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1) The future
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Pub. Date
2023
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When Martha Einkorn fled her father?s isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything. Now, she?s surrounded by mega-rich companies designing private weather, predictive analytics and covert weaponry. Martha may have left a cult, but if the apocalyptic warnings in her father?s ?fox and rabbit? sermon are starting to come true, how much future is actually...
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A D.C.I. Daley volume 4
Publisher
Polygon
Pub. Date
2016
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It?s December, and the Shannon family are returning home to their clifftop mansion near Kinloch for their annual AGM. Shannon International is one of the world?s biggest private companies, with tendrils reaching around the globe in computing, banking and mineral resourcing, and it has brought untold wealth and privilege to the family. However, a century ago Archibald Shannon stole the land upon which he built their home - and his descendants have...
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Amy Pearson's family is desperately poor - even by the standards of Edwardian Liverpool - but they have each other. Until Amy is torn from her home by her rich aunt, a woman obsessed by religion and snobbery who wants a girl she can mould as she wishes. Clever and pretty, 10-year-old Amy is perfect for her purposes. It is the beginning of a long journey for Amy, as she desperately searches for the family she lost, and a home where she can be free...
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Some women are destined to arouse in men either fierce hatred or insatiable desire. Such a woman was Katie Mulholland ... At 15, a scullery maid in the house of the Rosires, she had been raped by the master. Now, many years later, she had enough money to maintain three carriages if she wanted to, and she was on her way to see Bernard Rosier under very different circumstances. There was no pride in Katie Mulholland's heart, however, only fear, for...
5) The show
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The Swell Valley volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2015
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The second book in the Swell Valley series by bestselling author Tilly Bagshawe Nestled in a glorious patchwork of fields, surrounded by chocolate box villages, Wraggbottom farm means everything to Gabe and Laura Baxter. But love and tradition doesn?t pay the bills. Luckily, Laura has an idea that will share the secret of her happy (if sometimes muddy) country life: producing a reality show that will save the farm! Until the interfering new vicar,...
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Considered one of the all-time great American works of fiction, Fitzgerald?s glorious yet ultimately tragic social satire on the Jazz Age encapsulates the exuberance, energy and decadence of an era. After the Great War, the mysterious Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, pursues wealth, riches and the lady he lost to another man with stoic determination. He buys a mansion across from her house and throws lavish parties to entice her. When Gatsby finally...
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