Raquel Beattie
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Growing up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past, Adam goes to Aspen, where he was conceived, to learn the truth about his mother, a former slalom skier and ski instructor, and meets some ghosts, which are not the first or the last ones he sees
In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere...
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From the USA Today bestselling author of West Side Love Story comes a second chance romance set on the beautiful sandy shores of Key West, the perfect beach read! Fans of Abby Jimenez, Jasmine Guillory, and Jen DeLuca, won't want to miss this gorgeous and stirring love story that will touch your heart and make you believe in happily ever afters...
A PopSugar Best Romance of April
"A big-hearted,...
A PopSugar Best Romance of April
"A big-hearted,...
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Anna's perfect life has become a category 5 disaster. A hurricane destroying her home is only the beginning of Anna's troubles. Her ex, Eric, plasters private photos of her on billboards all over the city and across the internet. The backlash against her makes the storm look tame: She's instantly suspended from her job. Her current boyfriend dumps her. The cops blame her for the pictures. Her friends vanish.Trapped in despair, Anna enters a downward...
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A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona in this “utterly terrifying and wholly immersive . . . story about generational trauma, colonization, systemic oppression, and the horror at the heart of motherhood” (Library Journal, starred review). “Castro is one of the most exciting genre authors on the scene right now, and this might be her most powerful book yet.”—PasteA POPSUGAR AND CRIMEREADS BEST BOOK OF THE YEARAlejandra no...
5) Pale Phoenix
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Miranda isn't happy when sullen orphan Abby Chandler comes to live with her family. But Miranda's anger turns to shock when she learns the girl's horrible secret: Abby's parents and sisters were killed in a house fire in this very town--more than three hundred years ago. Somehow Abby survived the fire and has been living in a virtual limbo ever since.
Fifteen-year-old Miranda Browne, the extraordinary protagonist from Kathryn Reiss's first novel,...
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Book 3 of In Death series revisiting a character from Haunted by Death - Stacey Carter.
After losing several friends in an accident, Stacey became a loner. She knows she needs to grow past it, but a career working with the dead is not a warm and cozy conversation starter. When her brother coaxes her back to the same mountain for a holiday to help her heal, she realizes it's time.
Royce can't believe Stacey is back and fighting her depression....
7) Time Windows
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IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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When Miranda moves with her family to a new house in a small Massachusetts town, she discovers a mysterious antique dollhouse. Through the windows, she is shocked to find what seem to be living people in the tiny rooms, and gradually she realizes that scenes from the lives of the big houses past inhabitants are being replayed there. With numerous deftly sketched characters, including a sympathetic boy next door, an intriguing plot, and such dividends...
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Captain Qaelan Forster is used to trouble. He lives on the wrong side of the law and he's on the most-wanted lists. He's mixed up in his cousin's mess who has problems on a cosmic level-like shape-shifting aliens who want them dead. But Qaelan's not prepared for the cheeky kind of trouble called Camille Blackstone, whose infamous father has any man interested in his daughter executed.
After Camille drags Qaelan into an impulsive act of rebellion,...
10) The Railwalkers
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America, 1887. In a country healing from the horrors of the Civil War, the American West has never been more treacherous. Evil men do as they please, and the often faulty and corrupt justice system does little to nothing to help their victims.
Enter the Railwalkers. Bandits whose only goal is to punish those whom the law has allowed to walk free. Some think they're an urban legend, meant to scare would-be criminals into submission. Some see them...
11) Egg Island
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Two laconic teenage runaways plunge deep into backcountry, farther and farther away from civilization, searching for an extraordinary place that may or may not exist.
On the move for who knows how long, Julia, age unknown, walks into a gas station. There, the tall, ominous kid with a studded belt and crusty eyebrow ring who's stocking the fridge stops his work and leads her out back to the restroom. What happens next is technically grand theft...
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How b*tches, trainwrecks, shrews, and crazy women have taken over pop culture and liberated women from having to be nice.
Female characters throughout history have been burdened by the moral trap that is likeability. Any woman who dares to reveal her messy side has been treated as a cautionary tale. Today, unlikeable female characters are everywhere in film, TV, and wider pop culture. For the first time ever, they are being accepted by audiences...
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El has trained all her life to do two things-to fly the skies on wings of roaring flames, and to burn her enemies to the ground. Now, having graduated the academy, she's ready to do both those things.
. . . until she's dispatched in the opposite direction of the war effort. To a city named after vegetables of all things. Seriously, who names a place after those? But, despite it being a routine mission, El and her unit find a new enemy waiting for...
14) Into the Abyss
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Book 10 of the Psychic Visions series - Tavi and Jericho's story. Life is never easy but when her family is killed by a serial killer — one who is never caught — it becomes almost impossible.
As she grows up, Tavi works to appear normal while hiding in law enforcement, determined to get answers and if she can — extract revenge.
Jericho is a hunter. Now he's caught the scent of an old prey, a serial killer he's been one step behind the whole...
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"Daphne and Amber Parrish are thrust back into one another's lives upon the resurgence of a long-forgotten threat, forcing a vicious game of cat and mouse where everything is on the line, in this thrilling sequel to the million-copy-bestselling Reese's Book Club Pick The Last Mrs. Parrish. Amber Patterson Parrish has come a long way from being an invisible wallflower. Her hard work and immaculate planning have paid off now that she's a prominent socialite,...
16) Magic Lies
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A runaway girl leads me to unexpected places as I come against a twisted cult. My control over my magic is frail and tenuous. My new trainer hates me and hopes I fail, so he can haul me off to the Guild Jail. My life sucks, because I made it this way.I need to solve the case, help the three of us gain independence, fix Jennica, and find Zander before he's imprisoned or worse. My case draws me deeper into a dangerous new world. My magic, well-being,...
17) Latchkey
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Isabel, once known as Wasp, has become leader of the fearsome upstarts, the teen girl acolytes who are adjusting to a new way of life after the overthrow of the sadistic Catchkeep-priest. They live in an uneasy alliance with the town of Sweetwater-an alliance that will be tested to its limits by the dual threats of ruthless raiders from the Waste and a deadly force from the Before-time that awaits in long-hidden tunnels.
Years ago Isabel befriended...
18) Rose/House
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Basit Deniau's houses were haunted to begin with.
A house embedded with an artificial intelligence is a common thing: a house that is an artificial intelligence, infused with a thinking creature that is not human? That is something else. But now Deniau's been dead a year, and Rose House is locked up tight, as commanded by the architect's will: all his possessions and files and sketches are confined in its archives, and their only keeper is Rose House...
19) Blood Thinners
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The only thing more annoying than a ghost flash mob is a rogue vampire attack...
Supernatural investigator Mina Summers is only one undercover mission away from the promotion she's worked for her entire career. Her assignment is simple: figure out why several unregistered vampires are going rogue - including one that ruined her best suit - and attacking humans. Her investigation leads her to Thinner, a new celebrity-endorsed weight loss company...
20) Illuminations
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From the author of the award-winning book A Wizard's Guide To Defensive Baking . . .
Rosa Mandolini knows in her heart that her family are the greatest painters of magical illuminations in the city. But the eccentric Studio Mandolini has fallen on hard times and the future is no longer certain. While trying to help her family, Rosa discovers a strange magical box protected by a painted crow. But when she finds a way to open the box, she accidentally...