Cindy Kay
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Given Tammy Duckworth's personal heroism as an Army veteran, her stunning recovery from injuries sustained in the line of duty, and her subsequent career as an influential US senator, it's easy to see why Joe Biden earmarked her as a possible running mate during his Democratic presidential campaign. Senator Duckworth has logged a long list of firsts during her tenure as the first Thai American member of Congress, including being the first woman with...
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In 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', Samuel Taylor Coleridge spins a compelling narrative of a seafarer bound by his haunting past voyage. Told in a lyrical ballad form, Coleridge's masterpiece melds the traditional with the innovative through its complex use of language, arresting imagery, and thematic depth. The poem is rich in maritime folklore and supernatural elements, yet at its core, it is a profound reflection on human guilt, redemption,...
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This stunning new thriller, set in a girls boarding school, will leave you breathless until the final page is turned.
Sometimes girls are the meanest of them all...
They were the perfect girls, the privileged girls, the ones the others looked up to... the stars of the Class of 1970, set to graduate and makes their marks in a rapidly changing world.
Female friendship has a special power, especially for girls trapped together in a boarding school, and...
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These violent delights volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 21
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In 1926 Shanghai, eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, heir of the Scarlet Gang, and her first love-turned-rival Roma Montagov, leader of the White Flowers, must work together when mysterious deaths threaten their city.
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Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in Ryka Aoki's Light From Uncommon Stars, a defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts. Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. She has already delivered six. When Katrina Nguyen,...
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You swab your cheek or spit in a vial, then send it away to a lab somewhere. Weeks later you get a report that might tell you where your ancestors came from or if you carry certain genetic risks. Or, the report could reveal a long-buried family secret that upends your entire sense of identity. Soon a lark becomes an obsession, a relentless drive to find answers to questions at the core of your being, like "Who am I?" and "Where did I come from?" Welcome...
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Grimrose girls volume 2
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At Grimrose Aca�dmie, the fairy-tale deaths continue. And unless the curse is broken, one of the girls could be next. Nani, Yuki, Ella, and Rory have discovered the truth about the curse that's left a trail of dead bodies at Grimrose. But the four still know nothing of its origins, or how to stop the cycle of doomed fates. And each girl harbors her own secret. One is learning why she was brought to the school. One struggles to keep her new and deadly...
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Grimrose girls volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
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While investigating the apparent suicide of their best friend, four students at an elite boarding school uncover a series of past murders connected to ancient fairy tale curses, and they fear that their own fates are tied to the stories, dooming them to gruesome deaths unless they can forge their own paths.
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Zara Mahoney was enjoying newlywed bliss until her life is upended by her estranged sister, Eve, and Zara must take custody of her children. Eve's struggles lead her to Tiff Bradley, who's determined to help despite the past hurts the relationship triggers. Can these women find the hope they-and those they love-desperately need?--
10) Our violent ends
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These violent delights volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 24
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Though secrets and lies keep Juliette and Roma apart, a monster still prowls the city of Shanghai, and the two are going to have to put aside their differences to end this threat to once and for all--
11) Earth to Hell
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Author Kylie Chan has a boldly, brazenly unique take on urban fantasy-she combines it with Kung Fu. In Earth to Hell, Chan launches the characters from her Dark Heavens trilogy (White Tiger, Red Phoenix, Blue Dragon) on a new adventure that will take them from the teeming streets of Hong Kong through the portals of Hell to set free a friend-as demons and devils rise up to challenge them in life-or-death battle, forcing Emma Donahoe Chen, wife of God...
12) Dark Serpent
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The First Book in Bestselling Author Kylie Chan's Thrilling Celestial Battle TrilogyWhen the ancestry of Xuan Wu's fiancée, Emma, is revealed, it threatens the harmony of the whole Celestial realm. The demons are gathering, powerful alliances are being made and stone Shen are under threat. However, Xuan Wu is distracted-he must save Emma from the Demon King and give her the elixir of immortality, but at what cost?
13) White Tiger
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Dark heavens trilogy volume 1
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A young woman accepts a position as nanny to the young daughter of a handsome, wealthy, and mysterious Chinese businessman-only to discover her new employer is really a god...and every foul demon in creation is out to destroy him! With a premise like that, fantasy aficionados and die-hard action lovers alike will no doubt be expecting something exceptional-and Australian author Kylie Chan delivers big time! White Tiger is the first book in Chan's...
14) Red Phoenix
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Dark heavens trilogy volume 2
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The second book in Australian author Kylie Chan's ingenious urban fantasy saga-a tale of ancient gods and foul demons doing battle in the modern world-Red Phoenix combines Chinese mythology with martial arts, paranormal romance, and magic in a story that takes off like a rocket and never slows down. The action moves from Hong Kong to Europe as heroine Emma Donahoe finds a demonic circle of death closing around her and the people she loves: the breathtaking...
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This K-9 has a sanctuary to protect
and its owner to rescue
Someone wants Paige Bristow's wolf sanctuary gone…and Paige dead. Officer Reece Campbell and his K-9 partner, Maverick, are the only ones she can turn to, but she never told him he was the father of her daughter. As the attacks escalate, Reece must uncover the perp and keep himself from falling for Paige all over again. But will the truth between them cost everything?
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16) Rookie Instincts
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The Tactical Crime Division-TCD-is a specialized unit of the FBI. Meet a new team of elite agents as they risk it all to safeguard the innocent and protect the ones they love.
Two women dead…with the same ID? Time to call the Tactical Crime Division.
New TCD team member Aria Calletti is determined to find out why women are turning up dead-especially since an infant was left at the most recent crime scene. Fortunately for the TCD's newest operative,...
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Everything She Touched recounts the incredible life of the American sculptor Ruth Asawa.
This is the story of a woman who wielded imagination and hope in the face of intolerance and who transformed everything she touched into art. In this compelling biography, author Marilyn Chase brings Asawa's story to vivid life. She draws on Asawa's extensive archives and weaves together many voices-family, friends, teachers, and critics-to offer a complex and...
18) Blue Dragon
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Dark heavens trilogy volume 3
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Australian author Kylie Chan concludes her action-packed contemporary urban fantasy trilogy with Blue Dragon-a most satisfying end to her electrifying tale of ancient gods and malevolent demons, of love and extraordinary destiny. Once again, the author of White Tiger and Red Phoenix draws from Chinese mythology and ingeniously combines magic, martial arts, and Taoist philosophy with paranormal romance, as heroine Emma Donahoe must battle supernatural...
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Can you come sit at the table? Tammy Letherer's husband of twelve years spoke these words on a Tuesday night, just before Christmas, after he had put their three children in bed. He had a piece of paper and two fingers of scotch in front of him. As he read from the list in his hand, his next words would shatter her world and destroy every assumption she'd ever made about love, friendship, and faithfulness.
In The Buddha at My Table, Letherer describes―in...
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Inspired by true events, All Sorrows Can Be Borne is the story of Noriko Ito, a Japanese woman faced with unimaginable circumstances that force her to give up her son to save her husband. Set in Hiroshima, Osaka, and the badlands of eastern Montana and spanning the start of World War II to 1982, this breathtaking novel is told primarily in the voice of Noriko, a feisty aspiring actress, who fails her audition to enter the Takarazuka Theater Academy....