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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Blowing Rock, North Carolina, 1951. Blackburn Gant, his life irrevocably altered by a childhood case of polio, seems condemned to spend his life among the dead as the sole caretaker of a hilltop cemetery. It suits his withdrawn personality, and the inexplicable occurrences which happen from time to time rattle him less than interactions with the living. But when his only friend, the kind but impulsive Jacob Hampton, is conscripted to serve overseas,...
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Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, arrives in New York from San Francisco. Determined to make a fresh start, she has just completed the sale of her Pacific Heights home, not to mention her late husband's venture capital firm, and in doing so is also freed from her responsibility as a board member of the company. Bringing with her only a few personal treasures, she is excited to move into the blank slate of a beautiful midtown penthouse in the...
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xiii, 283 pages ; 24 cm
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"On a cold, gloomy night, twenty-three-year-old Kyoko stands in the rain with a knife in her hoodie’s pocket. Her target is Daniel, who seduced Kyoko’s mother then callously dropped her, leading to her death. But tonight, there will be repercussions. Following the unsuspecting Daniel home, Kyoko manages to get a rash kidnapping plot off the ground . . . and then nothing goes as planned. The Fetishist is the story of three people—Kyoko,...
6) Funny story
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"A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry, Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter's actual love story, the one that ends with him dumping Daphne before their wedding to...
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Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"Morag MacIntyre is a Scottish lass from the remote islands that make up the northernmost reaches of the UK. She's also a third-generation pilot, the heir apparent to an island plane service she runs with her grandfather. The islands--over 500 dots of windswept land that reach almost to Norway--rely on their one hardworking prop plane to deliver mail, packages, tourists, medicine, and the occasional sheep. As the keeper of this vital lifeline, Morag...
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Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"No hay delirio mas voraz que el deseo. Se alimenta de lo que sabe y no sabe, crece mejor en las sombras, en los santuarios prohibidos, en las distancias insalvables.(S1(B S es una escritora que vive en Londres. Ha perdido a un hijo y con el todo lo que la ataba a la vida, incluido su matrimonio. F es abogado y lleva junto a su mujer un pasar tranquilo en Santiago de Chile. S y F se conocen en Londres y a partir de entonces comienzan a reunirse clandestinamente...
9) Apia de Roma
Author
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
639 pages : black and white illustrations on page 8 ; 23 cm
Description
Apia P̤pulus est̀ a punto de perder a su madre. A pesar de su corta edad, conforme a las costumbres imperantes, contrae matrimonio con Salvio Sextus, un pr̤spero comerciante de perlas de edad avanzada. En el Palatino, el barrio m̀s encumbrado de la ciudad, la joven debe revestirse con una coraza para enfrentar la vida con alguien a quien no ama, cumplir con sus obligaciones de ama y defender su casa de las confabulaciones pol̕ticas. Roma es un...
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Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
183 pages ; 23 cm
Description
El viaje de los colibries ocupa ya un lugar en los corazones de los lectores mexicanos, desde que Sue Zurita publico una edicion independiente hace ocho anos con la que logro llegar a mas de 70 mil personas. Esta nueva edicion, revisada y actualizada, incluye un capitulo inedito: un nuevo final para Romina. Que fue de ella? A donde fue? Que experiencias vivio? Todo ello se cuenta en el nuevo desenlace de la novela.
11) Beauchamp Hall
Author
Publisher
Plaza & Jan�es
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 23 cm
Description
Winona Farmington so�naba con graduarse de la universidad, mudarse a Nueva York y dedicarse al mundo editorial, pero la vida se interpuso en su camino y tuvo que abandonar los estudios para volver a su peque�na ciudad del estado de Michigan y cuidar a su madre enferma. A�nos m�as tarde, Winnie se consuela viendo Beauchamp Hall, un drama de �epoca ambientado en una gran casa de Norfolk, en cuya historia se sumerge intentando escapar de su...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Roommates since college, Jess and Ren have built a strong—if at times codependent—friendship. Now navigating their late thirties, the women co-own a weathered beachfront home, comother a rescued shelter pup and have inadvertently centered their lives around each other. Jess is clever and driven with a lucrative career running her own real estate brokerage. Magnetic but aimless, Ren has been making margaritas at the same local dive and...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young woman whose gift of second sight complicates her coming of age in late 19th century Scotland. Growing up in the care of her grandparents on Belhaven farm, Lizzie Craig discovers at a young age that she can see into the future. Her gift of sight is selective-she doesn't, for instance, see that she has an older sister who will come to join the family on...
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