2019, The Year of Return. It has been exactly 400 years since the first slave ships left Ghana for America. Ghana has now opened its doors to Black diasporans, encouraging them to return and get to know the land of their ancestors. Elton, Vincent, and Scott arrive from America to visit preserved sites from the transatlantic slave route, and to explore the country's underground queer scene. Their activities are narrated by their two combative guides:...
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 19 cm
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"During the grand opening celebration of the new American headquarters of an immense Japanese conglomerate, the dead body of a beautiful woman is found. The investigation begins, and immediately becomes a headlong chase through a twisting maze of industrial intrigue and a violent business battle that takes no prisoners."--WorldCat.
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Pub. Date
2024.
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Stafford Lee Penney is a small-town lawyer with a big-time reputation for winning every case he tries. In his sharp suits and polished Oxford shoes, Penney is Biloxi, Mississippi's #1 Lawyer and top local celebrity. Just as Penney notches his latest courtroom victory, his wife is scandalously killed. He spirals into a legal and personal losing streak, damaging his reputation and ruining his career. That's when Penney makes a bold decision. He stops...
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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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"Emma hasn't told her husband much about her past. He knows her parents are dead and she hasn't spoken to her sisters in years. Then they lose their apartment, her husband gets laid off, and Emma discovers she's pregnant--right as the bank account slips into the red. That's when Emma confesses that she has one more asset: her parents' house, which she owns jointly with her estranged sisters. They can't sell it, but they can live in it. But returning...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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Moving into an off-campus house with magnetic and addictive Lucy Sharpe and two other girls, shy and quiet Margot finally comes out of the shell she’s been in since her best friend Eliza died until one of the fraternity boys next door is murdered and Lucy goes missing.
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Melville House
Pub. Date
2024.
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"Nate Evers, a young black political activist, struggles with rage as his people are still being killed in the streets...When his little cousin is murdered, Nate shuns the graffiti murals, candlelight vigils, and Twitter hashtags that are commonplace after these senseless deaths. Instead, he leads 3 grief-stricken friends on a mission of retribution, kidnapping the descendants of long-ago perpetrators of hate crimes, confronting the targets with their...
13) No huyas
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Negra Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
462 pages ; 24 cm.
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Al regresar del instituto, Amala Cavalcante percibe que un hombre la esta siguiendo y antes de abrir la puerta de su casa se desvanece. Al despertar, un agudo dolor en el hombro destapa el horror: tiene atornillado en su propia carne un cable que la une a la pared y le permite desplazarse por una habitacion. A traves de un hoyo consigue pasar un mensaje al exterior, pero al poco tiempo recibe una respuesta: No Huyas. La tia de Amala, la celebre abogada...
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Daniel Hawthorne novels volume 5
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"Detective Hawthorne is once again called upon to solve an unsolvable case--a gruesome murder in an idyllic gated community in which suspects abound."
Riverside Close is a picture-perfect community. The six exclusive and attractive houses are tucked far away from the noise and grime of city life, allowing the residents to enjoy beautiful gardens, pleasant birdsong, and tranquility from behind the security of a locked gate. It is the perfect idyll,...
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 15 cm
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"Being an apprentice to one of the world's most famous sorcerers has its challenges; Tabatha Zeng just didn't think they would include solving crime. But when her boss, the infamous fortuneteller Sorcerer Solomon, predicts his own brutal death—and worse, it comes true—Tabatha finds herself caught in the crosshairs. The police have their sights set on her and Callum Solomon, her murdered boss's youngest son. With suspicion swirling around...
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"Five years ago, Cass barely survived a brutal attack that left her family dead. Now a scuba diving instructor in Thailand, she has spent years trying to build a new, anonymous life for herself as one of the Permanents, a group of expats who have claimedthe beautiful Thailand destination as their own. The permanents are charming, they're close-knit, and they don't linger on who they were before the island--they're the perfect group for Cass to finally...
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 22 cm
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Amir Trudeau only goes to his half brother Marcel's birthday party because of Chloe Danvers. Chloe is rich, and hot, and fits right into the perfect life Marcel inherited when their father left Amir's mother to start a new family with Marcel's mom. But Chloe is hot enough for Amir to forget that for one night. Does she want to hook up? Or is she trying to meddle in the estranged brothers' messy family drama? Amir can't tell. He doesn't know what Chloe...
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Random House
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 23 cm
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En 1996, Sagrario murio baleada en la entrada de su residencia; los disparos alertaron a los vecinos, incluyendo a Hiram, el hijo mayor de la familia Ruvalcaba, de apenas ocho anos. Poco despues, en el ano 2000, tambien a Rocio le arrebataron la vida de forma violenta: fue asesinada y sepultada a medias en la sala de su casa. En 2005, la frontera simbolica entre un asesinato noticioso, anonimo, y el de alguien consanguineo termino por quebrarse. El...
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Publisher
Mindy's Book Studio
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 23 cm
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A successful pharmacist living in New York is dealing with the death of her mother and a broken engagement when someone tries to murder her repeatedly and she unwittingly becomes the subject of a true crime podcast.
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