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21) The echo chamber
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At once, a gateway to other worlds - and a treacherous weapon in the hands of the unwary, the unwitting, the inept. The Cleverley family live a gilded life, little realising how precarious their privilege is, just one tweet away from disaster. George, the patriarch, is a stalwart of television interviewing, a 'national...
Author
Series
Anomaly files volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Still recovering from the shocking revelations they uncovered deep in uncharted territory in the Grand Canyon, American myth and legend investigator Nolan Moore and his team take on a new mission, investigating a rumored case of witchcraft and possession. Nolan hopes their new case, in a quaint village in the middle of the woods, will prove much more like those he and his team investigated prior to their trip to Kincaid's cavern. But as the residents...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Richard MacMurray, a cable news talking head, is paid handsomely to pontificate on the issues of the moment. On New Year's Day he is scheduled to be a guest on a prominent morning talk show. As he awaits the broadcast, the network interrupts with news that a jet airliner has crashed in Dallas and that everyone aboard has perished. Within an hour, amateur videotape surfaces of the plane's last moments, transforming the crash into a living image: familiar,...
24) Payback
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Unbeknownst to her many fans, Quin Archer, the revenge-loving queen of the reality-TV show "Payback," was once an angry teen named Heidi - and her true story may be known only to Agnes, who was her art teacher at a private New England girls' school in the 1970s. Then a young woman herself, Agnes saw a spark of originality in the brooding Heidi. But when she suggests Heidi visit the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the girl returns with a disastrous...
25) Un día
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Español
Description
Es 1988 y Dexter Mayhew y Emma Morley se acaban de conocer. Pero tras sólo un día juntos, no pueden dejar de pensar el uno del otro. A lo largo de veinte años, instantes de esta relación se revelan el mismo día de cada año--el 15 de julio. Dex y Em afrontan pequeñas discusiones y grandes peleas, esperanzas y oportunidades perdidas, la risa y las lágrimas. Y mientras el verdadero significado de este crucial día se revela, tendrán que enfrentarse...
Author
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
There's only one thing standing in the way of Cat King saving Merry, Connecticut's Christmas festival: Grumpy town manager Noah Yates. Single dad Noah takes his responsibilities seriously. When a late season hurricane turns his town into a disaster, he's left scrambling to pick up the pieces of the town he loves. At least, until home renovation expert and smoking hot reality TV star Catalina King arrives with a camera crew and a budget big enough...
Author
Series
Chicago saga volume 2
Publisher
Agora Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Paloma has been watching the Grand Vespertilio Show her entire life. Grand, America's most beloved horror host showcases classic, low-budget and cult horror movies with a flourish, wearing his black tuxedo and hat, but Paloma has noticed something strange about Grand, stranger than his dark make-up and Gothic television set. After Paloma's husband, a homicide detective, discovers an obscure movie poster pinned on a mutilated corpse on stage at the...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Lucy Rourke has two great loves in her life: the gorilla troop she cares for as a primatologist and the laundry list of reality TV shows she watches to escape the fact that her actual love life doesn't exist. And like a reality contestant gunning for the final rose, Lucy is laser-focused on one thing: getting promoted to senior keeper. So when a wildlife docuseries hosted by hotshot TV personality Kai Bridges chooses her zoo as its summer filming...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"After an injury cripples her dance career in the US, Sam is scouted by a wealthy Russian investor seeking ballerinas for his Versailles-esque campus in rural Russia. Not only is she geographically cut-off from the rest of the world, Sam isolates herself from friends and family as her heroin addiction takes control. Similarly alone, Jonah, her brother, is monitoring elephants in the thick of Gabon. An unfortunate crossing with a poacher soon pulls...
30) You don't own me
Author
Series
Under suspicion (Mary Higgins Clark) volume 6
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"'Queen of Suspense' Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke are back with their fifth enthralling mystery in the New York Times bestselling Under Suspicion series; You Don't Own Me finds television producer Laurie Moran stopping at nothing to solve the murder of a celebrity doctor--even as she finds herself in grave danger as a mysterious stalker plots his next move. When we last saw Laurie Moran, she had recently become engaged to her show's former...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In this witty and engaging novel, Dana Barry, the Shopping Channel's star host, stops by the company's rooftop party to pitch the new CEO her brilliant idea that just might save the flagging business, her job and possibly her love life. As she chats with the smarmy executive, he backs her into a dark corner. For Dana, it's a quid pro oh-hell-no. She escapes his lecherous grasp and grabs her drink on her way to the dance floor. Woozy, she blacks out....
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