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  All of You Every Single One - A...

  Beatrice Hitchman

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  Set in Vienna from 1910 to 1946, All of You Every Single One is an atmospheric, original, and deeply moving novel about family, freedom, and how true love might survive impossible odds.Julia Lindqvist, a woman unhappily married to a famous Swedish playwright, leaves her husband to begin a passionate affair with a female tailor named Eve. The pair run away together and settle in the more liberal haven of Vienna, where they fall in love, navigate the challenges of their newfound independence, and find community in the city’s Jewish quarter. But Julia’s yearning for a child throws their fragile happiness into chaos and threatens to destroy her life and the lives of those closest to her. Ada Bauer’s wealthy industrialist family have sent her to Dr. Freud in the hope that he can cure her mutism—and do so without a scandal. But help will soon come for Ada from an unexpected place, changing many lives irrevocably.Through the lives of her queer characters, and against the changing backdrop of one of the greatest cities of the age, Hitchman asks what it’s like to live through oppression, how personal decisions become political, and how far one will go to protect the ones they love. Moving across Europe and through decades, Hitchman’s sophomore novel is an intensely poignant portrait of life and love on the fringes of history.

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  Deadly When Disturbed

  D.M. Barr

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  When Dara Banks, Rock Canyon's leading Realtor, searches for an assistant, finding someone as resourceful as Meryl "Merry" Rafter seems too good to be true. So good in fact, she neglects to run a reference check. Bad move. Before she knows it, Merry, a former "actress" trying to be "helpful," has insinuated herself into Dara's business, family, and charity, and may be the only person saving her from prison. Dara becomes suspicious and begins snooping into Merry's past. Feeling cornered, Merry reciprocates by launching an investigation of her own and realizes—too late—that she may have picked the wrong mark to con. These women's unsettling discoveries, and their desperate efforts to safeguard their skeleton-filled closets and fragile self-images, lead to an explosive confrontation certain to destroy the lives of everyone in their midst.

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  Memories of a Life

  Jewel E. Ann

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  The girl I met when we were nine is now the woman who said "yes" to being my wife. 
   
   
   
  But Josie's not planning our wedding; she's too consumed by things that happened over a century ago. 
   
   
   
  She has terrible dreams and unrelenting visions of the unspeakable. I believe her, but I don't understand her. 
   
   
   
  If I can't understand her, I can't stop her. 
   
   
   
  If I can't stop her, I can't save us. 
   
   
   
  And without us . . . well, I can't imagine that world.

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  Argans - The Dream Knights

  Swathi Nair

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  This audiobook revolves around the life of a twelve-year-old boy Ivan. Orphaned and living an uncomfortable life in White Bridge Children's Home, Ivan craves to escape into a world where he is loved and cared for. One night as he sleeps, he wakes up in a very different world – Dandelion, the Kingdom of Dreams. The kingdom invites young boys and girls to be a part of their army and be an Argan to fight against their venomous rivals, Zagans, the dark Knights. However, Ivan and his friends at Dandelion stumble across an ancient secret, hidden for millenniums. 
  What is the twisted, mysterious, untouched enigma that awaits them in the Kindom? Do Ivan and his friends reach to the mystical puzzle? Will they end up solving it or is it nothing but the grave danger that awaits them at the end? 
  Listen to Argans; The Dream knights to accompany Ivan and his friends in the unforgettable journey in the Kingdom of Dreams and to discover a tale filled with adventures, fantasy, magic, mystery, and above all, the essence of friendship. 
  'Swathi, who has had her head in the imaginary world of The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and The Chronicles of Narnia, never thought that one day she would turn an author too. The e-book of the novel featured on the bestseller list in the ‘fantasy’ category.' - New Indian Express. 
  'Though a lot of writers have unsuccessfully tried to recreate the magic of Harry Potter, Swathi became that rare one who managed to pull it off.' - Manorama Online. 
  'Loved it beginning till end. Every single line. I’m a huge Harry Potter fan. That’s right, a potterhead. I’ve never thought that any book would engage and mesmerize me like HP Series. And this book proved me wrong.' - Amazon Review.

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  Empire of Glass

  Kaitlin Solimine

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  In the mid-1990s, an American teenager, named Lao K in Chinese, stands on Coal Hill, a park in Beijing, a loop of rope in her hand. Will she assist her Chinese homestay mother, Li-Ming, who is dying of cancer, in ending her life, or will she choose another path? Twenty years later, Lao K receives a book written by Li-Ming called “Empire of Glass,” a narrative that chronicles the lives of Li-Ming and her husband, Wang, in pre and post-revolutionary China over the last half of the twentieth century. Lao K begins translating the story, which becomes the novel we are reading. But, as translator, how can Lao K separate fact from fiction, and what will her role be in the book’s final chapter?  A grand, experimental epic—Lao K’s story is told in footnotes that run throughout the book—that chronicles the seismic changes in China over the last half century through the lens of one family’s experiences, Empire of Glass is an investigation into the workings of human memory and the veracity of oral history that pushes the boundaries of language and form in stunning and unforgettable ways.

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  Shadow's Loss

  Mary Stone, Lori Rhodes

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  The path to power is paved with blood. 
  In the wake of a landmark election on Shadow Island, the tide of power is set to turn. Newly elected Sheriff Rebecca West stands ready to dismantle the Yacht Club’s ruthless grip over the island. And she isn’t alone. She has her team as well as the newly elected chair of the Select Board by her side. 
  But victory comes at a perilous cost. 
  The ballots have barely been counted when tragedy strikes. The new Select Board Chair’s life hangs by a thread after a deliberate sabotage turns her victory drive into a fight for survival. As Rebecca begins her investigation, she uncovers another layer of deceit tied to the island’s power-hungry elite. And they aren’t finished yet. 
  With the stakes higher than ever, Rebecca is ensnared in a dark maze of loyalty and betrayal, where every shadow conceals a threat and trust can be fatal. 
  In Shadow’s Loss, the fourteenth electrifying installment of Lori Rhodes and Mary Stone’s Shadow Island series, the battle for justice could cost them everything. Because in this game, winning might just be the most dangerous result.

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