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Series
The last human ; 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In a post-war world where robots and humans coexist, XR_935 and Emma strive to maintain a fragile peace, but tensions rise as a group of humans resists reconciliation, raising the threat of potential upheaval and the end of their harmonious society.
2) Spy ring
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Language
English
Description
"With codewords and secret signals perfected, best friends Rachel and Joon are ready to spend their summer practicing spycraft—especially if they can uncover secrets like the one Joon’s parents have been keeping, that his family is about to move out of town. When eavesdropping leads them to a ring rumored to have belonged to Anna “Nancy” Smith Strong—according to local Long Island legend, the only female member of George Washington’s famed...
3) Shelterwood
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Language
English
Description
"Oklahoma 1909. Eleven-year-old Olive Augusta Radley knows that her stepfather doesn't have good intentions toward the two Choctaw girls boarded in their home as wards. When the older girl disappears, Ollie flees to the woods, taking six-year-old Nessa with her. Together they begin a perilous journey to the rugged Winding Stair Mountains, the notorious territory of outlaws, treasure hunters, and desperate men. Along the way, Ollie and Nessa form an...
Author
Publisher
EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The big flaps in this hide and seek book are perfect for little fingers to lift. Each one has a different garden animal hiding behind it, and the endearing artwork is full of details to look at and talk about together. A double-flap on the last page creates a fun surprise ending --
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Series
Maisie Dobbs novel ; 18
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion--the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Soon after a demobilized British soldier, ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, takes shelter with the group, Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners. Maisie is deeply puzzled by the children's reticence. Their stories are evasive and, more mysteriously,...
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Series
Language
English
Description
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz gets pony-fied! Gallop alongside Applejack (a.k.a. Dorothy) and friends as they brave the Yellow Brick Road.In the second installation of IDW's My Little Pony: Classics Reimagined line, L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is reimagined with our favorite ponies! And we've got a feeling they're not in Equestria anymore. Travel through all of Odd with Applejack as Dorothy, Pinkie Pie as Scarecrow, Rarity as Tin Woodsmare,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Ellie is ready to have the best summer ever.
She's especially excited to draw under her favorite tree and hang out with her big brother, Ben. But all Ben seems to care about is impressing the new lip-glossy neighbor, Sara. And all Sara seems to care about is turning Ellie's brother into a Hawaii husband!
Luckily, Ellie's best friend, Ling, has the marriage list—a top-secret tool to track the lovebirds and stop a wedding before it starts. But nothing...
8) Nero
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Series
Language
English
Description
From this New York Times bestselling author, the first novel in a new trilogy that finds Empress Agrippina and her young son, Nero, fending off ambitious rivals while shaping their own destiny-if Nero is to become the most feared and notorious emperor of them all.
The story begins with a hand curled around another man's throat.
This is Roman justice: Emperor Tiberius first dispatches a traitor-a friend he once trusted with the city-then the...
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Series
Language
English
Description
It's been 10 years since the men of the village left to fight in The Great War. Ten years since they left the women, children, and the older generation for a conflict far away from home and that they knew almost nothing about, except that it was about the security of their nation, their valley, their families. Ten years have passed since anyone has had any news of the war...
But the women quickly took charge of village matters. This is how the...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Brooklyn-based Hannah is a bestselling author struggling to write her second book after personal losses. Her older sister, Sara, still lives in Chatham, Cape Cod, where they grew up, and is married with four children. Once a dedicated librarian, Sara dreams of reviving her love affair with literature, but instead, she is stuck with too many family responsibilities and a fizzling marriage. When Hannah gets the chance to retreat to her aunt's oceanfront...
11) Picture a Girl
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
In this middle-grade novel, Addie has to draw on all her resilience to look after herself and her little brother, Billy, when their mother, who struggles with depression and alcholism, leaves unexpectedly. Addie's mom has left again.
Addie's mom is good at two things (three, if you count making French toast): surfing and telling stories.
Addie and her brother, Billy, live with their mom in a shabby rental cabin in the tourist town of Cedarveil,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Sparks fly between two women pitted against each other in this delectable new romantic comedy by Taleen Voskuni, author of Sorry, Bro. Twenty-seven-year-old Nazeli "Ellie" Gregorian enjoys the prestige of her tech marketing job but hates the condescending Patagonia-clad tech bros, her micromanaging boss, and her ex-boyfriend, who she's forced to work with every day. When Ellie's lovingly overbearing parents ask her to attend PakCon--a food packaging...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"At first the vision is grainy-like something seen through wet glass. But slowly it clears, and there appears the figure of a man. When Kunle's younger brother disappears as his country explodes in civil war, Kunle must set out on an impossible rescue mission behind enemy lines. Set in Nigeria in the late 1960s, The Road to the Country is the epic story of a shy, bookish student haunted by long-held guilt and shame who must go to war to free himself....
14) Cursed cocktails
Author
Series
Tales of Aedrea ; 1
Publisher
Aethervale Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When life gives you lemons, squeeze them into a stiff drink and stir. After 20 years defending the frozen north against some of the most dangerous threats in the nine kingdoms, Rhoren "Bloodbane" has finally earned his retirement. While the blood mage's service to the realm may have ended, burning veins and aching joints remain, and Rhoren soon learns that a warmer climate offers relief from his chronic pain. And a chance at a fresh start. In the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Moon City Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Ovid Dullann works as an assistant accountant for a multinational corporation and is supporting a family of four; but abruptly, on his forty-ninth birthday, Ovid runs away from his daily work and his loving family to go on a road trip. Struck by inspiration, Ovid knows that an Author is writing about him, and will do anything to avoid acting as a protagonist of a book. But this Author will not abandon his pursuit, and vows to punish Ovid, his wayward...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
20240521
Language
English
Description
When reclusive, mysterious author Ginerva Ex takes her on a lavish trip on the newly renovated Orient Express, for helping craft her latest thriller, Rory discovers Ginerva has masterminded the ultimate real-life twisty plot with Rory as her main character, and as lies, deceptions and betrayals pile up, so do the bodies.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From acclaimed African-American novelist Trisha Thomas comes the story of Bailey Dowery, a Black dressmaker in 1950s Oklahoma whose gift of "second sight" pulls her into a dangerous small-town scandal involving a society wedding, a murder, and shocking family secrets"--
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Sex and culture critic Ella Dawson's But How Are You, Really, about a burned-out bisexual young woman who attends her five-year college reunion and confronts her estranged chosen family, old demons, and the ex she maybe shouldn't have walked away from. But How Are You, Really is equal parts sexy second chance romance, a powerful reckoning with toxic workplace culture and burnout, and an exploration of surviving emotional abuse and what it means to...
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