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Mysteries and crime stories, Holiday fiction
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"Three days before Christmas, young sleuth Regan Reilly meets amateur detective Alvirah Meehan at a New Jersey dentist's office. When…
a call comes through on Regan's cell phone demanding $1,000,000 ransom for her father and his driver, the two team up to crack the case." -- Provided by publisher
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Mysteries and crime stories, Holiday fiction
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"Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth; recently "hitched" private detective Regan Reilly; and their husbands Willy and Jack,…
are guests on the Royal Mermaid's maiden voyage, the Santa Cruise. The cruise is Commodore Randolph Wee's gift to a select group of people who in the last year made the world a better place. What he doesn't know is that his ne'er-do-well nephew, Eric, has smuggled two escaping criminals on board. As the Royal Mermaid sails through troubled waters, Alvirah and Regan uncover clues that lead them to the dangerous men who were not on the original guest list!" -- Provided by publisher
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Mysteries and crime stories, Suspense and thrillers, Holiday fiction
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"Packy Noonan, a con-man, just released from prison after serving a 12-year sentence, wants to retrieve his "stash," 80 million…
in cut diamonds that he has hidden in a flask attached to a branch in a tree. To his dismay he finds that this particular blue spruce has been chosen to spend the holidays as Rockefeller Center's famous Christmas tree. When he breaks parole and heads for Vermont to reclaim his loot only to find that "his" tree is headed for New York City, he knows he has to work fast." -- Provided by publisher
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Mysteries and crime stories, Suspense and thrillers
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"Zan Moreland's three-year-old son Matthew was kidnapped two years ago. Now pictures have emerged showing a Zan look-alike taking Matthew…
from his stroller as Matthew's babysitter sleeps in the park. Zan soon realizes that someone has stolen her identity as well as her son--but will anyone believe her?" -- Provided by NLS
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Mysteries and crime stories, Suspense and thrillers
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"Biblical scholar Jonathan Lyons believes he has found the rarest of parchments-a letter that may have been written by Jesus…
Christ. Stolen from the Vatican Library in the 1500s, the letter was assumed to be lost forever. Now, under the promise of secrecy, Jonathan is able to confirm his findings with several other experts. But he also confides in a family friend his suspicion that someone he once trusted wants to sell the parchment and cash in. Within days Jonathan is found shot to death in his study. At the same time, his wife, Kathleen, who is suffering from Alzheimer's, is found hiding in the study closet, incoherent and clutching the murder weapon. Even in her dementia, Kathleen has known that her husband was carrying on a long-term affair. Did Kathleen kill her husband in a jealous rage, as the police contend? Or is his death tied to the larger question: Who has possession of the priceless parchment that has now gone missing? It is up to their daughter, twenty-eight-year-old Mariah, to clear her mother of murder charges and unravel the real mystery behind her father's death." -- Provided by publisher
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Literature biography
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"Third installment of Rafael Chirbes' Diaries, which brings together the notes of various journals written between 2007 and 2015. We…
are, then, in the crucial period in which he publishes the two novels that represent the culmination of his literary career -Crematorio and En la orilla- and in his last years of life, marked by illness. These pages contain the doubts and crises in the writing of these fundamental works, the conversations with his Barcelona publisher, the repercussions of publication and some disagreements with the press, the tolls of literary life and some very acidic comments on several of his contemporaries. Also very present, as in the previous installments, is the voracious reader, passionate in both his enthusiasms and his rejections, who reads the classics and his contemporaries. And the happy viewer of mostly classic films, as well as the citizen who reflects -sometimes with great indignation- on the Spanish political situation. Everyday life also appears, the coexistence in the house of Beniarbeig with Paco, whose health is declining day by day. And his own ailments: dizziness, insomnia, anguish and finally illness... This volume concludes the edition of some diaries of the highest literary and human value. The most intimate words of Rafael Chirbes, stripped of the artifice of fiction." -- Translation provided by NLS
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Short stories
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"Eight women. Eight stories. One reality. A woman is born. A woman is filmed in public without consent. A woman…
suffers domestic violence. A woman is gaslit. A woman is discriminated against at work. A woman grows old. A woman becomes famous. A woman is hated, and loved, and then hated again. Written in Cho Nam-Joo's masterful, razor-sharp prose, Miss Kim Knows brings together the lives of eight Korean women, aged 10 to 80. Contained in each of these biographies is a microcosm of contemporary Korea, and the challenges and injustices that women face from childhood to old age. As with Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, the fates of these eight women are the fates of women the world over. And under Cho Nam-Joo's precise, unveiled gaze, nothing and nobody escapes scrutiny--not even herself." -- Provided by publisher
