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Pub. Date
2024
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English
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Dumped in Possum Flats, Missouri, by her free-spirited mother, in 1978, 15-year-old Daisy Flowers, sentenced to spend the summer with her mortician grandmother, sets the town on edge when she becomes obsessed with investigating the horrors and heroes of a long-ago tragedy after a family connection is revealed.
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English
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"She is a beautiful, affluent, self-involved, and mildly neurotic London socialite. He is Britain’s most photographed bad boy who broke her heart. Magnolia Parks and BJ Ballentine are meant to be, and everyone knows it. She dates other people to keep him at bay; he sleeps with other girls to get back at her for it. But at the end of every sad endeavor to get over one another, it’s still each other they crawl back to. But now their dysfunction...
3) Spy ring
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English
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"With codewords and secret signals perfected, best friends Rachel and Joon are ready to spend their summer practicing spycraft—especially if they can uncover secrets like the one Joon’s parents have been keeping, that his family is about to move out of town. When eavesdropping leads them to a ring rumored to have belonged to Anna “Nancy” Smith Strong—according to local Long Island legend, the only female member of George Washington’s famed...
4) The liars
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Series
Seaside saga ; 20
Publisher
Joanne DeMaio
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"Behind every cottage door is a liar. Look past the tended lawns and screened windows open to the sea breeze and dusky porch lights shining on waning summer nights. And listen closely. Are those whispers of swaying marsh grasses? Or hushed secrets floating in the salt air? Walking the sandy roads, it's hard to tell. There. There's the imposing Barlow cottage on the bluff. Elsa's shingled inn by the sea. The Fenwicks' last-standing cottage on the sand....
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English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Woman on Fire, the harrowing and ultimately triumphant tale of a Jewish WWII assassin turned Hollywood star. In 2005, Siena Hayes is Hollywood's latest It Girl, but she has her sights set higher than the screen, she wants to be behind the camera. So when Siena meets Lena Browning, the enormously mysterious and famous actor from decades past, Siena sees her big break. Siena wants to direct Lena's biopic-but...
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Publisher
Ty Hutchinson
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When life coaching goes terribly wrong.
I’m a bit of a hippie; you have to be to live in Bodega Bay. I do yoga every Tuesday and Saturday, and in between, I work as a life coach. It’s a simple life that’s drama-free, and I like it that way. But never in a million years did I think coaching would unleash a hellish nightmare.
When Peter Darkwood contacted me wanting my services for his wife, I was seconds away from declining. It never works...
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Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"Eighteen-year-old River Lang struggles after the death of his best friend and reluctantly joins a research study for struggling teens where he confronts his complex relationship with Dylan's ex, develops feelings for a charismatic jock, and uncovers unsettling truths about the study."--
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Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"Lively and charming silent movie actress Lily Temple is everything private investigator Peter Driscoll is not. It makes sense, then, that combining forces would mean more cases solved and secrets revealed. Except for Lily's own - why a legendary missingsapphire is within her possession and on her person at all times"--
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Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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No matter what you see, no matter what you've heard, assume nothing. Adam and Sophie Warner and their three-year-old daughter are vacationing in Washington State's Hood Canal for Memorial Day weekend. It's the perfect getaway to unplug--and to calm an uneasy marriage. But on Adam's first day out on the water, he sees Sophie abducted by a stranger. A hundred yards from shore, Adam can't save her. And Sophie disappears. In a nearby cabin is another...
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Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2024.
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Español
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Sinopsis: Todos esperaban que Violet Sorrengail muriera durante su primer ąo en el Colegio de Guerra Basgiath, incluso ella misma. Pero la Trilla fue tan solo la primera de una serie de pruebas imposibles destinadas a deshacerse de los indignos y los desafortunados.Ahora comienza el verdadero entrenamiento, y Violet no sabe ̤cmo logràr superarlo. No solo porque es brutal y agotador o porque es̀t disęado para llevar al ̕lmite el umbral del dolor...
11) Daisy Haites
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Raised by her older brother, Julian, after their parents were murdered, Daisy has never been able to escape the watchful gaze of her gang-lord brother. But Julian's line of work means that Daisy's life is...complicated. And things don't become any easierwhen she falls hard for the beautiful and emotionally unavailable Christian Hemmes, who happens to be one of the few men in London who doesn't answer to Julian. Christian's life is no walk in the...
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Series
Stranger kids ; 2
Publisher
Montena
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
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"We have a SUPERPROBLEM: We have homework for school that is due... TOMORROW! We have been grounded without our mobile devices. The only thing we have left is the dreaded LIBRARY. But there's more: the librarian keeps saying strange things, and it seems like the library hides many secrets... And on top of that...we're locked in! Even worse? We have no way of letting anyone know, because we don't have Wi-Fi!"--
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Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"All Ruby wanted was a fresh start. But after an early retirement and a relocation to a tight-knit community with her husband, Tom, and her daughter, Lily, her new beginning takes a turn. First her troubled daughter and then her husband disappear without a trace. Unsure how to cope, grief-ridden Ruby turns to her neighborhood friends to find a way forward with new hobbies, including a murder club where they try to solve cold cases. But just as unexpectedly...
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Series
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A ghostly estate. A handsome caretaker hiding a secret. And the intrepid Hyacinth Bell who is set on solving the mystery of both. 1887, the Cornwall coast. For years, rumors have flown through the village of Suttonsbury about Ashthorne Hall-that its occupants hoard pirate treasure, that a ghost walks its halls-but botanist Hyacinth Bell only cares about the estate's extensive, one-of-a-kind orchid collection. As an independent woman, she is eager...
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Editorial Alma
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
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"Maurice Leblanc, autor ineludible para los amantes del misterio, fue el creador de Arsène Lupin, un ladrón inteligente e ingenioso que cautiva con su carisma y generosidad. Un accidentado robo en un castillo desata la búsqueda de un tesoro mítico. Lupin ha conseguido hacerse con un secreto milenario. Solo el ingenio y la sagacidad del aprendiz de detective, Isidore Beautrelet, podrán desbaratar sus planes. Una nueva aventura del maestro de la...
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Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When Jared Sotheby arrives in Peak, Virginia, to search for his identity—and his Filipino roots—he doesn’t anticipate an instant connection with a stunning woman he meets on his first night in town. And he certainly doesn’t expect her to be managing the B & B owned by the biological family he’s searching for! One passionate night aside, Matilda Matthews needs a cook, and Jared, a chef, needs a way in. She’ll give him the job if he keeps...
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Publisher
AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Struggling with the unexpected loss of her mother, Phoenix Yuan-Whyller brings her mother's ashes back to her homeland of China, on what at first seems like a daughter's quest to uncover a mother's secrets, but soon becomes a startling journey of self-discovery.
18) Altar
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Publisher
ALFAGUARA
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Una persona llega a un pequeno pueblo de Estados Unidos. Las gentes del lugar la encuentran durmiendo en un banco de la iglesia, donde se ha refugiado durante la noche. Es imposible discernir su raza, su edad o su sexo y, aunque entiendo el idioma en el que la hablan, se niega a pronunciar palabra o a contar su historia. La comunidad local, unida por una fuere fe religiosa, se muestra dispuesta a acogerla y la da el nombre de Altar, pero en los seis...
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