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Amours Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse Antiques business Scotland Fiction Dating (Social customs) Juvenile fiction Fantasy fiction Friendship Fiction Hostages Somalia Fiction Large type books Murder Investigation Fiction Stories without words Teenage boys Australia Melbourne (Vic.) FictionDawson, Ella
Summary: "Sex and culture critic Ella Dawson's But How Are You, Really, about a burned-out bisexual young woman who attends her five-year college reunion and confronts her estranged chosen family, old demons, and the ex she maybe shouldn't have walked away from. But How Are You, Really is equal parts sexy second chance romance, a powerful reckoning with toxic workplace culture and burnout, and an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2024
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Summary: "Russia, July 17, 1918: Under direct orders from Vladimir Lenin, Bolshevik secret police force Anastasia Romanov, along with the entire imperial family, into a damp basement in Siberia where they face a merciless firing squad. None survive. At least that is what the executioners have always claimed. Germany, February 17, 1920: A young woman bearing an uncanny resemblance to Anastasia Romanov is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: A young Darug girl is sent to the Parramatta Native School after white settlers begin to arrive and claim the continent for the British Empire and flees, searching for a safe place in an increasingly unfamiliar world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JANMagson, Adrian
Summary: "When two British intelligence agents are despatched to negotiate the release of a group of western hostages in Somalia, veteran MI6 operator Tom Vane realizes that something about this operation doesn't stack up. Unwilling to see two promising officers sacrificed in what he believes to be a suicide mission, he covertly hires deep cover specialist Marc Portman to protect them"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAGMagson, Adrian
Summary: Marc Portman, codename Watchman, is in Russia providing covert back-up to wealthy Russian businessman Leonid Tzorekov. A former KGB officer sympathetic to the West, Tzorekov has close links with Vladimir Putin and is planning to use his influence with the President to improve relations between Russia, the USA and the European Union. However, there are those with vested interests in maintaining...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAGMagson, Adrian.
Summary: When a drug bust on the Essex coast commanded by MI5 agent Harry Tate goes bad, resulting in the deaths of a member of his team and two civilians, Harry's superiors post him to Red Station (located in Georgia near South Ossetia), where agents who have committed serious errors are tucked away from the eyes of the press. Harry soon figures out that the job is a sham and that those agents who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAGDawson, Delilah S.
Summary: "War is coming, and it's gonna be Pell. On one side stand the gnomes: smol, cheerful, possessing tidy cardigans and no taste for cruelty. On the other side sit the halflings, proudly astride their war alpacas, carrying bags of grenades and hungry for a fight. And pretty much anything else. It takes only one halfling bomb, and Offi Numminen's world is turned upside down--or downside up, really,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2019
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1 available in Adult- Fantasy, Call number: Fantasy Dawson 2019Dawson, Delilah S.
Summary: "The Mob Squad must outwit a mysterious new enemy as they journey across the Overworld of Minecraft"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Worlds 2023
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Summary: Quiet Emily's sociable and daring best friend, Sloane, has disappeared leaving nothing but a random list of bizarre tasks for her to complete, but with unexpected help from popular classmate Frank Porter, Emily gives them a try.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2015
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Summary: Stella is obsessed with logistics and problem solving, and does not have time for fairy tales, but on a pre-prom visit to Disneyland she and Reece (a boy she accidentally got fired) get swept up in the world of Sleeping Beauty, and the girl who believes in logic, not fantasy, finds herself in a very illogical situation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DisneyHyperion 2024
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Summary: A little girl collects wildflowers while on a walk with her distracted father. Each flower becomes a gift, and whether the gift is noticed or ignored, both giver and recipient are transformed by their encounter. This wordless picture book, conceived by award-winning poet JonArno Lawson and beautifully brought to life by illustrator Sydney Smith, is an ode to the importance of small things,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2015
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Summary: Eighteen-year-old Darcy, a firm believer in love at first sight, finds herself stranded at a bus station the night before leaving for college, until she meets Russell, sparking a whirlwind of unexpected adventures and heartfelt connections as they unravel the possibility of falling in love in just one day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MATSamson, Lily
