Aven Shore
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"When Owen Galloway, the track star son of a prominent US senator, is found dead of an overdose in his bedroom, LAPD Detective Cari Garcia suspects that he’s just another teenager who hid a drug addiction. In Vancouver, Dr. Julie Rees, an experienced toxicologist, notices a growing number of overdoses among the eating disordered and body builders, and mentions it to her boyfriend, Detective Anson Chen. Then Rain Flynn, a famous pop star and social...
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"Told in three distinct, brilliantly interlocking narratives, Leigh Gallagher's WHO YOU MIGHT BE is a fiercely original debut novel that takes readers from 1990s Southern California to a UFOlogist holdout in the Nevada desert, the graffiti underworld of Detroit, and the self-important Brooklyn art scene to present an unflinching examination of trauma"--
4) Scammer Girl
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Technology complicates everything, including love.
Five years ago, Jo Harper did a bad thing. Dumped, injured, and in crippling debt, Jo did what any desperate woman with a PhD in psychology and above-average computer skills would: become an elite, undetectable online romance scammer. Now Jo and her team of four young women bring in enough cash to keep them securely afloat. Their targets? Married cheaters.
Jamie March, Bay Area royalty known as...
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What's in a Title? That which the System gives by any other Title might not smell as sweet.
In the System Apocalypse, a single Title can make or break a build. And in the entire Galactic System, there are Title Seekers, those who make it their life quest to acquire the most unusual and rare Titles possible.
Earth, a new Dungeon World offers multiple possibilities. Not least among them, the one from a familiar set of golden arches. For...
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We All Need to Eat is a collection of linked stories from Alex Leslie that revolves around Soma, a young Queer woman in Vancouver. Through thoughtful and probing narratives, each story chronicles a sea change in Soma's life. Lyrical, gritty, and atmospheric, Soma's stories refuse to shy away from the contradictions inherent to human experience, exploring one young person's journey through mourning, escapism, and the search for nourishment.
The stories...
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The book everyone is talking about-you'll never see the ending coming.
Never question a mother's intuition.
My water isn't supposed to break while there's a storm raging, when my husband isn't on the island, and as the power flickers out. Darkness covers the cabin as I cling to my belly. I never imagined it happening like this.
Trained as a midwife, I know I can deliver my daughter.
I look at her, and I see her-I've always known her.
She's perfect....
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Ghosts just don't show up for anybody.
So when I meet the spirit of a former slave named Moses, I know he needs my help.But I didn't expect to be taking on half of my town, or the powerful men who seem to run everything and have done so for years.
Secrets are being uncovered, and some people would do anything to keep them buried, no matter who gets hurt. I'll need the help of history and friends I can trust if I want to save Moses' graveyard and protect...
9) Jelly Jars
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A girl in the one place she never wanted to be.
Meeting the one person she never expected.
But what Peggy Nieman doesn't realize is that her life is about to change, as two broken souls fatefully collide. The only question is: will they heal one another ... or destroy one another?
Because one thing is certain ... they can't quit one another.
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I didn't expect to meet a grieving ghost or her dead mother.
But then, I didn't expect to find out my town had been the site of a lynching, a lynching that had left my friend Sarah motherless and had made her a victim of murder as well.
Their deaths aren't ancient history, though, not when one man who was a witness still holds sway in our small town. My friends and I have truth on our side, but will that be enough to keep us safe?
If only telling...
11) Silverglass
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The life of a sword-for-hire was often uncertain, but for beautiful, sensual Corson brenn Torisk it was the only one worth living.
When Corson was hired by the Lady Nyctasia, it seemed that fortune was smiling at last. The Lady was pretty, amusing, and rich, and her reputation for sorcery, she assured her new bodyguard, was greatly exaggerated.
For Corson had little liking for magic, and less for magicians. But she had a high regard for her own...
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Mira Storm Weather had always wondered why people thought she was strange. She had always thought she lived an ordinary life.
However, events at Halloween would prove to Mira how extraordinary her life could be.
On this night Mira discovered that she had inherited magical abilities.
She must gain knowledge and courage to fight the evil one in her village and find her true destiny as a witch.
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It's not every day a ghost curls up in your lap...
When little Henrietta decides I'm trustworthy and introduces me to her teacher, Charlotte, I find myself wrapped up in the story of their murders. Before long, my friends and I are saving a building, solving a murder, and telling the stories that a lot of people in our small town would rather be left untold.
Our best hope for ourselves and for Henrietta and Charlotte is that the truth really will...
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RIDDLES, TREASURE, AND SORCERY
Here is a web to catch the wind - And a loom to weave a lay.
Riddles play on words, my friend - Play on these and play you may.
This simple riddle was the clue that started the sword-for-hire Corson and her sorceress companion, the Lady Nyctasia, on, a hunt for the greatest treasure ever hidden.
But this long-abandoned treasure is the hoard of the dread Cymvelan Circle, whose scattered members are coming together...
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On her fifteenth birthday Mira Storm weather made a wish to not be sent on any more dangerous missions, but destiny it seemed had other ideas.
Dark Wizard Damien Charmer has escaped from prison and is somehow more powerful than ever.
With the fate of the world in their hands, it's up to Mira and her friends to discover Damien's plan and stop him by any means possible, even if it means breaking a few Witch rules along the way.
During this time astonishing...
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Anthony and Mira have been summoned to the side of a dying dragon. Glycinda's last deed on Earth is to hand over a book that she had been protecting for years. A book that would lead them to a castle within the Summer Forset that has been lost for centuries.
Anthony, Mira, and their friends set off on an adventure to find the castle. Where they encounter two ghosts, who need their help to find their murderer.
Whilst trying to solve the mystery,...
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With only her sorcerer's powers and the swordswoman Corson to protect her, the Lady Nyctasia was forced to flee her beloved city of Rhostshyl. Solving riddles and casting spells, fighting pirates and helping escaped slaves, sword and sorcery have stood back-to-back dueling with adventure. But now, Nyc's beloved city needs her. This is no street brawl, but a civil war, which Nyc must win... or all is lost!
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Log cabins are supposed to be full of inspiring stories, not bloody bones.
When Paisley Sutton gets the chance to salvage from her first antique log cabin, she is ecstatic, until she finds the body of a murdered man in the back room. When she and her friends begin to look into who he is and why he's dead, they uncover a heap of stories no one in town wants them to know.
Will the truth set them free or get them killed?
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It's not every day you get to sit on pristine blue water holding a beautiful, first edition Nadine Gordimer novel, and wondering if you'll survive the day.
Poe Baxter has always wanted to go to Capetown, and when she hears that a rare book by a famous South African novelist has come on the market, she takes the opportunity to fly to the city. But as soon as she and her best friend Beattie begin researching the whereabouts of this supposed literary...