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"Gaia Gill is the last person in the world anyone would expect to go missing. Beautiful, athletic, and recently accepted to a prestigious college, she has everything to look forward to--but the night of her going-away party at the Moon Mountain ski resort, she disappears. Gaia's younger sister Esme is supposed to be flying back to England with her family after the party, but she can't leave with Gaia missing--especially because nobody remembers Gaia...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Lee Gulliver never thought she'd find herself living on the streets-no one ever does-but when her restaurant fails, and she falls deeper into debt, she leaves her old life behind with nothing but her clothes and her Toyota Corolla. In Seattle, she parks in a secluded spot by the beach to lay low and plan her next move-until early one morning, she sees a sobbing woman throw herself into the ocean. Lee hauls the woman back to the surface, but instead...
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British Library Crime Classics volume 2
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English
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"James Bennett has been invited to stay at White Priory for Christmas among the retinue of the glamorous Hollywood actress Marcia Tait. Her producer, her lover, the playwright for her next hit and her agent are all here, soon to become so many suspects when Tait is found murdered on a cold December morning in the lakeside pavilion. Only the footprints of her discoverer disturb the snow which fell overnight - and which stopped just shortly after Marcia...
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Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Watching her Russian immigrant mother, Irina, struggle to put food on the table, Nina, a beautiful and restless teenager, vows her life will be different. When a strapping older man in a fancy car appears at school one day offering her luxuries her single mother cannot afford, Nina believes he's her ticket out of her dumpy little town. Ignoring the danger signs and her mother's constant pleas, which end in exhausting screaming matches, she packs a...
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Agora Books, an imprint of Polis Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A castle in the Himalayas. Five guests. One dead body. The idyllic Peter Dann Castle is a picture of tranquility as summer blooms in the Himalayan foothills. The heritage hotel has a reputation of being blessed - whatever happens here is said to happen for the good. Harith Athreya is invited here by his friend Javed, a retired police psychologist, to solve what appears to be an ominous riddle. Five friends have checked into the hotel, pretending...
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PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"The inside story of the Super Bowl champion 1986 Giants, the extraordinary friendships that resulted--and stunning revelations about the hardships they faced, based on new interviews with Bill Parcells, Phil Simms, Mark Bavaro, and Bill Belichick. The 1986 New York Giants are legendary. A championship team coached by Bill Parcells and his wunderkind assistant Bill Belichick, featuring future Hall of Famers and All-Pros like Phil Simms, Lawrence Taylor,...
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Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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For a disgraced reporter, unraveling a conspiracy of murder could mean redemption. Reporter Lee Ellerin's investigation into a young woman's unsolved murder gained national attention--only for her to lose everything due to a tragic mistake. After being publicly ridiculed for causing a suspect's death, Lee is forced to leave her career behind. Five years later, pregnant college student Amanda Hartley lies in a coma. The police say she attempted suicide,...
8) Connemara
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Other Press LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Hélène is approaching forty. Born in a small town in the east of France, she worked hard to leave it behind and achieve a life worthy of the glossy magazines she pored over as a teen. But now that she seemingly has it all - a husband and two daughters, a successful career, and an architect-designed house near Nancy - she feels unfulfilled, as though the years have passed her by. Christophe just turned forty and has never left his little corner...
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Plata
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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"Es 1998 y a Isabel Rosen, hija del dueño de una tienda de aperitivos judíos del Lower East Side, le queda un último semestre en Wilder College, una prestigiosa universidad de Nuevo Hampshire. Ansiosa por dejar atrás sus raíces de clase trabajadora y todavía de luto por la pérdida de su madre cuatro años atrás, Isabel siempre se ha sentido como una extraña en Wilder. Sin embargo, cuando parece que por fin ha encontrado su lugar, un encuentro...
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