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FictionHotel California
by Ramón Valdés Elizondo
Damián flees from two assassins who are chasing him on a lonely desert road. He manages to elude them but his car is running out of gas. In the distance he discovers a hotel that looks abandoned from the outside. He knocks on the door and is greeted by Mercedes, a beautiful blonde who invites him in. Inside the hotel is spectacular: every detail is taken care of to perfection, but there is something shady lurking within its walls and corridors. Damián thinks he hears voices calling his name, although he attributes them to stress and fatigue. Our anguished protagonist lives a terrifying experience when he tries to leave the next day and inexplicable things happen that prevent him from doing so. Suddenly, Damian will be trapped in this place that changes, that whispers, that makes us doubt if he is living a nightmare or if everything is a product of his hallucinations. A novel written to the rhythm of rock, with nods to horror classics and a twist that will take you to a place you may never be able, or want, to leave.
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February 2021We Are All Perfectly Fine
A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing
by Dr. Jillian Horton
Funny, fresh, and deeply affecting, We Are All Perfectly Fine is the story of a married mother of three on the brink of personal and professional collapse who attends rehab with a twist: a meditation retreat for burnt-out doctors. At first, she is deeply uncomfortable with the spartan accommodation, silent meals, and scheduled bonding sessions. But as this group of wounded healers struggles through awkward first encounters, guided meditation, and breathing exercises, something remarkable happens: World class surgeons, psychiatrists, pediatricians, and general practitioners open up and share stories of the secret guilt and grief they carry, the cases they can’t forget, and their deep-seated fear that they will fall short of the expectations that define them. In this moving memoir that will make you laugh and break your heart in equal measure, Dr. Jillian Horton throws open a window onto the flawed system that shapes medical professionals, the rarely acknowledged stresses that cause doctors to commit suicide at the highest rate of any white collar profession, and the crucial role compassion plays in not only treating others but also in taking care of ourselves.
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FictionJanuary 2018Victims for Sale
by Nish Amarnath
A fledgling TV reporter fights to expose a crime ring where mentally challenged women are sexually abused and forcibly sterilized. Sandy swaps a TV gig in Mumbai for life as a media researcher and BBC stringer in London, where she arranges to live as a paying guest with the Sawants, The Sawants are a regular quiet Indian family. Or so she thinks. But her first night at the Sawants' home finds her waking up to a young woman with a knife at her throat...and a dark secret. An ominous stranger is found snooping on the Sawants' porch, weeks later. The family seems to be hiding something. It's only after Sandy runs a sting operation on a care home for differently-abled women that she makes a connection between an institute acting as a front for a sinister nexus and the odd family she lives with. Chasing the truth up a trail of brutal murders, Sandy must expose the predators and step up to the deranged kingpin of a thriving sex racket. Before time runs out. For fans of Stieg Larsson's 'The Girl Who Played with Fire' and Sophie Hannah's 'A Room Swept White', this debut psychological thriller and crime suspense novel, set in London, is a strident expose on an under-reported form of social injustice where the line of distinction between the betrayer and the betrayed increasingly fades into oblivion.
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
WINNER OF THE 2002 BOOKER PRIZEAfter the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The crew of the surviving vessel consists of a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan, a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger and Pi - a 16-year-old Indian boy. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary pieces of literary fiction of recent years.
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Children's & YAOctober 2010Big Nate
From the Top!
by Lincoln Peirce
Hot off the bestseller list, Big Nate is in a class by himself. This spunky 11-year old holds the school record in detentions, but that doesn’t stop him from dreaming big!Big Nate is the star of six novelized books published by HarperCollins, the first of which debuted on the New York Times bestseller list in Children’s. Author Lincoln Peirce has been drawing the Big Nate comic strip for more than 20 years and has created several animated pilots for Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon.
