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Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world's troubles. There, the sky is clear again. Rare ingredients abound. Her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite, one that reawakens the chef to the pleasures of taste, touch, and her own body. In this atmosphere of hidden...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Living with motion blindness, Leah, with her acute senses of smell and hearing, very little escapes her notice, is convinced her neighbor, who is trying to escape from an abusive husband, is going to be murdered and makes a decision that will test her courage, her strength and ultimately her sanity.
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and popularized the term "underground railroad," from Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist, Scott Shane. Flee North tells the story for the first time of an American hero all but lost to history. Born into slavery, Thomas Smallwood was free, self-educated, and working as a shoemaker a short...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
353 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"On the day Juliet Lansdown reports to work for the first time at Bethnal Green Library, it isn't the bustling hub she's been expecting. But in the face of German attacks, she's determined to make it a place where all of their neighbors feel safe and welcome. Katie Upwood is thrilled to be working at the library too, though she's only there until she heads off to university in the fall. But after the death of her beau on the front lines and unexpected...
5) Lost boy
Author
Series
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
123 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the aftermath of a deadly car accident in the remote Wyoming wilderness, a young boy escapes as the sole survivor. Stranded, freezing and without anyone around to help him, he struggles to stay alive as he attempts to find his way back to civilization."--
Author
Publisher
Bloated Toe Pub
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 216 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1973, a serial killer's rampage in the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York State changed the region forever. Innocent visitors and campers were brutally knifed to death, terrifying thousands of residents and vacationers. A peaceful part of America was lost, as people armed themselves and locked their doors, living and sleeping in fear. It was a reign of terror the likes of which the mountains had never seen. And it was all...
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