| Onyx storm [sound recording (CD)] / Rebecca Yarros. |
 After months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows there is no more time for lessons because the battle has truly begun. With enemies coming from outside and within their ranks, she must go on a journey to seek allies from unfamiliar lands. The trip will be grueling, but she will do anything to save her dragons, her family, her home, and him. |
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| The republic of salt [sound recording (CD)] / Ariel Kaplan. |
 After a near-disastrous confrontation with La Cȧeria, Toba and Asmel are trapped on the human side of the gate, pursued by the Courser and a possessed Inquisitor. In the Mazik world, Naftaly's visions seethe with calamitous images of Zayit, the prosperous gate city notorious for its trade in salt, consumed by flames and overrun by La Cȧeria. If the Cȧador can control the salt, he will be nearly unstoppable. But the stolen killstone, the key to the Cȧador's destruction, could eliminate the threat, if only Barsilay's allies could find and use it. |
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| Cher, the memoir. Part one [sound recording (CD)] / Cher. |
 The extraordinary life of Cher as told by Cher herself. |
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| Jesus and the Gospels [sound recording (CD)] / Luke Timothy Johnson. |
 Looks at Jesus through the many portraits the Gospels provide. The course examines not only the familiar canonical Gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John from the New Testament, but also many other apocryphal narratives and literary works that have also contributed to our perceptions of Jesus, Mary, and Christianity. All of these works are encompassed by the word "Gospel." |
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| The queens of crime [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Marie Benedict. |
 London, 1930. The five greatest women crime writers have banded together to form a secret society with a single goal: to show they are no longer willing to be treated as second class citizens by their male counterparts in the legendary Detection Club. Led by the formidable Dorothy L. Sayers, the group includes Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham and Baroness Emma Orczy. They call themselves the Queens of Crime. Their plan? Solve an actual murder, that of a young woman found strangled in a park in France who may have connections leading to the highest levels of the British establishment. May Daniels, a young English nurse on an excursion to France with her friend, seemed to vanish into thin air as they prepared to board a ferry home. Months later, her body is found in the nearby woods. The murder has all the hallmarks of a locked room mystery for which these authors are famous: how did her killer manage to sneak her body out of a crowded train station without anyone noticing? If, as the police believe, the cause of death is manual strangulation, why is there is an extraordinary amount of blood at the crime scene? What is the meaning of a heartbreaking secret letter seeming to implicate an unnamed paramour? Determined to solve the highly publicized murder, the Queens of Crime embark on their own investigation, discovering they're stronger together. But soon the killer targets Dorothy Sayers herself, threatening to expose a dark secret in her past that she would do anything to keep hidden. |
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| Never say never [sound recording (CD)] / Danielle Steel. |
 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel's novel about a woman whose life is turned upside down in the French countryside. Oona Kelly Webster, devastated by her husband's affair, travels to France alone. There, she finds healing in a charming village, a rescued dog, and a friendly neighbor. 'Never Say Never' is an inspiring story of second chances and the bravery to stay open to change. |
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| Grave danger [sound recording (CD)] / James Grippando. |
 Jack Swyteck's new client fled Iran with her daughter, and is accused of kidnapping by her husband. Jack must build a case that returning to Tehran would put the child at risk. But he soon learns the truth is messier. His client is really the child's aunt, the mother was killed by Iran's morality police, and the FBI is pushing Jack to drop the case. |
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| Bonded in death [sound recording (CD)] / J. D. Robb. |
 His passport read Giovanni Rossi. But decades ago, during the Urban Wars, he was part of a small, secret organization called The Twelve. Responding to an urgent summons from an old compatriot, he landed in New York and eased into the waiting car. And died within minutes. Lieutenant Eve Dallas finds the Rossi case frustrating. She's got an elderly victim who'd just arrived from Rome; a widow who knows nothing about why he'd left; an as-yet unidentifiable weapon; and zero results on facial recognition. But when she finds a connection to the Urban Wars of the 2020s, she thinks Summerset-fiercely loyal, if somewhat grouchy, major-domo and the man who'd rescued her husband from the Dublin streets, may know something from his stint as a medic in Europe back then. When Summerset learns of the crime, his shock and grief are clear, because, as he eventually reveals, he himself was one of The Twelve. It's not a part of his past he likes to revisit. But now he must, not only to assist Eve's investigation, but because a cryptic message from the killer has boasted that others of The Twelve have also died. Summerset is one of those who remain, and the murderous mission is yet to be fully accomplished? |
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| Heretic : Jesus Christ and the other sons of God [sound recording (CD)] / Catherine Nixey. |
 Contrary to the teachings of the church today, in the first several centuries of Christianity's existence, there was no consensus as to who Jesus was or why he had mattered. Instead, there were many different Christs. Catherine Nixey unearths the different versions of Christ who existed in the minds of early Christians, and the process of evolution, and elimination, by which Jesus became the singular figure we know today. |
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| Aim to misbehave [sound recording (CD)] / an original novel by Rosiee Thor ; consulting editor, Joss Whedon. |
 The foreman of a fuel refinery hires the crew of Serenity to get his kidnapped workers back. While they're trying to make sense of it all, the workers' children plan to steal Serenity and launch their own rescue mission. |
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| The shadowed land : a novel [sound recording (CD)] / Signe Pike. |
