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Author
Series
Ones who got away volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Most days, Rebecca Lindt feels like an imposter...The world admires her as a survivor. But that impression would crumble if people knew her secret. She didn't deserve to be the one who got away. But nothing can change the past, so she's thrown herself into her work. She can't dwell if she never slows down. Wes Garrett is trying to get back on his feet after losing his dream restaurant, his money, and half his damn mind in a vicious divorce. But when...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Leaving her successful job after the unexpected death of her famous father, photojournalist Serena Stone risks her life to save a former lover and discovers an archive of her late father's work in war-torn Libya that reveals a shocking truth about her parents' marriage.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Four distinct voices tell the story of a disturbing incident and its far-reaching aftermath...It's a labyrinth of shifting perspectives, but the narrators keep this grim story focused and mesmerizing." AudioFile Magazine. The highly anticipated new audiobook from the author whose debut was called “The smart summer thriller youve been waiting for...The novel you should be reading tonight” (NPRs All Things Considered) and was named a Book of the...
Author
Series
Walk novels volume 5
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When the long walk from Seattle to Key West finally nears an end, Alan Christoffersen must return to the west and face yet another crisis just as he has begun to heal from so much loss.
Author
Series
Walk novels volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In St. Louis, Alan Christoffersen faces another life-changing crisis, putting his journey to grace in jeopardy.
46) Runaway
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A failed Glasgow musician looks back on the half century that has passed since he convinced four friends to run away with him as ambitious teens and is haunted by the memory of a traumatizing event. Meanwhile a murderer in London embarks on a nightmarish spree.
Author
Series
Language
Español
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Description
"Como estudiante en la prestigiosa escuela Bradley, Ani FaNelli no paso la mejor de las adolescencias. Ahora, con un trabajo glamuroso, un armario caro y un apuesto novio, esta muy cerca de vivir la vida perfecta y frivola por la que ha estado trabajando tan duro. Pero Ani tiene un secreto. Hay algo en su pasado que todavia la persigue: algo privado, oculto, secreto y doloroso que amenaza con destruirlo todo. Con una voz y un estilo tan singular como...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
cp2013
Language
English
Description
Required to complete a celebrity biography on her own after the suspicious death of her charismatic partner, agoraphobic ghost writer Em Moore struggles through the job's required interviews with alluring film director Garrett Malcolm, who alludes to dark family secrets and trouble with a fellow star.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"In a riveting debut novel that reads like Prep meets Gone Girl, a young woman is determined to create the perfect life--husband, home, and career--until a violent incident from her past threatens to unravel everything and expose her most shocking secret of all. Twenty-eight-year-old New Yorker Ani FaNelli seems to have it all: she's a rising star at The Women's Magazine, impossibly fit, perfectly groomed, and about to marry Luke Harrison, a handsome...
50) Homecoming
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Sometimes the only way forward is the road that takes you home. Eleanor is back in Ireland after a lifetime in New York. Actress Megan is seeking anonymity from a tabloid scandal. Rae, manager of the local café, is hiding secrets of her own. Connie has an abundance of blessings-- and a deep-seated loneliness. As their lives intertwine, they learn that finding your way can lead to the last place you expected.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things work -and what to do when they break. Caroline MacAfee is a skilled carpenter, her daughter Jamie, a talented architect. Together they are the faces of Gut It!, a home renovation series on local public television. Caroline takes pride in her work, and in the way she connects with the show's audience. But when she is told the network wants her daughter to replace her as host-the day after...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Through an heirloom charm bracelet three women will rediscover the importance of family, love, faith, friends, fun and a passion for living as the magic of each charm changes their lives. Lolly, still lives in the family cabin on Lost Land Lake where her mother gave her the charm bracelet that would become Lolly's talisman and connection to family past and Lolly hopes the present, but her daughter, Arden, and granddaughter, Lauren, haven't visited...
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian/New American Library
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The first novel in a fun new cozy series, featuring yarn fanatic and sleuth Kath Rutledge and her ghostly sidekick, Geneva.
When Kath Rutledge, owner of The Weaver's Cat, discovers that her grandmother was a prime suspect in a recent murder, she must unravel the clues and find the real killer.
55) Firefly Cove
Author
Series
Miramar Bay novels volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Since the age of seven, Lucius Quarterfield has known he is dying. But now, at twenty-eight, his time is finally running out. So he's returning to the one place he ever felt happy, near the only woman he ever truly wanted. He's going to make each moment count because he knows that everything is about to change ... he just can't know exactly how.
56) The plover
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A compelling, marvelous novel by the acclaimed author of Mink River Declan O Donnell has left Oregon aboard his boat, the Plover, to escape the life that's so troubled him on land. He sets course west into the Pacific in search of solitude. Instead, he finds a crew, each in search of something themselves, and what at first seems a lonely sea voyage becomes a rapturous, heartfelt celebration of life's surprising paths, planned and unplanned"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Vlad, a stranger from Eastern Europe masquerading as a healer, settles in a small Irish village where the locals fall under his spell. One woman, Fidelma McBride, becomes so enamored that she begs him for a child. All that world is shattered when Vlad is arrested, and his identity as a war criminal is revealed. Fidelma, disgraced, flees to England and seeks work among the other migrants displaced by wars and persecution. But it is not until she confronts...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Eileen Jackson was happy to set aside her own dreams to raise a family with her husband, Paul. Together they built an ordinary life in a Connecticut town, the perfect place for their kids to grow up. But when Eileen discovers that Paul's late nights in the city are hiding an affair with a younger woman, she begins to question all those years of sacrifice and compromise. On the brink of forty and wondering what she's going to do with the rest of her...
Author
Series
Creektown discoveries volume 3
Publisher
Barbour Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
An Amish Quilt Unlocks Secrets from the Past Welcome to Apple Creek, Ohio, where piano teacher and artist, Andrea Wagner, has a fascination with painting the rural Amish landscapes around her home. She has made it to her thirties feeling like she has had a charmed life and finally has fallen in love with Brandon Prentice, a local veterinarian. But then she discovers she was adopted and all she thought she knew about herself has crumbled. Andrea becomes...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
The novel tells the story of two people who collide with each other just as the whole world seems to be caught between the drama of Obama's election and the catastrophic collapse of the global economy. Bruno is a middle-aged American banker who has come to Ireland as a refugee from the financial meltdown in his own country. Addie is an out of work Irish architect. When she meets Bruno, her life seems to be on a downward spiral. Addie and Bruno's...
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