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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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"After a series of terrible dates, Marni McGuire, the host of a popular TV cooking show, forms an unbreakable bond with her best friend Ellen as well as a young intern on the show and her pregnant daughter Bella as they navigate the challenges and celebrate the joys of life"--
4) The fury
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2024.
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"This is a tale of murder. Or maybe that’s not quite true. At its heart, it’s a love story, isn’t it? Lana Farrar is a reclusive ex–movie star and one of the most famous women in the world. Every year, she invites her closest friends to escape the English weather and spend Easter on her idyllic private Greek island. I tell you this because you may think you know this story. You probably read about it at the time―it...
6) Mystic river
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Harper
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2011.
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589 pages ; 19 cm
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"There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected." When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled tip to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened -- something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever. Twenty-five years later, Sean Devine is a homicide detective. Jimmy Marcus is an ex-con...
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Aaron has lost the love of his life, and he is in danger of losing his own. He fumbles through the days after Kelly's funeral, slipping further away from reality and deeper into insanity. Trauma plays tricks on his mind while Kelly's spirit lures him to her. Meanwhile fate intervenes by way of two strangers who quickly become like family.
Crisscrossing the country, he follows vague hints hoping to reconnect with her. His enduring love compels...
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Nouvel emballage pour une dystopie troublante qui soulève de grandes questions morales…
Joseph, surnommé l'Amiral, se réveille dans un village ctier o rien ne lui semble familier. À sa surprise, les habitants sont convaincus qu'il est « celui que tout le monde attendait ». Lui, un sauveur annoncé par une prophétie ?
Son premier devoir : exécuter la sentence d'un condamné à mort. Mais Joseph n'est pas un tueur… Son refus de disposer...
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2024.
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Living with motion blindness, Leah, with her acute senses of smell and hearing, very little escapes her notice, is convinced her neighbor, who is trying to escape from an abusive husband, is going to be murdered and makes a decision that will test her courage, her strength and ultimately her sanity.
11) Me + You
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When Aaron and Nina's once-perfect marriage is shattered by the relentless grip of heroin addiction, Aaron is forced to make a life-changing decision. Years pass, and Aaron is determined to rebuild his life and leave the pain of the past behind. But just as he begins to find solace and happiness, a ghost from the darkest corners of his past resurfaces. Nina, the woman he believed he once lost to the merciless clutches of addiction, now stands before...
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Cole Reeves is a young man searching for purpose in his life, having struggled with mental health issues since childhood. When a neighborhood boy goes missing - a boy who once cruelly insulted him - Cole develops an inexplicable need to find the child. Mysterious clues guide him on his quest, but his fragile mind and memory lapses cause the police, and Cole himself, to suspect he may be involved in the boy's disappearance. Still, he continues to pursue...
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I'll turn into f…. Houdini and disappear.When the woman he loves says that she no longer wants to see him, M÷ doesn't know what to do, what to say. Instead of pleading, he walks away while trying to keep the pieces of his broken heart together. Around him, the world is spinning out of control.A new war has started, the Queen has died, Elon has bought Twitter, Tate is trying to escape the agents of the Matrix, while the mysterious Invisible Hand...
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A woman spills the story of her life to a bar full of strangers, in the acerbic first novel from Laura Adamczyk.
Anything can become the story of your life if you let it, and I suppose this became mine.
In Island City, a wry, wistful woman, estranged from her family, sells her belongings and moves back to her hometown in the Midwest. To her, it's the “perfect place to give up.” She wants to get rid of everything—her stuff, her ambitions. Before...
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In the shadow of New York's skyline, behind the looming walls of Rikers Island, a tale of resilience, hope, and the indomitable human spirit unfolds.
Shalise Simmons' world is turned upside down when she finds herself incarcerated in the infamous Rikers Island jail. Trapped in a system designed to break her, Shalise discovers strength she never knew she had. As she navigates the complexities of prison life, she encounters a cast of characters...
18) Preludes: A Story of Child Sexual Abuse From a Child's Perspective in a Middle-Class American Family
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Child Sexual Abuse – A Defining Issue of Our TimeHe's Just a Nine-Year-Old Boy – How Does He Stop the Firestorm?When a nine-year-old boy in a "respectable," middle class family is raped, then repeatedly molested by his father, how does the boy experience the abuse and how does he manage to survive?Preludes examines these questions.The boy wakes in the middle of the night to find his father sitting on the edge of his bed, gently shaking him from...
19) The Demon Child
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Bruno Berger, living in Johannesburg, South Africa, is cruelly abused by his parents during his formative years and develops a hatred for his fellow beings that dominates his life. Throughout his young life he has been ridiculed and betrayed. He meets Conrao "Connie" Amores, another abused student at his school and the two young boys plan to eliminate their tormentors, especially their parents.On the day that they've agreed to begin their revenge,...
20) Leroy
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Living in an age before computers, Leroy was footloose and fancy-free. He hid behind the pulpit, however in real time, he was a monster to his wife and a lover to the world. This short story hopefully captivates the black soul of a Bible-preaching man. Don't be a Leroy.
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