 Kingdom of Gododdin, AD 580: After defeating the Angles at the Battle of the Caledonian Wood, Languoreth, her daughter Angharad, brother Lailoken, and the warrior Artúr mac Aedan are reunited. Artúr receives a mysterious summons from his father in Dalriada, Languoreth and Lailoken return to Strathclyde to maintain the fragile peace between the Christians and the people of the Old Way, and Angharad hopes to become the initiate of the Celtic druid Briochan. |
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| A sky of emerald stars : a novel [sound recording (CD)] / A. K. Mulford. |
 After the long reign under the evil sorceress, life in the Golden Court is finally rebuilding. But when a rival Wolf king kidnaps the Queen's friend and mentor Ora, any hopes for peace are lost. Tensions rise as royal guard Sadie and Queen Calla struggle to gain support for the brewing war and realize that the world of Aotreas is more than it seems. |
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| Taylor Swift by the book : the literature behind the lyrics, from fairy tales to tortured poets [sound recording (CD)] / Rachel Feder and Tiffany Tatreau. |
 Taylor Swift's lyrics are packed with literary connections. Make sure you're catching them all with this expert guide to the novels, poems, and plays that influenced her songwriting. |
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| You never know : a memoir [sound recording (CD)] / Tom Selleck with Ellis Henican. |
 Actor Tom Selleck chronicles his life both in show business and away from it in this long-awaited memoir. Selleck is best known as the star of Magnum, P.I., one of the most popular and enduring television shows of the eighties, and of Blue Bloods, where he plays New York City Police Commissioner Frank Reagan, but his career is longer, and richer, than those two hits suggest. |
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| James Earl Jones reads the Bible : King James version of the New Testament [sound recording (CD)] / Topics Media Group. |
 Whether you want to study the Bible or if the goal of reading the Bible is on your radar this year, James Earl Jones Reads the Bible is the most enjoyable way to accomplish your goal! Relax to more than nineteen soothing hours of inspirational listening with crystal-clear audio of the New Testament read by one of the world's most gifted actors of all time, James Earl Jones. Clearly marked CDs for easy tracking -- word-for-word readings by James Earl Jones -- listen anywhere, anytime! This skilled and resonating interpretation by Mr. Jones has been hailed as one of the greatest spoken-word New Testament recordings of all time. With more than a half a million copies sold to date, this audio masterwork is certain to soothe, satisfy, and inspire. |
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| Ghost soldier [sound recording (CD)] / by Mike Maden. |
 When African jihadis attack a Nigerian regiment using American weapons, Cabrillo and the Oregon crew are on the case, investigating from Afghanistan to Kuala Lumpur to track a mysterious arms dealer-a genius, or perhaps a devil, known only as the Vendor. Cabrillo goes undercover to find the Vendor's base, but his adversary isn't just an arms smuggler. He's an arms maker, and Cabrillo just walked into a lethal military game alongside the most dangerous mercenaries in the world, designed to test the Vendor's cutting-edge AI arsenal. And yet, surviving an arena full of flame-throwing robots isn't even his biggest problem. The Vendor has an army of high-speed drones headed for a pivotal military site, and if the Oregon crew can't stop them from releasing a deadly neurotoxin, the entire globe will erupt in conflict. |
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| Lies he told me [sound recording (CD)] / James Patterson and David Ellis. |
 An attorney and mother of two discovers her husband's secret life, and it might cost them all their lives. |
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| Trial by fire : a novel [sound recording (CD)] / Danielle Steel. |
 The life of Parisian businesswoman Dahlia de Beaumont changes in a heartbeat when she travels to California during wildfire season. Her desire to help leads to unforeseen consequences for her life and her entire future. |
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| The serviceberry [sound recording (CD)] : abundance and reciprocity in the natural world / Robin Wall Kimmerer. |
 Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most? Our economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and the hoarding of resources, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms what we love. Meanwhile, the serviceberry's relationship with the natural world is an embodiment of reciprocity, interconnectedness, and gratitude. The tree distributes its wealth, its abundance of sweet, juicy berries, to meet the needs of its natural community. And this distribution insures its own survival. |
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| Ocean [sound recording (CD)] : a history of the Atlantic before Columbus / John Haywood. |
 John Haywood argues that the perception of Atlantic history beginning with the first voyage of the celebrated navigator Christopher Columbus is a mistaken one, and that the seafaring and shipbuilding skills that enabled European global exploration and expansion did not arrive fully formed in the fifteenth century, but instead were learned over centuries and millennia in the Atlantic and its peripheral seas. The pre-Columbian history of the Atlantic is the story of how Europeans learned to master the oceans. |
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| The life of Herod the Great [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Zora Neale Hurston ; [edited and with commentary by Deborah G. Plant]. |
 In this novel, Zora Neale Hurston reconsiders the life of one of the most-well known Biblical figures, Herod the Great, reimagining him in a different light than his villainous portrayal in the New Testament. |
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| The dog who followed the moon [sound recording (CD)] / James Norbury. |
 An adult fable of a lost young puppy, the old wolf who rescues her, and their journey to follow the moon--with meditations on friendship, connection, and sacrifice. |
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| We who wrestle with God [sound recording (CD)] : perceptions of the divine / Jordan B. Peterson. |
