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Author
Series
Little school by the sea volume 1
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2022.
Physical Desc
xv, 283 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
The first book of Jenny Colgan's delightful new four-part series, set at a charming English boarding school on the sea. Maggie went to the window and opened it wide, inhaling the lovely salt air off the sea. Why had she never lived by the sea before? Why had she always looked out on housing estates and not the little white hulls of trawlers bobbing off in the distance? It's gloriously sunny in Cornwall as the school year starts at the little boarding...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
359 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Love conquers all, the saying goes, but it can't win out over the disease that befalls Mary Fury. Fury has the gene for Huntington's, a cruel affliction that attacks the body slowly, reducing a once healthy person to a mass of twitching muscles and nerves. Jonathan Cobb, a University of New Hampshire professor on sabbatical, learns the grim reality of Mary's situation shortly after the two meet (and instantly fall in love) on the Allagash River. When...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
Soline Roussel is well schooled in the business of happy endings. For generations her family has kept an exclusive bridal salon in Paris, where magic is worked with needle and thread. It's said that the bride who wears a Roussel gown is guaranteed a lifetime of joy. But devastating losses during World War II leave Soline's world and heart in ruins and her faith in love shaken. She boxes up her memories, stowing them away, along with her broken dreams,...
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
480 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
Jane Howard is a professor in Boston, in love with a brilliant, erratic man named Theo, and she becomes pregnant. Motherhood turns out to be a great welcome surprise--but when a devastating turn of events tears her existence apart she has no choice but to flee all she knows and leave the world. Just when she has renounced life itself, the disappearance of a young girl pulls her back from the edge and into an obsessive search for some sort of personal...
3725) Dr. Thorne
Author
Series
Chronicles of Barsetshire volume 3
Publisher
Zodiac Press
Pub. Date
1947
Physical Desc
510 p. ; 21 cm.
Author
Series
Little school by the sea volume 4
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xii, 269 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"Beloved literature teacher Maggie Adair loves her life at the prestigious Downey House boarding school on the gloriously sunny, windy English coast. It was there that she found her footing as a teacher and fell in love with her colleague David--the two great anchors of her life. But these days Maggie's feeling restless, lured by the promise of a different life back in her Scottish hometown. How can you follow your heart when it seems to be taking...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
July 2018.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm
Description
A richly compelling and deeply moving novel that traces the converging lives of a young boy who witnesses a brutal murder, the doctor who tends to him, and an elderly woman guarding her long buried past. It seems like just another night shift for Lucy, an overworked ER physician in Providence, Rhode Island, until six-year-old Ben is brought in as the sole survivor from a horrifying crime scene. He's traumatized and wordless; everything he knows has...
3728) La hija del curandero
Author
Publisher
Plaza & Jane?s
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
430 p. ; 25 cm.
3730) The shell seekers
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
632 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
A tale of three generations of an English family with roots in London and Cornwall, and a cherished painting that has passed from generation to generation and threatens to tear the family apart.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
479 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Wyoming, 1876. For as long as they have lived on the frontier, the Bemis and Webber families have relied on each other. With no other settlers for miles, it is a matter of survival. But when Ernest Bemis finds his wife, Cora, in a compromising situation with their neighbor, he doesn't think of survival. In one impulsive moment, a man is dead, Ernest is off to prison, and the women left behind are divided by rage and remorse. Losing her husband to...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
306, 15 pages ; 21 cm
Description
First published in 1948, this timeless classic, released for a new generation of readers, follows Margy Shannon, a shy, eager, joyfully optimistic woman, as she searches for something better from life than the hard misery of poverty in which she lives.
3733) Pack up the moon
Author
Publisher
NAL Accent, an imprint of New American Library
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"Three years after a horrible tragedy took her son and tore her family apart, artist Kate Monroe is beginning to pick up the pieces of her life and move on. At a gala showcasing her triumphant return to the art world, Kate's world is rocked again when the daughter she gave up for adoption twenty-two years ago introduces herself. Pree is the child Kate never knew and never forgot. But Pree has questions that Kate isn't sure she's ready to answer. For...
Author
Publisher
HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
344 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
Adam is a former musician and recovering alcoholic who is home for Thanksgiving for the first time in many years. Surrounded by his parents and siblings, nieces and nephews--all who have seen him at his worst--he can't shake the feeling that no matter how hard he tries, he'll always be the one who can't get it right. Marissa is a flight attendant whose marriage is strained by simmering tensions over race, class, and ambition. Heading to her in-laws...
3735) In a book club far away
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
Regina Castro, Adelaide Wilson-Chang, and Sophie Walden usedto be best friends. As Army wives at Fort East, they bonded during their book club and soon became inseparable. But when an unimaginable betrayal happened amongst the group, the friendship abruptly ended, and they haven?t spoken since. That?s why, eight years later, Regina and Sophie are shocked when they get a call for help from Adelaide. Adelaide?s husband is stationed abroad, and without...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In this big-hearted debut about ambition, race, and class, a family grapples with how much of their lineage they're willing to unearth in order to participate in the nation's first federal reparations program. Almost a decade ago, Willie Revel gave up her burgeoning journalism career in New York to help run her father's struggling construction company in Philadelphia. An ambitious single mother, Willie has reluctantly put family first without being...
3737) Postern of fate
Author
Series
Publisher
Audio Partners
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
6 sound discs (7 hrs. 22 min.)
3738) Flying at night
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
viii, 325 pages ; 24 cm
Description
An emotionally charged novel about family -- the slow accumulation of wrongs that drive us apart and the unlikely paths that lead us home again. Piper Hart has poured all her energy into raising her son, Fred, while her often-absent husband, Isaac, has poured all his energy into a career defending the wrongly accused. She's always told herself her son is perfectly normal, but somewhere deep inside her rests a tiny suspicion that all is not well. Her...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"In present-day Greece, deep in an ancient forest, lives a family: Irini, a musician, who teaches children to read and play music; her husband, Tasso, who paints pictures of the forest, his greatest muse; and Chara, their young daughter, whose name means joy. On the fateful day that will forever alter the trajectory of their lives, flames chase fleeing birds across the sky. The wildfire that will consume their home, and their lives as they know it,...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
After her parents moved her and her brother to America, Preeti Desai never meant to tear her family apart. All she did was fall in love with a white Christian carnivore instead of a conventional Indian boy. Years later, with her parents not speaking to her and her controversial relationship in tatters, all Preeti has left is her career at a prestigious Los Angeles law firm. But when Preeti receives word of a terrible accident in the city where she...
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