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"I need your help." Those were the last words Maddalena D'Angelo expected to hear from Chief Alvin DeRoche when he requested her presence at the police station. A young woman is missing and her mother wants Maddalena to do a spirit portrait of her daughter to see if it will reveal any clues as to her whereabouts. Maddalena, together with Max, follow one of the clues to a hotel in town. While investigating, they discover another woman dead in one of...
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"Nooooo! You can't be here!" The shrill scream shattered the entirely normal morning that Maddalena D'Angelo had been enjoying. Racing to see what was wrong she found that her landlady, Grace Howard, was moments away from being run over by a massive motorhome. Acting on instinct alone, Maddalena jumped to the rescue, pulling her friend out of the way. Confronting the driver, she and her neighbor Max, learn that the man doesn't know who he is, where...
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Past mistakes lead to present problems and murder...Maddalena D'Angelo is no stranger to helping people, but when an early morning visitor comes to her door looking for help it's the last person she would expect... Chief Alvin DeRoche. He has made it clear in the past that he does not care for Maddalena's assistance, however, this time it's different. This time it's personal. An old friend of his has been murdered! Maddalena can't say no and agrees...
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Walker Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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297 pages ; 21 cm
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"In 1896, three best friends--Tirzah, Sophia and Polly--who are leading very different lives after boarding school share their dreams, hopes, frustrations and romances through a series of letters as they search for happiness and love near the dawn of the Edwardian era"--
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Mindy's Book Studio
Pub. Date
2024.
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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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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1997.
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226 pages ; 20 cm
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Paula Spencer is a thirty-nine-year-old working-class woman struggling to reclaim her dignity after marriage to an abusive husband and a worsening drinking problem. Paula recalls her contented childhood, the audacity she learned as a teenager, the exhilaration of her romance with Charlo, and the marriage to him that left her feeling powerless. Capturing both her vulnerability and her strength, Roddy Doyle gives Paula a voice that is real and unforgettable....
10) Wash day diaries
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Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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191 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
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"A graphic novel love letter to the beauty and resilience of Black women, their hair, and friendships"--
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2024.
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Enslaved to a businessman in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Ady, when she's separated from her mother, meets Lenore, a free black woman who invites her to join a clandestine society of spies called the Daughters, setting her on a journey toward liberation and imagining a new future.
12) Four to score
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Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 4
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St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2010.
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353 pages ; 21 cm
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Two bounty hunters vie to capture a revenge-seeking waitress wanted for car theft. One hunter is Stephanie Plum of New Jersey, the other is her arch-enemy Joyce Barnhardt.
13) Vladimir
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Lumen
Pub. Date
2023.
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171 pages ; 23 cm.
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"Guinea ve truncada su carrera como profesora en una universidadi de Estados Unidos tras salir a la luz su relaci�on con un alumno mucho m�as joven que ella. Huyendo del esc�andalo y en busca de una nueva vida llega al aeropuerto de Buenos Aires, donde des- cubre que se ha producido un apag�on general. Con el tel�efono sin red, es incapaz de localizar su destino. Un hombre inquietante- mente amable la conduce por la ciudad y le propone alojarse...
14) Holiday country
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Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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260 pages ; 25 cm
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"Nineteen-year-old Ada adores spending every summer in a Turkish seaside town with her mother and grandmother at the family villa. The glittering waters, picturesque olive groves, and her spirited friends make it easy for Ada to leave her idle life in California behind. But no matter how much Ada feels she belongs to the country where her mother grew up, deep down, her connection to the culture feels as fleeting as the seasons. When Levent, a mysterious...
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Duomo Ediciones
Pub. Date
2022.
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346 pages : plans, genealogical table ; 22 cm
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"Doce dias. Doce pistas. Que empiece el juego. Desde que su madre murio, hace 21 anos, Lily Armitage no habia regresado a la mansion familiar, hasta que recibe una invitacion de su tia para volver a participar en la tradicion de su familia: el juego de Navidad. Cual es el reto? Descifrar doce pistas y encontrar doce llaves junto a sus primos y parientes. Este ano el premio es mucho mas tentador, ya que consiste en la escritura de la casa. Son doce...
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2024]
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xiii, 283 pages ; 24 cm
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"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,...
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HarperVia
Pub. Date
2023.
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319 pages ; 21 cm
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"Coming from a moderately traditional Muslim family, twenty-seven-year-old Samira Abdel-Aziz has endured her fair share of arranged matches--first dates she calls "doorknock appeals," where she and her possible suitors eat snacks in her living room in the company of both sets of parents. Her general rule: no shoes with tassels, no cheesy leather jackets, no mustaches. A girl has to have some standards, right? The truth is, Samira is already experiencing...
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"Sara Marsala barely knows who she is anymore after the failure of her business and marriage. On top of that, her beloved great-aunt Rosie passes away, leaving Sara bereft with grief. But Aunt Rosie's death also opens an escape from her life and a window into the past by way of a plane ticket to Sicily, a deed to a possibly valuable plot of land, and a bombshell family secret. Rosie believes Sara's great-grandmother Serafina, the family matriarch...
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Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2024.
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326 pages ; 22 cm
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Every athlete knows what it takes to win. But for teen female players, the stakes are so much higher. In this anthology, the voices of these athletes come alive, highlighting the ferocity of those who are often shunted to the side. From navigating rampant misogyny to forging a sisterhood through sweat or just reveling in the love of the game, the stories in Out of Our League address the phenomenal physical and emotional power of teenage athletes as...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
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279 pages ; 25 cm
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"Texas hill country, 1868. As nineteen-year-old Benjamin Shreve tends to business in his workshop, he witnesses a stagecoach strand a passenger. When the man, a treasure hunter, persuades Benjamin to help track down the vanished coach—and a mysterious fortune left aboard—Benjamin is drawn into a drama whose scope he could never have imagined, for they discover on reaching the coach that its passengers include Nell, a pregnant young woman,...
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