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It is Coronation Year, 1953, and a new queen is about to be crowned. The people of London are in a mood to celebrate, none more so than the residents of the Blue Lion hotel. Edie Howard, owner and operator of the floundering Blue Lion, has found the miracle she needs: on Coronation Day, Queen Elizabeth in her gold coach will pass by the hotel's front door, allowing Edie to charge a fortune for rooms and, barring disaster, save her beloved home from...
2) Code white
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Preparing to implant a revolutionary mini-computer into the brain of a blind boy that will enable him to see, brilliant young neurosurgeon Ali O'Day finds her efforts sabotaged by a bomber who is demanding Ali herself as a ransom.
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HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"When she realizes there is something off about her new boyfriend, Mica Angeles finds herself living in a horror novel and must find a way to leave him without bringing an end to everything she knows and loves"--
4) Edge of evil
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Fired from her high-profile broadcasting career and in the process of divorcing her adulterous husband, Alison Reynolds heads home to Sedona, Arizona, to recover, and launches an online blog to help others that exposes her to a killer.
5) Púa
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Ediciones Destino (Editorial Planeta Mexicana)
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mayo de 2023.
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462 pages ; 23 cm
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"«Púa, soy yo. Me queda poco. Te necesito.» Con este mensaje inesperado, el pasado vuelve para sacudir la vida de un antiguo agente secreto cuando ya no tiene el escudo de su organización. Participó en la guerra sucia del Estado, convencido de su causa: la defensa de una sociedad democrática y de las víctimas inocentes contra la violencia terrorista. Pero el tiempo ha pasado, no todo salió bien y la justificación es muy lejana, mientras que...
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"The three stories presented here present an "examination of gender dynamics and an arc from Keegan's earliest to her most recent work. In 'So Late in the Day,' Cathal faces a long weekend as his mind agitates over a woman with whom he could have spent his life, had he behaved differently; in 'The Long and Painful Death,' a writers arrival at the seaside home of Heinrich Boll for a residency is disrupted by an academic who imposes his presence and...
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2022.
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"True crime writer Wylie Lark doesn't mind being snowed in at the isolated farmhouse where she's retreated to write her new book. A cozy fire, complete silence. It would be perfect, if not for the fact that decades earlier, at this very house, two people were murdered in cold blood and a girl disappeared without a trace. As the storm worsens, Wylie finds herself trapped inside the house, haunted by the secrets contained within its walls-haunted by...
8) Legacy
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Adrian Rizzo was seven when she met her father for the first time. That was the day he nearly killed her-before her mother, Lina, stepped in. Soon after, Adrian was dropped off at her grandparents' house in Maryland, where she spent a long summer drinking lemonade, playing with dogs, making a new best friend-and developing the stirrings of a crush on her friend's ten-year-old brother. Lina, meanwhile, traveled the country promoting her fitness brand...
9) Predator
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Ex-SAS warrior and former private security consultant Major Hector Cross is forced to take the law into his own hands to stop old and new enemies intent on global domination.
10) After death
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"Michael Mace, head of security at a top-secret research facility, opens his eyes in a makeshift morgue twenty-four hours following an event in which everyone perished--including him and his best friend, Shelby Shrewsberry. Having awakened with an extraordinary ability unlike anything he--or anyone else--has ever imagined, Michael is capable of being as elusive as a ghost. He sets out to honor his late friend by helping Nina Dozier and her son, John,...
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Kate Moore novels volume 2
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"American expat Kate Moore drops her kids at the international school, makes her shopping rounds, and meets her husband Dexter at their regular café: a leisurely start to a normal day, St-Germain-des-Prés. Across the Seine, tech CEO Hunter Forsyth stands on his balcony, perplexed that his police escort just departed, and frustrated that his cell service has cut out; Hunter has important calls to make, not all of them technically legal. And on the...
13) The deadly dance
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Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 15
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004
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233 p. ; 22 cm.
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Frustrated by a series of small jobs after opening her own detective agency, Agatha Raisin places the fledgling agency's reputation on the line by alienating her friends and flirting with a chief suspect.
14) Fast X
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Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Over many missions and against impossible odds, Dom Toretto and his family have outsmarted, out-nerved and outdriven every foe in their path. Now, they confront the most lethal opponent they've ever faced: a terrifying threat emerging from the shadows of the past who's fueled by blood revenge, and who is determined to shatter this family and destroy everything and everyone that Dom loves, forever.
15) Falling: a novel
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"You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don't know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot's family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane. Enjoy the flight." --book jacket
16) The columnist
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Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
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1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A successful columnist who is harassed and threatened daily on social media snaps one day and finds that revenge has eased and inspired her.
17) Fort McCoy
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Monterey Media
Pub. Date
[2014]
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1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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While servicing prisoners of war at Fort McCoy during World War II, an army barber has an altercation with a Nazi who threatens his wife.
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Jake Brigance novels volume 3
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"Clanton, Mississippi. 1990. Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a deeply divisive trial when the court appoints him attorney for Drew Gamble, a timid sixteen-year-old boy accused of murdering a local deputy. Many in Clanton want a swift trial and the death penalty, but Brigance digs in and discovers that there is more to the story than meets the eye. Jake's fierce commitment to saving Drew from the gas chamber puts his career, his financial...
19) It takes one
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Audrey Harte novels volume 1
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Redhook
Pub. Date
2016.
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405 pages ; 21 cm
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"They say there are no secrets in a small town... Criminal psychologist Audrey Harte is returning home after seven years. She'll have to face the whispers and the rumors that have haunted her family since she left. Because when Audrey was thirteen, she and her best friend Maggie killed Maggie's abusive father. Her first night back in town ends in a fight with a drunken Maggie, with her old crush Jake to witness it all. Audrey can't believe it can...
20) Capital
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W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2012
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Residents of Pepys Road in London receive odd, anonymous postcards demanding "We Want What You Have" during the financial meltdown of 2008.
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