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"The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is "one of those tech demi-gods with whom we're all on a first name basis." Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing" memory. It's 2010. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, "Own...
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Forge
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Spencer Quinn's Bark to the Future continues the adventurous New York Times and USA Today bestselling series that Stephen King calls "without a doubt the most original mystery series currently available." When Chet the dog, "the most lovable narrator in all of crime fiction" (Boston Globe), and his human partner, PI Bernie Little, are approached by down-and-out older man with a cardboard sign at an exit ramp, Bernie is shocked to discover the man...
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"Growing up the daughter of notorious treasure hunter and absentee father Duke Wilder left Lily without much patience for the profession . . . or much money in the bank. But Lily is nothing if not resourceful, and now uses Duke's coveted hand-drawn maps to guide tourists on fake treasure hunts through the treacherous and storied red rock canyons of Utah. It pays the bills but doesn't leave enough to fulfill her dream of buying back the beloved ranch...
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Zahra and Maryam have been best friends since childhood in Karachi, even though-or maybe because-they are unlike in nearly every way. Yet they never speak of the differences in their backgrounds or their values, not even after the fateful night when a moment of adolescent impulse upends their plans for the future. Three decades later, Zahra and Maryam have grown into powerful women who have each cut a distinctive path through London. But when two...
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Deep Vellum Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"At The Lucky Hand is an account of the different love stories that revolve around a very peculiar book: My Legacy, by Anastas Branica. Upon first glance, My Legacy is a text suspiciously unworthy of obsession: there are no plot or characters to be found. However, the book's author is uninterested in a typical reading. Instead, he has created a world outside of time and space that can only be inhabited by its readers, which Anastas has written in...
7) I'll be you
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"As children, Sam and Elli were two halves of a perfect whole: Gorgeous identical twins whose parents sometimes couldn't even tell them apart. They fell asleep to the sound of each other's breath at night, holding hands in the dark. And once Hollywood discovered them, they became B-list child TV stars, often inhabiting the same role. But as adults their lives have splintered. After leaving acting, Elli reinvented herself as the perfect suburban wife:...
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Single mom Heather Donovan's dreams of home and family are tantalizingly within reach when she settles in Chesapeake Shores. The welcoming arms of the boisterous, loving O'Brien clan embrace her and her son. But accepting their support seems to further alienate her son's father, Connor O'Brien. His parents' divorce and his career as a high-powered divorce attorney have left him jaded about marriage. Then everything changes. Will the possibility of...
10) The hidden one
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"The discovery of an Amish bishop's remains leads chief of police Kate Burkholder to unearth a chilling secret in this new thriller from bestselling author Linda Castillo. Over a decade ago, beloved Amish bishop Ananias Stoltzfus disappeared without a trace. The mystery of what happened to the esteemed old man has haunted his small Pennsylvania community for years. When skeletal remains showing evidence of foul play are unearthed and revealed to be...
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Book woman of Troublesome Creek volume 2
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English
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"In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away for good. Picking up her mother's old packhorse library...
12) Belchamber
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New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Charles Edwin William Augustus Chambers--Marquis and Earl of Belchamber, Viscount Charmington, and Baron St. Edmunds and Chambers--known familiarly as Sainty, is the scion of an ancient English aristocratic family. Behind him stretches a rogues' gallery of picturesque upper-crust scoundrels. But he is uninterested in riding to hounds or drinking or whoring in the great tradition of his forebears, and though he admires his tough-minded puritanical...
13) La edad de tiza
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Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022.
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Español
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"Álvaro ha cumplido ya los treinta cuando un reves laboral lo devuelve a la casa familiar: al̕l sigue viviendo su madre y permanecen tambien, a modo de fantasmas, las promesas de prosperidad de su adolescencia. Sin mucho ̀ms que hacer, se propone desentrąar un viejo misterio que empez̤ cuando el te̕na catorce ąos: la desaparic̤in de una cinta de ̕vdeo sobre educac̤in sexual que les pusieron en clase y que dio pie a otros acontecimientos...
14) The three bears
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Starscape
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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When two bear cubs are lost in the woods without their mother, it is Lily, once a stray puppy, who comes to their rescue.
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New Directions paperbook volume 1086
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English
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At the heart of John Gardner's Nickel Mountain is an uncommon love story set in a small Catskill community in the 1950s: when, at forty-two, the obese, gentle, and anxious Henry Soames marries seventeen-year-old Callie Wells -- who is pregnant with the child of a local boy -- it is much more than age that defines the gulf between them. The plot turns on tragic events -- they might be accidents or they might be acts of will -- involving a cast of rural...
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Copernicus
Pub. Date
1995.
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English
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Alice is about to enter a whole new Wonderland. It's Quantumland--a kind of intellectual amusement park, smaller than an atom, where each attraction demonstrates a different aspect of quantum theory. There she'll meet an Emperor who thinks his new clothes into existence, dance with the Three Quark Brothers at the Particle MASSquerade, travel back in time (running into herself), and experience all kinds of quantum effects. Readers will learn about...
17) Learning to fall
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Daphne spends a vacation with her estranged father, whom she has not seen in years, and the pair bond over their love of skateboarding.
19) Planeta
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Negra Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022
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Español
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"La aparic̤in en un campo de golf del càdver desangrado de una mujer pone en jaque al Grupo de Homicidios de Sevilla: a la ̕vctima le han cercenado los pies. La inspectora Camino Vargas tend̀r que cancelar las vacaciones previstas con Paco Arenas, su antiguo mentor y amor secreto con quien por fin convive, para ponerse a investigar en medio de una ciudad en alerta ̀mxima por las condiciones clìmticas y devastada por unas lluvias torrenciales...
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Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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In Horizon, Misty the Cloud tries to work out a compromise with a group of sunbeams whose games are putting a damper on her birthday celebration, but the back-and-forth between the clouds and sun worries a human girl named Claire, who fears her birthday party will be ruined by bad weather. Includes weather facts.