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Say you'll be mine : a novel
by Naina Kumar
Theater teacher and playwright Meghna Rama, when Seth, her best friend and secret crush, gets engaged to another, agrees to let her parents introduce her to a potential match, engineer Karthik Murthy, who offers her a fake engagement to help her through Seth's wedding until an undeniable chemistry emerges between them.
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The silence in her eyes : a novel
by Armando Lucas Correa
Living with motion blindness, Leah, with her acute senses of smell and hearing, very little escapes her notice, is convinced her neighbor, who is trying to escape from an abusive husband, is going to be murdered and makes a decision that will test her courage, her strength and ultimately her sanity.
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The Mitford secret
by Jessica Fellowes
In 1941, when the Mitford family gathers at Chatsworth for Christmas, along with society's most glamourous guests and Louisa Cannon, an old family friend turned private detective, a mystery unfolds after a psychic reveals a long-ago murder in this very house, prompting Louisa to solve this cold case.
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Some of us are looking : a County Kerry novel
by Carlene O'Connor
When a beautiful young woman named Brigid, part of a ragtag caravan of young people selling wares by the roadside, is brutally murdered after bringing an injured hare to her veterinary practice, Dimpna Wilde helps Detective Sergeant Cormac O'Brien investigate, finding ominous signs everywhere they look.
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The waters : a novel
by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Spending the days searching for truths on an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp, 11-year-old Dorothy Zook, the granddaughter of an herbalist and eccentric healer, finds her childhood upended by family secrets, passionate love and violent men where the only bridge across the water is her wayward mother.
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The roaring days of Zora Lily
by Noelle Salazar
While preparing The Hollywood Glamour Exhibition at the Smithsonian, costume conservator Sylvia Early discovers another name beneath a label and unearths the story of Zora Hough, a talented young seamstress who left her poverty-stricken life in 1924 Jazz-Age Seattle behind to realize her dreams of becoming a designer.
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The fiction writer
by Jillian Cantor
Battling writer's block, once-rising literary star Olivia Fitzgerald is offered a high-paying ghostwriting opportunity by a reclusive mega billionaire who wants her help in writing a book that reveals a shocking secret about his grandmother and Daphne du Maurier, trapping her in a gothic mystery of her own.
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Tendrils of the past
by Anthea Fraser
Tragedy strikes a quiet Dorset town when the bodies of Sarah and Charles Drummond are discovered in their home one morning while their two young children, Abby and Mia, sleep upstairs. The police seem certain that Charles killed his wife before taking his own life, and the girls' grandmother, Cicely Fairfax, makes sure that they are shielded from the horrific truth. Until now. Sixteen years later, an accident at work leads Mia to have disturbing flashbacks to the night her parents met their untimely deaths. What did she see? What really happened that fateful evening? When Mia and Abby eventually share painful memories from the night that changed their lives forever, they get closer to uncovering the truth, and a dark secret from the past is finally revealed . . .
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Lemon curd killer
by Laura Childs
When murder takes center stage during Charleston Fashion Week, tea shop entrepreneur Theodosia Browning, implored by the victim's daughter to help find the killer, enters a world of backstabbing business partners, crazed clothing designers, angry film producers and drug deals.
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Murder in Drury Lane
by Vanessa Riley
While attending a production at the Drury Lane theater, Lady Abigail Worthing, when murder is in attendance, launches her own investigation, dismayed to discover one suspect is a leading advocate for the cause dearest to her heart—the abolition of slavery within the British Empire.
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The way of the househusband
by Kousuke Oono
Tells the story of "the Immortal Dragon," the fiercest member of the yakuza, who leaves his old life behind to take on the role of a househusband
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Wotakoi : love is hard for Otaku. 3
by Fujita
When gossip about them begins at work, Narumi and Hirotaka are going to have to rely on Hirotaka's reputation as an undateable gamer to squash it, while Narumi tries cosplaying and Naoya's misunderstanding about his new friend Ko comes to a head
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Chainsaw man. 13, Spoiler
by Tatsuki Fujimoto
Denji is desperate to tell the world that he's Chainsaw Man, but is he competent enough to pull off a proper reveal? Meanwhile, Asa has made a friend! But this new friendship may be hiding a dark secret
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Eat the rich
by Sarah Gailey
WELCOME TO CRESTFALL BLUFFS! With law school and her whole life ahead of her, Joey plans to spend the summer with her boyfriend Astor at his seemingly perfect family home. But beneath all the affluent perfection lies a dark, deadly rot...something all the locals live in quiet fear of. As summer lingers, Joey uncovers the macabre history of Crestfall Bluffs and the ruthlessness and secrecy lying in wait behind the idyllic lives of the one percent. Who can Joey save? Who wants to be saved? And can she even survive to tell the tale?
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Shubeik lubeik
by Dåinåa Muòhammad
A brilliant and imaginative debut graphic novel that brings to life a fantastical Cairo where wishes are real. Author, illustrator, and translator Deena Mohamed presents a literary, feminist, Arab-centric graphic novel that marries magic and the socio-political realities of contemporary Egypt. Shubeik Lubeik-a fairytale rhyme meaning "Your Wish is My Command" in Arabic-is the story of three characters navigating a world where wishes are literally for sale; mired in bureaucracy and the familiar prejudices of our world, the more expensive the wish, the more powerful and therefore the more likely to work as intended. The novel's three distinct parts tell the story of three first class wishes as used by Aziza, Nour, and Shokry, each grappling with the challenge inherent in trying to make your most deeply held desire come true. Deena's mix of calligraphy and contemporary styles, brings to life a vibrant Cairene neighborhood, and a cast of characters whose struggles and triumphs are deeply resonant. Shubeik Lubeik heralds the arrival of a huge new talent and a brave, literary, political, and feminist new voice in comics.
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Want to request any of these titles? Place a hold through the online catalog, or call the library 831-768-3404 for assistance.
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Watsonville Public Library
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