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Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
204p. 23cm.
Language
English
Description
College student Christine Bradley grew up in a loving and honest family. So she couldn't have been more surprised when, shortly after her mother's death, her father revealed the startling truth that Christine had been adopted at birth. In search of clues about her biological mother, Christine encounters a family she never knew she had. She digs deeper as Christmas nears and what she finds reveals a shocking lineage. Will Christine be able to come...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Emma Woodhouse arrives home in Norfolk ready to embark on adult life. Not only has her sister, Isabella, been whisked away on a motorcycle up to London, but her astute governess, Miss Taylor is at a loose end, abandoned in the giant family pile, Hartfield, alongside Emma's anxiety-ridden father. Someone is needed to rule the roost and young Emma is more than happy to oblige. But there is only one person who can play with Emma's indestructible confidence,...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"I adored stepping into to the world of the Prines through tough-as-rawhide Mary Pearl. Light Changes Everything is a novel as gritty and authentic as the women of the Arizona Territory. Nancy E. Turner brings the west and its people fully to life." -Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours Bestselling author Nancy E. Turner returns to the world of Sarah Agnes Prine through the wide-eyes of her irrepressible young...
24) Dying to please
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Language
English
Description
Skilled at running large households efficiently, Sarah Stevens also serves as a trained bodyguard for her elderly employer, but when she thwarts a burglary in progress, getting her name in the local press, she finds herself the target of a deranged stalker.
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
262 p.
Language
English
Description
The winter around Cheyenne, Wyoming, is devastating, killing both people and livestock. John Henry Cole lives three miles out of town on his small ranch, where he waits out the storm that is quickly killing his cattle and horses. Everything he owns is dying before his eyes, and there isn't anything he can do about it. His dreams of a settled life are as dead as everything else. He knows it's time to move on, and move on he does-but not in the direction...
Author
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Howard Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On a chilly morning in the Northwest Iowa town of Blackhawk, Dr. Lucas Hudson is filling in for the vacationing coroner on a seemingly open-and-shut suicide case. His own life is crumbling around him, but when he unearths the body of a woman buried in the barn floor beneath the hanging corpse, he realizes this terrible discovery could change everything."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Dial Press
Physical Desc
435 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Entreated by the bossy ghost of her great aunt to track down a missing necklace, Lara Lington finds her search challenged by her floundering start-up business, her best friend's defection, and her unfaithful boyfriend.
28) Late bloomer
Author
Language
English
Description
Struggling to recover her long-buried memories of a childhood tragedy, Cady Jordan searches for fulfillment and self-identity in the face of adversity, acrimonious relationships, and love.
29) Coming home
Author
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
341p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jessica Lehman, world-weary and despondent, takes an impulsive detour to visit her hometown and discovers more than she anticipated. A single purchase in a quaint gift shop becomes the catalyst for reviving long-buried memories of her tragic childhood, mixed with happier memories of her first sweetheart, who had always promised to "rescue her from dragons." Her childish hope for the fairy tale "happy ending" had been dashed years ago, and Jessie now...
30) Inescapable
Author
Series
Road to kingdom volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
333 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After receiving threatening letters from a stalker, Lizzie is forced to return to her childhood Mennonite home and reconsiders her initial judgments of her community and faith only to discover that the danger she ran from is closer than ever.
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Fledgling, Octavia Butler's last novel, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted-and still wants-to destroy her and those she cares for, and how she can save herself. Fledgling is a captivating...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of the young Pakistani student who advocated for women's rights and education in the Taliban-controlled Swat Valley, survived an assassination attempt, and became the youngest nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A powerful, emotional debut novel told in the unforgettable voice of a young Nigerian woman who is trapped in a life of servitude but determined to get an education so that she can escape and choose her own future. Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a "louding voice"-the ability to speak for herself and decide her own future. But instead, Adunni's...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A prequel to the Lucky Santangelo series features a headstrong teenaged Lucky, who after the murder of her mother escapes her notorious father's protective stranglehold to pursue a life of sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll.
Author
Series
Nantucket legacy volume 2
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Language
English
Description
When Captain Reynolds Macy returns from a six-year whaling voyage to find his plans for marriage thwarted, Daphne Coffin encourages him to return to his Quaker faith for solace.
Author
Series
Detective D.D. Warren novel volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy and Sergeant Detective D D Warren have built a task force to follow the digital bread crumbs left behind by deceased serial kidnapper Jacob Ness. When a disturbing piece of evidence is discovered in the hills of Georgia, they bring Flora Dane and true-crime savant Keith Edgar to a small town where something seems to be deeply wrong. What at first looks like a Gothic eeriness soon hardens into something much more...