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Ransom
Wolfe, Leslie (Fiction writer), author.
When a seductive socialite falls in love with the wrong man, a master manipulator meets her match... Everyone knows who Olivia Taylor is. Or so they believe. She's the glamorous philanthropist who just returned to her hometown after a long absence. She's the new fiancée of the wealthy and charismatic Winston Donovan. She's Las Vegas royalty, celebrated by the media and pursued by paparazzi at every turn. And now she's accused of murder in the first degree. If convicted, she'll face death row. Little by little, her life is picked apart and her relationships are torn to shreds. One by one, her lies disintegrate and her darkest secrets are exposed by scandalmongering socialites and bloodthirsty tabloids. Everyone has an opinion about Olivia Taylor and what she's done. But the truth is, no one really knows who Olivia Taylor is at all.....
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Things we cannot keep
Cox, Amanda, 1984- author.
A mysterious package. A name she thought she'd erased. And the one person she never expected to see again... Tess Holcomb has built a new life in Alabama, repairing timepieces and avoiding her troubled past as she restores her customers' family heirlooms--treasures she never had. When a mysterious package arrives addressed to Teresa Baker, the name she abandoned, Tess finds herself drawn into a puzzle that threatens her delicate peace. Then Elliot Sullivan appears at her door after eighteen years, and Tess knows he's after more than just forgiveness. She doesn't trust his motives, but he could be the key to uncovering the origin of the mystery package and its cryptic contents. Tess has found safety in her simple life, but to reunite this lost heirloom with its rightful recipient she will have to come out of hiding. Each clue leads her further from the security of home, and each story reveals hidden truths. The question is whether she's brave enough to face what she might find--and whether the man beside her can be trusted with what matters most.....
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The women at Ocean's End
Hogan, Faith, author.
Three women, all with secrets waiting to be uncovered, meet on a beautiful island off the Irish Coast... Constance Macken, in her ninth decade, is looking back on a life filled with laughter and loss, tragedy and triumph, but knows it is time to right the wrongs from her past that have always haunted her. Heather Banks arrives on the island to bury her mother. Already adrift with her business sold and her divorce finalised this may be the perfect opportunity to change the course of her future. Ros Stokes has managed to slip into the perfect job, the perfect cottage and friends that feel like family. However, when the stitches of her life begin to unravel, she must find a way to hold onto the things that have become most dear to her and let go of what holds her back. Now, in a faded art deco house near the ocean's end, these women must come together to save the house they love, and each other.....
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The rouse
Miéville, China, author.
Maur's life has been shaped by loss: an apparently ordinary tragedy. But in its aftermath arise deeper, stranger questions. Their answers may lie within the dark heart and darker history of an old soldier who shares Maur's obsessions-and is violently pursued by the same unknown, unquiet forces. So begins a book unlike any other: at once an encyclopaedic and multitudinous saga of a bloody century, and the intimate story of two lives, their loves, regrets and secrets-and a terrifying journey into infinite mystery"--....
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The disappearers
James, Marlon, 1970- author.
On a day in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1988, eight men come together to begin rehearsals for a play. Though they are strangers to one another, they share an inescapable truth: They are gay in a country that wants nothing to do with them. One night the men are savagely attacked, and one of them is killed. As the survivors heal, each man finds that he must confront the bigotry and homophobia that the attack laid bare. Some of the men try to ignore what the murder unearthed. Some embrace their rage. Others simply vanish into thin air. All of them are forever scarred by what happened. In The Disappearers, Marlon James has written the powerful and unflinching story of the men who must grapple with the hatred, alienation, and shame they face in a world that refuses to accept them. By turns epic and intimate, violent and forgiving, this is above all a deeply human story of acceptance and insight as only Marlon James can tell it.....
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Under story : a novel
Benjamin, Chloe, author.
