Bennett, Jenn
Summary: Budding sleuths Helena and her best friend Ben hire an insufferable ghostly guide named Grumbones to track down her recently deceased grandmother in the underworld.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023
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Summary: Two hours before he vanished, Mark Dixon stole a glass of wine. That's what bartender Sophie Braam told the cops when they questioned her about the customer whose mutilated body was just found. What she didn't tell them is that she's the one who killed him. Officer Nora Martin is new to the Bellair Police Department and trying very hard to learn the ropes from Detective Murphy while ignoring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENLiljestrand, Jens
Summary: Even when the climate crisis escalates beyond our worst nightmares and people become refugees, the world keeps turning and life carries on as usual: teenaged love stories, marital collapses, identity crises, and revolts against hopeless parents continue to play out. Didrik is a forty-year-old media consultant whose misguided efforts to become the family hero render him a pathetic vision of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scout Press 2023
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Summary: "The Discord of Gods marks the epic conclusion to Jenn Lyons's Chorus of Dragons series, closing out the saga that began with The Ruin of Kings, for fans of Brandon Sanderson and Patrick Rothfuss. THEIR CONFLICT COULD END THEM ALL. Relos Var's final plans to enslave the universe are on the cusp of fruition. He believes there's only one being in existence that might be able to stop him: the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 2022
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Summary: "Spring has sprung in Briar Creek, but it is not all sunshine and roses. . . . Spring is livening up Briar Creek after a long, cold winter, and newlyweds Lindsey and Sully could not be happier. Even though the upcoming mayoral election is getting heated, everything else in town is coming up daffodils . . . until a body is found. Ms. Cole, a librarian and current candidate for town mayor, is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2021
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Summary: "Halloween is approaching in Briar Creek, and things get spooky when a skeleton is found and connected to a decades-old cold case. Library director Lindsey Norris is happy to learn the Briar Creek Public Library is the beneficiary of the Dorchester family's vast book collection. However, when Lindsey and the library staff arrive at the old Victorian estate to gather the books, things take a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2022
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Summary: "It's Christmastime, and this holiday season, things are heating up for the bakers at Fairy Tale Cupcakes, in the newest Cupcake Bakery Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay. When up-and-coming singing sensation Shelby Vaughn arrives in town for two weeks of concert dates, she hires her old friend Angie and the rest of the bakery crew to supply cupcakes for the VIP guest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: "Briar Creek Library director Lindsey Norris and her husband, Sully, are at a popular library conference in Chicago to hear book restoration specialist Brooklyn Wainwright give a keynote address. After the lecture, Lindsey looks under her seat and finds a tote bag containing a first edition of Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, inscribed to Alfred Hitchcock. Brooklyn determines the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2024
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Summary: "Small-town German bookseller Carl Kollhoff delivers his books to special customers in the evening hours after closing time, walking through the picturesque alleys of the city. These people are almost like friends to him, and he is their most important connection to the world. When Kollhoff unexpectedly loses his job, it takes the power of books and a nine-year-old girl to make them all find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2023
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Summary: Generación tras generación, la comunidad negra del pueblo de Mallard, en Luisiana, ha intentado aclarar el tono de su piel favoreciendo los matrimonios mixtos. Las inseparables gemelas Desirée y Stella Vignes, con su color níveo, sus ojos castaños y su cabello ondulado, son un buen ejemplo de ello. Tan distintas y tan iguales, decidieron huir juntas del diminuto pueblo creyendo que también...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literatura Random House 2021
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Summary: Separated by their embrace of different racial identities, two mixed-race identical twins reevaluate their choices as one raises a black daughter in their southern hometown while the other passes for white with a husband who is unaware of her heritage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2020
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Summary: "After the perils of a case that landed much too close to home, Hana Westerman turned in her badge and abandoned her career as a detective in the Auckland CIB. Hoping that civilian life will offer her the opportunity to rest and recalibrate, she returns to her hometown of Tātā Bay, where she moves back in with her beloved father, Eru. Yet the memories of the past are everywhere, and as she goes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Living as a boy to escape an arranged marriage, Ophelia Hardwick, working as a steward for the Earl of Carlyle, finds her life--and heart--in danger when he discovers her secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2021
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Summary: "A tenacious Māori detective, Hana Westerman juggles single motherhood, endemic prejudice, and the pressures of her career in Auckland CIB. Led to a crime scene by a mysterious video, she discovers a man ritualistically hanging in a secret room and a puzzling inward-curving inscription. Delving into the investigation after a second, apparently unrelated, death, she uncovers a chilling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023
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Summary: High school senior Brynn Whittaker faces a school-wide scandal when a viral video wrongly implicates her, prompting her and her friends to confront the school's misogynistic culture, while Brynn grapples with the decision to expose the true culprit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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Summary: "Carefree and irrepressible, Casey Wilde has spent her life running. Running from love, running from responsibility, and running from commitment. She lives on the wind, chasing experiences, living life so hard, she's practically eating it. Megan Woodson, Casey's best friend, has spent her life building security with a long-term partner and a well-paying, highly respected position in the best ad...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sapphire Books 2017
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Summary: "Norfolk, England, November 1944: After a series of dangerous missions in the South of France, US Army Captain Billy Boyle is finally on leave, and is settling into a peaceful rest at the country estate of Sir Richard Seaton, the father of Billy's British lover, Diana. Seaton Manor is a comfortable haven, and Billy is eager to spend a few precious days in Diana's company pretending the war is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2023
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Summary: "Having jeopardized their careers in an unauthorized investigation that threatened to reveal the corruption in South Africa's halls of power, Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido have been demoted from the elite Hawks police unit. While waiting to be transferred from Cape Town to seemingly mundane duty in Stellenbosch, Griessel receives a disturbing, anonymous letter: "I can only trust you and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2022
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Summary: "Seventeen-year-old aspiring journalist Darren Purchase has been a lifelong fan of country music legend Decklee Cassel, who's as famous for her classic hits as she is for her partnership with songwriter Mickenlee Hooper. The same Mickenlee who mysteriously backed out of the limelight at the height of their careers, never to be heard from again. Now Decklee's televised funeral marks the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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Summary: Sancia Grado is a thief, and a damn good one. And her latest target, a heavily guarded warehouse on Tevanne's docks, is nothing her unique abilities can't handle. But unbeknownst to her, Sancia's been sent to steal an artifact of unimaginable power, an object that could revolutionize the magical technology known as scriving. The Merchant Houses who control this magic--the art of using coded...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: Babur "Bobby" Singh, single parent and owner of fledging Uber business "Move with Bobby," remains ever hopeful about ascending the ladder of American success. He lives in an affluent suburb of New York with his daughter Angie, an introverted teenager who is uncomfortable in her own skin unless she's swimming. During summer break, Angie is walking home after training at the high school pool when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Deen, Natasha
Summary: "When Asim moves to a new town, he must save his new teacher when an evil spirit from Guyanese folklore begins to wreak havoc"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2022
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Summary: "Following their mission in the Soviet Union, Billy, Kaz, and Big Mike are sent to southern France for what should be a simple assignment: to serve as security for Royal Navy Commander Gordon Stewart, head of the Special Operations Executive's Section F in Algiers. Stewart's mission is to work with Resistance leaders in liberated areas to gather information that will help track down Vichy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2022
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Summary: Amy is more than one disastrous night of drunken revenge on her boss/ex-boyfriend's Audi--the night that tanked her rising TV producer career and led to a hasty move to London for a fresh start. She is thirty years of awesomeness. At least, that's what Amy tells herself every morning before trekking to her mediocre job making trailers at a failing British TV channel. Two years later, she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023