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Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"As the older sibling to identical twins Violet and Lily, Cami Porter was always the odd sister out. The divide grew even wider when their parents split up--while the twins stayed in Cape Sanctuary with their free-spirited mother, Rosemary, fourteen-year-old Cami moved to LA with her attorney father. Nearly twenty years later, when Cami gets the terrible news that Lily has drowned saving a child's life, her mother begs her to return home to help untangle...
22) A family affair
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Anna McNichol knows how to take charge. Raised by a single mother, she's worked to ensure her three children have every advantage she didn't. And while her marriage has its problems, she values commitment and believes in 'till death do us part.' Now an empty nester, she's at the peak of her career and ready to seize the opportunity to focus on her future. But life can change in an instant, and when her husband dies suddenly, Anna's carefully constructed...
23) The Last Mile
Author
Series
Amos Decker volume 2
Language
English
Description
Melvin Mars awaits his fate on Death Row. He was one of America's most promising football stars until, aged twenty-years-old, he was arrested and convicted for the murder of his parents just as he was due to begin a very lucrative contract with the NFL. When Amos Decker, newly appointed special agent with the FBI, hears the news that Melvin was saved in the final seconds before his execution because someone has confessed to the killings, he persuades...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
After the death of her son, Madeleine accepts a request from the ministry to aid in the war effort and, returning to France, confronts the devastation of World War II as she fights to take down the Nazis, find her husband and ultimately survive against inconceivable odds.
25) Hamlet
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, William Shakespeare, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Shakespeare-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original play. These classic plays...
26) The dry
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
" ''One of the most stunning debuts I've ever read . . . Every word is near perfect.' -- David Baldacci. A small town hides big secrets in The Dry, an atmospheric, page-turning debut mystery by award-winning author Jane Harper. After getting a note demanding his presence, Federal Agent Aaron Falk arrives in his hometown for the first time in decades to attend the funeral of his best friend, Luke. Twenty years ago when Falk was accused of murder,...
27) Good riddance
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In a delightful new romantic comedy from Elinor Lipman, one woman's trash becomes another woman's treasure, with deliriously entertaining results. Daphne Maritch doesn't quite know what to make of the heavily annotated high school yearbook she inherits from her mother, who held this relic dear. Too dear.The late June Winter Maritch was the teacher to whom the class of '69 had dedicated its yearbook, and in turn she went on to attend every reunion,...
28) Razorblade tears
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance. Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid. The last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah's white husband, Derek. Ike had never fully accepted his son but is devastated by his loss. Derek's father Buddy Lee...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the author of the internationally bestselling A Man Called Ove, a charming, warmhearted novel about a young girl whose grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters, sending her on a journey that brings to life the world of her grandmother's fairy tales"--
Elsa is seven years old; her grandmother is seventy-seven years old. She is Elsa's best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother's stories, in the Land of...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When famed chef Augustus Beauvais dies, four women--his ex-wife, her daughter, his estranged daughter and his latest girlfriend--must rely on family, friendship and inner strength when the circumstances surrounding Augustus's death are called into question.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Starting a new life with Tom, a loving widower who makes her feel safe again, Emma, when a police detective shows up asking questions about her first husband's unsolved murder, learns a shocking truth about her second husband that calls everything into question.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with...
33) The Witch Elm
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A brilliant new work of suspense from "the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years." (Washington Post) From the writer who "inspires cultic devotion in readers" (The New Yorker) and has been called "incandescent" by Stephen King, "absolutely mesmerizing" by Gillian Flynn, and "unputdownable" (People), comes a gripping new novel that turns a crime story inside out. Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who's dodged a scrape at work...
Author
Series
Willamette brides volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 1879, reunited with childhood friend and lawyer Seth Carpenter, recently widowed Nancy Pritchard must search through the pieces of her loveless marriage for the truth behind her husband's death after his schemes come to light. But as they pursue answers, their feelings create complications, and dark secrets reveal themselves"--
35) The guest room
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tess has a bad habit. She can't stop snooping through her guests' belongings . . . When Tess is forced to rent out her late sister's old room to pay the bills, the urge to rummage through her guests' belongings overtakes her every thought. Teasing herself with forbidden glimpses into the lives of strangers is a momentary thrill, but it's the closest she's felt to anyone since the mysterious death of her sister, Rosie. After her newest lodger, Arran,...
Author
Series
Christmas hope volume 7
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Relocating to an apartment with her two children to be closer to her mother, Gretchen offers to help clear out the home of a reclusive neighbor's recently deceased mother and discovers that the neighbor, Melissa, has two siblings and an identity that she never suspected.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Things We Do in the Dark is a brilliant new thriller from Jennifer Hillier, the award-winning author of the breakout novels Little Secrets and Jar of Hearts. Paris Peralta is suspected of killing her celebrity husband, and her long-hidden past now threatens to destroy her future. When Paris Peralta is arrested in her own bathroom -- covered in blood, holding a straight razor, her celebrity husband dead in the bathtub behind her -- she knows she'll...
Author
Language
English
Description
"After the death of her US senator father, Marlow Madsen travels to the small island off the coast of Florida where she spent summers growing up to help her mother settle the family estate. For Marlow, the trip is a chance to reconnect after too long apart. It's also the perfect escape to help her feel grounded again--one she's happy to share with friends Aida and Claire, who are hoping to hit reset on their lives, too. A leisurely beachfront summer...
Author
Language
English
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Description
In this book the author give us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving novel in which she explores how a middle-aged man, ripped apart by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearances, in their house, on the roadway, in the market. Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron has spent his childhood fending off a sister who wants to manage him. So when he meets Dorothy, a plain, outspoken, independent young woman, she is like a...