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This stays between us : a novel
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Sara Ochs
"TEN YEARS AGO A study abroad program like no other: a month-long trip of education and adventure, exploring everything Australia has to offer. And at first, it's everything best friends Phoebe and Claire, and the rest of the student group, expects: sunshine, whirlwind romance, and all-night parties. But it isn't long before cracks begin to form within the group. Ones that lead to Phoebe's disappearance... NOW It's the call Claire has been waiting years for. Phoebe's remains have been found.
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Dear Miss Lake : a novel
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A. J. Pearce
During wartime, advice columnist Emmy Lake and the Woman's Friend staff relocate to the countryside, where Emmy balances rural life, a looming wedding and the possibility of war correspondence in the fourth novel of the series following Mrs. Porter Calling.
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The place of tides
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James Rebanks
"One afternoon many years ago, James Rebanks met an old woman on a remote Norwegian island. She lived and worked alone on a tiny rocky outcrop, caring for wild Eider ducks and gathering their down. Hers was a centuries-old trade that had once made men and women rich, but had long been in decline. when he goes for a longer visit, Rebanks begins to understand that this woman and her world are not at all what he had previously thought. As the weeks pass, what began as a journey of escape becomes an extraordinary lesson in self-knowledge and forgiveness"
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Snap
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Susin Nielsen
Frances Partridge, fifty-five, is a beloved children’s author. Geraint Blevins, forty-one, is an auto mechanic and devoted family man. Parker Poplawski, twenty-three, is just starting her career as a wardrobe assistant on a hit TV show. What do these people have in common? Nothing, that’s what. Until each of them reaches a breaking point and snaps in spectacular fashion.
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These days
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Lucy Caldwell
In 1941 Belfast, sisters Emma and Audrey navigate love, cultural expectations, and personal secrets as relentless bombings devastate their city, forcing them and their community to confront survival and the pursuit of meaning amidst the chaos of war.
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Murder takes a vacation : a novel
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Laura Lippman
Former private investigator and middle-aged widow Muriel Blossom's vacation on a Parisian river cruise turns into a deadly international mystery… that only she can solve.
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Off menu : a novel
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Amy Rosen
Twenty-something Ruthie Cohen, a data entry minion for a second-tier movie app, spends her days thinking about the kickass meals she's going to make for her besties, Trish and Lilly, while pining for Dean, her vacation fling from six months earlier. When Ruthie decides to turn her passion into a career and learn the art of French cooking, enrolling in culinary school though, she feels the heat from her cooking partner, Jeff.
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How we grow up : understanding adolescence
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Matt Richtel
"The transition from childhood to adulthood is a natural, evolution-honed cycle that now faces radical change and challenge. The adolescent brain, sculpted for this transition over eons of evolution, confronts a modern world that creates so much social pressure as to regularly exceed the capacities of the evolving mind.. It is a crisis that is part of modern life but can only be truly grasped through a broad, grounded lens of the biology of adolescence itself.
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The Cat Who Saved the Library : a novel
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Såosuke Natsukawa
"A chronic asthma condition prevents thirteen-year-old Nanami from playing sports or spending time with her friends after school. But nothing can stop her from one of her favorite activities. Nanami loves to read and happily spends much of her free time in the library, cocooned among the stacks. Then one day, Nanami notices that, despite the library being as deserted as ever, some of her favorite books...are disappearing from the shelves.
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Ocean : Earth's last wilderness
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David Attenborough
"Through personal stories, history and cutting-edge science, Ocean uncovers the mystery, the wonder, and the frailty of the most unexplored habitat on our planet--the one which shapes the land we live on, regulates our climate, and creates the air we breathe.
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Meet me at the crossroads : a novel
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Megan Giddings
"From the award-winning, critically-acclaimed author of Lakewood and The Women Could Fly, a dazzling novel about two brilliant sisters and what happens to their undeniable bond when a mysterious and possibly perilous new world beckons"
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A family matter : a novel
by
Claire Lynch
A family secret changes everything for a wife following her heart, a husband with law on his side and a daughter caught in the middle. A first novel.
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The greatest possible good : a novel
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Ben Brooks
"Equal parts hilarious and achingly human, The Greatest Possible Good spans ten years in the lives of the Candlewick family, asking universal questions about what it means to live a good life and if thereis a 'right' way to be a good person, while introducing the world to one of the most memorable and dysfunctional families in contemporary literature"
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The carpool detectives / : Four Moms, Two Bodies, One Mysterious Cold Case
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Chuck Hogan
"In 2020, four women found themselves at a crossroads: Each of them had transitioned from full-time jobs to full-time parenting, and each was pushing against the new boundaries of her life as the pandemic looms. At a bowling night fundraiser for their kids' school, they discover they all share a passion for true crime that crystalizes around a mysterious double homicide that took place a decade earlier."
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Theory of water : Nishnaabe maps to the times ahead
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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
"In this inventive work, Simpson draws on Nishnaabeg origin stories while artfully weaving the work of influential writers and artists alongside her personal memories and experience--and in doing so, reimagines water as a catalyst for radical transformation, capable of birthing a new world. Theory of Water is a resonant exploration of an intricate, multi-layered relationship with the most abundant element on our planet--one that, as Simpson eloquently shows, is shaping our present even as it demands a radical rethinking of how we might achieve a just future"
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The book of alchemy : a creative practice for an inspired life
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Suleika Jaouad
Explores the transformative power of journaling, blending the author's insights with essays and prompts from 100 writers, artists, and thinkers, offering guidance to navigate life's challenges, embrace creativity, and uncover deeper self-awareness through themes of beginnings, love, loss, and renewal. Illustrations.
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Uptown girl : a memoir
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Christie Brinkley
Although the popular model and actress has lived more than 50 years in the public eye, the full story of her roller-coaster life has never been told—until now. Illustrations.
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