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Hag-seed
by Margaret Atwood
A psychologically charged story inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest, reimagined by the award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale, follows the retribution plot of a deposed artistic director who teaches prison inmates while consulting with a fantasy child who has taken the place of the daughter he lost years earlier. Simultaneous.
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Pirate
by Clive Cussler
Confronted by a determined adversary, husband-and-wife treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo embark on an international quest involving an 800-year-old relic and a brutal murder. Co-written by the best-selling author of the Dirk Pitt series. Read by Scott Brick. Simultaneous.
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A superior man
by Paul Yee
Railway worker Yang Hok's plans to return to China are waylaid when his efforts to return his son to the boy's Chinook mother immerse him in ethnic conflicts, forcing him to reconsider what is best for the boy
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The Mothers
by Brit Bennett
Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret.
It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother's recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor's son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it's not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance—and the subsequent cover-up—will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth. As Nadia hides her secret from everyone, including Aubrey, her God-fearing best friend, the years move quickly. Soon, Nadia, Luke, and Aubrey are full-fledged adults and still living in debt to the choices they made that one seaside summer, caught in a love triangle they must carefully maneuver, and dogged by the constant, nagging question: What if they had chosen differently? The possibilities of the road not taken are a relentless haunt.
In entrancing, lyrical prose, The Mothers asks whether a "what if" can be more powerful than an experience itself. If, as time passes, we must always live in servitude to the decisions of our younger selves, to the communities that have parented us, and to the decisions we make that shape our lives forever.
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Lament for Bonnie : a mystery
by Anne Emery
When 12-year-old Bonnie MacDonald, the youngest member of a famed Cape Breton band, vanishes, Bonnie's cousin Normie learns things she wishes she never knew as she tries to find Bonnie, despite warnings from her spooky great-grandmother. By the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction- and Arthur Ellis Award-winning author of Ruined Abbey.
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The other Einstein
by Marie Benedict
A tale inspired by the first wife of Albert Einstein follows the experiences of Mitza Mari, a female physics student at an elite late-nineteenth-century school in Zurich, where she falls in love with a charismatic fellow student who eclipses her contributions to his theory of relativity
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One or the other : an Eddie Dougherty mystery
by John McFetridge
As Montréal prepares for the twenty-first Olympic Games, a high profile bank robbery baffles police, while Constable Eddie Dougherty assists the Longueuil force investigating the deaths of two teenagers
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The Clay Girl
by Heather Tucker
Vincent Appleton smiles at his daughters, raises a gun, and blows off his head. For the Appleton sisters, life had unravelled many times before, but this time it explodes. Eight-year-old Hariet, known to all as Ari, is dispatched to Cape Breton and her Aunt Mary, who is purported to eat little girls. But Mary and her partner, Nia, offer an unexpected refuge to Ari and her steadfast companion, Jasper, an imaginary seahorse. Yet the respite does not last, and Ari is torn from her aunts and forced back to her twisted mother and fractured sisters. Her new stepfather, Len, and his family offer hope, but as Ari grows to adore them, she’s severed violently from them too, when her mother moves in with the brutal Dick Irwin. Through the sexual revolution and drug culture of the 1960s, Ari struggles with her father’s legacy and her mother’s addictions, testing limits with substances that numb and men who show her kindness. Ari spins through a chaotic decade of loss and love, the devilish and divine, with wit, tenacity, and the astonishing balance unique to seahorses.
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Bridget Jones's baby : The Diaries
by Helen Fielding
Finding out that she's pregnant, but unsure of the father, Bridget endures nine months of cheesy potatoes, outlandish advice from drunken singles and smug mothers, and chaos at scans and childbirth classes
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Dance of death
by Edward Marston
London, 1916. Crowds cheer as a great fireball drops slowly down and crashes in a field but the one person unable to watch is Simon Wilder. While he is staring up at the sky, he is stabbed to death and left in an alleyway. It will prove to be a very puzzling case for Inspector Marmion and Sergeant Keedy...
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