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41) Under pressure
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B.E.S.T. world volume 2
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English
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Told through the alternating perspectives of Leo (they/them) and Jayla (she/her), the boxmates from the B.E.S.T. Academy are lost at sea and their best friend, Grayson Bix, is missing. Their hoverpod is busted, their stomachs are empty, and their hopes are crushed. When a mysterious vessel approaches, Ace, Leo, and Jayla are certain they'll be carted back to the Tower of Power, with their punishments for escaping awaiting. But a twist: The crew is...
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Family upstairs volume 2
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English
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"Detective Inspector Samuel Owusu is called to [the banks of the Thames] after a tour guide makes a shocking discovery, one that will unearth a decades-old crime linked to the unsolved murder of three people in a grand Chelsea mansion thirty years before. In another part of the city, Rachel Rimmer receives shocking news as well. Her husband, away on business in the south of France, has been found murdered. The police demand she immediately come to...
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English
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"The 'best short story writer in English' (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose--wickedly funny, unsentimental, and perfectly tuned--Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: here is a collection of prismatic, deeply resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression...
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English
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