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Lady Emily mystery volume 17
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Lady Emily, husband Colin Hargreaves, and their three sons eagerly embark on a family vacation at Cairnfarn Castle, the Scottish estate of their dear friend Jeremy, Duke of Bainbridge. But a high-spirited celebration at the beginning of their stay comes to a grisly end when the duke's gamekeeper is found murdered on the banks of the loch. Handsome Angus Sinclair had a host of enemies: the fiancée he abandoned in Edinburgh, the young woman who had...
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It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places....
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Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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From the author of the international bestseller Travelers in the Third Reich comes A Village in the Third Reich, shining a light on the lives of ordinary people. Drawing on personal archives, letters, interviews and memoirs, it lays bare their brutality and love; courage and weakness; action, apathy and grief; hope, pain, joy, and despair. Within its pages we encounter people from all walks of life -- foresters, priests, farmers and nuns; innkeepers,...
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You may think you know how the fairytale goes: a mermaid comes to shore and weds the prince. But what the fables forget is that mermaids have teeth. And now, her daughters have devoured the kingdom and burned it to ashes. On the run, the mermaid is joined by a mysterious plague doctor with a darkness of their own. Deep in the eerie, snow-crusted forest, the pair stumble upon a village of ageless children who thirst for blood, and the three "saints"...
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Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Twins Oliver and Trisha are on a canoe trip with their dad when a freak accident leaves their father badly injured. With no cell phone reception, their only choice is to continue down river and hope to find civilization. And they do--in a small village. Except the people there behave strangely, and weirdest of all is the giant scarecrow in the village square. The townspeople seem nervous-obsessed-with the scarecrow. 'He watches over us,' the twins...
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Sisters ever after volume 4
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English
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For as long as Mera can remember, she and her sister Darina have feared the Beast who lurks in the castle above their village. On countless nights they have locked themselves into their home while the Beast led his hounds on the Wild Hunt, preying on anything in his path. Now Darina has been kidnapped by the Beast, and only Mera can save her. But she soon finds that in the Beast's eerie, magic-haunted castle, nothing is quite what it seems--including...
9) Island witch
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Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Being the daughter of the village Capuwa, or demon-priest, Amara is used to keeping to herself. Influenced by the new religious practices brought in by the British Colonizers, the villagers who once respected her father have turned on the family. Yet, they still call on him whenever supernatural disturbances arise. Now someone--or something--is viciously seizing men in the jungle. Instead of enlisting Amara's father's help, the villages accuse him...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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On a hilltop in Umbria sits Valetto. Once a thriving village, and a hub of resistance and refuge during World War II, centuries of earthquakes, landslides and the lure of a better life have left it neglected. Only ten residents remain, including the widows Serafino: three eccentric sisters and their steely centenarian mother. They live quietly in their medieval villa. Then their nephew and grandson, Hugh, a historian, returns. Elisa Tomassi arrives...
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