Luanne Rice
1) Little night
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2012
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Estranged from the sister who refused to testify against an abusive husband, Clare pursues a quiet life as a nature blogger in Manhattan only to be approached by her niece, Grit, with whom she confronts a painful shared history.
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In the five years since Julia visited her aunt and uncle's home in Malibu, her life has been turned upside down by her daughter's death. She expects to find nothing more than peace and solitude as she house-sits with only her dog, Bonnie, for company. But she finds herself drawn to the handsome man who oversees the lemon orchard. Roberto expertly tends the trees to support his extended Mexican family. What connection could these two people share?...
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Sister Bernadette Ignatius has returned to Ireland with Tom Kelly to search for the son they had left behind years ago. In Dublin Seamus Sullivan is searching for his first love Kathleen Murphy. Both lived in St. Augustine's Children's Home until Kathleen's family claimed her and moved to America.
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2007
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Neve Halloran and her daughter Mickey are starting a new life near a wildlife sanctuary in South County Rhode Island. Mickey becomes friends with a lonely boy who is also fascinated by the creatures of the coasts and Neve is drawn to a man who has devoted his life to the sanctuary.
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2019.
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Fifteen-year-old Emily has six siblings, but she was also close to her best friend, Lizzie Porter, who died nearly a year ago, and she is still grieving; but Lizzie's family are also grieving, so much so, that they use Lizzie's younger sister, Chloe, as a lure and kidnap Emily, forcing her to dress, talk, and act like Lizzie, and threatening to go after Emily's family if she does not become the replacement for the daughter they lost--and Emily is...
6) Last day
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Years ago, Beth Lathrop and her sister Kate suffered what they thought would be the worst tragedy of their lives the night both the famous painting Moonlight and their mother were taken. The detective assigned to the case, Conor Reid, swore to protect the sisters from then on. Beth moved on, throwing herself fully into the art world, running the family gallery, and raising a beautiful daughter with her husband Pete. Kate, instead, retreated into herself...
7) Last kiss
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Nearly a year after the death of her eighteen-year-old son Charlie, singer-songwriter Sheridan Rosslare still hasn't played a note of the music. Out of the past she summons a man she believes cares enough, and is tough enough, to uncover the truth, Sheridan's long-ago soul mate Gavin Dawson.
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Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
2011
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289 p. ; 23 cm.
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Three far-flung sisters come home to Martha's Vineyard one last time. Their mother's beach house is the only place any of them ever found true happiness and they need to begin the difficult process of letting go. Memories of their grandmother, mother, and their Irish father, who sailed away the year Dar turned twelve, rise up and expose the fine cracks in their family myth--especially when a cache of old letters reveals enough truth to send them back...
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Here are three things to know about Maia:
1. Ever since her mother left, Maia's struggled with depression - which once got so bad, she had to go to an institution for a while. She doesn't want to go back.
2. Maia's sure that if she finds her mother, if the two of them can talk about whale songs and constellations, then everything will be okay again.
3. She's in love with Billy, the handsome, brooding boy who lives in the group home in town. He...
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Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
2008
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386 p. ; 24 cm.
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Fulfilling her mother's dying wish, anthropologist Susannah Connolly travels from her lifelong home on the Connecticut shoreline to the fabled French Camargue, to see its famous white horses, finds a mysterious saint linked to her family's history, and falls in love with an American journalist-rancher with a spirited but troubled daughter.
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2009
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302 p. ; 24 cm.
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Years ago, Lyra Davis left behind a world of wealth and privilege and the people she loved most in the world, unable to reconcile the expectations of her celebrated family with the longings of her own wild heart. Now she lives quietly among a community of expatriates on the isle of Capri--until her daughter Pell travels across an ocean to find the mother she remembers and the deeper truths they all need so desperately.
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2009
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319 p. ; 24 cm.
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In the halls of Newport Academy, a unique private school that has attracted generations of rebels, outcasts, and visionaries, a poignant and unforgettable lesson in the eternal truths of sisterhood is about to begin for Maggie Shaw, her fourteen-year-old daughter Beck, and her sixteen-year-old son Travis.
15) Summer of roses
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Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
2005
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492 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
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Lily Malone is forced to confront the events and relationships of the past as she deals with the man who has separated her from everything she has ever loved, but who could hold the key to her young daughter Rose's future.
16) The letters
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2008
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199 p. ; 20 cm.
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"Sam and Hadley West are both trying in their own ways to survive after the unthinkable loss of their only son in Alaska. For Sam, a sports journalist, acceptance means an arduous trek by dogsled across the bleak and beautiful arctic wilderness to find the place where Paul died. For Hadley, it means renting a benignly haunted, salt-soaked cottage off the Maine coast where she begins to paint again. Now, at opposite ends of the country, waiting for...
17) The shadow box
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Preparing for an exhibit that includes a piece about the domestic violence she once endured at the hands of her gubernatorial candidate husband, an artist survives a home invasion only to find herself pitted against dangerous corrupt forces.
19) Last night
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Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
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315 pages ; 23 cm
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"During a blizzard in Rhode Island, a renowned artist is found murdered and her young daughter gone missing, plunging Detective Conor Reid, his brother Tom and the woman's grieving sister into a chilling investigation"--