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After Annie Anna Quindlen
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Quindlen, Anna

After Annie : a novel / Anna Quindlen

New York : Random house, 2024

Abstract: When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her children, and her closest friend are left to find a way forward without the woman who has been the lynchpin of all their lives. Bill is overwhelmed without his beloved wife, and Annemarie wrestles with the bad habits her best friend had helped her overcome. And Ali, the eldest of Annie’s children, has to grow up overnight, to care for her younger brothers and even her father and to puzzle out for herself many of theLeggi tutto

Leaving Roxana Robinson
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Robinson, Roxana

Leaving / Roxana Robinson

London : Magpie books, 2024

Abstract: Sarah and Warren’s college love story ended in a single moment. Decades later, when a chance meeting brings them together, a passion ignites threatening the foundations of their lives.

The fetishist Katherine Min
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Min, Katherine

The fetishist / Katherine Min

London : Fleet, 2024

Abstract: On a cold, gloomy night, twenty-three-year-old Kyoko stands in the rain with a knife in her hoodie’s pocket. Her target is Daniel, who seduced Kyoko’s mother then callously dropped her, leading to her death. But tonight, there will be repercussions. Following the unsuspecting Daniel home, Kyoko manages to get a rash kidnapping plot off the ground . . . and then nothing goes as planned.

Wandering Stars Tommy Orange
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Orange, Tommy

Wandering Stars / Tommy Orange

London : Harvill Secker, 2024

Abstract: Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle,where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star’s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man whoLeggi tutto

Day Michael Cunningham
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Cunningham, Michael

Day / Michael Cunningham

London : 4th Estate, 2024

Abstract: April 5, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, husband and wife, are slowly drifting apart—and both, it seems, are a little bit in love with Isabel’s younger brother, Robbie. And then there is Nathan, age ten, taking his first uncertain steps toward independence, while his sister, Violet, five, does her best not to notice the growing rift between her parents.

Ours Phillip B. Williams
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Williams, Phillip B.

Ours / Phillip B. Williams

London : Granta, 2024

Abstract: In this ingenious, sweeping novel, Phillip B. Williams introduces us to an enigmatic woman named Saint, a fearsome conjurer who, in the 1830s, annihilates plantations all over Arkansas to rescue the people enslaved there. She brings those she has freed to a haven of her own creation: a town just north of St. Louis, magically concealed from outsiders, named Ours. It is in this miraculous place that Saint’s grand experiment - a truly secluded community where her people mayLeggi tutto

The women Kristin Hannah
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Hannah, Kristin

The women / Kristin Hannah

London : Macmillan, 2024

Abstract: Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path.

Jaded Ela Lee
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Lee, Ela

Jaded / Ela Lee

London : Harvill Secker, 2024

Abstract: Jade isn't even my real name. Jade began as my Starbucks name, because all children of immigrants have a Starbucks name. Jade has become everything she ever wanted to be. Successful lawyer. Dutiful daughter. Beloved girlfriend. Loyal friend. Until one night after a work event she suffers an unspeakable attack. As she tries to confront what happened to her, she finds herself caught between her parents who can’t understand, her boyfriend who feels betrayed, and her job thatLeggi tutto

Burma Sahib Paul Theroux
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Theroux, Paul

Burma Sahib : a novel / Paul Theroux

New York [etc.] : Mariner Books, 2024

Mariner Books

Abstract: At age nineteen, young Eton graduate Eric Blair set sail for India, dreading the assignment ahead. Along with several other young conscripts, he would be trained for three years as a servant of the British Empire, overseeing the local policemen in Burma. Navigating the social, racial, and class politics of his fellow British at the same time as he learned the local languages and struggled to control his men would prove difficult enough. But doing all of this whileLeggi tutto

Rogue justice Stacey Abrams
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Abrams, Stacey

