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When nurse Sophie Lee, who has spent 10 years in prison for a crime she did not commit, is exonerated and released, she retreats to her attorney's home to avoid the media frenzy that surrounds her and must learn how to make her way back into the world and adjust to her freedom.
2) Geek girl
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Geek girl (Holly Smale) volume 1
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When she is accidentally discovered by a modeling agent, fifteen-year-old Harriet jumps at the chance to transform herself from a geek to a fashion model.
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Georgia Waltz has what most only dream of: a plush Manhattan apartment, a Hamptons beach house, two bright daughters and a husband she adores. Then Ben drops dead while training for a marathon, and Georgia discovers their wonderland was built on lies. As the family attorney scours emptied bank accounts, she must find a way to support her family and her daughters must accept that they may not return to Paris and Stanford. Uncovering a hidden resilience,...
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"Jeska doesn't know why her mother keeps the curtains drawn so tightly every day. And what exactly is she trying to drown out when she floods the house with Mozart? What are they hiding from? When Jeska's grandmother accidentally calls her by a stranger's name, she seizes her first clue to uncovering her family's past, and hopefully to all that's gone unsaid....A true story of navigating generational trauma as a child, I'll Keep You Close is about...
5) Sundance
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Legend has it that bank robber Harry Longbaugh and his partner Robert Parker were killed in a shootout in Bolivia. But at the beginning of the twentieth century, Longbaugh is very much alive, though serving in a Wyoming prison under an alias. When he is released in 1913, Longbaugh reenters a changed world. Horses are being replaced by automobiles. Gas lamps are giving way to electric lights. Workers fight for safety, and women for the vote. What hasn't...
7) I let you go
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In a split second, Jenna Gray's world descends into a nightmare. Her only hope of moving on is to walk away from everything she knows to start afresh. Desperate to escape, Jenna moves to a remote cottage on the Welsh coast, but she is haunted by her fears, her grief and her memories of a cruel November night that changed her life forever. Slowly, Jenna begins to glimpse the potential for happiness in her future. But her past is about to catch up with...
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"Mark Haddon, author of the international bestselling novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and A Spot of Bother, returns with a collection of unsparing short stories. In the prize-winning story "The Gun, " a man's life is marked by a single afternoon and a rusty.45; in "The Island, " a mythical princess is abandoned on an island in the midst of war; in "The Boys Who Left Home to Learn Fear, " a cadre of sheltered artistocrats sets...
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"Iwonka ma męża, czwórkę dzieci i sielankowe życie. Mąż ma sklep z bielizną i biuściastą kochankę Adelę. Iwonka dowiaduje się, że w wieku 37 lat zostanie babcią. Przepis na dramat? Nigdy w życiu! „Nie zmienił się tylko blond” to pełna humoru powieść o kobiecie, która musi na nowo poukładać sobie życie. Urzeknie czytelniczki w każdym wieku, bez względu na to, czy są blondynkami, czy też nie. "--Provided by publisher....
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"Heart Attack Watch is built around disasters large and small--those we know enough to fear but for which we can never prepare. The blackout. The car crash. The diagnosis. In these moments of reckoning, Alyson Foster's characters grow achingly alive. There is Julia, the dreamy school-bus driver of "The Theory of Clouds" whose cohabitation with her partner, Danae, long unremarked-on in their factory town, becomes an issue when a group of environmental...
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