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1) Dandelion
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English
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When twelve-year-old Lily is walking to school one day, a very unusual girl appears out of nowhere! It is 1953 and this stranger is dressed in a green sparkly dress, purple tights with orange swirls and has bright yellow hair sticking up like a dandelion. As quickly as she appears, she disappears again into thin air! Lily rushes to tell her best friends Tara and Geraldine about this strange encounter, and they begin an investigation to solve the mystery....
2) Oye: a novel
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English
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"When Miami residents are ordered to evacuate before a hurricane, everyone in Luciana's family complies, except for her beloved yet batty grandmother, Abue. But it turns out the storm isn't the real crisis: Abue, normally glamorous and full of energy, is given a devastating medical diagnosis once danger passes. Luciana, and the rest of the family, are heartbroken, but Abue is about as interested in getting treatment as she was in evacuating. She'd...
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Julia White is struggling: her bartending job isn't cutting it and her first book has sold hardly any copies. She's broke, barely able to make ends meet while drowning in her late mother's medical bills and reeling after a one-night stand with her ex-boyfriend, who's now completely ghosted her. Enter Johnathan Aster, world-renowned photographer, with a proposal: he has a never-before-seen photograph of a woman falling from a train bridge, clutching...
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Courtney is delighted when her tiny friend Fiona returns from the fairy realm, appearing at the base of a Cypress tree. When her Ragdoll cat, Pixie, emerges from her own portal--aka the cat door--the three set off for a busy day. Busier than usual, since Courtney has rented a small plot of land at the Flower Farm, where she hopes to grow her own supplies for her fairy-garden business. Plus, the annual Summer Blooms Festival is coming up, and Courtney...
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"For fans of The Midnight Library and Demon Copperhead comes a breathtaking story of magical realism about two sisters, deeply tied to their small Southern town, fighting to break free of the darkness swallowing the land-and its endless cycle of pecan harvests-whole. How long will you hold on when your world is gone? In a small southern pecan town, the annual harvest is a time of both celebration and heartbreak. Even as families are forced to sell...
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"Conor O'Toole has never in his life been in a place as casually glamorous as this New England community, a gated world its residents fondly call "The Neck." He's taken a summer job here as a tennis instructor, living in a guest cottage in exchange for lessons and a chance to study for the bar exam, far away from the stress of the tiny Yonkers apartment he usually shares with his diabetic mother. But, grateful as he is for the blissful beauty of the...
7) In our stars
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Doomed earth volume 1
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Ace
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Earth, 2180 Genetically engineered with partly-alien DNA, Lieutenant Selene Genji is different than ordinary humans. And they hate her for it. Still, she's spent her life trying to overcome society's prejudice by serving in the Unified Fleet as Earth's international order collapses into war. Genji is stationed on a ship in orbit when humanity's hatreds and factions on the planet reach a boiling point, and she witnesses the utter annihilation of Earth....
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2024.
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English
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"When Deesha Dyer applied for a White House internship, she was 31, a community college student and aspiring hip-hop journalist, working in an administrative role at a real estate company. When President Barack Obama was elected, she felt so inspired that she took a chance on herself despite having no political background or connections. Suddenly, she found herself in the White House at the epicenter of U.S. government. Her fellow interns were in...
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Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A hypnotic, sinister debut mystery about a seemingly good cop who is secretly the daughter of a notorious serial killer who must, against all the rules, insert herself into a new investigation when ritually killed bodies start appearing in her father's old territory. Anna Koray has shut the door on her past. The records of her childhood--and the troubling memories--are sealed away thanks to a controversial hypnosis treatment. She's a police lieutenant...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Genres collide in this dark and atmospheric reimagining of 1930s Shanghai for fans of Nghi Vo and S. A. Chakraborty. Jingwen spends her nights as a showgirl at the Paramount, one of the most lavish clubs in Shanghai, competing ruthlessly to charm wealthy patrons. To cap off her shifts, she runs money for her grandmother, the exclusive surgeon to the most powerful gang in the city. A position her grandmother is pressuring her to inherit... When a...
