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1. Strangers in time

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Author:
Baldacci, David
Publisher:
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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"Fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters is up to no good, but for a very good reason. Without parents, peerage, or merit, ducking school but barred from actual work, he steals what he needs, living day-to-day until he's old enough to enlist to fight the Germans. After barely surviving the Blitz, Charlie knows there's no telling when a falling bomb might end his life. Fifteen-year-old Molly Wakefield has just returned to a nearly unrecognizable London....

2. Hello stranger

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Author:
Center, Katherine
Series:
Thorndike Press large print dynamic drama
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English
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5 stars
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"Sadie Montogmery has had good breaks and bad breaks in her life, but as a struggling artist, all she needs is one lucky break. Things seem to be going her way when she lands one of the coveted finalist spots in a portrait competition. It happens to coincide with a surgery she needs to have. Minor, they say. Less than a week in the hospital they say. Nothing about you will change, they say. Upon recovery, it begins to dawn on Sadie that she can see...

3. The Stranger Times

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Author:
McDonnell, C. K.
Series:
Stranger Times volume 1
Publisher:
Lübbe Audio
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
German
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Dunkle Kräfte sind am Werk - und The Stranger Times geht ihnen auf den Grund. Die Wochenzeitung ist Großbritanniens erste Adresse für Unerklärtes und Unerklärliches. Zumindest ist das ihre Eigenwerbung ... Gleich in Hannah Willis' erster Arbeitswoche bei der Zeitung tritt eine Tragödie ein, und The Stranger Times ist gezwungen, tatsächlich investigativen Journalismus zu betreiben. Hannah und ihre Kollegen kommen zu einer schockierenden Erkenntnis:...

4. The Joy of Talking Politics With Strangers: How to Save Democracy, One Conversation at a Time

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Author:
Chur, Elizabeth
Publisher:
Talk with Voters Publishing
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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Elections are decided on front porches and phone calls across the country, one voter at a time. The Joy of Talking Politics with Strangers is a comprehensive guidebook that helps volunteers connect one-on-one with voters - our most powerful tool for winning elections. These conversations can also spark unexpected moments of empathy and even kinship with our fellow Americans. After 2016, volunteer Elizabeth Chur realized it's up to ordinary citizens...

5. Shifting Sands Of Time

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Author:
The Wayfaring Strangers (Musical group)
Publisher:
Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc
Pub. Date:
2016
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English
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6. The best American essays 2020

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Series:
Best American
Publisher:
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date:
2020
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English
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Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2019 which were originally published in American periodicals.

7. Ten year stretch: celebrating a decade of crime fiction at CrimeFest

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Publisher:
Poisoned Pen Press, in association with No Exit Press
Pub. Date:
2018
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English
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The twenty brand new crime stories in this book have been specially commissioned to celebrate the tenth anniversary of CrimeFest, described by the Guardian as "one of the 50 best festivals in the world." Contributors come from around the world and include the legendary Maj Sjöwall who, together with partner Per Wahlöö, was the originator of Nordic noir. The editors are Martin Edwards and Adrian Muller. Martin Edwards is responsible for many award-winning...

8. The life impossible

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Author:
Haig, Matt, 1975-
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English
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"The remarkable next novel from Matt Haig, the author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight Library, with more than nine million copies sold worldwide. "What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don't understand yet..." When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan....

9. A wrinkle in time

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Author:
L'Engle, Madeleine
Series:
Time quintet volume 1
Square fish
Newbery Medal Award volume 1963
Laurel-leaf books
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740L
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English
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3.8 stars
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Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government. It was a dark and stormy night Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger. "Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly stranger told them. "I just got caught...

10. Swan song

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Author:
Hilderbrand, Elin
Series:
Nantucket volume 4
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English
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"Chief of Police Ed Kapenash is about to retire. Blond Sharon is going through a divorce. But when a 22-million-dollar summer home is purchased by the mysterious Richardsons—how did they make their money, exactly?—Ed, Sharon, and everyone in the community are swept up in high drama. The Richardsons throw lavish parties, flirt with multiple locals, flaunt their wealth with not one but two yachts, and raise impossible hopes for everyone they meet....

11. All the light we cannot see: a novel

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Author:
Doerr, Anthony, 1973-
Pub. Date:
2014
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880L
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English
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"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...

12. Nine perfect strangers

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Author:
Moriarty, Liane
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English
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Could ten days at a health resort really change you forever? These nine perfect strangers are about to find out. Nine people gather at a remote health resort. Some are here to lose weight, some are here to get a reboot on life, some are here for reasons they cant even admit to themselves. Amidst all of the luxury and pampering, the mindfulness and meditation, they know these ten days might involve some real work. But none of them could imagine just...

13. The five-star weekend

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Hilderbrand, Elin
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English
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Hollis Shaw's life seems picture-perfect. She's the star of the popular food blog, Hungry with Hollis, and is married to Matthew, a dreamy heart surgeon. But after she and Matthew get into a heated argument one snowy morning, Matthew leaves for the airport and is killed in a car accident. The cracks in Hollis's perfect life-her strained marriage and her complicated relationship with her daughter, Caroline-grow deeper. When Hollis hears about something...

14. Before we were yours: a novel

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Author:
Wingate, Lisa
Series:
Thorndike Press large print core
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HL: High-Low 760L
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English
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"Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant novel, inspired by a true story, for readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale. Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive...

15. The cliffs

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Author:
Sullivan, J. Courtney
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English
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By the time Jane Flanagan discovers the secluded Victorian house overlooking the ocean, it has long been abandoned. With many mysteries and wonder to be found in the house, it becomes a place for Jane to escape her volatile mother. Twenty years later, she returns home to Maine following a terrible mistake that threatens both her career and marriage and is horrified to find the Victorian is now barely recognizable due to the new owner, Genevieve, transforming...

16. Triangle: a novel

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Author:
Steel, Danielle
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"As she approaches the milestone birthday of forty, delicate blond beauty Amanda Delanoe finds joy in running a chic contemporary art gallery in the City of Light. The only child of a French businessman and an American model, both now deceased, Amanda lives well and adores her dog, Lulu, but so far the love of her life has eluded her. Then she meets Olivier Saint Albin, a dashing publisher. At the same time, she reconnects with Tom Quinlan, an old...

17. Pretty girls: a novel

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Author:
Slaughter, Karin, 1971-
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Estranged for years after the disappearance of their sister, trophy wife Claire and struggling single mom Lydia are reunited by the murder of Claire's husband and investigate decades of family secrets to discover the truth.

18. The Stranger

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Author:
Coben, Harlan, 1962-
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Brilliance Audio on compact disc
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English
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"#1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Harlan Coben delivers his most shocking thriller yet, proving that a well-placed lie can help build a wonderful life-- and a secret has the same explosive power to destroy it. The Stranger appears out of nowhere, perhaps in a bar, or a parking lot, or at the grocery store. His identity is unknown. His motives are unclear. His information is undeniable. Then he whispers a few words in your ear and disappears,...

19. Anxious people: a novel

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Author:
Backman, Fredrik, 1981-
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English
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Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers--including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian--discover their unexpected common traits. Viewing an apartment normally doesn't turn into a life-or-death situation, but this particular open house becomes just that: a failed bank robber bursts in and takes everyone in the apartment hostage....

20. 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...
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