Laurel Slater is hiding from everything she's ever known. For ten hours a day, six days a week, she is a dishwasher at McMurdo Station, an isolated research base in Antarctica, but before she arrived, she used to be a young, promising scientist with a career and a family. But even in this remtoe outpost, Laurel can't escape her past. When a strange light appears across the ice and draws a group of physicists to McMurdo, she knows that her former husband Eli won't be far behind. Laurel is convinced that the Arc leads down a rabbit hole and into a world they can barely imagine. Can she persuade him to risk everything, turn back the clock, and live their story a second time?....
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Fallen for France : a novel
Letts, Elizabeth, author.
Beddou is six years old when he is sent off to apprentice far from his High Atlas village in Morocco. His mother gives him six amber beads to help him find his way home. That same month, a magnificent filly is born in Fes, in the splendor of the Sultan's palace. For a brief, golden time, the mare belongs to the boy. But Beddou's heart is broken when a soldier steals his horse and disappears into France just as the Great War roars to a start. Finding her seems impossible, but he vows to try. Estelle, a young woman in France, finds a distressed Arabian mare wandering alone in the meadow behind her house. She is determined to look after this radiant creature just as tenderly as she cares for her vulnerable younger brother. But soon her world is torn apart, and she loses both the horse and her brother. She will spend the rest of the war searching for both. Thomas is an Englishman hardened by his experience as a wartime veterinarian in France. He finds the mare and promises to protect her--and the woman who once loved her--but he doubts his own ability to keep anyone safe. As the pathways of the unforgettable mare and the boy's desperate search intertwine, the separate strands of these strangers' journeys converge, propelling them to make momentous choices that will change the course of their lives.....
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Double tap
Flynn, Vince, 1966-2013, creator.
The American Assassin storyline continues, taking the young CIA operative on his first deep-cover mission in which he infiltrates a jihadi organization bent on unleashing a weapon of mass destruction... Mitch Rapp signed up to be an assassin. A lone wolf who hunts and kills his nation’s enemies on their turf. Now, he has a new mission. When Mitch’s target — a Pakistani chemical weapons scientist for hire — is snatched from the streets of Verona, the American assassin must penetrate the jihadi cell responsible for the brazen kidnapping before they can make use of the scientist’s deadly expertise. But Mitch isn't the only one interested in the scientist. The Pakistani represents an existential threat. A threat that will fray alliances, force enemies to seek common ground, and resurrect long settled vendettas. As the events triggered by the kidnapping cascade out of control, Mitch Rapp must stop the chain reaction before the Middle East reaches critical mass.....
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It's not what you think
Mackintosh, Clare, author.
He has a secret. She knows he's lying... -- YOU THINK YOU KNOW THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE -- Nadeeka is certain Jamie is having an affair. She knows the tell-tale signs. She's been here before. -- YOU THINK YOU KNOW WHO YOU CAN TRUST -- When Jamie claims to be at work late, she knows he's lying. He's with another woman, and she's determined to catch him in the act. -- YOU THINK YOU KNOW HOW THE STORY ENDS -- But when Nadeeka arrives home to confront him, Jamie can't explain himself. The house has become a crime scene... Jamie is dead. -- IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK.....
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Birds on a wire : a novel
Powner, Katie, author.
Sometimes the people in our lives who come and go make all the difference...Eighteen-year-old Bri Marshall is determined to do whatever it takes to get her newborn son back after he's taken by CPS. But the chances of reunification with Providence are slim. Her drug-addicted boyfriend is the only reason she has a roof over her head. With no job, no car, and no family support, she's at rock bottom, hanging on to hope by a thread. Laura Gambler, on the brink of turning forty, is managing new challenges with her own children when she's asked to take in Providence. She never could have imagined the chain of events her agreement to foster the baby would set in motion—or the carefully buried pain from her past it would drag back to the surface. Both women wrestle with doubts about the future and their ability to parent Providence, even as their love for him grows stronger every day. As their lives become irrevocably intertwined, they face an impossible question: Who is the best mother for Providence?....
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Dead beat
Bardugo, Leigh, author.
