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2024.
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"'You'll be safe here.' That's what the greasy tour guide tells the Farmer-Bowens when they visit Plymouth Valley, a walled-off company town with clean air, pantries that never go empty, and blue-ribbon schools. On a very trial basis, the company offers to hire Linda Farmer's husband, a numbers genius, and relocate her whole family to this bucolic paradise for the .0001%. Though Linda will have to sacrifice her medical career back home, the family...
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2024.
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"Stranded in the Welsh mountains, seven reality show contestants have no idea what they've signed up for. Each of these strangers has a secret. If another player can guess the truth, they won't just be eliminated - they'll be exposed live on air. The stakes are higher than they'd ever imagined, and they're trapped. The disappearance of a contestant wasn't supposed to be part of the drama. Detective Ffion Morgan has to put aside what she's watched...
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Balance keepers volume 3
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Albert and his teammates must find a way to correct an imbalance that threatens to destroy both the underground and the entire United States above while avoiding a traitor's attempt to gain Albert's Master Tile.
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"After her best friend's mysterious death, Elizabeth Smith's picture-perfect life in the Memphis suburbs has spiraled out of control-so much so that she hires a personal assistant to keep her on track. Composed and elegant, Brianna is exactly who she needs and slides so neatly into Elizabeth's life, almost like she belonged there from the start. Soon, the assistant Elizabeth hired to distract her from her obsession with her friend's death is the same...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Set in a West Country farming village, The House of Broken Bricks lays bare the complexities of day-to-day life for a mixed-race family. Jess is a Londoner whose relationship with Richard transports her from a Jamaican diaspora in a city where she easily blends in into a creaking house on a floodplain where predatory birds hover over fields, eels coil in the river mud, buses run twice a day, neighbors barter honey for cider and no one looks like...
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Once upon the East End novel volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Solomon Weiss has little interest in power, but to repay the half-brother who raised him, he pursues money, influence, and now-a respectable wife. That is, until outcast Hannah Moses saves his life, and Sol finds himself helplessly drawn to the beautiful pawnshop owner. Forever tainted by her parents' crimes, Hannah sees only a villain when she looks in the mirror-no one a prince would choose. To survive, she must care for herself, even if that...
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Bless your heart novel volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A crackling mystery-horror novel with big-hearted characters and Southern charm with a bite ... Rise and shine. The Evans women have some undead to kill. It's 1999 in Southeast Texas and the Evans women, owners of the only funeral parlor in town, are keeping steady with ... normal business. The dead die, you bury them. End of story. That's how Ducey Evans has done it for the last eighty years, and her progeny--Lenore the experimenter and Grace, Lenore's...
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[2024]
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English
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In this heartfelt story about how the places we run from hold the answers to our deepest challenges, the death of her grandmother brings a young woman home, where she must face the past in order to become the heir of not just the family restaurant, but her own destiny. Violeta Sanoguera had always done what she was told. She left the man she loved in Colombia in pursuit of a better life for herself and because her mother and grandmother didn't approve...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Fifty contestants. Five mental and physical challenges. One winner. In a near-future where a virtual currency of digital content fuels a fame-hungry society, a brand-new experiment that combines social media and reality TV has been greenlit. Voted on, ... contestants are sent to a maximum-security reform camp on an island where they can have no contact with the outside world. To lose means prison. But to win is to be free. The most popular young...
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Chun ri wen ku volume 113
Pub. Date
2022.
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中文(繁體)
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Japanese 10-19-year-old girl voted the first love novel to be released and reprinted quickly! The series has sold more than 200,000 copies! "I heard that the person you want to see at dawn is the most important person in your heart." You are that person, I want to see you no matter what. Akane, a sophomore in high school, is a good student trusted by everyone, but she is disliked by Qingci sitting at the next table. Qian didn't know how to get along...
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Twisted tales (Liz Braswell) volume 8
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"What if Wendy first traveled to Neverland...with Captain Hook? Sixteen-year-old Wendy Darling's life is not what she imagined it would be. The doldrums of an empty house after her brothers have gone to school, the dull parties where everyone thinks she talks too much, and the fact that her parents have decided to send her away to Ireland as a governess--it all makes her wish things could be different. Wendy's only real escape is in writing down tales...
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Dive back into the world of The Institute in this gripping sequel to The Orphan Chronicles: Genesis… Ananya Patel is a young woman with extraordinary abilities. Her keen instincts for sensing danger have been enhanced and honed during her upbringing at The Institute, a clandestine underwater research facility established and funded by billionaire philanthropist, Gregory Cornelius. In The Orphan Chronicles: Evolution, the time has come for Ananya...
13) Desuetude
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As a hunter, Val is an elite in her field. The cities need to expand. The wilderness and animals are hostile to human life. Val's job is to go in and eliminate the dangerous beasts.
Technological selection is coming. There is only so much land left. Where there were once vast open spaces, there are now never-ending streets. Where there was once plant life, there are now factories and rows of buildings. Progress knows no mercy.
Val is aware of...
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Link volume 31
Pub. Date
2022.
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中文(繁體)
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Reshape the era of the end of the era and restore the original appearance of history. At the end of the shogunate, with the capital of Kyoto as the center, it radiated and connected the strange people, the lords, the lords, the strategists, the military leaders, and the assassins. From respecting the king and deterring the barbarians to arguing against the curtain, the Xinxuan Jianhui group suppressed the repression, the slaughter of Tianzhu, the...
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Richard McCauley, a vibrant, affectionate, warmhearted soul, chose to live a stagnant emotionless life, and does so for seven years, after making the worst decision of his life at twenty-three years of age.
The reader, embedded in the decision Richard made, is most likely unable to understand or even accept his motives, even when slightly perceiving there may be something more.
As Richard's professional life soars, his personal one remains...
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Indestructible Nation
Joshua Bruening
Indestructible Nation is a darkly satirical whirlwind through American corporate greed - including current oil/gasoline price gauging, banking fees, expensive life-saving drugs, and poorly built automobiles. It pokes fun at America's sense of indestructibility. Albert lives the fast path to bankruptcy due to temporary employment and the corporations' desires to suck him for the most money possible. Dealing...
18) The Master Plan
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The world we live in today is becoming more chaotic, Governments around the world are becoming increasingly more draconian, with restriction of civil liberty and freedom of speech and expression, becoming the norm.Many think that we are living in the time of the ending of the world as predicted by many religions, others are searching for answers.Are we really living in a world of random chaos, or are we living in a Plan?In this book, we take a journey...
19) The Corpse Bloom
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When a kidney transplant performed by Boston General Hospital's preeminent surgeon goes bad, the life of his patient is only the first thing Dr. Brad Baker will lose. Threatened with a malpractice suit, Brad takes a leave of absence to accept a job offer from Carlos Cardoza, the suave director of a remote transplant clinic in Campeche, Mexico.
But over the next several months, Brad becomes uneasy about the source of the cadaveric kidneys he transplants...
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In a world where progress and innovation soaredto new heights, a transformative era emerged-an erathat would redefine the very fabric of human society.This was the Age of Billions-a time when billionsbecame the new million, and the world witnessedthe rise of unprecedented change.
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