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The seven or eight deaths of Stella Fortuna : a novel / by Grames, Juliet,author.;
Over a hundred years ago, in a mountainside village in Calabria, Italy, from a union between two young people with little to their names, a baby was born. Beautiful and adored by her mother, baby Mariastella Fortuna-- known as Stella-- seemed promised a happy destiny. But if Stella Fortuna means 'lucky star,' then life must have a funny sense of humour. Everybody in the Fortuna family knows the story of how Stella, once the most beautiful girl in the village of Ievoli, the unconventional, fiercely independent young woman who refused to learn to cook and who swore she would never marry, has escaped death time and time again. From her childhood in Italy, to her adulthood in America, death has seemed to pursue Stella. She has been burned, eviscerated and bludgeoned; she has choked, nearly fallen out of a window, and on one occasion, her life was only saved by a typo. However, even the best-known stories still have secrets to reveal ... and even after a century, Stella's is no exception. No woman survives seven or eight deaths without a reason. So, how did she? In a tale which spans nine decades, two continents, and one family's darkest, deepest-buried truths, the answer awaits ...
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Families; Italian Americans; Immigrants; Sisters; Family secrets;
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The mapping of love and death / by Winspear, Jacqueline,1955-;
"Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death--an investigation that leads her to a doomed affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Historical fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Cartographers; Dobbs, Maisie (Fictitious character); Women private investigators; World War, 1914-1918;
© 2010., Harper,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The green mile : the complete serial novel / by King, Stephen,1947-;
Subjects: Horror tales; Prisons; Death row inmates;
© 1996, c2000, Scribner
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Sulfur heart / by Carter, Brooke,1977-;
After his father is killed under mysterious circumstances, Will returns to the small town he left behind.RL 3.1.LSC
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Fathers; Murder;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The enchanted : a novel / by Denfeld, Rene,author.;
Arriving at an ancient stone prison, the Lady, an investigator who searches for information from prisoners's pasts that can save those awaiting execution, digs into the past of a killer named York, who can sense what others cannot, and unearths shocking secrets of her own.
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Death row inmates; Prisons;
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Death by a thousand cuts : stories / by Bhat, Shashi,1983-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."In this dazzling collection of stories, characters confront the painful absurdities and everyday horrors that come with being a woman. A writer discovers that her ex-boyfriend has published a novel about their breakup. An immunocompromised woman falls in love. A Reddit post about a man's habit of grabbing his girlfriend's breasts prompts a dark confession. A teenager contends with an unsettling shift at home after her beautiful mother has a disfiguring accident. A child-free woman goes on a date with a man who tests her boundaries. A college student vows to end things with her aspiring geneticist boyfriend, who wishes she had blue eyes. And when a woman unexpectedly begins to lose her hair, she embarks on an increasingly nightmarish search for answers. The characters in Death by a Thousand Cuts seek connection while facing longing, fear, rage, and the impossible expectations placed on women. With bracing honesty and a skewering wit, these stories boldly wrestle with themes of illness, pain, desire, bodily autonomy, and their inescapable impacts on a woman's relationships with others and with herself."--
Subjects: Short stories.; Women;
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Cat on the run in Cat of death! / by Blabey, Aaron.;
"What happens when the world's #1 Cat Video Star gets accused of a crime she didn't commit? She becomes a cat on the run, that's what."--
Subjects: Humorous comics.; Funny animal comics.; Humorous fiction.; Animal fiction.; Graphic novels.; Comics (Graphic works); Cats; Internet personalities; Fugitives from justice; Cartoons and comics.;
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The substitute / by Lundrigan, Nicole,author.;
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Substitute teachers; Teenagers;
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The sweetheart deal : a novel / by Dugan, Polly.;
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Husbands; Interpersonal relations;
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Prince of Ravenscar / by Coulter, Catherine.;
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Love stories.; Regency fiction.; Family secrets; Wives;
© c2011., G.P. Putnams Sons,
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