Yu's bookshelf: all

Yu's bookshelf: all en-US Wed, 20 May 2026 18:20:53 -0700 60 Yu's bookshelf: all 144 41 https://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Wish 27414384 Wishbone, a skinny stray dog who captures her heart, and Howard, a neighbor boy who proves surprising in lots of ways. Suddenly Charlie is in serious danger of discovering that what she thought she wanted may not be what she needs at all.]]> 240 Barbara O'Connor 0374302731 Yu 0 to-read 4.26 2016 Wish

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]]> <![CDATA[The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)]]> 20912424 An exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds set during World War 2, from the acclaimed author of Jefferson’s Sons and for fans of Number the Stars.

Ten-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada’s twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn’t waste a minute—she sneaks out to join him.

So begins a new adventure of Ada, and for Susan Smith, the woman who is forced to take the two kids in. As Ada teaches herself to ride a pony, learns to read, and watches for German spies, she begins to trust Susan—and Susan begins to love Ada and Jamie. But in the end, will their bond be enough to hold them together through wartime? Or will Ada and her brother fall back into the cruel hands of their mother?

This masterful work of historical fiction is equal parts adventure and a moving tale of family and identity—a classic in the making.]]> 316 Kimberly Brubaker Bradley 0803740816 Yu 0 to-read 4.47 2015 The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)

The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)

author: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
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]]> Out of the Dust 25346 227 Karen Hesse 0439771277 Yu 0 to-read 3.77 1997

author: Karen Hesse
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average rating: 3.77
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]]> <![CDATA[A Long Way from Chicago (A Long Way from Chicago, #1)]]> 39963 148 Richard Peck 0142401102 Yu 0 to-read 3.97 1998

A Long Way from Chicago (A Long Way from Chicago, #1)

author: Richard Peck
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average rating: 3.97
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]]> <![CDATA[Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)]]> 106264
This children's literature classic is perfect for fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie books, historical fiction, and timeless stories using rich and beautiful language, and it's a strong choice for independent reading. Sarah, Plain and Tall gently explores themes of abandonment, loss, and love.]]> 64 Patricia MacLachlan 0618062416 Yu 0 to-read 3.85 1985 Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)

Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)

author: Patricia MacLachlan
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average rating: 3.85
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]]> <![CDATA[The Higher Power of Lucky (The Hard Pan Trilogy, #1)]]> 62151
Lucky, age ten, can't wait another day. The meanness gland in her heart and the crevices full of questions in her brain make running away from Hard Pan, California (population 43), the rock-bottom only choice she has.

It's all Brigitte's fault -- for wanting to go back to France. Guardians are supposed to stay put and look after girls in their care! Instead Lucky is sure that she'll be abandoned to some orphanage in Los Angeles where her beloved dog, HMS Beagle, won't be allowed. She'll have to lose her friends Miles, who lives on cookies, and Lincoln, future U.S. president (maybe) and member of the International Guild of Knot Tyers. Just as bad, she'll have to give up eavesdropping on twelve-step anonymous programs where the interesting talk is all about Higher Powers. Lucky needs her own -- and quick.

But she hadn't planned on a dust storm.

Or needing to lug the world's heaviest survival-kit backpack into the desert.]]> 144 Susan Patron 1416901949 Yu 0 to-read 3.60 2006 The Higher Power of Lucky (The Hard Pan Trilogy, #1)

The Higher Power of Lucky (The Hard Pan Trilogy, #1)

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]]> The Great Gilly Hopkins 163465 The Great Gilly Hopkins is looking for a home. She's a foster kid who's been angry, lonely, and hurting for so long that's she's always ready for a fight. Be on the lookout for her best barracuda smile, the one she saves for well-meaning social workers. Watch out for her most fearful look, a cross between Dracula and Godzilla, used especially to scare shy foster brothers. Don't be fooled by her "Who me?" expression, guaranteed to trick foster parents, teachers, and anyone who gets in her way.

It's Gilly Hopkins vs. the world! And so far, Gilly seems to be winning. But what she doesn't realize is that every time she wins, she really loses, until she discovers a love as formidable as any enemy she's ever known.]]> 148 Katherine Paterson 0435124773 Yu 0 to-read 3.85 1978 The Great Gilly Hopkins

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average rating: 3.85
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]]> <![CDATA[A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community]]> 213317622
Maggie knows nothing about her hard-nosed WWI Veteran Grandpa other than being aware that he and her mother have long been estranged. Thrust into a culture and lifestyle that couldn't be more opposite of her San Francisco upbringing, Maggie is suddenly expected to do household and barnyard chores under the critical eye of a grizzled old rancher.

Ira and Maggie are equally skeptical of each other as they attempt to adapt to the vastly different world they now share. In addition to facing all the challenges in her new life, the worry of whether her mom will ever regain consciousness is never far from Maggie's thoughts. Despite having to overcome the overwhelming obstacles placed in her path, Maggie's grit, determination, and can-do spirit are evident in this heartwarming story of how she wins the love and respect of the members of her new community, not the least of which is her grandfather, Ira Stone.]]> 275 Wayne Edwards 195553327X Yu 0 to-read 4.36 A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community

A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community

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]]> Esperanza Rising 89763 304 Pam Muñoz Ryan 043912042X Yu 0 to-read 4.04 2000

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]]> Echo Mountain 51969326
After the financial crash, Ellie and her family have lost nearly everything--including their home in town. They have started over, carving out a new life in the unforgiving terrain of Echo Mountain. Though her sister Esther, especially, resents everything about the mountain, Ellie has found more freedom, a new strength, and a love of the natural world that now surrounds them. But there is little joy, even for Ellie, as they all struggle with the sorrow and aftermath of an accident that left her father in a coma. An accident for which Ellie has accepted the unearned weight of blame.

Urgent for a cure to bring her father back, Ellie is determined to try anything. Following her heart, and the lead of a scruffy mutt, Ellie will make her way to the top of the mountain, in search of the healing secrets of a woman known only as "the hag." But the mountain still has many untold stories left to reveal to Ellie, as she finds her way forward among a complex constellation of strong women spanning generations.]]> 356 Lauren Wolk 0525555560 Yu 0 to-read 4.23 2020 Echo Mountain

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]]> One Came Home 13641955
But when Georgie blurts out something she shouldn't, her older sister Agatha flees, running off with a pack of "pigeoners" trailing the passenger pigeon migration. And when the sheriff returns to town with an unidentifiable body—wearing Agatha's blue-green ball gown—everyone assumes the worst. Except Georgie. Refusing to believe the facts that are laid down (and coffined) before her, Georgie sets out on a journey to find her sister. She will track every last clue and shred of evidence to bring Agatha home. Yet even with resolute determination and her trusty Springfield single-shot, Georgie is not prepared for what she faces on the western frontier.

From the Hardcover edition.]]> 272 Amy Timberlake 0375869255 Yu 0 to-read 3.80 2013 One Came Home

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]]> Don't Waste Your Life 347656
"God created us to live with a single passion to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives."

Most people slip by in life without a passion for God, spending their lives on trivial diversions, living for comfort and pleasure, and perhaps trying to avoid sin. This book will warn you not to get caught up in a life that counts for nothing. It will challenge you to live and die boasting in the cross of Christ and making the glory of God your singular passion. If you believe that to live is Christ and to die is gain, read this book, learn to live for Christ, and don't waste your life!]]> 192 John Piper 1581344988 Yu 5 4.14 2003

author: John Piper
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average rating: 4.14
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]]> <![CDATA[The Sacred Search: What If It's Not about Who You Marry, But Why?]]> 14981152 256 Gary L. Thomas 1434704890 Yu 5 4.28 2013

The Sacred Search: What If It's Not about Who You Marry, But Why?

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]]> <![CDATA[God's Big Picture: Tracing the Storyline of the Bible]]> 196482 160 Vaughan Roberts 0830853642 Yu 4 4.06 2002

God's Big Picture: Tracing the Storyline of the Bible

author: Vaughan Roberts
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average rating: 4.06
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hobbit, or There and Back Again]]> 5907 Written for J.R.R. Tolkien’s own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when it was first published in 1937. Now recognized as a timeless classic, this introduction to the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, the wizard Gandalf, Gollum, and the spectacular world of Middle-earth recounts of the adventures of a reluctant hero, a powerful and dangerous ring, and the cruel dragon Smaug the Magnificent. The text in this 372-page paperback edition is based on that first published in Great Britain by Collins Modern Classics (1998), and includes a note on the text by Douglas A. Anderson (2001).

9780618260300]]> 366 J.R.R. Tolkien Yu 4 4.30 1937 The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

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]]> If I Run (If I Run, #1) 26263487 Casey knows the truth.

But it won’t set her free.

Casey Cox’s DNA is all over the crime scene. There’s no use talking to police; they have failed her abysmally before. She has to flee before she’s arrested . . . or worse. The truth doesn’t matter anymore.

But what is the truth? That’s the question haunting Dylan Roberts, the war-weary veteran hired to find Casey. PTSD has marked him damaged goods, but bringing Casey back can redeem him. Though the crime scene seems to tell the whole story, details of the murder aren’t adding up. Casey Cox doesn’t fit the profile of a killer. But are Dylan’s skewed perceptions keeping him from being objective? If she isn’t guilty, why did she run?

