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Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Penniless and stranded in France after a bid to escape her cruel uncle goes awry, Cornelia Shaw is far from the Parisian life of leisure she imagined. Desperate and lacking options, she allows herself to be recruited to Napoleon’s Grande Armée. As a naturalist, her near-magical ability to heal any wound with herbal mixtures invites awe amongst the soldiers…and suspicion. For behind Cornelia’s vast knowledge of the natural world is a secret...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings--turned-roommates navigating an absurd world about to suffer great change--a Seinfeldian novel of existentialism and sisterhood. It's March of 2019, and twenty-eight-year-old Jules Gold--anxious, artistically frustrated, and internet-obsessed--has been living alone in the apartment she once shared with the man she thought she'd marry when her younger...
Author
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 302 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two sisters reconnect and pursue their dreams on the beautiful island of Nantucket, overcoming life's challenges and finding new love, in this heartwarming and hopeful novel by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer. Eddie Grant is happy with her life and her work as a personal assistant to Dinah Lavender, one of the most famous and renowned romance authors in the business. But being a spectator to notoriety and glamour isn't as fulfilling...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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
Series
Seven sisters volume 2
Publisher
[Hope Holloway]
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Tori Wingate knows that spending the entire summer on Amelia Island running the family-owned Riverfront Caf�e means she's falling right into the arms of a new man for a brief romance. But the more she realizes that all she wants to do is sail into the sunset with the handsome doctor--the more life proves it has other plans. Not only is Raina looking at the end of a marriage and the start of a life she never imagined, she's charged with recouping...
Author
Series
Seven sisters volume 1
Publisher
[Hope Holloway]
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The moment that Raina Wingate learns her husband of sixteen years wants to separate, she gets a call that her father has suffered a stroke. Racing to her family's home on Amelia Island, Florida, Raina hopes the time apart will heal her cracked marriage and that she can step into her father's real estate business and keep it running. Her sister, Tori, a divorcee who owns a catering business in Boston, also flies in to join the others at the hospital....
Author
Series
Seven sisters volume 3
Publisher
[Hope Holloway]
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Life for widowed Grace Wingate Jenkins has been simple enough these past few years on Amelia Island, running a bookstore and raising a painfully shy toddler girl. But when that simple life is turned upside down, Grace realizes she's also been given a gift in the form of a friend who has an entirely different perspective. Will that be enough as she navigates the next chapter as a single mother and bookstore owner? With the discovery that their family...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"With the Great War finally behind them, thousands of civilians and business moguls alike flock to South Florida with their sights set on making a fortune. When wealthy industrialist Robert Barnes and his wife, Anna, build Marbrisa, a glamorous estate on Biscayne Bay, they become the toast of the newly burgeoning society. Anna and Robert appear to have it all, but in a town like Miami, appearances can be deceiving, and one scandal can change everything....
9) Double lives
Author
Series
Publisher
Dafina
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The latest twist-filled novel in award-winning New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe's Depression-era Alabama saga tells the riveting tale of identical twin sisters with a talent for switching lives and hiding the scandalous results - until one risk too many changes the game forever . . . Since childhood, identical twins Leona and Fiona Dunbar have been getting in - and out - of trouble by pretending to be each other. Yet underneath, they...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Amelia and Kylee, two young sisters, were found unharmed in their upstairs bedroom the night their teenage cousin Grace, who was babysitting them, vanished from the farmhouse in rural Missouri, leaving behind evidence of a violent struggle. Grace had been on the verge of escaping their dead-end town, the first in their family to go to college instead of getting married and going to work at the meatpacking plant. Her disappearance is a warning to...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
One perfect rhyming story. One interrupting sister. A totally ruined rhyme! Or is it? Adventure might be made more fun together, rhyme by daring rhyme.
12) Kill her twice
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
390 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In in 1930s Los Angeles Chinatown, the Chow sisters, May, Gemma, and Peony, suspect foul play in the death of Chinatown star Lulu Wong and take it upon themselves to solve the murder, revealing a conspiracy that threatens their Chinatown neighborhood.
13) The color purple
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to freedom. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds remarkable strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.