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Trapped alone in her fiancé's family 'cottage' as a hurricane bears down on Mariners Island, Ismay Chalmers, as she prepares for the storm, discovers some disturbing items hidden in a closet that have her questioning everything she knows about the seemingly perfect Windsor family—especially her fiancé.
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"A detective investigating a grisly crime in rural Alaska finds herself caught up in the dark secrets and superstitions of a small town in this riveting novel from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man. Deadhart, Alaska. Population: 673. Living. In a small Alaskan town, a boy is found with his throat ripped out and all the blood drained from his body. The inhabitants of Deadhart haven't seen a killing like this in twenty-five years. But they know...
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2024.
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Working alongside lawyer Moxie Castin to prove the innocence of a woman accused of abducting and possibly murdering of her child, P.I. Charlie Parker, to solve this heart-wrenching case, follows its twists and turns to an old house deep in the Maine woods-house that should have never been built.
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To free herself from her dysfunctional family in Kingston, Jamaica, and join her beloved aunt in Paris, 13-year-old Pumkin Patterson turns her passion for baking into a way to raise money for her French exam, but when word gets out, she stands to lose everything she's worked so hard for.
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[2023]
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February 4–11, 1945. Yalta, a resort town on the Crimean Peninsula, Soviet Union. The Big Three are posing for a camera. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin. All smiling. Stalin, his head is half a turn away from the other two. A shrewd smirk is hiding behind his walrus mustache. He seems to be pleased. Why wouldn’t he be? The Big Three signed the agreement that will shape the fate of Europe and . . . In 1941, Anna is sixteen,...
10) Ghost station
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2024.
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While part of a small space exploration crew on an abandoned planet, a psychologist confronts a gruesome murder and twisted secrets as she races to prevent history from repeating itself in the form of space-borne madness.
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2024.
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"Nashquitten, MA, is a decaying coastal enclave that not even tourist season can revive, full of locals who have run the town's blue-collar industries for generations. So, when a young woman dies at a house party, the circumstances around her death suspiciously unclear, the tight-knit community of Nashquitten is shaken. As a mother grieves her daughter, a teacher her student, a best friend her confidante, the events around this tragedy become a lightning...
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[2024]
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Created by a teacher, Bob Books have been helping children learn to read for more than forty years! This set gives children who are just beginning to read practice with their early phonics skills, setting them up for success on their reading journeys! Science of Reading research proves that mastering phonics is key to a child's success in learning to read. Like all Stage 1 Bob Books sets, this book of 12 stories builds readers' phonics skills one...
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[2024]
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From the author of the award-winning Shadows of Pecan Hollow comes a novel set in the country music world of 1970s Nashville about a struggling musician who writes a hit song that both promises her long-sought-after fame and implicates her in a heinous crime.
15) Pirineo Noir
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2023.
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"En As Boiras, un pueblo del Alto Aragón, ha aparecido el cadáver de Emma Lenglet, la hija de un senador francés. El modus operandi del asesino es similar al que empleó el "Carnicero del Valle" tres décadas atrás. Justamente, hace un mes que Marzal Castán, el psicópata que cazó y desangró a seis adolescentes a mediados de los noventa, ha sido excarcelado para recibir cuidados paliativos y ha vuelto al Pirineo. El comisario Kevin Girard,...
16) Blessed water
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2024.
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A tattooed nun who moonlights at a detective agency feels she is called on by God to find the killer after discovering a dead priest.
17) Sula
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2004.
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Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. But their friendship ends in...
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2023.
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"Cuando Louise se enterade que sus padres han muerto, teme volver a casa. No quiere dejar a su pequeña con su ex y volar a Charleston. No quiere enfrentarse a la residencia donde se amontonan los restos de la vida académica de su padre y de la constante obsesión de su madre por los títeres y los muñecos. No quiere aprender a vivir sin las dos personas que mejor la han conocido y más la han querido del mundo entero. Sobre todo, no quiere tener...
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[2024]
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Alma Cruz ha decidido ponerle punto final a su carrera de escritora, pero teme acabar como su amiga, una exitosa novelista arrastrada a la locura por un libro que jamás terminó de escribir. Por eso, cuando hereda un modesto terreno en República Dominicana, se le ocurre sepultar allí sus decenas de manuscritos inconclusos. Quiere que descansen en paz en la misma tierra donde yacen sus raíces. Pero a diferencia de Alma, los protagonistas de sus...
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2024.
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"María Martínez se estrena en Amour (Romántica adulta contemporánea) con una novela cargada de verdad y de sentimientos, que no dejará indiferente a nadie. . Un romance que aúna una historia de crecimiento personal y superación con una trama de Navy Seals. . "Bajo el sol de la Toscana" pero con aires de la Provenza francesa. «Existe un amor por el que merece la pena esperar y luchar». Sara está a punto de cumplir los treinta y ya ha...
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