Unraveling her past and the evidence that condemns her will take more time than he has, but as Dylan’s damaged soul intersects with hers, he is faced with two choices. The girl who occupies his every thought is a psychopathic killer . . . or a selfless hero. And the truth could be the most deadly weapon yet.]]> 305 Terri Blackstock 0310332435 Yu 3 4.09 2016 If I Run (If I Run, #1)

author: Terri Blackstock
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]]> Girl Wash your Face 35542451 With wry wit and hard-earned wisdom, popular online personality and founder of TheChicSite.com founder Rachel Hollis helps readers break free from the lies keeping them from the joy-filled and exuberant life they are meant to have.

Founder of the lifestyle website TheChicSite.com and CEO of her own media company, Chic Media, Rachel Hollis has created an online fan base of hundreds of thousands of fans by sharing tips for living a better life while fearlessly revealing the messiness of her own. Now comes her highly anticipated first book featuring her signature combination of honesty, humor, and direct, no-nonsense advice.

Each chapter of Girl, Wash Your Face begins with a specific lie Hollis once believed that left her feeling overwhelmed, unworthy, or ready to give up. As a working mother, a former foster parent, and a woman who has dealt with insecurities about her body and relationships, she speaks with the insight and kindness of a BFF, helping women unpack the limiting mind-sets that destroy their self-confidence and keep them from moving forward.

From her temporary obsession with marrying Matt Damon to a daydream involving hypnotic iguanas to her son's request that she buy a necklace to "be like the other moms," Hollis holds nothing back. With unflinching faith and tenacity, Hollis spurs other women to live with passion and hustle and to awaken their slumbering goals.]]> 240 Rachel Hollis 1400201667 Yu 3 3.55 2018 Girl Wash your Face

author: Rachel Hollis
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average rating: 3.55
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]]> The Polymorph 101265124
Brown finds that an alien species has successfully assimilated themselves with the humans on Earth and is ruling over them covertly. When an attempt is made to kidnap him, he realises he has become a target in a hidden game where different groups are vying for power, complicated by the introduction of artificial humans and super androids to boost Earth’s population and armies.

Some ruling factions are preparing for war against the planet Levita and re-conquest of a group of planets, former colonies in the Delta Quadrant, who have declared their independence from Earth.

Brown realises that he is also running the gauntlet of former enemies who are out to get him. He is desperate to thwart the prospects of war against Levita, where he has a son he has never met and is also against re-colonisation after his recent experiences on Pirrus.

Aboard The Space Adventurer, the cruise ship on which he is returning, he meets two beautiful women. Marika, who has been sent as his minder, by the EPA, Earth Policy Administration, to keep an eye on Brown as they don’t fully trust him and Leela, the daughter of Earth’s biggest industrialist, who is secretly building the super androids on a space hub, where the ship makes a stop.

He soon realises that he is in a desperate battle for survival, before he can even reach Earth and the big bash the EPA is throwing for him, for successfully completing his mission on Pirrus.]]> 0 Max Nowaz 1803133961 Yu 0 to-read 4.29 2023 The Polymorph

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]]> In the Land of Boxes 56298811
So, close your eyes and squeeze tight! Can you see it? Can you see all of the marvelous things that make you shine? The best possible you is where they combine!]]> 36 Kim Hebert 1525564439 Yu 0 to-read 4.40 In the Land of Boxes

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]]> <![CDATA[Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution]]> 197122500
Spanning fourteen years and five continents, prostitutes, hitmen, intelligence agents, ladyboys, thieves, junkies and shaman are just a few of the people encountered in places as far and wide as the Rif Mountains, the Amazon Rainforest, South East Asian jungles and the Australian Outback. From Bangkok to Beirut, Medellin to Johannesburg and a hundred other cities in between; from Jamaican strip clubs to South African military bases and gangster villas in Thailand to bus crashes in Panama, this is a story like no other.

It is strong, bold and brutally honest. Will suit those interested in the subjects of gang stalking, targeted individuals, mind control, international travel, backpacking, freelance journalism, sex, drugs and rock n roll, and anyone else who likes to be transported into another world by the pages of a good book.]]> 427 Edward Williams Yu 0 to-read 4.33 Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

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]]> <![CDATA[The Wasp Trap: Book 3 in the Charlotte's War Trilogy]]> 216036968
Alec and his colleague, Philip Bing-Wallace, investigate and become entangled in an intriguing mystery, linked to the dazzling Baroness Freya Saumures. But Freya is not her real name … Alec is told she is Charlotte, a young woman thought to have been killed by the Nazis in 1940.

Alec finds himself plunged into in a world of deceit, vengeance and recrimination. He falls in love with Charlotte, despite her mysterious past, her treacherous uncle, and the murder of her husband.]]> 320 Hugo Woolley Yu 0 to-read 4.42 The Wasp Trap: Book 3 in the Charlotte's War Trilogy

The Wasp Trap: Book 3 in the Charlotte's War Trilogy

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]]> Lethal Impulse 217228766
Winner of 2022 Public Safety Writing Association’s Writing Competition for an unpublished novel.

Longlisted in the 2022 Page Turner Awards.

Minutes ticked toward another murder in Greenwich Village.

Neil Caldera’s split-second decision cost him his detective’s badge.
He seeks relief from a relentless wave of guilt after a he kills a crime boss's daughter in NYC, and settles in the quietness of Madison, Georgia, a town once named “The Best Place to Live in Georgia.”

Months later, a gruesome discovery sets off a chain reaction of chaos in the community after the local police respond to the murder of a teenage girl where they stumble upon a chilling scene—Neil's likeness painted in blood. The investigation uncovers evidence of another gruesome murder in Neil's home.

Refusing to surrender, Neil finds an ally in the town’s police sergeant. Together, they plunge headlong into a treacherous game of seduction and violence, desperate to stop a bloodthirsty predator before more lives are claimed, including his.]]> 267 Steve Rush 1509258132 Yu 0 to-read 4.44 Lethal Impulse

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]]> Neighborhood Lines 40610475
Through a tragic turn of events, we see stereotypical statuses turned upside down. The contrasting characters display the power of individual choice and response to life's circumstances. Though the corruption and racism of Patrick and Nate's Boston culture posed an equal threat to both, their respective choices to pick themselves up, find their resolve, and get past their environment, caused them to rise above it all.

This is the story of a Boston friendship that crossed neighborhood lines, broke cultural boundaries, and propelled two adolescents to rethink the world around them. May we all be impacted by the education this eye-opening read has to offer!]]> 191 Michael Patrick Murphy 1543938035 Yu 0 to-read 4.37 Neighborhood Lines

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]]> <![CDATA[Motive Black (Motive Black Series, #1)]]> 216383106
“Surreal, shocking, and beautifully disorienting—Motive Black conjures a world that feels too close to our own.”
— ★★★★★ Readers’ Favorite

Cannibalism, rape, murder—just a few of the ways love is love inside Safe Dome Austin. And though Simon has managed to avoid all but one—rape, obviously—by secluding himself inside the same Safe Space for hundreds, maybe thousands, of hours, a disagreement with the Institute's AI, Google, over which dress looks best on his Shell escalates into jealousy, and she locks him out—not just from his preferred Safe Space, but from every Safe Space on his Safe Block.

What follows is a neon-drenched, blood-soaked fever dream of paranoia, survival, and intrigue inside the metal walls of a dystopian world where everyone is finally free to do whatever they want, identify however they want—and where having a problem with that means being picked apart for the ingredients in Safe McDonald’s classic, the Safe Big Mac.

Described by readers as the “logical conclusion to our current society” and the “True Detective: Season One of novels,” MOTIVE BLACK is a satirical, Kafkaesque horror show. The first in a four-part jaunt into hell, journey through the kind of Sodom and Gomorrah only the 21st century could promise, and bear witness to one seriously fvcked up man’s desperate struggle to break free from the Safety every scientist across the globe agrees is all that separates us from the hatred of white people and the dying world outside.

CONTENT WARNING: This book contains graphic depictions of violence and sex. It features pervasive drug use, obscene language, and torture. Reader discretion is advised.]]> 490 Adam Scott Huerta Yu 0 to-read 4.18 Motive Black (Motive Black Series, #1)

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]]> <![CDATA[Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings]]> 127401850
Cindy spends the first eleven years of her life at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. In her eleventh year, she suffers the brunt of an abusive change in her beloved mother. She absorbs a series of mental and emotional abuses, and her beloved dog is stomped to death despite her physical efforts to save him. His death exceeds her ability to cope with the thought of his absence in her life. She could see only one exit from her nightmarish home. When she starts to commit suicide, her guardian angel intervenes and counsels her.

After the angelic intervention, Cindy begins an episodic journey that includes, a dramatic courtroom appearance, miracles, national press conferences, and a speech to a joint session of the U.S. Congress, and she achieves international prominence. When she concludes the final episode, she is standing on golden cobblestones in a brightest green valley, crying.

The statistics, percentages, and numbers quoted by the characters in this story are true and verifiable.]]> 368 Shafter Bailey 0578966018 Yu 0 to-read 4.32 Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings

Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings

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]]> <![CDATA[Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master]]> 52022378 For five years Me’acca Mysuth Sheever has lived among his “sworn enemies,” pretending to be one of them. One night he buys a journal, its pages blank. The woman who sells him the journal extracts his promise to record his deeds for study. “Lo, the steps of your life mark the journey of your soul.” To expose his prior life, however, would be akin to suicide, for Sheever is a man brimming with secrets.

