Tag: Rating: 5 stars
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The Last Thing He Told Me
Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Hannah Hall knows exactly whom the note refers: Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother.
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The Plot
Jake Finch Bonner is a washed up writer teaching at a third-rate MFA program. When an arrogant student reveals the plot of the novel he is sure will be a bestseller and receive all the accolades, Jake sadly agrees. Years pass, but the novel is never published leaving Jake to possibly revive his career by…
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We Begin at the End
Scout fights to protect her 5-year-old brother with the help of the chief of police, Walk. Walk is trying to heal from giving the testimony that put his best friend, Vincent, in prison. Now, thirty years later, Vincent is being released. And Duchess and Walk must face the trouble that comes with his return.
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The Rose Code
A heart-stopping World War II story of three female code breakers at Bletchley Park and the spy they must root out after the war is over.
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Firekeeper’s Daughter
Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charming new recruit on…
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Girl A
Lex Gracie doesn’t want to think about growing up in her parents’ House of Horrors. And she doesn’t want to think about her identity as Girl A: the girl who escaped, the eldest sister who freed her siblings. But when her mother dies in prison and leaves Lex and her siblings the family home, she…
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Rebecca
“Last Night I Dreamt I went to Manderley Again…” With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely…
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What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat
Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and social systems that have led to people being denied basic needs because they are fat and calls for social justice movements to be inclusive of plus-sized people’s experiences.
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Girls with Bright Futures
Three moms. Three daughters. Each with a dream to attend Stanford. With one spot left at Stanford from their elusive private school, these moms do whatever it takes for their daughters to be the chosen ones. But how far will they go to ensure their daughter is admitted?
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You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey
Amber and Lacey recount the many, many crazy racist things that happen to Lacey as a Black women living in Omaha, Nebraska.
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