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English
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Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family's cabin in Vermont, and only Simon comes home. What happened to Nina? Nobody knows. Simon's explanation about what happened in their last hours together doesn't add up. Nina's parents push the police for answers, and Simon's parents rush to protect him. They hire expensive lawyers and a PR firm that quickly ramps up a vicious, nothing-is-off-limits...
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Language
English
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"From the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls and The Forgotten Daughter comes a compulsively readable mother-daughter story in which two women who share a difficult past must come to together to claim the future they deserve. Arden Moore enjoyed an affluent life thanks to her husband's high-paying job. But a year after his death, the 36-year-old is a grieving single mother deeply in debt and living paycheck to paycheck with her three...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Pacific Hills, California: Gated communities, ocean views, well-tended lawns, serene pools, and now the new home of the Shah family. For the Shah parents, who came to America twenty years earlier with little more than an education and their new marriage, this move represents the culmination of years of hard work and dreaming. For their children, born and raised in America, success is not so simple. For the most part, these differences among the five...
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
As her sister's wedding approaches, high school senior Arya must navigate fraught family dynamics, the fallout of her two best friends breaking up, and a tense partnership with her rival, the frustratingly attractive student council president.
Author
Publisher
Rhysdon Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The Year is 1884 and Emma M. Lion has, at long last, gained her majority. Entering a golden age of friendship with Pierce, Islington, and Hawkes, Emma is confident she will manage whatever comes her way. It is The Season she must help Arabella secure a husband, while navigating the threat of Aunt Eugenia, the unflagging adoration of Charles Goddard, and the amusing unpredictability of St. Crispian's. But the secrets of her trusted friends are what...
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Publisher
Rhysdon Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Year is 1883 and Emma M. Lion has returned to her London neighborhood of St. Crispian's. But Emma's plans for a charmed and studious life are sabotaged by her eccentric Cousin Archibald, her formidable Aunt Eugenia, and the slightly odd denizens of St. Crispian's. Emma M. Lion offers up her Unselected Journals, however self-incriminating they may be, which comprise a series of novella-length volumes. Armed with wit and a sideways amusement, Emma...
Author
Publisher
Rhysdon Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
231 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1884 and Emma M. Lion has, at long last, gained her majority. Entering a golden age of friendship with Pierce, Islington, and Hawkes, Emma is confident that she will manage whatever comes her way. It is the season she must help Arabella secure a husband, while navigating the threat of Aunt Eugenia, the unflagging adoration of Charles Goddard, and the amusing unpredictability of St. Crispian's. But the secrets of her trusted friends are...
Author
Publisher
Rhysdon Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
147 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Year is 1883 and Emma M. Lion has returned to her London neighborhood of St. Crispian's. But Emma's plans for a charmed and studious life are sabotaged by her eccentric Cousin Archibald, her formidable Aunt Eugenia, and the slightly odd denizens of St. Crispian's. Emma M. Lion offers up her Unselected Journals, however self-incriminating they may be, which comprise a series of novella-length volumes. Armed with wit and a sideways amusement, Emma...
Author
Publisher
Rhysdon Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
191 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Year is 1883 and Emma M. Lion has returned to her London neighborhood of St. Crispian's. But Emma's plans for a charmed and studious life are sabotaged by her eccentric Cousin Archibald, her formidable Aunt Eugenia, and the slightly odd denizens of St. Crispian's. Emma M. Lion offers up her Unselected Journals, however self-incriminating they may be, which comprise a series of novella-length volumes. Armed with wit and a sideways amusement, Emma...
Author
Publisher
Rhysdon Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Year is 1883 and Emma M. Lion has returned to her London neighborhood of St. Crispian's. But Emma's plans for a charmed and studious life are sabotaged by her eccentric Cousin Archibald, her formidable Aunt Eugenia, and the slightly odd denizens of St. Crispian's. Emma M. Lion offers up her Unselected Journals, however self-incriminating they may be, which comprise a series of novella-length volumes. Armed with wit and a sideways amusement, Emma...