He begins the journal cautiously, describing the area where he works as a cook, and the people he’s forced to endure. Hints of his past emerge as he also records day-to-day events. As the journal evolves, he finds himself more entangled than he ever wanted to be in the lives around him, and more sympathetic to people he wanted to hate.

Memories haunt him, and he struggles to maintain a grip on his sanity as he prays for – and fears – the signal that his years in exile have ended and he can return home.

This then is Sheever’s Journal, Diary of a Poison Master.

About the Author:
K. Ritz lives with her husband in a small town in Massachusetts. This is her first book in a series about a world of shadows.
]]> 410 K. Ritz 1950015327 Yu 0 to-read 4.30 2019 Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

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]]> <![CDATA[James Ed Hoskins and the One-Room Schoolhouse: The Unprosecuted Crime Against Children]]> 191385541
If Governor Eversole is successful, his reforms will scrap the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA), and they will rebuild K-12 education on a solid foundation of courses known to the "Greatest Generation" as the Three R's. His reforms also limit instructional practices in the classroom to the ancient principles of teaching and learning.

James Ed Hoskins initiates the first of many battles that the gubernatorial reforms will encounter in the legislative process. At a staff meeting, he questions his supervisor. Her summary of the information that her staff had collected from focus groups in school districts across Kentucky did not include the meritorious suggestions. She gives him a curt non-answer. He reminds her that Governor Eversole is a businessman, and he urges her to assist him in every way possible with the K-12 experience on her staff. "With our help," James Ed concludes, "we can at least give him a fighting chance to keep his promise.]]> 279 Shafter Bailey Yu 0 to-read 4.38 James Ed Hoskins and the One-Room Schoolhouse: The Unprosecuted Crime Against Children

James Ed Hoskins and the One-Room Schoolhouse: The Unprosecuted Crime Against Children

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]]> <![CDATA[Body In The Woods (Jack Ludefance, #2)]]> 48502633 389 Behcet Kaya 169459212X Yu 0 to-read 4.33 2019

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]]> TWISTED 218487053

What should be an innate appreciation of society holds little to no relevance today. Your financial footing takes priority over just about any and everything. Being alive, able bodied, and breathing isn't enough. What happens when that's all stripped away?

The choice to exist in the creation of social media was yours, where a mere accusation, or negative posting could damage what should be held in the highest regard, your reputation. The cyber establishment's choke-hold is fierce, and you feel it, yet you constantly wonder why you can't breathe, but hey, you're "woke," right?

Your foundation, personal and or financial might be buckling, but you're clueless, even though it was you who shared every delicate and secular aspect of your life. Our brand has replaced moral fiber, dictating and tampering with the control of humanity. Are we waiting for the catastrophic crash of mankind? It appears so, when you step back from the edge, watch and listen? That's a predicament that wasn't even on your radar, but here you are, "woke," right?

A roof over your head, clothes on your back, sustenance, hell, even the air you breathe, all taken for granted. This should be a daunting notion I'm setting before the appetite of your consciousness, but perhaps it remains far-fetched. The question you should be asking yourself is, how woke are you; really?

Regardless of gender, a simple compliment, smile, assistance, or jealousy can ignite a desire to stalk or destroy a person. - The only untainted bubble any of us occupied was in utero, so you are not above reproach of any kind. Whatever self-made bacterial hubris you've placed yourself in, outside of that, speaks to the degree of self-importance encasing you, so it's impossible for you to appreciate what it is to be "woke," in the real world.]]> Fayton Hollington Yu 0 to-read 4.19 TWISTED

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]]> The Mayan Legacy 40892001 Nothing happened…Or did it?
Jeremy is an adrenaline junky who just made a serious mistake. It nearly killed him. While being drug under water with a parachute line around his neck, he saw his life pass before his eyes…plus something else, something not part of his life. Something he dismisses until he begins to suspect its true importance. Now he has to see it
Maybe to save the world.
But how do you have a near-death experience intentionally? Jeremy scrambles to solve this puzzle while the world scrambles to solve its own near death experience.
Timing is everything.]]> 369 Jody Summers 0989107973 Yu 0 to-read 4.39 2018 The Mayan Legacy

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]]> A Particular Man 212083184 A Particular Man is about love, truth and the unpredictable consequences of loss.

When Edgar dies in a Far East prisoner of war camp it breaks the heart of fellow prisoner Starling. In Edgar’s final moments, Starling makes him a promise. When, after the war, he visits Edgar’s family to fulfill this promise, Edgar's mother Clementine mistakes him for another man.

Her mistake allows him access to Edgar’s home and to those who loved him, stirring powerful and disorientating emotions, and embroiling him in a web of deceit.

The loss has driven his sister Aida to seek solace in the arms of a series of men—but the meeting with Starling sparks a complex connection, fueled by their mutual longing for Edgar.

Meanwhile Clementine, also grieving for Edgar, has secrets of her own…]]> 374 Lesley Glaister Yu 0 to-read 4.39 2024 A Particular Man

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]]> <![CDATA[Magical Elements of the Periodic Table Presented By The Alchemical Wizards Book 1]]> 221137207 46 Sybrina Durant Yu 0 to-read 4.33

Magical Elements of the Periodic Table Presented By The Alchemical Wizards Book 1

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]]> <![CDATA[Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance]]> 210434495 31 Sherman Kennon Yu 0 to-read 4.33

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]]> The Ancestor 54552798
A meditation on love lost and unfulfilled dreams, The Ancestor is a thrilling page-turner in present day Alaska and a historical adventure about the perilous Gold Rush expeditions where prospectors left behind their lives for the promise of hope and a better future. The question remains whether it was all worth the sacrifice….]]> 348 Lee Matthew Goldberg 1643961144 Yu 0 to-read 4.27 2020 The Ancestor

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]]> His Forefathers and Mick 219849520 334 Michael G. Kramer 1763586065 Yu 0 to-read 4.28 2024

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]]> Mrs. Dalloway 14942 194 Virginia Woolf 0151009988 Yu 0 to-read 3.79 1925

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]]> <![CDATA[One More Life to Live (Edward and the Bricklayer Book 1)]]> 215515923
Audiobook narrated by Linda Jones, the multi-award-winning performer honored by the One Voice Awards, Independent Audiobook Awards, Voice Arts Awards, and more — bringing over 150 audiobooks to life with her acclaimed voice.

For a man who thought love was lost forever, an unfathomable miracle is still to come.Edward Stubbins is an orphan in post-war England. Shipped to Australia at ten, he’s offered hope—then abandoned—again and again. A kind nun, a wealthy patron, a girl who promises forever—each walks away when he needs them the most. By the time he’s grown, his heart is sealed shut. When the end finally comes, it is quiet and bitter.

But grace keeps its own strange clock. The emptiness Edward expected in death never comes. Instead, a luminous stranger offers him the chance to live again—in a new body, in a new life, with a chance to rewrite his story.

One More Life to Live is a historical romance with a spiritual twist—a moving story of love, redemption, and the choices that define us. Perfect for fans of Mitch Albom, Laura Hillenbrand, and Nicholas Sparks.
]]> 346 Steven Decker Yu 0 to-read 4.36 2024 One More Life to Live (Edward and the Bricklayer Book 1)

One More Life to Live (Edward and the Bricklayer Book 1)

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]]> <![CDATA[The Lost City: An Epic YA Fantasy Novel (The Tixie Chronicles Book 4)]]> 220761949 Four summers have flown by, since Avelyn and her family won the vicious battle in the unforgettable YA Fantasy novel The Ants of Fire . Now, a mysterious aging sickness is tragically shortening the lives of the tixies everywhere in their forest homes.

When shy but determined 16-year-old Avelyn's beloved mother suddenly ages 100 summers before her eyes, she is paralyzed with sadness. But her more outgoing little brother Killian discovers a way to save their mother and the other tixies suffering from the debilitating disease.

Far into the west, outside of the confines of their massive forest home, a fabled pixie city sits on a barren hilltop. This legendary city is the home of a sacred Magic Dust that is rumored to give creatures unnaturally long life. Desperate to find a cure for her mother, Avelyn agrees to her younger brother's crazy idea, leading to an epic journey across dark and dangerous lands, where three young heroes fight for their lives against mythical creatures, like the stinky Toadskunks, and many other formidable foes.

The Lost City is the immersive 4th volume of the Tixies Chronicles YA Fantasy series, which features heart-stopping sword fighting action scenes, memorable characters with complex relationships, heroic bravery, and vivid world-building. In this memorable coming of age journey, Avelyn must realize her full potential and use the Sword of Light to find her destiny… before it’s too late.

“The king’s fall is imminent, Konskara. The prophesy is true and is coming to fulfillment. They have come.”

Page Up and Order Now.

