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Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"As a romance blooms in an isolated Italian Alpine town, fate and free will shape the lives of many in this gorgeously written novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Eight Mountains"--
Author
Series
YouSpace volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Maurice has just killed a dragon with a bread knife ... and his true love has been spirited away. Meanwhile, a man wakes up in a jar in a different kind of pickle (figuratively speaking): he can't get out, or remember his name ... or anything ... and every time he starts working it all out, someone makes him forget again. An absurdly witty novel of alternate universes and very unlikely heroes.
43) Dream bride
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
According to family legend, when Chloe Wright puts on the magical heirloom nightgown on her twenty-fifth birthday, she will dream of her future groom. Chloe doesn't believe in fate, so she's shocked when she crosses paths with a handsome stranger. Archaeologist and explorer Arizona Smith is everything Chloe has ever wanted in a man. But she's not about to fall in love, especially since Arizona never settles anywhere for long. Still, his electrifying...
44) Arcadia
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In 1960s Oxford, Professor Henry Lytten is attempting to write a fantasy novel that forgoes the magic of his predecessors, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. He finds an unlikely confidante in his quick-witted, inquisitive young neighbor Rosie. One day, while chasing Lytten's cat, Rosie encounters a doorway in his cellar. She steps through and finds herself in an idyllic, pastoral land where Storytellers are revered above all others. There she meets a...
Author
Language
English
Description
An heiress, a resistance fighter, and a widow are all joined by one legendary hotel: the Ritz in Paris.
France, 1914. As war breaks out, Aurelie becomes trapped on the wrong side of the front with her father, Comte Sigismund de Courcelles. When the Germans move into their family's ancestral estate, using it as their headquarters, Aurelie discovers she knows the German Major's aide de camp, Maximilian Von Sternburg. She and the dashing young officer...
46) Given to the sea
Author
Series
Given duet (Mindy McGinnis) volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Khosa is destined to be sacrificed to the sea and struggles to understand her destiny as the kingdom comes under attack and the ocean threatens to destroy them all"--
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Late one night, fate brings together DJ Aspirin and ten-year-old Alyona. After he tries to save her from imminent danger, she ends up at his apartment. But in the morning sinister doubts set in. Who is Alyona? A young con artist? A plant for a nefarious blackmailer? Or perhaps a long-lost daughter Aspirin never knew existed? Whoever this mysterious girl is, she now refuses to leave."--
Author
Series
Blood and Ash volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Chosen from birth to usher in a new era, Poppy's life has never been her own. The life of the Maiden is solitary. Never to be touched. Never to be looked upon. Never to be spoken to. Never to experience pleasure. Waiting for the day of her Ascension, she would rather be with the guards, fighting back the evil that took her family, than preparing to be found worthy by the gods. But the choice has never been hers. The entire kingdom's future rests...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Lunchtime on a Saturday, 1944: the Woolworths on Bexford High Street in southeast London receives a delivery of aluminum saucepans. A crowd gathers to see the first new metal in ages—after all, everything’s been melted down for the war effort. An instant later, the crowd is gone; incinerated. Among the shoppers were five young children. Who were they? What futures did they lose? This brilliantly constructed novel lets an alternative reel of time...
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
It's been labelled a doomsday cult, but the Bastion might be humanity's last hope. Amidst all the lies and chaos, come hear their true story, in their own words. On the rural coast of Puglia, Italy, Becca and Ric run the Bastion, offering solace and a home for lost souls. Each year they welcome new members to join the Open Feast, where they teach them to release their burdens and create a better world, in a journey of self-discovery and spiritual...
Author
Language
English
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Description
It all starts with a fall from a ladder, in a firehouse in New York City. The firehouse has been converted into a unique Manhattan home and studio where renowned photographer Madison Allen works and lives after raising three children on her own. But the accident, which happens while Maddie is sorting through long-forgotten personal mementos and photos, results in more than a broken ankle. It changes her life. Spurred by old memories, the forced pause...
Author
Series
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
"Granted a wish at birth, Constance Verity has become one of the world's great adventurers. A master of exotic martial arts and a keen detective, she is in possession of a collection of strange artifacts, which are mostly kept in unlabeled boxes in her apartment. Constance has spent the past twenty years saving the world, and she's sick of it. She wants an office job and a boyfriend who isn't going to get killed by who knows what, and she's figured...
53) The new kingdom
Author
Series
Egyptian series (Wilbur A. Smith) volume 7
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Cast out of Lahun, Hui, once the ruler-in-waiting of the great city, seeks vengeance for the death of his father, swearing his allegiance to the enemies of Egypt and learning the art of war to fight to become the master of a new kingdom.
Author
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Hannah Martin's life isn't shaping up into much of anything. Since graduating college eight years ago, she has lived in six different cities and held countless meaningless jobs. At the age of twenty-nine, she is starting to see crow's feet, and yet, she still has no idea what she wants to do with her life. On the heels of leaving yet another city, Hannah moves back to her hometown of Los Angeles to regroup. She takes up residence in her best friend...
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Maris Brown has been told two things about her destiny: 1. She will fall happily and madly in love. 2. She could be dead before she turns eighteen. The summer before that fateful birthday, Maris is in the wealthy beach town of Cross Cove with her estranged father and his new family--and the infamous Duvals. Since the youngest member of the Duval family, Edison, is back from college and back in the arms of Maris's new stepsister, her summer looks...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"The story of a family whose chance meeting with a stranger while dog walking slowly becomes an ominous invasion of their domestic lives. David and Maggie Holliss are an ordinary married couple about to ease into a comfortable, well-earned retirement while tending to three middle-aged children with whom they share an edgy relationship of love and resentment. Reginald Parker enters their lives when he saves their dog from being run over by a truck,...
57) Dark stars
Author
Series
Dark stars volume 3
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Dorothy finds herself completely alone. Roman is dead. The Chronology Protection Agency wants nothing to do with her. The Black Cirkus no longer trusts her...and Ash is gone. Dorothy has seen the evidence with her own eyes, she knows that she was the one who killed Ash. But she still has no idea how, when, or most importantly, why. But the discovery of several missing pages from the Professor's journal drives a narrow sliver of hope into her heart"--...
59) Darius
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Darius, son of Marklon, isn't looking for love the night destiny comes to claim him. He's also not interested in crashing his new car. But when a human woman runs out into the road and he must swerve to avoid killing her... everything goes off course. Disillusioned by his King's lack of leadership and the losses in the war against the Lessening Society, Darius finds purpose in protecting a woman he cannot make his own. Love finds a way, however--until...
Author
Series
Elemental emergence volume 1
Publisher
Red Tower Books, an imprint of Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"For humans, the circus is a place filled with wonder and amazement. For Harrow, it's a place to hide from those who slaughtered her entire clan. Disguising her abilities as part of her act has kept her true identity safe for years. Until he arrives. A strange new attraction with no name, no memory of who – or even what – he is, let alone an explanation for his odd yet deadly powers. But beneath the layers of anger and isolation, one glimpse into...
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