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2024.
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English
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Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night. She hears a disturbingly familiar noise: it's the tread of footsteps, unusually heavy and slow, coming up the stairs. Terrified, she quietly wakes her children and hustles them into a tiny, secret room concealed behind a wall. There they hide as the intruder tries to tempt the children out with promises and scare the mother into surrender....
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The book revolves around Crissy, the star of a beloved Princess Diana tribute show in Las Vegas, and her estranged sister Betsy, a therapist who works with children and adolescents in Vermont. Betsy's boyfriend Frankie works in a mysterious branch of cryptocurrency and, seemingly out of nowhere, proposes that they move to Las Vegas together. Betsy and Crissy must navigate how to go about their newfound physical proximity to one another and their respective...
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Young schoolteacher Andrée Geulen secretly defies the Nazis in Belgium who are forcing Jews to wear a yellow Star of David. Andrée is not Jewish, but she feels a maternal connection to her students, who are living in constant fear, and decides to take action. But what can one woman do against an entire army? Ida Sterno is a Jewish woman who works with the Committee for the Defense of Jews in Belgium, a resistance group tasked with hiding children...
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Frenchman volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Alec de Payns is an undercover operative in the ultra-elusive French Y Division of the DGSE, a foreign intelligence service equivalent to the CIA or MI6. Code named Aguilar, de Payns is one of the division's most accomplished agents working to neutralize international threats on a daily basis while simultaneously trying to balance his home life as a husband and father. When a routine mission to infiltrate a dangerous terrorist group unexpectedly goes...
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'Mika, you sit at our feet all these hours and days, hearing us tell our tales. You have all these stories inside you: all the stories everyone in our family knows and all the stories everyone in our family tells. You write 'em in your books and show everyone who we are.' So begins DéLana R.A. Dameron's stunning novel-in-stories, Redwood Court. The baby of the family, Mika Mosby spends much of her time in the care of loved ones, listening to their...
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Ever since her dad died, 11-year-old Jerry Blum and her mom have bounced around dead-end towns, staying in a series of rundown motels where her mother picks up housekeeping work and Jerry can get around in her wheelchair. But the Slumbering Giant motel is different. Lights blink on and off in the surrounding trees, a mysterious radio station plays only at midnight, and people disappear into the woods, never to been seen again. Not to mention that...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Stevie's life is fluctuating rapidly. She's starting over in a brand new middle school. Quiet and observant, it's hard for her to make friends. Plus, her mind is too occupied. The tension in her home is building as her parents' arguments are becoming more frequent. To top it all off, Stevie's older cousin Naomi is coming to live with the family in an attempt to keep her from a "bad" crowd--The Black Panthers. Stevie agrees to keep Naomi's secrets....
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Beascoa
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
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¡Una aventura jurásica dino-divertidísima con la que no pararás de reírte! El nuevo cómic infantil de Òscar Julve, creador de Yo, Elvis Riboldi y Aventura Total. En medio del bosque, de camino a la Roca del Bandolero, Nico tropieza con una piedra y... ¡sorpresa! No es una piedra, ¡es un huevo de dinosaurio! Desde ese momento, Dino, el bebé de dinodoronte, se convierte en la mascota y el compañero de Nico. Juntos visitarán el valle de los....
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Isolated and embroiled in a custody battle, Mary is desperate for a friend. So when she meets the charming Willa at a Brooklyn playground, their connection feels fated. But during a margarita-fueled moms' night out, Mary shares her darkest secret about her ex, George, and the next morning Willa simply disappears. No calls, no texts, nothing. Two months later, Mary's divorce is almost finalized, and she's trying to build a new life for her son in upstate...
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Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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When a brutal murder in the middle of their annual spring party turns the gathering into a homicide scene, and all the guests into suspects, the Calhouns and their adult children, who they control with money and emotional manipulation, are forced to face their darkest secrets before it's too late.
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Harry Potter volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Harry can't wait for his holidays with the dire Dursleys to end. But a small, self-punishing house-elf warns Harry of mortal danger awaiting him at Hogwarts School. Returning to the castle nevertheless, Harry hears a rumour about a Chamber of Secrets, holding unknown horrors to wizards of Muggle parentage. Now someone is turning people to stone and a terrible warning is found painted on the wall. The chief suspect -- who's always in the wrong place...
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Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Jane Fairfax knows she is truly fortunate. Most orphans face lives of hardship, whereas she was adopted by doting surrogate parents who elevated her place in Society and love her as their own. Yet even they cannot shield her from the grim realities of life without a suitable marriage. In moments of despair, Jane comforts herself with a well-worn memory from her childhood: that of a young man whose kind words when they were children once soothed her...
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Most nights PI Jack Coffey can be found hanging out in smoky Greenwich Village jazz clubs with well-known mobsters, jazzmen, and hoods. So, when an uptown financier calls him in for a job, it seems like he's headed for tonier climes. But it turns out the view from Louis Garrett's lavish penthouse overlooks the same vice-ridden Manhattan streets, which explains why he's so desperate to find his missing teenage daughter, Lucy. When Jack's search for...
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