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"Sara Marsala barely knows who she is anymore after the failure of her business and marriage. On top of that, her beloved great-aunt Rosie passes away, leaving Sara bereft with grief. But Aunt Rosie's death also opens an escape from her life and a window into the past by way of a plane ticket to Sicily, a deed to a possibly valuable plot of land, and a bombshell family secret. Rosie believes Sara's great-grandmother Serafina, the family matriarch...
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Magic tree house ; 39
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"Jack and Annie are whisked away to Mongolia to meet the near-extinct little horses and their caretakers, but can they help protect the last of the horses from predators?"--
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"Maya Mirza's unlucky-in-love past seems to be turning around when she ends up in an arranged marriage to the on-paper perfect man; but as she heads to her wedding in Pakistan, she finally meets the man of her dreams, who isn't the man to whom she is arranged to be wed."--
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"A career-ending injury destroys track star Agnes Chan's hopes of a college scholarship, putting her on a journey through the underbelly of Malaysian stand-up comedy, and directly into the path of her archnemesis, the ridiculously wealthy and disgustingly handsome Royce Taslim."--
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"In 1927, on an isolated Isle of Iona, Jane Wunderly joins the Order of the Golden Dawn, a group made up of supernatural ceremonies, influential people and an undefinable darkness, to catch a killer and soon finds playing along won't help her solve the case, but revealing too much could be deadly."--
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"In a country divided between humans and witchers, Venus Stoneheart hustles as a brewer making illegal love potions to support her family. Love potions is a dangerous business. Brewing has painful, debilitating side effects, and getting caught means death or a prison sentence. But what Venus is most afraid of is the dark, sentient magic within her. Then an enemy's iron bullet kills her mother, Venus's life implodes. Keeping her reckless little sister...
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A woman returns to her family's Hamptons beach house for a final time-and a final chance at the love she's lost before, in this contemporary retelling of Persuasion, perfect for fans of Emily Henry and Rebecca Serle.Olivia Elliot's marriage is in a death spiral when she agrees to come home to the Hamptons to help her father and sisters pack up the family estate. If it looks like she's running away from her soon-to-be-ex Wes and New York City, well,...
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"1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France. Founded by millionaire Anne Morgan, this group of international women help rebuild devastated French communities just miles from the front. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen-children's libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains...
11) The summer swap
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"Deciding to spend her 70th birthday alone in her Cape Cod seashore cottage, hiding from her interfering family, widow Cecilia Lapthorne instead finds an unexpected houseguest, struggling artist Lily, and, allowing her to stay, settles in for a summer ofself-discovery, self-belief and second chances"--
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"Lacey Bond has grown up in her parents' hippie New Hampshire daycare, idolizing her blasphemous, ultra-fashionable sister, Éclair, chasing baby squirrels, and contemplating trees. Then the Satanic Panic hits - the moral hysteria that shook the United States by its shoulders in the 80s and 90s. It's the summer of 1990 when Lacey's parents are handcuffed, flung into the county jail, and faced with a torrent of jaw-dropping accusations from dozens...
15) When among crows
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"Pain is Dymitr's calling. His family is one in a long line of hunters who sacrifice their souls to slay monsters. Now he's tasked with a deadly mission: find the legendary witch Baba Jaga. To reach her, Dymitr must ally with the ones he's sworn to kill. Pain is Ala's inheritance. A fear-eating zmora with little left to lose, Ala awaits death from the curse she carries. When Dymitr offers her a cure in exchange for her help, she has no choice but...
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kokshin
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2024
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时代的洪流裹挟着每一个人。个人的悲欢离合,喜怒哀乐都被烙上时代的印记,面对变幻的时代,每个人都不得不做出自己的选择。有些人浑浑噩噩,随波逐流;有些人为了一己之私,出卖灵魂和良知,助纣为虐;有些人却在国家、民族危难之时挺身而出,逆风而行。
作品的主人公少年时遭遇巨变,一夜之间父母、家人被害,家破人亡。亲眼目睹父母、家人惨遭毒杀,主人公矢志复仇,却在因缘巧合之下投身到了抗战的洪流中,面对山河破碎、国土沦丧,目睹无辜的国人惨遭侵略者残酷杀戮,国仇家恨交集,激发起内心的家国情怀,在与侵略者的斗争中逐渐成长,从一个一心复仇的少年成长为令敌人闻风丧胆的英雄。
作品故事跌宕起伏,曲折惊险,穿插着许多历史史实和众多历史人物,既有宏大的叙事,又有细腻的感情刻画与传神的心理描写,展现了国人不屈不挠的抗战斗志和坚定不移的保国壮志,代入感极强。作品结构紧凑,高潮迭起,故事如歌如泣,感人肺腑,读起来更是令人荡气回肠,欲罢不能,久久难以忘怀。
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"In Brendan Flaherty's debut novel, two estranged brothers must confront the violence of the past when they find out a pond where they played as children will be dredged, threatening to reveal a long-hidden secret. After some traumatic teenage years in rural Connecticut, Cale and Ambrose Casey had nothing left to say to each other. Cale ran off to Hawaii to sell luxury real estate. Ambrose stayed behind and built up his construction company. Neither...
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Un dangereux aveu, Julia James
« Si quelqu'un a une raison de s'opposer à cette union, qu'il parle maintenant ou se taise à jamais. » À la stupeur générale, Ariana interrompt la noce, pour révéler à tous qu'elle porte l'enfant de Luca Farnese, le futur marié...
Une alliance avec Gianni Renzetti, Lynne Graham
Pour sauver le domaine familial, Josephine est prête à tout. Et même à épouser...
« Si quelqu'un a une raison de s'opposer à cette union, qu'il parle maintenant ou se taise à jamais. » À la stupeur générale, Ariana interrompt la noce, pour révéler à tous qu'elle porte l'enfant de Luca Farnese, le futur marié...
Une alliance avec Gianni Renzetti, Lynne Graham
Pour sauver le domaine familial, Josephine est prête à tout. Et même à épouser...
20) The boo hag flex
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"The last thing Tasha wants is to move from her home in Atlanta to Middle-of-Nowhere, Georgia. But when her mother dies and Tasha is taken in by her father--a man she's never met, who took off when she was just a baby--she doesn't have much of a choice. The trailer park where Tasha's father and grandmother live seems like a miserable place to spend a summer, even before one of her neighbors mysteriously passes away. That's when she meets a girl named...
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