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Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning author Joseph Andras resurrects Ho Chi Minh's formative years in Paris. Searching for traces of the past in the streets of today, Andras hears echoes of other angry histories, from terror attacks to tent encampments to the protests of the Gilets jaunes. This intensely lyrical, genre-bending book is a meditation on what could be called the grandeur of the poor, the free, the outcast, and the rebellious"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Hank's mother does not come home after a week, he and his toddler sister, Boo, seek out the stranger listed as their emergency contact, even though it means social workers, a new school, and having to answer questions about his mom that he has been trying to keep secret.
45) The tournament
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Jett Warner receives a coveted invitation to the Southwest Regional Minecraft Tournament, but with unpredictable rules and the sudden need for a partner, he reluctantly teams up with his father, and the duo will need to work as a team in order to win.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
As their senior year draws to a close, childhood friends Caplan and Mina navigate the challenges of their high school's social hierarchy when Cap's best friend expresses romantic feelings for Mina, and the two friends confront the complexities of love andfriendship.
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A violent storm washes a mysterious house onto a rural Pacific Northwest beach, stopping the heart of the only woman who knows what it means. Her grandson, Simon Culpepper, vanishes in the aftermath, leaving two of his childhood friends to comb the small, isolated island for answers - but decades have passed since Melissa and Leo were close, if they were ever close at all. Now they'll have to put aside old rivalries and grudges if they want to find...
48) Rakesfall
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell. There are wrongs that echo through the ages, friendships that outpace the claws of death, loves that leave their mark on civilization, and promises that nothing can break. This is one such story. Annelidand Leveret met as children in the middle of the Sri Lankan civil war. They found each other in a torn-up nation, peering through propaganda to grasp a deeper truth. And in a demon-haunted wood, another...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Translated from the Japanese bestseller, this charming and magical novel, inspired by the myth of cats returning favors to those who care for them, reminds us that it's never too late to follow our stars. In Japan, cats are a symbol of good luck. As the myth goes, if you are kind to them, they'll one day return the favor. And if you are kind to the right cat, you might just find yourself invited to a mysterious coffee shop under a glittering Kyoto...
Author
Publisher
MSR, Marysue Rucci Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When the patriarch of a famed hotel empire dies under suspicious circumstances, his daughter and her estranged brother join forces to find out what happened, unraveling a larger mystery about who their father really was. From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and Reeses Book Club Pick The Last Thing He Told Me comes a riveting mystery wrapped in an epic love story"--
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A single mother working in the gothic mansion of a reclusive horror director stumbles upon terrifying secrets in the captivating new horror novel from the national bestselling author of Good Girls Don't Die and Horseman. Harry Adams has always loved horror movies, so it's not totally a coincidence that she took the job cleaning house for movie director Javier Castillo. His forbidding graystone Chicago mansion, Bright Horses, is filled from top to...
52) Dark restraint
Author
Series
Dark Olympus ; 7
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Ariadne Vitalis is in trouble. She's betrayed her father--and his benefactor--and now she's left to rely on the questionable mercy of Olympus to keep her safe. As with everything in this city, mercy comes with a price. For Ariadne, that means a marriage to Dionysus. She has no choice but to agree, even if there's only one man she's ever wanted-a man she's feared just as much as she desires. The Minotaur never had any illusions about Minos's plans....
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A fresh, sexy romantic comedy about a newly-out lesbian finding herself, finding her tribe, and finding her partner--in that order. Bette is in love for the first time in her life. When she turned thirty, she realized she likes women and fell for Mei. Finally, everything makes sense. Until, out of the blue, Mei suggests they take a break so that Bette can go and do all the exploring she missed out on in her twenties - for her to plunge into the queer...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Fresh off his career-changing standalone co-written with Icelandic PM, Reykjavaik, #1 Icelandic bestseller Jonasson presents a riveting new thriller spinoff from The Darkness, soon to be a TV series. 1983 At a former sanatorium in the north of Iceland, now a hospital ward, an old nurse, Yrsa, is found murdered. Detective Hulda Hermannsdottir and her boss, Sverrir, are sent to investigate her death. There, they discover five suspects: the chief physician,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Theo and Kit have been a lot of things: childhood best friends, crushes, in love, and now estranged exes. After a brutal breakup on the transatlantic flight to their dream European food and wine tour, they exited each other's lives once and for all. Time apart has done them good. Theo has found confidence as a hustling bartender by night and aspiring sommelier by day, with a long roster of casual lovers. Kit, who never returned to America, graduated...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
After her father's murder, eighteen-year-old Aihui Ying travels to the capital, where she discusses herself as her brother and infiltrates the Engineers Guild as she tries to solve her father's murder with help from a prince with plans of his own.
57) Hot earl summer
Author
Series
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Bold, curvy Elizabeth Wynchester loves cuddling hedgehogs almost as much as she adores vanquishing villains with the sharp blade concealed inside her cane. Despite others' opinions about her body and gender, nothing will stop her from seeing justice done. When her next mission drops her at the dastardly Earl of Densmore's castle, she's prepared to duel like gentlemen--only to be locked inside! Her trusty sword cannot defeat the castle's hidden traps......
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
German physicist Paul Haber fled to America to work on the atomic bomb and avenge the loss of his family to the Nazis, but when he learns that his family is alive in Nazi hands, he must spy on his new homeland to protect them.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
As the intricate plan concocted between two women who are the wife and mistress of a powerful businessman unfolds and secrets are exposed, what started out as a quest for ransom money turns into a ruthless game of cat and mouse that within seventy-two hours explodes with consequences that will change their three lives forever.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Mae Townsend has always dreamed of connecting with her estranged Black family in the South. She grew up picturing relatives who looked like her, crowded dinner tables, bustling kitchens. And, of course, the Townsend family barbecue, the tradition that kept her late father flying to North Carolina year after year, despite the mysterious rift that always required her to stay behind. But as Mae's wedding draws closer, promising a future of always standing...
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