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Literature biography
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"Second volume of Rafael Chirbes' Diaries, which brings together various notebooks written between 2005 and 2007. These are the years…
of slow preparation, full of doubts that even led him to consider abandoning literature, for the novel that would be his definitive work: Crematorio. They are also years of personal uncertainties: of the definitive abandonment of his work in the editorial office of Sobremesa, which gives him a new freedom; of friends who die; of fleeting sexual encounters, between desire and decrepitude, because the body is no longer young; of growing disappointments... But the enthusiasms of yore remain very much alive: classic films, which bring moments of happiness, and tireless reading, sharp and varied: Montaigne, La Celestina, La Regenta, Baudelaire, Poe's stories, Némirovsky's Suite française, Jünger's diaries, Ellroy.... .. And also the trips to several cities: New York, Berlin, Paris, Barcelona... Always on guard, always implacable with himself and with others - including, for example, a severe portrait of Juan Goytisolo, with whom he meets again in Berlin -, always slipping away from literary groups, commonplaces and banality, he expresses strong opinions against what he contemptuously calls "literature of high expression", loaded with winks and literary references, and against more than a few current writers, whom he reads with disdain and sometimes with indignation." -- Translation provided by NLS
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Suspense and thrillers
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"Hana lives a double exile: a strictly geographical one, far from the land where she was born and had to…
leave, and an intimate one, which keeps her separate from the world around her for fear of being hurt. Two thousand kilometers away, in a privileged environment, Sara, who has just turned eighteen, is eager to be free. Faced with an uncomfortable reality, the fruit of past decisions that still reverberate in the present, both will make discoveries as bitter as they are surprising as they bridge the distance that separates them." -- Translation provided by NLS
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Short stories, Indigenous peoples fiction
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"The word piñen comes from Mapudungun, the language of the Mapuche people, and refers to dust or dirt clinging to…
the body. A word that has been used in a pejorative way in Chile to refer to racialized people or people from a low social background. Daniela Catrileo makes this word her own and reclaims it, as part of the oral memory of an oppressed people, of a common testimony, resignifying it. This book contains three stories set in the urban and social outskirts. The author speaks to us from that place, about what it means to be a woman and to grow up in those spaces beyond the hegemonic representations that exist of the popular classes and the native peoples settled in the outskirts of Chilean cities. Three stories in which poetry and violence, the body and the symbolic, the personal and the collective, intertwine in a gesture of existence and resistance." -- Translation provided by NLS
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Family stories, Suspense and thrillers, General fiction
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"A storm that lasts for five days forces the four protagonists of this novel to stay locked up in Ana…
and Pedro's house in the foothills of the Andes. The roads are cut off and there is almost no telephone signal, let alone internet. The rain, which falls with supernatural force, seems like a punishment. Rebeca, their daughter, quickly develops feelings for Ana's nephew Vicente, who was born in Paris during his family's exile after the military coup, and who is in Chile for the first time. Separated by silence and secrecy, the family has not been in contact since 1973. The young man's visit restores contact, but at the same time hides a threat that could destabilize Ana and her whole world. She too becomes involved in an ambiguous relationship with Vicente: fear and fascination grow as the hours pass." -- Translation provided by NLS
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Suspense and thrillers, Family stories
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"Following her mother's sudden death, Casandra inherits the apartment where she spent her childhood. Although she doesn't see her mother's…
body, she has nightmares about it for days, almost as long as it takes her to clean the apartment, go through its contents, and throw out the family photos from which her mother cut out her own face. To have some time alone, Casandra and her boyfriend, Fernando, move into the apartment, despite the secrets and resentments that lurk there. As they soon discover, they must also contend with the peculiarities and demands of their elderly neighbors in the building. Cassandra especially, like her mother before her, is on the receiving end of their orders and critiques, thinly disguised as recommendations. Alienated by her isolation and haunted by the ghosts of the past, Casandra feels her world shrink as she and Fernando grow apart. Is her life taking the same course as her mother's?" -- Provided by publisher
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Suspense and thrillers
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"A woman is on the prowl at The Crystal Onion. The band playing on stage is pitiful, although the vocalist…
doesn't look like a bad catch. The dark atmosphere is just right to hide the scar on her face, the painful mark of the surgeries she underwent as a child for her cleft lip that earned her the cruel nickname Harelip. Her uninhibited air and her exuberant body attract the attention of the singer, with beautiful blue eyes but a flabby and deformed body. He is the one. After chatting for a while, she takes him home. It is curious to think that the man's narcissism makes him believe that the idea was his, when he doesn't know what awaits him..." -- Translation provided by NLS
