Patricia Santomasso
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When eleven-year-old Rigel Harman's parents divorce, she and her sisters must move from the Alaskan wilderness to suburban Connecticut, and while she yearns to return in a year, she eventually realizes she must move forward.
Eleven-year-old Rigel Harman loves her life in off-the-grid Alaska. She hunts rabbits, takes correspondence classes, and doesn't mind not having electricity or running water. When her parents divorce, Rigel and her sisters have...
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Winner of the 2021 Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book
Winner of the Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction
Winner of the Locus Award for Young Adult Fiction
Winner of the Dragon Award Best Young Adult / Middle Grade Novel
Winner of the Mythopoeic Award for Children's Literature
Winner of the Cóyotl Award for Best Novel
Fourteen-year-old Mona isn't like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can't...
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Molly Bishop loves living in Manhattan and managing a boutique luxury hotel. She's about to be promoted to her dream job of General Manager, the role she's been striving for her entire career.
There's only one thing standing in her way.
The will of her childhood friend, Christian Ford's grandfather. She hasn't even seen Christian in over ten years, but a recent run-in with his grandfather during a rare visit home, resulted
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"After witnessing several murders, Natalie Pearson narrowly dodges death but knows the killer is still out there--searching for her. And even her sister's remote cabin in the Smoky Mountains can't keep her safe. After fleeing into the woods, she runs into former detective Andrew Moore and his K-9. Trusting Andrew is Natalie's only chance for survival, but together they must outwit a relentless villain...before they become his final victims."--
7) Lucky stiff
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After a truck spills a million honeybees on the Las Vegas Strip, hotel customer relations head Lucky O'Toole discovers that a prominent district attorney has been murdered during the ensuing chaos and that private investigator Jeremy Whitlock is being unfairly scrutinized.
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Reader's Favorite Silver Medal WinnerA fantastic third entry in an already impressive epic fantasy series. - Reedsy DiscoveryRufyllys Vergana, the usurper, has stolen the throne from his adopted brother, Prince Ilruyn, plunging the empire of Navessea into civil war. The very first casualty of that war: Karthtag-Kal Sandaros, Marilia's father.With the help of Ben Espeleos, Prince of Svartennos, Marilia has sworn to bring the usurper and the rest of...
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On June 23, 2008, President George W. Bush nominated Ann Dunwoody as a four-star general in the US Army-the first time a woman had ever achieved that rank. The news generated excitement around the world. Now retired after nearly four decades in the Army, Dunwoody shares what she learned along the way, from her first command leading 100 soldiers to her final assignment, in which she led a 60 billion enterprise of over 69,000 employees, including the...
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This sweeping middle grade fantasy debut by Rochelle Hassan follows Roda and Ignis, who embark on an adventure filled with magic and mystery—perfect for fans of Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones.
Roda isn’t afraid of the monsters that roam the wilds of the Aerlands. She’s safe in her small town, which is surrounded by a wall of freezing, enchanted mist that keeps the beasts away. So when Roda rescues an injured crow on the instruction...
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Camp Phoenix is a controversial and expensive summer camp program that transfers adults' consciousness into a clone of their childhood selves. On the surface, it's an ordinary summer camp. Twelve-year-old Logan has come to have a relaxing, carefree summer. She wants to ride horses, make new friends, and she loves listening to ghost stories. Sam is a twenty-year-old counselor, taking on the responsibility of the kids' care by day, and riding the rollercoaster...
12) Lucky Score
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If Lucky O'Toole, Chief Problem Solver for the Babylon, Vegas' primo Strip property, knows one thing-where money goes, trouble follows.
So, when the NFL announces it's moving a team to Vegas, Lucky is left on the fence until the trouble she feared lands in her lap.
Nolan Ponder, one of the key players in the negotiations to get the NFL to Sin City, staggers into the Babylon covered in blood and holding a knife.
With the mountains of money and careers...
13) Lucky Catch
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Even a Blind Dog Finds a Bone
For Lucky O'Toole, she finds killers.
As the Chief Problem Solver for the Babylon, Las Vegas's most over-the-top destination, murder is a bit outside of her normal.
But, armed with a wicked wit and an even more wicked right-cross, Lucky takes it all in stride.
But tonight taxes even Lucky's formidable skills.
LUCKY CATCH
Lucky's former lover, Teddie, shows up, hat in hand.
A gaggle of egomaniacal chefs appears for a televised...
14) Wanna Get Lucky?
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Everyone Has a Hidden Talent
For Lucky O'Toole it's murder...solving it.
Surviving in Sin City takes cunning, a pair of five-inch heels, and a wiseass attitude. Lucky has mastered them all and has a pair of legs she uses to kick butt and turn heads.
As the Chief Problem Solver for the Babylon, Las Vegas's most over-the-top destination, mischief is in her job description.
She's good at her job.
She's less good at life. But who has time for a life when...
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"Morgan has written a masterpiece, one that is movie-worthy." Reader's Favorite.com."Marilia: strong-willed, erudite and fallible. Cole has delivered a heroine so humbly human I found pleasure in reading fantasy again." Kristiana Reed, author of Between the Trees, Poetry and Prose, Reedsy.com."Marilia is a more sophisticated, more believable version of Mulan. The prose is polished and the world is rich with lush details. Well done!" Karen Azinger,...
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Four friends reunite in Montauk to celebrate their thirtieth birthdays, twelve years after one fateful summer, in this novel of friendship and secrets.
Childhood friends Hannah, Maya, Blue and Renee share a bond that feels more like family. Growing up, they had difficult home lives, and the summers they spent together in Montauk were the happiest memories they ever made. Then, the summer after graduation, one terrible night changed everything.
Twelve...
17) Lucky Bastard
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Everyone Has a Hidden Talent
As the Chief Problem Solver for the Babylon, Las Vegas's most over-the-top destination, solving the occasional murder is in Lucky's job description.
A rapier wit, her weapon of choice.
LUCKY BASTARD
Tonight, someone turned a young woman, a Jimmy Choo embedded in her carotid, into a hood ornament for the latest Ferrari in the Babylon's dealership.
And one of the big-name players in a huge poker tournament ends up dead.
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Murder Takes a Holiday
For Lucky O'Toole, living with murder is, well...murder.
As the Chief Problem Solver for the Babylon, Las Vegas's most over-the-top destination, mischief is in her job description, but murder? Not so much...until recently...
LUCKY THE HARD WAY
Facing a murder indictment, Lucky's first love, Teddie, has flown to Macau on the heels of the real killer.
A powerful figure in the Macanese underworld has Lucky's father and his...
19) Lucky Ce Soir
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Death by future mother-in-law.
It's a thing.
Lucky O'Toole is sure of it. What she isn't sure of is how to deal with it. In Paris, far away from her Vegas home, Lucky is out of her element and out of ideas.
Especially when a fortune of rare wine is stolen from her fiancé's family in a daring heist using the tunnels under Paris.
When an unsavory man from Lucky's past shows up to implicate her in the crime, Lucky is left to debate the merits of a firing...
20) So Damn Lucky
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Everyone Has a Hidden Talent
For Lucky O'Toole it's murder...solving it.
Tonight she feels like committing it.
Her live-in lover, Teddie, has rock-starred out and taken his show on the road.
Her mother is a pregnant hormonal weapon of mass destruction.
But, as the Chief Problem Solver for the Babylon, Las Vegas's most over-the-top destination, murder isn't in her job description.
SO DAMN LUCKY
Renowned magician, Dimitri Fortunoff apparently dies while...