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21) Memory Lost
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What if you based your life on a lie?
In the planet Tatrax in the Dainne system, Cooper Hadley has made it to the top in his underground world. He's the Security Chief of the Tunnel Corps as well as a Patrician, the most privileged class in the Kingdom. But when politics force him to marry, he needs a bride.
The perfect candidate is Wye Botero-his one-time best friend. But Wye's a Drone, a member of the lowest class, and she has hated privileged Cooper...
22) One Tough Cookie
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All cookies are made with love-even if twenty-seven-year-old Karina Cortés doesn't believe in the concept. For her, a simple life with no attachments is a good life. And her life is indeed good-even with her biggest accomplishment being passing the GED exam. Karina is able to secure an incredible and well-paying job at Singular Cookies, Inc., a small family-owned cookie manufacturing plant in Fort Pierce, Florida. And although the founders of the...
23) The Two of Us
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A heart-wrenching emotional romance filled with hope, forgiveness, and most of all, love.
Sometimes holding on to pain means letting go of love.
If there's no place like home, that's more than okay for Mara Makinen. In fact, she prefers it that way. Going back to the place where she made the worst mistake of her life? Not ideal.
So when a family emergency forces Mara to return home to her small lake town in Maine after seven years, she knows there's...
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When six book influencers take a weekend getaway to connect with their fellow creators, it's meant to be a chance to relax, collaborate, and discuss all of the books they love. But from the start, something's clearly amiss. From the host's mysterious absence and an unexpected guest to an odd occurrence in town and the strange and worrisome behavior of the neighbors, what starts out as an innocent and lively vacation quickly becomes a weekend filled...
25) Soledad: A Novel
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Award-winning author Angie Cruz takes listeners on a journey as one young woman must confront not only her own past of growing up in Washington Heights, but also her mother's.
At eighteen, Soledad couldn't get away fast enough from her contentious family with their endless tragedies and petty fights. Two years later, she's an art student at Cooper Union with a gallery job and a hip East Village walk-up. But when Tia Gorda calls with the news that...
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"I'd highly recommend this book for those who are starting an agile or lean transformation, so as to avoid bad starts and the related frustration." DLed
"The information is very useful and well explained. It is just what pretends to be - gives full understanding on the topic. I recommend. It is not the deepest and detailed book for user stories, but gives plenty of important information. For starters in working in typical agile process environment...
27) Xanpan
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Xanpan is… a cross between XP and Kanban… is an example of a roll-your-own method… is distilled from Allan Kelly's own experiences running development teams and then helping multiple teams adopt Agile working methods and practices. Xanpan draws ideas from Kanban and Lean, XP and Scrum, product management and business analysis, and many other places.
Allan tells the Xanpan story through a series of boards which tell the story of different teams....
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A new season leads to a new beginning in bestselling author RaeAnne Thayne's latest heartwarming romance!
Will the secrets of her past...
Prevent her from having the future she's always wanted?
Rosa Galvez's attraction to Officer Wyatt Townsend is as powerful as the moon's pull on the tides. But with her past, Rosa knows better than to act on her feelings. When Wyatt and his adorable son become Brambleberry House's newest tenants, Rosa finds her...
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"Exquisite and gripping. . . . The Gulf is a page turner to be savored; Cochran is a master of both prose and plot."-Ilana Masad, author of All My Mother's Lovers
In this electrifying debut literary thriller, set on the gulf coast of Texas in the 1970s at the height of the women's liberation movement, a closeted young woman attempts to solve her surrogate mother's murder in a tight-knit, religious small town.
?In Parson, Texas, a small town ravaged...
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A woman seeks justice for her murdered cousin-but can't resist a seductive suspect-in this romantic thriller by the New York Times bestselling author.
In the courtroom, defense lawyer Quinn Cortez has a reputation as a ruthless predator who always gets what he wants. In the bedroom, it's no different. Quinn is an accomplished seducer with a long list of conquests. But now, someone has brutally slaughtered one of them, and Quinn has no memory of the...
