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1) Sky's end
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Above the black volume 1
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"Exiled to live as a Low, sixteen-year-old Conrad refuses to become heir to his murderous uncle. But Meritocracy is a harsh and unforgiving rule on the floating island of Holmstead, and when his ailing mother is killed by monstrous gorgantauns, Conrad cuts a deal to save the only family he has left. To rescue his sister from his uncle's clutches, Conrad must enter the Selection of the Twelve Trades"--
2) Gilding Lily
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"With crackling humor and spot-on detail, Boncompagni captures the rarified world of New York society-and the juggling act of modern motherhood." - Bridie Clark, author of Because She Can
Only a true insider could dish…the way Tatiana Boncompagni has in this smartly written tale…" - Karen Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Ivy Chronicles
"A fun society read that will keep you intrigued in the rise and fall of its glossy characters."...
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Enter this 1830s London season full of fun and flirtation Has the reluctant wallflower finally met her match? When impoverished vicar's daughter Eliza Hasterling helps an older viscount after he falls at a ball, his son Lord Giles Stratham is suspicious she's out to wed his widowed father! This season might be Eliza s last chance to find a husband and have the family she longs for, but she's no fortune hunter! In fact, it s the brusque but handsome...
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"Hathor Du Bell is on her own path to find love in the third installment of J. J. McAvoy's Regency romance series, following Aphrodite and the Duke and Verity and the Forbidden Suitor. Hathor Du Bell has always fought to break free from the shadow left by her revered older sister, Aphrodite. It has been two years since Hathor's debut, and while Aphrodite is a duchess, Hathor has been left with the most boring, incomparable suitors of the ton. With...
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"Claire Pedersen and her husband are relocating from NYC to the Catskills-they have found a terrific deal on a property in foreclosure. The house has been in April Ives' family for three generations, but the single mother of three children from two different fathers needs the money. Claire and April are instantly antagonistic, but the sale proceeds, and renovations begin. Soon after, Claire's husband develops an erotic fascination with Anna, a young...
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"In this searing debut novel, a striving finance student confronts the line between ambition and greed and the disordered politics of his era. Alistair McCabe comes to New York with a plan. Young, handsome, intelligent, and gay, he hopes to escape his Rust Belt poverty and give his mother a better life by pursuing a career in high finance. But by the spring of 2016, Alistair's plan has come undone: His fantasy banking job has eluded him, he's mired...
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An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American community in Baltimore--from young activists in conflict with their traditional parents to the poor who clean for the rich--lives which intersect across divides of class, generation, and religion. Funny and touching, Behind You Is the Sea brings us into the homes and lives of three main families--the Baladis, the Salamehs, and the Ammars--Palestinian immigrants...
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