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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents' house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family. But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga's role. Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family. And no one seems to acknowledge that Julia is broken,...
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Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Although she's taken an interest in Irish embroidery, Marcy cannot help but abandon her needlecraft when handsome local brewer Todd finds himself accused of murder. During a St. Patrick's Day party at the pub, a gunshot causes a commotion, leading the police to the back room where Todd and his friend Blake are standing with the body of their former fraternity brother and a smoking gun. Marcy is determined to prove the culprit was someone else, but...
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Series
Black butler volume 30
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"When searching for Ran-Mao, Mey-Rin's succesfully uncovered the covert operation in Baron Heathfield's manor--but an unforeseen hurdle stands in the way of a job well done. A tantalizing offer of employment has Mey-Rin reflecting on her own blood-soaked history that binds her to the former Earl Phantohive...Will she remain the master's devoted servant or will she abandon her post for good...?"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Getty Publications
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Renowned for her innovative wire sculptures, Japanese American artist Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) was a teenager in Southern California when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States entered World War II. Japanese Americans on the West Coast were forced into camps. Asawa's family had to abandon their farm, her father was incarcerated, and she and the rest of her family were sent to a detention center in California, and later to a concentration camp...
30) Fadeaway
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"At 8:53 pm, thousands of people watched as Jake Foster secured the state title for his basketball team with his signature fadeaway. But by the next morning, he's disappeared without a trace. Nobody has any idea where he is: not his best friend who knows him better than anyone else, not his ex-girlfriend who may still have feelings for him, not even his little brother who never expected Jake to abandon him. Rumors abound regarding Jake's whereabouts....
31) Sunburn: a novel
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A "novel of psychological suspense about a pair of lovers with the best intentions and the worst luck: two people locked in a passionate yet uncompromising game of cat and mouse. But instead of rules, this game has dark secrets, forbidden desires, inevitable betrayals, and cold-blooded murder. One is playing a long game. But which one?"--Dust jacket.
When they meet at a local tavern in the small town of Belleville, Delaware, Polly is set on heading...
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Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"On June 6, 1998, twenty-three-year-old Matt Lewis had just started his dream job as a scientific observer aboard a deep-sea fishing boat in the waters off Antarctica. As the crew haul in the line for the day, a storm begins to brew. When the captain vanishes and they are forced to abandon ship, Lewis leads the escape onto three life rafts, where the battle for survival begins"--
33) Untamed
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"There is a voice of longing inside every woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good mothers, daughters, partners, employees, citizens, and friends. We believe all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives, relationships, and world, and wonder: Wasn't it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to...
34) Toklo's story
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Series
Publisher
Turtleback Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
"Grizzly cub Toklo dreams of one day being a great big bear who will rule the forest. He will mark his wide territory and hunt the biggest game, and his brother, Tobi, will forever be at his side. Other grizzlies may stalk the forest alone, but Toklo and Tobi will always have each other. Yet for now, they're too little to defent themselves, and when a terrifying grizzly demands they leave his territory--or else--they have no choice but to abandon...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Augustine, a brilliant, aging astronomer, refuses to abandon the research center in the Arctic when he receives news of a catastrophic event. Soon after, he discovers a mysterious child and realizes that the airwaves have gone silent. They are alone. Meanwhile, Mission Specialist Sullivan and her crew, the first astronauts to delve into deep space, discover that Mission Control is no longer on the air. Sullivan's career has cost her her marriage,...
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"Oxford 1360. When his sister's betrothed vanishes the night before her politically-arranged marriage, Raff Barden must track and return the elusive groom to restore his family's honor. William de Foucart - known to his friends as Penn - had no choice but to abandon his fiancee, and with it his own earldom, when he fled the night before his enforced marrige. But ill-equipped to survive on the run he must trust the kindness of a stranger, Raff, to...
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"In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai--her first in sixteen years--a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by the male-dominated Salt Water City, goes to war against disease, technology, and powerful men that threaten them with extinction. Kirilow is a doctor apprentice whose lover Peristrophe is a "starfish," a woman who can regenerate her own limbs and organs, which she uses to help her clone sisters whose organs are failing. When...
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Jeanna Kadlec knew what it meant to be faithful--in her marriage to a pastor's son, in the comfortable life ahead of her, in her God--but there was no denying the truth that lived under that conviction: she was queer and, if she wanted to survive, she would need to leave behind the church and every foundational building block she knew. Heretic is a memoir of rebirth. Within, Kadlec reckons with religious trauma and Midwestern values, as a means of...
39) The invited
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"A chilling ghost story with a twist: the New York Times bestselling author of THE WINTER PEOPLE returns to the woods of Vermont to tell the story of a husband and wife who don't simply move into a haunted house, they start building one from scratch, without knowing it, until it's too late... In 1924, a young mother, Hattie Breckenridge, is hanged from a tree in her yard by the town mob, accused of a crime that was actually committed by her daughter....
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"Allie is still recovering from the loss of her family's beloved waterfront restaurant on Florida's Gulf Coast when she loses her second husband to a terrifying highway accident. Devastated and losing hope, she shudders to contemplate the future-- until a cherished person from her past returns. Joseph has been adrift for many years, wounded in both body and spirit and unable to come to terms with the trauma of his Vietnam War experiences. Just as...
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