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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she's not only North Carolina's richest woman, she's also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family's estate high in the Blue Ridge mountains. In the aftermath of her death, that estate--along with a nine-figure fortune and the complicated legacy of being a McTavish--pass...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Get ready for another twisty domestic thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of THE SOULMATE. From the outside, Alicia, Jessica and Norah might seem like ordinary women you'd meet on the street any day of the week. Sure, Jessica has a little OCD and Norah has some anger issues. And Alicia has low self-esteem that manifests itself in surprising ways. But these three have a bond that no one can fully understand. It's a bond that takes...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"India Allwood grew up wanting to be an actress. Armed with a stack of index cards and a hell of a lot of talent, she goes from awkward 16-year-old to Broadway ingenue to tv star. But while promoting her most recent project, a film about adoption, India does what you should never do - she tells a journalist the truth: it's a bad movie. Like so many movies about adoption, it tells only one story, a tragic one. But India's an adoptive mom herself and...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The author of What Lies in the Woods returns with a novel about three sisters, two murders, and too many secrets to count. Emma hasn't told her husband much about her past. He knows her parents are dead and she hasn't spoken to her sisters in years. Then they lose their apartment, her husband gets laid off, and Emma discovers she's pregnant--right as the bank account slips into the red. That's when Emma confesses that she has one more asset: her...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Larkspur Nielsen is determined to keep the family homestead running, even if she must do it alone. When she discovers that Isaac McTavish has feelings for her, she pushes him away to protect her heart. But how can she build the life she's always dreamed of when unexpected dangers arrive?"--
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a letter from her uncle Henrick summoning her back to Bastian arrives on Bryn Roth's eighteenth birthday, Bryn is eager to prove herself to the family, even as she learns the Roths are still entangled in the kind of dirty business that got her parents killed years ago.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Silvia and her mother finally land in a place called Island City, after being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-too-distant future, they end up living and working at The Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower where Silvia's aunt, Ena, has been serving as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about the family's past. But in Ena there is an opening: a person willing to...
Author
Physical Desc
383 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Spending the days searching for truths on an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp, eleven-year-old Dorothy Zook, the granddaughter of an herbalist and eccentric healer, finds her childhood upended by family secrets, passionate love, and violent men where the only bridge across the water is her wayward mother.
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
As he attempts to fulfil a list left behind by his deceased best friend, nineteen-year-old Case meets eighteen-year-old Winnie, a hardworking ranch hand with aspirations of her own, and together they embark on an unexpected journey as they chase down their rodeo dreams.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Now 94 and living a quiet life, Cecily Larson, when her family surprises her with an at-home DNA test, finds the unexpected results not only bringing to light the tragic love story she's kept hidden for decades but also calls into question everything about the family she's raised and claimed as her own.
12) Listen to this
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told from two perspectives, Lily and Will deal with the tumult of seventh grade including secrets, rumors, shifting friendships, overbearing parents, and a first dance.
13) Ferris
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
When a ghost shows up at the threshold to Ferris's grandmother Charisse's room, Ferris worries that she's there to take Charisse to the Great Beyond. But Charisse says that the ghost has something else in mind--something unpredictable, a task that's impractical and illuminating. But how can Ferris focus on completing an assignment for a ghost when her little sister is terrorizing the town, her uncle keeps sending her to spy on her aunt, and the house...
14) All my secrets
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When her husband's unexpected death bestows his fortune on a male heir, Sylvia tries to marry her daughter off to a wealthy husband to maintain their lifestyle, but is stopped by her mother-in-law, who wants more for her granddaughter.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this unforgettable debut novel, twenty-seven-year-old Tessa, pregnant with her third child and living in a trailer on her mother-in-law's property, encounters the woman she used to love--leading Tessa to question the very foundations of the life she's built Abandoned by first her father and then her mother, as a girl Tessa is left to live with her abusive stepfather and stepbrother. She survives by finding reserves of strength in herself, and...
16) And then, boom!
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
Poverty-stricken Joseph bravely rides out all the storms life keeps throwing at him.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 39
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
93 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jack and Annie are whisked away to Mongolia to meet the near-extinct little horses and their caretakers, but can they help protect the last of the horses from predators?"--
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake's longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she's warily drawn back to the town-and people-she left behind almost a decade earlier. But Hazel's not the only relic of the past to return: a drought has descended on the region, and as the water level in the lake drops, long-hidden secrets begin to emerge ... including evidence that may help finally explain the mystery of her mother's...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel Garca Mrquez, The Bullet Swallower follows a Mexican bandido as he sets off for Texas to save his family, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come, finally, to collect a cosmic debt generation in the making.In 1895, Antonio Sonoro is the latest in a long line of ruthless men. He's good with his gun and is drawn to trouble but he's also out of money and out of...