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VIRUSPHERE
The Science Behind The Coronavirus
by Dr Frank Ryan
A virologist’s insight into how viruses evolve and why global epidemics are inevitable In 1993 a previously healthy young man was drowning in the middle of a desert, in fluids produced by his own lungs. This was the beginning of the terrifying Sin Nombre hantavirus epidemic and the start of a scientific journey that would forever change our understanding of what it means to be human. After witnessing the Sin Nombre outbreak, Dr Frank Ryan began researching viral evolution and was astonished to discover that it’s inextricable from the evolution of all life on Earth. From AIDS and Ebola to the common cold, Ryan explores the role of the virus within every ecosystem on the planet. His gripping conclusions shed new light on the natural world, proving that what doesn’t kill you really does make you (and your species) stronger. Dr Frank Ryan is a consultant physician based in Sheffield, and an honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at the University of Sheffield. He pioneered the evolutionary concepts of 'viral symbiosis' and 'genomic creativity' and has contributed to the modern understanding of the evolution of the human genome. He is a Fellow of The Royal College of Physicians, the Royal Society of Medicine and the Linnean Society of London.
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FictionDecember 2020The Grand Tour
by Olivia Wearne
This vivid story of campervans, stowaways and mischief at any age is essentially about families: the ones you have and the ones you make. When Ruby and Angela embark on a Grey Nomads road trip, the last thing they expect is a tiny stowaway; one who will turn them from unsuspecting tourists into wanted kidnappers and land them in a world of trouble. As their leisurely retirement plans unravel, Angela's relationship with her brother Bernard goes from bad to worse. Bernard has his own problems to contend with. Adrift in life, his career as a news presenter has been reduced to opening fetes and reading Voss as an audio book (a seemingly impossible task). His troubles are compounded when his wife starts dating a younger man and a drink-driving incident turns him into a celebrity offender. As Angela and Ruby set about repairing burnt bridges and helping their unexpected guest, and Bernard attempts to patch together his broken life, they discover that even after a lifetime of experience, you're never too old to know better. A warm, funny, sharply observed story about aging disgracefully and loving the one you're with.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentThe Healthy Brain
Optimize Brain Power At Any Age
by Aileen Burford-Mason
The Healthy Brain makes the compelling case that most people's brains are underperforming because they are undernourished. As the most metabolically active organ in the body, the brain has nutritional needs that are 10 times higher than any other organ. The brain is the first organ to falter when it is improperly fed. Author Aileen Burford-Mason offers step-by-step guidance on how to implement dietary changes and select appropriate supplements for optimal brain power at any age. She offers real case histories and summarizes leading-edge scientific research to support her advice.
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The War Against Viruses
How The Science of Optimal Nutrition Can Help You Win the Battle
by Aileen Burford-Mason
When operating efficiently, the immune system represents biological teamwork at its best – a symphony of protective cells and bio-molecules acting together to rapidly recognize potentially harmful microbes and eliminate them. But the orchestration of this complex system depends on a continuous and ample supply of essential nutrients – vitamins, minerals, essential fats and other nutrients A growing body of research shows that the nutritional content of our food has sharply declined over the course of the last century. As the use of high yield industrial farming practices has increased, so the nutritional content has decreased. The War Against Viruses shows how without a rounded intake of essential nutrients our immune response may be compromised. It provides advice on how to recognize gaps in our nutritional arsenal. It offers a personal supplement regime that can overcome potential dietary shortfalls, strengthening immune response to infection and helping reduce the potential for lethal illness.
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FictionIn Living Memory
by Susana de Murga
Mariano is headed to the adventure of his dreams: running uphill with his motorcycle, in the company of his friends and sing out loud as the engines roar. However, as his bliss begins, he and a group of other people gets kidnapped. The criminals hurt and humiliate all of their victims and demand large amounts of money as ransoms. Slowly, all the victims are released; all except for Mariano, who will not believe what he must do in order to survive. The long walk from where he is taken to the place in which he is held captive makes Mariano remember something his mind had kept locked away, an abuse he suffered as a child of which he had never spoken. Until now. Thus, he finds himself to be twice captured: once physically, and once emotionally.
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May 2021We Were Dreamers
by Simu Liu
This is Simu Liu’s superhero origin story. Weaving together the narratives of two generations in a Chinese family who are inextricably tied to one another even as they are torn apart by deep cultural misunderstanding, We Were Dreamers traces Liu’s unlikely journey from Harbin, China to Hollywood within the context of his family’s immigration story. Liu’s parents left him to be raised by his grandparents in China while they sought a future in North America. Liu was devastated when the father he hardly even remembered returned to take him away from the only home he ever knew; culture gaps, racism, and wildly conflicting definitions of success made it difficult to become a family. Ultimately, it's Liu’s singular determination to make his dreams come true agai nst all odds that not only leads him to succeed as an actor but also opens the door to reconciliation with his parents. For by the time he is 30 – the same age his parents were when they immigrated – he recognizes that he and his parents have much in common, most notably their courage to dream, and to dream big.
