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"As a kid, Charlotte Illes' uncanny sleuthing abilities made her a minor celebrity. But in high school, she hung up her detective's hat and stashed away the signature blue landline in her "office"--aka garage--convinced that finding her adult purpose would be as easy as tracking down missing pudding cups or locating stolen diamonds. Now twenty-five, Charlotte has a nagging fear that she hit her peak in middle school. She's living with her mom, scrolling...
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What's worse? Getting shipped off to an Alzheimer's Care Center where nobody will listen……or being kidnapped by your rescuer? Introducing Joan Freed's 87-year-old spunky Aunt Sally and her sidekick they call the Sourdough Kid. The mystery is not who dunnit, but how did Sally get into this quagmire of errors? And how does she slog out of them? Or does she? Join the adventure that started with a simple broken hip.
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"Beautifully written and impeccably researched,.... the story is certain to captivate fans of both manor fiction and cozy murder mysteries, many of whom will not foresee the villainy that Stasz unveils." Kirkus Reviews
Fate sends young Kenal Gundry, who hoped to be a Cornwall fisherman, into service. Though strong and smart, he is also naive and overly pious. At his first placement, a nymphomaniac harasses him. Moving to Slanderley, he finds...
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Tiwi, bientt quinze ans, se sent abandonnée par ses parents...
Un jour, sans les avertir, elle entraîne son arrière-grand-mère Gretel dans un périple décoiffant en compagnie de son ami Lupesco, un original possédant un vieux bus VW. Dans ce dernier, le trio met le cap sur un rassemblement de voitures Coccinelles.
Ils traversent des univers clairs-obscurs, rencontrent des êtres rocambolesques. Au fil du chemin, Gretel ressuscite des épisodes...
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Beneath the Silver City Reflection is the story of a young man named Rhian Pierce who survives a lethal conversion therapy camp after coming out.
Rhian gets a fresh start in college where he develops a close knit group of friends. He reveals the horrors of his experience at the camp as well as his account of a murder that was covered up. Rhian's friends support him when he comes out to his parents and they kick him out of their lives. Alexander...
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What good is a superstitious scientist? For Krishna Kumar, what starts as a harmless superstition sparks a journey that no scientist could have predicted. Aged 12, Krishna is recognised as a child prodigy and gets a prestigious scholarship to St. Sebastian's, a Himalayan boarding school, uprooting him from his Bombay home. There, he discovers his gift for physics and an all-consuming superstitious streak that he believes helps his academic career....
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"American grad student Lucy Silver arrives in England hoping to solve a longstanding literary mystery, write her dissertation, and finish her graduate studies in a blaze of academic glory. But as Lucy starts to piece together the correspondence between her late grandmother and Elizabeth Blackspear, the famous poet and garden writer who's the subject of Lucy's dissertation, she discovers puzzling coded references in the letters--and when an elderly...
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