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1481) El jardín de Olavide
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo USA
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"'Cuando halles el significado de este jardín, estarás preparado para alejarte de él'. 1895: Todo está preparado para el gran baile que va a celebrarse en el jardín más enigmático de la ciudad de Madrid. Ana recibe su invitación sin ninguna expectativa: su alma rebelde rechaza la ostentación. Nada puede hacerle sospechar que aquel no será un baile más. Está a punto de encontrarse con alguien que le abrirá las puertas de un mundo desconocido...
1482) Y líbranos del mal
Author
Series
Publisher
Seix Barral
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"All families keep secrets, but some hide truths so dark that when they come to light they rot everything. Jimmy believes that his existence is perfect: he is about to enter college, his father is the administrator of Brooklyn Cathedral and His mother is a happy housewife. However, when his grandmother falls ill and he decides to travel to Peru to take care of her, contact with his father's old Lima friends will open a window into a past that he did...
1483) The last dreamwalker
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From Hurston/Wright Legacy Award-winning author Rita Woods, The Last Dreamwalker tells the story of two women, separated by nearly two centuries yet inextricably linked by the Gullah Geechee Islands off the coast of South Carolina-and their connection to a mysterious and extraordinary gift passed from generation to generation. In the wake of her mother's passing, Layla Hurley unexpectedly reconnects with her mother's sisters, women she hasn't been...
1484) The match
Author
Series
Wilde (Harlan Coben) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harlan Coben returns to Wilde, the man with a past shrouded in mystery who appeared one day in the Ramapo Mountains with no memory of how he got there or the mother and father who abandoned him. Wilde uncovers a major break in the case that may hold the key to revealing the truth of his origins. But the discovery links him with a present-day disappearance and presumed suicide that is much more than at first it appears.
Wilde has grown up knowing...
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a new book featuring everyone's favorite family--the Baxters. Decades ago, John and Elizabeth Baxter lived a love story that is still playing out in the lives of their adult children and grandchildren. But few of them know the exact details of that story or the heartbreak that brought the two together. Now in high school, Ashley Baxter Blake's oldest son, Cole, must write a family history...
1486) Un revés inesperado
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Los miembros de la familia Delaney se quieren con locura...es solo que a veces se asesinarían. Para todos los que los conocen, los Delaney son una familia envidiable. Incluso después de todos estos años, los padres, Stan y Joy, siguen teniendo una química evidente y continúan arrasando en las pistas de tenis. Y ahora que han vendido su exitosa academia tienen todo el tiempo del mundo para relajarse y disfrutar de la vida. Sus cuatro hijos nunca...
1487) You don't own me
Author
Series
Under suspicion (Mary Higgins Clark) volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
""Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke are back with their fifth enthralling mystery in the New York Times bestselling Under Suspicion series; You Don't Own Me finds television producer Laurie Moran stopping at nothing to solve the murder of a celebrity doctor--even as she finds herself in grave danger as a mysterious stalker plots his next move. When we last saw Laurie Moran, she had recently become engaged to her show's former...
1488) Unsettled ground
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At fifty-one years old, twins Jeanie and Julius still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation in the English countryside. The cottage they have shared their entire lives is their only protection against the modernizing world around them. Inside its walls, they make music, and in its garden, they grow everything they need to survive. To an outsider, it looks like poverty; to them, it is home. But when Dot dies unexpectedly, the world they've...
1489) Every last fear
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In one of the year's most anticipated debut psychological thrillers, a family made infamous by a true crime documentary is found dead, leaving their surviving son to uncover the truth about their final days. 'They found the bodies on a Tuesday.' So begins this twisty and breathtaking novel that races the fate of the Pine family, a thriller that will both leave you on the edge of your seat and move you to tears. After a late night of partying, NYU...
1490) Vías cruzadas
Author
Publisher
Duomo Ediciones
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
Alex Cross dejó su ciudad natal y algunas terribles tragedias familiares para vivir una vida mejor con Nana Mama en Washington, DC. No ha mirado atrás. Ahora, su primo Stefan ha sido acusado de un asesinato horrible e impensable, y Cross conduce hacia el sur con Bree, Nana Mama, Jannie y Ali a Starksville, Carolina del Norte, por primera vez en treinta y cinco años. De regreso a casa, descubre una comunidad que alguna vez fue orgullosa y que ha...
