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List view record 1001: Payback CanyonList view anchor tag for record 1001: Payback Canyon
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Payback Canyon

Hill, Rob2020
"Due to a combination of laziness and bad judgement, sheep farmer Wiley Hansen is broke. He tells his daughter Grace that he has arranged paid work for her on a neighbouring farm. She willingly agrees in order to help the family finances, but in reality he intends to put her up for auction in the...
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You dreamed of empires

Enrigue, Alvaro, 1969-2024
From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagines the fall of Tenochtitlan. One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernán Cortés entered the city of Tenochtitlan - today's Mexico City. Later that day, he would meet the emperor Moctezuma in a collisi...
List view record 1003: The most fun we ever hadList view anchor tag for record 1003: The most fun we ever had
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The most fun we ever had

Lombardo, Claire, 1988-2020
When Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, they are blithely ignorant of all that's to come. By 2016, their four radically different daughters are each in a state of unrest: Wendy, widowed young, soothes herself with booze and younger men; Violet, a litigator-turned-stay-...
List view record 1004: Cannery RowList view anchor tag for record 1004: Cannery Row
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Cannery Row

Steinbeck, John, 1902-19682000
In the din and stink that is Cannery Row a colourful blend of misfits - gamblers, whores, drunks, bums and artists - survive side by side in a jumble of adventure and mischief. Lee Chong, the astute owner of the well-stocked grocery store, is also the proprietor of the Palace Flophouse that Mack ...
List view record 1005: The four windsList view anchor tag for record 1005: The four winds
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The four winds

Hannah, Kristin2022
She will discover the best of herself in the worst of times. Texas, 1934. Elsa Martinelli had finally found the life she'd yearned for. A family, a home and a livelihood on a farm on the Great Plains. But when drought threatens all she and her community hold dear, Elsa's world is shattered to the...
List view record 1006: Back after this : a novelList view anchor tag for record 1006: Back after this : a novel
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Back after this : a novel

Holmes, Linda (Radio talk show host)2025
"A podcast producer agrees to host a new series about modern dating--but will the show jeopardize her chance at finding real love? From the New York Times bestselling author of Evvie Drake Starts Over and Flying Solo"-- Provided by publisher.
List view record 1007: Nineteen eighty-fourList view anchor tag for record 1007: Nineteen eighty-four
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Nineteen eighty-four

Orwell, George, 1903-19502021
Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities.
List view record 1008: The lion women of TehranList view anchor tag for record 1008: The lion women of Tehran
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The lion women of Tehran

Kamali, Marjan2024
"In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. Lonely and bearing the brunt of her mother's endless grievances, Ellie dreams of a friend to alleviate her isolation. Luckily, on the...
List view record 1009: The friend zoneList view anchor tag for record 1009: The friend zone
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The friend zone

Jimenez, Abby2019
Kristen Petersen doesn't do drama, will fight to the death for her friends, and has no room in her life for guys who just don't get her. She's also keeping a big secret: facing a medically necessary procedure that will make it impossible for her to have children. Planning her best friend's weddin...
List view record 1010: The book thiefList view anchor tag for record 1010: The book thief
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The book thief

Zusak, Markus2019
It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up an object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, and it is her first act of book...
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