 Jordan B. Peterson guides us through the ancient, foundational stories of the Western world. In riveting detail, he analyzes the Biblical accounts of rebellion, sacrifice, suffering, and triumph that stabilize, inspire, and unite us culturally and psychologically. Adam and Eve and the eternal fall of mankind; the resentful and ultimately murderous war of Cain and Abel; the cataclysmic flood of Noah; the spectacular collapse of the Tower of Babel; Abraham's terrible adventure; and the epic of Moses and the Israelites. What could such stories possibly mean? What force wrote and assembled them over the long centuries? How did they bring our spirits and the world together, and point us in the same direction? It is time for us to understand such things, scientifically and spiritually; to become conscious of the structure of our souls and our societies; and to see ourselves and others as if for the first time. Join Elijah as he discovers the Voice of God in the dictates of his own conscience and Jonah confronting hell itself in the belly of the whale because he failed to listen and act. Set yourself straight in intent, aim, and purpose as you begin to more deeply understand the structure of your society and your soul. |
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| Tooth and claw [sound recording (CD)] / Craig Johnson. |
 Tooth and Claw follows Walt and Henry up to Alaska as they look for work after they both returned from serving in Vietnam. While working for an oil company in the bitter cold of winter, they soon encounter a ferocious polar bear who seems hell-bent on their destruction. But it's not too long until they realize the danger does not lurk outside in the frozen Alaskan tundra, but with their co-workers who are after priceless treasure and will stop at nothing to get it. |
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| Absolution [sound recording (CD)] / Jeff VanderMeer. |
 This surprise fourth volume in the Southern Reach Trilogy is structured in three parts, each recounting a new expedition into Area X offering long-awaited answers, more questions, and profound new surprises. |
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| The house of Cross [sound recording (CD)] / James Patterson. |
 Supreme Court candidates are being murdered, and Alex Cross and John Sampson take on the case. In this, his toughest investigation, Alex Cross must put himself inside the mind of a diabolical killer. |
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| Defense protocol [sound recording (CD)] / [Brian] Andrews & [Jeffrey] Wilson. |
 Every word a president utters is weighed and examined, but none more so than when he is talking about Taiwan. That's why it's shocking that President Jack Ryan seems to imply that the US has no appetite for a war to protect Taiwan from the communist Chinese on the mainland. President Ryan is determined to protect the independence of the island nation, but he is determined that one slip of the tongue should not cost thousands of young soldiers, sailors and Marines their lives. |
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| Citizen : my life after the White House [sound recording (CD)] / Bill Clinton. |
 On January 20th, 2001, after nearly thirty years in politics, eight of them as President of the United States, Bill Clinton was suddenly a private citizen. Only fifty-four years old, full of energy and ideas, he wanted to make meaningful use of his skills, his relationships with world leaders, and all he'd learned in a lifetime of politics, but how? Just days after leaving the White House, the call came to aid victims of a devastating earthquake in India, and Clinton hit the ground running. Over the next two decades, he would create an enduring legacy of public service and advocacy work, from Indonesia to Louisiana, Northern Ireland to South Africa, and in the process reimagine philanthropy and redefine the impact a former president could have on the world. Citizen is Clinton's front-row, first-person chronicle of his post-presidential years and the most significant events of the twenty-first century, including 9/11 and the runup to the Iraq War, the Haiti earthquake, the Great Recession, COVID-19, the January 6th insurrection, and the enduring culture wars of our times. Yet Citizen is more than a presidential memoir. These pages capture Clinton in a rare and unforgettable light: not only as celebrated former president and foundation leader, but also as a father, grandfather, and husband. He shares his support for Hillary Clinton during her tenure as senator, secretary of state, and presidential candidate, and openly details the frustration and pain of the 2016 election. With clarity and compassion, President Clinton also weighs in on the unprecedented challenges brought on by a global pandemic, ongoing inequality, a steadily warming planet, and authoritarian forces dedicated to weakening democracy. In this landmark publication, the highly anticipated follow-up to the best-selling My Life, Clinton pens a clear-sighted account of American democracy on a global stage, offering a frank reflection on the past and, with it, a fearless embrace of our future. Citizen is a testament to one man's unwavering commitment to family and nation, a self-portrait of equal parts eloquence, insight, and candor. |
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| Immortal [sound recording (CD)] / Sue Lynn Tan. |
 When Liyen, heir to Tianxia, is poisoned, her grandfather steals an enchanted lotus from the immortals to save her life. Enraged at his betrayal, the immortal queen commands the powerful God of War to attack Tianxia. To save her people, Liyen forms a treacherous alliance with him, one followed by an even more treacherous attraction she must resist. |
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| Robert B. Parker's Hot property [sound recording (CD)] : a Spenser novel / by Mike Lupica. |
 Spenser is waiting out the latest Boston snowstorm when he gets word that Rita Fiore has been shot. Rita's always been a tricky one: flirting with Spenser for years, she's an ever-present figure that transcends friendship in Spenser's circle. But at the end of the day, Rita is family. And family will always be protected. Both a pit bull in the courtroom and provocateur outside it, Rita is no stranger to controversy. But as one of the city's toughest lawyers, Spenser knows that there's no short list of suspects who might want to enact revenge. With Rita's life hanging in the balance, it's up to him to get to the bottom of things, even if it means unearthing some unsavory secrets that might just lead him into an age-old game of lies and deceit. |
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| Desolation code [sound recording (CD)] / Graham Brown. |
 When Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala investigate a mass stranding of aquatic life in the Indian Ocean, they accidentally uncover a much deeper mystery. A strange figure soon steals NUMA's findings, forcing a high-speed chase, someone really didn't want them examining those dead whales. But who, and why? A cryptic text through the NUMA satellite network makes things still stranger: these odd phrases and numbers look like NUMA codes. But who could be tantalizing the crew with such specific knowledge of their tech? Are they being helped by an old friend, or lured into a trap by a traitor who knows a little too much about NUMA's inner workings? Kurt, Joe, and even Max, the agency's supercomputer, will have to investigate like never before as they decrypt data, infiltrate a cult of cloned men, and prepare for a battle on two very different planes: one physical; one digital. The aquatic stranding was just the beginning of a sinister plan concocted by a mind more brilliant than any they've ever faced, the mind of a machine. A new, terrifying world order is being plotted. First marine ecosystems will be devastated, then the entire globe's. Unless the NUMA crew can stop this code of desolation. |
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| Men have called her crazy : a memoir [sound recording (CD)]/ Anna Marie Tendler. |
 When artist Anna Marie Tendler checked herself into a psychiatric hospital, she underwent myriad tests and therapies. Here, she recounts her experience and examines the expectations and pressures modern women face. |
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| Plays well with others : a novel [sound recording (CD)]/ Sophie Brickman. |
 Annie Lewin is a mother whose workaholic husband is never around. She is at her wit's end trying to secure the best spot for her son in New York City's kindergartens and faces vicious competition. When she commits a ghastly social faux pas that goes viral, she's forced to wonder if she is really any better than the cutthroat preschool parents she'd always judged. |
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| Blackheart Man : a novel [sound recording (DVD)]/ Nalo Hopkinson. |
 Veycosi, a scholar of folklore, hopes to sail off to examine the rare Alamat Book of Light. However, fifteeen Ymisen galleons arrive in the harbor to force a trade agreement. Veycosi is put in charge of negotiations, but quickly gets in over his head. If that's not enough, an ancient army magically turned to tar begins returning to life, led by the fearsome demon known as the Blackheart Man. |
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| A complicated passion : the life and work of Agnès Varda [sound recording (DVD)]/ Carrie Rickey |
 Carrie Rickey explores the "complicated passions" that informed filmmaker Agnès Varda's charmed life and indelible work. Rickey traces Varda's three remarkable careers as still photographer, as filmmaker, and as installation artist. She explains how Varda was a pioneer in blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, using the latest digital technology and carving a path for women in the movie industry. |
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| By the fire we carry : the generations-long fight for justice on native land [sound recording (CD)]/ Rebecca Nagle. |
 Rebecca Nagle braids the story of the forced removal of Native Americans onto treaty lands in the nation's earliest days and a small-town murder in the 1990s that led to a Supreme Court ruling reaffirming Native rights to that land more than a century later. |
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| Five-star stranger : a novel [sound recording (CD)]/ Kat Tang. |
 In an age where online ratings are all-powerful, Five-Star Stranger follows the adventures of a top-rated man on the Rental Stranger app, a place where users can hire a pretend fiance, a wingman, or an extra mourner for a funeral. Referred to only as Stranger, the narrator navigates New York City under the guise of characters he plays, always maintaining a professional distance from his clients. But, when a nosy patron threatens to upend his long-term role as father to a young girl, Stranger begins to reckon with his attachment to his pretend daughter, her mother, and his own fraught past. Now, he must confront the boundaries he has drawn and explore the legacy of abandonment that shaped his life. |
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| Silas Marner [sound recording (CD)] : the weaver of Raveloe / [by George Eliot]. |
 An audio drama of the George Eliot classic about an embittered man who has lost all that he valued, when a child enters his life. |
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| Learning to speak Alzheimer's : a groundbreaking approach for everyone dealing with the disease / Joanne Koenig Coste ; foreword by Robert N. Butler, M.D. |
 Revolutionizing the way we perceive and live with Alzheimer's, Joanne Koenig Coste offers a practical approach to the emotional well-being of both patients and caregivers that emphasizes relating to patients in their own reality. Her accessible and comprehensive method, which she calls habilitation, works to enhance communication between carepartners and patients, and has proven successful with thousands of people living with dementia. |
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| Only here, only now [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Tom Newlands. |
 In the blazing hot summer of 1994, teenager Cora Mowat is stuck in her Mom's small house and tired of her own restless mind. After her mother invites a new man to live with them, tensions quickly rise in the cramped house. But when tragedy strikes, Cora rebels against her small-town existence in search of love, acceptance, and a path to something good. |
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| No place to bury the dead [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Karina Sainz Borgo ; translated by Elizabeth Bryer. |
 In Latin America, as disease spreads among the people, Angustias Romero flees with her family, but tragically, her children die along the way. Grief-stricken, she finds her way to a border town corrupted by greed but where she is able to lay her children to rest in a cemetery. But the cemetery is the focal point of a land dispute, and Angustias is caught up in a power struggle. |
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| The mirror [soundrecording (CD)] / Nora Roberts. |
 When Sonya MacTavish inherits the huge Victorian mansion on the coast of Maine, she has no idea that the house is haunted. The footsteps she hears at night, the doors slamming, the music playing, are not figments of her imagination. In her dreams she sees glimpses of the past. In the present she finds portraits of brides. And when she has visions of an antique mirror, she is drawn to it, sensing it holds dark family secrets. Then one night the mirror appears and Sonya glides through this looking glass, into the past, and sees a bride murdered on her wedding day, the circle of gold torn from her finger. It is a scene that will play out again and again, a centuries-old curse that must be broken, and a puzzle she must solve if there is any hope of breaking the curse. |
