Gabrielle Glaister
1) Watching You
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"New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author and "brilliant storyteller" (Shelf Awareness, starred review) Lisa Jewell weaves another suspenseful page-turner about a shocking murder in a picturesque and well-to-do English town, perfect for fans of Big Little Lies. Melville Heights is one of the nicest neighborhoods in Bristol, England. It's the sort of place where doctors and lawyers and old-money academics live. It's not the sort of place...
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Victoria Bergman novels volume 1
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The International Sensation It begins in a Stockholm city park where the abused body of a young boy is discovered. Detective Superintendent Jeanette Kihlberg heads the investigation, battling an apathetic prosecutor and a bureaucratic police force unwilling to devote resources to solving the murder of an immigrant child. But with the discovery of the mutilated corpses of two more children, it becomes clear that a serial killer is at large. Superintendent...
3) Motherland
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[2013], p2013
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From an Academy Award—nominated screenwriter, an epic novel of love and loss and the long shadows war leaves behind.
Summer, 1942. Kitty, an army driver stationed in Sussex, meets Ed, a Royal Marine commando, and Larry, a liaison officer with Combined Ops. She falls instantly in love with Ed, who falls in love with her. So does Larry. Both men go off to war, and Ed wins the highest military honor for his bravery. But sometimes heroes don't make...
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2014.
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"This book tells the amazing true story of one astonishing little boy and the very special dog who has changed his life forever. On a bitterly cold night in January 2012, Haatchi the dog was hit over the head and abandoned on a railway line in London, England, to be hit by a train. Somehow, the puppy survived the blood loss from his partially severed leg and rear tail and managed to crawl away to safety. Fortunately, Haatchi was rescued, although...
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When her train was travelling parallel to another, Mrs. McGillicuddy witness a man strangling a woman in the passing train. Her efforts to convince the authorities that a murder has been committed are in vain until Miss Marple enters the case and, with the assistance of Inspector Craddock, finds the solution to the baffling, suspensful conclusion.
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2017.
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"In his job as the county's spook seventeen-year-old Thomas Ward is used to battling boggarts, witches, and other creatures of the dark. But now he and his apprentice, Jenny, must team up with former rivals and enemies to fight the evil Kobalos warriors intent on destroying the county. The fight has cost the life of a strong ally, Grimalkin the witch assassin. Determined to end the war with the demons, Tom leads Jenny and Alice to Pendle for one last...
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2012
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In Agatha Christie's gripping international thriller Destination Unknown, a woman at the end of her rope chooses a more exciting way to die when she embarks upon an almost certain suicide mission to find a missing scientist. When a number of leading scientists disappear without a trace, concern grows within the international intelligence community. And the one woman who appears to hold the key to the mystery is dying from injuries sustained in a plane...
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2019.
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"In this whale of a tale, three loveable narwhals -- Spike, Spiral, and Stubby -- discover a sunken pirate ship, and have the ingenious idea of using the wreck to build their new homes. Little do they know that the big, bad shark has spotted them--and he is very hungry. Now they are out of their depth, locked in a battle of wits with the munching, crunching villain! This twisted spin on a traditional tale is packed with fun, mayhem, and wacky illustrations"--back...
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2016.
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"Allen Carŕђةs Easyway is the most effective stop-smoking method of all time and it has now been successfully applied to a wide range of other issues. Here the method focuses on one of the fastest-growing problems of modern times: womeńђةs drinking. Alcohol blights womeńђةs lives often in a different way to meńђةs: women tend to stay at home drinking alcohol; women often feel particular shame over drinking too much; drinking around children...