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1. The ways we hide: a novel

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Author:
McMorris, Kristina
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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4 stars
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"Fenna Vos has learned to focus on her own survival-even now, with the Second World War raging in faraway countries. She works on-stage as the assistant to an unruly escape artist-behind the curtain as the mastermind of their act. After all, her honed ability to control her surroundings and elude entrapments, physical or otherwise, reliably suppresses the trauma and tragedy of her youth. For all her calculations, however, Fenna neglects to foresee...

2. Fourth wing

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Author:
Yarros, Rebecca
Series:
Empyrean volume Bk 1
Thorndike Press large print high octane
Empyrean volume 1
Language:
English
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4.5 stars
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"Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away ... because dragons don't bond to 'fragile' humans....

3. Apples never fall: a novel

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Author:
Moriarty, Liane
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English
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"A novel that looks at marriage, sibling rivalry, and the lies we tell others and ourselves"-- Stan and Joy Delaney are killers on the tennis court, and off it their chemistry is palpable. But after fifty years of marriage, they've finally sold their famed tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. The four Delaney children-- Amy, Logan, Troy, and Brooke-- were tennis stars in their own right. None of them...

4. The Paris architect: a novel

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Author:
Belfoure, Charles, 1954-
Language:
English
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4.3 stars
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In 1942 Paris, architect Lucien Bernard accepts a commission that will bring him a great deal of money-- and maybe get him killed. All he has to do is design a secret hiding place for a wealthy Jewish man, a space so invisible that even the most determined German officer won't find it. He sorely needs the money, and outwitting the Nazis who have occupied his beloved city is a challenge he can't resist. When one of his hiding spaces fails horribly,...

5. The life cycle of the common octopus

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Author:
Knight, Emma (Emma L.)
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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2 stars
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"A witty, atmospheric, and brilliantly told novel that offers compelling portraits of womanhood, motherhood and female friendship, along with the irresistible intrigue surrounding an extraordinary British family. Arriving at the University of Edinburgh for her first term, Pen knows her divorced parents back in Canada are hiding something from her. She believes she'll find the answer here in Scotland, where an old friend of her father's - now a famous...

6. One big happy family

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Author:
Mallery, Susan
Series:
Thorndike Press large print dynamic drama
Language:
English
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3 stars
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At first, Julie Parker is happy that her children do not plan to visit for Christmas, because she has been hiding her younger beau from them, but when they instead want to spend the holiday at the family cabin and the guest list grows beyond Julie's expectations, she discovers that more really is merrier.

7. The elegance of the hedgehog

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Author:
Barbery, Muriel, 1969-
Language:
English
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4 stars
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The lives of fifty-four-year-old concierge Rene Michel and extremely bright, suicidal twelve-year-old Paloma Josse are transformed by the arrival of a new tenant, Kakuro Ozu.

8. The many lives of Mama Love: a memoir of lying, stealing, writing, and healing

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Hardin, Lara Love
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English
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4.5 stars
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New York Times bestselling author Lara Love Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse shot-caller and her unlikely comeback as a highly successful ghostwriter in this harrowing, hilarious, no-holds-barred memoir".

9. Pieces of her: a novel

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Author:
Slaughter, Karin, 1971-
Series:
Andrea Oliver
Language:
English
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4.2 stars
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What if the person you thought you knew best turns out to be someone you never knew at all? Andrea knows everything about her mother, Laura. She knows she's spent her whole life in the small beachside town of Belle Isle; she knows she's never wanted anything more than to live a quiet life as a pillar of the community; she knows she's never kept a secret in her life. Because we all know our mothers, don't we? But all that changes when a trip to the...

10. When all the girls have gone

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Author:
Krentz, Jayne Ann
Series:
Cutler Sutter and Salinas volume 1
Language:
English
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5 stars
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"Jayne Ann Krentz, the New York Times bestselling author of Secret Sisters, delivers a thrilling novel of the deceptions we hide behind, the passions we surrender to, and the lengths we'll go to for the truth... When Charlotte Sawyer is unable to contacther step-sister, Jocelyn, to tell her that one her closest friends was found dead, she discovers that Jocelyn has vanished. Beautiful, brilliant--and reckless--Jocelyn has gone off the grid before,...