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| Snow drowned [sound recording (CD)] / Jennifer D. Lyle. |
 There's a saying on Fall Island: the snow will get you. Gracie Hutchinson has lived here her whole life and knows there's some truth to those words. Now, a hundred-year storm is approaching, and while most of the locals have taken the ferry to the mainland, Gracie must stay behind. Joseph Wescott, whose mysterious family lives in Wescott Manor, descendants of the legendary first settlers of Fall Island, has also stayed behind. Together, they stumble across something even more unnerving than the coming storm: the body of a stranger, murdered in a grim ritual. |
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| Raised by wolves [sound recording (CD)] / James Patterson and Emily Raymond. |
 The police are called to stop two teens ransacking a small-town grocery store. They have no identification. And they won't speak a word. And the small town of Kokanee Creek is suddenly plunged into a sinister mystery. |
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| Christmas in Bethel [sound recording (CD)] / Richard Paul Evans. |
 Leigh Beth Stilton has never liked the holidays. After growing up in an unstable home, escaping an abusive marriage, and witnessing daily tragedies as an EMT, Leigh just can't bring herself to care about Christmas cheer. In fact, she's so convinced she's not worth loving that one winter's eve, she decides she can't go on, until she comes across a book called Bethel and starts to read. Leigh is unfamiliar with the author, J.D. Harper, but his words speak directly to her. She's never felt so seen and understood, and this connection gives her the strength to carry on. She avidly reads every novel Harper has written, and when he comes to town for a book signing, she jumps at the opportunity to meet the writer who means so much to her. In a twist of fate, Leigh runs into J.D. in a coffee shop, and the two immediately click. Before she knows it, she's swept up in a whirlwind of fancy dinners, exciting travel, and the attention of the man whose work has been so meaningful to her. But she's leery after a lifetime of pain and when she discovers that J.D. hasn't been completely honest, her hopes are dashed. Can they find their way back to each other and can Leigh learn to trust her heart? |
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| Deadbeat [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Adam Hamdy. |
 Peyton Collard was a good man once, but his life changed after a horrific car accident. Divorced, drunk, and severely damaged, Peyton is offered a life-changing sum of money to kill an evil man. But as he goes on a vigilante journey that leaves a trail of bodies across California, Peyton wonders about the identity of his anonymous patron. Soon, his questions become an obsession, and he embarks on a tense and potentially deadly investigation to discover the truth about the murders he's committed. |
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| Stuart Woods' golden hour [sound recording (CD)] / Brett Battles. |
 Teddy Fay is ready to embark on the European press tour of Peter Barrington's latest film Storm's Eye, when he receives an unexpected visit from Lance Cabot, director of the CIA. Several CIA agents have been turning up dead. The commonality? They were all part of a mission Teddy was involved in: Golden Hour. Lance wants Teddy to use his trip as a cover to investigate who is behind these killings. From Venice and Budapest to their last stop at a film festival in Berlin, Teddy must dodge excited fans, enamored women, and a few too many assassins who seem dead set on tracking down Golden Hour agents. And if Teddy doesn't work fast enough, his identity, and life, might just be the next target in the killer's ruthless plot for revenge. |
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| The message [sound recording (CD)] / Ta-Nehisi Coates. |
 Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set out to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell's classic "Politics and the English Language," but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our stories, our reporting and imaginative narratives and mythmaking, expose and distort our realities. In the first of the book's three intertwining essays, Coates, on his first trip to Africa, finds himself in two places at once: in Dakar, a modern city in Senegal, and in a mythic kingdom in his mind. Then he takes readers along with him to Columbia, South Carolina, where he reports on his own book's banning, but also explores the larger backlash to the nation's recent reckoning with history and the deeply rooted American mythology so visible in that city, a capital of the Confederacy with statues of segregationists looming over its public squares. Finally, in the book's longest section, Coates travels to Palestine, where he sees with devastating clarity how easily we are misled by nationalist narratives, and the tragedy that lies in the clash between the stories we tell and the reality of life on the ground. |
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| In too deep [sound recording (CD)] / Lee Child and Andrew Child. |
 Reacher wakes up, alone, in the dark, handcuffed to a bed in a makeshift hospital room. His few possessions are gone. He has no memory of getting there. The last thing he can recall is the car he had hitched a ride in getting run off the road. The driver was killed. The people who staged the attack assume Reacher was the driver's accomplice and patch up his wounds as they plan to make him talk. A plan that will backfire spectacularly. |
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| A Christmas duet [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Debbie Macomber. |
 Hailey Morgan's life has always revolved around music. She once had big dreams of composing her own songs, but the reality of life has led her to working as an assistant high school band teacher in Portland, Oregon. As the holidays approach, Hailey dreads the annual tradition of Christmas with her meddling family, where she'll have to play nice while dodging their traditional expectations. When Hailey's close friend offers her family's empty cabin for a rejuvenating solo retreat, Hailey finally decides to do something to make herself happy. However, her arrival in small-town Podunk, Washington, is anything but peaceful when she discovers the cabin is occupied by several wild animals. Luckily, Jay, the mayor's son, who happens to be an incredibly charming former musician, is more than willing to help. Soon Hailey and Jay are nearly inseparable, chopping down and decorating a Christmas tree, sipping hot cocoa in front of a cozy fire, and best of all, playing music together. Jay's encouragement and feedback inspire Hailey to believe she might succeed as a songwriter after all. But even in her snow-dusted oasis, family holiday drama still finds Hailey, threatening her newfound peace and confidence, while she realizes Jay might be more than he presents himself to be. Suddenly her Christmas paradise has become a winter storm and Hailey must weather through the challenges to stand up for herself and embrace the holiday spirit. |
