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Pendergast novels volume 18
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In this #1 New York Times bestseller, FBI Agent Pendergast reluctantly teams up with a new partner to investigate a rash of Miami Beach murders . . . only to uncover a deadly conspiracy that spans decades.
After an overhaul of leadership at the FBI's New York field office, A. X. L. Pendergast is abruptly forced to accept an unthinkable condition of continued employment: the famously rogue agent must now work with a partner.
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After an overhaul of leadership at the FBI's New York field office, A. X. L. Pendergast is abruptly forced to accept an unthinkable condition of continued employment: the famously rogue agent must now work with a partner.
Pendergast...
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"An emotional journey of love, loss, healing, and redemption. I rooted for every character." -Lisa See, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Snow Flower and The Secret Fan
"I Liked My Life is a treasure of a novel. Warm-hearted and clever, the story will keep you reading until the final delicious revelation." -Diane Chamberlain, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author
"Warm and hopeful, this marvelous debut stands next to...
3) I was here
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In an attempt to understand why her best friend committed suicide, eighteen-year-old Cody Reynolds retraces her dead friend's footsteps and makes some startling discoveries.
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On the River Seine in 1899, a young woman takes her life by plunging into the icy water. She doesn't know it, but her choice will set in motion a chain of events. It leads to 1950s Norway, where a grieving toy-maker is on the verge of a transformative invention, to present-day Ottawa Valley, where a journalist, suffering from a terrible disease risks everything for one last chance to live.
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Omar Ali receives a phone call from his ex-girlfriend's father. He informs Omar that Anna has committed suicide. As he unravels in his grief, Omar gets involved in break-ins, online terrorism, deals with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and loses his best friend as he becomes less recognizable.
11) Road tripped
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Seventeen-year-old Steven "Stiggy" Gabel tries to cope with his father's suicide, his mother's depression, and his girlfriend's departure by taking off down the Great River Road from Minnesota to Louisiana.
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The story of deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for the misfits of a Georgia mill town during the 1930s. When Singer's mute companion goes insane, Singer is left alone and isolated. He takes a room with the Kelly family where he is visited by the town's misfits, who turn to him for understanding but have no knowledge of his inner life.
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Joanne Kilbourn mysteries volume 17
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A triple homicide rips apart the lives of those related to the lawyers who, at the end of their first year in law school, only half-jokingly styled themselves "The Winners' Circle." Joanne seeks answers to the question: "Why did they die?" As facts behind the suicide of Christopher Altieri, known by his law partners as "the conscience of The Winners' Circle," begin to provide insights, but these insights raise new, unsettling questions.
16) Claremont
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How to survive the unthinkable? This is the question nine-year-old Tom has to face after witnessing his father kill his mother and then turn the gun on himself. After the horrific event, Tom refuses to speak. At first, he moves in with his childless Aunt Sonya, but she is ill equipped to deal with the traumatized boy. Before long, Tom is forced to move again, this time to downtown Toronto, where he shares a rundown house with his mercurial Aunt Rose...
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"Neve comes across a troubled woman called Isabelle on Waterloo Bridge late one night. Isabelle forces a parcel into Neves hands and jumps to her death in the icy Thames below. Two weeks later, as Neves wreck of a life in London collapses, an unexpected lifeline falls into her lap--a charming cottage in Cornwall left to her by Isabelle, the woman on the bridge. The solution to all her problems. But when Neve arrives, alone in the dark...
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Lilia Liska has shrewdly outlived three husbands, raised five children, and seen the arrival of seventeen grandchildren. Now she has turned her keen attention to the diary of a man named Roland Bouley, with whom she once had an affair -- the man who was the father of her daughter Lucy. Lilia tells her rather different version of events revealing the surprising, long-held secrets of her past. And she returns inexorably to her daughter, Lucy, who took...
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Nora Watts novels volume 2
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A chance encounter with a veteran who knew her father raises disturbing questions about his suicide Nora Watts can't ignore. Hoping to make peace with the past, she goes in search of the truth about her father's life and his violent death. The journey takes her from Vancouver to Detroit where Sam Watts grew up, far from his people and his birthplace. Thanks to a disastrous government policy starting in the 1950s, thousands of Canadian native children...
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In 2009, Edie had New York's social world in her thrall, the shining star of a group of recent graduates living in a Brooklyn loft. When Edie's body was found near a suicide note at the end of a long, drunken night, no one could believe it. Grief, shock, and resentment scattered the friends and brought the era to an abrupt end. A decade later, her best friend Lindsay has come a long way from the drug-addled world of Calhoun Lofts. She has devoted...
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