Catalog Search Results
42) The sanatorium
Author
Series
Detective Elin Warner novels volume 1
Description
"Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium has since been renovated into a five-star minimalist hotel. An imposing, isolated getaway spot high up in the Swiss Alps is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. But Elin's taken time off from her job as a detective, so when her estranged brother, Isaac, and his fiancaee, Laure,...
Author
Series
Zelda and Ivy volume 4
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
42 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Appears on list
Description
In three short stories, two fox sisters run away from home, bury a time capsule, and take advantage of some creative juice.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Formats
Description
Two motherless sisters--Bean and Liz--are shuttled to Virginia, where their Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying mansion that's been in their family for generations. When school starts in the fall, Bean easily adjusts and makes friends, and Liz becomes increasingly withdrawn. Then something happens to Liz and Bean is left to challenge the injustice of the adult world.
45) The night before
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
viii, 310 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Megan Miranda Rosie and Laura are as different as two sisters can be. One is stable and has the perfect family. The other struggles to break free from her troubled past. When Laura disappears after going on a blind date, Rosie takes matters into her own hands. But as Rosie begins to search for her sister, her greatest fears come to the surface. Could Laura be more of a danger than the stranger she meets, or is the night before her last night alive?...
47) Acts of Violet
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"From Margarita Montimore, the author of GMA Book Club pick and national bestseller Oona Out of Order, Acts of Violet is a dazzling and twisty new novel about a famous magician who disappears, leaving her sister to figure out what really happened. Nearlya decade ago, iconic magician Violet Volk performed her greatest trick yet: vanishing mid-act. Though she hasn't been seen since, her hold on the public imagination is stronger than ever. While Violet...
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nafas, an Afghan-born Canadian journalist, returns to her homeland in a desperate attempt to reach her sister, who, overcome with grief after being injured by a landmine and her despair over the Taliban's oppression of women, has vowed that she will commit suicide at the time of the next solar eclipse, only three days away.
Author
Series
Fablehaven volume 2
Formats
Description
When Kendra and Seth return to Fablehaven, they discover that Grandpa Sorenson has asked three specialists to protect the property from the Society of the Evening Star, a group determined to steal an artifact of great power from the preserve.
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
abril de 2018.
Physical Desc
620 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
Nueva York, 1936. La pequeña casa de comidas El Capitán arranca su andadura en la calle Catorce, uno de los enclaves de la colonia española que por entonces reside en la ciudad. La muerte accidental de su dueño, el tarambana Emilio Arenas, obliga a sus indomables hijas veinteañeras a tomar las riendas del negocio mientras en los tribunales se resuelve el cobro de una prometedora indemnización. Abatidas y acosadas por la urgente necesidad de...
52) Sisters
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two sisters, joined at birth as Siamese twins, are separated in late adolescence. One is lovely, gentle, kind-- the other is quite mad.
53) Sister: a novel
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
319 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
When Beatrice hears that her little sister, Tess, is missing, she returns home to London on the first flight available. But Bee is unprepared for the terrifying truths she must face about her younger sibling when Tess's broken body is discovered in the snow.The police, Bee's friends, her fiancé and even her mother accept the fact that Tess committed suicide. But nobody knows a sister like a sister, and Bee is convinced that something more sinister...
54) My big sister
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Description
Photographs and simple text illustrate a baby's view of what it is like to have a big sister.
Author
Formats
Description
"Zara Mahoney was enjoying newlywed bliss until her life is upended by her estranged sister, Eve, and Zara must take custody of her children. Eve's struggles lead her to Tiff Bradley, who's determined to help despite the past hurts the relationship triggers. Can these women find the hope they-and those they love-desperately need?"--
58) Walk away
Author
Series
Camaro Espinoza novels volume 2
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
323 pages cm.
Description
Camaro Espinoza, a former combat medic with a mysterious past, struggles to rescue her sister and niece from an abusive boyfriend who is being assisted by his brother, an unhinged ex-Special Forces operative.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Ava Antipova has her reasons for running away: a failing family vineyard, a romantic betrayal, a mercurial sister, an absent father, a mother slipping into dementia. In Paris, Ava renounces her terribly practical undergraduate degree, acquires a French boyfriend and a taste for much better wine, and erases her past. Two years later, she must return to upstate New York. Her twin sister, Zelda, is dead. Even in a family of alcoholics, Zelda Antipova...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
Three months ago, Lena Nguyen's estranged twin sister, Cambry, drove to a remote bridge sixty miles outside of Missoula, Montana, and jumped two hundred feet to her death. At least, that is the official police version. But Lena isn't buying it. Now she's come to that very bridge, driving her dead twin's car and armed with a cassette recorder, determined to find out what really happened by interviewing the highway patrolman who allegedly discovered...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Let us know! Suggest a Title