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"Trapped alone in her fiancé's family 'cottage' as a hurricane bears down on Mariners Island, Ismay Chalmers, as she prepares for the storm, discovers some disturbing items hidden in a closet that have her questioning everything she knows about the seemingly perfect Windsor family-especially her fiancé."--
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Doc Ford ; 27
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English
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A Russian diplomat disappears while Doc is tagging great white sharks in South Africa, and members of a criminal brotherhood, Bratva, don’t think it’s a coincidence. They track the biologist to Dinkin's Bay Marina on the west coast of Florida, where Brotherhood mercenaries have already deployed, prepared to pillage and kill in the wake of an approaching hurricane. No one, however, is prepared for a cataclysmic event that will forever change the...
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"Most schools are about being the best. This school? It's about being the worst. Calder Academy is where the rogue paranormals go. The ones who break the rules or lose control. And when that happens for vamps, werewolves, witches, and dark fae? It gets pretty freaking scary. I should know. Because I'm trapped here. Look, every seventeen-year-old girl thinks their mom is a tyrant. But mine just happens to run Calder Academy, which paints a giant target...
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Bloom Books
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[2023]
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English
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"Arriving in Merry, Connecticut, to put the town back together after a hurricane, reality TV star Catalina King, determined to perform a Christmas miracle, finds one obstacle standing in her way-city manager Noah Yates, who is wrong about her and she can't wait to prove it."--
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"They refer to themselves as "las Madres," a close-knit group of women who, with their daughters, have created a family based on friendship and blood ties. Their story begins in Puerto Rico in 1975 when fifteen-year-old Luz, the tallest girl in her danceacademy and the only Black one in a sea of petite, light-skinned, delicate swans, is seriously injured in a car accident. Tragically, her brilliant, multilingual scientist parents are both killed in...
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"From debut author Nishita Parekh, a fresh take on the classic locked-room thriller, about a multigenerational Indian American family marooned in a house with a murderer during Hurricane Harvey. Hurricane Harvey is about to hit Houston. Meanwhile, single mom Jia Shah is already having a rough week: her twelve-year-old son, Ishaan, has just been suspended from school for getting in a fight. Still reeling from the fallout of her divorce-their move to...
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Former doctor Tucia Hatherley, when her livelihood is threatened, joins a traveling medicine show, and loathing the duplicity, tries to break free only to be pulled in even deeper until something happens that challenges her to recover her belief in medicine and the good in others--and herself.
9) The guests
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Thomas & Mercer
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[2024]
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English
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"As a hurricane besieges their coastal Florida town, the Davies family invites close friends to wait out the storm in comfort and style, but when three uninvited strangers seeking safe haven arrive, long-held secrets are revealed, one by one, until only one truth remains: not everyone is going to make it out alive."--
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Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2024]
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English
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"When a hurricane forces them to move in with relatives, 12-year-old Murray, separated from the one thing that makes her feel understood - the ocean, makes a new friend who helps Murray further see her true self and find community for the first time in her life."--
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Big Digger Publications
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[2024]
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English
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Ever thought of moving to a tropical island and reimagining your life? Our stories are lost too soon, and we leave few trails. A curiosity about his family ancestry, prompts a biologist to recount his journey finding the natural world and himself in the 1960's. Inspired by Rachel Carson, Edward O. Wilson, Jaques Cousteau and many others, a hippie by nature and a blue mind early in life, he is attracted to sea islands, their culture, history and ecology....
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Vintage Espanol, una división de Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA, LLC
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2023.
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Español
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"A powerful novel of family, race, faith, sex, and disaster that moves between Puerto Rico and The Bronx, revealing the lives and loves of five women and the secret that binds them together"--
"Se hacen llamar "Las Madres", un grupo muy cercano de mujeres que, junto con sus hijas, han creado una familia basada en la amistad y los lazos de sangre. Su historia comienza en Puerto Rico, en 1975, cuando Luz, de quince años, la niña más alta en su academia...
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Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon
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[2024]
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Español
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"When a hurricane hits Houston, Nadia and Nadir wait out the storm at home with their parents. While their neighborhood isn't too damaged, they know others weren't so lucky. The siblings want to help any way they can"--Publisher.
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Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Co-qui, co-qui! The coqui frogs sing to Elena from her family's beloved mango tree--their calls so familiar that they might as well be singing, "You are home, you are safe." But home is suddenly not safe when a hurricane threatens to destroy everything that Elena knows. As time passes, Elena, alongside her community, begins to rebuild their home, planting seeds of hope along the way. When the sounds of the coquies gradually return, they reflect the...
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Magic tree house ; 29-32
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Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Jack and Annie experience a series of time-travel adventures in 1947 Brooklyn; Galveston, Texas in 1900; ancient Rome; and colonial Philadelphia.
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