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Rebel
A Memoir
by Rahaf Mohammed
Rahaf Mohammed opened her Twitter account on January 6, 2019. Stripped of her passport, she had barricaded herself into her Bangkok hotel room as she awaited either freedom or forcible return to Saudi Arabia. If the latter, she was sure she would be killed; that is what has happened to rebel women in her country. Desperate, she reached out to the world, and the world answered. Online, she rallied approximately 45,000 followers that day. Last summer, Time named her one of the 25 Most Influential People on the Internet. Now, two years later and safely in Canada, Mohammed is ready to speak to the world. Her story, told in a fiercely original voice, promises to change the lives of women and girls who have known the same repression and abuse, and turn their hopelessness into hope. We have long heard about activist women being jailed, fathers beating and raping daughters, religion run amok – in Saudi Arabia and in other countries; but now we have the words, anecdotes, and life experience of a young woman who grew up with the abuse, the brainwashing, the deceit. Saudi Arabia’s repressive, outmoded control of its women is a tragedy and a scandal, not only for girls and women, but for men robbed of their humanity, and for a country robbed of the contribution women such as Mohammed could make. Along with the story of her daring escape, Mohammed will expose the inside story of Saudi women; share untold truths from the closed kingdom; and provide an eyewitness account of the brutal treatment of those who stand up and rebel.
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September 2020Black Water
Family, Legacy and Blood Memory: A Memoir
by David A. Robertson
David A. Robertson, the son of a Cree father and a white mother, grew up with virtually no knowledge or understanding of his family’s Indigenous roots. Without his father’s teachings or any knowledge of his life experiences, he has spent a lifetime putting together the pieces of his identity. This is the memoir of his search for understanding, a search that culminates in a father-son journey to the northern trapline where his father was raised. As father and son travel to the past to create a new future, they revive a story nearly erased by the designs of history, reclaiming their connection not only to the land but also to each other.
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Nio Liv
Don't Say A Word
by Emelie Schepp
Early one morning in April a film of a young man spreads on Youtube. He has been beaten up and is wearing an explosive device attached to his body. The police know that a terrible fate awaits him. They are able to identify the location but only reach in time for the bomb to explode. This is the fourth member of the criminal network Komados to be murdered in a short period of time. Detective inspector Mia Bolander has assistance from the new investigator Patrik Wiking to solve the cases. The problem is that no one wants to speak to them. Nobody has heard or seen anything. When Jana Berzelius is dragged into the investigation she realises that the case has a direct connection to herself. As a prosecutor it has always been her job to find out the truth. This time she receives unexpected help to hide it. Don’t Say A Word is a highly topical novel about violence and gang criminality, as well as the forces that can take over when there is something to protect at all costs.
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October 2020The Forgotten Daughter
by Joanna Goodman
In this follow-up to her international bestsellerThe Home for Unwanted Girls, Joanna Goodman tells a moving and triumphant story --inspired by true events--of two women divided by their past but united by friendship and family.
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The Home For Unwanted Girls
by Joanna Goodman
In this triumphant love story, the lives of two young people are beset by conflicts of class and culture in 1950s Quebec. Maggie's English-speaking father has ambitions for his daughter that exclude her marriage to the poor French boy Gabriel next door. When Maggie becomes pregnant at age 15, her baby daughter is whisked away to an orphanage run by the Catholic church. The expectation is that her child will be adopted, but politics interferes. The Premier of Quebec mandates that orphanages will be changed to mental hospitals--it means more money for provincial coffers. It is tragic for Maggie's daughter Elodie. She, along with 5000 other children are stranded in mental hospitals without sufficient food or eductation or love. Maggie's life-long efforts to find Elodie succeed at last in a powerful bittersweet introduction.
