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581) The fifth doll
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Matrona lives in an isolated village, where her life is centered on pleasing her parents. She's diligent in her chores and has agreed to marry a man of their choosing. But a visit to Slava, the local tradesman, threatens to upend her entire life. Entering his empty house, Matrona discovers a strange collection of painted nesting dolls -- one for every villager. Fascinated, she can't resist the urge to open the doll with her father's face. But when...
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"Life at Flint Hill Elementary School may seem normal, but seven friends soon find themselves on a path to crack the code for an epic life. Whether they're searching for an elusive monster fish, chasing their dreams on stage, or running a makeshift business out of a tree house, can these heroes find a way to work together to change their community?"--
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Dream is living the life she has always envisioned for herself, making her dreams come true. Not only is hers and Destiny's business thriving but she is in love. However, a blast from the past threatens to destroy her budding relationship with Eazy, creating cracks in their sturdy foundation. Will the threat crumble their story before it truly begins? After their very brief affair, Destiny is cool with Juice only being in her life for the sake of...
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Hiei and Kuruma use every weapon they can think of as they fight members of the Jolly Devil Six. And, Kurwabara experiences a reverie about Dr. Ichigaki's team, who enlisted in the Dark Tournament in exchange for a cure for their master. Includes a bonus story about the first meeting between Hiei and Kuruma.
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With rare insight, the author take readers on a journey that proves the importance of perspective, the power of connection, and the ability everyone has to make the impossible come true, through an inspirational story in which Jones, a mysterious elderly man with white hair and endless wisdom, opens an unusual business in Orange Beach, Alabama, that always seems to have exactly what visitors are looking for.
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In her award-winning collection, YOU HAVE REACHED YOUR DESTINATION, author Louise Marburg captures turning points in the lives of twelve disparate women. Marburg's crisp, clear-eyed prose, infused with dark humor, reveals the inevitable collapse of pretension beneath the struggles of loneliness, death, and the all too human need to be seen. From a pre-teen attempting to understand her father's suicide to a ninety-year-old caught in shadows of past...
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Jessica Luna has man trouble, mom trouble, and not a clue what to do with her life. As the baby of her family, she's never been trusted to make the right choices. So now Jess bases all her life decisions on signs--seeking guidance from the Virgen de Guadalupe hanging from her rearview mirror or what Madame Hortensia, her psychic, sees in the cards. When her sort-of boyfriend Guillermo disappoints her again, Jess wants to call it quits. Just to be...
592) Insurgente
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One choice can transform you-- or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves-- and herself-- while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love. Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable...
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"For fans of Celeste Ng and Claire Messud comes an impeccably paced and transfixing debut novel about how life's little decisions can ultimately yield the most powerful consequences. It's five pm on a Wednesday when Emma settles into her hometown bar with a motley crew of locals, all unaware that a series of decisions over the course of a single night is about to change their lives forever. As the evening unfolds, key details about Emma's history...
594) Escape velocity
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Georgia Griffin has just arrived in Silicon Valley from Piney, Arkansas, on very bald tires, having firmly rejected her beloved father's life as a con artist. Her father is in jail and a certain minister is hugging her mother for Jesus while eyeing Georgia's little sister, Katie-Ann. Georgia desperately needs to keep her new job as a paralegal for Lumina Softward so she can provide a California haven for her sister before it's too late. While she's...
595) Rogue
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After defeating her grandmother's closest enemy, Jayd Jackson's world should be simpler, but not a chance -- especially not with a crew like hers. With Mickey and G on the run, Nigel being sued by Nellie's abusive boygriend, David, Jeremy back in trouble with the law thanks to his vengeful wifey, Cameron, and Mama slacking on the job to keep her man, Jayd has no time to focus on the normal things that every high school senior should be doing. Thankfully...
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"Richly drawn stories about the lives of ordinary families in contemporary Botswana as they navigate love, relationships, tradition, caretaking and grieving in a rapidly changing world. A young widow who for a nearly a year wears mourning clothes in part as a warning to those who believe the old superstitions about bad luck following--even though she's unsure what the traditions mean or whether she is ready to meet the world without their protection....
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""One of the most beautiful novels that I've written." - Willem Frederik Hermans Alberegt, a public prosecutor and self-proclaimed "man of minor failings," speeds through Hook of Holland in his black Renault on May 9, 1940. His every move is guided by the cool and patient hand of a guardian angel. Flitting about from the hood of Alberegt's car to the rim of his windswept hat, the angel attempts to quell their unhappy ward's fears and secrets. (On...
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Set in Nevada in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a gripping story about the perils of lynch law and the fragility of civilized norms in the West. Outraged by reports of the murder of a rancher and the theft of cattle, a posse of vigilantes sets out to find the culprits but instead targets three strangers who are innocent of the crime. Walter Van Tilburg Clark's novel, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for 1940, offers a powerful exploration of group...