Summary: "Two couples. One twisted game of love and sex. A dark domestic thriller about the dangerous secrets that come to light when a wild fantasy turns sinister... When young couple Elena and Adam are offered the chance to housesit in their dream neighborhood for a few months, they jump at the opportunity. The leafy South London enclave is a world away from everything they know, complete with grand...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2024
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Summary: "A historical novel about a French botanist's search for a mysterious woman who escaped from slavery in Senegal"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIOLawson, Michael
Summary: "The latest pulse-pounding thriller from Edgar and Barry Award finalist Mike Lawson starring his beloved Washington DC "troubleshooter" Joe DeMarco. Carson Newman doesn't wear tracksuits. He doesn't have a consigliere or operate out of the back room of a restaurant. And as evidenced by his ever-growing Boston empire, he doesn't get his hands dirty. Usually. Joe DeMarco, on the other hand, is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2024
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Summary: "1907. On the eve of her fifth birthday, Poppy Pendleton is tucked safely in her bed, listening to her parents entertain New York's gilded society in their Thousand Islands castle; the next morning, she is gone, and her father is found dead in his smoking room. 1992. Though Chloe Ridell lives in the shadows of Poppy's castle, now in ruins, she has little interest in the mystery that still...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: These children and animals are all very different to each other. Some are big, some are small. Some are gentle, some are rough. Everyone is playful, but who's the best at hiding? But one thing's certain: they all love a good bedtime story! The perfect picture book for little ones who are just beginning to make sense of their place in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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Summary: Anna Hopkins' daily walk through Oxford's picturesque Port Meadow is rudely interrupted one autumn morning when her white German Shepherd, Bonnie, unearths a bloodsoaked body in the undergrowth. For Anna it's a double shock: she'd met the victim previously. Naomi Evans was a professional researcher who had told Anna she was working on a book about a famous Welsh poet, and who offered to help...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2015
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Summary: "When an infant is abandoned on her ranch, foster mother Isabelle Trent will do anything for the child--even put her own life on the line. She might not know who left the little girl, but it's clear someone's after her and will kill to reach their target. With Isabelle's ranch hand, Brian "Mac" McGee, at her side, can she survive long enough to protect the baby?"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Love Inspired Suspense 2021
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Summary: "When Char Hawthorn's husband dies unexpectedly, she is left questioning everything she once knew to be true: from the cozy small town life they built together to her relationship with her stepdaughter, who is suddenly not bound to Char in any real way. Untethered explores what bonds truly form a family and how, sometimes, love knows no bounds. Char Hawthorn, college professor, wife and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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Summary: "Recently laid-off from his newspaper and desperate for work, war correspondent Nick Bishop takes a humbling job: writing a profile of a new mindfulness app called Clarity. It's easy money, and a chance to return to his hometown for the first time in years. The app itself seems like a retread of old ideas--relaxing white noise and guided meditations. But then there are the "Sleep Songs." A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/ Atria 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Carson 2021Ellis, Carson
Summary: Readers are invited to imagine the dramatic possibilities to be found in the natural world, even the humblest back garden! With exquisitely-detailed illustration that will appeal to children and art-lovers alike, and a wonderfully playful invented language, we soon find ourselves speaking "Bug" ... Du iz tak? What is that?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016
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Summary: For a sixteen-year-old, a summer internship working for a private investigator seems like a dream come true--particularly since the PI is investigating the most shocking crime to hit Bloomington, Indiana, in decades. A local woman has vanished, and the last time anyone saw her, she was in the backseat of a police car driven by a man impersonating an officer. Marshall Miller's internship puts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books / Atria 2024
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Murnane, Gerald
Summary: "Lost to the world for more than four decades, A Season on Earth is the essential link between two acknowledged masterpieces by Gerald Murnane - the lyrical account of boyhood in his debut novel, Tamarisk Row, and the revolutionary prose of The Plains. A Season on Earth is Murnane's second novel as it was intended to be, bringing together all of its four sections - the first two of which were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Text Publishing 2019