Khristine Hvam
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New beginnings volume 3
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"Having lived under her parents' thumb for 25 years, Beth Prudhomme is finally taking charge of her own life. She moves from Chicago to Portland to live near her favorite aunt, finding employment as a music teacher at a local high school and a fast friend in Nichole Nyquist (who readers will recognize from A Girl's Guide to Moving On). Everything is coming together, though her love life leaves something to be desired. Until Nichole introduces Beth...
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Daughter of smoke and bone trilogy volume 1
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Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters--the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known.
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Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman called Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice--if he doesn't track her down first. The story Blanche struggles to piece together is one of free-love...
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Caroline Shelby left Oysterville, Washington ten years ago to launch a career in the fashion world of Manhattan. Scandal and tragedy have forced her back, with Addie and Flick, the two orphans she is legal guardian for. But Oysterville--and her family--has changed. Will Jensen, a decorated Navy SEAL wounded overseas, has also returned. His wife Sierra, Caroline's best friend, is also reinventing herself as her modeling jobs dry up. At the sewing shop...
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"Relationships are awful. They'll kill you, right up to the point where they start saving your life. Paul and Alice's half-sister Eloise is getting married! In London! There will be fancy hotels, dinners at "it" restaurants and a reception at a country estate complete with tea lights and embroidered cloth napkins. They couldn't hate it more. The People We Hate at the Wedding is the story of a less than perfect family. Donna, the clan's mother, is...
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When Ethan wakes after the chilling events of the Eighteenth Moon, his one goal is to return to Lena and his loved ones, while back in Gatlin, Lena vows to do whatever it takes to bring Ethan home--even trusting old enemies and risking the lives of those Ethan left to protect.
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2013.
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Over 150 of the world's leading scientists and thinkers offer their choice of the ideas, strategies and arguments that will help all of us understand our world, and its future, better. Includes contributions from: Richard Dawkins, Stephen Pinker, Daniel Dennett, Clay Shirky, Daniel Goleman, Sam Harris, Lee Smolin, Matt Ridley, Mark Henderson, David Rowan, Sir Martin Rees, Craig Venter, Brian Eno, Jaron Lanier and David Brooks among others. With his...
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Daughter of smoke and bone trilogy volume 2
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2012.
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English
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"The otherworldly Karou struggles to come to terms with who and what she is, and how far she'll go to avenge her people"--
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Daughter of smoke and bone trilogy volume 3
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2014.
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From the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond, humans, chimaera, and seraphim will fight, strive, love, and die in an epic theater that transcends good and evil, right and wrong, friend and enemy.
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2018
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"Khristine Hvam does a stellar narration of this young adult epistolary novel...Hvam's portrayal of Brynn is spot-on, breathing life into the character's personality. Even with the serious subject matter, Hvam delivers an engaging performance." — AudioFile Magazine
In Adrienne Kisner's Dear Rachel Maddow, a high school girl deals with school politics and life after her brother's death by drafting emails to MSNBC host Rachel
11) Reign of Shadows
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Brianna can see her future but it's the past that haunts her. Plans laid in place centuries ago are threatening not only her and her sister, but all of the Seven Lines. As the shadows plot their way to old rule, the visions shift again. Her power has led to some hard choices-and the occasional stab wound-but this set of futures holds nothing but darkness. Unable to bear the idea of losing the footing they've so recently gained, she turns the soldiers...
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When a tourist is murdered in Ka'anapali, and it turns out he's someone from Rosie's past, Charlie is on the case. She needs to find out whether or not the man knew about Rosie's defection, or if it's just a coincidence he was killed on the island.
And while the stakes couldn't be higher, Charlie finds herself butting heads with the FBI, at the same time as she's getting closer to Jake than ever. And she's not sure that's a bad thing...
Charlie has...
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When Maui's biggest local surfing event of the year hits the island, Charlie plans on sticking to the sidelines, cheering for Zoe, safely away from the water. But on day one of the competition, a body washes up on shore, and it's one of Vesper's ex-boyfriends.
With Vesper quickly emerging as one of the prime suspects, Charlie, Dot and Rosie jump into action to clear the former surfer's name and find the real killer. But Jake is in charge of the case,...
14) Maui Murder
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Charlie finally feels like she's got a bit of breathing room. She's flush with cash, she and Zoe are moving into a snazzy new apartment, and she's riding the wave of having solved a murder a few weeks earlier. But when a local woman is murdered and her family hires Charlie to find the killer, she finds herself embroiled in yet another investigation.
However, what Charlie initially thinks might be an easy solve quickly finds her mired in Maui's seedy...
15) Aloha Alibi
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Most people flee to Hawaii for gorgeous weather, white-sand beaches, and cocktails at sunset. Charlotte Gibson, however, is fleeing for her life after a vengeful mobster leaves a severed finger on her doorstep as a warning. Message very much received.
That's how Charlotte - Charlie to everyone except her mom - finds herself on Maui with six dollars to her name, living with a mother who can't stop giving her advice on how to land herself a husband....
16) Beachside Bullet
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Charlie is taking the plunge to become a private investigator, and her first official case is a doozy. When three of Zoe's coworkers are shot in a brazen mid-day attack, Charlie is initially content to let the police deal with it. But when it becomes obvious the detective in charge has the IQ of a box of crayons, she decides to step in to ensure the killer is found.
What appears at first glance to be a random attack quickly becomes more than that,...
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Christmas in Hawaii is all surfing Santa Claus, palm trees strung up with lights and… murder?
It's the most wonderful time of the year on Maui, although not so much for one of Zoe's patients. Zoe is convinced the woman was murdered, despite her death being ruled accidental, but the police won't listen to her so she goes to Charlie for help. The two of them, along with Dot and Rosie, set out to get justice for Zoe's patient.
But what initially...
18) Survival Kit
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When the dead prowl the streets of Oslo, survivors Kit and Shadia have to get out of there. They decide to go where the dead can't follow—their family cabin on a remote island—but they have to fight their way out of the city first.
Facing the dangers of this new world, both living and dead, is hard enough, but the couple also has to deal with Kit's severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. It can throw a wrench into the simplest of plans, and Kit's fear...