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421) Birthday girl
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JORDAN. He took me in when I had nowhere else to go. He doesn't use me, hurt me, or forget about me. He doesn't treat me like I'm nothing, take me for granted, or make me feel unsafe. He remembers me, laughs with me, and looks at me. He listens to me, protects me, and sees me. I can feel his eyes on me over the breakfast table, and my heart pumps so hard when I hear him pull in the driveway after work. I have to stop this. It can't happen. My sister...
422) Tornado weather
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""Dark and dangerous and strange and wonderful...Kennedy writes with the gritty poetry of Daniel Woodrell and misfit sensibility of Flannery O'Connor." --Benjamin Percy Five-year-old Daisy Gonzalez's father is always waiting for her at the bus stop. But today, he isn't, and Daisy disappears. When Daisy goes missing, nearly everyone in town suspects or knows something different about what happened. And they also know a lot about each other. The immigrants...
423) American delirium
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"From award-winning novelist Betina González, a dizzying, luminous English-language debut about an American town overrun by a mysterious hallucinogen, forcing its citizens to confront the secrets of their past and rely on unexpected relationships"--Provided by publisher.
424) La pista de hielo
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When figure skater Nuria Marti is dropped from the Olympic team, a civil servant secretly uses public funds to build her a skating rink in the ruins of a seaside mansion, but Nuria has affairs and soon the rink becomes a crime scene.
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"When Simon joins the basketball team, he is excited to be a part of a neighborhood tradition, but after some of his teammates leave for a better team, he decides to organize a pep rally to help Creighton Park and the community feel like they are part of something special"--
427) The friend
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On a train with her husband, miles from home and their four-year-old son, Ben, Sophie receives a chilling phone call. Two boys are in hospital after a tragic accident. One of them is Ben. She thought she could trust Emma, her new friend, to look after her little boy. After all, Emma's a kindred spirit--someone Sophie was sure she could bare her soul to, despite the village rumours. But Sophie can't shake the feeling that she's made an unforgivable...
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"A young painter, Lily has reached a crossroads in her life. Her career hasn't taken off, her best friend may no longer be the trusted friend she thought, her boyfriend is a disappointment, and now she can't keep up with the rising cost of living in the city. With no one to turn to, Lily is forced to move from her beloved apartment, but while packing she comes across a piece of mail that had slipped to the back of her junk drawer: a letter detailing...
430) Cannibals in love
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"A debut novel and punk-rock love story set in the George W. Bush era that ranges from Washington, D.C., to Portland, O.R., and involves off-track betting, babysitting-gone-awry, the art of the spam e-mail, and a fortuitous walk across Kansas"--
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"For Linnet, owner of a Bed and Breakfast in Mountain Springs, Pennsylvania, life has been a bit complicated lately. Hundreds of snow geese have died overnight in the dam near the B & B, sparking a media frenzy, threatening the tourist season, and bringing her estranged sister, Myna, to town. If that isn't enough, the women's father has been charged with investigating the incident. But when a younger expert is brought in to replace him on the case...
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Extraordinary man's entrance into a small American town sets off a groundswell of violent emotions. Greeted as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1966, Omensetter's Luck is the quirky, impressionistic, and breathtakingly original story of an ordinary community galvanized by the presence of an extraordinary man. Set in a small Ohio town in the 1890s, it chronicles -- through the voices of various participants and observers -- the confrontation...
433) Emergency quarters
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Author Carlos Matias and Ezra Jack Keats Award-winning illustrator Gracey Zhang deliver a stunning picture book based on a finalist in the New York Times Metropolitan Diary "Best of the Year," about a young boy in the city who tries his best to avoid spending his precious quarters on tempting local treats in case of an "emergency." A poignant, cheeky tale perfect for fans of Matt de La Peña, Antwan Eady, and Jacqueline Woodson. Ernesto has waited...
435) MacArthur Park
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"Jolene and Verna's lives are inextricable from each other's; they share complicated bonds of friendship that have crystallized over time. When Verna marries her old friend's ex-husband, it seems that their paths have finally diverged. Jolene makes her way as a successful artist, traveling the world and demanding attention while Verna writes from her home near MacArthur Park where she and Vincent hope to spend the rest of their lives with their two...
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With Smitten Lumber closing, residents wonder if their town can stay afloat. Then four friends and local business owners decide the town is worth saving; they'll turn it into a honeymoon destination. Little do they know that love is already on the way. As each woman finds her own true love, a little child reminds the whole town what it means to have real faith in the God who is the always and forever love.
437) Holding on to chaos
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Romance novelist Eva Merrill is a hot mess running from her past. She doesn't mind telling a fib or two to protect her secrets and her family. It's too bad that she moved to the nosiest small town in the world with Sheriff Sexy―the tall, built, human lie detector. He's showing way too much interest in her and treating every conversation like it's an interrogation. Maybe that's because she accidentally showed him her boobs in the middle of downtown...
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"These 19 short stories explore the genre of weird fiction--tales not quite fantasy and not quite science fiction, tales blurring the lines between genres. These are the strange stories of the strange decisions we make and the strange ways the city affects us"--Publisher marketing.
439) How to be safe
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Recently suspended for a so-called outburst, high school English teacher Anna Crawford is stewing over the injustice when she is shocked to hear she is named as a suspect in a shooting at her school. Though she is quickly exonerated, her life is held up for relentless scrutiny and judgment as this quiet town descends into media mania. Anna decides to wholeheartedly reject the culpability she's somehow been assigned, and the rampant sexism that comes...
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Ann Lindell has left the Uppsala police force and is living a quiet life, making artisanal cheese in a small town in Uppland, Sweden. But life in the country is not as idyllic as it seems. On New Year's Eve someone sets fire to the former village school, which is now a home for asylum seekers, and three people are killed. Ann Lindell's investigative instincts come back to life, and soon she takes on the case. She is contacted by a mysterious man who...