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41) The dollhouse
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""The Dollhouse. That's what we boys like to call it. The Barbizon Hotel for Women, packed to the rafters with pretty little dolls. Just like you." Fiona Davis's stunning debut novel pulls readers into the lush world of New York City's glamorous Barbizon Hotel for Women, where a generation of aspiring models, secretaries, and editors lived side-by-side while attempting to claw their way to fairy-tale success in the 1950s, and where a present-day journalist...
42) We'll meet again
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Investigative reporter Fran Simmons looks into the case of Mary Carpenter Lasch. She had been convicted of murdering her husband, a Greenwich, Connecticut doctor, but now claims she is innocent.
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[2022]
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"The internationally acclaimed author, heralded as one of the most important writers of his generation, returns with the most substantial work of his career: an emotionally captivating, very funny novel about fathers and sons, ambition and failure, and the many forms of family"--
44) Even now
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With her hallmark tenderness and power, the #1 bestselling author of "Beyond Tuesday Morning" weaves a tapestry of lives, losses, love, faith, and the miracle of resurrection. A young woman decides to search for her birth mother--a woman separated by lies and long years from a man she has never forgotten.
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[2017]
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English
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In the vein of Fiona Barton's The Widow and Renée Knight's Disclaimer, a psychological thriller about a war reporter who returns to her childhood home after her mother's death but becomes convinced that all is not well in the house next door--but is what she's seeing real or a symptom of the trauma she suffered in Syria? The one person you should trust is lying to you. Kate has spent fifteen years bringing global injustice home: as a decorated war...
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2010.
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At 41, Vivian Armstrong Gray learns that she's pregnant, jobless, and very hormonal. This explains why she accepts a dreadful job back home in Georgia. As she digs up her long buried roots, she starts to wonder if life inside the picket fence is really so bad after all.
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Lucy Stone mysteries volume 17
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While on a girls getaway to London, Lucy Stone investigates the murder of their tour guide, Professor George Temple, who died mid-flight after suffering a supposed asthma attack.
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[2011]
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English
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Just when Christina Brinsley thinks she's finally found the perfect man, she discovers he's married--on her wedding day. Witnessing Christina and her fiancé arguing, Steven Williams comes to her defense. But it's not the last time they'll run into each other.
50) Journey
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Everyone knows Madeleine and Jack Hunter. Maddy is an award-winning TV anchorwoman. Jack is the head of her network. To the world, theirs is a storybook marriage. But behind the doors of their lush Georgetown home a different story emerges. Maddy has always tried to deny Jack's subtle put-downs, control, and jealousy. She has no bruises, only the daggers of fear, humiliation, and isolation  as powerful as the gun or the fist, the wounds as deep....
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Paddy Meehan novels volume 3
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2008.
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Paddy Meehan is no stranger to murder--as a reporter she lives at crime scenes--but nothing has prepared her for this visit from the police. Her former boyfriend and fellow journalist Terry Patterson has been found hooded and shot through the head. Paddy knows she will be of little help--she had not seen Terry in more than six months. So she is bewildered to learn that in his will he has left her his house and several suitcases full of notes. Drawn
...52) The other woman
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Jane Ryland mysteries volume 1
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English
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Tracking down a candidate's secret mistress days before a pivotal Senate election, reporter Jane Ryland discovers links between her story and a serial killer investigation by detective Jake Brogan, with whom she partners to stop a killer in the face of dirty politics and betrayal.
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[2020]
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Español
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Luis L?pez Peralta era concejal de un pueblo de La Guajira. Denunci? por corrupci?n al alcalde Kiko G?mez, que era su aliado pol?tico, y se postul? para sucederlo. Todo parec?a indicar que L?pez ser?a elegido por los votantes, pero antes fue asesinado. En la poblaci?n era un secreto a voces que el alcalde hab?a ordenado su muerte y aun as? tuvo el cinismo de cargar el ata?d y homenajearlo en su funeral. G?mez se convirti? en uno de los hombres m?s...
54) Fire brand
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[2016]
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English
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"Gaby Cane was always a bit afraid of her attraction to Bowie McCayde. Even when she was fifteen and Bowie's family took her in, she had sensed his simmering resentment. Now ten years later, she's an aspiring journalist who can hold her own with any man professionally, the dark shadows of years gone by far behind her. Then Bowie strides back into her life|only this time, he needs her, and the pull of loyalty to his family is too strong to ignore....
57) Private games
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"Private, the world's most renowned investigation firm, has been commissioned to provide security for the 2012 Olympic games in London. Its agents are the smartest, fastest, and most technologically advanced in the world, and 400 of them have been transferred to London to protect over 10,000 competitors who represent more than 200 countries. The opening ceremony is still hours away when Private investigator and single father of twins, Nigel Steele,...
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[2023]
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English
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From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, a strikingly fresh cultural critic (Washington Post) comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and everything in between. Since the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling societystate-sponsored violence and mass shootings, womens rights post-Dobbs, online disinformation, and the limits of empathyalongside...
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"Carrie Slayton is a successful gossip columnist, but her dream is to become a serious journalist. Finnegan Dalton is a notorious recluse whose book about living in the Alaskan wilds skyrocketed to the top of the New York Times bestseller list. Recognizing a golden opportunity, Carrie uses a little guile in tracking down Finn's whereabouts in the snowy Alaskan wilderness outside of Fairbanks, only to discover that he truly is as mysterious and withdrawn...
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[2005]
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English
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Emma Collins has always believed that the world is divided into two kinds of people: those who love fruitcake and those who don't. She's firmly in the second category, so it's ironic that her first major assignment for the Puyallup, Washington, Examiner is a series of articles about
fruitcake. At least it's a step up from writing obituaries.Her task is to interview the finalists in a fruitcake recipe contest, and that means traveling around the state....
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