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Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Why are women so ashamed of certain parts of their bodies? And why are our feelings about our midsections so hard to navigate? These are the questions that animate My Belly, an unflinching and funny portrait of one woman's obsession with a seemingly innocent body part. Hilde Otsby is a critic, a thinker, and an acclaimed author. At the start of My Belly, she is on tour promoting her latest work about the culture and science of memory. As she poses...
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Curse of Ophelia volume 1
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Nicole Platania
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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The war is over. The curse is lifted. Malakai is gone. It's been two years since Ophelia has seen the boy she loves. When a treaty was signed ending the war and lifting the curse on Mystique Warriors, Malakai left to attempt the sacred ritual known as the Undertaking. He never returned, and the Undertaking was forbidden. Ophelia's world crumbled around her. Since then, she has pursued a fruitless search for answers. When the deadly curse resurfaces...
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Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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An enchanting, beautifully illustrated guide to the seasonal plants used as herbal remedies over the ages. From sweet violets in spring to rosemary in winter, via marigolds, sage, elderberries and hops, every season has its own bounty of herbs and plants. Christina Hart-Davies presents a delightful introduction to common plants as they appear throughout the year. Drawing on writers, storytellers and poets from across the centuries, she examines the...
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Westholme Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
c2024.
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English
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Draws on more than two thousand letters of Abigail's spanning from the 1760s to her death in 1818, interweaving Abigail's colorful correspondence--some of which has not appeared in print before--with a contextual narrative. In this priceless documentation of one of the most important periods of world history she comments on the varied personalities she encountered and, while her husband was away from home serving in the Continental Congresses and...
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Running Press, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"An adoring, celebratory tribute to the one, the only, Jennifer Coolidge, that all-at-once captures her unique personality, engaging life story, smart and sassy life lessons, and special brand of humor that's quickly made JC one of America's most beloved stars and pop culture icons. Whether we remember Jennifer Coolidge as the hilariously ditzy manicurist Paulette Bonafonté in Legally Blonde, as the seductress Stifler's Mom from American Pie, or...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Bette Midler today is a beloved legacy star, best known for her comic witch in Disney's Hocus Pocus and its 2022 sequel and for sentimental, anthemic ballads like "Wind Beneath My Wings." She's initiated green space projects in New York City and tussled with Donald Trump on Twitter. Her profile is that of an articulate, civic-minded matron enjoying thoroughly mainstream stardom. But more than fifty years earlier she emerged from the steam of the...
17) Hollow
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Gothic shade of romance volume 1
Publisher
Publisher not identified
Pub. Date
2023]
Language
English
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"Ever since she was a child, Kat Van Tassel knew that her parents had arranged for her to marry her best friend, Brom Bones, when she became of age. That was until Brom mysteriously vanished from the secretive village of Sleepy Hollow when he was just a teenager. Now, at nineteen, Kat is fulfilling the tradition of attending Sleepy Hollow Institute, a shadowy and prestigious school that is run by her powerful family. There she starts to fall for her...
18) Stargazer
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Freestyle Digital Media
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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STARGAZER tells the story of one night in the life of Grace Campbell, a grad student burning with fury about the fate of a forgotten astronomer. Cecilia Payne discovered the nature of the universe and saw her genius stolen by men. For Grace, history threatens to repeat itself when she's forced to partner with a male journalist. Spike Randall books her an appearance on a new talk show with Annette Gordon-Reed. Grace is stunned. It's a dream come true....
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University of Massachusetts Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Crafted with lines from her late father's letters, Jennifer Tseng's Thanks for Letting Us Know You Are Alive is a portrait of an immigrant, a rootless person whose unspoken loss-that of his native geography, family, traditions, language-underlies every word. Though her father's first language was Mandarin, for more than twenty years he wrote these letters in English, in theory so that she could understand them. His sentences are riddled with errors,...
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Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"In To Make Negro Literature Elizabeth McHenry traces African American authorship in the decade following the 1896 legalization of segregation. She shifts critical focus from the published texts of acclaimed writers to unfamiliar practitioners, whose works reflect the unsettledness of African American letters in this period. Analyzing literary projects that were unpublished, unsuccessful, or only partially achieved, McHenry recovers a hidden genealogy...
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