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"Who gets to leave a legacy? 1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn't. By 1998 Anita's name has been all but forgotten--certainly by the time Raquel, a third-year art history student is preparing her final thesis. On College Hill, surrounded by progeny of film producers, C-Suite executives, and international art-dealers, most of whom float through...
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2023 Best Adult Fiction & Nonfiction (SCPL)
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"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...
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"You'll be safe here. That's what the greasy tour guide tells the Farmer-Bowens when they visit Plymouth Valley, a walled-off company town with clean air, pantries that never go empty, and blue-ribbon schools. On a very trial basis, the company offers to hire Linda Farmer's husband, a numbers genius, and relocate her whole family to this bucolic paradise for the .0001%. Though Linda will have to sacrifice her medical career back home, the family jumps...
4) Juror #3
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Ruby Bozarth, a newcomer to Rosedale, Mississippi, is also fresh to the Mississippi Bar -- and to the docket of Circuit Judge Baylor, who taps Ruby as defense counsel in a racially charged felony. The murder of a woman from one of the town's oldest families has Rosedale's upper crust howling for blood, and the prosecutor is counting on Ruby's inexperience to help him deliver a swift conviction. Ruby's client is an African American college football...
5) Morning star
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"Red Rising thrilled readers and announced the presence of a talented new author. Golden Son changed the game and took the story of Darrow to the next level. Now comes the exhilarating conclusion to the Red Rising Trilogy: Morning Star. Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to...
6) Powerless
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Powerless trilogy volume 1
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In a kingdom divided by extraordinary powers and a strict caste system, Paedyn Gray, a young girl with no abilities, must hide her ordinary nature as she navigates a forbidden romance with a powerful prince and must participate in the perilous Purging Trials that could reveal her true identity.
In the kingdom of Ilya, all were not fortunate enough to survive the Plague. Those who did possess power: they are the Elites. Those born Ordinary are just...
7) Reckless
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Beloved Books... (SCPL-YA)
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Let the Games Begin (SCPL-YA)
She's the Kind of Girl They Write Books About (SCPL-YA)
Best Fiction of 2024
Let the Games Begin (SCPL-YA)
She's the Kind of Girl They Write Books About (SCPL-YA)
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Paedyn and Kai battle with duty and desire in this highly anticipated second installment in the sizzling and epic romantic fantasy trilogy that's packed with spicy tension and edge-of-your-seat betrayal. The kingdom of Ilya is in turmoil... After surviving the Purging Trials, Ordinary-born Paedyn Gray has killed the King and kickstarted a Resistance throughout the land. Now she's running from the one person she had wanted to run to. Kai Azer is now...
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In September 1949 Jacqueline Bouvier arrives in postwar Paris to begin her junior year abroad. She's twenty years old, socially poised but financially precarious, and all too aware of her mother's expectations that she make a brilliant match. Before relenting to family pressure, she has one year to herself far away from sleepy Vassar College and the rigid social circles of New York, a year to explore and absorb the luminous beauty of the City of Light....
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I'm just a girl. And it turns out, I'm Hercules. I'm struggling to survive in a Titan infested world where Spartans, immortals from twelve royal families who have god-like powers and obscene wealth, rule over all. A shy stammering foster child with nothing, I keep my head down, cover my scars, and focus on excelling in school. At least, I will try to. Then it happens. My blood test reveals I'm part of the powerful elite. I'm one of them. A Spartan....
10) Women, seated
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"A novel about the unravelling lives of a nanny and the family she works for following the downfall of its patriarch, a prominent Chinese politician"-- Provided by publisher.
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"In this poignant retelling of The Great Gatsby, set amongst L.A.'s Black elite, a young veteran finds his way post-war, pulled into a new world of tantalizing possibilities-and explosive tensions. In 1945, Charlie Trammell steps off a cross-country train into the vibrant tapestry of Los Angeles. Lured by his cousin Marguerite's invitation to the esteemed West Adams Heights, Charlie is immediately captivated by the Black opulence of L.A.'s newly rechristened...
