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"As the owner of Twisted, Seattle's best salons, Erica knows that the sharpest cuts come from the people we love. She's terrified that she's losing her teen daughter, Summer, to her "other" family, especially to her stepmom, Allison. All it takes to blow up Allison's happy life is one collect call. From prison. Her beloved husband, Peter, has been arrested, leaving Allison pregnant, broke, scared and alone with a toddler. But when her stepdaughter...
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"The title character's wry, sad, and insightful inner voice is the star here. Her meditations on grief, death, love, and duty are full of poetry and longing. Perfect for literary-fiction fans, especially those who enjoyed other extraordinary novels about ordinary people." —Library Journal, starred review
Debut novelist Wenyan Lu brings us this witty yet profound story about one woman's midlife reawakening...
Debut novelist Wenyan Lu brings us this witty yet profound story about one woman's midlife reawakening...
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Hanover Square Press
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2024.
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English
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"The Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: avoided by fellow villagers because of the stigma attached to her job and underappreciated by her husband, whose fecklessness has pushed the couple close to the brink of breakup. But just when things couldn't be bleaker, she takes a leap of faith--and in so doing, things start to take a surprising turn for the better"--
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2024.
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"When wealthy, impulsive summer girl Margot meets hardworking and steady local girl Thea in the summer of 1967, the unlikely pair become fast friends, working alongside one another in a record store and spending every spare moment together. But after an unspeakable incident on one devastating August night, they don't see one another for ten years...until Margot suddenly reappears in Thea's life, begging for help and harboring more than one dangerous...
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Neem Tree Press
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2024.
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On a remote Scottish island, Max loses his hearing in a boating accident. Struggling to make sense of his new life, and resenting being put into the 'special' class at school, he notices changes taking place after a new wind farm is constructed off the island's coast. People have become irritable and unpredictable, and acts of violence threaten to tear the community apart. For the turbines are being used to test out a new soundwave weapon. Unaffected...
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Lethe Press
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2023.
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English
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"James Fitzgerald likes his life the way it is. He has a stable academic career teaching American literature; a comfortable townhouse in Brooklyn; a satisfying, open marriage with his partner of fifteen years; a sweet and playful young boyfriend; and a recently-published, well-received novel about a famous early-twentieth-century Harvard professor. But his poise is shattered when a woman appears at a book signing bearing a surprise gift: an unsent...
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ĖKSMO
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2024.
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Russian
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"«Titanovyĭ korolʹ» -- ėto psikhologicheskiĭ roman, v kotorom rasskazyvaetsia o vole k zhizni, dazhe kogda tsepliatʹsia, kazalosʹ by, ne za chto. Dva slomlennykh cheloveka vstrechaiutsia, chtoby navsegda izmenitʹ zhizni drug druga, dazhe ne podozrevaia ob ėtom. Ėta istoriia o tom, kak liubovʹ sposobna pobeditʹ vse."--
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Beyond the lost coast volume 1
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[Publisher not identified]
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[2022]
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When tragedy shatters thirteen-year-old Zelda Ruiz's adolescence, she retreats with her uncle Mark to the bucolic town of Greywood Bay. It's a chance to heal, a chance to build a new life together. But nothing can prepare them for the malignant terror long coveting these lands. It looms over redwood groves and lurks among the foundations of homes. It festers in the dark hearts of the wounded. And now, this cosmic horror has found a new weapon: a means...
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