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Dream Girlby Laura Lippman Injured in a freak fall, novelist Gerry Andersen is confined to a hospital bed in his glamorous high-rise apartment, dependent on two women he barely knows: his incurious young assistant, and a dull, slow-witted night nurse. Then late one night, the phone rings. The caller claims to be the "real" Aubrey, the alluring title character from his most successful novel, Dream Girl. But there is no real Aubrey. Isolated from the world, drowsy from medication, Gerry slips between reality and a dreamlike state in which he is haunted by his own past. Gerry has never been so alone, so confused - and so terrified. Chilling and compulsively readable, touching on timely issues that include power, agency, appropriation, and creation, Dream Girl is a superb blend of psychological suspense and horror.
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A Rogue's Companyby Allison Montclairn London, 1946, the Right Sort Marriage Bureau is getting on its feet and expanding. Miss Iris Sparks and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge are making a go of it. That is until Lord Bainbridge—
the widowed Gwen's father-in-law and legal guardian—returns from a business trip to Africa and threatens to undo everything important to her, even sending her six-year-old son away to a boarding school. But there's more going on than that. A new
client shows up at the agency, one whom Sparks and Bainbridge begin to suspect really has a secret agenda, somehow involving
the Bainbridge family. A murder and a subsequent kidnapping sends Sparks to seek help from a dangerous quarter--and now their very survival is at stake.
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Thaddeus Walker Bowman Owens, the backup quarterback for the Chicago Stars, is a team player, talented sideline coach, occasional male underwear model, and a man with a low tolerance for Divas. Olivia Shore, international opera superstar, is a driven diva with a passion for perfection, a craving for justice, too many secrets—and a monumental grudge against the egotistical, lowbrow jock she's been stuck with. It's Mozart meets Monday Night Football as the temperamental soprano and stubborn jock embark on a nationwide tour promoting a luxury watch brand. Along the way, the combatants will engage in soul-searching and trash talk, backstage drama and trouble as threatening letters, haunting photographs, and a series of dangerous encounters complicate their lives. |
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In her forest-veiled pagan village, Évike is the only woman without power, making her an outcast. When soldiers arrive from the Holy Order of Woodsmen to claim a pagan girl for the king's blood sacrifice, Évike is betrayed by her fellow villagers and surrendered. But when monsters attack the Woodsmen and their captive en route, slaughtering everyone but Évike and the cold, one-eyed captain, they have no choice but to rely on each other. Except he's no ordinary Woodsman—he's the disgraced prince, Gáspár Bárány, whose father needs pagan magic to consolidate his power. Gáspár fears that his cruelly zealous brother plans to seize the throne and instigate a violent reign. He and Évike make a tenuous pact to stop his brother. But trust can easily turn to betrayal. |
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In this sequel to Power Failure, it's time to start the colonizing
the solar system. Ex-astronaut, current space advisor, and all-out trouble shooter for the President, Jake Ross, is determined to
make it happen. And what better way to return to America's
glory than by returning to the moon and setting up a permanent moon-base which can then serve as the launching pad for Mars and beyond. But as usual, political intrigue and conflicting
priorities are threatening the whole program. Add to that a President who is about to die, a strong contingent in the
legislative body which thinks that money spent on a
moon-base is money wasted and the general apathy of
the public, and you have an almost impossible task. |
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Fox & I: An uncommon friendshipby Erin McCarthyWhen Catherine Raven finished her PhD in biology, she built herself a tiny cottage on an isolated plot of land in Montana. She taught remotely and led field classes in nearby Yellowstone National Park. Then one day she realized that a mangy-looking fox was showing up on her property every afternoon at 4:15 p.m. She had never had a regular visitor before. How do you even talk to a fox? She brought out her camping chair, sat as close to him as she dared, and began reading to him from The Little Prince. From the fox, she learned the single most important thing about loneliness: we are never alone when we are connected to the natural world. Fox & I is a poignant and remarkable tale of friendship, growth, and coping with inevitable loss. |
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From the decipherment of hieroglyphics in 1822 to the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon a hundred years later, the uncovering of Egypt's ancient past took place in an atmosphere of grand adventure and international rivalry. In A World Beneath the Sands, the acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson chronicles the ruthless race between the British, French, Germans and Americans to lay claim to its mysteries and treasures. He tells the riveting stories of the men and women whose obsession with Egypt's ancient civilization helped to enrich and transform our understanding of the Nile Valley and its people, and left a lasting impression on Egypt, too. Whatever their motives and methods, a century of adventure and scholarship revealed a lost world buried beneath the sands. |
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What Happened to Paula: On the death of an American girlby Katherine DykstraIn July 1970, eighteen-year-old Paula Oberbroeckling left her house in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and never returned. A cold case for fifty years, Paula's story had been largely forgotten when Katherine Dykstra began looking for answers. Tracing the knowns and unknowns, Dykstra discovers a girl who was hemmed in by the culture of the late 1960s, when women's rights had been brought to the fore but had little practical bearing on actual lives. The more she learns about Paula, the more parallels Dykstra finds in the lives of the women who knew Paula, the lives of the women in her own family, and even in her own life. What Happened to Paula is a timely, powerful look at gender, autonomy, and the cost of being a woman.
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Quarantine Life from Cholera to COVID-19by Christian JarrettThroughout history, there have been numerous epidemics that have threatened mankind with destruction. Diseases have the ability to highlight our shared concerns across the ages, affecting every social divide from national boundaries, economic categories, racial divisions, and beyond. Whether looking at smallpox, HIV, Ebola, or COVID-19 outbreaks, we see the same conversations arising as society struggles with the all-encompassing question: What do we do now? This immensely readable social and medical history tracks different diseases and outlines their trajectory, what they meant for society, and societal questions each disease brought up, along with practical takeaways we can apply to current and future pandemics
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Lemongrass & Lime: South Asian cooking
at homeby Leah CohenGrowing up half-Filipino, Leah Cohen never thought food from her mother's side would become her life's work. But while searching to define what made her food hers, she found the answer in South Asia - including the Phillipines - as she rediscovered the deliciously sweet, pungent, and spicy flavors of her youth. In this cookbook, she shows readers how to use pantry staples like fish sauce, coconut milk, and shrimp paste to delicious effect, and gives home cooks the confidence to embrace what she calls the "controlled chaos" of Asian cooking.
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