Publisher
Barbour Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Six decades of history unfurls on a Wyoming ranch. Journey to untamed Wyoming where four generations of women experience love, loss, grace, adoption, struggles with the law, relationships with natives, and through it all, family bonds.
Author
Publisher
Serenade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
179 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When special-needs teacher Paige takes up the position of Governess for three young children in the Queensland outback, she has no idea just how much and how quickly she would come to love the dusty, dry country, and the family who desperately need her. Logan was heartbroken when his wife died, leaving him to raise their three children with the help of his aging parents on their remote cattle station. To avoid the constant reminder of the love he...
Author
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
415 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Meet the Corrigans. Childless Maeve, though rich and successful, is dying of cancer. She wants to leave her business empire to one of the offspring of her two estranged brothers, Des and Leo. But which young relative should she choose? Des has four children. His second wife Judith has just left him and he is overstretched financially. Leo, unambitious owner of a hardware store in a remote Australian town, has two children. His daughter, suffering...
Author
Publisher
Rhysdon Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
107 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Year is 1883 and Emma M. Lion has returned to her London neighbourhood of St. Crispian's. But Emma's plans for a charmed and studious life are sabotaged by her eccentric Cousin Archibald, her formidable Aunt Eugenia, and the slightly odd denizens of St. Crispian's. Emma M. Lion offers up her Unselected Journals, however self-incriminating they may be, which comprise a series of novella-length volumes. Armed with wit and a sideways amusement,...
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Andrea Rodríguez is nine years old when her mother whisks her and her brother, Pablo, away from the Woronoco, a tiny New England factory town that is the only home they've ever known. With no plan and no money, she leaves them with family members in Puerto Rico and promises to return. In the years that follow, Andrea and Pablo are brought back to Woronoco, only to discover a rapidly changing town and an All-American culture they almost-but can never...
36) The vacation
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Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"One of them is missing… One of them did it… The Thanksgiving retreat was meant to be a time for them to get away from it all, miles from the secrets that threaten to tear their family apart. But they’re each hiding something: Rose hopes the pretty house overlooking the sea is just the break her family needs. But as she gazes at the water and remembers her own childhood, she is utterly terrified. Brandon knows his wife Rose has barely forgiven...
37) The cure
Author
Series
The cure chronicles volume 1
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On her seventeenth birthday, Ashen Spencer is blindfolded and escorted to the massive, mysterious building known as the Arc to begin her year of training and testing in hopes that she can earn the Cure--a powerful drug given only to those deemed worthy to survive beyond their eighteenth birthday. Ashen has a chance to rise up from her former life of squalor and be granted a place in society, if the Panel--the mysterious group of powerful men and...
38) Tender beasts
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
408 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sunny Behre has four siblings, but only one is a murderer. With the death of Sunny’s mother, matriarch of the wealthy Behre family, Sunny’s once picture-perfect life is thrown into turmoil. Her mother had groomed her to be the family’s next leader, so Sunny is confused when the only instructions her mother leaves is a mysterious note: 'Take care of Dom.' The problem is, her youngest brother, Dom, has always been a near-stranger to Sunny…and...
39) Held
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A breathtaking and ineffable new novel from the author of the international best sellers Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault-a novel of love and loyalty across generations, at once sweeping and intimate. 1917. On a battlefield near the River Aisne, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory as the snow falls-a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A winning debut novel about a young teenage girl in Jamaica determined to bake her way out of her dysfunctional family and into the opportunity of a lifetime."
Pumkin Patterson is a thirteen-year-old girl living in a tiny two-room house in Kingston, Jamaica, with her grandmother (who wants to improve the family's social standing), her Aunt Sophie (who dreams of a new life in Paris for her and Pumkin), and her mother Paulette (who's rarely home)....
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