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Double the lies2023
Summary: On a cold spring night in 1924, Annalee Spain offers her new fancy lace handkerchief -- a gift from her pastor boyfriend Jack Blake -- to a young woman crying in a Denver public library. But later... more »- place hold (0)
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The Twyford code : a novel2023
Summary: Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children's book by disgraced author Edith Twyford, its margins full of strange markings and annotations. Severely dyslexic and wanting to know... more »- place hold (0)
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Old babes in the wood : stories2023
Summary: In this collection comprised of fifteen extraordinary stories -- some of which have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine -- Atwood speaks to our times with her characteristic... more »- place hold (0)
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Western lane : a novel2023
Summary: After the death of her mother, eleven-year-old Gopi, who has been playing squash since she was a small child, is enlisted in a quietly brutal training regimen by her father, and soon the game becomes... more »- place hold (0)
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Age of vice2023
Summary: New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb, and in the blink of an eye, five people are dead. It's a rich man's car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a... more »- place hold (0)
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A spell of good things2023
Summary: Eniola is tall for his age, a boy who looks like a man. Because his father has lost his job, Eniola spends his days running errands for the local tailor, collecting newspapers, begging when he must,... more »- place hold (0)
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Decent people : a novel2023
Summary: In the still-segregated town of West Mills, North Carolina in 1976, three siblings -- Marian, Marva, and Lazarus Harmon -- are found shot to death in their home. It creates a frenzy of... more »- place hold (0)
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The faraway world : stories2023
Summary: A collection of ten haunting short stories linked by themes of migration, sacrifice, and moral compromise bring to life the liminality of regret, the vibrancy of community, and the epic deeds and quiet moments of love.- place hold (0)
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The thing in the snow : a novel2023
Summary: In the far reaches of the world, the Northern Institute sits in a vast expanse of ice and snow. Shut down after an unspecified incident, the research facility was evacuated and is now home to three... more »- place hold (0)
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The new life : a novel2023
Summary: In the summer of 1894, John Addington and Henry Ellis begin writing a book arguing that what they call "inversion," or homosexuality, is a natural, harmless variation of human sexuality. Though they... more »- place hold (0)
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Wade in the water : a novel2023
Summary: Eleven-year-old Ella lives in the racially divided town of Ricksville, Mississippi, not far from where the Freedom Summer Murders occurred. Too smart for her own good, she loves God, Mr. Macabe, and... more »- place hold (0)
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Recovery road2023
Summary: Kir "Master" Vasiliev doesn't care whether he lives or dies. He's a burnt-out shell with no one and nothing but his club. Whatever Torpedo Ink needs, Master will put himself in harm's way time after... more »- place hold (0)
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Ghost music : a novel2023
Summary: For three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of her young piano students. She gave up on her own career as a concert pianist many years ago,... more »- place hold (0)
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Don't fear the reaper2023
Summary: Four years after her tumultuous senior year, Jade Daniels is released from prison right before Christmas when her conviction is overturned. But life beyond bars takes a dangerous turn as soon as she... more »- place hold (0)
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The rose and the thistle : a novel2023
Summary: In 1715, Lady Blythe Hedley's father is declared an enemy of the British crown because of his Jacobite sympathies, forcing her to flee her home in northern England. Secreted to the tower of... more »- place hold (0)
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The bullet garden2023
Summary: July, 1944: The lush, rolling hills of Normandy are dotted with a new feature -- German snipers. From their vantage points, they pick off hundreds of Allied soldiers every day, bringing the D-Day... more »- place hold (0)
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Fatal fascinator2023
Summary: It's wedding season and Viv's longtime frenemy Piper May is getting married. She convinces Viv and Scarlett to take on the job of designing the headpieces for her wedding of the year. The well-to-do... more »- place hold (0)
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Her heart's desire2023
Summary: Mary Margaret Miller needs an escape from her small Amish community. She boards a bus, all alone, for a vacation in Pinecraft, Florida. Meeting Betsy and Lilly on the way, she's amazed to find two... more »- place hold (0)
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Without a trace : a novel2023
Summary: Charles Vincent is trapped in a loveless marriage, and his job is simply a paycheck. One night on the Normandy coast he falls asleep at the wheel and veers off the road and down the cliff.... more »- place hold (1)
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The Villa2023
Summary: As kids, Emily and Chess were inseparable. But by their 30s, their bond has been strained by the demands of their adult lives. So when Chess suggests a girls' trip to Italy, Emily jumps at the chance... more »- place hold (7)
