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Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates / Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A mysterious letter. An offer taken. And the chance to move forward. When Ava Harrison receives a letter containing an unusual job listing one month after the sudden death of her ex-boyfriend, she thinks she's being haunted. The listing--a job as a live-in caretaker for a peculiar old man and his cranky cat in Driftwood, Alabama--is the perfect chance to start a new life. A normal life. Ava has always been too fearful to even travel, so no one's...
1562) Murder by an aristocrat
Author
Publisher
Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When Nurse Keate arrives at the Thatcher estate to care for a man with a bullet in his shoulder, she's told that he shot himself accidentally--but when the convalescing man is murdered soon thereafter, it becomes clear that the only "accident" was his not being fully killed the first time around. A murderer stalks the manor and yet the rest of the family isn't the slightest bit alarmed; instead, they seem intent on concealing the crime and adding...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"It's been seventeen years since the tragic summer the McAvoy sisters fell apart. Lindy, the wild one, left home, carved out a new life in the city and never looked back. Delia, the sister who stayed, became a mother herself, raising her daughters and running the family shop in their small Ohio hometown on the shores of Lake Erie. But now, with their mother's ailing health and a rebellious teenager to rein in, Delia has no choice but to welcome Lindy...
1564) Heirlooms
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Answering a woman's desperate call for help, young Navy widow Helen Devries opens her Whidbey Island home as a refuge to Choi Eunhee. As they bond over common losses and a delicate, potentially devastating secret, their friendship spans the remainder of their lives. After losing her mother, Cassidy Quinn spent her childhood summers with her gran, Helen, at her farmhouse. Nourished by her grandmother's love and encouragement, Cassidy discovers a passion...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In a novel inspired by Audrey Hepburn's classic film Sabrina, a caterer returns to the grand Long Island estate -- now set for demolition -- where she grew up as the daughter of the house manager, and where a rekindled love triangle reveals bittersweet truths about her upbringing and a shattering secret about her family.
When Emma Jansen discovers that the grand Long Island estate where she grew up is set to be demolished, she can't help but return...
1566) Coming up for air
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Struggling with the disintegration of her marriage at the same time her controlling mother passes away, Ellie is perplexed when she learns that her ex-boyfriend, Hutch, is creating a documentary about her mother.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Commonwealth is the story of two broken families and the paths their lives take over the course of 40 years, through love and marriage, death and divorce, and a dark secret from childhood that lies underneath it all"--
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Two sisters roll up their sleeves to run a dilapidated beach-town inn but must learn to work with the current tenants in this deliciously spicy reimagining of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility by Nikki Payne. Nora needs a reinvention fast. But where can you go when the entire internet knows your face? (And ass... but Nora tries not to talk about that.) After discovering at her father's funeral that she and her sister, Yanne, have lived their entire...
1570) The bracelet: [a novel]
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The story of a young southern woman whose dreams fracture under the weight of her family's tragic past"--
1571) The autumnal: Vol. 1
Author
Publisher
Vault Comics
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Comfort Notch. Following the death of her estranged mother, Kat Somerville and her daughter Sybil flee a difficult life in Chicago for the quaint--and possibly deadly--town of Comfort Notch, New Hampshire."-- cover page 4.
Author
Series
Blessings volume 3
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When their "no frills" wedding turns into the event of the decade with the help of well-meaning neighbors, former high school sweethearts Lily Fontaine and Trent July consider eloping until something happens to remind them that happiness is to be shared.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Cora Matthews returns to Moonberry Lake to settle her mother's affairs and then get on with her life. What she finds is a strangely enticing inheritance, including a dilapidated lodge, a lot of eccentric neighbors, a handsome stranger, and a whole lot of family secrets to unravel"--|cProvided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker's entire family is assembling for Nana's 80th birthday party in Nana's crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. Finally back together one last time, when the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours. The family arrives, each of them harboring secrets. Then at the stroke of midnight, as a storm rages, Nana is found dead. And an hour later, the next family...
1575) Lumine
Author
Publisher
WEBTOON Unscrolled, a division of Wattpad WEBTOON Studios, Inc
Pub. Date
2023-
Language
English
Description
"In a world where weredogs, witches, and humans live side by side, Lumine is a down-on-his-luck weredog with nowhere to turn...until he meets antisocial witch boy Kody. Lumine also has a big, fluffy secret--he is actually a werewolf, a rare and powerful type of magical being thought to be extinct. Except...he can't transform properly. When robbers attack the two boys, Lumine shifts into his other form: a tiny, fierce, and ridiculously cute puppy dog....
1576) A sister's power
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"For the five Reeves women, nothing is more important than keeping their family bond tight and their communication flowing. But honesty isn't so clear cut when it could blow up everything they've fought to build... Now between revenge, grief, and forgiveness, these siblings will challenge themselves - and all they think they know about each other - in a showdown that may leave them united - or cause them to forever fall apart"--
Already reeling from...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Rebecca meets Fatima Farheen Mirza in this sweeping, gorgeously atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea, and a young girl who unearths the true story of the tragedy that happened there a hundred years ago. Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Now, nearly a century since it was built, it stands in ruins--a boardinghouse for misfits, where people come to forget or be forgotten. Seeking a new home after a painful...
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