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English
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When every person, all over the globe, receives a small wooden box bearing the same inscription and a single piece of string inside, the world is thrown into a collective frenzy, in this novel told through multiple perspectives that introduces an unforgettable cast of characters.
It seems like any other day: You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds...
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English
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When an LAPD narcotics officer is found with a fatal bullet wound and a suicide note, Detective Harry Bosch follows a bloody trail of drug murders across the Mexico border. Working the case, LAPD detective Harry Bosch is reminded of the primal police rule he learned long ago: Don't look for the facts, but the glue that holds them together. Soon Harry's making some very dangerous connections, starting with a dead cop and leading to a bloody string...
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English
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Wanting to organize an assisted death on her own terms, world-weary octogenarian Eudora Honeysett forges an unexpected bond with exuberant ten-year-old Rose, who drags her to tea parties, shopping sprees, and other social excursions.
Eudora Honeysett is done with this noisy, moronic worldall of it. She has witnessed the indignities and suffering of old age and has lived a full life. At eighty-five, she isnt going to leave things to chance. Her end...
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English
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"The story of a group of lifetime friends who gather together to confront life, love, and now, mortality Before Everything is a celebration of friendship and love between a group of women who have known one another since they were girls. They've faced everything together, from youthful sprees and scrapes to mid-life turning points. Now, as Anna, the group's trailblazer and brightest spark, enters hospice, they gather to do what they've always done--talk...
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Publisher
Marysue Rucci Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Marysue Rucci Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother's considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother's demise, followed by a cryptic...
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BBC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This Christmas, the Doctor comes face to face with, the Doctor! The first and current Doctors contemplate mortality in the Arctic as the join forces against a common enemy, revisit another last-of-its-kind being, and are ultimately responsible for the life of a WWI soldier.
9) Jerusalem
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Series
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Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2016.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
49 audio discs (60 hr., 45 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fierce in its imagining and stupefying in its scope, Jerusalem is the tale of everything, told from a vanished gutter. In the epic novel Jerusalem, Alan Moore channels both the ecstatic visions of William Blake and the theoretical physics of Albert Einstein through the hardscrabble streets and alleys of his hometown of Northampton, UK. In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England's Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between...
10) Observer
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Publisher
The Story Plant
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Dr. Caroline Soames-Watkins's star has been on the rise. But when she accuses a superior of sexual misconduct, the Twitterstorm that follows upends her career. With few professional options and an impoverished sister with a disabled child to support, Caro is willing to consider a mysterious proposal from her great-uncle, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Samuel Watkins. Sam has invested untold sums of money to build a medical facility in the Caribbean,...
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Publisher
Boom! Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Humanity is on the verge of discovering immortality. The avatar of Death is cast down to Earth to live a mortal life in Mumbai as twenty-something Laila Starr. Will Laila take her chance to stop mankind from permanently altering the cycle of life?
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Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
1 kit in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
When every person, all over the globe, receives a small wooden box bearing the same inscription and a single piece of string inside, the world is thrown into a collective frenzy, in this novel told through multiple perspectives that introduces an unforgettable cast of characters.
It seems like any other day: You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds...