Gabrielle De Cuir
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Moonlighters volume 1
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Three sisters--an investigative blogger, a cab driver, and a stay-at home mom--investigate to try and clear their brother's name after he is accused of murder.
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Carny Sullivan grew up in the eccentric, unpredictable world of a traveling carnival. Since then, quaint and peaceful Serenity, Texas, has given her a home, a faith, and a child. Logan Brisco is the smoothest, slickest, handsomest man Serenity, Texas has ever seen. But Carny knows a con artist when she sees one - and she's seen plenty, starting with her father. As far as Carny can tell, she's the only one in town who has Logan's number, because from...
3) Longing
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Bailey Flanigan volume 3
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"After a long and lonely silence from Cody Coleman, Bailey Flanigan becomes closer to her one-time Hollywood co-star, Brandon Paul. Nights on the town in New York City and long talks on the balcony of Brandon's Malibu Beach home make Bailey dizzy with new feelings and cause her to wonder if her days with Cody are over forever. Meanwhile, Cody's work coaching a small-town football team has brought him and his players national attention. In the midst...
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The Red Fairy Book (1890) is a collection of fairy tales by Scottish folklorist Andrew Lang. Published in time for Christmas, The Red Fairy Book was the second volume out of 25 in the Lang's Fairy Books series, compiled, written, and edited by Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Alleyne. Using such sources as the Brothers Grimm and Madame d'Aulnoy, they selected culturally significant stories from all over Europe, crafting carefully organized and beautifully...
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Trash 'n' treasures mystery volume 16
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"Two o'clock in the morning is the perfect time to be asleep. So when long-suffering Brandy Borne is rudely awoken by her eccentric mother, Vivian, and invited on a surreptitious shopping trip, the idea is less than tempting. But if Vivian - Serenity's true-crime writing, septuagenarian super-sleuth - has a nose for sniffing out antiques, Brandy's sense of smell is just as good ... and trouble's on the wind. A little light blackmail and one run-in...
6) Antiques foe
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Trash 'n' treasures mystery volume 17
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"When popular podcaster Nicole Chatterton wants an interview for Killers Caught, true-crime author Vivian Borne is overjoyed. Finally, some recognition for the sleuthing skills the septuagenarian antiques dealer and her daughter Brandy have demonstrated, solving countless crimes in their small hometown of Serenity, Iowa! Dolled up and dressed to the nines, Vivian figures the interview is going swimmingly . . . until Nicole turns the tables, accusing...
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With Children of the Mind, Card returns to the story of Ender Wiggin: hero of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Enders Game, the original Speaker for the Dead, and the hated Xenocide who murdered an entire planet. Now his adopted world, Lusitania, is threatened by the same planet-destroying weapon that he himself used so many thousands of years before. Enders oldest friend, Jane, the computer intelligence that has evolved with him over 3000 years,...
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Writing in wonderfully descriptive and fluent prose, Sarah Orne Jewett, best-known for The Country of the Pointed Firs, was early encouraged by her father to write not about things, but to "write the things themselves just as they are." That she did so is clearly evident in this collection of sensitively written stories, regional sketches that celebrate the past, full of clearly delineated characters and carefully detailed natural and domestic...
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Discworld volume 26
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A parody of modern, harried society in which the venerable Monks of History control time, dishing it out to those who supposedly need it most--but when a young horologist is commissioned to create the world's first Perfect Clock, History Monk Lu-Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd must prevent the clock from starting, or time itself will stop.
10) Expiration day
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"It is the year 2049, and humanity is on the brink of extinction. Tania Deeley has always been told that she's a rarity: a human child in a world where most children are sophisticated androids manufactured by Oxted Corporation"--
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Portland has a Knight problem.
Now that the Spirit Knights' demesne has accepted sixteen-year-old Claire
into the order, she only has to convince all its Knights she belongs. Forced
into a test to prove her worth, she discovers more than anyone wants her to.
Meanwhile, Justin runs around playing janitor. He made some big messes.
Cleaning them up puts him on a new path, one he never imagined his
future could hold. All on Thanksgiving.
In this third...
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Spirit knights volume 1
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Sixteen-year-old Claire wants her father back. His death left her only memories and an empty locket. After six difficult years in foster care, her vocabulary no longer includes "hope" and "trust." Everything changes when Justin rides his magical horse into her path and takes her under his wing. Like the rest of the elite men who serve as Spirit Knights, he hunts restless ghosts that devour the living. When an evil spirit threatens Claire's life, she'll...
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An ongoing, episodic "prose comic" from which the pictures are summoned by the magic of words, Goon Squad is set in a version of modern-day Manchester. Its biggest divergence from the real city is that it—along with most other large urban centers—has a team of superheroes to protect it against unusual threats with which the conventional forces of law and order would have problems.
Goon Squad, Volume 1: Special Talents
...14) The hive
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Second Formic Wars volume 2
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A second prequel to Ender's Game continues the sci-fi history of the Formic Wars and finds the warring nations and corporations of Earth struggling to set aside their differences to defend against an imminent alien invasion.