11. The almost sisters

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Author:
Jackson, Joshilyn
Language:
English
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4 stars
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"With empathy, grace, humor, and piercing insight, the author of gods in Alabama pens a powerful, emotionally resonant novel of the South that confronts the truth about privilege, family, and the distinctions between perception and reality--the stories we tell ourselves about our origins and who we really are. Superheroes have always been Leia Birch Briggs' weakness. One tequila-soaked night at a comics convention, the usually level-headed graphic...

12. Darling girls

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Author:
Hepworth, Sally
Language:
English
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3 stars
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"Get ready for another twisty domestic thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of THE SOULMATE. From the outside, Alicia, Jessica and Norah might seem like ordinary women you'd meet on the street any day of the week. Sure, Jessica has a little OCD and Norah has some anger issues. And Alicia has low self-esteem that manifests itself in surprising ways. But these three have a bond that no one can fully understand. It's a bond that takes...

13. Furiously happy: {a funny book about horrible things}

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Author:
Lawson, Jenny, 1973-
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English
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"In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. But terrible ideas are what Jenny does best. As Jenny says: "Some people might think that being 'furiously happy' is just an excuse to be stupid and irresponsible and invite a herd of kangaroos over to your house without telling...

14. Passing

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Author:
Larsen, Nella
Series:
Penguin classics
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 810L
Language:
English
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3.5 stars
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Irene Redfield, married to a successful physician, enjoys a comfortable life in Harlem, New York. Reluctantly, she renews her friendship with old school friend, Clare Kendry. Clare, who like Irene is light skinned, "passes" as white and is married to a racist white man who has no idea about his wife's racial heritage. Clare is very persuasive and Irene, despite misgivings, can't resist letting her back into her world. As tensions mount between friends...

15. Braving the wilderness: the quest for true belonging and the courage to stand alone

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Author:
Brown, Brené
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Social scientist Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW, has sparked a global conversation about the experiences that bring meaning to our lives -- experiences of courage, vulnerability, love, belonging, shame, and empathy. Now Brown redefines what it means to truly belong in an age of increased polarization. Brown argues that we're experiencing a spiritual crisis of disconnection, and introduces four practices of true belonging that challenge everything we believe...

16. Bleak House

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Author:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Series:
Everyman's library volume 8
Barnes and Noble classics
Modern Library classics
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Lexile measure:
1180L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Often considered Charles Dickens's masterpiece, Bleak House blends together several literary genres—detective fiction, romance, melodrama, and satire—to create an unforgettable portrait of the decay and corruption at the heart of English law and society in the Victorian era. Opening in the swirling mists of London, the novel revolves around a court case that has dragged on for decades—the infamous Jarndyce and Jarndyce lawsuit, in which an inheritance...

17. The invitation: a novel

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Author:
Foley, Lucy (Novelist)
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English
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3 stars
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Rome, 1953. Hal, an itinerant journalist finds himself on the steps of a palazzo, walking into a world of privilege and light. On a rooftop above the city he meets the mysterious Stella. Together they escape the crowded party and imagine a different life, even if it's just for a night. Stella vanishes all too quickly, and Hal is certain their paths won't cross again. A year later an Italian Contessa asks Hal to act as a reporter on a yacht skimming...

18. Dracula

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Author:
Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912
Series:
Oxford world's classics
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Lexile measure:
990L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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"A dreary castle, blood-thirsty vampires, open graves at midnight, and other gothic touches fill this hardcover Dover Bookshelf edition of the chilling tale about a young Englishman's confrontation with the evil Count Dracula"-- "By night, Abraham "Bram" Stoker (1847-1912) navigated the flourishing world of Victorian theater, yet, in the shadows, he was the brilliant mind behind the chilling vampire masterpiece Dracula, a tale of insatiable hunger...

19. The hunchback of Notre-Dame

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Author:
Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885
Series:
Timeless Classics
Barnes and Noble classics
Classic Starts®
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Lexile measure:
1170L
Language:
English
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"The hidden force of fate is symbolized by the superhuman grandeur and multitudinous imageries of the cathedral. 'The first part ... is a panorama of medieval life--religious, civic, popular, and criminal--drawn with immense learning and an amazing command of spectacular effect. These elements are then set into motion in a fantastic and grandiose drama, of which the personages are romantic sublimations of human virtues and passions--Quasimodo the...

20. When we flew away: a novel of Anne Frank, before the diary

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Author:
Hoffman, Alice
Pub. Date:
2024
Lexile measure:
940L
Language:
English
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In May 1940, Anne Frank is a young girl not quite eleven with all the ordinary problems of a little sister, but Amsterdam is about to be invaded by Nazis and after that everything changes. --
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