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| The mercy of gods / James S. A. Corey. |
 The Carryx--part empire, part hive--are facing their greatest enemy yet. To survive, they capture and decimate a human colony, forcing their best and brightest in a competition to beat their foe. |
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| The story of Doctor Dolittle [sound recording (CD)] / by Hugh Lofting. |
 Join Doctor Dolittle, Polynesia the parrot, Jip the dog, Dab-Dab the duck, Chee-Chee the monkey, and more as they embark on a perilous and wonderful adventure to save the monkeys in Africa from a deadly disease. Cheer them on as they battle pirates and a ruthless king. |
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| Journey to the center of the Earth [sound recording (CD)] / retold from the Jules Verne original by Kathleen Olmstead. |
 "Go down the crater of the volcano Snaefells. Follow the shadow just before the month of July. You will find your way to the center of the Earth. I did it." That mysterious message, found in a long-lost letter, propels a young man and his uncle on the adventure of a lifetime: to a prehistoric world below the earth where dinosaurs and other strange creatures still roam. Jules Verne's classic fantasy will enchant a new generation of readers. |
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| Counting miracles [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Nicholas Sparks. |
 Tanner Hughes was raised by his grandparents, following in his grandfather's military footsteps to become an Army Ranger. He has no desire to settle down. But before his grandmother passes away, she drops a bombshell, telling him the name of the father he never knew and where he might be found. Curious, Tanner heads for North Carolina. There lives Kaitlyn, a single mother. And nearby lives eighty-three-year-old Jasper. Three people may be about to find a miracle. |
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| Framed [sound recording (CD)] : astonishing true stories of wrongful convictions / John Grisham, Jim McCloskey. |
 A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty there is very little room to prove doubt. Framed shares ten true stories of men who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, wives, and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free. In each of the stories, John Grisham and Jim McCloskey recount the dramatic hard-fought battles for exoneration. They take a close look at what leads to wrongful convictions in the first place, and the racism, misconduct, flawed testimony, and the corrupt court system that can make them so hard to reverse. |
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| Sonny boy [sound recording (CD)] : a memoir / Al Pacino. |
 To the wider world, Al Pacino exploded onto the scene like a supernova. He landed his first leading role, in The Panic in Needle Park, in 1971, and by 1975, he had starred in four movies, The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, Serpico, and Dog Day Afternoon, that were not just successes but landmarks in the history of film. Those performances became legendary and changed his life forever. Not since Marlon Brando and James Dean in the late 1950s had an actor landed in the culture with such force. But Pacino was in his mid-thirties by then, and had already lived several lives. A fixture of avant-garde theater in New York, he had led a bohemian existence, working odd jobs to support his craft. He was raised by a fiercely loving but mentally unwell mother and her parents after his father left them when he was young, but in a real sense he was raised by the streets of the South Bronx, and by the troop of buccaneering young friends he ran with, whose spirits never left him. After a teacher recognized his acting promise and pushed him toward New York's fabled High School of Performing Arts, the die was cast. In good times and bad, in poverty and in wealth and in poverty again, through pain and joy, acting was his lifeline, its community his tribe. Sonny Boy is the memoir of a man who has nothing left to fear and nothing left to hide. All the great roles, the essential collaborations, and the important relationships are given their full due, as is the vexed marriage between creativity and commerce at the highest levels. The book's golden thread, however, is the spirit of love and purpose. Love can fail you, and you can be defeated in your ambitions, the same lights that shine bright can also dim. But Al Pacino was lucky enough to fall deeply in love with a craft before he had the foggiest idea of any of its earthly rewards, and he never fell out of love. That has made all the difference. |
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| War [sound recording (CD)] / Bob Woodward. |
 War is an intimate and sweeping account of one of the most tumultuous periods in presidential politics and American history. We see President Joe Biden and his top advisers in tense conversations with Russian president Vladimir Putin, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. We also see Donald Trump, conducting a shadow presidency and seeking to regain political power. With unrivaled, inside-the-room reporting, Woodward shows President Biden's approach to managing the war in Ukraine, the most significant land war in Europe since World War II, and his tortured path to contain the bloody Middle East conflict between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas. Woodward reveals the extraordinary complexity and consequence of wartime back-channel diplomacy and decision-making to deter the use of nuclear weapons and a rapid slide into World War III. The raw cage-fight of politics accelerates as Americans prepare to vote in 2024, starting between President Biden and Trump, and ending with the unexpected elevation of Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee for president. War provides an unvarnished examination of the vice president as she tries to embrace the Biden legacy and policies while beginning to chart a path of her own as a presidential candidate. |
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| The lost coast : a novel [sound recording (CD)]/ Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman. |