]]> 326 Jack Borden Yu 0 to-read 4.36 The Lost City: An Epic YA Fantasy Novel (The Tixie Chronicles Book 4)

The Lost City: An Epic YA Fantasy Novel (The Tixie Chronicles Book 4)

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]]> <![CDATA[Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction]]> 211423616 WINNER: 2025 The Literary Titan Gold Medal

WINNER: 2025 Book Excellence Award (Business)

WINNER: 2025 Axiom Business Book Gold Medal Book Award (Digital Media)

WINNER: 2024 Independent Press Book Award (Distinguished Favorite)

3x WINNER: 2024 Dan Poyner’s Global eBook Awards (Business, Communications, Leadership)

2x WINNER: 2024 Goody Business Book Awards (Business – Management, Leadership – Think Differently)

WINNER: 2024 NYC Big Book Award (Distinguished Favorite)

Seeking Fairness at Work challenges employer “truths” by examining unwritten workplace norms – the invisible lines that when crossed, create organizational dysfunction. This new perspective on employee engagement explains employees’ legitimate frustration and identifies missed management opportunities to improve workplace culture.

Recognized business strategist and Journal of Business Ethics Education editorial board member Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, MBA, JD identifies the five most common workplace norms that betray fairness, leaving employees feeling dispirited, disengaged, and headed for the door by examining the social psychology of how our basic human motivations intersect with the implied workplace social contract.

Clarion Foreward Reviews calls it “pithy and persuasive,” while BookLife Review compares it to Kim Scott’s Radical Respect and Kim Dabb’s You Belong Here.

Using evidence-based science, academic research, interviews, and real-life stories, Hasl-Kelchner merges organizational psychology with the practical aspects of workplace dynamics to offer ethical leadership an actionable five-part framework filled with practical tips to empower more employee engagement and retention, including chapters on how any leader can build Trust with More Self-Awareness, Improve Relationship Chemistry with More Empathy, Make Genuine Accountability a Cornerstone, Maintain a Cultural Safety Net, and Mend the Structural Safety Net Seeking Fairness at Work is ideal for executives, managers, and entrepreneurs who want to raise their employees’ game instead of their defenses; the human resource professionals, consultants, and employment attorneys who advise them; and employees wanting a reality check of their own workplace experiences.
]]> 224 Hanna Hasl-Kelchner Yu 0 to-read 4.38 Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

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]]> <![CDATA[Saoirse Berger's Bookish Lens In La La Land]]> 57521034
She steels herself with hyper-romantic hope and sets out to be her best positive self, which works fabulously until it doesn't and things get complicated. Luckily, life turns in Saoirse's favor as her Hollywood family spins out of control and a sweet and equally quirky street artist, Hector Rojas, spots her magical sparkle and inspires her to see things from a kaleidoscope of angles, even her own beautiful self.

Uniquely charming in a Bridget Jones's Diary way with a Cyrano de Bergerac twist, Saoirse Berger takes us on an 18-year-old's hilariously painful journey through love, self-doubt, rejection and the search for belonging as a new adult, ultimately discovering she's already right where she's supposed to be.]]> 347 Nicole Schubert Yu 0 to-read 4.54 2021 Saoirse Berger's Bookish Lens In La La Land

Saoirse Berger's Bookish Lens In La La Land

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]]> And Then I Heard the Quiet 210301962
Not long after, a long-hidden murder resurfaces, pulling her into the unravelling of events within the home she’s entrusted to care for. As Valerie grapples with the ghosts of her past, the true motives behind her actions remain elusive. Amid escalating tension, a surprising romance catches Valerie off guard and helps to ease her through the turbulence of the unfolding mysteries.

Struggling to move on, Valerie can’t seem to let go of finding the answers she hopes will serve as her atonement. What concealed truths lie beneath the surface, and will Valerie’s pursuit lead her to the answers she seeks or deeper into the shadows of what she was running from?]]> 240 Alyssa Hall 1038303451 Yu 0 to-read 4.38 And Then I Heard the Quiet

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]]> <![CDATA[Dancing with The Field: Bringing Joy, Passion and Play into Everyday Life]]> 45043077 You can, with the help of this book!

For millions of people the world over, life can be an unending repetition of drudgery that shows no sign of ever ceasing. It can happen anywhere and to anyone, if you are caught in a cycle where you simply exist, react to life and never really ‘feel’ life’s amazing vibrancy.

In this book, Dancing with The Field: Bringing Joy, Passion and Play into Everyday Life, a new concept is explored around the conscious field that responds to us as we interact with it, with chapters that examine:
- The relational field
- Creating with this field
- Seeing our bodies as doorways to the field
- The field in relationships
- And much more…

Through practical spirituality and firm underpinnings in science and personal experience, Dancing with The Field introduces a framework for life to help people recognize when they are in a state of connection and play with this field and when they are not.

If you are on a spiritual path and feel like you need some additional guidance to bring more joy into your life, then this is the book you simply must read now!]]> 130 Kris Kelkar 1093603283 Yu 0 to-read 4.38 Dancing with The Field: Bringing Joy, Passion and Play into Everyday Life

Dancing with The Field: Bringing Joy, Passion and Play into Everyday Life

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]]> <![CDATA[The Prisoner of Acre (Ash Carter Near East Crime, #4)]]> 203179651 'Easy to get sucked in. Difficult to put down' Jessica Belmont'The sense of danger and menace is compelling' Rambling Mads 'I read into the early hours desperate to find out what happened next' Grace J Reviewerlady'Gritty and dark and heartfelt at times. It is also one of the best series I have read' Whispering StoriesAsh Carter returns to Israel on what should be a straightforward mission. However there is a mystery. Why did Alfred Duffy go AWOL from the British Army, go to Israel and then hand himself in at Acre Prison. The mystery deepens when Carter finds that Duffy escaped just as he arrived. The hunt begins but as the mystery unravels towards an exciting climax, it becomes unclear who is the hunter and who the hunted.]]> 311 Murray Bailey Yu 0 to-read 4.42 The Prisoner of Acre (Ash Carter Near East Crime, #4)

The Prisoner of Acre (Ash Carter Near East Crime, #4)

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]]> Lolita 7604 Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141182537.

Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Dolores Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance; but when Lo herself starts looking for attention elsewhere, he will carry her off on a desperate cross-country misadventure, all in the name of Love. Hilarious, flamboyant, heart-breaking and full of ingenious word play, Lolita is an immaculate, unforgettable masterpiece of obsession, delusion and lust.]]> 368 Vladimir Nabokov Yu 0 to-read 3.87 1955 Lolita

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]]> Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3) 215186841
But the death of a human subsequently gave rise to the question. Would the masses ever trust Artificial Intelligence again?

When Nine and the other androids voted to leave Llar behind, the rioting started shortly after their departure. Where it would lead to was anyone’s guess.
Except for one man, and an ethereal green hologram in the Grand Plaza.

As Godfrey reflected on his excursion into the future, he knew. And there was nothing he could do to stop it. While the old hologram stood and watched the hoards destroying their heritage, the clock was ticking.

Time was running out.]]> 351 A.R. Merrydew Yu 0 to-read 4.35 2024 Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

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]]> Digging for God 51161357 In Digging for God, Tom takes you to a same-sex spiritual resort where you stay for three weeks. During your stay you will join in on all the work and activities of the retreat center. You will live amongst the monks and the spiritually motivated people who live there. You will have a schedule that includes meditation and all types of chores and projects that need to be done. You will get a taste of the camaraderie in the refectory and the delicious food. You will experience hanging out with meditators and learn to meditate yourself. You will realize that there are others ways to live in this world and you will meet people who are more interested in joy, peace, and love and less interested in the almighty dollar. You will find the value in taking a break from the world you live in, to retreat, refresh, and get ready to take on the world when you get back home.]]> 19 Tom Hillman 0228817382 Yu 3 to-read 4.31 Digging for God

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]]> The Fault in Our Stars 11870085
Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green's most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.]]> 313 John Green Yu 0 to-read 4.13 2012 The Fault in Our Stars

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]]> That Affair Next Door 6088374 That Affair Next Door is another fascinating study in human motivations intertwined with bits and pieces of circumstantial evidence that at first make very little sense. True to Green’s style, she calls up and explains each motivation, each piece of evidence with mathematical precision until the mystery unravels and the perpetrator is punished in a most fitting fashion.]]> 352 Anna Katharine Green 1434676773 Yu 5 3.75 1897 That Affair Next Door

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]]> <![CDATA[A Pressing Engagement (Lady Darby Mystery, #4.5)]]> 26177709 In this delightful novella from the national bestselling author of A Study in Death, Lady Kiera Darby has one last mystery to solve before she can walk down the aisle...

Scotland, 1831. With her wedding to fellow investigator Sebastian Gage only a day away, Kiera is counting down the hours. But just when matrimonial jitters threaten to consume her, Kiera receives a welcome distraction in the form of a mysterious gold necklace.

The Celtic torc, thought missing for decades, was directly involved in a recent investigation. Now, Kiera feels compelled to uncover the truth behind its sudden reappearance.

But with an overwhelming flock of wedding guests, a muddled cat, an unpaid favor, and a ferocious storm throwing things into disarray, it’s anyone’s guess whether Kiera and Gage will actually make it to the altar...

Includes an exclusive preview of the next Lady Darby Mystery, As Death Draws Near.]]> 79 Anna Lee Huber 1101986859 Yu 5 4.08 2016 A Pressing Engagement (Lady Darby Mystery, #4.5)

A Pressing Engagement (Lady Darby Mystery, #4.5)

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]]> <![CDATA[Buried Leads (Nichelle Clarke Crime Thriller, #2)]]> 42443518 A young female reporter uncovers a dark web of political corruption. A discovery so big the conspirators will do anything to keep it a secret.

