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Toilet-bound Hanako-kun volume 8
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Kou has seemed depressed ever since he, Nene, and Hanako-kun returned from the Hell of Mirrors three days prior. To cheer him up, the three friends decide to go to a Tanabata festival held within one of the school's Boundaries. But instead of getting to enjoy the festival with Kou and Hanako-kun, Nene is suddenly whisked off to fifty years in the past-where she finds herself face-to-face with a living Hanako-kun?!
2) Next stop
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Pia is a soft-spoken middle schooler whose life is turned upside down after the loss of her younger brother, followed by her parents' decision to move to a new town. In an effort to get her mind off of the troubles at home, Pia goes on a bus tour with a family friend, stopping at weird and wacky roadside attractions. The final destination: a mysterious underground lake. The locals say it has magical powers; Pia won't admit she believes in it, but...
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The Caladan trilogy volume 3
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"In Dune: The Heir of Caladan, the climactic novel in the Caladan trilogy by New York Times bestselling authors Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, we step into the shoes of Paul Atreides. A not yet a man in years, he is about to enter a world he could never have imagined. The story that began with Duke Leto Atreides's rise to power, then continued with the consequences of Lady Jessica's betrayal, will now conclude with Paul becoming the leader that...
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"Jane is incredibly plain. Everyone says so: her parents, the villagers, and her horrible cousin who kicks her out of her own house. Determined to get some semblance of independence, Jane prepares to propose to the princely Peter, who might just say yes to get away from his father. It's a good plan! Or it would've been, if he wasn't kidnapped by a mermaid. With her last shot at happiness lost in the deep blue sea, Jane must venture to the world underwater...
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Grizzly Killer volume 17
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"The winter of 1837-38 in the Rocky Mountain wilderness was the worst in memory. Deep snow and brutal cold lasted well into the spring. Zach and his partners were desperate to find food; their horse herd decimated from starvation. Star had dreamed of the birth of a white buffalo, a sign of hope and prosperity. Will Taggart, a sea captain, had left the sea to take his family overland to California. The long winter had kept the buffalo from returning...
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"Louise Manson is the newest student at Highfield Manor, Dublin's most exclusive private school. It seems nearly perfect: the high arched window alcoves and tall granite pillars, the overspill of lilac at the front gate and the immaculate playing fields, the giggling students, the dusty, oak-lined library, and the dark, festering secret she has come to expose. At first, Lou's working-class status makes her the consummate outsider, though all that...
7) White Fang
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Part dog, part wolf, White Fang is a half-breed that has trouble finding his place in the world. Mistreated by men and other animals, White Fang learns how to defend himself and survive by not trusting anyone. See how White Fang is changed from a savage beast into a gentle, wise animal by the kindness of one man.
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His best friend's little sister never looked so good ... Two weeks. A trial period, in which hockey superstar Zac Quinn will prove to Reagan Thomas--his best friend's younger sister and the one woman he can't seem to keep his hands off of--that they can't possibly date for real. After all, the Thomas family is the only family he's ever had. He can't risk losing them, no matter how much he wants Reagan. She's too important to him; he can't let things...
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"Nashquitten, MA, is a decaying coastal enclave that not even tourist season can revive, full of locals who have run the town's industries for generations. When a bright young woman dies at a house party, the circumstances around her death suspiciously unclear, the tight-knit community is shaken. As a mother grieves her daughter, a teacher her student, a best friend her confidante, the events around the tragedy become a lightning rod: blame is cast,...
10) The deepest lake
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"In this atmospheric thriller set at a luxury memoir-writing workshop on the shores of Lake Atitlaan, Guatemala, a grieving mother goes undercover to investigate her daughter's mysterious death. Rose, the mother of 20-something aspiring writer Jules, has waited three months for answers about her daughter's death. Why was she swimming alone when she feared the water? Why did she stop texting days before she was last seen? When the official investigation...
11) Whale fall
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"In 1938, a dead whale washes up on the shores of remote Welsh island. For Manod, who has spent her whole life on the island, it feels like both a portent of doom and a symbol of what may lie beyond the island's shores. A young woman living with her father and her sister (to whom she has reluctantly but devotedly become a mother following the death of their own mother years prior), Manod can't shake her welling desire to explore life beyond the beautiful...
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Hack Long volume 1
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When Hack Long and his outlaws break out of jail and split up to escape, they each find themselves scrabbling along a desolated landscape, heading for Texas to reclaim their stolen gold, while being hunted by lawmen, Comanches and violent gang who also want their ill-gotten gains.
14) Damned if I duke
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When her plan to blackmail Jasper Vincent, Duke of Montford, into forgiving her father's debts backfires, Prudence Thorne is forced into marriage neither wanted-and fighting a desire neither expected-only to discover they are each other's perfect match.
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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...
16) Honey: a novel
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Meet a woman as tenacious as Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge and as irresistible as Andrew Sean Greer's Arthur Less: Honey Fasinga. Honey, the glamorous daughter of a notorious New Jersey mobster, is returning home at last, ready to reckon with her violent past. As a rebellious teenager, Honey managed to escape her father's circle of influence and reinvent herself in a world of art and beauty, working for a high-end auction house in Los Angeles....
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"When Olympia leaves her small Virginia town, she doesn't expect to look back, much less ever come home. But after a year on the road, her sister's engagement pulls Olympia into everything she left behind: her family, her husband, and the grief she's been trying to forget. She's determined to stay a few days, maybe a week-just enough time to visit gravestones and sign off on the divorce her husband, Spencer, asked for. But he's reeling from their...
18) The hollow tree
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Shona Sandison investigation volume 2
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"Intrepid investigative journalist Shona Sandison, gone freelance following the tragic events of The Goldenacre, is attending the wedding of her closest friend and former colleague, Vivienne. But the night before the wedding, Vivienne's reclusive old school friend, Dan, throws himself off a roof. Shona is the only witness to the suicide--and so the only person who saw the occult tattoos covering Dan's body, and heard the unsettling, mystical phrases...
19) Highcliffe house
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"The last thing Anna Lane wants to do is spend a week in Brighton with Graham Everett, who is hoping to make a financial investment with her father, but then she discovers a hidden warmth in her one-time rival in this enemies-to-lovers romance"--
"The daughter of a wealthy investor and a handsome young businessman clash in this enemies-to-lovers romance from the author who brought you Lakeshire Park. 1813, Brighton, England When Anna Lane offered...
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Shores of Dora volume 1
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"Chareese "Reese" Devlin spent every summer of her chilhood in the lake town of Mount Dora, Florida, where her days were filled with fun in the sun and Duncan McNeal, the first boy to ever capture her heart. After her family squashed the budding romance because Duncan lacked family pedigree, she refused to return but now, ten years later, she can't miss her sister's debutante ball. Upon arriving, she's shocked to discover that Duncan is now a successful...