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  Billie Starr's Book of Sorries -...

  Deborah E. Kennedy

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  Shimmering with rage and sparkling with subtle humor, Billie Starr's Book of Sorries showcases Edgar Award-nominee Deborah E. Kennedy's singular voice as Jenny, a heroine in the vein of Olive Kitteridge in Crosby, Maine and Miles Roby in Empire Falls, shines a light on the town of Benson, Indiana, where lakes, grudges, and family rifts run deep – but so does a mother’s love.Sometimes, a woman has to rescue herself.Jenny Newberg, Queen of Bad Decisions, is about to make another one. In a small town where everyone knows everyone’s business, down-on-her-luck single mother Jenny is on a first-name basis with the debt collector at the bank, who is moving toward foreclosure. She is constantly apologizing to her precocious young daughter, Billie Starr, who is filling a book with her mother’s sorries, and it seems to Jenny that no apology will ever be enough.Then a pair of strangers in black suits offers her a hefty check to seduce someone known as the Candidate. Finally, something will go her way.But nothing ever goes as Jenny plans, and she is swept into the Candidate’s orbit. Surrounded by a wide universe of new ideas, she realizes how constrained her life has been by the expectations of everyone around her, and she starts to see how much more she might be capable of. And when her world is rocked to its core and Billie Starr may be in danger, Jenny is forced to do what she once thought impossible: trust in herself and her own power to make things right.A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.

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  The Secret Agent

  Joseph Conrad

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  "The Secret Agent" is a novel written by Joseph Conrad, and published in 1907. The story is set in London in the late nineteenth century and revolves around a group of anarchists and their plot to detonate a bomb at Greenwich Observatory. The novel explores themes such as terrorism, politics, morality, and betrayal. The novel's protagonist is Adolf Verloc, a seemingly unremarkable man who owns a small shop selling pornographic materials. However, he is also a secret agent working for an unnamed foreign embassy. Verloc is tasked with infiltrating a group of anarchists and providing intelligence on their activities. 
  The novel introduces several characters, including Verloc's wife Winnie, her mentally disabled brother Stevie, and the anarchists' leader, known as The Professor. As Verloc becomes more deeply involved with the anarchists, he is torn between his duty to his employer and his loyalty to his new friends. 
   
  The novel takes a critical view of both anarchism and the British intelligence service, questioning the morality of using violence to achieve political ends. The character of The Professor embodies the dark side of anarchism, as he is willing to sacrifice innocent lives for the sake of his political agenda.The novel also explores the complex relationships between the characters. Verloc's marriage to Winnie is strained, and his involvement in the anarchist plot only exacerbates their problems. Stevie is a sympathetic character, and his death at the hands of Verloc is a tragic turning point in the novel. Conrad's writing style is dense and complex, with a strong emphasis on psychological realism. He delves deep into the minds of his characters, exploring their motivations and fears. The novel also features Conrad's signature use of symbolism, with the Greenwich Observatory representing the watchful eye of society, and the bomb representing the destructive power of anarchism.

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  The Warden's Oath - Epic dark...

  Nicholas Gray

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  Princess Fiona is a political hostage in a gilded cage, a pawn in a game between her tyrannical father and a desperate prince. She lives in a world bleeding out from the Withering, a magical plague her father has learned to weaponize. Her only hope—and the kingdom’s—lies in an ancient prophecy: four lost heirs must unite in a Convergence to heal the land. But within the secret archives of her prison, Fiona uncovers a horrifying truth. The prophecy is a lie. 
  Across the blighted kingdom, a charismatic rebel leader searches for the other heirs, clinging to the prophecy as a banner of hope. His quest leads him to a broken mercenary with a terrifying, untamed fire burning in her soul, a woman who despises saviors and trusts only steel. They are all pieces of a puzzle they don't understand, hunted by kings and princes who would use them for their own ends. For the prophecy does not call for heroes; it demands a sacrifice. Three heirs are destined to be the fuel, and the fourth, a vessel for a ritual that will not save the world, but break it. 
  As a terrifying vision reveals the true face of their enemy—a shadowy mastermind orchestrating their doom to achieve godhood—the game is shattered. Alliances fracture, loyalties are betrayed, and empires crumble into chaos. Scattered, hunted, and armed with a devastating truth, the four heirs must now race against time and a looming war to forge their own destiny. They must find an alternative path to salvation before the architect of their ruin claims his throne and their world is plunged into an age of unending darkness.

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  Bunner Sisters

  Edith Wharton

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  “Bunner Sisters,” like “The Age of Innocence” is set in 1870s New York, however the lives of Ann Eliza and Evelina Bunner reflect impoverished New York. The sisters run a "very small shop, in a shabby basement, in a sidestreet already doomed to decline." Shabby as it is, the sisters are happy in their small orderly community of supportive women. The story tells of the destruction of this life, and how the once content sisters are thrown into the realistic world outside of their little shop. (Summary by Margaret)

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  Marked

  Drayton Thomas Jaymes

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  Mara Ellison has always trusted numbers. They behave. They follow rules. They tell the truth—if you know how to read them. 
  Until one night, they don’t. 
  A routine analysis reveals a pattern that shouldn’t exist—transactions too precise, too deliberate, threaded through layers of legitimate business like something designed not just to move money, but to hide in plain sight. Hours later, Mara returns home to find her door unlocked, her system accessed, and the quiet certainty of her life replaced by a question she can’t ignore: 
  Who knows what she found? 
  With no safe way forward inside her own company, Mara is pulled into the orbit of FBI agent Cole Danner, a man operating in the shadows of an investigation he won’t fully explain. He is controlled, guarded, and always watching—yet the deeper Mara is drawn into his world, the harder it becomes to separate the danger around her from the tension building between them. 
  At the center of it all is Adrian Voss—brilliant, powerful, and dangerously persuasive—a man who doesn’t just build systems, but people, drawing them in, understanding them, reshaping them until they no longer remember where the line was. When Voss turns his attention to Mara, he sees not a threat—but potential. 
  And Mara begins to realize something far more unsettling than the system she uncovered: 
  Part of her understands it. 
  As the walls close in and the stakes escalate from exposure to survival, Mara must navigate a world where control is an illusion, trust is a liability, and the most dangerous move isn’t stepping too far— 
  It’s realizing how close she came to choosing the wrong side.

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  Threshold

  Kevin Barry O'Connor

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  Step into a world steeped in danger and high-stakes suspense in this riveting thriller. 
  The explosion. Iraq. 
  The white lights beckoned her from this life to the next. A hand reached down. Marine Captain Cat Fahey stretched toward it, night after horrific night, as she lay on the park bench in Philadelphia. Once a military legend, now homeless. She knew, without doubt, the hand reaching to her was her ancestor, warning her that the Vice President would be killed in Philadelphia. 
  There was only one person who would believe her. 
  She had to find Key Murphy. 
  The clock is ticking... 
  Fans of thrillers like the Bourne series will have a great time with Threshold.” –Readers Favorite 
  ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "... a sophisticated and engaging assassination thriller that grabs the reader from the opening scene and doesn't let go until the surprising ending! The Author weaves an intricate and stylish story with vivid characters, it opens a door into a fascinating and complex world of murder attack, chaos, mind-blowing countdown, suspense and a compelling prose!" –Goodreads

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