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From the bestselling author of The Things We Cannot Say, Before I Let You Go, and the upcoming The Warsaw Orphan, comes a poignant post-WWII novel that explores the expectations society places on women set within an engrossing family mystery that may unravel everything once believed to be true. With her father recently moved to a care facility, Beth Walsh volunteers to clear out the family home and is surprised to discover the door to her childhood...
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In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz's ingenious fourth literary whodunit following The Word is Murder, The Sentence is Death, and A Line to Kill, Horowitz becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation--and only one man can prove his innocence: his newly estranged partner in solving crime, Detective Hawthorne. "I'm sorry but the answer's no." Reluctant author, Anthony Horowitz, has had enough. He tells ex-detective Daniel Hawthorne...
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"Celebrated stage actress Mona Zahid wakes up on Thanksgiving morning to the clamor of guests packed into her Manhattan apartment and to a wave of dread: her in-laws are lurking on the other side of the bedroom door; she's still fighting with her husband; and in just a few weeks she will begin rehearsals as Shakespeare's Cleopatra, the hardest role in theater. In an impulsive burst, Mona bounds out the door with the family dog in tow ("I forgot the...
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Goosebumps volume 24
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Thinking her friend Zeke is getting too much into his phantom role in the school play, Brooke becomes alarmed when scary things start happening backstage and wonders if a real phantom is out to stop the show.
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The Lake Shore Limited is a play about the terrorist bombing of that train and about a man waiting to hear the fate of his estranged wife who is traveling on it. How Billy comes to write the play out of her own painful conflicts and ambivalence, how it is then created anew by the actors and the director, how the performance itself touches and changes the other characters' lives.
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"Charlie Harris has sworn off investigating murder and mayhem after a recent close call. Instead, he's delighted to cheer on his daughter, Laura, who's starring in a production of Careless Whispers. The theater department at Athena College is debuting the play written by a fledgling playwright with local connections and Charlie's son-in-law, Frank Salisbury, will be calling the directorial shots. Laura is upset to learn that Luke Lombardi, an overbearing...
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Jung-won and his daughter are on their way to Incheon Airport when a thick fog causes a massive chain-reaction crash on the airport bridge. They get stuck in chaos with a group of people, stranded with nowhere to go. Things take a turn for the worse when mutated military dogs that were secretly being transported escape from their cages and the survivors on the bridge become targets of these deadly animals. As the bridge is shut down and in danger...
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October, 1604. Plague has hit London, and the theatres are closed. But the capital's loss is Plymouth's gain, when a London theatre troupe, the Company, arrive on their 'Plague Tour'. Country physician Gabriel Taverner is both bewitched and unnerved by the Company's sexually charged staging of Othello. The play thrums with magic and witchcraft - perilous subjects, with the King's deadly spies lurking around every corner. When Gabriel's good friend,...
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Autumn Trent volume 2
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Forensic and criminal psychologist Dr. Autumn Trent hasn't had time to unpack her bag before she's asked to join the FBI on another case. Wealthy widowers along the east coast make easy targets, but one scammer may have more than money on her mind.
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"Everyone around Iris Kelly is in love. Her best friends are all coupled up, her siblings have partners that are perfect for them, and her parents are still blissfully married. And she's happy for all of them, truly. Iris doesn't want any of that-dating, love, romance. She'll stick to her commitment-free hookups, thanks very much, except no one in her life will just let her be. Everyone wants to see her settled down, but she holds firmly to her no...
11) Autumn's Chaos
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Autumn Trent volume 5
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Guilt is a powerful motivator... Less than twenty-four hours after yet another near-death experience, forensic and criminal psychologist Dr. Autumn Trent should be resting and recovering, not back at work. But she has no choice. Her best friend, Special Agent Winter Black, is missing. So is Winter's baby brother, Justin...a brutal serial killer. To make matters worse, Autumn feels responsible for Winter's disappearance. Plagued by guilt and...
12) Autumn's game
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Autumn Trent volume 1
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'Till death do us part' has never been so true ... Armed with a slew of advanced degrees and powerful intuition, forensic psychologist Dr. Autumn Trent is ready to conquer the world and touch the lives of its seven billion inhabitants. She's prepared to fight for justice, right the wrongs ... because she knows what it's like to be wronged. As a child, a single blow from her father left her changed forever. Her body survived the aftermath, but her...
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Jenna and her family are busy preparing for the upcoming Mystery Weekend at their hotel. All guests will be participating in a play based on all of the mysterious things that happened there many years ago. The weekend starts out as a big success, but then strange events occur and Jenna begins to worry that someone is out to hurt her.
14) Autumn's Trap
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Autumn Trent volume 9
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Traps are meant to be deadly...will someone die in this one? The pieces of FBI Special Agent Autumn Trent's life are finally coming together. Her relationship with SSA Aiden Parrish is on solid footing, and she's finally filed suit against her prior boss for sexual harassment and assault. The only thing missing is her sister, the little girl who has haunted Autumn for so long. The siblings were forced apart in elementary school, but Autumn has never...
15) Autumn's fear
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Autumn Trent volume 3
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Don't fear the dark. It's the light that blinds...and kills. Forensic and criminal psychologist Dr. Autumn Trent is trying to find her groove in her transition to the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit. But can her soft heart continue to take a beating? Will her impulsive spirit continue to get her in trouble? Probably. Using her connections, she begins the search for the sister she hasn't seen since they were both girls. And gets a hit in the Sunshine...
17) Autumn's Risk
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Autumn Trent volume 6
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No risk, no reward . . . After five months of training at Quantico, Dr. Autumn Trent is ready for her first day on the job as an official special agent with the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit. She left for training with a heavy heart, feeling responsible for all that happened to her best friend and fellow agent, Winter Black. Now, her heart is just as heavy, but her spirit has grown stronger as she and Winter continue their fight against...
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Edward Zanni volume 1
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From syndicated humor columnist Marc Acito comes a wildly inventive and hysterically funny novel that is equal parts Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Fame, Risky Business, Dead Poets Society and The Catcher in the Rye. It's 1983, and 17-year-old Edward Zanni wants to study acting at Juilliard, but his newly remarried father - who earns too much for Edward to claim scholarship money - refuses to pay. So, Edward enlists the aid of his creative theater pals...
19) Autumn's rage
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Autumn Trent volume 4
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Revenge has no deadline...and endless rage. Dr. Autumn Trent returns to Virginia after successfully assisting the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit yet again. Part of her heart remains in Florida with her long-lost sister whose trail has evaporated, but she moves forward to focus on her work as a forensic and criminal psychologist. Intent on doing just that, she heads to Virginia State Hospital, where the prodigy of The Preacher awaits her return. Justin...
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"Class Mom meets Small Admissions in this wryly observed debut about the privileged bubble that is Liston Heights High--the micro-managing parents, the overworked teachers, and the students caught in the middle--and the fallout for each of them when that bubble finally bursts. Isobel Johnson can't stand helicopter parents like Julia Abbott, a stage mom whose world revolves around interfering in her children's lives. Julia resents teachers like Isobel,...