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1) Eruption
Author
Language
English
Description
A history-making eruption is about to destroy the Big Island of Hawaii. But a secret held for decades by the US military is far more terrifying than any volcano.
2) Control
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Determined to prevent a tragedy, an Atlanta therapist uncovers a common denominator that is plaguing six of her clients from the rap and film world and debates the merits of violating her professional position to save lives.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"'En tres meses estaré muerto. Ven a contar mi historia.' Escribe Sebastián Trapp, novelista de misterio recluso, a Nicky Hunter, su amiga por correspondencia y experta en novela policiaca. Con pocos meses de vida, Trapp invita a Nicky a su espectacular mansión en San Francisco para ayudarlo a poner en papel la historia de su vida... conviviendo con su hermosa segunda esposa, Diana; su rebelde sobrino, Freddy, y su protectora hija, Madeleine. Pronto,...
5) Bad men
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Saffy has a secret. A secret that she is deeply ashamed of. It's not the fact that she's a serial killer in her free time. In fact, she's quite proud of that. After all she's only killing the bad men. She is making the world a better place. No, her secret is far worse than that. Saffy has a messy, inexplicable, uncontrollable crush. So while she's busy plotting her next murder, she also has the much harder task of figuring out how to get a boyfriend....
6) Exhibit
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"At a lavish party in the hills outside of San Francisco, Jin Han meets Lidija Jung and nothing will ever be the same for either woman. A brilliant, young photographer, Jin is at a crossroads in her work, in her marriage to college sweetheart Phillip, in who she is and who she wants to be. Lidija is a glamorous, injured world-class ballerina on hiatus from her ballet company under mysterious circumstances. Drawn to each other by their intense artistic...
7) Piao qie
Author
Series
Storytella volume 174
Publisher
Chun tian chu ban guo ji wen hua you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
中文
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When a persistent mutual friend and some very unpredictable weather conspire to toss Michael and Marnie together on the most epic of 10-day hikes, neither of them can think of anything worse, until, of course, they discover exactly what they've been looking for.
9) Blue ruin
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Once, Jay was an artist. Shortly after graduating from his London art school, he was tipped for greatness, a promising career already taking shape before him. Now, undocumented in the United States, he lives out of his car and makes a living as an essential worker, delivering groceries in a wealthy area of upstate New York. The pandemic is still at its height - the greater public panicked in quarantine - and though he has returned to work, Jay hasn't...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Conor O'Toole has never in his life been in a place as casually glamorous as this New England community, a gated world its residents fondly call "The Neck." He's taken a summer job here as a tennis instructor, living in a guest cottage in exchange for lessons and a chance to study for the bar exam, far away from the stress of the tiny Yonkers apartment he usually shares with his diabetic mother. But, grateful as he is for the blissful beauty of the...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When 13-year-old Jolie Aspern drops her phone onto the subway tracks in the springtime of 2011, how can she imagine it might bring her estranged dad, Ethan, crashing back into her life? Ethan is an ex-con and recovering addict who even in his more honest moments has difficulty seeing outside himself. But now he's starting to fear that Jolie's in the kind of trouble her mom, Sarah, could never understand. Convinced that he is the only one who can...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"It's not a river, it's this river. A hot, motionless afternoon. Enero and El Negro are fishing with Tilo, their dead friend's teenage son. After hours of struggling with a hooked stingray, Enero aims his revolver into the water and shoots it. They hang the ray's enormous corpse from a tree at their campsite and let it go to rot, drawing the attention of some local islanders and igniting a long-simmering fury toward outsiders and their carelessness....
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Holly Foster knows better than to get attached to people and places. Yet, when she is sent to her uncle's house in Arden, Vermont, she finds herself drawn into a fight to protect a grove of trees from being torn down.
Author
Publisher
Harpervia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Fang Si-Chi lives with her family in an upscale apartment complex in Taiwan. Theirs is a tight-knit community of strict parents and privileged children. She and her neighbor Liu Yi-Ting bond over their love of learning and books. Yet it is their lack of real-world education that makes them kindred spirits. Si-Chi's innocence is irresistible to Lee Guo-Hua, a revered cram school literature teacher and serial predator who lives in...
17) Bitterroot
Author
Publisher
Sibylline Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Set in the fictional town of Steeplejack, nestled in the Bitterroot Mountains, Hazel Mackenzie provides law enforcement with sketch art and victim reconstruction following suspected crimes. Hazel is catapulted from observer to participant when her husband dies in an accident and then soon after, her gay twin brother Kento is shot by a member of Steeplejack's growing anti-LGBTQ community during a gender reveal party for his child. Hazel soon discovers...
Author
Publisher
Ėksmo
Pub. Date
2024
Language
Russian
Description
"Anelya is different from her peers, she is considered naive and strange, because she does not seek to enter into a relationship and believes that every person, by right of birth, is destined for the one and only love for life. Anelya dreams of meeting love and has no idea what kind of tangle of dark secrets this could unravel..." -- cataloger's translation of the cover
19) Titanovyĭ korolʹ
Author
Publisher
ĖKSMO
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Russian
Description
"«Titanovyĭ korolʹ» -- ėto psikhologicheskiĭ roman, v kotorom rasskazyvaetsia o vole k zhizni, dazhe kogda tsepliatʹsia, kazalosʹ by, ne za chto. Dva slomlennykh cheloveka vstrechaiutsia, chtoby navsegda izmenitʹ zhizni drug druga, dazhe ne podozrevaia ob ėtom. Ėta istoriia o tom, kak liubovʹ sposobna pobeditʹ vse."--
Author
Publisher
Inspiria
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Russian
Description
"Lila Albert has been leaving people behind for her entire life. Then her latest lover follows her from New York to Montreal, determined to learn her secrets. "Last Night in Montreal" is a story of love, amnesia, the depths and limits of family bonds, and the nature of obsession."--from English language edition.
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