Julia Whelan
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
11 sound discs (849 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors. But here in The New World, amid this community of saints, Mary is the second wife of Thomas Deerfield, a man as cruel as he is powerful. When Thomas, prone to drunken rage, drives a three-tined fork into the back of Mary's hand, she resolves that she must divorce him to save her life. But in a world where...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What happens when best friends with nothing in common come together, fall apart, and fall in love? The Vacationers meets When Harry Met Sally..., from the author of Beach Read When Poppy met Alex, there was no spark, no chemistry, and no reason to think they'd ever talk again. Alex is quiet, studious, and destined for a future in academia. Poppy is a wild child who only came to U of Chicago to escape small-town life. But after sharing a ride home...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Set against the backdrop of the Malibu surf culture of the 1980s this novel follows the daughter of a famous singer who, once she finds fame, must grapple with the fact that her father abandoned her and her siblings when they were young"--
August 1983. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their baby sister, Kit....
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The divorce has just become final, and Richard is already engaged to someone. One woman is determined to change that situation--no matter what it takes. Soon a tangle of lies binds her life with those of Richard and his new fiancee. A tangle of lies, that hide some dangerous truths.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Reclusive Hollywood icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant to write her story, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Determined to use this opportunity to jump-start her career, Monique listens in fascination. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to leaving show business in the '80s - and, of course, the seven husbands...
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Jessica Farris signs up for a psychology study conducted by the mysterious Dr. Shields, she thinks all she'll have to do is answer a few questions, collect her money, and leave. But as the questions grow more and more intense and invasive and the sessions become outings where Jess is told what to wear and how to act, she begins to feel as though Dr. Shields may know what she's thinking...and what she's hiding."--
28) The Villa
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins comes a deliciously wicked gothic suspense, set at an Italian villa with a dark history, for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware. As kids, Emily and Chess were inseparable. But by their 30s, their bond has been strained by the demands of their adult lives. So when Chess suggests a girls trip to Italy, Emily jumps at the chance to reconnect with her best friend. Villa Aestas in Orvieto is a high-end...
Author
Series
Publisher
Quercus
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A family drama of dark secrets and individual awakenings is set against the backdrop of the turbulent summer of 1968 in Martha's Vineyard, where twenty-two-year-old Whitney Dane begins questioning her goals and sense of independence at the side of a fiercely ambitious, underprivileged man.
30) Aquarium
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
266 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Caitlin's daily visits to the local aquarium after school bring her into contact with an elderly fellow aquarium lover, whom she befriends just as she discovers a shocking family secret.
Author
Publisher
Plume
Language
English
Description
Jane Williams has emerged from an ailing, lonely childhood, but on her twenty-ninth birthday, a mysterious greeting card arrives specifying that Jane must identify the six types of love before the full moon following her thirtieth birthday or face grave consequences.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"At the start of their senior year in high school, James (a girl with a boy's name) and Kat are inseparable, but by graduation, they're no longer friends. James prepares to head off to college as she reflects on the dissolution of her friendship with Kat while, in alternating chapters, Kat thinks about being newly in love and having a future that feels wide open"--