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Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"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...
2) Prey
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xi, 367 pages ; 21 cm
Description
In the Nevada desert, a handful of scientists are battling to retrieve a swarm of rogue micro-robots that has escaped from the lab. The swarm is self-sustaining, self-reproducing and capable of learning from experience. It is, to all intents and purposes, alive. And very, very deadly. Because it has been programmed as a ruthless predator, a predator that becomes more dangerous with every passing hour ... And we are the prey.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 19 cm
Description
"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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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.
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"Un moderno Bob Cratchit, Hugo Contreras, vive en un humedo departamento de una sola habitacion y sabe que nunca dejara de pagar las cuentas medicas de su difunta esposa ni sus propias deudas, acumuladas durante su juventud. Su Scrooge es Alexi Ramirez, un avaricioso abogado de cobranza cubano-americano con un rostro familiar por sus anuncios en las paradas de autobus y un serio problema personal: un fantasma en el caseron de su familia. Es bajo estas...
Author
Series
Honey badger chronicles volume 5
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"Emily 'Tock' Lepstein-Jackson is on a mission to rid the world of shifters trafficking humans for hunting and cash. And now that she's narrowed down her suspects to a brutal coalition of male lions, nothing will get between this honey badger and her prey--not even a dog-loving tiger with absolutely no time management skills. Doesn't matter that Shay Malone is ferociously adorable. With a war brewing between cat families, Tock doesn't have time to...
8) Argylle
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Pub. Date
2024.
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Description
"One Russian magnates dream of restoring a nation to greatness has set in motion a chain of events which will take the world to the brink of chaos. Only Frances Coffey, the CIAs most legendary spymaster, can prevent it. But to do so, she needs someone special. Enter Argylle, a troubled agent with a tarnished past who may just have the skills to take on one of the most powerful men in the world. If only he can save himself first" --publisher's website....
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Publisher
Entangled Teen
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"It looks like paradise…only it’s not. This was supposed to be a once-in-a-lifetime family trip to Thailand. One last wish for my dying mama. Instead, we’re stranded on a lush, stunning island with ten strangers—held captive as Thai mythology unfolds around us…and within us. Now we’re being tested. We’re expected to face our greatest fears—and possible deaths—in hopes of awakening some...
10) I will find you
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Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"Nicky has disappeared! Olivia, Leo, and Gracie--three seventh graders who have very little in common except for how much they dislike Nicky, the school bully--were the last ones to see him. They are sure that there are clues the police are overlooking. And they each have their own secret reason for needing to find him as soon as possible. As they investigate, they discover that things are more complicated than they had seemed. Nicky's victims made...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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Description
Working for his mother, the sheriff of an idyllic Midwestern resort town, Eli North, when the body of a teenage boy is found in the lake, is drawn into an investigation related to America's opioid epidemic that becomes much more than just a hunt for a killer.
Eli North is not okay. His drinking is getting worse by the day, his emotional wounds after a deployment to Afghanistan are as raw as ever, his marriage and career are over, and the only job...
12) Anna O: a novel
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
424 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"What if your nightmares weren't really nightmares at all? We spend an average of 33 years of our lives asleep. But what really happens, and what are we capable of, when we sleep? Anna Ogilvy was a budding twenty-five-year-old writer with a bright future. Then, one night, she stabbed two people to death with no apparent motive and hasn't woken up since. Dubbed 'Sleeping Beauty' by the tabloids, Annas condition is a rare psychosomatic disorder known...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"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...
14) Two dead wives
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 23 cm
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"Lost. Missing. Murdered? How do you find a woman who didn’t exist? It's a case that has gripped a nation: A woman with a shocking secret is missing, presumed dead. And her two husbands are suspects in her murder. DCI Clements knows the dark side of human nature and that love can make people do treacherous things. You can’t presume anything when it comes to crimes of the heart. Until a body is found, this scandalous and sad case remains...
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xiii, 283 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"On a cold, gloomy night, twenty-three-year-old Kyoko stands in the rain with a knife in her hoodie’s pocket. Her target is Daniel, who seduced Kyoko’s mother then callously dropped her, leading to her death. But tonight, there will be repercussions. Following the unsuspecting Daniel home, Kyoko manages to get a rash kidnapping plot off the ground . . . and then nothing goes as planned. The Fetishist is the story of three people—Kyoko,...
16) Gaslight
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Series
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Comany
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
"A shadow has fallen over the megachurch in Ogun State, Nigeria: the beloved Bishop Dawodu has been arrested for the murder of his wife. Sade Dawodu has vanished without a trace and although no body has been found, the police have acted based on what they claim is damning evidence. Philip Taiwo, hot off the success of solving the Okriki Three case, is brought on to investigate. He quickly learns that Sade, young, impulsive, and outspoken, is no favorite...
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