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1) Deep Mud
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English
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In the early 70s, the past sins of one man led to the punishment of an entire town, bringing murder, passion, unrequited love, and a connection to the strangest chain of events imaginable.Atascadero, (Spanish for Deep Mud) in the early 70s boasts a drive-in theater and a Burger Queen where teens gather on Saturday nights. Lovers head up to Lake Success, and gas is $0.32 a gallon at the Shell station-the one with the 'S' knocked out by vandals. Nothing...
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
En la década de 1950, las tensiones en la ciudad de La Frontera son palpables. Las camisas de boliche y las chaquetas de cuero compiten con las guayaberas y los huaraches. Los convertibles corren al lado de las motocicletas. Sin embargo, en medio de la discordia, el amor joven florece a primera vista entre Fulgencio Ramírez, hijo de inmigrantes empobrecidos, y Carolina Mendelssohn, la hija del farmacéutico local. Pero como pronto descubrirán,...
3) Ellie's Fate
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English
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What would you do if Fate gave you a second chance? Would you learn from your past mistakes and take it as an opportunity to correct all wrongs?Fate has given Ellie another chance at life. The question remains... would it be worthwhile? My whole life shifted when Ellie died.Eleanor James. Ellie. My best friend.She was someone I knew better than even myself... or so I thought.Ellie's life was cut short. Ravaged by her addiction to drugs, and perhaps,...
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English
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A Homecoming for anyone who's ever heard the trees whisper or for anyone who'd felt a deep connection to wildness.The story of two women on a quest to protect what they love and coming into powers they didn't know existed. Sara works for a logging company and has deep ties to her timber harvesting community. When she starts hearing the trees talk, Sara discovers that some of the people she once called family will go to huge lengths to keep her quiet....
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Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Clairvoyant single mom Tipsy Collins is easing into a post-divorce new normal. She's solved a century-old murder mystery and brought peace to her house. She's rebuilding her artistic career and co-parenting with her ornery ex-husband. She's hopeful that her boyfriend is Mr. Right. Mercurial phantom Henry Mott still haunts her house, but he's become a dear friend. Tipsy plans to return to her lifelong habit of ignoring restless spirits.
A series...
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A visionary neo-Western blend of magical realism, mystery, and horror, Valley of Shadows sheds light on the dark past of injustice, isolation, and suffering along the US-Mexico border.
Solitario Cisneros thought his life was over long ago. He lost his wife, his family, even his country in the late 1870s when the Rio Grande shifted course, stranding the Mexican town of Olvido on the Texas side of the border. He'd made his brooding peace with retiring...
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
When Eva's husband is arrested for the murder of a friend, she must confront her murky past and embrace her magick to find out what really happened that night on the river.
Eva Santos Moon is a burgeoning Chicana artist who practices the ancient, spiritual ways of brujería and curanderisma, but she's at one of her lowest points-suffering from disorienting blackouts, creative stagnation, and a feeling of disconnect from her magickal roots. When her...
8) Stonechild
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English
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Where do we go to when we die? Imagine human consciousness embedded in the molecules of a statue. So, when the famous statues of London come to life, it is a spectacle like non other. They come with a specific message, and an offer we cannot refuse.
As the world reels in this wonder of science and religion, Molly Hargreaves has other plans, and she sets out to prove that things are not as they seem. Chased, captured and confined, Molly confronts...
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English
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Trouble in paradise?
Having sold her photography studio in the UK, Freya Johnson is now living the American dream, engaged to Hollywood film star, Nicholas Kaden. Finally, her past is behind her and the only way is up.
But with a wedding to plan and a whole heap of charity work to organise, she could do without the reappearance of her childhood sweetheart, Jonny Sanders. He's rich, he's better looking than she remembers and he reminds her of all...
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HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Like a modern Midsummer Night's Dream, an ethereal and haunting novel about a young spy who enchanted by a species of half-swan, half-human creatures-an obsession that ultimately leads her to question her own existence-and sanity.
In the not-too-distant future, a young spy named Elísabet Eva finds herself mentally unraveling following an assignment in Paris. Everything in Elísabet's life in the city-her friends, social engagements, and late nights-revolved...
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Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"From acclaimed author Phoebe North comes a riveting, unexpected, and beautiful contemporary novel about a girl whose brother mysteriously disappears, the family and friends he leaves behind, and the stories—real and imagined—that they tell themselves to fill the empty space.
From the moment that Annie was born, she and her older brother, Jamie, were inseparable. Alike in almost every way, they promised to always take care of each other while...
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English
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"A compassionate ode to the beautiful messiness of being human." - Glendy Vanderah
"Reminiscent of Matt Haig's The Midnight Library and Rebecca Serle's In Five Years." - Booklist
A life-affirming debut that blends a poignant exploration of friendship and loss with a truly unforgettable love story.
What would you do if you had one more chance for the life of your dreams?
Lou feels like she is stuck on the wrong path: alone, in a city far from...
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Publisher
Harlequin Audio
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Weaves a spell of darkness that's mysterious and magical, and binds it with a knot of deathless love." -New York Times bestselling author Susanna Kearsley on A Lullaby for Witches
In post–World War I England, a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must untangle its powerful secrets…
With the stroke of a pen, twenty-three-year-old Ivy Radcliffe becomes Lady Hayworth, owner of a sprawling estate on the Yorkshire moors. Ivy has never...
14) Half Outlaw
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
When Tarah Schwartz miscarried for the first time at almost 5 months, it was devastating. Determined to try again, more miscarriages would follow, threatening her stability and her relationships, and changing her profoundly. In this memoir, Tarah puts words to excruciating loss as she recounts her unexpected and deeply inspiring journey to motherhood.
As a long time news reporter, she spent years working in front of a television camera, telling stories...
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English
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When Cornelia joins Napoleon's army as a traveling naturalist with the power to heal, she meets the sister she never knew existed on the opposite side of the battlefield and together, they must use the magic of flowers to solve the mystery of their mother's death, while fighting for their survival.
16) River Mumma
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English
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"Alicia has been out of grad school for months. She has no career prospects and lives with her mom, who won't stop texting her macabre news stories and reminders to pick up items from the grocery store. Then, one evening, the Jamaican water deity River Mumma appears to Alicia, telling her that she has twenty-four hours to scour the city for her missing comb. Alicia doesn't understand why River Mumma would choose her. She can't remember all the legends...
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