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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In this profoundly moving and beautifully written memoir, the award-winning actor and activist provides an intimate view into both her public and private worlds as she chronicles her life's journey thus far, sharing how she discovered her truest self and, with it, a deeper sense of belonging.
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English
Description
Julie Jones finds herself with one unlikely ally, Sean MacKenzie. A journalist with a flair for the sensational, Sean covers to worst humanity has to offer. Julie Jones is hiding something that terrifies her, and he's determined to find out what. He just can't decide whether his goal is to expose her or save her.
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English
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"Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. "Femi makes three, you know. Three and they label you a serial killer." Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's practicality...
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English
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"Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, each story in Milk Blood Heat delves into the ordinary worlds of young girls, women, and men who find themselves confronted by extraordinary moments of violent personal reckoning. These intimate portraits of people and relationships scour and soothe and blast a light on the nature of family, faith, forgiveness, consumption, and what we may, or may not, owe one another. A thirteen-year-old meditates on...
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Series
Mysteries of Martha's Vineyard volume 8
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"When Priscilla runs into long-time friend Kitty Merrick, mystery starts to unfold. Kitty has just arrived on Martha's Vineyard to check on her Aunt Katherine, who has stopped responding to her attempts at communication. Priscilla accompanies Kitty to the town hall, where they learn that Katherine has died. But Kitty isn't convinced that's truly the case, and she and Priscilla set out to learn what has actually become of her aunt. Priscilla suspects...
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English
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Nigeria. Korede's sister, Ayoola, is the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede knows the best solutions for cleaning blood, the trunk of her car is big enough for a body. Not that she gets any credit. A kind, handsome doctor at the hospital where Korede works is the bright spot in her life. One day Ayoola shows up to the hospital uninvited and he takes notice, asking Korede...
Author
Series
Louis Kincaid mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Kensington Pub., Corp
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Rainbow Tree Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Outcast operative in the Supernatural Investigation & Crime Bureau (SICB) Callen Blackheath finds himself doing what he does best: defying orders and giving his boss a headache in the thick of an operation he shouldn't be in. And there's no way he's walking away, not when the investigation has become deadly personal. Needing to protect the only family member he has left, this wolf shifter will do whatever it takes to stop the blood farms and destroy...
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Series
Father Dowling mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Vanguard Press
Pub. Date
c1981
Language
English
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Learning that her mentor and boss, Sylvia, has passed away at the age of 102, Missouri mother and genealogist Tori O'Shea discovers a cryptic postcard from the 1920s among Sylvia's possessions and begins to fear that the elderly woman's death may not have been natural.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Thicker than water: A faded photograph leads attorney Natalie Jones to the secrets of her late father's past.
Angel in the family: a father and his two estranged daughters experience a miracle when their late matriarch returns to spend Christmas with them.
What I did for love: It's one catastrophe after another when a blundering L.A. lawyer finally meets his fiancee's family at their rural ranch.
Terror in the family: The dysfunctional Marten Family,...
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
For Angela, it came on the basketball court--while playing on the boys' team. For Penny, it came on a school field trip to the lake (making for some cringeworthy moments of humor). And to Layla's disappointment, it came at the start of her first fasting Ramadan, meaning that she won't be able to fast after all. Whether it spurs silence or celebration, whether the subjects are well prepared or totally in the dark, the young people in these sixteen...