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Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Catapult edition.
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After her village is devastated by famine, 10-year-old Sixiang is sold to a human trafficker for a bag of rice and six silver coins. Her mother is reluctant to let her go, but the promise of a better life for her beloved daughter ultimately sways her. Arriving in America with the profits from her sale and a single photograph of Guifeng, her absent father, Sixiang journeys across an unfamiliar American landscape in the hopes of reuniting her family....
3) Hop Scot
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lexy Campbell is long overdue a trip to Scotland to see her parents, and an unexpected death in the extended Last Ditch Motel family makes Christmas in a bungalow in Dundee with nine others seem almost irresistible. But when Lexy and the Last Ditch crew hop across the Atlantic, there's a change of plan and they're whisked off to Mistletoe Hall in the pretty village of Yule, where the surprises continue. The news that a man disappeared from the crumbling...
Author
Language
English
Description
In the small town of Los Lobos, California, three women join a local indie bookstore's summer book club--devoted entirely to romance novels--and become life-long friends as they navigate the messiness of motherhood, second chances and becoming the person you've always wanted to be.
5) Dream town
Author
Series
Eve Ronin novels volume 5
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hidden Hills is a private celebrity enclave of white picket fences and horse trails that seems to exist in a dreamworld. But when reality superstar Kitty Winslow is killed within their gates and corpses are found in the vast state park outside them, LASD detective Eve Ronin realizes there is a deadly, razor-thin line between what's real and what's imagined. Eve discovers that Kitty's surreal on- and off-camera life, a blur of fact and fantasy, shockingly...
Author
Language
English
Description
A woman lives alone in an isolated lighthouse on the coast of California ... until a man appears on her doorstep who knows every single secret she's kept since one fateful night.
In an isolated lighthouse on the California coast, Rowan Winterbourne lives a solitary life with only her secrets for company. For she has a mission that drives her--to avenge herself against Gregory Torval, the powerful drug and arms dealer who murdered her mother and vowed...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As the manager of Vino y Vida Wine Bar in Colinas, Cecelia "Cece" Barton's first Alexander Valley harvest is a whirlwind of activity. Her twin sister, Allie Halstead, who owns a nearby Victorian bed & breakfast, is accustomed to the hustle and bustle of peak tourist season. But Cece barely has a moment to enjoy her new home in between worrying about her estranged college-age daughter, juggling her responsibilities at the bar, and navigating the sticky...
8) Exadelic
Author
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
439 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When an unconventional offshoot of the US military trains an artificial intelligence in the dark arts that humanity calls "black magic," it learns how to hack the fabric of reality itself. It can teleport matter. It can confer immunity to bullets. And it decides that obscure Silicon Valley middle manager Adrian Ross is the primary threat to its existence. Soon Adrian is on the run, wanted by every authority, with no idea how or why he could be a...
Author
Series
Detective Emily Hunter mystery volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Greed, corruption, and betrayal--no murder is as simple as it seems. When a prominent Sacramento businessman is killed and his wife injured in a brutal home invasion, Detective Emily Hunter and her partner, Javier Medina, are called to investigate. At first glance, it seems like a crime of opportunity gone horribly wrong, but Emily soon finds there might be more to both the crime and the dead man. The high-stakes investigation also comes at a time...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"At the height of the military dictatorship in South Korea, Insuk and Sungho are arranged to be married. The couple soon moves to San Jose, California, with an infant and Sungho's overbearing mother-in-law. Adrift in a new country, Insuk grieves the loss of her past and her divided homeland, finding herself drawn into an illicit relationship that sets into motion a dramatic saga and echoes for generations to come. From the Gwangju Massacre to the...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
ix, 304 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Laura Foster's not the type to go looking for trouble. But it seems to be looking for her. Laura's on the verge of living the life she's always wanted. At the age of twenty-seven, she put her career plans on hold, married handsome widower Peter Foster, settled down in his Silicon Valley home, and helped raise his two children. Twelve years later, it's her turn to shine. Her career is thriving, the kids are out of the house, and Peter's company...
Author
Series
Neal Carey mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
A call from "Dad," a.k.a. Joe Graham, Neal Carey's erstwhile father figure and boss, interrupts Neal's plans for his master's degree and marriage with a job to protect a witness from a pair of ruthless con artists. Neal has to drive down to Las Vegas to pick up a confused old man and take him home to Palm Springs.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
437 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jonas V. Brighton attempts to lead a quiet life, but his past reputation as a shootist Texas stock detective is revealed, and he is recruited to help rid northeastern Arizona of the desperados who plague it. He finishes his days in Arizona as a special deputy United States marshal and relocates to California's Central Valley. In California, J. V. is recruited to help capture California's most notorious outlaw of the day, Chris Evans. Subsequently,...
14) The golden spoon
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
507 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eagle Bar, an outpost fabricated on dreams, gold, and greed. In this burgeoning boomtown, strangers become family, friends turn to enemies, and the fever pitch for gold permeates the air they breathe. Charlie and Cassie Vincent arrive to make their fortune feeding hungry miners at the Golden Spoon. Matthew Ramsey comes to prove greed has no hold on him as he gets sucked into building a gambling empire. And preying over it all like a black widow spider...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
9 audio discs (11 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Investigative crime journalist Signe Gates's life became a nightmare the day she was kidnapped and drugged. For two years, Signe has been haunted by what is buried in her memories. Then an informant tells her two men recently found dead in Yosemite are connected to her missing hours, and more answers await her in the park's backwoods. But she must hurry. Desperate to know who targeted her and why, she has no choice but to embark on the dangerous journey....
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