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Rachel Caine Ink and Bone ENRachel Caine rewrites history, creating a dangerous world where the Great Library of Alexandria has survived the test of time. In 48 AD, a fire set by the troops of Julius Caesar destroyed much of the Great Library of Alexandria. It was the first of several disasters that resulted in the destruction of the accumulated knowledge of the ancient world. But what if the fire had been stopped? What would the Library have…
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Tom Perrotta Little Children ENTodd, the handsome stay-at-home-dad - the one all the playground Moms admire in a silent look-but-do-not-touch fashion. He's trying (for his wife's sake) to pass his bar exam although he blatantly doesn't want to be a lawyer, and in a desperate attempt to reclaim his youth joins a midnight touch-football team - and starts a passionate affair with Sarah. Sarah is a lapsed feminist who isn't quite sure how she ended…
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Elisabeth Norebäck Tell Me You're MineStella only turned away for a second when her baby vanished. Though the little girl's body was never found, Alice was assumed to have drowned, but Stella has never been able to extinguish the hope that somewhere, somehow Alice is still alive. Over...
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George Friedman The Next 100 Years ENIn his long-awaited and provocative new book, George Friedman turns his eye on the future - offering a lucid, highly readable forecast of the changes we can expect around the world during the twenty-first century. He explains where and why future wars will erupt (and how they will be fought), which nations will gain and lose economic and political power, and how new technologies and cultural trends will alter the…
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Bridget Asher The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted ENBrokenhearted and still mourning the loss of her husband, Heidi travels with Abbot, her OCD eight-year-old son, and Charlotte, her sixteen-year-old niece, to a small village in the south of France, planning to renovate her family's crumbling stone cottage. There, Charlotte confesses a shocking secret, and Heidi learns the truth about her mother's 'lost summer' when Heidi was a child. As three generations collide…
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Menna van Praag The Witches of CambridgeThe Cambridge University witches have been meeting for as long as the university has been around - over 900 years - they mainly discuss books, but on the roofs of the colleges, drinking hot chocolate while up there. When Cosima begins casting spells...