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21) Small blessings
Author
Language
English
Description
"Tom Putnam, an English professor at a Virginia women's college, has resigned himself to a quiet and half-fulfilled life. For more than ten years, his wife Marjory has been a shut-in, a fragile and frigid woman whose neuroses have left her fully dependent on Tom and his formidable mother-in-law, Agnes Tattle. Tom considers his unhappy condition self-inflicted, since Marjory's condition was exacerbated by her discovery of Tom's brief and misguided...
Author
Series
Joe Pike volume 2
Language
English
Description
Elvis Cole's taciturn partner, Joe Pike, investigates an attack on former associate Frank Meyer, a one-time mercenary whose family has been murdered by a professional hit crew and who police suspect has been keeping a dangerous secret.
Author
Language
English
Description
A once accomplished concert pianist, Richard now has ALS. As he becomes increasingly paralyzed and is no longer able to live on his own, Karina becomes his reluctant caretaker. As Richard's muscles, voice, and breath fade, both he and Karina try to reconcile their past before it's too late. This is a masterful exploration of redemption and what it means to find peace inside of forgiveness. Print run 150,000.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel that is as visionary as The Handmaid's Tale and as richly imagined as The Blind Assassin. Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs. They desperately need to turn their situation around and fast. The Positron...
Author
Series
A Dick Francis novel volume 9
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
It is said that everyone over a certain age can remember distinctly what they were doing when they heard that President Kennedy had been assassinated, or that Princess Diana had been killed in a Paris car crash, but I, for one, could recall all too clearly where I was standing when a policeman told me that my wife had been murdered. Bill Russell is acting as a volunteer steward at Warwick races when he confronts his worst nightmare--the violent death...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Doctoring water samples to help his corrupt agribusiness employer continue illegal dumping in the Everglades, biologist Chaz Perrone attempts to murder his wife, who has figured out his scam and who survives to plot her husband's downfall.
28) Sometimes I lie
Author
Language
English
Description
Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can't move. She can't speak. She can't open her eyes. Though she can hear everyone around her, no one knows because she's in a coma. But she doesn't remember what happened. And she has a sneaking suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from twenty years ago, the narratives build and collide for an...
29) One day
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2010
Physical Desc
13 compact discs (16 hr. 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a fateful summer day in 1988, Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley knew they shared something special. However, a romance never blossomed between them. Every year for the next two decades, Dex and Em meet up on July 15th, the anniversary of their first meeting, to swap stories of love, loss, and laughter, until they finally uncover the true love that binds them together.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Alma Mitchel convinces her lawyer husband to defend her Native American childhood friend when he is accused of murdering a federal agent, which forces her to revisit the past and confront secrets from a childhood spent in the wake of the Indian Wars.
33) Verity
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (490 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of best-selling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't...
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 6 hr., 30 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
"Emma is a young woman who has just moved from New York to Brazil. She came for her husband's career, with no job prospects of her own, a weak grasp of the language, and a deep ambivalence about having a child. Her early days in Sao Paulo are listless but privileged; she dines at high-end restaurants, tutors wealthy Brazilians in English, and observes the city she now calls home. As massive demonstrations against the government spread across the country...
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 8 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
"Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expected Akin to take several wives, he and Yejide have always agreed: polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage--after consulting fertility doctors and healers, trying strange teas and unlikely cures--Yejide is still not pregnant. She assumes she has time--until her family arrives on her doorstep with a young woman they introduce as Akin's...
36) CD collection
Author
Series
[FBI thriller volume 7, 8 &9
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2002-2004, [2006]
Edition
Abridged.
Physical Desc
15 audio discs (18 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
�2006, �1998
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (10 hr.) : digital ; 9 x 6 cm + 1 set of earphones + 1 AAA battery + 1 lanyard.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1919, young couple Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley form a partnership, hiring themselves out as "young adventurers". Their first case, however, is more of an adventure than they expect - working to find secret documents that, if they were known to the general public, would fuel a communist revolution in Britain. They know that Jane Finn had the documents when she disappeared five years ago. What they don't know is that a killer is targeting...