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Crimson Sails volume 1
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English
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"Evelyn is a witch with a perfect storm of impulses: terrible taste in bed partners, sticky fingers, and a lust for danger. After she steals from her vampire ex and falls through a portal to another realm, she's fished out of the waters by a band of seafarers and their telekinetic captain. She's immediately given a choice--join their group or die. Bowen has no memory of his life before he became one of the Cŵn Annwn. He and his pirate crew are bound...
2) Knockout
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Series
Hell's belles volume 3
Language
English
Description
One of the Hell's Belles -- a group of vigilantes operating outside the notice of most of London, Lady Imogen Loveless, who has a penchant for experiments and explosives, meets her match in a brilliant detective who, caught up in her chaotic world, tempts her like no other.
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Lovelight novels volume 1
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English
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"Two best friends fake date to reach their holiday happily ever after in this first romantic comedy in the Lovelight series. A pasture of dead trees. A hostile takeover of the Santa barn by a family of raccoons. And shipments that have mysteriously gone missing. Lovelight Farms is not the magical winter wonderland of Stella Bloom's dreams. In an effort to save the Christmas tree farm she's loved since she was a kid, Stella enters a contest with Instagram-famous...
4) The takedown
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"An undercover CIA agent is sent home to investigate her sister's criminal fiance but the last thing she expects is to fall in love with his bodyguard along the way in this sexy romantic comedy. It's been a long time since Sydney Swift has gone home. An unrelentingly successful CIA field officer, she has spent the last five years pretending to be someone - anyone - other than herself. But this year, the festive season is coming with some added surprises....
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English
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"A compelling debut that glows with bittersweet heart and touching emotion, deeply interrogating questions of family, redemption, and unconditional love in the sweltering summer heat of Savannah, as two people discover what it means to truly forgive. It's been eight years since Sara Lancaster left her home in Savannah, Georgia. Eight years since her daughter, Alana, came into this world, following a terrifying sexual assault that left deep emotional...
6) Mrs. S
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Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In an elite English boarding school where the girls kiss the marble statue of the famous dead author who used to walk the halls, a butch antipodean outsider arrives to take up the antiquated role of "matron." Within this landscape of immense privilege, where difference is met with hostility, the matron finds herself unsure of her role, her accent and her body. That is until she meets Mrs. S, the headmaster's wife, a woman who is her polar opposite...
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Publisher
Titania
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
El sueño de Nico era abrir una librería. El sueño de Helena era dominar las alturas. Y el chico de las cartas soñaba con perderse. Nico conocerá a Helena mientras ella desafía a la muerte y él intenta comprenderla. Se encontrarán en las dos Ophelias: en la real y en la de los sueños. Helena creía que no volvería a enamorarse nunca, hasta que se tropezó con él. Juntos, pondrán a prueba la gravedad, se desafiarán en las alturas y en...
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Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo USA
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
"Bree Camden está perdida y secretamente enamorada de su mejor amigo (y también estrella de fútbol americano) Nathan Donelson. Pero ese no es el único problema que tiene. Después de un accidente que pone fin a su sueño de ser bailarina, Bree se dedica a llevar su propia escuela de danza... mientras pueda pagar el alquiler, claro. Cuando Nathan acude al rescate y compra el edificio en el que se encuentra su negocio, la orgullosa Bree no se lo...
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Publisher
VR Editoras
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Olive siempre tiene mala suerte. Su gemela, en cambio, es tan afortunada que ha conseguido organizar su boda ganando concursos en las redes. Sin embargo, cuando todos se intoxican con la comida de la fiesta, la luna de miel queda vacante. Solo Olive e Ethan, su némesis, están a salvo. Si quieren disfrutar de unas vacaciones en Hawái, el único precio que deberán pagar será fingir que se aman como recién casados. ¿Por cuánto tiempo podrá...
