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"I need your help." Those were the last words Maddalena D'Angelo expected to hear from Chief Alvin DeRoche when he requested her presence at the police station. A young woman is missing and her mother wants Maddalena to do a spirit portrait of her daughter to see if it will reveal any clues as to her whereabouts. Maddalena, together with Max, follow one of the clues to a hotel in town. While investigating, they discover another woman dead in one of...
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"Nooooo! You can't be here!" The shrill scream shattered the entirely normal morning that Maddalena D'Angelo had been enjoying. Racing to see what was wrong she found that her landlady, Grace Howard, was moments away from being run over by a massive motorhome. Acting on instinct alone, Maddalena jumped to the rescue, pulling her friend out of the way. Confronting the driver, she and her neighbor Max, learn that the man doesn't know who he is, where...
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Past mistakes lead to present problems and murder...Maddalena D'Angelo is no stranger to helping people, but when an early morning visitor comes to her door looking for help it's the last person she would expect... Chief Alvin DeRoche. He has made it clear in the past that he does not care for Maddalena's assistance, however, this time it's different. This time it's personal. An old friend of his has been murdered! Maddalena can't say no and agrees...
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Embracing a midlife transformation has never been more delicious.
At best, she's expecting a kitschy candy dish, at worst a beloved taxidermied pet, so when Cassie-newly divorced, single mom with zero prospects-discovers she's inheriting a fully stocked bakery along with a beautifully furnished
apartment from a great aunt she'd never even heard of, she's convinced she must be dreaming.
The apartment bizarrely adapting itself to her whims, and the...
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Living your dream shouldn't be this challenging.
She owns a magical bakery and has the greatest friends, so why isn't Cassie enjoying life as much as she thought she would?
It could be because her daughter is miserable and plotting ways to go back to Georgia to live with her dad. Or it could be because she's working so hard she can't enjoy the fruits of her labor let alone find time to connect with her kid.
There's also the magic. Between the pre-teen...
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"Bestselling author Aimie Runyan makes her contemporary women's fiction debut with this charming escape into the lavender fields of Southern France and a young woman who discovers her family's secrets and the hope for her own future"--
Food critic Tempèsta Luddington has always felt like the odd person out in her family, ever since she lost her beloved mother at the tender age of thirteen. When her workaholic father passes fifteen years later,...
8) River Mumma
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When the Jamaican water deity, River Mumma, tells her she has 24 hours to find her missing comb, Alicia, forming a strange connection with her two co-workers who help her fight off malevolent spirits, is led on a journey through time to discover herself and what the river carries.
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[2024]
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When human remains are found, reopening a decades-old case, a group of friends, highly respected, affluent members of their communities, begins to fracture as homicide detective Jane Munro and forensic anthropologist Dr. Ella Queen get closer to the truth of what happened on an autumn night 47 years ago.
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"When Adebimpe is ten, she is sold with her mother, Sanite, to plantation owner John du Marche. He soon renames her Ady but Sanite never lets her daughter forget who she really is - a person who can read and write and understand numbers. Most importantly, Sanite reminds Ady that she must never reveal these abilities to a white person, especially not her true name. Tasked with maintaining du Marche's home in vibrant New Orleans, Ady takes in the city...
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In 1999 Texas, Lia Cope, when her grandmother Mineko moves in, connects with her over stories of the Turtle House in Japan and the secrets they both carry, and when Mineko is forced to live in an assisted living community, she and Lia devise a plan to bring a beloved lost place to life.
13) At her service
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"Max Van Doren has a wish list, and a great career and a girlfriend are at the top. But despite being pretty good at her job as an assistant to one of Hollywood's fastest rising talent agents, she has no idea how to move up the ladder. And when it comes to her love life, she's stuck in perpetual lust for an adorably perfect bartender named Sadie. Her goals are clear--and Max has everything but the self-confidence to go for them...Tired of the sponcon...
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[2024]
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In early 1945, Dorothy and 800 African American WACs arrive at their post in England where they are tasked with processing mail sent to GIs from their loved ones back home, an estimated 17 million pieces, and with their outlooks changed forever, return to the U.S. as the catalysts for change in America.
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"Zhenia is adrift in Los Angeles, pregnant with a baby her husband doesn't want, while her Russian grandmother and favorite person in the world is dying on the opposite coast. She's deeply disconnected from herself and her desires when she gets a strange call from Paul, a psychic medium who usually specializes in channeling dead pets, with a message from the other side. Zhenia's great-grandmother Irina, a Russian Revolutionary, has approached him...
16) Memory piece
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Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Buzzworthy Books: March 2024
Literary Fiction!
Buzzworthy Books: March 2024
Literary Fiction!
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"Three Asian American teenagers meet in the New York suburbs in the 1980s. Drawn together by their shared sense of alienation from their conventionally domestic immigrant families, each wants to live a meaningful life. They envision a future defined by freedom and creativity, but on the brink of adulthood in New York City, their fortunes quickly diverge. Giselle Chin is a performance artist, pushing the boundaries of the form while socializing with...
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"From the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls and The Forgotten Daughter comes a compulsively readable mother-daughter story in which two women who share a difficult past must come to together to claim the future they deserve. Arden Moore enjoyed an affluent life thanks to her husband's high-paying job. But a year after his death, the 36-year-old is a grieving single mother deeply in debt and living paycheck to paycheck with her three...
18) La chispa
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2023.
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Autumn regresa de un viaje en avión y al abrir la maleta descubre que contiene ropa de hombre. Se ha confundido al recoger el equipaje, así que llama al número que aparece en la etiqueta para ver si esa persona tiene su maleta. Responde un hombre de voz grave y sexy. Su nombre es Donovan y tiene su maleta, así que deciden verse en una cafetería para intercambiárselas. Un café lleva al postre, y el postre a un fin de semana juntos. Pero...
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"Sara Marsala barely knows who she is anymore after the failure of her business and marriage. On top of that, her beloved great-aunt Rosie passes away, leaving Sara bereft with grief. But Aunt Rosie's death also opens an escape from her life and a window into the past by way of a plane ticket to Sicily, a deed to a possibly valuable plot of land, and a bombshell family secret. Rosie believes Sara's great-grandmother Serafina, the family matriarch...
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"Dayton, Tennessee. 1925. It is in this sleepy mountain town where Annabel, a devout woman, falls in love with George Craig, a cosmopolitan defense attorney. Annabel's outlook on everything from life to love to the law is shaped by her faith; George sees the law something to bend to his will, and sees a world shaped by science and reason alone. By the end of the year, their marriage, and the private battle waged within it, will come up against the...
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