 It's been almost a year since Clay Edison was forced out of his job at the coroner's bureau. Now he's on his own, working as a private eye. When a client brings him a fraud case, Clay dives into a decades-old scheme targeting the vulnerable. His investigation leads him to a bizarre town buried in the remote California wilderness. The residents don't care much for outsiders. They certainly don't like Clay asking questions. And they'll do just about anything to shut him up. |
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| Fire and bones / Kathy Reichs. |
 It's never easy working fire scenes, Tempe thinks. Called to Washington, DC, to analyze the victims of a building set ablaze amid mysterious circumstances, she sees all her misgivings justified. The building site is in Foggy Bottom, a neighborhood with a colorful past and present, and the property's ownership becomes even more suspicious when Tempe delves into its past. The pieces start falling into place strangely and quickly, and, sensing a good story, Tempe teams with a new ally, telejournalist Ivy Doyle. Soon the duo learns that back in the thirties and forties the home was the hangout of a group of bootleggers and racketeers known as the Foggy Bottom Gang. Though interesting, this fact seems irrelevant--until the son of a Foggy Bottom gang member is shot dead at his farm in Fairfax County, Virginia. Coincidence? Targeted attacks? So many questions. As Tempe and Ivy dig deeper, an arrest is finally made. Then another Foggy Bottom Gang-linked property burns to the ground, claiming one more victim. Slowly, Tempe's instincts begin pointing to the obvious: somehow, her moves since coming to Washington have been anticipated in advance, and every path forward seems to bring with it a lethal threat. |
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| What I ate in one year : and related thoughts [sound recording (CD)]/ Stanley Tucci. |
 Food has always been an integral part of Stanley Tucci's life: from stracciatella soup served in the shadow of the Pantheon, to marinara sauce cooked between scene rehearsals and costume fittings, to home-made pizza eaten with his children before bedtime. Now, in What I Ate in One Year Tucci records twelve months of eating-in restaurants, kitchens, film sets, press junkets, at home and abroad, with friends, with family, with strangers, and occasionally just by himself. Ranging from the mouth-wateringly memorable to the comfortingly domestic and to the infuriatingly inedible, the meals memorialised in this diary are a prism for him to reflect on the ways his life, and his family, are constantly evolving. Through food he marks-and mourns-the passing of time, the loss of loved ones, and steels himself for what is to come. Whether it's duck a l'orange eaten with fellow actors and cooked by singing Carmelite nuns, steaks barbequed at a gathering with friends, or meatballs made by his mother and son and shared at the table with three generations of his family, these meals give shape and add emotional richness to his days. |
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| Connie [sound recording (CD)] : a memoir / Connie Chung. |
 In this memoir, journalist Connie Chung delves into her storied career as the first Asian woman to break into an overwhelmingly white, male-dominated TV news industry. |
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| The hysterical girls of St. Bernadette's [sound recording (CD)] / Hanna Alkaf. |
 Two teenagers investigate the strange occurrences of mass hysteria plaguing their all-girls school. |
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| The grey wolf [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Louise Penny. |
 Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Québec village is impossible to find on any map, someone has managed to track down Armand Gamache, head of homicide at the Sûreté, as he sits with his wife in their back garden. Reine-Marie watches with increasing unease as her husband refuses to pick up, though he clearly knows who is on the other end. When he finally answers, his rage shatters the calm of their quiet Sunday morning. A missing coat, an intruder alarm, a note for Gamache reading "this might interest you", a puzzling scrap of paper with a mysterious list, and then a murder. All propel Chief Inspector Gamache and his team toward a terrible realization. Something much more sinister than any one murder or any one case is fast approaching. Armand Gamache, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, his son-in-law and second in command, and Inspector Isabelle Lacoste can only trust each other, as old friends begin to act like enemies, and long-time enemies appear to be friends. Determined to track down the threat before it becomes a reality, their pursuit takes them across Québec and across borders. Their hunt grows increasingly desperate, even frantic, as the enormity of the creature they're chasing becomes clear. If they fail the devastating consequences would reach into the largest of cities and the smallest of villages. |
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| The night we lost him : a novel [sound recording (CD)] / Laura Dave. |
 When the patriarch of a famed hotel empire dies under suspicious circumstances, his daughter and her estranged brother join forces to find out what happened, unraveling a larger mystery about who their father really was. |
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| The life impossible [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Matt Haig. |
 Grace Winters is a widow and retired math teacher whose life seems to be getting smaller and smaller. She keeps out of the way of people and passes time watching the birds in her garden and doing crossword puzzles. But when a long-lost friend dies in strange circumstances and leaves her a house on the Spanish island of Ibiza, Grace's solitary existence drastically changes. |
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| Fondant fumble [sound recording (CD)] / Jenn McKinlay. |
 The Fairy Tale Cupcakes crew helps two professional football players in knead when the athletes are accused of murder and their dream of opening a bakery is crushed. |
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| The waiting [sound recording (CD)] / Michael Connelly. |
 LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a terrifying serial rapist whose trail has gone cold, with the help of the newest volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: Patrol Officer Maddie Bosch, Harry's daughter. |
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| Be ready when the luck happens [sound recording (CD)] : a memoir / Ina Garten. |