Hell is empty and all the devils are here…Alex Stern made it to hell and back more than once, but this time she left the door open behind her. Demons are creeping through the streets of New Haven and the Yale campus, feeding on the souls of the living, terrifying the dead. Alex and her allies can hunt them, but it’s only a matter of time before the gates to the underworld open and they face a war they cannot win. To stop it, they’ll have to reach deep into the secrets of Yale and its societies, and discover the truth hidden in Alex’s own blood. While she struggles to hold onto the dream of a future Yale once offered, Alex must contend with the machinations of a corrupt Lethe Board and a deadly vampire with his own connection to the societies. But for the first time in her life, she won’t have to face the fight alone. Dawes, Turner, Mercy, and even Tripp will have a role to play, none more so than Alex’s mentor Darlington, the golden boy who lived so long in her head, now back in the flesh and cursed with dangerous powers of his own. Hell itself is stalking the delegates of Lethe House, and they’re all about to learn that demons don’t play by human rules.....
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American hagwon
Lee, Min Jin, author.
Once comfortably middle class in Korea, John and Helen Koh and their three children -- Bo, DH, and Mido -- find their lives upended, first by a shocking betrayal by John's oldest friend, then by the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Desperately striving to regain their footing, they leave Seoul for Sydney and eventually settle in Southern California -- where new vistas of opportunity open up for the children as their parents, strangers in a strange land, must adjust to a new life in which their experiences and education mean little, and they set their sights on whatever it takes to provide for their children's futures. The Kohs, their friends, relatives, and even their foes move in and out of each other's lives as they navigate new courses across the years, always nursing the almost all-consuming faith that education will lead the next generation to success and security. In American Hagwon, Min Jin Lee has crafted an unforgettable panoramic novel where the smallest of gestures can have enormous repurcussions, where the bonds of family and of memory twist and fray but rarely break, and where willful self-sacrifice -- for the benefit of loved ones and even strangers -- is a kind of prayer.....
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Hollywood, ending
Green, John, 1977- author.
For rising talents Kai Laramie and Juniper Castillo, being cast in the buzzy biopic Andy Warhol Never Gets Old is the opportunity they've both been waiting for. They're on the verge of breaking out, and maybe even falling in love. Soon, the movie is blowing up, and so are their lives -- in exciting, but also terrifying, ways. John Green artfully blends a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story with an unflinching examination of the insatiable attention economy. Told through dual points of view, the novel brilliantly juxtaposes the on-screen study of Warhol's life at the dawn of celebrity culture with the intimate struggles of two young people figuring out who they are, both together and alone. Tender, heartbreaking, and shrewdly funny, this is a story as only Green can tell it. Hollywood, Ending is a deeply observed novel about the tension between a public and a private life, and the audacity to pursue the kind of love we all deserve.....
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The French illusion
Grisham, John, author.
After Paul and Chelsea Tanner's fairytale wedding, their future is full of promise. But their honeymoon to Paris takes a dark, shocking turn when they are kidnapped while on a day trip to the French countryside. Who would target them, and why? It turns out this is not the first crime of its kind. The search for clues soon stretches across borders, with the FBI, CIA, and French Intelligence trying to work together to put the pieces of the puzzle together. Struggling to find answers, a young lawyer is recruited to be the bait in an elaborate CIA operation. ....
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The radiance : a novel
Akhtar, Ayad, author.
When a hit-and-run shatters more than his body, a writer is plunged into a spiritual awakening he can't tell from madness. In its grip, he's drawn to a brilliant campus colleague by an uncanny pull, and into a scandal that threatens to destroy them both. What begins as a provocative portrait of academic and cultural warfare deepens into erotic entanglement, the exposure of a family secret, and the mystery surrounding the narrator's accident -- both the violence and its aftermath. Moving between rural America and Europe, Islam and Christianity, the intimate and the metaphysical, The Radiance is of our American moment and beyond it -- asking not only what has broken, but what radiance remains.....
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