When an Armani-clad body turns up in a shallow forest grave, Nichelle Clarke is the first reporter on the scene. She soon discovers the victim is a tobacco lobbyist with powerful connections.

Local politicians are pushing for a quick arrest.

Nichelle thinks they seem nervous. Even more so after a second victim is found dead.

Nichelle's search for the killer soon uncovers a jaw-dropping trail of malfeasance and debauchery that stretches all the way to Washington, D.C. It's the kind of story that can make a crime reporter's career.

But the power players at the center of this conspiracy have everything to lose, and as Nichelle's quest for the truth nears its end, she lands squarely in the crosshairs of the killer. Can her wits alone can get her out alive, or will these secrets stay buried for good?]]> 218 LynDee Walker Yu 4 4.28 2013 Buried Leads (Nichelle Clarke Crime Thriller, #2)

Buried Leads (Nichelle Clarke Crime Thriller, #2)

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]]> <![CDATA[Heirs and Graces (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #7)]]> 15808340 Here I am thinking the education I received at my posh Swiss finishing school would never come in handy. And while it hasn't landed me a job, or a husband, it has convinced Her Majesty the Queen, and the Dowager Duchess to enlist my help. I have been entrusted with grooming Jack Altringham, the Duke's newly discovered heir fresh from the Outback of Australia, for high society.
The upside is I am to live in luxury at one of England's most gorgeous stately homes. But upon arrival at Kingsdowne Place, my dearest Darcy has been sent to fetch Jack, leaving me stuck in a manor full of miscreants...none of whom are too pleased with the discovery of my new ward.
And no sooner has the lad been retrieved than the Duke announces he wants to choose his own heir. With the house in a hubbub over the news, Jack's hunting knife somehow finds its way into the Duke's back. Eyes fall, backs turn, and fingers point to the young heir. As if the rascal wasn't enough of a handful, now he's suspected of murder. Jack may be wild, but I'd bet the crown jewels it wasn't he who killed the Duke...]]> 295 Rhys Bowen 042526002X Yu 4 3.92 2013 Heirs and Graces (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #7)

Heirs and Graces (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #7)

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]]> <![CDATA[Naughty in Nice (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #5)]]> 10634238 The national bestselling author of Royal Blood whisks her heroine away to the French Riviera for fun-and danger. Lady Georgiana Rannoch has once again been called into service by Her Majesty the Queen. This time she's sent to Nice on a secret assignment that's nothing to sneeze at-recover the Queen's stolen snuff box.

As much of an honor as it is to be trusted by Her Majesty, an even greater honor awaits Georgie in Nice-as Coco Chanel herself asks Georgie to model her latest fashion. But when a necklace belonging to the Queen is stolen on the catwalk, Georgie has to find two priceless items-and solve a murder. How's a girl to find any time to go to the casino?]]> 328 Rhys Bowen 0425243494 Yu 4 4.01 2011 Naughty in Nice (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #5)

Naughty in Nice (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #5)

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]]> <![CDATA[Murder on Family Grounds (Mary Wandwalker #3)]]> 205338104 334 Susan Rowland 1685032095 Yu 4 4.29 2024

Murder on Family Grounds (Mary Wandwalker #3)

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]]> <![CDATA[M is for Malice (Kinsey Millhone, #13)]]> 64854
Malek Construction is a mega-million-dollar company that grew out of modest soil to become one of the big three in California construction—and one of the few still in family hands. Today, the three Malek sons stand to inherit a fortune, but in order for any one of them to claim his share, the missing fourth brother must be found.

M is for MISSING…

Now it’s up to Kinsey Millhone to find Guy Malek, the man who, eighteen years ago, vanished without a trace. Did he run away—or was he abducted? Did he intend to make something of himself on his own, apart from the wealth and prowess of his family, or were his motives something more sinister?

M is for MALICE...

The ties that bind. The rivalries of brotherhood. The fall of an empire… As Kinsey tries to unravel the mystery of the missing Malek brother she finds herself in a heart-stopping race against time in which loyalties are tested, greed is rampant, and no one—including Kinsey herself—is safe…

Librarian's note: the characters, settings, etc. have been done for all 25 novels in the Kinsey Millhone alphabet series, A to Y. Sue Grafton also wrote 9 Kinsey short stories which can be found in Kinsey and Me.]]> 337 Sue Grafton 0449223604 Yu 5 4.09 1996 M is for Malice (Kinsey Millhone, #13)

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]]> Twenty Years Later 57645345
Avery Mason, host of American Events, knows the subjects that grab a TV audience’s attention. Her latest story—a murder mystery laced with kinky sex, tragedy, and betrayal—is guaranteed to be ratings gold. New DNA technology has allowed the New York medical examiner’s office to make its first successful identification of a 9/11 victim in years. The twist: the victim, Victoria Ford, had been accused of the gruesome murder of her married lover. In a chilling last phone call to her sister, Victoria begged her to prove her innocence.

Emma Kind has waited twenty years to put her sister to rest, but closure won’t be complete until she can clear Victoria’s name. Alone she’s had no luck, but she’s convinced that Avery’s connections and fame will help. Avery, hoping to negotiate a more lucrative network contract, goes into investigative overdrive. Victoria had been having an affair with a successful novelist, found hanging from the balcony of his Catskills mansion. The rope, the bedroom, and the entire crime scene was covered in Victoria’s DNA.

But the twisted puzzle of Victoria’s private life is just the beginning. And what Avery doesn't realize is that there are other players in the game who are interested in Avery’s own secret past—one she has kept hidden from both the network executives and her television audience. A secret she thought was dead and buried . . .

Accused of a brutal murder, Victoria Ford made a final chilling call from the North Tower on the morning of 9/11. Twenty years ago, no one listened. Today, you will.]]> 357 Charlie Donlea 1496727169 Yu 4 4.04 2021 Twenty Years Later

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]]> The Only One Left 62703226 At seventeen, Lenora Hope
Hung her sister with a rope

Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred.

Stabbed her father with a knife
Took her mother’s happy life

It’s now 1983, and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope’s End to care for Lenora after her previous nurse fled in the middle of the night. In her seventies and confined to a wheelchair, Lenora was rendered mute by a series of strokes and can only communicate with Kit by tapping out sentences on an old typewriter. One night, Lenora uses it to make a tantalizing offer—I want to tell you everything.

“It wasn’t me,” Lenora said
But she’s the only one not dead

As Kit helps Lenora write about the events leading to the Hope family massacre, it becomes clear there’s more to the tale than people know. But when new details about her predecessor’s departure come to light, Kit starts to suspect Lenora might not be telling the complete truth—and that the seemingly harmless woman in her care could be far more dangerous than she first thought.]]> 383 Riley Sager 0593183223 Yu 5 4.11 2023 The Only One Left

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]]> The Coworker 123423832
Dawn Schiff is strange. At least, everyone thinks so at Vixed, the nutritional supplement company where Dawn works as an accountant. She never says the right thing. She has no friends. And she is always at her desk at precisely 8:45 a.m.

So when Dawn doesn't show up to the office one morning, her coworker Natalie Farrell—beautiful, popular, top sales rep five years running—is surprised. Then she receives an unsettling, anonymous phone call that changes everything…

It turns out Dawn wasn't just an awkward outsider—she was being targeted by someone close. And now Natalie is irrevocably tied to Dawn as she finds herself caught in a twisted game of cat and mouse that leaves her wondering: who's the real victim?

But one thing is incredibly clear: somebody hated Dawn Schiff. Enough to kill.]]> 362 Freida McFadden 172829620X Yu 4 3.65 2023 The Coworker

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]]> <![CDATA[Judgment Prey (Lucas Davenport, #33; Virgil Flowers, #15)]]> 91246894 Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers team up to crack an unsolvable case in this thrilling new novel by John Sandford.

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 turn to his grieving widow, Margaret Cooper, to see what she might do with the money. Margaret, distraught over the death of her family, struggles to move forward, and can’t imagine how or why anyone would target her husband.

With public pressure mounting and both the local police force and FBI hitting dead end after dead end, Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are called in to do what others could not: find answers. With each potential lead flawed, Davenport and Flowers are determined to chase every theory until they figure out who killed the Sands. But when they find themselves being stonewalled by the most unlikely of forces, the two wonder if perhaps each misdirection could lead them closer to the truth.]]> 352 John Sandford 1398523895 Yu 4 4.16 2023 Judgment Prey (Lucas Davenport, #33; Virgil Flowers, #15)

Judgment Prey (Lucas Davenport, #33; Virgil Flowers, #15)

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]]> <![CDATA[The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker #2)]]> 94399604
Mary agrees to get the real scroll back as part of a commission for her three-person Enquiry Agency. However, tragedy strikes in Los Angeles. Before Mary can legally obtain the scroll, a young man is murdered, and the treasure stolen.

