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Now You Access The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and MurderMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on the Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire.On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as "the prize of all the oceans," it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and .Book Details :Author : David Grann

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Now You Access Poor DeerMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss?and attempting to reshape the narrative of her life?from PEN/Faulkner Award nominee Claire OshetskyMargaret Murphy is a weaver of fantastic tales, growing up in a world where the truth is too much for one little girl to endure. Her first memory is of the day her friend Agnes died.No one blames Margaret. Not in so many words. Her mother insists to everyone who will listen that her daughter never even left the house that day. Left alone to make sense of tragedy, Margaret wills herself to forget these unbearable memories, replacing them with imagined stories full of faith and magic?that always end happily.Enter Poor Deer: a strange and formidable creature who winds her way uninvited into Margaret?s made-up tales. Poor Deer will not rest until Margaret faces the truth about her past and atones for her role in Agnes?s death.Heartrending, hopeful, and boldly imagined, Poor Deer explores the journey toward .Book Details :Author : Claire Oshetsky

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Now You Access Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin - Lost YearsMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :RETURN TO THE RONIN-VERSE! In TMNT: The Last Ronin, readers were taken on a pulse-pounding trek through time?past, present, future?to witness the final gut-wrenching days of the Heroes in a Half Shell.In Last Ronin?Lost Years, new secrets of the Turtles? past are revealed as we learn more about the devastating series of events leading up to the Last Ronin?s final battle, as well as its aftermath.For Michelangelo in particular, the march to his heartbreaking last battle was long and dangerous, taking him from New York City, to Japan, across Asia and Europe, and then back home again to administer final justice against those guilty of killing his family. But what happened during those fateful years when he had only the need for vengeance and Master Splinter?s journal to guide him? What battles did he fight? What hard lessons did he learn?The time has come to find out as original miniseries writers Kevin Eastman and Tom Waltz join artist Ben Bishop (TMNT: The Last Ronin) and SL Gallant .Book Details :Author : Kevin Eastman

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Now You Access A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)More Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Set in an alternative Edwardian England, this is a comedy of manners, manor houses, and hedge mazes: including a magic-infused murder mystery and a delightful queer romance.For fans of Georgette Heyer or Julia Quinn's Bridgerton, who'd like to welcome magic into their lives...Young baronet Robin Blyth thought he was taking up a minor governmental post. However, he's actually been appointed parliamentary liaison to a secret magical society. If it weren?t for this administrative error, he?d never have discovered the incredible magic underlying his world.Cursed by mysterious attackers and plagued by visions, Robin becomes determined to drag answers from his missing predecessor ? but he?ll need the help of Edwin Courcey, his hostile magical-society counterpart. Unwillingly thrown together, Robin and Edwin will discover a plot that threatens every magician in the British Isles. .Book Details :Author : Freya Marske

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Now You Access The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)More Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club.An old friend in the antiques business has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing.As the gang springs into action they encounter art forgers, online fraudsters and drug dealers, as well as heartache close to home.With the body count rising, the package still missing and trouble firmly on their tail, has their luck finally run out? And who will be the last devil to die? .Book Details :Author : Richard Osman

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Now You Access The Lantern's Dance (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #18)More Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, hoping for a respite in the French countryside, are instead caught up in a case that turns both bewildering and intensely personal.After their recent adventures in Transylvania, Russell and Holmes look forward to spending time with Holmes' son, the famous artist Damian Adler, and his family. But when they arrive at Damian?s house, they discover that the Adlers have fled from a mysterious threat.Holmes rushes after Damian while Russell, slowed down by a recent injury, stays behind to search the empty house. In Damian?s studio, she discovers four crates packed with memorabilia related to Holmes? grand-uncle, the artist Horace Vernet. It?s an odd mix of treasures and clutter, including a tarnished silver lamp with a rotating an antique yet sophisticated form of zoetrope, fitted with strips of paper whose images dance with the lantern?s spin.In the same crate is an old journal written in a nearly impenetrable code. Intrigued, Russell sets about .Book Details :Author : Laurie R. King

