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82) Odd Child Out
Author
Series
Jim Clemo novels volume 1
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Best friends Noah Sadler and Abdi Mahad have always been inseparable. When Noah is found floating unconscious in Bristol's Feeder Canal, Abdi can't, or won't, tell anyone what happened.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
451 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A new powerful and passionate novel--inspired by historical events--about two women, one European and one American, and the mysterious choral masterpiece by Johann Sebastian Bach that changes both their lives. In the ruins of Germany in 1945, at the end of World War II, American soldier Henry Sachs takes a souvenir, an old music manuscript, from a seemingly deserted mansion and mistakenly kills the girl who tries to stop him. In America in 2010,...
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Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness. The Voss family is anything but normal. They live in a repurposed church, newly baptized Dollar Voss. The once cancer-stricken mother lives in the basement, the father is married to the mother's former nurse, the little half-brother isn't allowed to do or eat anything fun, and the eldest siblings are irritatingly perfect. Then, there's Merit. Merit Voss...
85) The sight of you
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Joel has sworn off falling in love. But when he meets Callie, he can't help being drawn to her. In Callie, he sees a second chance at life. And in Joel, Callie discovers the kind of love she'd always hoped was real. They challenge each other to take chances, to laugh, and to trust that no matter how hard each falls, the other will be there to catch them. --
Author
Pub. Date
2012
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"On the night Janie waits for her sister, Hannah, to be born, her grandmother tells her a story: Since the Japanese occupation of Korea, their family has lost a daughter in every generation, so Janie is charged with keeping Hannah safe. As time passes, Janie hears more stories, while facts remain unspoken ... Years later, when Hannah inexplicably cuts all ties and disappears, Janie embarks on a mission to find her sister and finally uncover the truth...
87) Crooked house
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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Description
In Agatha Christie's most twisted tale, a spy-turned-private-detective is lured by his former lover to catch her grandfather's murderer before Scotland Yard exposes dark family secrets.
88) Nest: a thriller
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When a murder investigation reveals family secrets and exposes her to a shadowy network of evil, Kate accepts a mysterious author's offer to find answers, but time is running short as a force of super-predator killers is hot on their trail.
89) The other wife
Author
Series
Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
viii, 384 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"William and Mary live in Wales and have been married sixty years with four children and five grandchildren. William is a celebrated surgeon, Mary a devoted wife. Both are strong believers in right and wrong. William and Olivia have been together twenty years and share a house in London, enjoying the theatre and restaurants and playing tennis every week. Only one of these stories can be true - but which one? This is the question that confronts clinical...
Author
Series
Song of Alaska volume 2
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Description
When Phoebe Robbins learns her family will move to Sitka, Alaska, she is unsure what this wild, untamed land might offer her. But before she even sets foot on this new territory, she has an unexpected encounter with Dalton Lindquist. When he decides to pursue answers to his past, he finds he must leave Sitka--and the lovely Phoebe. But Dalton is not the only one who has sought her attention. His best friend, Yuri, determines to claim her affection,...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
483 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Description
"What drove their family apart just might bring them back together... 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...
92) The lost gate
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Danny grew up in a family compound in Virginia, believing that he alone of his family had no magical power. But he was wrong. Kidnapped from his high school by a rival family, he learns that he has the power to reopen the gates between Earth and the world of Westil.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
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"Simon Watson, a young librarian on the verge of losing his job, lives alone on the Long Island Sound in his family home--a house, perched on the edge of a bluff, that is slowly crumbling toward the sea. His parents are long dead, his mother having drowned in the water his house overlooks. His younger sister, Enola, works for a traveling carnival reading tarot cards, and seldom calls. On a day in late June, Simon receives a mysterious package from...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008
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Description
Reunited after a forty-year estrangement, Ginny, living in the crumbling family home in rural Britain, and Vivien, who had fled her family's eccentricities for the normalcy of London, struggle to come to terms with their stormy past and hidden family secrets.
97) The bake-off
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
318 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Two estranged sisters who combined have never made anything more complicated than brownie mix team up to enter a national bake-off with a top-secret recipe from the grandmother who orchestrated their reunion.
98) Fault lines
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
307, [5] p. ; 21 cm.
Description
A gifted six-year-old boy whose mother believes is destined for greatness because of a peculiar family birthmark, Sol is also chillingly unchildlike, but when Sol and his family make an unexpected trip to Germany, terrible secrets start to emerge as they discover that birthmarks are not all that has been passed down through the bloodlines of four generations.
99) The shadow lily
Author
Series
Island murders volume 2
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"This second installment in Johanna Mo's The Island Murders Trilogy finds Detective Hanna Duncker contending with new questions and discoveries that threaten to upend everything she thought she knew about her family"--
100) Shattered
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With an ailing mother to support, attorney Lisa Shewmaker takes a job as a research assistant to District Attorney Scott Buchanan. While reviewing cold cases in the Fayette County courthouse, she comes across photos that may help her uncover details about her mysterious past. But when a series of catastrophes strike close to home, Lisa confides in Scott, and their relationship develops into something completely different. Together Lisa and Scott unravel...
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