Murder and theft are complicated by the disappearance in the UK of a witch mysteriously connected to the scroll. While Mary's colleague, Caroline, risks her sanity to go undercover in a dodgy mental hospital, her lover, Anna resorts to desperate measures. These, and Anna's silence over blackmail, threaten the survival of the Agency. Mary teams up with the victim's brother to track the killer, and the real alchemy scroll. Solving crimes on two continents will involve a rogue pharmaceutical corporation, Janet the witch, the Holywell Retreat Center near Oxford, plus the trafficked women they support, a graduate school in California, and a life-threatening mountain-consuming wildfire. Can these inexperienced detectives triumph over corrupt professors and racist attempts to rewrite history? Can they remake their fragile family? Will the extraordinary story of Robert Le More prove a source of hope for today?]]> 352 Susan Rowland 1685031293 Yu 4 4.30 2023 The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker #2)

The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker #2)

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]]> The Locked Door 57795665 Some doors are locked for a reason…

While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement.

Until the day the police arrived at their front door.

Decades later, Nora’s father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence. Nobody knows her father was a notorious serial killer. And she intends to keep it that way.

Then Nora discovers one of her young female patients has been murdered. In the same unique and horrific manner that her father used to kill his victims.

Somebody knows who Nora is. Somebody wants her to take the fall for this unthinkable crime. But she’s not a killer like her father. The police can’t pin anything on her.

As long as they don’t look in her basement.]]> 313 Freida McFadden Yu 4 3.98 2021 The Locked Door

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]]> <![CDATA[The Spy Coast (The Martini Club, #1)]]> 131068071 A retired CIA operative in small-town Maine tackles the ghosts of her past in this fresh take on the spy thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen.

Former spy Maggie Bird came to the seaside village of Purity, Maine, eager to put the past behind her after a mission went tragically wrong. These days, she’s living quietly on her chicken farm, still wary of blowback from the events that forced her early retirement.

But when a body turns up in Maggie’s driveway, she knows it’s a message from former foes who haven’t forgotten her. Maggie turns to her local circle of old friends—all retirees from the CIA—to help uncover the truth about who is trying to kill her, and why. This “Martini Club” of former spies may be retired, but they still have a few useful skills that they’re eager to use again, if only to spice up their rather sedate new lives.

Complicating their efforts is Purity’s acting police chief, Jo Thibodeau. More accustomed to dealing with rowdy tourists than homicide, Jo is puzzled by Maggie’s reluctance to share information—and by her odd circle of friends, who seem to be a step ahead of her at every turn.

As Jo’s investigation collides with the Martini Club’s maneuvers, Maggie’s hunt for answers will force her to revisit a clandestine career that spanned the globe, from Bangkok to Istanbul, from London to Malta. The ghosts of her past have returned, but with the help of her friends—and the reluctant Jo Thibodeau—Maggie might just be able to save the life she’s built.]]> 341 Tess Gerritsen 1662515111 Yu 4 4.31 2023 The Spy Coast (The Martini Club, #1)

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]]> Hidden Pictures 58724923 From Jason Rekulak, Edgar-nominated author of The Impossible Fortress, comes a wildly inventive spin on the classic horror story in Hidden Pictures, a supernatural thriller about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets.

Fresh out of rehab, Mallory Quinn takes a job as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy.

Mallory immediately loves it. She has her own living space, goes out for nightly runs, and has the stability she craves. And she sincerely bonds with Teddy, a sweet, shy boy who is never without his sketchbook and pencil. His drawings are the usual fare: trees, rabbits, balloons. But one day, he draws something different: a man in a forest, dragging a woman’s lifeless body.

Then, Teddy’s artwork becomes increasingly sinister, and his stick figures quickly evolve into lifelike sketches well beyond the ability of any five-year-old. Mallory begins to wonder if these are glimpses of a long-unsolved murder, perhaps relayed by a supernatural force.

Knowing just how crazy it all sounds, Mallory nevertheless sets out to decipher the images and save Teddy before it’s too late.]]> 372 Jason Rekulak 1250819342 Yu 5 4.10 2022 Hidden Pictures

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]]> Murder in the Family 63241097 A shocking thriller about a cold case, a fictional true crime series, and the family caught in the middle.

SIX EPISODES. ONE KILLER.

It was a case that gripped the nation. In December 2003, Luke Ryder, the stepfather of acclaimed filmmaker Guy Howard (then aged 10), was found dead in the garden of their suburban family home.

Luke Ryder's murder has never been solved. Everyone present around the time of the murder swears they saw nothing. Despite a high-profile police investigation and endless media attention, no suspect was ever charged.

But some murder cases are simply too big to forget...

Now comes the sensational new Netflix series Infamous, dedicated to investigating--and perhaps cracking--this famous cold case. The production team will re-examine testimony, re-interview witnesses, and once again scour the evidence. The family will speak. The key players will be reunited--on camera. The truth will come out.

Are you ready to see it?]]> 466 Cara Hunter 0063272075 Yu 3 3.68 2023 Murder in the Family

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]]> <![CDATA[The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)]]> 357 307 Douglas Adams 0671742515 Yu 1 4.05 1988

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)

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]]> Vengeful (Villains, #2) 26856502 A super-powered collision of extraordinary minds and vengeful intentions—#1 New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab returns with the thrilling follow-up to Vicious.

Magneto and Professor X. Superman and Lex Luthor. Victor Vale and Eli Ever. Sydney and Serena Clarke. Great partnerships, now soured on the vine.

But Marcella Riggins needs no one. Flush from her brush with death, she’s finally gained the control she’s always sought—and will use her new-found power to bring the city of Merit to its knees. She’ll do whatever it takes, collecting her own sidekicks, and leveraging the two most infamous EOs, Victor Vale and Eli Ever, against each other.

With Marcella's rise, new enmities create opportunity--and the stage of Merit City will once again be set for a final, terrible reckoning.]]> 462 V.E. Schwab Yu 4 4.11 2018 Vengeful (Villains, #2)

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]]> <![CDATA[The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories]]> 24885533
With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, taking the literary world by storm, Ken Liu now shares his finest short fiction in The Paper Menagerie. This mesmerizing collection features all of Ken’s award-winning and award-finalist stories, including: “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary” (Finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards), “Mono No Aware” (Hugo Award winner), “The Waves” (Nebula Award finalist), “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species” (Nebula and Sturgeon award finalists), “All the Flavors” (Nebula award finalist), “The Litigation Master and the Monkey King” (Nebula Award finalist), and the most awarded story in the genre’s history, “The Paper Menagerie” (The only story to win the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards).

A must-have for every science fiction and fantasy fan, this beautiful book is an anthology to savor.]]> 450 Ken Liu 1481442546 Yu 4 4.35 2016 The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

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]]> <![CDATA[These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1)]]> 13138635
Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes from nothing, a young war hero who learned long ago that girls like Lilac are more trouble than they’re worth. But with only each other to rely on, Lilac and Tarver must work together, making a tortuous journey across the eerie, deserted terrain to seek help.

Then, against all odds, Lilac and Tarver find a strange blessing in the tragedy that has thrown them into each other’s arms. Without the hope of a future together in their own world, they begin to wonder—would they be better off staying here forever?

Everything changes when they uncover the truth behind the chilling whispers that haunt their every step. Lilac and Tarver may find a way off this planet. But they won’t be the same people who landed on it.

The Starbound Trilogy: Three worlds. Three love stories. One enemy.]]> 389 Amie Kaufman 1423171020 Yu 4 3.89 2013 These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1)

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]]> <![CDATA[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)]]> 11 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.

Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide ("A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have") and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox—the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years.

Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so much time between wearing digital watches? For all the answers stick your thumb to the stars. And don't forget to bring a towel!]]> 216 Douglas Adams Yu 3 4.21 1979 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)

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]]> Virtual Light (Bridge, #1) 22326 304 William Gibson 0140157727 Yu 4 3.88 1993

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]]> <![CDATA[The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)]]> 43722869 384 Barry Kirwan Yu 4 4.22 2011

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]]> The Invisible Bridge 8200557 The Invisible Bridge tells the story of a family shattered and remade in history’s darkest hour.]]> 786 Julie Orringer 0307593711 Yu 4 4.22 2010

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]]> <![CDATA[A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One]]> 60657747 Volume Two Has been completed and is available from starts with a recap of Ricard Nixon's War followed by the Vietnamese invasion of Kampuchea after which the Pol Pot Regime fled into the jungle. That is followed by the stories of the Vietnamese "Boat People" and their trials and problems of coming to Australia and becoming Aussie citizens and successful business people after many hard times. In both the case of Volume Two, the eBook edition of Volume Two shall be released on the 7th of October 2022.
Kind regards - Michael G Kramer OMIEAust.]]> 470 Michael G. Kramer Yu 5 4.28 2022 A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

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]]> <![CDATA[Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning]]> 23995415 A brilliant, haunting, and profoundly original portrait of the defining tragedy of our time.

In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we face in the twenty-first. Based on new sources from eastern Europe and forgotten testimonies from Jewish survivors, Black Earth recounts the mass murder of the Jews as an event that is still close to us, more comprehensible than we would like to think, and thus all the more terrifying.

The Holocaust began in a dark but accessible place, in Hitler's mind, with the thought that the elimination of Jews would restore balance to the planet and allow Germans to win the resources they desperately needed. Such a worldview could be realized only if Germany destroyed other states, so Hitler's aim was a colonial war in Europe itself. In the zones of statelessness, almost all Jews died. A few people, the righteous few, aided them, without support from institutions. Much of the new research in this book is devoted to understanding these extraordinary individuals. The almost insurmountable difficulties they faced only confirm the dangers of state destruction and ecological panic. These men and women should be emulated, but in similar circumstances few of us would do so.

