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"When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake's longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she's warily drawn back to the town-and people-she left behind almost a decade earlier. But Hazel's not the only relic of the past to return: a drought has descended on the region, and as the water level in the lake drops, long-hidden secrets begin to emerge ... including evidence that may help finally explain the mystery of her mother's...
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Chantha Nguon recounts her life as a Cambodia refugee who lost everything and everyone--her house her country, her parents, her siblings, her friends--everything but the memories of her mother's kitchen, the tastes and aromas of the foods her mother made before the dictator Pol Pot tore her country apart"--
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Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"When Essie Singh and her husband, Sanjay, move into their new home, they expect to do renovations, they don't expect to be confronted with a curse that threatens both their relationship and Sanjay's life. Essie has always seen herself as someone definedby her ambitions, a cold and independent woman, whose only soft spot is her husband. She never imagined herself as a mother, but then she finds out she's pregnant. As her difficult pregnancy transforms...
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Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Coal Country Killing: A Culture, A Union, And The Murders That Changed It All, revolves around the cold-blooded 1969 assassination of United Mineworkers of America "reform candidate" Jock Yablonski, and murder of his wife and daughter in their Pennsylvania farmhouse. But driving the story are the extraordinary efforts of a tenacious special prosecutor and his "army" of investigators to bring the gunmen, the union boss who ordered the murders, and...
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Publisher
John Scognamiglio Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Knives Out meets Bridgerton in Fair Verona, as New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd kicks off a frothy, irreverent, witty new series with an irresistible premise-Romeo and Juliet's daughter as a clever, rebellious, fiercely independent young woman in fair Verona-told from the delightfully engaging point of view of the captivating Rosie Montague herself.Once upon a time a young couple met and fell in love. You probably know that story,...
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Publisher
Blair
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A woman growing up in a family of Russian immigrants in the 1910s seeks a thoroughly American life. Yelena is the first American born to her Old Believer Russian Orthodox parents, who left two older daughters behind to build a life in a Pennsylvania Appalachian town. This town, in the first decades of the 20th century, is filled with Russian transplants and a new church with a dome. Here, boys quit grade school for the coal mines and girls are married...
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English
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"When eight-year-old Nora arrives at the Park Ridge School for Girls in 1932, she is sure there’s been some mistake. She can’t imagine why she and her little sister, Patsy, were torn from their mother only to be subjected to the cruel whims of the house matron, Mrs. Morris. When their mother fails to rescue them week after week—and Mrs. Morris drops hints that their mother may be a “fallen woman”—Nora begins to doubt they will ever see...
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Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"A Tel Aviv shopkeeper visits his parents' Polish birthplace in an attempt to come to terms with their complex legacy-and is completely unprepared for what he finds there. Yaakov Fine's practical wife and daughters are baffled by his decision to leave his flourishing dress shop for a ten-day trip to his family's ancestral village in Poland. Struggling to emerge from a midlife depression, Yaakov is drawn to Szydowce, intrigued by the stories he'd heard...
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A painfully revealing and hilariously honest debut memoir that chronicles Sarah Cooper's rise from lip-synching in church to lip-synching to the president of the United States. As the youngest of four in a tight-knit Jamaican family, Cooper cut her teeth in the mean cornfields of suburban Maryland. Soon she became a charmingly neurotic woman trying to break her worst patterns and reclaim her linen closet. From an early obsession with hair bands to...
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Farnoosh Torabi is familiar with fear. Growing up in the 1980s as the daughter of Iranian immigrants, she was warned to proceed with caution and play it safe. She spent her childhood immersed in fear--of rejection, loneliness, missed opportunities, and falling short of her potential. Of course, now her mother says, "It all worked out, didn't it?" Funnily enough, it did. Farnoosh came to the realization that fear never limited her. Instead, it has...
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Hal Leonard
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"All arrangements feature melody, lyrics and ukulele chord grids in uke-friendly keys, perfect for groups of one or one hundred. This collection includes popular songs of the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, right up to today. Also features a "ukulele 101" section, a chord chart, and vintage ukulele-themed photos."--from publisher description.
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