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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"The author of What Lies in the Woods returns with a novel about three sisters, two murders, and too many secrets to count. Emma hasn't told her husband much about her past. He knows her parents are dead and she hasn't spoken to her sisters in years. Thenthey lose their apartment, her husband gets laid off, and Emma discovers she's pregnant-right as the bank account slips into the red. That's when Emma confesses that she has one more asset: her parents'...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"After her parents' deaths, Avery Ayers takes over the family business...Now living back at home with her younger sister Tilly and their newly moved-in eccentric Aunt Midge and her Afghan hound, Avery's life is filled with jewels, tapestries, paintings, and rare finds. But their world is rocked when Avery learns that the theft of a priceless ruby may be connected to her parents' demise"--
Author
Series
Sheldon Horowitz novels volume prequel
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"A coming-of-age story set during the rising tide of World War II, How to Find Your Way in the Dark follows Sheldon Horowitz from his humble start in a cabin in rural Massachusetts, through the trauma of his father's murder and the murky experience of assimilation in Hartford, Connecticut, to the birth of stand-up comedy in the Catskills-all while he and his friends are beset by anti-Semitic neighbors, employers, and criminals"--
5) With song
Author
Series
Dolan brothers series volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
7) Cape Refuge
Author
Series
Cape Refuge series volume 1
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
10) Thy neighbor
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Losing himself in drugs and alcohol for years after the violent deaths of his parents, Nick Walsh pursues a relationship with an enigmatic woman while conducting a spying campaign on his neighbors as part of his obsessive drive to come to terms with what happened.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
After a fatal accident claims their parents, half-sisters Ruthie and Julia must live in different parts of the country, each with a remaining biological parent, a separation that severs their relationship--until another shocking accident offers them a once-in-a-lifetime chance to reconcile.
Author
Series
Patrick Melrose novels volume 5
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Friends, relatives, and foes trickle in to pay final respects to Patrick's mother, Eleanor. An American heiress, Eleanor married into the British aristocracy, giving up the grandeur of her upbringing for "good works" freely bestowed on everyone but her own son, who finds himself questioning whether his transition to a life without parents will indeed be the liberation he had so long imagined.
14) Time is a killer
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Series
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 2016, Clotilde is spending her vacation in Corsica with her husband Franck and her teenage daughter Valentine. It is the first time she has been back to the island since the car accident in which her parents and her brother were killed decades earlier. She was in the car too, but miraculously escaped with her life ... When a mysterious letter signed "Palma"--Clotilde's mother--arrives, the truth about her family, her parents' death,...
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Tragedy strikes a quiet Dorset town when the bodies of Sarah and Charles Drummond are discovered in their home one morning while their two young children, Abby and Mia, sleep upstairs. The police seem certain that Charles killed his wife before taking his own life, and the girls' grandmother, Cicely Fairfax, makes sure that they are shielded from the horrific truth. Until now. Sixteen years later, an accident at work leads Mia to have disturbing...
16) Shoulder season
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"The small town of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin is an unlikely location for a Playboy Resort, and nineteen-year old Sherri Taylor is an unlikely bunny. Growing up in neighboring East Troy, Sherri plays the organ at the local church and has never felt comfortable in her own skin. But when her parents die in quick succession, she leaves the only home she's ever known for the chance to be part of a glamorous slice of history. In the winter of 1981, in a costume...
19) Arch-conspirator
Author
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"From dystopian visionary and bestselling phenomenon Veronica Roth comes a razor-sharp reimagining of Antigone. In Arch-Conspirator, Roth reaches back to the root of legend and delivers a world of tomorrow both timeless and unexpected. "A gut punch of a story. Roth takes everything fragile about love, everything powerful about certain doom, and blooms with it. You'll be holding your breath until the very last word."-Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling...
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Adrift in the wake of a parent's death, a divorce, and multiple miscarriages, a wedding photographer accepts a job documenting the restoration of a historic estate while investigating long-buried family secrets.
''An Amazon Charts bestseller. From bestselling author Mary Ellen Taylor comes a story about profound loss, hard truths, and an overgrown greenhouse full of old secrets. Adrift in the wake of her father’s death, a failed marriage, and...
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