10) Too far
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Series
Blacklist (Sylvia Day) volume 2
Publisher
Ronin House, an imprint of Sylvia Day LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Lily Black was presumed dead for years. Now, she's back in the unquestioning arms of her loving husband, Kane. Where she's been remains a mystery, but her past sins haunt her and bring deadly danger into the lives of the family. Meanwhile Aliyah, Kane's mother, has worked hard for her position of power. She has never believed Lily is who she says she is, and will stop at nothing to expose her. Amy, Kane's sister-in-law, has always been a pawn in...
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Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When an at-home DNA test reveals the truth about her father, Summer Sutherland, meeting him for the first time, settles into his Carmel home, ready to get to know her instant family -- and pursue a romance with his business partner, which could tear their lives apart.
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Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Domenic Marino has become an expert at code-switching between the hypermasculine and ultrafeminine worlds of his two soon-to-be-wed best friends. But this summer-reeling from his own failed engagement and tasked with attending their bachelor and bachelorette parties-he's anxious over having to play both sides. The pressure is on. The bride wants Dom to keep things clean. The groom wants Dom to "let loose" with the guys. And Dom just wants to get...
13) He's my cowboy
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English
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Three New York Times bestselling authors celebrate America in this collection of western romances including Diana Palmer's "The Hawk's Shadow," in which Gil, now a sheriffs investigator, butts heads with a hotshot expert from the state crime lab who's come to Colorado to help solve a cold case.
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English
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Three best friends -- Heather, who finally sees the beauty of family; Daphne, who is trying to fix her marriage after an emotional affair; and Tori, who has fallen in love with a longtime friend, navigate the joy, and heartache of letting people into their hearts for the very first time.
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Series
Trilogía Stella Nera volume 1
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Aurora es conocida en todo el mundo como "la ladrona de guante negro", la experta criminal que se esconde tras los mayores robos de joyas de la historia. Lleva años burlándose de la policía y sus actos la han convertido en una mujer cruel y despiadada, en alguien que no le teme a nada y que es incapaz de resistirse a las piedras preciosas más singulares. Aurora nunca ha tenido rival y su fijación ha encontrado un nuevo objetivo: el Zafiro de...
16) The burning
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Series
Brightest stars volume 2
Publisher
Frayed Pages, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When the trust they've placed in each other is traumatically broken, Karina and Kael, a soldier scarred by his time in Afghanistan, try to find a way back to each other, but soon Karina must decide whether loving someone she doesn't want to live without is worth risking everything.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In this stunning debut, Javier Fuentes chronicles a tumultuous, passionate love affair between two young men from vastly different worlds during one, extraordinary summer in Spain, in what is ultimately a meditation on identity, class, belonging and desire. It is 2007, in New York where Demetrio, 30, is a celebrated pastry chef at the French restaurant, Le Bourrelet. It will be his seventh year as their pâtissier and the chef-owner, stern, but paternal...
18) Palazzo: a novel
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English
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After her parents perish in a tragic accident, Cosima Saverio assumes leadership of her family's haute couture Italian leather brand. While navigating the challenges of running a company at twenty-three, Cosima must also maintain the four-hundred-year-old family palazzo in Venice and care for her younger siblings: Allegra, who survived the tragedy that killed their parents with scars and a spinal injury, and Luca, who has a penchant for wild parties,...
19) Paladin's grace
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Saint of Steel volume 1
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English
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"Stephen's god died on the longest day of the year ... Three years later, Stephen is a broken paladin, living only for the chance to be useful before he dies. But all that changes when he encounters a fugitive named Grace in an alley and witnesses an assassination attempt gone wrong. Now the pair must navigate a web of treachery, beset on all sides by spies and poisoners while a cryptic killer stalks one step behind"--Page 4 of cover
20) The ghost ship
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Barbary Coast, 1621. A mysterious vessel floats silently on the water. It is known only as the Ghost Ship. For months it has hunted pirates to liberate those enslaved by corsairs, manned by a courageous crew of mariners from Italy and France, Holland and the Canary Islands. But the bravest men on board are not who they seem. And the stakes could not be higher. If arrested, they will be hanged for their crimes. Can they survive the journey and...
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