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Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Eli North is not okay. His drinking is getting worse by the day, his emotional wounds after a deployment to Afghanistan are as raw as ever, his marriage and career are over, and the only job he can hold down is with the local sheriff’s department. And that’s only because the sheriff is his mother—and she’s overwhelmed with small town Shaky Lake’s dwindling budget and the fallout from the opioid epidemic. When the body of a teenage boy is...
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Publisher
Petite Parasol Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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When a young widow brings her son to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, she is unaware of the odyssey of inspiration and healing that is about to begin. Junaluska Lewis is convinced that her future lies in the hands of her son, Henry, reluctant heir to the family business. To that end, she agrees that he be mentored during the world's fair by her family's Chicago agent. With time on her hands, Juna explores the grand exhibition halls and Venice-like...
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Kyoichiro Kaga mysteries volume 4
Language
English
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"From the acclaimed author of Malice and Newcomer, a confounding murder in Tokyo is connected to the mystery of the disappearance and death of Detective Kaga's own mother. A decade ago, Tokyo Police Detective Kyoichiro Kaga went to collect the ashes of his recently deceased mother. Years before, she ran away from her husband and son without explanation or any further contact, only to die alone in an apartment far away, leaving her estranged son with...
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Series
Kingsbridge volume 5
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
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"The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly inherits a failing business; one man ruthlessly protects...
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"For fans of A Man Called Ove, a luminous debut novel about a widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium-and the truths she finally uncovers about her son's disappearance 30 years ago"--
After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old...
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