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61) Judas
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Winner of the International Literature Prize, the new novel by Amos Oz is his first full-length work since the bestselling A Tale of Love and Darkness.Jerusalem, 1959. Shmuel Ash, a biblical scholar, is adrift in his young life when he finds work as a caregiver for a brilliant but cantankerous old man named Gershom Wald. There is, however, a third, mysterious presence in his new home. Atalia Abravanel, the daughter of a deceased Zionist leader, a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
463 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Widowed and forced to remarry in three years' time or forfeit her son's inheritance, Daisy Bristol, Lady Chatwick, has plenty of suitors vying for her hand -- and her fortune. But a letter from a long-lost love sends Daisy and her young son to her Scottish Highland estate to buy time for his return. Along the way she encounters the powerful Cailean Mackenzie, laird of Arrandale and a notorious smuggler, and she is utterly -- though unwillingly --...
63) The other woman
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Adam adores Emily. Emily thinks Adam's perfect, the man she thought she'd never meet. But lurking in the shadows is a rival, a woman who shares a deep bond with the man she loves. Emily chose Adam, but she didn't choose his mother Pammie. There's nothing a mother wouldn't do for her son, and now Emily is about to find out just how far Pammie will go to get what she wants: Emily gone forever. -- adapted from back cover
Author
Series
Blackberry Island volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After her cat toy empire goes up in flames, Sophie Lane returns to Blackberry Island, determined to rebuild. Until small-town life reveals a big problem: she can't grow unless she learns to let go. If Sophie relaxes her grip even a little, she might lose everything. Or she might finally be free to reach for the happiness and love that have eluded her for so long. Kristine has become defined by her relationship to others. She's a wife, a mom. As much...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
An adoptee sets out on Christmas to find her biological family but the deaths of two women in her small Amish town halt her search and bring more confusion to her truth seeking. When she tries to stave off advances from her parent's preferred suitor, she realizes the person she is meant to be with has been there all along.
66) Holiday country
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nineteen-year-old Ada adores spending every summer in a Turkish seaside town with her mother and grandmother at the family villa. The glittering waters, picturesque olive groves, and her spirited friends make it easy for Ada to leave her idle life in California behind. But no matter how much Ada feels she belongs to the country where her mother grew up, deep down, her connection to the culture feels as fleeting as the seasons. When Levent, a mysterious...
Author
Publisher
Arcade CrimeWise
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the lush world-banking capital of Geneva, Switzerland, three friends from Harvard Business School find their lives and their work unexpectedly intertwined. Catherine and Majid are handling investments for clients with dubious pedigrees. When their friend Rafe shows up in Geneva, he claims to be just another start-up hedge fund manager. But Rafe, after a moral awakening, is now an undercover agent with the U.S. Treasury's Office of Terrorism and...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
399 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Charlotte spent her twenties adrift, searching for a spark to jump-start her life. She's had as many jobs as bad relationships, and is feeling especially lost. Then she collides -- literally -- with Adam, an intriguing, handsome and mysterious painter. Their meeting turns into a whirlwind one-night stand that has Charlotte feeling enchanted. But in the harsh light of morning, Adam's tune changes. Months later, a new relationship is turning into something...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
As this year's summer beckons, Evie's family gathers once more at the beautiful old riverside house they all adore. But when Evie discovers a secret that threaten their future, a shadow falls over them all: this summer by the river could be their last together.
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
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Life for Ethan and Zo used to be simple. Ethan co-founded a lucrative media start-up, and Zo was well on her way to becoming a successful filmmaker. Then they moved to a rural community for a little more tranquility--or so they thought. When newfound political activism transforms Zo into a barely recognizable ball of outrage and #MeToo allegations rock his old firm, Ethan finds himself a misfit in his own life. Enter a houseguest who is young, fun,...
73) Mrs. Osmond
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and The Blue Guitar--a dazzling new novel that extends the story of Isabel Archer, the heroine of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, into unexpected (and completely stand-alone) territory. Isabel Archer is a young American woman, swept off to Europe in the late nineteenth century by an aunt who hopes to round out the impetuous but naive girl's experience of the world. When Isabel comes into a...
74) The arrangement
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A story inspired by the real-world love triangle between M.F.K. Fisher, her husband, and her lover depicts food writer Mary Frances in 1934 Los Angeles, whose articles become metaphorical for her hunger for passionate fulfillment in a marriage that is no longer intimate or creative.
Author
Series
Blink Texas volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
343 p.
Language
English
Description
"When Abigail Rhodes bought that old house she fell in love with in Blink, Texas, she got more than she bargained for. After being told by the local psychic that it is filled with a passionate energy from the previous owners, who died years ago, Abby decides to fix up her beloved house and reluctantly moves in. But ever since then, strange things have been happening in her newly renovated home, and Abby has been plagued with dreams that wake her up...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Skyla spends her nights ruminating about the regrets and deceptions in her long marriage. That is, until she rents a cottage to a charming British man, Teddy Cornwell. Linelle is about to turn fifty and her only source of joy is an on-line affair with her very first love - Teddy Cornwell. Years ago, Providence was the site of Jeremy's first great love and first great heartbreak - and maybe he'll look her up when he's back in town. This is a character-driven...
77) Grist Mill Road
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The year is 1982; the setting, an Edenic hamlet some ninety miles north of New York City. There, among the craggy rock cliffs and glacial ponds of timeworn mountains, three friends--Patrick, Matthew, and Hannah--are bound together by a terrible and seemingly senseless crime. Twenty-six years later, in New York City, living lives their younger selves never could have predicted, the three meet again--with even more devastating results--
78) The 9th judgment
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After an assailant guns down a mother and her infant at a mall and a cat burglar kills the wife of an A-list actor, Lindsay Boxer and her partner Rich must pick up the pieces, but not before one of the killers forces Lindsay to put her life on the line.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Language
English
Description
"A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community--and the things that ultimately haunt us most. Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret. "All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we'd...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
473 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Empress Elizabeth of Austria, known as "Sisi," is the Princess Diana of nineteenth-century Europe. Famously beautiful, as captured in a portrait with diamond stars in her hair, she is unfulfilled in her marriage to the older Emperor Franz Joseph. Sisi has spent years evading the stifling formality of royal life on her private train or yacht or, whenever she can, on the back of a horse. Captain Bay Middleton is dashing, young, and the finest horseman...