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Children's & YASecondhand Dogs
by Carolyn Crimi
A heart-warming story of loyalty, friendship, and what it truly means to be a part of a pack family. Gus, an insecure pack leader, is forced to take action when his owner, Miss Lottie, adopts Decker, an angry dog with a dark past who wants Miss Lottie’s heart and home all to himself. Things quickly go from bad to worse as Decker’s divisive presence causes disharmony in the motley pack of second-hand dogs. When Decker convinces the youngest pack member, Moon Pie, to embark on an impossible journey, it’s up to Gus to gather his courage, rally his splintered pack, and bring Moon Pie home again.
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July 2013Two Shades of Morning
by Janice Daugharty
Sibyl is either dying—or just dying to cause trouble. Sympathy for a man-hunting siren? Sibyl says she’s dying. But this sexy new neighbor in a small Georgia town, circa 1960, may be lying. After all, her main goal seems to be milking her story in order to keep her husband, Robert, under her thumb while also enchanting his best friend, P.W. For plain-Jane Earlene, P.W.’s wife, Sibyl’s suspicious motives include a bewildering mix of syrupy kindness and sly cruelty. Earlene’s attempts to point out Sibyl’s behavior to others in town sound petty toward a dying woman. Who is Sibyl, really? Her lavish spending hints at a hidden source for money, since Robert isn’t rich. How is it possible to be both repelled and hypnotized by her? There are secrets waiting to be exposed. Janice Daugharty’s 1997 novel, EARL IN THE YELLOW SHIRT (HarperCollins), was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. She is the author of ten acclaimed novels, five other novels in ebook-only format, and two short story collections—GOING THROUGH THE CHANGE and more recently GOING TO JACKSON. All of her work can now be enjoyed in ebook editions. She serves as writer-in-residence at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, Georgia. For more on Janice visit her Facebook page at www.facebook.com/janice.daugharty.
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July 2012Dark Of The Moon
by Janice Daugharty
“Janice Daugharty is a natural-born writer.” – Pat Conroy She held him prisoner. He set her free. A moonshiner’s downtrodden wife. A federal agent in search of illegal stills. A love neither expected. A situation about to explode. When her cruel husband, Hamp, kidnaps Mac, an FBI agent working undercover as a whiskey revenuer, Merdie Lee is given the job of caring for him. Against all common sense, Mac and Merdie Lee, a midwife and aspiring country-western singer, fall in love. Mac becomes determined to rescue her from her dangerous, abusive situation. Tensions boil out of control after a blackmailing sheriff pushes Hamp over the edge. No one may come out of the pine woods of South Georgia alive. “Filled with tension and drama.”—Publishers Weekly “Nothing is as it first appears in this odd but engaging love story.”—Library Journal “Sensuous, swift, full of sparkling twists, [Daugharty's] is a voice so rich that a single page can be thrilling.”—The New York Times Book Review Janice Daugharty’s 1997 novel, EARL IN THE YELLOW SHIRT, (HarperCollins), was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. She is the author of seven acclaimed novels and two short story collections. She serves as writer-in-residence at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, in Tifton, Georgia. Visit the author at www.janicedaugharty.com
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January 2014Necessary Lies
by Janice Daugharty
Lost innocence. Betrayal. Smalltown secrets. It all adds up to necessary lies. It always starts with the loss of innocence. Life had plenty to offer beautiful seventeen-year-old Cliffie Flowers in 1953 backwoods Georgia before she got pregnant by a local lothario whose conquests also included her sister. Fearing the disappointment of her adoring father, Cliffie lies to conceal her downfall as the golden girl who might have been the hope of her poor family. But her deception leads to far worse trouble. “Janice Daugharty is a born story-teller. Her voice is a finely honed 'Southern' voice that is warm, vibrant, and original; her characters seem to leap from the page, fully imagined in a sentence or two. Best of all, her fiction is rich with surprises. Each story is like a wild, improvised ride that takes us to an unexpected destination.” —Joyce Carol Oates “Janice Daugharty is a natural-born writer.” —Pat Conroy “Daugharty once again has succeeded in creating a suspenseful, well-written narrative around an unusual plot line.” —Library Journal Janice Daugharty’s 1997 novel, EARL IN THE YELLOW SHIRT (HarperCollins) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. She is the author of seven acclaimed novels and two short story collections. She serves as writer-in-residence at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, Georgia. Visit the author at JaniceDaugharty.com
