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"Alex Sand was spending the evening at home playing basketball with his two young sons when all three were shot in cold blood. A wealthy federal judge, there's no short list of people who could have a vendetta against Sands, but the gruesome murders, especially that of his children, turn their St. Paul community on its head. Sand was on the verge of a major donation to a local housing charity, Heart/Twin Cities, and with the money in limbo, eyes suddenly...
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Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Attending the world-renowned Texas Rose Festival to support her bestie Gilley and Gilley's new boyfriend, creative director Stuart Jacobs, life coach Cat Cooper finds things getting thorny when a member of Stuart's staff is accused of murder and she must weed through the cutthroat pageantry to catch a blossoming killer.
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Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"A one-of-a-kind exploration of the relationship between culture, politics, history, and wine. Vintage refers to the year grapes are harvested, and that vintage holds meaning. You can look up the weather in any almanac, but some stories are known only to insiders--until now. In this wine book Grant Reynolds, award-winning sommelier, deciphers these signatures to reveal the impact of marketing and mentorship, technology and trends, and influencers...
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Mighty Onion volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A light-hearted middle grade graphic novel about a young boy's journey to make his dream of creating a superhero comic book a reality"--
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2023.
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English
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"For decades now, America's national security state has grown ever bigger, ever more secretive and powerful, and ever more abusive. Only once did someone manage to put a stop to any of it. Senator Frank Church of Idaho was an unlikely hero. He led congressional opposition to the Vietnam War and had become a scathing, radical critic of what he saw as American imperialism around the world. But he was still politically ambitious, privately yearning for...
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Z-Man games
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Discover a thrilling adventure investigating criminal activity and a dark history in your town. Haunted by the mystery of the missing owner of the Marsden Mansion, you decide to take the case on yourself. With your psychic senses and skills as a detective, you're confident you can solve the mystery. Explore the mansion and unravel its secrets. Cross paths with ghostly figures, navigate a secrets rooms, and conquer challenges. Think carefully as you...
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Biblioasis
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A writer studies a famous work of art and finds herself and her own cultural moment revealed at its heart. Jeannie Marshall lived in Rome for ten years without visiting the Sistine Chapel: she didn't want to have a superficial experience of the frescos, but she wasn't sure how, amidst the crowds of tour groups and the noise of pop culture allusions, she could have anything but. What's more, she wondered what this very old, very Catholic art, created...
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"This urgent, cleverly plotted high stakes thriller is set in motion by botched attack on two law clerks leaving one dead and the other in a coma. The ensuing cover up leaves a string of bodies and too many players at cross-purposes. It also leaves Chief Justice Clarissa Baxter with a target on her back. We'll need an off the grid hero with friends in high places: enter retired FBI agent-turned-boardinghouse landlady, Ethel Fiona Crestwater (legend)...
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New Americana volume 8
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"When news of her grandfather’s stroke sends Jo Beth Ellis back to the family farm, she finds it in danger of foreclosure. Lone Oaks Crossing is in rough shape, but Jo has big plans—she’ll use her expertise as a Derby-winning horse trainer to reinvent the property as a healing retreat. But renovating while trying to keep her independent grandfather in check is a huge job for one woman—and even more challenging when she receives her first client,...
10) Tone
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Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"[This book] is a collaborative study of literary tone, a notoriously challenging and slippery topic for criticism. Both granular and global, infusing a text with feeling, tone is so difficult to pin down that responses to it often take the vague form of "I know it when I see it." In Tone, a cooperative authorial voice under the name of the Committee to Investigate Atmosphere begins from the premise that tone is relational, belonging to shared experience...
11) Una buena chica
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Wonderbooks
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Español
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Buena hija, buena novia, buena amiga y buena empresaria: a sus veinte a�nos, Mackenzie Cabot ya tiene un m�aster en cumplir expectativas. �Su secreto? No dejarse llevar nunca. Ni siquiera cuando una noche pierde una apuesta con un completo desconocido muy atractivo y, como consecuencia, empieza a pasar tiempo con �el. Cooper vive en la ciudad universitaria de Avalon Bay, pero �el no estudia: se gana la vida trabajando de sol a sol y hace...
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Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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" History is clear: Whenever the church has aligned itself with worldly, coercive power, it ends up on the wrong side of important justice issues. But when the church cooperates with God's power through his presence among the least powerful, its witness for Jesus transforms the world into a better place. In Reckoning with Power, David Fitch unpacks the difference between worldly power, or power over others, and God's power, which engages not in coercion...
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Blue stars volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When cousins Riley Halfmoon and Maya Dawn move to Urbanopolis to live with their activist grandma, they get off to a rocky start. Outgoing Riley misses her Muscogee cousins but is sure that she and Maya will be instant BFFs. Meanwhile, introvert Maya misses her parents, on active duty in Japan, and just wants some space to herself. At school, Maya joins Robotics Club and Riley bonds with fellow gymnasts. Just when they start to feel at home, their...
14) Happy forever: my musical adventures with The Turtles, Frank Zappa, T. Rex, Flo & Eddie, and more
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Jawbone Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Mark Volman has led a storied life, and many of those stories are contained in Happy Forever. A true son of Southern California, he has gone from topping the charts with The Turtles ('Happy Together') to underground cred with Frank Zappa and beyond. As Flo & Eddie, Mark and his longtime singing partner Howard Kaylan were the not-so-secret ingredient on many other artist's records, taking Bruce Springsteen into the Top 10 for the very first time and...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"New York, 1958. Even though Evelyn Murphy has made progress conquering her agoraphobia by leaving the Pinnacle, she still feels most comfortable in her father's hotel. With Malcolm Cooper, her new boyfriend and fellow employee at the hotel, Evelyn feels prepared for whatever happens next. In this case, it's throwing a big fundraiser with the who's who of New York City. The night is a success, and Evelyn finally takes up Malcolm's offer to finally...
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Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Here is the explosive story of the Kids for Cash scandal in Pennsylvania, a judicial justice miscarriage that sent more than 2,500 children and teens to a for-profit detention center while two judges lined their pockets with cash, as told by Candy J. Cooper, an award-winning journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist"--
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Harper Muse
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"1868 Morpeth Theodora Breckenridge, still in mourning after the loss of her parents and brother at sea, is more interested in working quietly on her art at the family's country estate than she is finding a husband in Sydney society, even if her elder sister Florence has other ideas. Theodora seeks to emulate prestigious nature illustrators, the Scott sisters, who lived nearby, so she cannot believe her luck when she discovers a butterfly never before...
18) Cupid's revenge
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Farrar Straus Giroux Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Unlike her friend Teddy, sixteen-year-old Tilly is not looking for a girlfriend, but when Teddy forms a crush on Katherine Cooper-Bunting, his co-star in their community theater production, Tilly finds herself also swooning over her.
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Last comics on Earth volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Strange invaders from the Underverse are threatening the peaceful peoples of Apocalyptia, the Under Clowns from Clownlantis have come, and it's no laughing matter! Now Jack, June, Quint, and Dirk have to write and draw a sequel, while Lightning Boy, Moonstar, and Doc Baker help Savage Aloner face his primal fear of clowns and save Apocalyptia (again)! It's going to be even MORE wild than it sounds!" -- Page [4] cover.
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Storey Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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In this version of the Ethiopian folktale, a Grandmother sends her bickering grandchildren on a dangerous mission to pluck a lion's whisker for her magical potion, where they learn valuable lessons about working together, being brave, and showing patience and understanding for others.
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