 Here, for the first time, Ina Garten presents an intimate, entertaining, and inspiring account of her remarkable journey. Ina's gift is to make everything look easy, yet all her accomplishments have been the result of hard work, audacious choices, and exquisite attention to detail. In her unmistakable voice (no one tells a story like Ina), she brings her past and her process to life in a high-spirited and no-holds-barred memoir that chronicles decades of personal challenges, adventures (and misadventures) and unexpected career twists, all delivered with her signature combination of playfulness and purpose. From a difficult childhood to meeting the love of her life, Jeffrey, and marrying him while still in college, from a boring bureaucratic job in Washington, D.C., to answering an ad for a specialty food store in the Hamptons, from the owner of one Barefoot Contessa shop to author of bestselling cookbooks and celebrated television host, Ina has blazed her own trail and, in the meantime, taught millions of people how to cook and entertain. Now, she invites them to come closer to experience her story in vivid detail and to share the important life lessons she learned along the way: do what you love because if you love it you'll be really good at it, swing for the fences, and always Be Ready When the Luck Happens. |
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| Something lost, something gained [sound recording (CD)] : reflections on life, love, and liberty / Hillary Rodham Clinton. |
 She describes the strength she draws from her deepest friendships, her Methodist faith, and the nearly fifty years she's been married to President Bill Clinton, all with the wisdom that comes from looking back on a full life with fresh eyes. She takes us along as she returns to the classroom as a college professor, enjoys the bonds inside the exclusive club of former First Ladies, moves past her dream of being president, and dives into new activism for women and democracy. From canoeing with an ex-Nazi trying to deprogram white supremacists to sweltering with salt farmers in the desert trying to adapt to the climate crisis in India, Hillary brings us to the front lines of our biggest challenges. For the first time, Hillary shares the story of her operation to evacuate Afghan women to safety in the harrowing final days of America's longest war. But we also meet the brave women dissidents defying dictators around the world, gain new personal insights about her old adversary Vladimir Putin, and learn the best ways that worried parents can protect kids from toxic technology. We also hear her fervent and persuasive warning to all American voters. In the end, Something Lost, Something Gained is a testament to the idea that the personal is political, and the political is personal, providing a blueprint for what each of us can do to make our lives better. Hillary has "looked at life from both sides now." In these pages, she shares the latest chapter of her inspiring life and shows us how to age with grace and keep moving forward, with grit, joy, purpose, and a sense of humor. |
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| Now or never [sound recording (CD)] / Janet Evanovich. |
 Stephanie Plum now has two fiancés and no idea what to do about it. But the way things are going, she might not live long enough to marry anyone. While Stephanie stalls for time, she buries herself in her work as a bounty hunter, tracking down an unusually varied assortment of fugitive men. |
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| Identity unknown [sound recording (CD)] / Patricia Cornwell. |
 Summoned to an unnerving, abandoned theme park to retrieve a body, Dr. Kay Scarpetta is devastated to learn that the victim is a man she once loved. While teaching in Rome during the early days of her career, Scarpetta had an intense love affair with Sal Giordano that led to a lifelong friendship. Scarpetta's niece Lucy believes he was dropped from an unidentified flying craft. Scarpetta knows an autopsy can reveal the dead's secrets, but she is shocked to find her friend seems to have deliberately left her a clue. |
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| The blue hour [sound recording (CD)] : a novel / Paula Hawkins. |
 Welcome to Eris: an island with only one house, one inhabitant, one way out. Unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day. Once home to Vanessa, a famous artist whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared twenty years ago. Now home to Grace, a solitary creature of the tides, content in her own isolation. But when a shocking discovery is made in an art gallery far away in London, a visitor comes calling. |
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| Murder island [sound recording (CD)] / James Patterson and Brian Sitts. |
 Professor-turned-crime-fighter Brandt "Doc" Savage and his girlfriend Kira Sunlight believe they've found a utopia on a remote Atlantic island. However, their peace is shattered when they are violently separated and taken to opposite ends of the Earth. Doc's quest to find Kira leads him across Brazil, northern Europe, and the Congo, uncovering a vast global conspiracy far beyond anything he imagined. |
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| To die for [sound recording (CD)] / David Baldacci. |
 Travis Devine is sent to Seattle to aid the FBI in escorting twelve-year-old orphan Betsy Odom to a meeting with her uncle, who is under investigation. As he gets to know Betsy, he learns of a grand conspiracy. |
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| Creation Lake [sound recording (CD) / Rachel Kushner. |
 "Creation Lake is a novel about a freelance agent, a 34-year-old American woman of ruthless tactics and bold opinions and clean beauty, who is sent to do dirty work in France. "Sadie Smith" is how the narrator introduces herself to her lover, to the rural commune of French subversives on whom she is keeping tabs, and to the reader. We never learn her real name. Sadie has met her lover, Lucien, a young and well-born Parisian, by "cold bump"-- making him believe the encounter was accidental. And like everyone she chooses to interact with, Lucien is useful to her, used by her. Sadie operates on strategy and dissimulation, based on what her "contacts," shadowy figures in business and government, instruct. First, these contacts want her to incite provocation. Then they want more. In this region of centuries-old farms and ancient caves, Sadie becomes entranced by a mysterious figure named Bruno Lacombe, a mentor to the young activists, who lives in a vast network of underground caves on his daughter's land and communicates only by email. Bruno believes that the path to emancipation from what ails modern life is not revolt, but a return to the ancient past before civilization. Just as Sadie is certain she's the seductress and puppet master of those whom she surveils, Bruno Lacombe is seducing her with his ingenious counter-histories, his artful laments, his own tragic story."-- Provided by publisher. |
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