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1) The Villa
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"From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins comes a deliciously wicked gothic suspense, set at an Italian villa with a dark history, for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware. As kids, Emily and Chess were inseparable. But by their 30s, their bond has been strained by the demands of their adult lives. So when Chess suggests a girls trip to Italy, Emily jumps at the chance to reconnect with her best friend. Villa Aestas in Orvieto is a high-end...
2) The villa
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Sophia Giambelli has never worried about competition. For three generations, the Giambelli wines have been renowned for their quality--from Napa Valley to Italy, and throughout the world. The pride of the Giambelli family and a top PR executive, Sophia loves her job--and excels at it. But things are about to change at Villa Giambelli. Tereza, the matriarch, has announced a merger with the MacMillan family's winery--and Sophia will be assuming a new...
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NERDS volume 4
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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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When a virus infects Arlington, Virginia, home of NERDS headquarters, transforming victims into criminal masterminds, it is up to Flinch to stop its spread by miniaturizing himself and entering the head of the Villain Virus's creator, Heathcliff Hodges.
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'Beautifully written, comforting and utterly uplifting, Lucy Coleman's stories are the perfect tonic when life is a little grey.' Holly Martin
Seren Maddison left behind a rainy Britain to follow her dreams, live and work in Lisbon. The vibrancy, the beautiful scenery and the sunshine, made her fall in love and she knew, instantly, that it would be her forever home.
International artist Reid Henderson has homes in Lisbon and London. Following his...
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Young Daphne du Maurier must defend a friend who has been accused of murder in the next installment in the beguiling mystery series that readers of Rebecca will love.
It's the summer of 1927 and aspiring novelist Daphne du Maurier is headed to Cornwall for the wedding of her dear friend Ellen Hamilton to American millionaire Teddy Grimshaw. Having met during the chaos of the Great War, the lovers were cruelly separated for nearly a decade by circumstance...
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Elinor Mordaunt was the pen name of Evelyn May Clowes (1872-1942), a prolific and popular novelist and short story writer, working in Australia and Britain in the first thirty-five years of the twentieth century.
Melissa Edmundson has curated this selection of the best of Mordaunt's supernatural short fiction, which blend the technologies and social attitudes of modernity with the classic supernatural tropes of the ghost, the haunted house, possession,...
10) The village: 400 years of Beats and bohemians, radicals and rogues : a history of Greenwich Village
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This is an anecdotal history of Greenwich Village, the prodigiously influential and infamous New York City neighborhood, from the 1600s to the present. The most famous neighborhood in the world, Greenwich Village has been home to outcasts of diverse persuasions, from "half-free" Africans to working-class immigrants, from artists to politicians, for almost four hundred years. In this book, the author weaves a narrative history of the Village, a tapestry...
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The Village Wife's Lament' is a narrative poem written by Maurice Hewlett, a prolific English historical novelist, poet and essayist. The poem revolves around the life of a recently widowed wife of a World War I soldier, who also has just lost her child at birth. The harrowing poem tells the story of how civilians bear the costs of what war brings.
12) The Village
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The Village is a short novel by the Russian author, Ivan Bunin, written in 1909 and first published in 1910. The Village caused much controversy at the time, though it was highly praised by Maxim Gorky (who from then on regarded the author as the major figure in Russian literature), among others, and is now generally regarded as Bunin's first masterpiece. Composed of brief episodes set in its author's birthplace at the time of the 1905 Revolution,...
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Molly Hopkins has happily watched all of her friends' dreams come true on Riverside Lane.
Deciding to follow her passion for baking, Molly with the help of her friends takes the plunge and opens a Tea Garden in the village hoping to make it a summer to remember!
Meanwhile, after a rather public end of his marriage, Logan Armstrong trusts no one but his beloved Grandad. He just wants his brief stay in Cranbridge to be as quiet as possible. But his...
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A feel-good story of new beginnings set in a gorgeous country village, perfect for fans of Katie Fforde and Milly Johnson.
After losing her job in New York, Amber Green isn't looking forward to visiting her godmother in the sleepy village of Cranbridge. With its empty lanes and rundown shops, it's hardly a place to mend her lonely heart.
But when Amber discovers that Cranbridge Stores, owned by her godmother Cathy and son Josh, is under threat...
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Samantha Archer, also known as Sam, couldn't be more excited about her class trip to Scrub Brush, the cool frontier town. But from the second they arrive at the historic village, it's clear someone's trying to make the whole town disappear. Can Sam and her friends save Scrub Brush?
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A Cretan village confronts the Nazi juggernaut sweeping across Europe. A village matriarch tries to hold her family together...Her grieving son finds a new life in the Cretan Resistance...A naive English soldier unwillingly finds the warrior in himself...And a fanatical German paratrooper is, forced to question everything he thought he believed in. The lives of four ordinary people are irrevocably, entwined and their destinies changed forever as each...
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The Village of Stepanchikovo by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a complex novel that explores the themes of human suffering, love, and redemption. The characters in the novel are all deeply flawed individuals who are struggling to find happiness in a world that is often cruel and unforgiving. Dostoyevsky's exploration of the human condition is at once heartbreaking and inspiring, and the novel is ultimately a testament to the resilience of the human spirit....
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A serial killer is on the loose in Boston… In this most intriguing third book of the Harry Sweet series, Harry has left the Boston Police Department and no one, including Private Investigator Shane McCurdy, seems to know where he's gone. When Shane's daughters' best friend, Margot O'Neill, turns up as the serial killer's latest victim, Shane knows he needs Harry's help to solve the case. Will Harry and Shane be able to work together to bring Margot's...
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The Village Squires Tales of Mayhem and Revenge is an exciting and eye-opening story about a young and extremely talented rock and roll bands path to professional status and acclaim. Yet, its members' underlying sense of justice and retribution, resulting from several childhood and young-adult traumas, presents the band with a collective and debilitating dichotomy... in that they sometimes, very purposefully, become vigilantes, creating a shared alter-ego/lifestyle;...
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