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1) The sea lady
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English
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This is the story of Humphrey Clark and Ailsa Kelman, who spent a summer together as children in Ornemouth, a town by the gray North Sea. As they journey back to Ornemouth to receive honorary degrees from a new university there-Humphrey on the train, Ailsa flying-they take stock of their lives over the past thirty years, their careers, and their shared personal entanglements. Humphrey is a successful marine biologist, happiest under water, but now...
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Rogues to riches volume 2
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English
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A widowed duchess falls in love with a bookish gentleman, but the enemies that drove her from London threaten her new romance.
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Atlas volume 2
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English
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"The Atlas Paradox is the long-awaited sequel to Olivie Blake's New York Times bestselling dark academic sensation The Atlas Six-guaranteed to have even more yearning, backstabbing, betrayal, and chaos. Six magicians were presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. Five are now members of the Society. Two paths lay before them. All must pick a side. Alliances will be tested, hearts will be broken, and The Society of Alexandrians will be revealed...
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Series
Atlas volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Vulnerable to the lethal terms of their recruitment, six Alexandrians grapple with the ethics of their astronomical abilities while the outside world mobilizes to destroy them, forcing them to decide what they're willing to betray for limitless power and who will be destroyed along the way.
"An explosive return to the library leaves the six Alexandrians vulnerable to the lethal terms of their recruitment. Old alliances quickly fracture as the initiates...
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
585 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
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English
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"The Lost Sisterhood takes on historical myth--the warrior women called the Amazons--and shows us they were not mythical, but a real band of beleaguered but brave priestesses-in-training who banded together to rescue their kidnapped companions. While their desperate trek unfolds in the past, we follow Diana, a modern-day scholar who has always been fascinated by the Amazons, as she embarks on a trek of her own. Led by enigmatic Middle Easterner Nick...
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Atlas volume 1
Language
English
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"The much-acclaimed BookTok sensation, Olivie Blake's The Atlas Six--now newly revised and edited with additional content. The tag #theatlassix has millions of views on TikTok. A dark academic debut fantasy with an established cult following that reads like THE SECRET HISTORY meets THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY. The first in an explosive trilogy The Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity, are the foremost...
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Nameless republic volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
487 pages : map ; 24 cm.
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English
Description
"In the thriving city of Bassa, Danso is a clever but disillusioned scholar who longs for a life beyond the rigid family and political obligations expected of the city's elite. A way out presents itself when Lilong, a skin-changing warrior, shows up wounded in his barn. She comes from the Nameless Islands - which, according to Bassa lore, don't exist - and neither should the mythical magic of ibor she wields. Now swept into a conspiracy far beyond...
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Publisher
Skylight Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 21 cm
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English
Description
Why did Laura Gallagher lose both her parents the summer she turned twelve? Answers can't be found by running away, but she's doing just that. She's been living a half-life for so long--the death of her mother, her baby girl, her marriage. Now she's run off again--this time to Cuba. But Cuba seduces her betrays her, takes her apart, and transforms her. Her rite of passage begins with a violent illness and the appearance of a woman named Maria. It...
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Bruno Courreges mysteries volume 12
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English
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When Claudia, a young American, turns up dead in the courtyard of an ancient castle in Bruno's jurisdiction, her death is assumed to be an accident related to opioid use. But her doctor persuades Bruno that things may not be so simple. Thus begins an investigation that leads Bruno to Monsieur de Bourdeille, the scholar with whom the girl had been studying, and then through that man's past. He is a renowned art historian who became extraordinarily...
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