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Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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A millennial couple grapple with the sense of menace and despair that seems to permeate their modern lives as they scramble to pay the bills, cook meals, and navigate their relationship in the apocalyptic cityscape of 2020 Brooklyn, New York.
Author
Series
Island of Mure novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Flora MacKenzie and her fiancae have their plans for their tiny "sweetheart wedding" on the Scottish island of Mure disrupted when an expat with money wants to throw the most extravagant wedding possible on the same day"--
4) Third degree
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Struggling with uncertainties about her NYPD detective boyfriend's marriage proposal, college professor Alison Bergeron witnesses the murder of an unpopular blogger and subsequently realizes that the case is more complicated than it appears.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Leah is changed. Months earlier, she left for a routine expedition, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night. As Miri searches for answers, desperate to understand what happened below the water, she must face the possibility that...
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Language
English
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Description
When the Coastline Killer, a vigilante who's been targeting random victims because they don't respect the environment, claims another victim, the local police consider Jay Macklin--a tourist staying at a remote northern California cottage with his paramedic wife--a suspect.
9) Memorial
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Language
English
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"Mike is a Japanese American chef and Benson is a Black day care teacher. They've been together for a few years, but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. When Mike finds out his estranged father is dying in Osaka just as his acerbic Japanese mother, Mitsuko, arrives for a visit, Mike flies across the world to say goodbye. In Japan he undergoes an extraordinary transformation. Back home, Mitsuko and Benson are stuck living together and...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The new novel from Liane Moriarty, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Husband's Secret, Big Little Lies, and What Alice Forgot, about how sometimes we don't appreciate how extraordinary our ordinary lives are until it's too late. "What a wonderful writer--smart, wise, funny." --Anne Lamott Six responsible adults. Three cute kids. One small dog. It's just a normal weekend. What could possibly go wrong? In Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty...
13) Mean streak
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dr. Emory Charbonneau, a pediatrician and marathon runner, disappears on a mountain road in North Carolina. When she regains consciousness, she finds herself the captive of a man whose violent past is so dark that he won't even tell her his name. She's determined to escape him and willing to take any risks necessary to survive. Unexpectedly, however, the two have a dangerous encounter with people who adhere to a code of justice all their own.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Jane and William are enjoying their honeymoon at an exclusive couples-only resort...until Jane receives a chilling note warning her to "Beware of the couple at the table nearest to yours." At dinner that night, five other couples are present, and none of their tables is any nearer or farther away than any of the others. It's almost as if someone has set the scene in order to make the warning note meaningless--but why would anyone do that? Jane has...
Author
Publisher
Tindal Street Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"Lydia Weekes is distraught at the break-up of her marriage. When her young son, Charlie, makes friends with the local doctor, Jean Markham, her life is turned upside down." "Charlie tells his secrets to no one but the bees, but even he can't keep his mother's friendship to himself. The locals don't like things done differently. As Lydia and the doctor become closer, the rumors start to fly and threaten to shatter Charlie's world."--BOOK JACKET.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
No one knew they'd moved in together. Now one of them is dead. Could this be the perfect murder? 56 DAYS AGO Ciara and Oliver meet in a supermarket queue in Dublin the same week Covid-19 reaches Irish shores. 35 DAYS AGO When lockdown threatens to keep them apart, Oliver suggests that Ciara move in with him. She sees a unique opportunity for a new relationship to flourish without the pressure of scrutiny of family and friends. He sees it as an opportunity...
18) After Francesco
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Language
English
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Description
"Kevin Doyle, a gay man who lost his partner, Francesco, to AIDS in mid-1980s New York wallows in his loss and at a mind-numbing job before hitting rock bottom and realizing it is time to return home to Minnesota to start over."--
19) Listen
Author
Publisher
Bold Strokes Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Former child music prodigy Lily Croft spends most days in her home office crunching numbers and analyzing data as an actuary. Once she filled concert halls across the world, until the pressure got to be too much and forced her retreat. When her boss hands her a temporary assignment, Lily has to leave the safety of working from home to work with people at an office. She keeps her head down and stays focused, but one night on her way to the train station,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Trixie Nguyen is determined to make her sex toy business a success, proving to her traditional Vietnamese parents that she can succeed in a nontraditional career. She's made a fresh start in Washington DC, and her first pop-up event is going well - until she runs into the ex who dumped her. With a Post-it note. The last person Andre Walker expected to see in his soul food restaurant was the woman he left behind in New Orleans. Their chemistry is...
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