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Ever, Lindsay, and Josie have ushered their daughters — Bea, Olive, and Savvy — through years of dance classes in their coastal California town. They’ve tended bloodied feet, stitched ribbons to countless pairs of pointe shoes, and in the process, forged friendships that seem to transcend rivalry. But now Etienne Bernay, enfant terrible of French ballet, has come to their conservatory. Not only will he direct this year’s production of The...
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2024.
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"It's 1989 and Amos Fielding, onetime sheriff of Oscar, Iowa, is in his early seventies and grieving the recent loss of his wife, Sara. He packs up his few belongings and heads to a ranch in the far northwest corner of Washington State. The farther he canget from Oscar and his years there as sheriff, the better. Eager to escape painful memories, Fielding throws himself into the daily chores of a gentleman rancher. But there is evil afoot, as dark...
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2024.
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"Wyatt Westlock has one plan for the farmhouse she's just inherited--to burn it to the ground. But during her final walkthrough of her childhood home, she makes a shocking discovery in the basement--Peter, the boy she once considered her best friend, strung up in chains and left for dead. Unbeknownst to Wyatt, Peter has suffered hundreds of ritualistic deaths on her family's property. Semi-immortal, Peter never remains dead for long, but he can't...
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Frankie O'Neill and Anne Ryan would seem to have nothing in common. Frankie is a lonely ornithologist struggling to salvage her dissertation on the spotted owl following a rift with her advisor. Anne is an Irish musician far from home and family, raising her five-year-old son, Aiden, who refuses to speak. At Beauty Bay, a community of summer homes nestled on the shores of June Lake, in the remote foothills of Mount Adams, it's off-season with most...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2024]
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English
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"A rebellious youth turned L.A. art queen confronts her twilight years, family secrets and a fiery late-life romance as past demons and the thirst for revenge resurface in the form of her drug-addled grandnephew Michael."--
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"When her elderly mother falls under the spell of a handyman who's a little too kind, a little too involved, Connie, when he moves in, finds her desperate attempts to unmask him leaving her wondering if she's lost her grip on reality-and if that's been his plan all along."--
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Crooked Lane
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2024.
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English
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A woman who has been seeing spirits since childhood offers her assistance to the local police after a series of grisly child murders and becomes a suspect herself after uncovering an impossible piece of information from her ghost informants.
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"As a teenager, for a moment, Ella Fitchburg found love--yearning, breathless love--that consumed both her and her boyfriend, Jude, as they wandered the streets of New York City together. But her glorious life was pulled out from beneath her after she was accused of trying to murder Jude's father, an imperious superior court judge. When she learns she's pregnant shortly after receiving a long prison sentence, she reluctantly decides to give up the...
9) Best friends
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Storm Publishing
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[2023].
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English
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"This gripping tale of friendship, love, betrayal, and revenge is full of twist after brilliant twist. It will keep you reading late into the night, perfect for fans of Gone girl, The girl on the train, and The woman in the window" --
10) On the yard
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New York Review Books
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[2002]
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English
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Two prisoners, Chilly Willy, leader of the prison's black market in drugs and sex, and guilt-ridden murderer Paul, find themselves searching for redemption and solace within the walls of their cell.
11) The surgeon
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Grand Central
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2023.
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English
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"Trusted surgeon. Loving wife. Murderer? Before my world came crashing down, I had it all. The successful career I dreamed of. The beautiful red-brick home where I could relax in front of the fire. The handsome, devoted husband whose blue eyes and charming smile always made me feel safe. As I call time of death, my voice is steady. My colleagues stand hushed around me, their eyes on me, confused, concerned. I have never lost a patient until today....
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Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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Calvin finally owns the bakery of his dreams, in an idyllic village in the Lake District. After reluctantly following his wife Vicky’s advice to promote it on social media, he’s thrilled when a viral clip makes him a legend overnight. But then the creepy DMs start flooding in—all from a stranger who claims she’s his biggest fan. Meanwhile, a local recluse is found on a nearby beach, buried to his neck and left to drown, and the community goes...
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Ty Hutchinson
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2023.
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English
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"When life coaching goes terribly wrong.
I’m a bit of a hippie; you have to be to live in Bodega Bay. I do yoga every Tuesday and Saturday, and in between, I work as a life coach. It’s a simple life that’s drama-free, and I like it that way. But never in a million years did I think coaching would unleash a hellish nightmare.
When Peter Darkwood contacted me wanting my services for his wife, I was seconds away from declining. It never works...
15) Lying next to me
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Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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No matter what you see, no matter what you've heard, assume nothing. Adam and Sophie Warner and their three-year-old daughter are vacationing in Washington State's Hood Canal for Memorial Day weekend. It's the perfect getaway to unplug--and to calm an uneasy marriage. But on Adam's first day out on the water, he sees Sophie abducted by a stranger. A hundred yards from shore, Adam can't save her. And Sophie disappears. In a nearby cabin is another...
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Simon & Schuster
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2024.
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English
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Vega Gopalan is adrift. Still reeling from the death of her sister years earlier, she leaves South India to attend graduate school at Columbia University. In New York, Vega straddles many different worlds, eventually moving in and out of a series of relationships that take her through the striving world of academia, the intellectual isolation of the immigrant suburbs, and, ultimately, the loneliness of single motherhood. But it is the birth of Vega's...
17) The summer girl
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Canelo US
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[2024]
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English
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"Claire’s younger sister Holly has been working on the millionaire’s playground of Martha’s Vineyard for the summer—all barefoot beach parties and flirting with the local rich kids. But now Holly is missing, and none of the locals seem to care, including the police. They think a message Claire received is proof she’s safe. But Claire knows that’s impossible. What will she have to risk to find out the truth? Who are the locals protecting?...
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WaterBrook
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2024.
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English
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"When Leona steps into Zarletti's Ristorante, she unexpectedly steps into another life--the one that could have been hers. And now she must choose between two paths: one with the love of her life and one with the daughter she's always longed for"--
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Black Rose Writing
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2024.
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English
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"Jesse Carter is a brilliant law school dropout who can't move on with her life after the death of her twin brother. Philip Raymond was once a high-level political consultant with a happy family. Now he lives alone in a penthouse apartment hooked on Ativan and tortured by memories of scandal. Together, Jesse and Raymond find new purpose: an exposé of the secret life of reclusive billionaire Lee Fletcher. On mega-yachts, luxury jets, and Hamptons...
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Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Young is an American Born Chinese (ABC) growing up in Queens and has been told by his beloved Su Su (uncle) that one has only seven great loves in a lifetime. Young's childhood is marked by an obsessive love of comics, music, and movies. . . as well as a parade of school-yard crushes, tantalizing pen-pal exchanges, and a lasting infatuation with Winona Ryder. But, at the end of 1995, when Young is a sophomore at NYU, he meets Erena--brilliant, charismatic,...
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