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1. Now you see us: a novel

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Author:
Jaswal, Balli Kaur
Language:
English
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"Crazy Rich Asians meets The Help! From Reese's Book Club veteran Balli Kaur Jaswal comes an absolute tour de force--the wildly entertaining and sharply observed story of three women who work in the homes of Singapore's elite, and band together to solve a murder mystery involving one of their own"--

2. The housemaid is watching

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Author:
McFadden, Freida
Series:
Housemaid volume 3
Publisher:
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date:
©2024
Language:
English
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""You must be our new neighbors!" Mrs. Lowell gushes and waves across the picket fence. I clutch my daughter's hand and smile back: but the second Mrs. Lowell sees my husband a strange expression crosses her face. In that moment I make a promise. We finally have a family home. My past is far, far behind us. And I'll do anything to keep it that way... I used to clean other people's houses - now, I can't believe this home is actually mine. The charming...

3. The great Gatsby

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Author:
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940
Series:
Everyman's library volume 19
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
American Classics Children's Collection
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Lexile measure:
1010L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of literature’s most beloved stories and the inspiration for numerous film adaptations, is now available in a fine exclusive collector’s edition featuring beautiful cover and interior treatments, making it ideal for fiction lovers and book collectors alike. Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to...

4. The storied life of A.J. Fikry: a novel

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Author:
Zevin, Gabrielle
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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When his most prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, is stolen, bookstore owner A. J. Fikry begins isolating himself from his friends, family and associates before receiving a mysterious package that compels him to remake his life. The irascible A. J. Fikry, owner of Island Books, the only bookstore on Alice Island, has already lost his wife. Now, a rare book, has been stolen from right under his nose in the most embarrassing of circumstances....

5. Alice's adventures in wonderland & Through the looking-glass

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Author:
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898
Series:
Puffin chalk
Alice in Wonderland
Tantor unabridged classics
Rainbow classics
Lexile measure:
950L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"Commemorating the 150th anniversary of one of the most beloved classics of children's literature, this illustrated edition presents Alice like you've never seen her before. In 1865, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician and Anglican deacon, published a story about a little girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole. Thus was the world first introduced to Alice and her pseudonymous creator, Lewis Carroll. This beautiful new edition of Alice's...

6. Maybe you should talk to someone: a therapist, her therapist, and our lives revealed

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Author:
Gottlieb, Lori
Series:
Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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"From a New York Timesbest-selling writer, psychotherapist, and advice columnist, a brilliant and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world--where her patients are in crisis (and so is she)"-- "From a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world--where her patients are...

7. Dreamland: a novel

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Author:
Sparks, Nicholas
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wish comes a poignant love story about risking everything for a dream--and whether it's possible to leave the past behind. Colby Mills once felt destined for a musical career, until tragedy grounded his aspirations. Now the head of a small family farm in North Carolina, he spontaneously takes a gig playing at a bar in St. Pete's Beach, Florida, seeking a rare break from his duties at home. But...

8. The villa

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Author:
Hawkins, Rachel, 1979-
Series:
Thorndike Press large print basic
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins comes a deliciously wicked gothic suspense, set at an Italian villa with a dark history, for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware. As kids, Emily and Chess were inseparable. But by their 30s, their bond has been strained by the demands of their adult lives. So when Chess suggests a girls trip to Italy, Emily jumps at the chance to reconnect with her best friend. Villa Aestas in Orvieto is a high-end...

9. Quiet: the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking

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Author:
Cain, Susan
Lexile measure:
1170L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over working in teams. It is to introverts - Rosa Parks, Chopin, Dr. Seuss, Steve Wozniak-- that we owe many of the great contributions to society. In Quiet, Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so....

10. Us against you: a novel

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Author:
Backman, Fredrik, 1981-
Series:
Beartown volume 2
Thorndike Press large print core
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and Beartown returns with an unforgettable novel about people--about strength and tribal loyalty and what we unwittingly do when trying to show our boys how to be men (Jojo Moyes). Have you everseen a town fall? Ours did. Have you ever seen a town rise? Ours did that, too. A small community tucked deep in the forest, Beartown is home to tough, hardworking people who don't expect life to...

11. The white tiger: a novel

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Author:
Adiga, Aravind
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life--having nothing but his own wits to help him along.

12. Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet: a novel

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Author:
Ford, Jamie
Series:
Reader's circle
Thorndike Press large print core
Lexile measure:
850L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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When artifacts from Japanese families sent to internment camps during World War II are uncovered during renovations at a Seattle hotel, Henry Lee embarks on a quest that leads to memories of growing up Chinese in a city rife with anti-Japanese sentiment.

13. War and peace

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Author:
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Easy Classics Epic Collection
Barnes and Noble classics
Lexile measure:
1130L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Hailed as one of the greatest novels of all time and a classic of world literature, War and Peace unfolds in the early nineteenth century during the turbulent years of the Napoleonic invasion of Russia. Tolstoy's epic ranges from stirring depictions of historical events to intimate portraits of family life, moving between public spectacles and private lives to offer a tale of both panoramic scope and closely observed detail. From the breathless excitement...

14. Let me lie

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Author:
Mackintosh, Clare
Language:
English
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4 stars
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"In the newest psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of I Let You Go and I See You, Clare Mackintosh brings us a gripping story about how those who love us never really leave us... Two years ago, Tom and Caroline Johnson committed suicide, one seemingly unable to live without the other. Their adult daughter, Anna, is struggling to come to terms with her parents' deaths, unable to comprehend why they chose to end their...

15. The push: a novel

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Author:
Audrain, Ashley, 1982-
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.4 stars
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"A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family, about a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for--and everything she feared. Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting, supportive mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had. But in the thick of motherhood's exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter--Violet...

16. Absolution

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Author:
McDermott, Alice
Series:
Thorndike Press large print top shelf
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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In Saigon in 1963, two young American wives form a wary alliance. Tricia is a starry-eyed newlywed, married to a rising oil engineer "on loan" to US Navy Intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a talented hostess and determined altruist, on a mission to relieve the "wretchedness" she sees all around her. When Tricia miscarries, Charlene sweeps her into a cabal of well-dressed do-gooder American wives. Armed with...

17. The family gathering

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Author:
Carr, Robyn
Series:
Sullivan's crossing volume 3
Wheeler large print hardcover
Language:
English
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"Having left the military, Dakota Jones is at a crossroads in his life. With his elder brother and youngest sister happily settled in Sullivan’s Crossing, he shows up hoping to clear his head before moving on to his next adventure. But, like every visitor to the Crossing, he’s immediately drawn to the down-to-earth people and the seemingly simple way of life. Dakota is unprepared for how quickly things get complicated. As a newcomer, he is on...

18. Cloud cuckoo land: a novel

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Author:
Doerr, Anthony, 1973-
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport,...

19. For one more day

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Author:
Albom, Mitch, 1958-
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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After years of drinking, being rejected by his wife and daughter, and a suicide attempt, ex-baseball star Charley Benetto returns to his childhood home where he encounters the ghost of his mother, who tells him family secrets and guides him in making his life better.

20. Kingdom of the blind

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Author:
Penny, Louise
Series:
Chief Inspector Gamache novel volume 14
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache volume 14
Three Pines mystery volume 14
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"When a mysterious figure appears in Three Pines one cold November day, Armand Gamache and the rest of the villagers are at first curious. Then wary. Through rain and sleet, the figure stands unmoving, staring ahead. From the moment its shadow falls over the village, Gamache, now Chief Superintendent of the Sûreté du Québec, suspects the creature has deep roots and a dark purpose. Yet he does nothing. What can he do? Only watch and wait. And hope...
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