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Theo of Golden
One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why… His name is Theo. And he asks a lot more questions than he answers. Theo visits the local coffeehouse, where ninety-two pencil portraits hang on the walls, portraits of the people of Golden done by a local artist. He begins purchasing them, one at a time, and putting them back in the hands of their “rightful owners.” With each exchange, a story is told, a friendship born, and a life altered. A story of giving and receiving, of seeing and being seen, Theo of Golden is a beautifully…
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Saltwater
In 1992 Sarah Lingate is found dead below the cliffs of Capri. Despite suspicions that the old-money Lingates are involved, Sarah’s death is ruled an accident. On the thirtieth anniversary of Sarah’s death, the Lingates arrive at the villa in Capri to find a surprise waiting for them—the necklace Sarah was wearing the night she died. The legendary Lingate family unity is pushed to a breaking point, and Sarah's daughter, Helen, enlists the help of Lorna Moreno, a family assistant, to plot their escape from Helen’s paranoid, insular family. When Lorna disappears and the investigation into Sarah’s death is reopened, Helen has to confront the fact that everyone who was…
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The Bear and the Nightingale
At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn't mind—she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a fire with her beloved siblings, listening to her nurse's fairy tales. Above all, she loves the chilling story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon, who appears in the frigid night to claim unwary souls. After Vasilisa's mother dies, her father goes to Moscow and brings home a new, fiercely devout wife, who forbids her family from honoring the household spirits. The family acquiesces, but Vasilisa is frightened, sensing that more hinges upon their rituals than anyone…
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Dungeon Crawler Carl
A man and his ex-girlfriend's cat are luckily outside when every human-erected structure on Earth flattens to the ground and the people who were inside were either killed or, along with other bits of human civilization, become fodder for the dungeon. The dungeon is an 18-level labyrinth filled with traps, monsters, and loot and is so enormous, it circles the entire globe. Carl and Donut enter and once they're in, there's no way out but through. They must compete—video game style—to survive, but not just survive, they must do it in style, appealing to the viewers of the most-watched game show in the galaxy that they suddenly find themselves participating…
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The Colony Club
When young Gilded Age society matron Daisy Harriman is refused a room at the Waldorf because they don't cater to unaccompanied females, she takes matters into her own hands. She establishes the Colony Club, the first women's club in Manhattan. As "the best dressed actress on the Rialto," Elsie de Wolfe has an eye for décor, but her career is stagnating. So when Stanford White, the architect for The Colony Club, asks her to design the clubhouse interiors, she jumps at the chance and the opportunity to add a woman's touch. Nora Bromely is determined to become an architect in spite of hostility and sabotage from her male colleagues. But…
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The Lies They Told
In rural 1930s Virginia, a young immigrant mother fights for her dignity and those she loves against America’s rising eugenics movement – when widespread support for policies of prejudice drove imprisonment and forced sterilizations based on class, race, disability, education, and country of origin – in this tragic and uplifting novel of social injustice, survival, and hope for readers of Susan Meissner, Kristin Hannah, and Christina Baker Kline.
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Heated Rivalry
Bad boy meets boy next door in this LBGTQ+ hockey romance that's also been adapted to the screen.
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Between Two Fires
The Black Death ravages France, leaving fields and rivers choked with unburied dead. Thomas, a disgraced knight, roams the land with a band of thieves when they encounter an orphaned girl in a dying village. No ordinary child, this girl sees angels and talks to the dead. She tells Thomas that Lucifer and the fallen angels have risen in a new war on Heaven, that the kingdoms of men have fallen behind the lines of battle, and that he must now shepherd her on a holy quest to tip the scales in favor of good. Between Two Fires invites you on a journey of a violent man’s first, uncertain steps…
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The Astral Library
Working three dead-end jobs to make ends meet and knowing college is a pipe dream, Alix takes nightly refuge in the high-vaulted reading room at the Boston Public Library, escaping into her favorite fantasy novels and dreaming of far-off lands. Until the day she stumbles through a hidden door and meets the Librarian: the ageless, acerbic guardian of a hidden library where the desperate and the lost escape to new lives...inside their favorite books. But before she can escape into the pages of her new life, a shadowy enemy emerges to threaten everyone the Astral Library has ever helped protect.
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The Calamity Club
From best-selling author of The Help comes a big-hearted novel about a group of unbreakable women fighting for what's rightfully theirs.
Life In The Making