By overlooking the lessons of the Holocaust, Snyder concludes, we have misunderstood modernity and endangered the future. The early twenty-first century is coming to resemble the early twentieth, as growing preoccupations with food and water accompany ideological challenges to global order. Our world is closer to Hitler's than we like to admit, and saving it requires us to see the Holocaust as it was -- and ourselves as we are. Groundbreaking, authoritative, and utterly absorbing, Black Earth reveals a Holocaust that is not only history but warning.]]> 462 Timothy Snyder 1101903457 Yu 5 4.29 2015 Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning

Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning

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]]> <![CDATA[The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)]]> 140671
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.]]> 319 Glen Cook Yu 4 3.94 1984

The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)

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]]> 300 59952
Collects: 300 #1-5]]> 88 Frank Miller 1569714029 Yu 5 3.99 1999 300

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]]> <![CDATA[The Impossible Knife of Memory]]> 18079527
Will being back home help Andy’s PTSD, or will his terrible memories drag him to the edge of hell, and drugs push him over? The Impossible Knife of Memory is Laurie Halse Anderson at her finest: compelling, surprising, and impossible to put down.]]> 391 Laurie Halse Anderson 0670012092 Yu 4 3.92 2014

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]]> Jackdaws 5062
But when Flick and her Resistance-leader husband try a direct, head-on assault that goes horribly wrong, her world turns upside down. Her group destroyed, her husband missing, her superiors unsure of her, her own confidence badly shaken, she has one last chance at the target, but the challenge, once daunting, is now near impossible. The new plan requires an all-woman team, none of them professionals, to be assembled and trained within days. Code-named the Jackdaws, they will attempt to infiltrate the exchange under the noses of the Germans—but the Germans are waiting for them now and have plans of their own. There are secrets Flick does not know—secrets within the German ranks, secrets among her hastily recruited team, secrets among those she trusts the most. And as the hours tick down to the point of no return, most daunting of all, there are secrets within herself. . . .]]> 432 Ken Follett 0451219597 Yu 4 3.99 2001 Jackdaws

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]]> Making Faces 27237358 405 Amy Harmon Yu 4 4.17 2013

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]]> The Complete Persepolis 991197
Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the trials of adolescence far from her family; of her homecoming—both sweet and terrible; and, finally, of her self-imposed exile from her beloved homeland. It is the chronicle of a girlhood and adolescence at once outrageous and familiar, a young life entwined with the history of her country yet filled with the universal trials and joys of growing up.

Edgy, searingly observant, and candid, often heartbreaking but threaded throughout with raw humor and hard-earned wisdom—Persepolis is a stunning work from one of the most highly regarded, singularly talented graphic artists at work today.]]> 341 Marjane Satrapi 0375714839 Yu 2 4.39 2007 The Complete Persepolis

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average rating: 4.39
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rating: 2
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]]> Rose Under Fire 17262236
Elizabeth Wein, author of the critically-acclaimed and best-selling Code Name Verity, delivers another stunning WWII thriller. The unforgettable story of Rose Justice is forged from heart-wrenching courage, resolve, and the slim, bright chance of survival.]]> 360 Elizabeth Wein 1423183096 Yu 5 4.10 2013 Rose Under Fire

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]]> At Night All Blood is Black 50403480 “Chocolat” soldier with the French army during World War I. When his friend Mademba Diop, in the same regiment, is seriously injured in battle, Diop begs Alfa to kill him and spare him the pain of a long and agonizing death in No Man’s Land.

Unable to commit this mercy killing, madness creeps into Alfa’s mind as he comes to see this refusal as a cruel moment of cowardice. Anxious to avenge the death of his friend and find forgiveness for himself, he begins a macabre ritual: every night he sneaks across enemy lines to find and murder a blue-eyed German soldier, and every night he returns to base, unharmed, with the German’s severed hand. At first his comrades look at Alfa’s deeds with admiration, but soon rumors begin to circulate that this super soldier isn’t a hero, but a sorcerer, a soul-eater. Plans are hatched to get Alfa away from the front, and to separate him from his growing collection of hands, but how does one reason with a demon, and how far will Alfa go to make amends to his dead friend?

Peppered with bullets and black magic, this remarkable novel fills in a forgotten chapter in the history of World War I. Blending oral storytelling traditions with the gritty, day-to-day, journalistic horror of life in the trenches, David Diop's At Night All Blood is Black is a dazzling tale of a man’s descent into madness.

Selected by students across France to win the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens, David Diop’s English-language, historical fiction debut At Night All Blood is Black is a “powerful, hypnotic, and dark novel” (Livres Hebdo) of terror and transformation in the trenches of the First World War.]]> 145 David Diop 0374266972 Yu 2 3.80 2018

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]]> At the Water's Edge 23209927
To Maddie’s horror, Ellis decides that the only way to regain his father’s favor is to succeed in a venture his father attempted and very publicly failed at: he will hunt the famous Loch Ness monster and when he finds it he will restore his father’s name and return to his father’s good graces (and pocketbook). Joined by their friend Hank, a wealthy socialite, the three make their way to Scotland in the midst of war.

Each day the two men go off to hunt the monster, while another monster, Hitler, is devastating Europe. And Maddie, now alone in a foreign country, must begin to figure out who she is and what she wants.

The novel tells of Maddie’s social awakening: to the harsh realities of life, to the beauties of nature, to a connection with forces larger than herself, to female friendship, and finally, to love.]]> 348 Sara Gruen 0385523238 Yu 3 3.64 2015 At the Water's Edge

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]]> Hornet Flight 92375 Jackdaws and Code to Zero with an extraordinary novel of early days of World War II...It is June 1941 and the war is not going well for England. Across the North Sea, eighteen-year-old Harald Olufsen takes a shortcut on the German-occupied Danish island of Sande and discovers an astonishing sight that will change the momentum of the war. He must get word to England-except that he has no way to get there. He has only an old derelict Hornet Moth biplane rusting away in a ruined church: a plane so decrepit that it is unlikely ever to get off the ground...even if Harald knew how to fly it.]]> 518 Ken Follett 0451210743 Yu 5 3.91 2002 Hornet Flight

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]]> Wounded 16185789 277 Jasinda Wilder Yu 5 3.95 Wounded

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]]> Sharpe's Escape (Sharpe, #10) 266944 From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the tenth installment in the world-renowned Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty’s Army at the siege of Seringapatam.

Sharpe’s job as Captain of the Light Company is under threat and he has made a new enemy, a Portuguese criminal known as Ferragus. Discarded by his regiment, Sharpe wages a private war against Ferragus – a war fought through the burning, pillaged streets of Coimbra, Portugal’s ancient university city.

Sharpe’s Escape begins on the great, gaunt ridge of Bussaco where a joint British and Portuguese army meets the overwhelming strength of Marshall Massena’s crack troops. It finishes at Torres Vedras where the French hopes of occupying Portugal quickly die.]]> 368 Bernard Cornwell 0060561556 Yu 1 4.14 2004 Sharpe's Escape (Sharpe, #10)

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]]> <![CDATA[The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq]]> 87119 The New York Times, The Washington Post Book World, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, The New York Times Book Review, USA Today, Time, and New York magazine.

The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq. It brings to life the people and ideas that created the Bush administration’s war policy and led America to the Assassins’ Gate—the main point of entry into the American zone in Baghdad.

The Assassins’ Gate also describes the place of the war in American life: the ideological battles in Washington that led to chaos in Iraq, the ordeal of a fallen soldier’s family, and the political culture of a country too bitterly polarized to realize such a vast and morally complex undertaking. George Packer’s best-selling first-person narrative combines the scope of an epic history with the depth and intimacy of a novel, creating a masterful account of America’s most controversial foreign venture since Vietnam.]]> 506 George Packer 0374530556 Yu 5 4.05 2005 The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq

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]]> <![CDATA[A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two]]> 61834162 300 Michael G. Kramer 0645570109 Yu 5 4.29 2022

A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

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]]> <![CDATA[Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever]]> 10587120 324 Bill O'Reilly 0805093079 Yu 5 4.04 2011

Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

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]]> <![CDATA[Sharpe's Fortress (Sharpe, #3)]]> 157180 New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell (Agincourt, The Fort, the Saxon Tales) makes real history come alive in his breathtaking historical fiction. Praised as "the direct heir to Patrick O'Brian" (Agincourt, The Fort), Cornwell has brilliantly captured the fury, chaos, and excitement of battle as few writers have ever done—perhaps most vividly in his phenomenally popular novels following the illustrious military career of British Army officer Richard Sharpe during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In Sharpe's Fortress, Ensign Sharpe's adventures in India reach a grand finale at the Siege of Gawilghur during the Maharatta War in December 1803, as Cornwell's hero uncovers a foul treason and seeks a righteous revenge. Perhaps the]]> 400 Bernard Cornwell 0061012718 Yu 5 4.18 1999 Sharpe's Fortress (Sharpe, #3)

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]]> Unwind (Unwind, #1) 764347 Connor, Risa, and Lev are running for their lives.