Rogue justice / Stacey Abrams

London : Harper Collins, 2024

Abstract: Supreme Court clerk Avery Keene is back, trying to get her feet on solid ground after unraveling an international conspiracy in While Justice Sleeps. But as the sparks of Congressional hearings and political skirmishes swirl around her, Avery is approached at a legal conference by Preston Davies, an unassuming young man and fellow law clerk to a federal judge in Idaho. Davies believes his boss, Judge Francesca Whitner, was being blackmailed in the days before she died.Leggi tutto

The hunter Tana French
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French, Tana

The hunter / Tana French

London : Viking, 2024

Penguin fiction

Abstract: Cal Hooper was a Chicago detective, till he moved to the West of Ireland looking for peace. He’s found it, more or less – in his relationship with local woman Lena, and the bond he’s formed with half-wild teenager Trey. So when two men turn up with a money-making scheme to find gold in the townland, Cal gets ready to do whatever it takes to protect Trey. Because one of the men is no stranger: he’s Trey’s father.

End of story A. J. Finn
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Finn, A. J.

End of story / A. J. Finn

London : Harper Collins Publishers, 2024

Abstract: This is the chilling invitation from Sebastian Trapp, renowned mystery novelist, to his long-time correspondent Nicky Hunter, an expert in detective fiction. Welcomed into his lavish San Francisco mansion, Nicky begins to unravel Trapp's life story under the watchful eyes of his enigmatic wife and plainspoken daughter.

The Austriad Richard Bartholinus ; edited, translated and annotated by John Butcher
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Bartolini, Riccardo <m. 1529?>

The Austriad : a renaissance latin epic for Emperor Maximilian 1. / Richard Bartholinus ; edited, translated and annotated by John Butcher

Città di Castello : Nuova Prhomos, 2024

Biblioteca del centro studi Mario Pancrazi. Testi ; 14

Where the dark stands still A. B. Poranek ; traduzione di Maria Laura Capobianco
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Poranek, A. B.

Where the dark stands still : la foresta dell’amore eterno / A. B. Poranek ; traduzione di Maria Laura Capobianco

Milano : Il castoro, 2024

Il castoro off

James Percival Everett
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Everett, Percival <1956- >

James : a novel / Percival Everett

New York : Doubleday, 2024

Abstract: When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town.

The god of the woods Liz Moore
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Moore, Liz

The god of the woods / Liz Moore

London : The Borough Press, 2024

Abstract: Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found.

This is why we lied Karin Slaughter
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Slaughter, Karin

This is why we lied : a Will Trent thriller / Karin Slaughter

New York : William Morrow, 2024

Abstract: For GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton, McAlpine Lodge seems like the ideal getaway to celebrate their honeymoon. Set on a gorgeous, off-the-grid mountaintop property, it’s the perfect place to unplug and reconnect. Until a bone-chilling scream cuts through the night.

Orbital Samantha Harvey
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Harvey, Samantha

Orbital / Samantha Harvey

London : Vintage, 2024

Abstract: Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, six astronauts and cosmonauts—from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan—have left their lives behind to travel at a speed of over seventeen thousand miles an hour as the earth reels below. We glimpse moments of their earthly lives through brief communications with family, their photos and talismans; we watch them whip up dehydrated meals, float in gravity-free sleep,Leggi tutto

Headshot Rita Bullwinkel
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Bullwinkel, Rita

Headshot / Rita Bullwinkel

London : Daunt Books, 2024

Abstract: An unexpected tragedy at a community pool. A family’s unrelenting expectation of victory. The desire to gain or lose control; to make time speed up or stop; to be frighteningly, undeniably good at something. Each of the eight teenage girl boxers in this blistering debut novel has her own reasons for the sacrifices she has made to come to Reno, Nevada, to compete to be named the best in the country.

Familiaris David Wroblewski
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Wroblewski, David

Familiaris / David Wroblewski

London : Abacus, 2024

Abstract: It is spring 1919, and John Sawtelle’s imagination has gotten him into trouble… again. Now John and his newlywed wife, Mary, along with their two best friends and their three dogs, are setting off for Wisconsin’s northwoods, where they hope to make a fresh start. But the place they are headed for is far stranger and more perilous than they realize.