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Now You Access Congratulations, the Best is Over!More Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :The beloved bestselling author of Here for It presents a collection of heartening, thoughtful, and laugh-out-loud essays about the lifelong search for community and returning home.After going viral "reading" the chaotic political news, having one-too-many awkward social encounters, and coming to terms with his intersecting identities, R. Eric Thomas is ready to live his best life--or, if not, at least his best-ish life.Now, in this collection of insightful and hilarious essays, Thomas finds himself doing things completely out of character, starting with moving back to his perpetually misunderstood hometown of Baltimore. They say you can't go home again, but what if you and home have changed beyond recognition? From attending his twenty-year high school reunion and discovering another person's face on his name badge, to splattering an urgent care room with blood ? la The Shining, to being terrorized by a plague of gay frogs who've overtaken his backyard, Thomas shares the nitty, and .Book Details :Author : R. Eric Thomas

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Now You Access HomecomingMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek on the grounds of the grand and mysterious mansion, a local delivery man makes a terrible discovery. A police investigation is called and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most shocking and perplexing murder cases in the history of South Australia.Sixty years later, Jess is a journalist in search of a story. Having lived and worked in London for almost twenty years, she now finds herself laid off from her full-time job and struggling to make ends meet. A phone call out of nowhere summons her back to Sydney, where her beloved grandmother, Nora, who raised Jess when her mother could not, has suffered a fall and been raced to the hospital.Nora has always been a vibrant and strong presence: decisive, encouraging, young despite her years. When Jess visits her in the hospital, she is alarmed to find her grandmother frail and confused. It?s even more alarming to hear from Nora's .Book Details :Author : Kate Morton

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Now You Access The WaitingMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :The story begins with a mother's confession... sisters permanently separated by a border during the Korean War. Keum Suk Gendry-Kim was an adult when her mother revealed a family secret: She had been separated from her sister during the Korean War. It's not an uncommon story?the peninsula was split across the 38th parallel, dividing one country into two. As many fled violence in the north, not everyone was able to make it south. Her mother's story inspired Gendry-Kim to begin interviewing her and other Koreans separated by the war; that research fueled a deeply resonant graphic novel. The Waiting is the fictional story of Gwija, told by her novelist daughter Jina. When Gwija was 17 years old, after hearing that the Japanese were seizing unmarried girls, her family married her in a hurry to a man she didn't know. Japan fell, Korea gained its independence, and the couple started a family. But peace didn't come. The young family of four fled south. On the road, while breastfeeding and .Book Details :Author : Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

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Now You Access My Sister, the Serial KillerMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :When Korede's dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what's expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This'll be the third boyfriend Ayoola's dispatched in, quote, self-defence and the third mess that her lethal little sibling has left Korede to clear away. She should probably go to the police for the good of the menfolk of Nigeria, but she loves her sister and, as they say, family always comes first. Until, that is, Ayoola starts dating the doctor where Korede works as a nurse. Korede's long been in love with him, and isn't prepared to see him wind up with a knife in his back: but to save one would mean sacrificing the other...My Sister, the Serial Killer is a blackly comic novel about how blood is thicker - and more difficult to get out of the carpet - than water... .Book Details :Author : Oyinkan Braithwaite

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Now You Access ArgylleMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :A luxury train speeding towards Moscow and a date with destiny.A CIA plane downed in the jungles of the Golden Triangle.A Nazi hoard entombed in the remote mountains of South-West Poland.A missing treasure, the eighth wonder of the world, lost for seven decades.One Russian magnate's dream of restoring a nation to greatness has set in motion a chain of events which will take the world to the brink of chaos. Only Frances Coffey, the CIA's most legendary spymaster, can prevent it. But to do so, she needs someone special. Enter Argylle, a troubled agent with a tarnished past who may just have the skills to take on one of the most powerful men in the world. If only he can save himself first... .Book Details :Author : Elly Conway

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Now You Access Good Bad GirlMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things. Alice Feeney, returns with another thrilling mystery filled with drama and her trademark surprises.Twenty years after a baby is stolen from a stroller, a woman is murdered in a care home. The two crimes are somehow linked, and a good bad girl may be the key to discovering the truth.Edith may have been tricked into a nursing home, but at eighty-years-young, she?s planning her escape. Patience works there, cleaning messes and bonding with Edith, a kindred spirit. But Patience is lying to Edith about almost everything.Edith?s own daughter, Clio, won?t speak to her. And someone new is about to knock on Clio?s door?and their intentions aren?t good.With every reason to distrust each other, the women must solve a mystery with three suspects, two murders, and one victim. If they do, they might just find out what happened to the baby who disappeared, the mother who lost her, and the connections that bind them.In .Book Details :Author : Alice Feeney

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