The Devotion of Suspect X / by Higashino, Keigo, 1958-, author 656116, Smith, Alexander O., translator 656118, Alexander, Elye J., translator 656119, Minotaur Books (Online service) 656121

“…Yasuko lives a quiet life, working in a Tokyo bento shop, a good mother to her only child. But when her ex-husband appears at her door without warning one day, her comfortable world is shattered. …”
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Encore Valentine / by Adriani Trigiani, author 656192

“…Valentine's dreams are dashed when her grandmother names her brother and nemesis Alfred her partner at Angelini Shoes. …”

Sold To Be A Wife : ONLY A DETERMINED FOSTER CARER CAN STOP A TERRIFIED GIRL FROM BECOMING A CHILD BRIDE / by Hartley, Maggie, author 656233

“…Fourteen-year-old Shazia has been taken into care after a conversation at school leads her teacher to suspect that the teenager's family are planning to send her to Pakistan for an arranged marriage. …”

Ethylene vinyl acetate co-polymer degradation by environmental microbes by Wong, Bryan Jun Long

“…Carbonyl index (CI) calculation obtain from FTIR spectra revealed a reduction in CI levels in the EVA sheets after 40days of degradation. ATR-FTIR measurements also captured biofilm formations by R.ruber when biodegrading the EVA sheets. …”
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The Nightingale / by Hannah, Kristin, author 369246, Macmillan Books (Online service) 655983

“…While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets Gäetan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love as only the young can…completely. But when he betrays her, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back, risking her life time and again to save others. …”
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Love and Other Words / by Lauren, Christina, author 593883, Little, Brown Book Group (Online service) 655987

“…But when she runs into Elliot Petropoulos—the first and only love of her life—the careful bubble she’s constructed begins to dissolve. …”
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Lithium intercalation compound dramatically influences the electrochemical properties of exfoliated MoS2 by Ambrosi, Adriano, Sofer, Zdeněk, Pumera, Martin

“…MoS2 and other transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have recently gained a renewed interest due to the interesting electronic, catalytic, and mechanical properties which they possess when down-sized to single or few layer sheets. Exfoliation of the bulk multilayer structure can be achieved by a preliminary chemical Li intercalation followed by the exfoliation due to the reaction of Li with water. …”
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100 UMPSA athletes to compete in 10 events at the 2024 SUKUM Championship by Siti Nur Azwin, Zulkapri

“…PEKAN, 6 August 2024 – The enthusiastic cheers of “UMPSA! Minda Juara!” echoed as 100 athletes, comprising 65 men and 35 women from Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah (UMPSA), prepared to represent their university in the upcoming 2024 SUKUM Championship.…”
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Brownian dynamics simulation of soft matter with hydrodynamics: methods for constrained systems and shear processing of 2D materials by Funkenbusch, William Tian

“…We use the conformational and rotational properties of the sheet simulations to explain this behavior, demonstrating a new explanation for the non-monotonic rheological properties of 2D materials which does not involve sheet-sheet interactions (which are rare in dilute suspensions) or thermal energy (which is often small in sheet systems). …”
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Please, let me go / by Spencer, Caitlin, author 656310, Brown, Linda Watson author 656311

“…At a time when the abuse ring realities of young white women in Rotherham and other major English cities are coming to light, Caitlin's story will appal readers - not just because of the degree of horrific attacks which were perpetrated upon her, but also because of the ways in which the authorities refused to act. …”

Driving Miss Norma : AN INSPIRATIONAL STORY ABOUT WHAT REALLY MATTERS AT THE END OF LIFE / by Bauerschmidt, Tim, author 655967, Liddle,Ramie, author 655968

“…"When Miss Norma was diagnosed with uterine cancer, she was advised to undergo surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. …”

Frail Line by Er, Kia Hui, Ong, Grace Xi Wei, Ho, Baofei, Tan, Jit Quan, Boithar, Faizal

“…The daughter is a hair dresser with long hair, she cuts her hair after the breakup with her boyfriend. Disillusioned with romantic love, the daughter seeks solace and escape in the company of her father, a male figure who has re-entered her life. …”
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An assimilation of experience. by Mehraj Nisha.

“…She pulled out the coffee-stained, off-white pouch and looked inside for coins, dropped a rupee into the payphone and took out a small piece of wrinkled paper from her pocket. Arundhati Roy writes in her essay ‘Confronting Empire’ about the power the people of developing nations have when confronting the corporate empire. …”
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Digging up flowers by Seo, Jasmine Lijuan

“…Digging Up Flowers is a screenplay about an underachieving illustrator who strives for more in her life and career, with a healthy dose of magical realism thrown in when among other things, she comes to face a mysterious spectre of her child self. …”
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B-twisted Gaiotto–Witten theory and topological quantum field theory by Garner, N, Geer, N, Young, MB

“…The physical theories we model admit alternative realizations as Chern&ndash;Simons&ndash;Rozansky&ndash;Witten theories and supergroup Chern&ndash;Simons theories and include as particular examples global forms of <em>gl</em>(1|1)&ndash;Chern&ndash;Simons theory and toral Chern&ndash;Simons theory. …”

Blood Runs Cold / by Barclay, Alex, author 582003

“…When an FBI agent is found dead on the white slopes of Quandary Peak in Colorado, a brilliant but volatile agent is drafted in from Denver to lead the investigation. …”

My garden of you by Chen, Zhi Lin

“…When my youngest brother was born, my paternal grandmother from Taiwan flew exactly 3,231 kilometres from home to be with my family to look after him when my parents were at work. …”
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Umbrella by Khoo, Siew May

“…This was when Ah Girl decided to give her final shot to open the umbrella and prove to her grandmother that she was not lying. …”
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Where ‘peripheral’ becomes central : examining the transnational life and activism of shirin fozdar in the early twentieth century asia by Chua, Yi Lin

“…In addition, I will analyse her position on nationalism and citizenship and how it relates to women’s rights activism, and her representation at international conferences on women’s rights in the twentieth century. …”
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The Becoming by Chan, Zi Xin

“…Knowing her future is at stake, she attempts to contain her brewing anxiety after witnessing the other beautiful test subjects excelling. …”
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