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1) Divine evil
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English
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Sculptor Clare Kimball has captured the attention of the New York art world. But big-city success cannot burn away the half-remembered nightmares that have plagued Clare since childhood. These phantoms of the past have drawn her home to Emmitsboro, Maryland, to the small town where she grew up and where her father died in circumstances never really explained. Not much in her hometown seems to have changed, but within the dark woods of Emmitsboro something...
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True Grit tells the story of fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross. A coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. That's when Mattie fearlessly heads out to avenge her father's blood, convincing one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest U.S. marshal there is, to accompany her. But their plans run into an obstacle - namely, a Texas Ranger who is also investigating...
6) The river
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River novels volume 1
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English
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Gabriel Clarke is mysteriously drawn to The River, a ribbon of frothy white water carving its way through steep canyons high in the Colorado Rockies. The rushing waters beckon him to experience freedom and adventure. But the memory of the terrible event he witnessed on The River when he was just five years old holds him back. Chains of fear and resentment imprison Gabriel, keeping him from discovering the treasures of The River and taking hold...
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Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"A witty, warm, and irreverent book that traces the lives of two young Taiwanese American women as they navigate friendship, sexuality, identity, and heartbreak over two decades"--
Best friends since second grade, Fiona Lin and Jane Shen explore the lonely freeways and seedy bars of Los Angeles together through their teenage years, surviving unfulfilling romantic encounters, and carrying with them the scars of their families' tumultuous pasts. Fiona...
8) The bouquet
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Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
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Two sisters, Mandy and Terri, both somewhat estranged from their family return home to help their mother after their father dies suddenly. Shortly thereafter, they discover that the family florist business has been in decline for some time and that their father had been hiding a secret. The sisters team up to rebuild the company using Terri's marketing savvy and Mandy's knowledge of the area. While doing so, old troubles between the sisters emerge...
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Tiny Reparations Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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"A coming-of-age novel told from the perspective of an eleven-year-old over the course of a single summer, as she tries to make sense of her new life with her estranged grandfather and sister after the death of her father and disappearance of her mother"--
An ode to Black girlhood and adolescence as seen through KB's eyes, What the Fireflies Knew follows KB after her father dies of an overdose and the debts incurred from his addiction cause the loss...