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1) Odder
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"Odder spends her days off the coast of central California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she's known. She's a fearless daredevil, curious to a fault. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a hungry great white shark, her life takes a dramatic turn, one that will challenge everything she believes about herself--and about the humans who hope to save her"-- Provided by publisher.
2) Photograph
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"Private investigator Shannon Wells receives a client with a strange request: Find out who I really am. Now the woman is dead, and the only clue to who she was and why she was murdered is an old photograph of a little girl. The hunt for answers takes Shannon from Florida to rural Michigan as she peels away the layers of a shocking cold case that has rippled violently into the present."-- Publisher.
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Galilee Kincaid has always felt different--haunted by a mysterious secret about her existence--until she meets Lucifer Helel, a powerful being guarding an ancient artifact. As forbidden attraction ignites between them, Galilee discovers her own extraordinary nature, thrusting her into a deadly struggle between Hell, Heaven, and her own family's secrets. Caught between desire, loyalty, and destiny, she must embrace her power--or risk catastrophic consequences...
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"Claire O'Connor is a promising writer who left the family's struggling farmstead in western Ireland long ago for London and love, swearing never to return. But after the unexpected death of her mother, she is racked with grief, and when her father is diagnosed with cancer, she decides to return home to care for him, destroying everything she'd so carefully built up in the process. The pandemic follows, and Claire falls into a comfortable routine,...
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Michael and Jane Banks will never forget the magical moments of their childhood spent with Mary Poppins. When their practically perfect nanny returns to 17 Cherry Tree Lane to look after Michael's children, she brings the same joy and wonder to the next generation of the Banks family.
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A Spanish woman trying to retire as an assassin, a French Foreign Legion deserter from Madagascar, a mysterious (perhaps CIA) woman from America, a billionaire military contractor, and a man wandering the seas alone on a sailing ship bump into each other in the Indian Ocean, and not all of them survive.Monica has had enough of her life as a contract killer when she meets lonely wanderer Frank Baltimore in a stupidly expensive resort in Madagascar....
8) Unfit
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New Directions paperbook volume 1649
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"Lisa has lost custody of her young twin boys. Caught between the French legal system's sluggish bureaucracy and her sinister, scheming in-laws, she's alone and lost, an Argentine migrant in rural France picking grapes for a pittance, only allowed to see her children in supervised visits once a month. Scapegoated and outcast, destitute and desperate, Lisa decides to take radical action: early one morning, she sneaks into her in-laws' farmhouse, takes...
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"Faith and her charismatic best friend, Kayla, always vowed to escape their trailer park together. After their social media persona, Hannah Primrose, goes viral, their fates seem more entwined than ever. But when Faith is accepted into prestigious Harkness College, she must decide whether to keep her promise to Kayla or learn to tell her own story. By the time Faith arrives on campus, Kayla is no longer speaking with her. Struggling to fit in with...
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Tinhorn western volume 3
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"To wealthy rancher Ira Dunellen, the frontier prairie land surrounding his spread is his for the taking. His cattle need room to roam and the one-horse town of Tinhorn, Texas is standing in his way. On the bank of the Neches River, the small community of merchants is just wasting a precious resource that Dunellen's growing range needs. As stray cattle wander into town, followed by rowdy cowboys, Sheriff Flint Moran and partner Buck Jackson start...
14) The endless week
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"From the 2023 winner of the Prix Goncourt for poetry comes a debut novel unlike any other, a lyrical anti-epic about the beauty, violence, trauma, and absurdity of the internet age. Like Beckett's novels or Kafka's stranger tales, The Endless Week is a work outside of time, as if novels had never existed and Laura Vazquez has suddenly invented them. And yet it could not be more contemporary, as startling and constantly new as the scrolling hyper-mediated...