The Second Civil War was fought over reproductive rights. The chilling resolution: Life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, parents can have their child "unwound," whereby all of the child's organs are transplanted into different donors, so life doesn't technically end. Connor is too difficult for his parents to control. Risa, a ward of the state, is not enough to be kept alive. And Lev is a tithe, a child conceived and raised to be unwound. Together, they may have a chance to escape and to survive.]]> 337 Neal Shusterman Yu 5 4.17 2007 Unwind (Unwind, #1)

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]]> Scavenger Hunt 61846256
Blake Hudson just wants to serve his country well as a lawyer for the United States Justice Department—but when an unknown threat begins plotting his downfall, he must find who is setting him up before it costs him his life.

Scavenger Hunt is a suspense novel chronicling the plight of Blake Hudson, a Justice Department lawyer assigned to a clandestine counterterrorist group created to bypass onerous legal requirements. After the group mysteriously disbands, Hudson becomes the scapegoat and is transformed from hunter to hunted. As he searches for answers and attempts to piece the puzzle together, people are following him, trying to kill him.

Written for fans of fast-paced thrillers, dry humor, political gamesmanship, and Clue-like twists and turns, Scavenger Hunt carves out a distinct niche best described as a hybrid of the Robert Ludlum classics and works by Brad Meltzer. Blake Hudson’s story addresses issues that have shaped recent elections and continue to frustrate interest groups and government leaders, while featuring the inner workings of the U.S. Department of Justice Building—arguably the most important and misunderstood agency in the federal government. Author Chad Boudreaux’s unique voice and page-turning storytelling packs a plot-driven punch that readers won’t be able to put down.]]> 296 Chad Boudreaux 1631959433 Yu 2 4.29 Scavenger Hunt

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]]> <![CDATA[A Is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone #1)]]> 64863
A IS FOR ACCUSED. That's why she draws desperate clients like Nikki Fife. Eight years ago, she was convicted of killing her philandering husband. Now she's out on parole and needs Kinsey's help to find the real killer. But after all this time, clearing Nikki's bad name won't be easy.

A IS FOR ALIBI. If there's one thing that makes Kinsey Millhone feel alive, it's playing on the edge. When her investigation turns up a second corpse, more suspects, and a new reason to kill, Kinsey discovers that the edge is closer--and sharper--than she imagined.

Librarian's note: the characters, settings, etc. have been done for all 25 novels in the Kinsey Millhone alphabet series, A to Y. Sue Grafton also wrote 9 Kinsey short stories which can be found in Kinsey and Me.]]> 308 Sue Grafton 0312938993 Yu 5 3.87 1982 A Is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone #1)

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average rating: 3.87
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]]> Honeymoon (Honeymoon, #1) 13147
When FBI agent John O'Hara first sees Nora Sinclair, she seems perfect. She has the looks. The career. The clothes. The wit. The sophistication. The tantalizing sex appeal. The whole extraordinary package—and men fall in line to court her. She doesn't just attract men, she enthralls them.

So why is the FBI so interested in Nora Sinclair? Mysterious things keep happening to people around her, especially the men. And there is something dangerous about Nora when Agent O'Hara looks closer—something that lures him at the same time that it fills him with fear. Is there something dark hidden among the unexplained gaps in her past? And as he spends more and more time getting to know her, is he pursuing justice? Or his own fatal obsession?

With the irresistible attraction of the greatest Hitchcock thrillers, Honeymoon is a sizzling, twisting tale of a woman with a deadly appetite and the men who dare to fall for her.]]> 406 James Patterson 0446613371 Yu 5 3.84 2005 Honeymoon (Honeymoon, #1)

author: James Patterson
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average rating: 3.84
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]]> All Her Little Secrets 57505278 In this fast-paced thriller, Wanda M. Morris crafts a twisty mystery about a black lawyer who gets in over her head after the sudden death of her boss. A debut perfect for fans of Attica Locke, Alyssa Cole, Harlan Coben, and Celeste Ng, with shades of How to Get Away with Murder and John Grisham’s The Firm.

Everyone has something to hide...

Ellice Littlejohn seemingly has it all: an Ivy League law degree, a well-paying job as a corporate attorney in midtown Atlanta, great friends, and a “for fun” relationship with a rich, charming executive—her white boss, Michael.

But everything changes one cold January morning when Ellice goes to meet Michael… and finds him dead with a gunshot to his head.

And then she walks away like nothing has happened. Why? Ellice has been keeping a cache of dark secrets, including a small-town past and a kid brother who’s spent time on the other side of the law. She can’t be thrust into the spotlight—again.

But instead of grieving this tragedy, people are gossiping, the police are getting suspicious, and Ellice, the company’s lone black attorney, is promoted to replace Michael. While the opportunity is a dream-come-true, Ellice just can’t shake the feeling that something is off.

When she uncovers shady dealings inside the company, Ellice is trapped in an impossible ethical and moral dilemma. Suddenly, Ellice’s past and present lives collide as she launches into a pulse-pounding race to protect the brother she tried to save years ago and stop a conspiracy far more sinister than she could have ever imagined…]]> 374 Wanda M. Morris 0063204339 Yu 2 3.67 2021 All Her Little Secrets

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average rating: 3.67
book published: 2021
rating: 2
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]]> Lie to Me 33258453 They built a life on lies

Sutton and Ethan Montclair's idyllic life is not as it appears. They seem made for each other, but the truth is ugly. Consumed by professional and personal betrayals and financial woes, the two both love and hate each other. As tensions mount, Sutton disappears, leaving behind a note saying not to look for her.

Ethan finds himself the target of vicious gossip as friends, family and the media speculate on what really happened to Sutton Montclair. As the police investigate, the lies the couple have been spinning for years quickly unravel. Is Ethan a killer? Is he being set up? Did Sutton hate him enough to kill the child she never wanted and then herself? The path to the answers is full of twists that will leave the reader breathless.]]> 413 J.T. Ellison 0778330958 Yu 5 3.74 2017 Lie to Me

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average rating: 3.74
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe (The Salvagers, #1)]]> 35520564
Nilah Brio is the top driver in the Pan Galactic Racing Federation and the darling of the racing world–until she witnesses the murder of a fellow racer. Framed for the murder and on the hunt to clear her name, Nilah only has one lead: the killer also hunts a woman named Boots.

On the wrong side of the law, the two women board a smuggler’s ship that will take them on a quest for fame, for riches, and for justice.]]> 480 Alex White Yu 5 3.73 2018 A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe (The Salvagers, #1)

A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe (The Salvagers, #1)

author: Alex White
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average rating: 3.73
book published: 2018
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)]]> 20758105 643 Patrick Ness 0763676195 Yu 3 4.18 2010

author: Patrick Ness
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average rating: 4.18
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Earth of Another Kind (Another Kind #2)]]> 193543491 306 Steven Decker Yu 5 4.38

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]]> <![CDATA[The Past Through Tomorrow (Future History, #1-21)]]> 121581 Librarian's this is an alternate cover edition - ISBN 10: 0441653049

Here in one monumental volume are all 21 of the stories, novellas and novels making up Heinlein's famous Future History—the rich, imaginative architecture of Man's destiny that many consider his greatest and most prophetic work.

* Introduction - Damon Knight
* Life-Line
* The Roads Must Roll
* Blowups Happen
* The Man Who Sold the Moon
* Delilah and the Space-Rigger
* Space Jockey
* Requiem
* The Long Watch
* Gentleman, Be Seated
* The Black Pits of Luna
* "It's Great to Be Back!"
* "—We Also Walk Dogs"
* Searchlight
* Ordeal in Space
* The Green Hills of Earth
* Logic of Empire
* The Menace from Earth
* "If This Goes On—"
* Coventry
* Misfit
* Methuselah's Children]]> 830 Robert A. Heinlein 0441653049 Yu 5 4.17 1967 The Past Through Tomorrow (Future History, #1-21)

The Past Through Tomorrow (Future History, #1-21)

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average rating: 4.17
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]]> <![CDATA[To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld, #1)]]> 189147 To Your Scattered Bodies Go is the Hugo Award-winning beginning to the story of Riverworld, Philip José Farmer's unequaled tale about life after death. When famous adventurer Sir Richard Francis Burton dies, the last thing he expects to do is awaken naked on a foreign planet along the shores of a seemingly endless river. But that's where Burton and billions of other humans (plus a few nonhumans) find themselves as the epic Riverworld saga begins. It seems that all of Earthly humanity has been resurrected on the planet, each with an indestructible container that provides three meals a day, cigarettes, alcoholic beverages, a lighter, and the odd tube of lipstick. But why? And by whom?

That's what Burton and a handful of fellow adventurers are determined to discover as they construct a boat and set out in search of the river's source, thought to be millions of miles away. Although there are many hardships during the journey--including an encounter with the infamous Hermann Goring--Burton's resolve to complete his quest is strengthened by a visit from the Mysterious Stranger, a being who claims to be a renegade within the very group that created the Riverworld. The stranger tells Burton that he must make it to the river's headwaters, along with a dozen others the Stranger has selected, to help stop an evil experiment at the end of which humanity will simply be allowed to die. --Craig E. Engler

]]> 220 Philip José Farmer 0345419677 Yu 5 3.94 1971 To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld, #1)

author: Philip José Farmer
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average rating: 3.94
book published: 1971
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