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Pub. Date
2024.
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"Welcome to The Book of Japanese Folklore: a fascinating journey through Japan's folklore through profiles of the legendary creatures and beings who continue to live on in pop culture today. From the sly kitsune to the orgrish oni and mischievous shape-shifting tanuki, learn all about the origins of these fantastical and mythical creatures. With information on their cultural significance, a retelling of a popular tale tied to that particular yokai,...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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"It is an unusual thing, to live in a botanical garden. But Simon and Gregor are an unusual pair of gentlemen. Hidden away in their glass sanctuary from the disapproving tattle of Victorian London, they are free to follow their own interests without interference. For Simon, this means long hours in the dark basement workshop, working his taxidermical art. Gregor's business is exotic plants - lucrative, but harmless enough. Until his latest acquisition,...
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Pub. Date
2024
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"Meet Jessica Jones: Retired super hero, private investigator, loner. She tried her best to be a shiny spandex crimefighter, but that life only led to unspeakable trauma. Now she avoids that world altogether and works on surviving day-to-day in Hell's Kitchen, New York. The morning a distraught mother comes into her office, Jessica would prefer to nurse her hangover and try to forget last night's poor choices. But something about Amber Randall's story...
65) Briar club
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Pub. Date
2024
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"Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation's capital where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship: poised English beauty Fliss, whose facade of perfect wife and mother covers gaping inner wounds; policeman's...
69) The burning
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Series
Kate Burkholder novel volume 16
Pub. Date
2024.
Summary
"Newlywed Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is awakened by an urgent midnight call summoning her to a suspicious fire in the woods. When she arrives at the scene, she discovers a charred body. According to the coroner, the deceased, an Amish man named Milan Swanz, was chained to a stake and burned alive. It is an appalling and eerily symbolic crime against an upstanding husband and father. Kate knows all too well that the Amish prefer to handle their...
70) Burning crowns
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Series
Twin crowns volume 3
Pub. Date
[2024]
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The final book in the swoony and high-stakes fantasy rom-com trilogy that began with Twin Crowns, about twin princesses separated at birth--from bestselling authors Catherine Doyle and Katherine Webber. Twin queens Rose & Wren survived the Battle for Anadawn and brought back magic to their kingdom. But danger lurks in Eana’s shadows. Wren is troubled. Ever since she performed the blood spell on Prince Ansel, her magic has become unruly. Worse, the...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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"In the 1840s, a young man named Silas Weir begins practicing medicine in Pennsylvania. Though he is considered inept by family, neighbors, and even his mentor, Dr. Weir discovers he has a gift for phlebotomy, treating patients by bleeding them to purify their bodies. But when an experimental procedure goes horribly wrong, Dr. Weir is forced to start over, relocating his family to Trenton, New Jersey, and taking a position at the New Jersey State...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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"A captivating novel about two women, centuries apart, fighting to be heard - one of whom may be the real author of Shakespeare's plays - from the New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here. As an undergraduate, Melina Green had a rare opportunity to have one of her first plays judged by famous theater critic Jasper Tolle, only to be publicly humiliated by a harsh and biased critique. Ten years later, her confidence as a playwright has...
73) Calder country
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Pub. Date
2024
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"1920s, Blue Moon, Montana.The small cattle town is alight with the excitement of cars, telephones, and airplanes. But as new inventions and new roles for women collide with Prohibition and the rising battle between gangsters and the FBI, Blue Moon finds itself - and some of its most infamous residents and powerful families - at a crossroads, and in battles of their own, between hearts and minds. Heir to the Hollister Ranch on his mother's side, Mason...
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Pub. Date
[2024]
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"The lavishly illustrated The Call to Serve is an intimate, illuminating portrait of the 41st U. S. President, a man many know mainly through his politics. Jon Meacham brings the leader vividly to life, including as a man dedicated to political and moral leadership, and to a life marked by the strong values of integrity and respect for others that Bush learned during his childhood. Bush pursued a life of service to America and to others, including...
75) Camino ghosts
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Camino Island volume . 3
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"In this new thriller on Camino Island, popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresistible tale that might be her next novel. A giant resort developer is using its political muscle and deep pockets to claim ownership of a deserted island between Florida and Georgia. Only the last living inhabitant of the island, Lovely Jackson, stands in its way. What the developer doesn?t know is that the island has a remarkable history, and locals...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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En un día caluroso de verano, Lucía y su hermano acompañan a su madre a vender churros deliciosos y azucarados en las bulliciosas calles de Nueva York. Pero cuando se acerca una tormenta y los clientes huyen, la madre de Lucía improvisa con un poco de magia y mucho amor. Inspirado en la relación de la autora con su propia madre, este libro conmovedor celebra el amor, la comunidad y el CRUJIDO, ESTALLIDO y CHISPORROTEO de un churro perfecto.
Lucia...
77) Cat out of water
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Pub. Date
[2024]
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"Who needs to have an ordinary day when you can have a super awesome day with the Cat in the Hat?! Sally and her brother are delighted to have their friend come over, but, unfortunately, Fish isn't so happy. Maybe the Cat can get Fish to join in if he adds a little more splash to their party. After all, there is no such thing as too much fun...right?"--
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Pub. Date
2024.
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"Embark on a thrilling journey through time! This captivating encyclopedia reveals the secrets of the prehistoric world; from the origins of life to the Age of Dinosaurs and the rise of the mammals. Packed with original illustrations, this meticulously researched guide reflects the very latest discoveries. See creatures such as T. Rex in a new light and marvel at other extraordinary animals; from Quetzalcoatlus, the largest creature to ever fly, to...