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Colleen Hayes novels volume 1
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Between fending off a lecherous parole officer and trying to get by in 1978 San Francisco, private investigator Colleen Hayes struggles to put her life back together so she can reconnect with her runaway teenage daughter. Then her life changes dramatically. She accepts a case from wealthy, retired industrialist Edward Copeland. The old man is desperate to solve the brutal murder of his daughter, a murder that took place in Golden Gate Park eleven...
23) Dead man's bones
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
329 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Former attorney-turned-herbalist China Bayles finds her busy life further complicated when her teenage son discovers the skeletal remains of the victim of a not-so-accidental death during a dig in a cave and a local gathering is interrupted by murder.
24) Mulan
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Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020, ©2020.
Physical Desc
22 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Description
Join Mulan and her friends Mushu, Cri-Kee, and more as they set out to save Mulan's father and the Chinese empire from an enemy invasion.
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Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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310 pages : genealogical chart ; 24 cm.
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"In present day New Orleans, Xuan Trung, former beauty queen turned refugee after the Fall of Saigon, is obsessed with divining her daughters' fates through their Vietnamese zodiac signs. But Trac, Nhi and Trieu diverge completely from their immigrant parents' expectations. Successful lawyer Trac hides her sexuality from her family; Nhi competes as the only woman of color on a Bachelor-esque reality TV show; and Trieu, a budding writer, is determined...
27) Body work
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The enigmatic performer known as the Body Artist takes the stage at Chicago's Club Gouge and allows her audience to use her naked body as a canvas for their impromptu illustrations. V. I. Warshawski watches as people step forward, some meek, some bold, to make their mark. The evening takes a strange turn when one woman's sketch triggers a violent outburst from a man at a nearby table. Quickly subdued, the man, an Iraqi war vet, leaves the club. Days...
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Island of Mure novels volume 5
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xi, 388 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Flora MacKenzie and her fiancae have their plans for their tiny "sweetheart wedding" on the Scottish island of Mure disrupted when an expat with money wants to throw the most extravagant wedding possible on the same day"--
30) Unnatural fire
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Publisher
Felony & Mayhem Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 20 cm
Description
A mysterious woman hires Anastasia and Alpiew to follow her husband. Their pursuit ends abruptly in a Covent Garden churchyard. Suddenly they find themselves implicated in murder.
31) As you were
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"Sinead Hynes is a tough, driven, funny young property developer with a terrifying secret. Noone knows it: not her fellow patients in a failing hospital, and certainly not her family. She has confided only in Google and a shiny magpie. But she can't go on like this, tirelessly trying to outstrip her past and in mortal fear of her future. Across the ward, Margaret Rose is running her chaotic family from her rose-gold Nokia. In the neighbouring bed,...
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 12
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1935]
Physical Desc
iv, 218 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Nancy Drew tackles a mystery professional detectives failed to solve--finding a valuable centuries-old message in a hollow oak tree in Illinois.
33) The grammarians
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Pub. Date
2019.
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"The Grammarians are Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins who share an obsession with words. They speak a secret "twin" tongue of their own as toddlers; as adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation continues, but this love, which has always bound them together, begins instead to push them apart. Daphne, copy editor and grammar columnist, devotes herself to preserving the dignity and elegance of...
35) Touch: a novel
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Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 24 cm
Description
When he receives a message from a lover from the 60s who disappeared, Reykjavik restaurant owner Kristaofer is pulled toward finding an answer to the mystery of her sudden departure, compelling him to travel to London and Japan just as the virus threatens to shut everything down.
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Zuhour, young Omani woman attempting to assimilate in Britain, reflects on the relationships that have been central to her life, including her bond with Bint Amir, a woman she thought of as her grandmother, who passed away after Zuhour left the Arabian peninsula.
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Waiting for Tom Hanks volume 1
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"Romantic-comedy-obsessed Annie Cassidy dreams of being the next Nora Ephron. She spends her days writing internet content, rewatching Sleepless in Seattle, and waiting for her movie-perfect meet cute. If she could just find her own Tom Hanks--a man who's sweet, sensitive, and possibly owns a houseboat--her problems would disappear and her life would be perfect. But Tom Hanks is nowhere in sight. When a movie starts filming in her neighborhood and...
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Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
358 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Description
In a work that combines fiction and essay, the Spanish novelist examines her literary development and her mental health, from the moments in her girlhood when she first began to doubt her sanity to her studies of the links between creative genius and madness.
39) Undone
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WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC!
In the trauma center of Atlanta's busiest hospital, Sara Linton treats the city's poor, wounded, and unlucky—and finds refuge from the tragedy that rocked her life in rural Grant County. Then, in one instant, Sara is thrust into a frantic police investigation, coming face-to-face with a tall driven detective and his quiet female partner.... In Undone, three unforgettable characters
...40) The breakers
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The disappearance of a young recovering addict in southwest San Francisco leads private investigator Sharon McCone to the site of a Prohibition-era nightclub, where she discovers a ghastly chamber of horrors.
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