12) The down deep
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"A CITY DIVIDED For centuries Selei City-the capital of the Imperialate and one of the most desired locales in all of the Skolian Empire-has been held together by the thinnest of threads. While the "haves" live in great luxury, the "have-nots" scrape by, eking out what existence they can in the Undercity. Major Bhaajan, formerly of the Imperial Army, knows both worlds. Born into the Undercity, she nevertheless has made a name for herself in the Imperialate....
13) Love is the drug
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Emily Bird is an African American high school senior in Washington D.C., member of a privileged medical family, on the verge of college and the edge of the drug culture, and not really sure which way she will go--then one day she wakes up in the hospital with no memory of what happened.
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When a dream holiday propels Thia from her quiet life in England to the glittering world of New York's scandalous elite, she catches the eye of renowned businessman Lucien Steele. For the first time, she is determined to have what she really wants--love and life in the fast lane.
Cuando surgió la oportunidad del viaje de su vida, Thla Hammond ni se lo pensó. De repente, la ingenua camarera se vio transportada de su tranquila vida en Inglaterra...
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"Years after escaping New York's art scene, a narrator returns to attend a dinner party honoring a young actress, where she mercilessly exposes the moral depravity of her former friends and their empty lives"-- Provided by publisher.
Years after escaping New York and the center of its artistic world--a group of self-important, depraved, and unscrupulous artists, curators, and hangers-on--our narrator is back in town. With no plans to see anyone she...
16) Privilege
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"Ariana Osgood rules exclusive Easton Academy--until she was arrested for murdering Thomas Pearson. She's spent the past two years at the Brenda T. Trumbull Correctional Facility for Women plotting her escape and is determined to get a second chance at the flamorous life she left behind. And Ariana will do anything to get her way...."--p. [4] of cover.
17) Fearless
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Powerless trilogy volume 3
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A Paedyn y a Kai vuelve a separarles una realidad que se impone a sus deseos, y deberán enfrentarse a una terrible decisión en esta emocionante conclusión de la exitosa trilogía romántica, perfecta para fans de Sarah J. Maas. En la batalla definitiva entre el amor y la lealtad, ¿quién ganará?
"Paedyn Gray and Kai Azer return to the Kingdom of Ilya... And Paedyn has a life-altering choice to make. Whatever she decides will determine her fate--and...
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Cuando Anita de Monte, una estrella emergente en el mundo del arte, muere trágicamente en Nueva York en 1985, su historia queda oscurecida por el legado de su marido, Jack Martin, un reconocido y poderoso artista. Trece años después, Raquel, una estudiante puertorriqueña de Historia del Arte en una universidad de la Ivy League, que lucha por encontrar su lugar, descubre la historia de Anita mientras investiga sobre Jack Martin para su tesis. Cuando...
19) Reckless
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Powerless trilogy (Spanish) volume 2
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Llega la deseada segunda parte del fenómeno imparable Powerless, la saga de fantasía romántica que ha seducido al mundo entero. Amistad, amor, misterio, peligro... 100 % adictiva, 100 % Powerless. Él es el refugio que ella siempre había deseado. Ella es el enemigo que él tiene que vencer. Tras sobrevivir a las Pruebas de la Purga, Paedyn Gray, nacida sin poderes, mató al rey e inició una resistencia en todo el país. Ahora está huyendo de...
20) Czerwona Królowa
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"Mare Molly Barrow, urodzona siedemnastego listopada 302 roku Nowej Ery, córka Daniela i Ruth Barrowów - recytuje z pamięci Tyberiasz, streszczając moje życie. - Nie masz zawodu i w dniu następnych urodzin masz wstąpić do wojska. Chodzisz do szkoły nieregularnie, osiągasz słabe wyniki i masz na swoim koncie wykroczenia, za które w większości miast trafiłabyś do więzienia. Kradzieże, przemyt, stawianie oporu podczas aresztowania to...
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