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Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The book revolves around Crissy, the star of a beloved Princess Diana tribute show in Las Vegas, and her estranged sister Betsy, a therapist who works with children and adolescents in Vermont. Betsy's boyfriend Frankie works in a mysterious branch of cryptocurrency and, seemingly out of nowhere, proposes that they move to Las Vegas together. Betsy and Crissy must navigate how to go about their newfound physical proximity to one another and their...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"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
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Southern California, 1960s: endless sunny days surfing in Malibu, followed by glittering neon nights at Whisky A-Go-Go. In an era when women are expected to be housewives, Carol Donelly is breaking the mold as a legendary female surfer struggling to compete in a male-dominated sport--and her daughters, Mindy and Ginger, bear the weight of her unconventional lifestyle. The Donnelly sisters grow up enduring their mother's absence--physically, when...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
441 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Meg works for a casino in LA, catching cheaters and popping a few too many pain pills to cope, following a far different path than her sister Haley, a famous actress. But suddenly reports surface of Haley dying at the remote rehab facility where she had been forced to go to get her addictions under control. There are whispers of suicide, but Meg can't believe it. She decides that the best way to find out what happened to her sister is to check in...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Kat Bird wakes up from a coma, she sees her mirror image: Jude, her twin sister. Jude’s face and name are the only memories Kat has from before her accident. As Kat tries to make sense of things, she believes Jude will provide all the answers to her most pressing questions:
Who am I?
Where am I?
What actually happened?
Amid this tragedy, Jude sees an irresistible opportunity: she can give her sister a brand-new past, one worlds away from...
Author
Series
Seven sisters volume 8
Publisher
Blue Box Press
Language
English
Description
1928, Paris.... A boy is found, moments from death, and taken in by a kindly family. Gentle, precocious, talented, he flourishes in his new home, and the family show him a life he hadn’t dreamed possible. But he refuses to speak a word about who is really is. As he grows into a young man, falling in love and taking classes at the prestigious Conservatoire de Paris, he can almost forget the terrors of his past, or the promise he has vowed to keep....
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
St. Martin's Paperbacks edition.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's springtime in Cedar River, Texas. The annual Bluebonnet Festival is brewing and the whole town is in harmony. Juni Jessup and her sisters Tansy and Maggie thought opening Sip & Spin Records was going to be their biggest hurdle, but the Frappuccino hits the fan when the mayor drops dead--poisoned by their delicious coffee. Since Tansy was the one to brew the coffee, and Juni was the unfortunate citizen who stumbled upon the mayor's body, the...
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Winning the lottery changed Amy Walsh's life, but the cost was greater than she could bear. In the aftermath, she struggles to find joy and purpose. Only one thing feels certain now-she will never spend one cent of the prize money on herself. Worried, her older sister, Kristin DeMarco, invites Amy to live with her family while she heals. Unfortunately, this arrangement leads to trouble for Kristin: Divided focus affects her career. Her daughter prefers...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Two sisters with a very toxic relationship go to a bar patronized by energy healers and share an unidentified bag of pills resulting in a hazy evening of risky interactions with strangers that ends in violence and a missing person.
10) The guest room
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tess has a bad habit. She can't stop snooping through her guests' belongings . . . When Tess is forced to rent out her late sister's old room to pay the bills, the urge to rummage through her guests' belongings overtakes her every thought. Teasing herself with forbidden glimpses into the lives of strangers is a momentary thrill, but it's the closest she's felt to anyone since the mysterious death of her sister, Rosie. After her newest lodger, Arran,...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
448 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An ex-cop sets out to find her missing sister and discovers the horrifying truth about her family... A traumatic experience in the line of duty forces thirty-year-old Avery Rogers to abandon both her relationship and her position as a Kentucky State Police officer. She retreats to a college town where she works an unfulfilling job as a security guard, breaking up fights between drunken frat boys. But a frantic phone call turns Avery's life upside...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"When a woman stumbles across a mysterious children's book, long-held secrets about her missing sister and their childhood spent in the English countryside during World War II are revealed"--
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Returning home from Vietnam when his sister goes missing, soldier Ray Landsdale embarks on a relentless search that takes him from Montana to Hollywood to L.A. and beyond, forcing him to confront his worst nightmare.
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
"William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him. So it's a relief when his skill on the basketball court earns him a scholarship to college, far away from his childhood home. He soon meets Julia Padavano, a spirited and ambitious young woman who surprises William with her appreciation of his quiet steadiness. With Julia comes her family; she is inseparable from her three...
16) After the forest
Author
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After the Forest is a dark and enchanting fantasy debut from Kell Woods that explores the repercussions of a childhood filled with magic and a young woman contending with the truth of "happily ever after." Ginger. Honey. Cinnamon. Flour. Twenty years after the witch in the gingerbread house, Greta and Hans are struggling to get by. Their mother and stepmother are long dead, Hans is deeply in debt from gambling, and the countryside lies in ruin, its...
17) Good half gone
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Iris Walsh saw her twin sister, Piper, get kidnapped--so why does no one believe her? Iris narrowly escaped her pretty, popular twin sister's fate as a teen: kidnapped, trafficked and long gone before the cops agreed to investigate. With no evidence to go on but a few scattered memories, the case quickly goes cold. Now an adult, Iris wants one thing--proof. And if the police still won't help, she'll just have to find it her own way; by interning...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From "a writer at the top of her game" (The New York Times) comes a bighearted and sharply funny debut novel about two estranged sisters and the crossroads they face after becoming unexpectedly pregnant at the same time. Two years after the death of their mother, Jada and Maddy Battle both navigate unplanned pregnancies. Jada, a thirty-one-year-old psychology PhD student living in Pittsburgh, quietly obtains an abortion without telling her husband,...
19) Karen's haircut
Author
Series
Baby-sitters little sister) volume 7
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
137 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Deciding a new haircut will give her the boost she needs, Karen is devastated when the hairstylist cuts her hair all wrong and wonders if she will ever get back to feeling like her usual confident self.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Peg attempts online dating at Rose's strong urging, she matches with Nolan Abercrombie, with whom she has an instant connection, but when a terrible accident claims his life, Peg and Rose team up to solve the dangerous mystery unfolding before their eyes.