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Pub. Date
2024.
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"For the past five years, Ryan Richardson has relived that terrible night. The car door ripping open. The crushing blow to the head. The hands yanking him from the vehicle. His girlfriend Ali's piercing scream as she is taken. With no trace of Ali or the car, a cloud of suspicion hangs over Ryan. But with no proof and a good lawyer, he's never charged, though that doesn't matter to the podcasters and internet trolls. Now, Ryan has changed his last...
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"January 1970 finds Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, LA's premier Black detective, at 50 years of age despite all expectations. He has a loving family, a beautiful home, and a thriving investigation agency. All is right with the world... and then Amethystine Stoller, his own personal Helen of Troy, arrives. Her ex-husband is missing. A simple enough case. But even as Easy takes his first step in the investigation he trips. He falls into the memory of things...
Author
Series
Whicher volume 3
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
US Marshal John Whicher, returning home to Texas, is called to give assistance, and locate a Marshal riding onboard. On arrival, no trace of the man can be found. But a young woman asks to be arrested ... An American Bullet, third in the Whicher Series is a stand-alone novel.
Author
Series
Whicher volume 2
Publisher
[John Stonehouse]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Who will guard the guards themselves? John Whicher is a US Marshal, not long out of training - barely twelve months back from serving in the Persian Gulf war. In south Texas he's working his first case when a multiple shooting on the US / Mexico border leaves five non-documented aliens and one American dead. The county decides to limit any inquest - money's tight, deaths among illegals are notoriously hard to crack. But Whicher, in his first case,...
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Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Determined to break free from Al Haque Islamic Academy, four classmates stumble upon the diary of a student who lived on the grounds when it was an all-girls Catholic school, which inspires them to hatch a plot to escape, hurtling them down a path that changes their lives forever.
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Series
Publisher
Gold Harp Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"My 12 year old daughter frequently moans that BallyCarrick is the most boring town in Ireland. Nothing ever happens here. She's right. And as the local police sergeant, this is something I'm delighted about. I've enough to worry about--the polar ice-caps, the evil monster that's shrinking my trousers, not to mention the hot flushes--without having to be like one of those gritty Netflix cops, chasing criminals down alleyways and busting drug deals....
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Series
Maisie Dobbs novel volume 18
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"London, 1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion--the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Soon after a demobilized British soldier, ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, takes shelter with the group, Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners. Maisie is deeply puzzled by the children's reticence. Their stories are evasive and, more mysteriously,...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Returning to her childhood home in Georgia, Deena Wood, when a landowner fighting to keep his family's land, dating back to the Civil War, disappears, and his property is quickly put up for sale, exposes a deadly scheme of illegal land grabs and propertyredevelopment that threatens her community and family.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"When Jasmyn and King Williams move their family to the planned Black utopia of Liberty, California, they hope to find a community of like-minded people, a place where their growing family can thrive. King settles in at once, embracing the Liberty ethos, including the luxe wellness center at the top of the hill, which proves to be the heart of the community. But Jasmyn struggles to fit in. She expected to find liberals and social justice activists...
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Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
When TV producer Kit O'Neill discovers her late grandmother was Mercy Welles, an Oscar-nominated actress who disappeared just as her career was taking off, she puts her investigative skills to good use, which leads her to Martha's Vineyard—the island that holds the key to the fateful summer that changed everything forever.
11) Swift River
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
In 1987, the only Black person in all Swift River after her Pop disappeared seven years ago, Diamond Newberry, receiving a letter from a relative she's never met, is introduced to two generations of African American Newberry women, gaining a sense of her place in the world and in her family.
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series explores the dramatic and poignant life of King Henry VIII's daughter-infamously known as Bloody Mary--who ruled England for five violent years. Born from young King Henry's first marriage, his elder daughter, Princess Mary, is raised to be queen once it becomes clear that her mother, Katherine of Aragon, will bear no more surviving children. However, Henry's restless eye has a...
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Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Jurassic Park: An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind?s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them - for a price. Until something goes wrong...
The Lost World: It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream...
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Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Journey across the stars of the Imperial Radch universe. Listen to the words of the Old Gods that ruled The Raven Tower. Learn the secrets of the mysterious Lake of Souls. And so much more, in this masterfully wide-ranging and immersive short fiction collection from award-winning author Ann Leckie"--
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Series
Sunrise Cove volume 6
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Anna Moore finds herself racing against the clock with Owen Harris, a sexy, enigmatic adventurist, to prove her beloved father innocent of stealing a million-dollar necklace. Even though they are on opposing sides and suspicious of each other, cannot deny the chemistry between them."--Publisher description.
16) Trust her
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Three years after they narrowly escaped the IRA's worst punishment for informing, Northern Irish sisters Tessa and Marian Daly have built a new life in Dublin with their young children. Though Tessa is haunted by the abrupt and violent end to her old life, she does her best to immerse herself in the joys of Finn's childhood and the rhythms of her new job at the Irish Times. It's a small island, though, and just as quickly as they disappeared, figures...
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Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"When France falls to Germany in 1940, wealthy socialite Violet St. Croix could honor her parent's wishes and ride out the war on the French Riviera in comfort with lavish parties and couture gowns. Instead she defies the expectations of her time and travels to London to join General de Gaulle's Free French forces. Despite doubts because she's never worked a day in her life, Violet uses her love of driving fast cars to her advantage and eventually...
18) My Prize Puppy
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Pub. Date
2024
Description
My Prize Puppy is the story of a little girl who so wants to buy herself a puppy, but can only afford a dog leash. Through her vivid imagination, she enjoys all the responsibilities and wonderful activities a puppy would share with her, until it brings her a delightful surprise.
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