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Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"Known not only for his brilliant novels bur also for short stories chronicling the Jazz Age, such as 'Bernice bobs her hair' and 'The diamond as big as the Ritz,' F. Scott Fitgerald continued to write stories his entire life, some of which were never published--until now. Many of the stories in I'd Die for You were submitted to major magazines and accepted for publication during Fitzgerald's lifetime but were never printed. A few were written as...
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If I Can't Have You volume 2
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English
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Nursing wealthy businessman Chicago DuBois back to health was the least Loretta Lovelace figured she could do. After all it was her bet that set off Lorettas stalker and put Madisons husband at deaths door. And with Madison out of the country Loretta couldnt resist looking after Chicagos interests and reigniting his passion for life in and out of bed. But now Madison wants to take back whats no longer hers and thats a mistake Loretta plans to make...
7) The next day
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English
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The Next Day is Bowie's 30th studio album and his first new album in 10 years. The music icon presents 14 new tracks including the songs Dirty Boys, Heat, and title track The Next Day.
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English
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Loving You More: In the Spirit of Etta James finds Leela paying tribute to her namesake, the legendary Etta James. Leela delivers fresh, contemporary interpretations of nine Etta James songs, including such all time hits as Something's Got a Hold On Me (recently sampled by Flo Rida's massive hit Good Feeling), I'd Rather Go Blind, and At Last, along with two new compositions in the spirit of Etta James.
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"Costa Book Award Finalist and the Waterstones (UK) Book of the Year 2016." "I loved this book. At once numinous, intimate and wise, The Essex Serpent is a marvelous novel about the workings of life, love and belief, about science and religion, secrets, mysteries, and the complicated and unexpected shifts of the human heart--and it contains some of the most beautiful evocations of place and landscape I've ever read. It is so good its pages seem lit...
Publisher
Kodansha
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Taku Kamishiro has completely integrated himself into the ID group, Rudiment, for a chance to find his sweetheart, Mika Hanazono. This time, they've finally picked up on something relating to the bloody incident at Taku's old high school. Will the original perp finally reveal themselves? Unfortunately, they might not get the chance to find out, since CID is headed to the scene as well! The two organizations finally collide in volume 5!
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More than words volume 4
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English
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"I'm Evan Cook - billionaire tech entrepreneur and widower. Professionally, I've got it all. But since my wife died, my personal life has fallen apart. Remarrying seems like the obvious answer, so I place an ad. I'm not asking for much. The ideal woman only needs to be smart, organized, pretty, and helpful - both in and out of bed - without expecting romance. I never thought to look right in front of me..but it turns out that Nia Wright, my sexy,...
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"Mikolaj Grynberg is a psychologist and photographer who has spent years collecting and publishing oral histories of Polish Jews. In his first work of fiction--a book that has been widely praised by critics and was shortlisted for Poland's top literary prize--Grynberg recrafts those histories into little jewels, fictionalized short stories with the ring of truth. Both biting and knowing, I'd Like to Say Sorry, but There's No One to Say Sorry To takes...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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After too many years of unfulfilling work, Bronnie Ware began searching for a job with heart. Despite having no formal qualifications or previous experience in the field, she found herself working in palliative care. During the time she spent tending to those who were dying, Bronnie's life was transformed. Later, she wrote an Internet blog post, outlining the most common regrets that the people she had cared for had expressed. The post gained so much...
Publisher
Kodansha
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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While Nave fights for his life after losing his arm, Kamishiro and the others discover that CID and the Eguma Group, a religious cult whose mission is to kidnap and eliminate those infected with ID, have banded together and are planning a massacre during an upcoming Christmas Eve event. On the day of, Kamishiro is filled with dread when Rudiment finds no trace of the terrorists despite exhausting their powers to scour the arena--until something strange...
16) The sellout
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"Raised in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens--improbably smack in the middle of downtown L.A.--the narrator of The Sellout resigned himself to the fate of all other middle-class Californians: "to die in the same bedroom you'd grown up in, looking up at the crack in the stucco ceiling that had been there since '68 quake." Raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist at Riverside Community College, he spent his childhood as the subject in psychological...
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Kodansha
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Hi there! My name is Serinuma Kae. I'm the kind of girl who loves checking out boys and fantasizing about them getting friendly (and more) with each other--I'm what you might call a fujoshi. One day, my beloved (yes, he's an anime character) died, and the shock of it all was more than I could have ever prepared for! My grief over his passing resulted in some ridiculous weightloss! And you won't believe what happened next! Soon after my change, the...
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Joe Burgess mysteries volume 4
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English
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"A boy rapping on his car window summons Portland police detective Joe Burgess to a fire at a nearby mosque, where he finds a screaming woman and her baby locked in a closet. The baby dies. The very young mother survives, but suffers from traumatic muteness. She has no ID and no one has reported her missing. Autopsy shows the gravely ill baby would have needed surgery to survive. Burgess suspects someone was trying to keep mother and baby away from...