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Daughter in Exile: A Novel

Bisi Adjapon - HarperVia
Format: Hardcover

The acclaimed author of The Teller of Secrets returns with a gut-wrenching, yet heartwarming, story about a young Ghanaian woman's struggle to make a life in the US, and the challenges she must overcome.Lola is twenty-one, and her life in Senegal couldn't be better. An aspiring...
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Chartwell Manor

Glenn Head - Fantagraphics
Format: Hardcover

Veteran alternative cartoonist Glenn Head's harrowing graphic memoir is about years of sexual and emotional abuse suffered at a boarding school during his adolescence, and the resultant trauma that took him almost 50 years to process before being able to tell his story publicly. No one asks...
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How to Survive a Scandal

Samara Parish - Forever
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Lady Amelia was raised to be the perfect duchess, accomplished in embroidery, floral arrangement, and managing a massive household. But when an innocent mistake forces her and the uncouth, untitled Benedict Asterly into a marriage of convenience, all her training appears to be for naught....
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A Deadly Thaw: A Mystery

Sarah Ward - Minotaur Books
Format: Print book

Lena Grey is found guilty of murdering her husband, who was found smothered in their bed. She offers no defense, and serves fourteen long years in prison. But within months of her release nearly two decades later, his body is found in a disused morgue, recently killed. Who was the man she killed...
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The Night Away: An absolutely unputdownable psychological thriller

Jess Ryder - Bookouture
Format: Paperback

My sister said I deserved a break. She offered to babysit so that my husband and I could have one night away, remember who we used to be before the sleepless nights.But the next morning my phone rings. My sister is hysterical. Mabel's cot is empty. My little girl is gone.I race home...
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Red Hand of Fury, The: A pre-World War One historical mystery

R N MORRIS - Severn House Publishers
Format: Hardcover

A series of bizarre suicides leads Detective Inspector Silas Quinn to revisit his own troubled past ... June, 1914. A young man is mauled to death by a polar bear at London Zoo. Shortly afterwards, another young man leaps to his death from a notorious Suicide Bridge. Two seemingly unconnected...
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The Bell in the Lake: A Novel

Lars Mytting - The Overlook Press
Format: Hardcover

The engrossing epic novel - a #1 bestseller in Norway - of a young woman whose fate plays out against her village's mystical church bells As long as people could remember, the stave church's bells had rung over the isolated village of Butangen, Norway. Cast in memory of conjoined...
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New Zealand Oxford Dictionary

Tony Deverson - OUP Australia and New Zealand
Format: Hardcover

The first dictionary of its kind available in New Zealand and the only dictionary any New Zealander will ever need. With over 100,000 definitions, including over 12,000 New Zealand entries and a wide range of encyclopedic information, it is the most extensive, authorative, and accessibledictionary...
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The Rancher's Prospect

Callie Endicott - Harlequin
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Digging a little deeper Running his family's ranch has always been Josh McGregor's dream. Dealing with his feisty grandfather, however, is not. Josh is struggling to maintain control, and ranch manager Tara Livingston doesn't help. The only thing they agree on is ignoring the attraction...
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Make You Feel My Love

Robin Lee Hatcher - Thorndike Press Large Print; Large type / Large print edition
Format: Library Binding

"After escaping an abusive relationship, Chelsea Spencer flees to Chickadee Creek--the town where her great aunt Rosemary owns a quaint little antique shop. There, Chelsea plans to help with the shop as her aunt heals from an accident--and perhaps find some healing of her own. Liam...
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