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81) The Bad Seed
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The bestselling novel that inspired Mervyn LeRoy's classic horror film about the little girl who can get away with anything-even murder. There's something special about eight-year-old Rhoda Penmark. With her carefully plaited hair and her sweet cotton dresses, she's the very picture of old-fashioned innocence. But when their neighborhood suffers a series of terrible accidents, her mother begins to wonder: Why do bad things seem to happen when little...
82) Sweet Love
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She does the craziest thing she's ever done...
He's hiding his identity...
Grieving over her divorce and the death of her mother, she's trying to start over. But, he's there to hide from his fans. When she doesn't know who he is, he continues a lie that could destroy everything.
Can sparks fly when two people are keeping secrets?
83) Wisteria Winds
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There's a hurricane heading straight for Wisteria Island...
In book 2 of this popular new Lowcountry women's fiction series, the residents of Wisteria Island are in danger as a hurricane is barreling toward their beloved island. Can Bennett and Danielle take care of their dozens of residents?
Catch up with the crazy characters of Wisteria Island including Morty and Gladys, and maybe a few more you haven't met yet!
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In the Mexican state of Tabasco in the 1930s, all vestiges of Catholicism are being outlawed by the government. As churches are razed, icons are banned, and the price of devotion is execution, an unnamed member of the clergy flees. He's known only as the "whisky priest." Beset by heretical vices, guilt, and an immoral past, he's torn between self-destruction and self-preservation. Too modest to be a martyr, too stubborn to follow the law, and too...
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A GROUNDBREAKING, DEFINITIVE WORK ON HOW TO BUILD WOMEN'S POWER
"A perfect primer for women everywhere who want to take action-whether their heading to their first town hall meeting or running for office." -- Cecile Richards, New York Times bestselling author of Make Trouble and President of Planned Parenthood
"The book we all need to remind us why the fight against white supremacy and patriarchy will actually set us free." -- Patrisse Khan-Cullors,...
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Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long...
87) All I Need
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He's always been the funny one…
… but there's nothing funny going on in his life right now.
When a new opportunity arises, he thinks things are turning around.
And then she shows up.
She doesn't like him a bit, and the feeling is mutual. But he needs this job.
And she needs an escape from her own problems back home.
Will sparks fly or will secrets come back and haunt them both?
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Don't turn your back on her. Don't even blink. She may be crazy, but Lizzie Halliday is strong, she moves fast, and she's a stone cold killer. When famed journalist Nellie Bly interviews the woman the New York Times called "The Worst Woman on Earth," she has no idea how easy it would be for Lizzie Halliday to make Bly her next victim. In the peaceful Catskills in upstate New York, Halliday dispatches husbands, neighbors and peddlers by fire, poisoning...
89) Playing the game
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When his beloved younger wife and protegé is rendered a top player in the international art scene, proud Marius introduces her to a leading journalist to cover her life story, unaware that an instant connection between his wife and the journalist will ignite powerful secrets.
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She's engaged to a man she's never met.
He may not even exist.
She takes a leap of faith and follows her heart.
When things don't quite turn out as planned, she somehow manages to end up in a sticky situation with a new friend she meets in January Cove.
Will he blow her cover? Or, will fairy tales come true after all?
This adorable clean beach romance will leave you swooning.
If you love the January Cove series, you'll also get to experience Tessa...
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IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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March the Hare enters into his very first professional race and comes up against the defending World Champion, Lyca the Fox, whose skill and aggression is unrivaled. March finds help and inspiration in the unlikeliest of places-his own family.
92) Don't let go
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"Suburban New Jersey Detective Napoleon "Nap" Dumas hasn't been the same since senior year of high school, when his twin brother Leo and Leo's girlfriend Diana were found dead on the railroad tracks--and Maura, the girl Nap considered the love of his life, broke up with him and disappeared without explanation. For fifteen years, Nap has been searching, both for Maura and for the real reason behind his brother's death. And now, it looks as though he...
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Adam Zamoyski's bestselling account of Napoleon's invasion of Russia and his catastrophic retreat from Moscow, events that had a profound effect on European history.
In 1812 the most powerful man in the world assembled the largest army in history and marched on Moscow with the intention of consolidating his dominion. But within months, Napoleon's invasion of Russia-history's first example of total war-had turned into an epic military disaster. Over...
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Elena Ferrante is the best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend, now an HBO original series. Collected here for the first time are the seeds of future novels, the timely reflections of this internationally beloved storyteller, the abiding preoccupations of a writer who has been called "one of the great novelists of our time" (New York Times).
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He's a doctor whose patients have a way of dying; a lawyer, who uses his skills to squirm out of criminal convictions. He's a scholar, but other scholars have no idea what he's talking about. He's a family man, but one day, his wife and baby disappear forever. Only two things are clear: Edward Rulloff is a mystery, and everywhere he goes, death and destruction follow. While the criminal justice system has its hands full trying to keep and convict...
96) Dogwood Hill
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Chesapeake Shores novels volume 12
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"When former pro football quarterback Aidan Mitchell comes to Chesapeake Shores to take a high school coaching job, he's embraced by the town--especially the O'Briens. But Aidan has a secret that could alter all their lives. For wounded Liz March, who's trying for a fresh start after a devastating betrayal, taking a chance on Aidan may be more than she can handle. Her heart, however, refuses to listen to her head. But just when forever seems within...
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They told her he was dead.
It was the worst day of her life.
Unable to bear the memories of her late fiancé, Paige moves far away and tries to start her life over.
And then, there was a cowboy.
He shows her that maybe life is still worth living. Maybe, just maybe, she has a future.
And then, she gets the shock of her life.
This gut wrenching, hope-filled clean romance will have you laughing, crying and believing in miracles.
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It's a split second decision.
What if he figures out who she isn't?
Daisy needs to stop a mall project from ruining her town. A billionaire stands in her way. And she isn't exactly well versed in faking her identity. That is, until she does it.
The problem is, he doesn't like her one bit.
Will she make it out of his beach house without blowing her cover?
Ready for a clean billionaire romance that will make you smile and swoon?
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Set between the New York Times bestseller Shadowshaper and its upcoming sequel Shadowhouse Fall, and following the first novella Ghost Girl in the Corner, this story of music, passion, and mystery will draw you deeper into the magical Brooklyn of Daniel José Older's Shadowshaper Cypher.Mina Satorius, classmate of Sierra and her crew, is being drawn deeper into the light of the Sorrows' world. Sierra's brother
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