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Author
Series
A Florence Norris mystery volume 2
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
251 pages; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Josephine and Archie gather with friends to celebrate the holidays on 1938 Cornwall’s stormy coast before the festivities are interrupted by two brutal deaths on St. Michael’s Mount and the arrival of a world-famous film star.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A novel spanning four decades, from pre-World War II Transylvania to contemporary New York, looks at the cause and effect of both belief and non-belief within the Jewish religion, in a tale that focuses on the relationship of two sisters within a Hasidic sect.
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Language
English
Description
Unexpectedly inheriting her late husband's reclusive grandmother's home in South Carolina, widow Merritt Heyward investigates the Heyward family's shattering history while navigating the challenges of a young stepmother and ten-year-old half-brother.
88) The Tuscan child
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1944, a wounded British bomber pilot parachuted into German-occupied Tuscany and found refuge in the arms of Sofia Bartoli. Nearly thirty years later his estranged daughter finds a letter addressed to Sofia and embarks on a journey to Tuscany to discover his secrets and a past some would prefer be left undisturbed"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I'm not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I'm Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I'd killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it's a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let's get started"--...
91) Run
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
295 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Struggling with single parenthood and a scandal that cost him his political career, Bernard Doyle fights his disappointment with his adopted sons' career choices before a violent event forces the members of his family to reconsider their priorities.
Author
Series
Odd Thomas volume 5
Publisher
Bantam Books
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Odd Thomas and his companion Annamaria, temporarily taking refuge at Roseland, the opulent estate of a reclusive billionaire, discover that the estate and its masters are hiding deep and dreadful secrets.
93) Larkspur Road
Author
Series
Lonesome Way volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Center Point Large Print ed.
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
95) Akin: a novel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
339 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Noah Selvaggio is a retired chemistry professor and widower living on the Upper West Side, but born in the South of France. He is days away from his first visit back to Nice since he was a child, bringing with him a handful of puzzling photos he's discovered from his mother's wartime years. But he receives a call from social services: Noah is the closest available relative of an eleven-year-old great-nephew he's never met, who urgently needs someone...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
489 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Sorrows of an American is a soaring feat of storytelling about the immigrant experience and the ghosts that haunt families from one generation to another
When Erik Davidsen and his sister, Inga, find a disturbing note from an unknown woman among their dead father's papers, they believe he may be implicated in a mysterious death. Siri Hustvedt's The Sorrows of an American tells the story of the Davidsen family as brother and sister uncover its...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
It's 2008, and the rise of Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. In Chicago, Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man. He's eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. She has never gotten over the baby she gave birth to, and abandoned, when she was a teenager. She had promised her family she'd never look back, but Ruth knows that to move forward, she must make peace with the past. Returning...
100) Ocean Beach
Author
Series
Beach volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Berkley trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
x, 438 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Description
After arriving in Ocean Beach to renovate an old home, Avery Lawford, her interior designer mother, and some friends discover a set of unexpected challenges.