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2023.
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"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone, which has sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and...
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"In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and...
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Recalling the past at her daughters' request, Lara tells the story of a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance, which causes her daughters to examine their own lives and reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
"In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor...
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"In the new crime thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling J.D. Robb, a small and easily concealed weapon wreaks havoc, and the killer is just a face in the crowd. Jenna's parents had finally given in, and there she was, at a New York club with her best friends, watching the legendary band Avenue A, carrying her demo in hopes of slipping it to the guitarist, Jake Kincade. Then, from the stage, Jake catches her eye, and smiles. It's the best night...
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"Walt Longmire faces one of his most challenging crime scenes as he tries to reckon with the revelations of his last case where he confronted the ghosts of his past and questioned the very nature of justice and mercy in the hard country of the West. Deep in the heart of the Wyoming countryside, Sheriff of Absaroka County, Walt Longmire, is called to a crime scene like few others that he has seen. This crime brings up issues that go back to Walt's...
6) Iron flame
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Empyrean volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
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"Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College--Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet's already wondering how she'll get through. It's not just that it's grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it's designed to stretch the riders' capacity for pain beyond endurance....
7) Dirty thirty
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2023.
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Stephanie Plum, Trenton's hardest working, most underappreciated bounty hunter, is offered a freelance assignment that seems simple enough. Local jeweler Martin Rabner wants her to locate his former security guard, Andy Manley (a.k.a. Nutsy), who he is convinced stole a fortune in diamonds out of his safe. Stephanie is also looking for another troubled man, Duncan Dugan, a fugitive from justice arrested for robbing the same jewelry store on the same...
8) The edge
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"The 6:20 Man is back, dropped by his handlers into a small coastal town in Maine to solve the murder of a CIA agent who knew America's dirtiest secrets--can Travis Devine uncover the truth before his time runs out? When CIA operative Jenny Sikwell is murdered in rural Maine, government officials have immediate concerns over national security. Her laptop and phone were full of state secrets that, in the wrong hands, endanger the lives of countless...
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Last binding volume 3
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2023.
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"Secrets! Magic! Enemies to... something more? Jack Alston, Lord Hawthorn, would love a nice, safe, comfortable life. After the death of his twin sister, he thought he was done with magic for good. But with the threat of a dangerous ritual hanging over every magician in Britain, he's drawn reluctantly back into that world. Now Jack is living in a bizarre puzzle-box of a magical London townhouse, helping an unlikely group of friends track down the...
10) Fourth wing
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Empyrean volume 1
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2023.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 29
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"Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away ... because dragons don't bond to "fragile" humans....
11) The women
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"'Women can be heroes, too.' When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances Frankie McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins...
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"Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long-shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a million. After getting a wrongfully convicted man out of prison, he is innudated with pleas from incarcertaed people claiming innocence. He brings on board his half brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, to weed through the letters, knowing most claims will be false. Bosch pulls a needle from the haystack: a woman in prison for five...
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Seix Barral
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2020
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Español
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Un viaje formidable por las historias de la Biblia que alimentaron la imaginación de un futuro escritor
Como muchos niños de la posguerra española, Eduardo Mendoza estudió en el colegio una asignatura denominada Historia Sagrada, resumen e ilustración de algunos pasajes de la Biblia que hicieron nacer en él la fascinación por la palabra escrita y por los mundos de ficción, además de enseñarle a distinguir entre lo real y lo imaginario. «No...
14) Vaso de rocío
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SAGA Egmont
Pub. Date
2021
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Vaso de rocío es un drama teatral del dramaturgo Salvador Rueda. Ambientado en la Grecia clásica, cuenta una historia de amor frustrado en las coordenadas típicas de la obra del autor: el gusto por el costumbrismo, las potentes imágenes sensoriales, un incipiente modernismo en el estilo y una plasticidad tan pictórica como musical en las metáforas.-
15) Three-inch teeth
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Joe Pickett novels volume 24
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"A rogue grizzly bear has gone on a rampage--killing, among others, the potential fiancé of Joe's daughter. At the same time, Dallas Cates, who Joe helped lock up years ago, is released from prison with a special list tattooed on his skin. He wants revenge on the people who sent him away: the six people he blames for the deaths of his entire family and the loss of his reputation and property. Using the grizzly attacks as cover, Cates sets out to...
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"A gripping historical mystery based on the real-life diary entries of Martha Ballard, an 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into American history. Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of...
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SAGA Egmont
Pub. Date
2021
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Publicada a modo póstumo, Sonetos del amor oscuro contiene los sonetos escritos durante los últimos años de vida de Federico García Lorca. En ellos se alcanza una maestría absoluta en los temas recurrentes de Lorca: el amor, sobre todo el amor frustrado, la muerte. La recopilación de estos últimos sonetos fue realizada después de la muerte del poeta.-
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Gunnie Rose novels volume 5
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2023.
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"Following the murderous events of Serpent of Heaven, Lizbeth Rose is awaiting the arrival of her sister Felicia and her husband's younger brother Eli in Texoma. Both needed to leave the seat of the Holy Russian Empire in San Diego after Felicia's burgeoning wizardly power in death magic became the reason for kidnapping and assassination attempts from her mother's family of high-powered wizards in Mexico. Yet bad news has traveled ahead of them, as...
19) La mujer nueva
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Austral
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2020
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Paulina, una mujer de mediana edad, se separa de su marido, cuyo matrimonio es invalidado por las coincidencias contradictorias de la guerra civil y decide independizarse y demostrar que puede valerse por sí misma, acomodándose en un piso en Madrid y, si es necesario, haciéndose cargo de su hijo. Es una nueva vida, llena de desconocidos horizontes, descubre de nuevo el amor y mantiene una apasionada relación amorosa. Esta historia podría parecer...
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Tusquets Editores S.A
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2020
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Su infancia en un arrabal de San Sebastián, su memoria del dolor en los años oscuros en el País Vasco, su experiencia como maestro en Alemania, sus rituales a la hora de escribir y de encontrarse con los lectores, algunos paseos y viajes, las lecciones extraídas de una atenta lectura de Albert Camus: este volumen reúne los mejores artículos literarios de Fernando Aramburu. Son piezas deliciosas cargadas de humor, sensibilidad y sabiduría, y...
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