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Suspense and thrillers
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"'I know now that evil lurks where you least expect it, and that the places where you thought you were…
safest can turn out to be the most dangerous.' This is the last thing Sophia wrote in her diary, almost a year ago. Since then no one has heard from her, although evidence suggests that she took her own life by throwing herself off a bridge, an event related to a lurid video that went viral in high school. Her parents refuse to believe it. Their daughter is not the kind of person who would do such a thing. When months later the boy who recorded said video turns up dead from a hammer blow to the head, there are those who dare to think that maybe Sophia is alive and that her disappearance is part of a plan that she herself has set in motion. Camila Jones, a temporarily retired celebrity investigative journalist, receives an unexpected visit from a local journalist who wants her to get involved in the case. She has no intention of agreeing, but the revelation that Sophia is linked to an event in her past that no one knows about leads her to accept the proposal and seek the truth at any cost. The Perfect Daughter is the startling new novel by Federico Axat, the master of the psychological thriller, which explores family bonds and how parents' expectations of their children can become a dark mechanism of manipulation." -- Translation provided by NLS
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Fantasy, Ghost and horror stories, Romance
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"Everything Poppy has ever believed in is a lie, including the man she was falling in love with. Thrust among…
those who see her as a symbol of a monstrous kingdom, she barely knows who she is without the veil of the Maiden. But what she does know is that nothing is as dangerous to her as him. The Dark One. The Prince of Atlantia. He wants her to fight him, and that's one order she's more than happy to obey. He may have taken her, but he will never have her." -- Provided by publisher
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Multi-cultural fiction, Family stories
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"A young woman has arranged a holiday with her mother in Japan. They travel by train, visit galleries and churches…
chosen for their art and architecture, eat together in small cafés and restaurants and walk along the canals at night, on guard against the autumn rain and the prospect of snow. All the while, they talk, or seem to talk: about the weather, horoscopes, clothes and objects; about the mother's family in Hong Kong, and the daughter's own formative experiences. But uncertainties abound. How much is spoken between them, how much is thought but unspoken?" -- Provided by publisher
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Nature, Environment, Poetry
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"A Junior Library Guild selection, this book about Mother Earth reflects Argueta's indigenous roots and his appreciation for the natural…
world. Felipe Ugalde Alcántara's stunning illustrations depict streams, mountains and wildlife in their habitat. Containing the English and Spanish text on each page.... This is an excellent choice to encourage children to write their own poems about nature and to begin conversations about the interconnected web of life." -- Provided by publisher
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Short stories, General fiction, Animal stories
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"In the much-anticipated follow-up to the bestselling and beloved The Travelling Cat Chronicles, seven cats weave their way through their…
owners' lives, climbing, comforting, nestling, and sometimes just tripping everyone up in this uplifting collection of tales by international bestselling author Hiro Arikawa. Against the backdrop of changing seasons in Japan, we meet Spin, a kitten rescued from the recycling bin, whose playful nature and simple needs teach an anxious father how to parent his own human baby; a colony of wild cats on a popular holiday island show a young boy not to stand in nature's way; a family is perplexed by their cat's undying devotion to their charismatic but uncaring father; a woman curses how her cat will not stop visiting her at night; and an elderly cat hatches a plan to pass into the next world as a spirit so that he and his owner may be in each other's lives forever. Bursting with love and warmth, The Goodbye Cat exquisitely explores the cycle of life, from birth to death--as each of the seven stories explores how, in different ways, the steadiness and devotion of a well-loved cat never lets us down. A huge bestseller in Japan, this magical book is a joyous celebration of the wondrousness of cats and why we choose to share our lives with them." -- Provided by publisher
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Family and relationships, Literature biography, Women biography, Social issues
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"Memoir by well-known African American poet and college professor Maya Angelou. She describes her childhood and adolescent years in rural…
Arkansas, in St. Louis, and in San Francisco, and the racial and gender hardships she endured." -- Provided by NLS
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Psychology, Self help, Literature biography
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"Joy tells us about the possibility of an almost sacred pleasure, that of doing nothing (or not doing so much,…
or not out of necessity). And the fragmented prose that shapes it displays, at the same time, a constellation of similar voices and thoughts --from Georges Perec to Susan Sontag, from Roland Barthes to Maggie Nelson-- prepared for the revelation of what arises when, before ourselves, facing the mirror of the sea, we finally give up and stop." -- Provided by publisher