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61) Magpie Lane
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
After Oxford College Master’s young daughter goes missing, the Scottish nanny recounts her time living in the family’s eerie and ancient house with the fiercely intelligent father, his new wife, and the nearly mute missing girl, who sees ghosts.
62) Raising the dad
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Navigating the challenges of a stale marriage, a hostile teen daughter, his brother's recent prison release, and his mother's progressive dementia, an overwhelmed family man stumbles on an incredible secret regarding his father's fate that changes his relationships in profound ways.
63) Inside man
Author
Series
Sam Capra novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Sam Capra's best customer--and friend--is murdered outside his Miami bar, Sam decides to seek justice. Determined to find out the connection between his friend's death and a beautiful stranger, Sam infiltrates the Ligeras, one of Miami's most prominent--and dangerous-families. He faces a powerful but unstable mastermind intent on dividing his business empire between his three very different children, who may hold murderous secrets of their own....
Author
Series
Fairham Island volume 1
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After a painful divorce, Maisey Lazarow returns to the small island off the North Carolina coast where she grew up. Upon finding a box of old photographs, Maisey and her brother Keith begin to uncover distant memories of a little girl who they believe was their sister. Their mother claims there was no sister, but Maisey is convinced there was. So where is she now?
Author
Series
Fairham Island volume 2
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The rich and powerful Josephine Lazarow, matriarch of Fairham Island, is dead. The police say it's suicide, but Keith, her estranged son, doesn't believe it and returns to Fairham determined to find his mother's killer"--
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Alan Broussard is swept up in his science teacher father's community-wide comet-watching activities, which illuminate for the young teen his father's inadequacies, his mother's unhappiness and his own loss of innocence.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
Newly involved in his daughter's life shortly after she suffered a breakdown, Lucas takes the teen on a trip to Europe in the hopes that an immersion in regional history and culture will help her forget his past mistakes and her uncertain future.
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[[1992] 1992]
Language
English
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Description
Dolores is a class-A emotional basket case, and why shouldn't she be? She's suffered almost every abuse and familial travesty that exists: Her father is a violent, philandering liar; her mother has the mental and emotional consistency of Jell-O; and the men in her life are probably the gender's most loathsome creatures.
70) Poison: a novel
Author
Series
Bloodline trilogy (Jordyn Redwood) volume 2
Publisher
Kregel Publications
Pub. Date
[2013].
Language
English
Description
Five years ago, Keelyn Blake's stepfather took her family hostage, raving about Lucent, a being who forced him to commit unspeakable acts. Some of the family made it out alive, the rest didn't. Now Lucent is back, and he's no hallucination.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When his wife dies decades after their high-profile romance catches the attention of England, a once-alluring playwright struggles with writer's block and rage while his late wife's adult children struggle to understand why they were abandoned for him.
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, The Caretaker by award-winning author Ron Rash ("One of the great American authors at work today" —The New York Times) is a breathtaking love story and a searing examination of the acts we seek to justify in the name of duty, family, honor, and love. It’s 1951 in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Blackburn Gant, his life irrevocably altered by a childhood...
73) A simple prayer
Author
Series
Hearts of the Lancaster Grand Hotel volume 4
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Two people from difficult family backgrounds try to navigate their scars to build a successful relationship.
74) Aphasia
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Antonio works making spreadsheets for Bank of America, but not-so-secretly wants to be a great writer-or indeed to do anything that will help him avoid thinking about his sister, a paranoid schizophrenic on the run from the police. Antonio's attempts to write a novel become an ekphrastic performance of avoidance and evasion, darting between the past and the present to consider relationships erotic and familial, the worlds of architecture and literature,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When one of her clients appears at her door with a briefcase full of jewels, Bea is drawn into the affairs of the dysfunctional Rycroft family, a wealthy clan of connivers who will do anything to get their hands on the precious stones.
76) Tilt
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three teens, connected by their parents' bad choices, tell in their own voices of their lives and loves as Shane finds his first boyfriend, Mikayla discovers that love can be pushed too far, and Harley loses herself in her quest for new experiences.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends With Us and November 9 comes a moving and haunting novel of family, love, and the power of the truth.“Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness.”The Voss family is anything but normal. They live in a repurposed church, newly baptized Dollar Voss. The once cancer-stricken mother lives in the basement, the father is married to the mothers...
Author
Publisher
Mantle
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Rose Woodrowe is getting married to Tyler Masson - a wonderful, sensitive man who is head-over-heels in love with her. The only problem? This isn't the first time for either of them, and their five grown-up children have strong opinions on the matter... Who to listen to? Who to please? Rose and Tyler are determined to get it right this time, but in trying to make everyone happy, can they ever be happy themselves?
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
"Emily Glass knows she's neurotic. But she's got it under control. Sort of. She dons compression socks when she flies (because, you know, deep vein thrombosis) and responds to people routinely overestimating her age with more Lifespin classes and less gluten. Thankfully, she also has David, the wonderful man she'll soon call husband--assuming they can survive wedding week with her wildly dysfunctional family"--Amazon.com.
80) Parakeet
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The week of her wedding, The Bride is visited by a bird she recognizes as her dead grandmother because of the cornflower blue line beneath her eyes, her dubious expression, and the way she asks: What is the Internet? Her grandmother is a parakeet. She says not to get married. She says: Go and find your brother. In the days that follow, The Bride's march to the altar becomes a wild and increasingly fragmented, unstable journey that bends toward the...
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