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When Freddie and Mr. Vaslov see something fall from the sky, Freddie learns it could be a meteorite. He's determined to find it! Will Freddie find the rock from outer space before someone else does? When Freddie and Mr. Vaslov see something fall from the sky, Freddie learns it could be a meteorite. He's determined to find it! Will Freddie find the rock from outer space before someone else does? Jacqueline Jules is the author of numerous books for...
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Twelve-year-old Henna loves living on Earth's End, the smallest and remotest settlement in the Gardenia Isles. As one of her island's three residents-the other two are her papas-she spends most of her free time in the garden, coaxing beautiful blooms out of her beloved plants. But when her papa Niall
suddenly becomes seriously ill, Henna's perfect world is uprooted. So when she hears of a legendary, long-lost plant with miraculous healing powers,...
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Freddie Ramos loves his new Zapato Power—super hearing! He can listen in on conversations and find hero jobs. But soon Freddie realizes the temptation to eavesdrop on everyone is too great. Can Freddie find a way to use his super hearing without snooping? Freddie Ramos loves his new Zapato Power—super hearing! He can listen in on conversations and find hero jobs. But soon Freddie realizes the temptation to eavesdrop on everyone is too great. Can...
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Final requests before death have turned into a commercial - and threatening - frenzy.
What if you got to take one thing with you when you died - and corporations and governments all wanted in on what you request? Moments that were once considered private and sacred are intruded upon like paparazzi on celebrities.
When teenage Powa uploads on social media a partial video of her best friend's final request and the strange things that followed, she...
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Mr. Vaslov is building a drone to help him take care of Starwood Park—but that's Freddie's job! And when Freddie finds out his mom has a new boyfriend, he's worried about their relationship too. How can his Zapato Power help with all this change? Mr. Vaslov is building a drone to help him take care of Starwood Park—but that's Freddie's job! And when Freddie finds out his mom has a new boyfriend, he's worried about their relationship too. How can...
36) Goddess of Filth
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One hot summer night, best friends Lourdes, Fernanda, Ana, Perla, and Pauline hold a seance. It's all fun and games at first, but their tipsy laughter turns to terror when the flames burn straight through their prayer candles and Fernanda starts crawling toward her friends and chanting in Nahuatl, the language of their Aztec ancestors.
Over the next few weeks, shy, modest Fernanda starts acting strangely-smearing herself in black makeup, shredding...
37) Mothers Don't
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A mother kills her twins. Another woman, the narrator of this story, is about to give birth. She is a writer, and she realizes that she knows the woman who committed the infanticide. An obsession is born. She takes an extended leave, not for child-rearing, but to write. To research and write about the hidden truth behind the crime.
Mothers don't write. Mothers give life. How could a woman be capable of neglecting her children? How could she kill...
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Renowned internationally for her lyrically unsettling novels, PEN/Faulkner Award winner Chloe Aridjis now presents her first collection of shorter works, with an introduction by Tom McCarthy
Chloe Aridjis's stories and essays are known to transport readers into liminal, often dreamlike, realms. In this collection of works, we meet a woman guided only by a plastic bag drifting through the streets of Berlin who discovers a nonsense-named bar that is...
39) Fan Club
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"Mayer lays bare the terrible destiny of a society obsessed with social media stalking and celebrity relationships." -Julia Heaberlin, bestselling author of We Are All the Same in the Dark
In this raucous psychological thriller, a disillusioned millennial joins a cliquey fan club, only to discover that the group is bound together by something darker than devotion
Day after day our narrator searches for meaning beyond her vacuous job at a women's...
40) The Perfect One
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Cami and Isa are very different sisters. Cami always wants to be perfect. She worries about it every single day! She follows all the rules, does all her homework on time, and never makes a fuss. Isa, on the other hand, is confident everything she does is perfect, even when it's most definitely not. Her drawing on the wall? Perfect. Her bowling ball bouncing into the other lane? Perfect-er. When the two sisters face their own challenges during the...