1491) Every breath you take
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Laurie Moran's professional life is a success. Her television show Under Suspicion is a hit, both in the ratings and its record of solving cold cases. But her romantic break from former host Alex Buckley has left her with on-air talent she can't stand -- Ryan Nichols -- and a sense of loneliness, despite her loving family. Now Ryan has suggested a new case. Three years ago, Virginia Wakeling, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Metropolitan...
1492) As time goes by: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
" In this exciting thriller from Mary Higgins Clark, the #1 New York Times bestselling "Queen of Suspense," a news reporter tries to find her birth mother just as she is assigned to cover the high-profile trial of a woman accused of murdering her wealthy husband. Television journalist Delaney Wright is on the brink of stardom after she begins covering a sensational murder trial for the six p.m. news. She should be thrilled, yet her growing desire...
1493) Revival season: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The daughter of one of the South's most famous Baptist preachers discovers a shocking secret about her father that puts her at odds with both her faith and her family in this "tender and wise" (Ann Patchett, author of Commonwealth) debut novel. Every summer, fifteen-year-old Miriam Horton and her family pack themselves tight in their old minivan and travel through small southern towns for revival season: the time when Miriam's father--one of the...
1494) The English wife
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Annabelle and Bayard Van Duyvil live a charmed life in 1890s New York: he's the scion of an old Knickerbocker family, she grew up in a Tudor house in England, they had a fairytale romance in London, they have three-year-old twins on whom they dote, and he's recreated her family home on the banks of the Hudson and named it Illyria. Yes, there are rumors that she's having an affair with the architect, but rumors are rumors, and people will gossip....
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"In 1964, when Jaime Sonoro, Mexico's most renowned actor and singer, discovers a book telling of the multitude of horrific crimes committed by his ancestors, he must pay for their crimes unless he can uncover the truth about his grandfather, the legendary bandido El Tragabalas, The Bullet Swallower"--‡cProvided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hazel DeFord is a woman haunted by her past. While berry picking in a blackberry thicket in 1943, ten-year old Hazel momentarily turns her back on her three-year old sister Maggie and the young girl disappears. Almost seventy years later, the mystery remains unsolved, and the secret guilt Hazel carries has alienated her from her daughter Diane, who can't understand her mother's overprotectiveness and near paranoia. While Diane resents her mother's...
1497) Mika en la vida real
Author
Publisher
Umbriel, Ediciones Urano, S.A.U
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Con treinta y cinco años, la vida de Mika Suzuki es un desastre. Su última relación terminó muy mal. Su compañera de habitación y mejor amiga podría ser una acumuladora compulsiva. Ella es una continua decepción para sus padres, japoneses tradicionales. Y, hace muy poco, la despidieron de su último trabajo. Mika está en su peor momento cuando recibe una llamada de Penny, la hija que dio en adopción hace dieciséis años. Penny está decidida...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A juicy, powerful read featuring twin sisters who have drifted apart, and the shocking family secrets that bind them--for readers of The Woman in Cabin 10 and I Let You Go When the past knocks, someone must answer. In a bustling suburban neighborhood in Manchester, England, sits an unassuming house. There is no sign of life behind the unwashed windows, but Robin Marshall is inside. Driven by fears and obsessions, racked by anxiety, Robin is frantically...
1499) Moon rising
Author
Series
Wings of fire. Original series volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"When Moonwatcher, a young NightWing with secret powers, begins school at the academy started by the dragonets of destiny after the end of the war, she soon realizes that someone is attacking the students. Moon must choose whether to help or continue to hide her gifts"--
1500) Finding Katarina M
Author
Publisher
Polis Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Natalie March is a respected surgeon enjoying a busy, productive life in Washington DC. As her demanding career has left little time for friends or romance, her deepest relationship is with her mother, Vera March, a Russian immigrant and MS patient confined to a rehabilitation center. Vera is still haunted by the fact that her Ukrainian parents, innocent of any wrongdoing, were sent to the gulag, Stalin's notorious network of labor camps, when she...
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