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Forbidden2023
Summary: A loner, a runaway, and a failed apprentice Talent, Chad Hagan was kicked out of one Institute of Magic for fighting, then fled another when the head wizard's vice caused the death of his closest... more »- place hold (0)
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The seven moons of Maali Almeida : a novel2023
Summary: Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida -- war photographer, gambler, and closet queen -- has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira Lake... more »- place hold (0)
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The deluge2022
Summary: In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired in gridlock while a patient but unrelenting ecological crisis looms. America is in upheaval, battered by... more »- place hold (0)
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The choice2022
Summary: Talamh is a land of green hills, high mountains, deep forests, and seas, where magicks thrive. But portals allow for passage in and out -- and ultimately, each must choose their place, and choose... more »- place hold (0)
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A few drops of bitters2022
Summary: Between being a mom to her new foster son and arranging a lavish wedding for her sister, things are messy, unpredictable, and delightfully fulfilling for Savannah these days. She even gains an... more »- place hold (0)
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Tell me how to be2022
Summary: Renu Amin always seemed perfect. But as the one-year anniversary of her husband's death approaches, Renu is binge-watching soap operas and simmering with old resentments. She can't stop wondering if,... more »- place hold (0)
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The book of everlasting things2022
Summary: On a January morning in 1938, Samir Vij first locks eyes with Firdaus Khan through the rows of perfume bottles in his family's ittar shop in Lahore. Over the years that follow, the perfumer's... more »- place hold (0)
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Anywhere you run : a novel2022
Summary: It's the summer of 1964, and three innocent men are brutally murdered for trying to help black Mississippians secure the right to vote. Against this backdrop, twenty-one-year-old Violet Richards... more »- place hold (0)
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Killer Cupid2022
Summary: Melanie is delighted at the prospect of three uninterrupted days alone with Sam (and, of course, her prize-winning Standard Poodle, Faith). They're booked at the White Birch Inn, a picturesque New... more »- place hold (0)
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A world of curiosities2022
Summary: It's spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should re-emerge. But something has. As the villagers... more »- place hold (0)
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Murder on the vine2022
Summary: On a late October Sunday morning in Gravigna, local maresciallo Perillo is having breakfast with ex-NYPD detective Nico Doyle when he is called back to the station in Greve. Laura Benati, the young... more »- place hold (0)
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The Lindbergh nanny : a novel2022
Summary: When the most famous toddler in America, Charles Lindbergh, Jr., is kidnapped from his family home in New Jersey in 1932, the case makes international headlines. Already celebrated for his flight... more »- place hold (0)
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Heart of the sun warrior2022
Summary: After winning her mother's freedom from the Celestial Emperor, Xingyin thrives in the enchanting tranquility of her home. But her fragile peace is threatened by the discovery of a strange magic on... more »- place hold (0)
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The serpent in heaven2022
Summary: Felicia, Lizbeth Rose's younger half-sister and a student at the Grigori school within the capital of the New Holy Russian Empire in San Diego, is caught between secrets and powerful family... more »- place hold (0)
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Coming home2022
Summary: In Woodland Park, a small town nestled in the foothills of Pikes Peak, Anderson Kelly and Chelsea Davis were once the high school "it" couple -- the star quarterback and the valedictorian. They broke... more »- place hold (0)
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A dangerous business2022
Summary: Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. It seems like a better life, at least at first. The madam, Mrs. Parks, is kind, the men... more »- place hold (0)
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Leopard's scar2022
Summary: The moment Meiling sees Gedeon she knows he's a leopard shifter -- just as she knows she can't trust him. Meiling doesn't take chances, life has taught her better than that. So why does she find... more »- place hold (0)
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Gilded mountain : a novel2022
Summary: In the early 1900s, Sylvie Pelletier, in a voice spiked with sly humor, recounts leaving her family's snowbound mountain cabin to work in a manor house for the Padgetts, owners of the marble-mining... more »- place hold (0)
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Lark ascending : a novel2022
Summary: With fires devastating much of America, Lark and his family first leave their home in Maryland for Maine. But as the country increasingly falls under the grip of religious nationalism, it becomes... more »- place hold (0)
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Blitz : a novel2022
Summary: September, 1940: Three women of the Checquy, the secret organization tasked with protecting Britain from supernatural threats, stand in the sky above London and watch German aircraft approach.... more »- place hold (0)
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