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1) The Last App
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Mick wants to know when he's going to die. Luckily-or unluckily-there's an app for that . . .
Dr. Mick Strong has bought himself something unusual for his seventy-fifth birthday: a LifeTime projection. This new tech crunches data including your medical history, diet, and lifestyle to predict how much-or little-time you've got left.
That's all well and good, but he's also bought them for his daughter, his grandchildren, and even his eleven-year-old...
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A child psychologist struggles to come to grips with her own dark childhood memories.
When eight-year-old Julia was asked to be a bridesmaid at her cousin's wedding, she was thrilled. Nothing, not even her mother's resentment of the expensive, inconvenient traveling, could dull her excitement. But when the day finally arrived and she took her cousin's baby on a secret stroll around the block in his pram, her entire world shifted. She couldn't possibly...
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Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. Devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, their young son Henry, and the patients she sees in her therapy practice, her days are full of familiar things: she lives in the very New York apartment in which she was raised, and sends Henry to the school she herself once attended. Dismayed by the ways in which women delude themselves, Grace is also...
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"I'm Nicky. Your little sister." With these words from a stranger, Hilda's quiet existence in a marshland cottage with her rescue cats is turned upside down. She resolves to find out the truth about her parents' marriage, her father's secret life and her mother's untimely death. Meanwhile her brother Dunstan is scandalized by Nicky's claim to be the "love child" of his father, a respected doctor who recently died. In his efforts to stave off the threat...
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This novel of half sisters raised separately-and now united in the midst of danger.
Kara and Alex are half sisters, but they've never met. Kara, the product of an abusive foster-care setting, falls for the wrong men, is haunted by crippling memories, and longs for the family she knows only from a photograph. Meanwhile, Alex was raised in an atmosphere of dysfunctional privilege. She struggles to keep her younger sisters out of trouble, her mother...
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A novel of searing suspense that asks: How many lies can one family endure before it all comes tumbling down?
Alice's marriage to a wealthy, controlling businessman, Carl, has been troubled for years, and her adult daughters keep their distance. But now, with Carl's long-term drug addiction spiraling into a crisis, her teenage son is falling in with a bad crowd. And Carl's business partner is making threats as their company descends into financial...
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The swamps of Louisiana and Le Marais, in particular, hold many secrets; or is it Mama Ruth who owns the secrets and the swamp just holds them for her? It's alive though, with the past and the present and the future all colliding in one place; almost in one person. Mya Devereux. She's in the eye of the storm, the center of this cosmic dart board...and she has no clue. She's just worried about passing Chemistry. Leo's not worried about anything. He...
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The author of The Trouble Boys returns to the gritty streets of New York City as a new generation of the Irish mob battles for control.
Camille O'Brien's father was an Irish gangster who was betrayed and murdered.
Violet McCarthy has inherited control of the Irish mob.
The two women were once friends, but their paths have made them enemies. Camille believes that control of the mob should be hers.
Now they must fight against...
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"Quand l'insupportable survient" relate le combat d'une femme contre les abus physiques et mentaux infligés par son mari dominateur. Face à des menaces, des agressions sexuelles collectives et des violences, sa volonté de vivre s'effrite. Survivra-t-elle à cette épreuve ?
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Hann Solis utilise la littérature pour exprimer ses émotions et ses tourments. Avec "Quand l'insupportable survient", elle veut apporter de l'espoir...
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Un testament peut parfois se transformer en une vraie bombe à fragmentation. Celui du comte d'Autremont va bouleverser la vie de plusieurs personnes de par le monde. Celle d'un grand avocat new-yorkais comme celle d'une ancienne déportée au goulag sibérien, d'un artiste russe banni ou d'une brillante juriste bruxelloise…
Ce roman puissant nous emmène dans un passionnant voyage dans l'espace et dans le temps, sur la trace de certains des personnages...
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A married woman's lust for a stranger compels her to risk everything, in this new suspense by the bestselling author of His Other Woman.
It's just a small picture in the local paper-Katie can't explain why it sets her heart racing. But hiding the photo of local GP Joe Harvey in her bag sets in motion a chain of events that will dramatically alter her life forever.
Driven by a unhealthy desire for a man she hardly knows, the mother of two begins...
13) Barbara Greer
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From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Our Crowd comes this suspenseful novel of a suburban marriage-and the betrayal that threatens to tear it apart.
Barbara Greer is the blue-chip product of an old money Connecticut family. But she leaves
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How far would you go to protect your child? An absorbing new novel of psychological suspense by the author of Venus Was Her Name.
Three friends at pivotal points in their lives have some serious decisions to make . . .
Gina is struggling with demons from her past while trying to be the opposite of her feckless mother. She is about to lose everything and will do whatever it takes to avoid following in her parents' footsteps.
Babs also...
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Plongez-vous dans les récits captivants de cet ouvrage à travers deux nouvelles saisissantes. Dans la première, intitulée Fratricide obsessionnel, suivez l'histoire de deux frères dont les trajectoires de vie divergent. Tandis que le premier est entraîné dans les méandres de l'islamisme radical, le second poursuit une carrière intellectuelle et adopte une vision universaliste. Au cœur de la tourmente de la décennie noire en Algérie, le...
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Répression des fraudes vous invite à découvrir le monde de l'immobilier à travers un récit captivant. Suivez le parcours de cinq amis aux destins contrastés, unis par une ambition commune : créer une entreprise immobilière de luxe malgré les obstacles et les tentations frauduleuses. Leur succès fulgurant les entraîne dans un tourbillon d'événements o se mêlent affaires louches, crises financières et enquêtes policières. Une histoire...
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Tom is now the one on a mission. First, he has to find his stubborn run-away wife; and though she professes to hate him, stop her from giving away their unborn child. He will do it too, even if it means a kidnapping---as her mother suggested. But oh, what a long---loud--- winter lies ahead for the both of them...
19) Safe Word
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"Took my breath away . . . It had me hooked from start to finish and I could not put it down . . . If I could, would give 10 stars!" -Amazon reviewer, five stars
A risky affair goes badly awry, in this crime thriller set in a deceptively idyllic English village from the author of The Things I Didn't Do.
In their pretty countryside home, Agnes and Fin appear to be just another happily married couple among their neighbours. But their attempts...
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Le 23 juillet 1951 marque le décès du vieil ex-maréchal de France, Philippe Pétain. Il devient impératif de dissimuler cette période peu glorieuse de l'histoire nationale et d'effacer les traces du régime de Vichy sur la petite île vendéenne de L'Île-d'Yeu. Cependant, le passé ressurgit de manière inattendue lorsqu'un document est découvert par Gustave Tarreau, l'homme chargé de cette tâche. Confronté malgré lui à un terrible cas...
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