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1. Mad Mabel
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English
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5 stars
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"Meet Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick: eighty-one years old, gloriously grumpy, fiercely independent, and never without a hot cup of tea—or a cutting remark. She minds her own business in her quiet Melbourne suburb, until a neighbor turns up dead and the whispers start flying. Because Elsie hasn't always been Elsie. Once upon a headline, she was Mad Mabel Waller—Australia's youngest convicted murderer. But was she really mad, or just misunderstood? Either...
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English
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3.2 stars
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"As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White's struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest. When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel ... on a Scottish quayside and takes her home to...
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In this classic short story, Miss Marple steps in to investigate when her niece is accused of murdering her violent husband. During the first meeting of the Tuesday Night Club at Miss Jane Marple's home, her guests present real tales of mystery. Miss Marple is the first to share a story . . . Fifteen years ago, Miss Marple's niece, Mabel Denman, was married to an abusive and hot-tempered man-until he suddenly died. Was it the mushrooms he ate? Or...
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English
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Anything Goes: the enchanting story of a vaudeville troupe that makes its way to Western mining towns, from renowned master of the Western novel, Richard S. Wheeler. The cowboys, gold miners, outlaws, gunmen, prostitutes, and marshals who populate the Wild West never see much big-city entertainment. Most towns are too wild and rowdy for entertainers to enter, let alone perform in. All that is about to change. August Beausoleil and his colleague, Charles...
6. Dolphin luck
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Publisher:
Margaret McElderry Books
Pub. Date:
1999
Language:
English
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Sent by their vacationing parents to visit Mad Aunt Mabel, Perry and Ant have an adventure, while their younger siblings Sun Dance and Beany stay at home making burglar traps and searching for a magic sword.
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Publisher:
Allen & Unwin
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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A timely debut novel from an exciting new voice in women's fiction about cancel culture and appearance versus reality. 'A riveting debut: thoughtful, compassionate, nuanced and so very topical.' Liane Moriarty, author of Here One Moment 'As compulsive as any app. Clare Stephens creates a cautionary tale for our times, full of wit and nuance.' Jane Harper, author of The Dry and Exiles 'Sharp, insightful and deeply compassionate ... a striking new voice...
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High Road Books, an imprint of the University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date:
[2022]
Language:
English
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"Love, Loosha reveals the lives and literary obsessions of two great American writers through their frequent letters to each other. It details their writing habits and expressions, how they invented new words or offered new spellings to emphasize and reflect tone, dialect, accent, and dramatics. They discuss publishing and social trends, political correctness, offending others and being offended. They gossip. They dish. And they entertain, for not...
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English
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"New York Times Bestseller Edgar Award winner for Best Fact Crime The Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story: an addictive true tale of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of the modern film industry. By 1920, the movies had suddenly become America's new favorite pastime, and one of the nation's largest industries. Never before had a medium...
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Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date:
1997
Language:
English
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The editors of this new annual ("Spenser" author Parker, on call for this edition, and Mysterious Press founder Penzler, who will edit the series) have selected 20 stories, all published in 1996, that focus on crime or the threat of crime. Authors include Elizabeth George, Elmore Leonard, and Joyce Carol Oates.
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