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1) Open water
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2021.
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"In a crowded London pub, two young people meet. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists--he a photographer, she a dancer--and both are trying to make their mark in a world that by turns celebrates and rejects them. Tentatively, tenderly, they fall in love. But two people who seem destined to be together can still be torn apart by fear and violence, and over the course of...
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Notes from the Underground is Fyodor Dostoevsky's ninth novel, and considered to be one of the first examples of the existential novel. In this radically inventive work, an alienated former minor administrator in nineteenth-century Russia has broken away from society and withdrawn into an underground identity. With its piercing insight into political, social, and moral issues, this classic is one of the most provocative work of literature ever written.
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Games aren't always fun.Valerie wakes up one day – just a normal girl, trying to get by. She ends the day at the foot of the most powerful vampire in the city.When she finds out she's a powerful fay – one of the strongest in centuries – her simple life gets switched for one of action, danger, and intrigue. She must fight by her vampire's side, or she will die there.….Prince of Roses is a thrilling four-part urban fantasy with a dash of romance,...
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Two thirteen-year-old boys, Jim Nightshade and William Halloway, harrowing experience with a nightmarish traveling carnival. The carnival's leader, "Mr. Dark" bears a tattoo for each person lured by the offer to live out their secret fantasies. Mr. Dark's malevolent presence is countered by that of Will's father, Charles Halloway, who harbors his own secret desire to regain his youth.
7) Black Buck
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2021.
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"Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, content working at Starbucks in the lobby of a Midtown office building, hanging out with his girlfriend, Soraya, and eating his mother's home-cooked meals. A chance encounter with Rhett Daniels, CEO of Sumwun, NYC's hottest tech startup, results in an exclusive invitation for Darren to join an elite sales team on the thirty-sixth floor. As the only Black person in the company, Darren reimagines...
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"She has brains, beauty, and she's eager to please. Krystal Davenport can be anything in life she desires. Well, at least that's what her teachers tell her. However, the brutal truth is that Krystal has one destiny, and that path defines who she is, who she was born to be. This conniving female is indeed her mother's child. Being Ms. Thang's offspring means Krystal is hood royalty. Her family is infamous in the game. They live and die by the code...
9) Magic claims
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Kate Daniels Wilmington years volume 2
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Kate and Curran have just settled into their new home and their 'low profile,' when a local businessman approaches them with an offer they can't refuse. A mysterious evil has spawned in the nearby forest and is holding a defenseless town hostage. The 'due date' is rapidly approaching. It's exactly the kind of fight the Lennarts can't resist, not for the prize the town offers, but for the people who will surely die if they ignore it. If they succeed,...
10) Magic triumphs
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Kate Daniels novel volume 10
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"In this epic, can't-miss entry in the thrilling #1 New York Times bestselling urban-fantasy series, mercenary Kate Daniels must risk all to protect everything she holds dear... Kate has come a long way from her origins as a loner taking care of paranormal problems in post-Shift Atlanta. She's made friends and enemies. She's found love and started a family with Curran Lennart, the former Beast Lord. But her magic is too strong for the power players...
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Hazbin Hotel meets Crescent City in this new fantasy romance series from USA Today bestseller Piper CJ.
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"How does a human girl lose the Prince of Hell?"
Marlow needs to believe she's crazy. The alternative would mean embracing the gift-or curse-shared by her mother and grandmother: she can see angels and demons, including a dark...
12) Harlem shuffle
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""Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a...
13) Magic tides
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Kate Daniels Wilmington years volume 1
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"Return to the Kate Daniels series in this long novella featuring Kate, Curran and Conlan, some familiar faces, some new friends, and all the special brand of chaos they create! Kate, Curran and their son, Conlan have left Atlanta, vowing to keep a low profile, and are settling into a new city and new house...but some things never change! Magical mayhem is about to erupt when Kate undertakes the rescue of a kidnapped youth, while Curran guards the...
14) Devils & thieves
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"In a world of magical motorcycle gangs, eighteen-year-old Jemmie Carmichael taps into her magical abilities to stop an evil spell before it can be fulfilled"--
In Jemmie Carmichael's Hawthorne, New York, magic users are called "kindled," and Jemmie would count herself among them if only she could cast a simple spell without completely falling apart. And she's been snubbed by Crowe, the dangerous and enigmatic leader of the Black Devils kindled motorcycle...
15) Mrs. Wiggins
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Lexington Alabama volume 1
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2021.
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"The daughter of a prostitute mother and an alcoholic father, Maggie Franklin knew her only way out was to marry someone upstanding and church-going. Someone like Hubert Wiggins, the most eligible man in Lexington, Alabama--and the son of its most revered preacher. Proper and prosperous, Hubert is glad to finally have a wife, even one with Maggie's background. For Hubert has a secret he desperately needs to stay hidden. And Maggie's unexpected charm,...
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Imara wants nothing more than to find a different course, but stealth magic gives her the credits she needs to stay on track, and there aren't any other options rearing their heads.Stealth Magic is not what she thought it would be, and the idea of breaking into a home to rob an ancient artifact for her final exam was a little daunting. Luckily, Imara has friends who are going to help her through training, some old and some new.Mr. E just likes chasing...
17) Erase and Rewind
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An assault survivor realizes she can rewind time and relives the experience to erase it. A teen athlete wonders why she isn't more afraid of death when the plane carrying her team catches fire. The daughter of a superhero ruminates on how her father neglected his children to pursue his heroics. Two shut-in depressives form a bond on Twitter while a deadly virus wipes out most of the population of North America.
The stories in Erase and Rewind probe...
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Apresentamos-te os teus novos vizinhos, tu de que lado estás?
Quando Gav e Lou se mudam para a casa ao lado, Sara passa dias a preparar-se para ter coragem para ir cumprimentá-los. Os vizinhos são glamorosos, caóticos e um pouco excêntricos e, em comparação com eles, o resto da rua parece ser muito chata. Eles mostram-se dispostos a começar uma amizade, e isso entusiasma e lisonjeia Sara; por mais incrível que pareça, Gav e Lou veem, por...
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It's War of the Worlds in the New York hoods.
Nasir returns home two years later after the death of Denise. This time, he comes back to Queens with a crew and vengeance. He's in a new relationship with Sunday, a beautiful but ruthless and ambitious bitch who's ready to become the next Griselda Blanco in New York City. Along with her psychotic little brother, Sheek, the trio becomes a force to be reckoned with.
Nasir's beef with Sincere has...
20) Bad Blood
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James Parks' thriving bloodline, Ashley and Alex Black, have transitioned back to Baltimore living, and the drama they thought was over continues to plague them. It seems like chaos is hardwired in their DNA.
Ashley is hard at work in her career and is enjoying her new life, but an old flame comes back into the picture and wants to play for keeps. Throw in her boyfriend, Troy, with his own secrets, and her life is pandemonium.
Alex is a sports agent...
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