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Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
289 pages.
Description
"Charlie has always believed that his grandfather had sold his house to his longtime tenant, Martin Hale. So when Martin dies, Charlie is surprised to discover the house was not left to Martin but instead belongs to Charlie. As he and Diesel check out the house he remembers fondly from his childhood, he is pleasantly surprised that it is in better condition than expected. That is, until they find a literal skeleton in a closet. While the sheriff's...
922) At face value
Author
Series
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
When the Ohio River freezes over, the friends take advantage of the rare occurrence to refresh their skating skills. But their elation qickly gives way to curiosity when they find a unique old leather purse that holds a Civil War-era recipe for soup. Winnie is delighted to try it out --minus, of course, the cryptic addition of five poisonous toadstools noted on the recipe! The women's excitement is shattered when the first person to taste the soup...
925) Passport
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
305 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Description
Teenage Sophia lives with her family in Central America where her parents serve as foreign diplomats, but as she explores her own boundaries around honesty and deception she discovers the true nature of her parents' work.
Author
Publisher
Plaza y Janes
Pub. Date
[ebrero de 2023]
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"En los albores de la Segunda Republica, las hermanas Asorey afrontan la muerte de su padre, un reputado medico. Tilde, la mayor, es autoritaria y pragmatica, mientras Tea, la segunda, es inestable y sufre una fuerte depresion. Eloisa, la tercera, es moderna y emancipada,y Celia, la menor, tiene como principal objetivo casarse. Las cuatro pactan por motivos secretos esconder el cadaver. Pero cuando una joven lavandera que trabajaba para la familia...
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 24 cm
Description
A huge-hearted, redemptive coming-of-old-age tale, a love story, and an ode to good food. Nothing could be more out of character, but after fifty-nine years of marriage, as her husband Bernard's health declines, and her friends' lives become focused on their grandchildren--which Jenny never had--Jenny decides she wants a little something for herself. So she secretly applies to be a contestant on the prime-time TV show Britain Bakes. Whisked into an...
928) 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...
929) A curve in the road
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Abbie MacIntyre is living the dream in the picturesque Nova Scotia town she calls home. She is a successful surgeon, is married to a handsome cardiologist, and has a model teenage son who is only months away from going off to college. But then one fateful night, everything changes. When a drunk driver hits her car, Abbie is rushed to the hospital. She survives, but the accident forces unimaginable secrets out into the open and plagues Abbie with nightmares...
Author
Publisher
Headline Review
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 20 cm
Description
A heartbreaking letter. A girl locked away. A mystery to be solved. 1956. When Ivy Jenkins falls pregnant she is sent in disgrace to St Margaret's, a dark, brooding house for unmarried mothers. Her baby is adopted against her will. Ivy will never leave. Present day. Samantha Harper is a journalist desperate for a break. When she stumbles on a letter from the past, the contents shock and move her. The letter is from a young mother, begging to be rescued...
Author
Publisher
Tantor
Pub. Date
2016, ©2016
Physical Desc
7 CDs (9 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"In the tradition of Slaves in the Family, the provocative true account of the hanging of four black people by a white lynch mob in 1912--written by the great-granddaughter of the sheriff charged with protecting them. Harris County, Georgia, 1912. A white man, the beloved nephew of the county sheriff, is shot dead on the porch of a black woman. Days later, the sheriff sanctions the lynching of a black woman and three black men; all of them innocent....
932) Mothtown
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
353 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Description
"David is growing up in a world where something is very badly wrong but everyone is protecting David from knowing what it is. People are going missing, bodies are showing up with wings, or bones in nests if you believe the rumours from the kids at school. David doesn’t really know because his parents turn off the news whenever he might get a handle on what is happening around him and his older sister just doesn’t seem interested in sharing....
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
313 pages, 13 pages ; 24 cm
Description
An American jewelry historian discovers her unexpected ties to a fortune in jewels discovered under the floor of a London tenement house where an impoverished Irish immigrant once attempted to change her family's fortunes.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
333 pages
Description
"At the famous Patisserie Clermont, a chance encounter with the owner's daughter has given one young man a glimpse into a life he never knew existed: of sweet cream and melted chocolate, golden caramel and powdered sugar, of pastry light as air. But it isnot just the art of confectionery that holds him captive, and soon a forbidden love affair begins. Almost eighty years later, an academic discovers a hidden photograph of her grandfather as a young...
936) Never ask me
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
10 CDs (12 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When the simple community of Lakehaven is shaken by a violent crime, doubts begin to arise among the locals about whom they can trust.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
364, 16 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Description
"On one extraordinary day in 1940, Miriam Talan’s comfortable life is shattered. While she gives birth to her second child, a son she and her husband, Max, name Monya, the Soviets invade the Baltic state of Latvia and occupy the capital city of Riga, her home. Because the Talans are Jewish, the Soviets confiscate Max’s business and the family’s house and bank accounts, leaving them with nothing. Then, the Nazis arrive. They kill Max and begin...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
435 pages ; 24 cm
Description
In 1963 Brittany, 18-year-old Josephine Chevalier uncovers a shocking secret about her mother that leads her to Paris where she learns the story of a forbidden love as a city fought for its freedom--and of a betrayal so deep, it changed two young lives forever.
939) A Keeper
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
6 CDs (8 hrs.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Elizabeth Keane returns to Ireland after her mother's death, she's focused only on saying goodbye to that dark and dismal part of her life. Her childhood home is packed solid with useless junk, her mother's presence already fading. But within this mess, she discovers a small stash of letters--and ultimately, the truth. Forty years earlier, a young woman stumbles from a remote stone house, the night quiet except for the constant wind that encircles...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
It's 1941, and the Mitford household is splintered by the vicissitudes of war. To bring the clan together-maybe for one last time, Deborah invites them to Chatsworth for Christmas, along with a selection of society's most impressive and glamorous guests, as well as old family friend Louisa Cannon, a private detective. One night, a psychic arrives, and to liven things up. Deborah agrees she may host a séance. But entertainment turns to dark mystery...
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