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Every love leaves an echo...
What do you do when you discover your whole life was a lie? In Mary Carter's unforgettable new novel, one woman is about to find out...
At twenty-eight, Lacey Gears is exactly where she wants to be. An up-and-coming, proudly Deaf artist in Philadelphia, she's in a relationship with a wonderful man and rarely thinks about her difficult childhood in a home for disabled orphans. That is, until Lacey receives a letter that...
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Rosato and Associates novels volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
390 p. ; 25 cm.
8) Dead ringer
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Series
Rosato and Associates novels volume 8
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
339 p. ; 24 cm.
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In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis, two once-inseparable sisters find themselves at odds. One, Kacey, lives on the streets in the vise of addiction. The other, Mickey, walks those same blocks on her police beat. They don't speak anymore, but Mickey never stops worrying about her sibling. Then Kacey disappears, suddenly, at the same time that a mysterious string of murders begins in Mickey's district, and Mickey becomes dangerously...
12) The conjurer
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
The disappearance of her father, a wealthy financier in 1842 Philadelphia, draws Martha Beale into an alliance with Thomas Kelman as they investigate the case, one that could be tied to a series of ritual slayings of young prostitutes.
14) Fuccboi: a novel
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
343 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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After being dumped by his ex, a young man in Philadelphia finds himself engaging in the same risky, immature behaviors and excesses that ruined his relationship in the first place and begins to question his life choices.
15) Drift
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 22 cm
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After the sudden deaths of his parents, narcotics detective Doyle Carrick bides his time at an inherited house in rural Pennsylvania, where he falls in love with an organic farmer who is being pressured by a mysterious development company and violent drug dealers.
16) The last witness
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Badge of honor volume 11
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For Philadelphia homicide detective Matt Payne, the news from an old law-enforcement friend sends a shiver down his spine: a connection between the Mexican drug cartels and the Russian mob. Russian girls are being smuggled in to work in the sex trade, and now some of them are dying or just disappearing. The trail leads right to Philadelphia -- where Payne learns that's not all. It isn't just Russian girls who are vanishing. Teenage girls are being...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Told from alternating perspectives, Bunny takes a basketball scholarship to an elite private school to help his family, leaving behind Nasir, his best friend, in their tough Philadelphia neighborhood.
19) Lady killer
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Series
Rosato and Associates novels volume 10
Description
Mary DiNunzio's teenage angst comes flooding back when her high school nemesis, Trish Gambone (dubbed "Trash" by Mary) comes seeking her help. It doesn't matter that Mary is now the rainmaker of Rosato & Associates. Trish's mere presence is enough to make Mary feel like she's at the bottom of the food chain. As it turns out, however, Trish's life has taken a horrifying turn. She is terrified of her live-in boyfriend, an abusive South Philly mobster,...
20) Our Gen: a novel
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Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 24 cm
Description
In the Gen, an upscale fifty-five-plus community, Cynthia befriends two other black residents, as well as a woman who everyone assumes is from India, creating a camaraderie that becomes the catalyst for secrets to be exposed.
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