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981) A fire sparkling
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"After a crushing betrayal by the man she loves, Gillian Gibbons flees to her family home for a much-needed escape, but when she finds an old photograph of her grandmother in the arms of a Nazi officer, Gillian's life gets even more complicated. Rattled by the discovery, Gillian attempts to unravel the truth behind the photos, setting her off on an epic journey through the past... 1939. England is on the brink of war as Vivian Hughes falls in love...
982) Ziegfeld Girls
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
New York City, 1914. Suzanne and Jada. Sisters and wealthy employer and devoted maid. Together, they realize Suzanne's dream to see her name in lights on Broadway as she becomes the dazzling Ziegfeld Follies' rising new star. But Jada's superb voice and dance skills give her an unexpected shot at her own success. When a jealous Suzanne reveals a shattering secret, their friendship becomes a bitter rivalry. As Suzanne consoles herself with dashing...
Author
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This is a tale of family, friends, marriages in trouble, secrets, lies and family ties. It is a very special birthday party, a chance to get family and friends together and raise a glass in celebration. And no one throws a party like the Brannigans. For Bess, hosting the lavish weekend at Lisowen Castle to celebrate her new husband's birthday is a chance to show the world how far they have come. Yes, Ed may once have been the poor boy from the village,...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Renuka Sharma is a dutiful wife, mother, and daughter-in-law holding the fort in a modest rental in Delhi while her husband tries to rack up savings in Dubai. Working as a receptionist and committed to finding a place for her family in the New Indian Dream of air-conditioned malls and high paid jobs at multi-nationals, life is going as planned until the day she strikes up a conversation with an uncommonly self-possessed stranger at a Metro station....
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Three generations of women. Three generations worth of secrets. Will a cache of letters from beyond the grave hold the key to unravelling them all?...Growing up, the Anderson sisters could not have been more different. Susie, the wild one, had an adventurous life while Camilla— Mills—followed a safer path. When Susie suddenly dies, Mills falls apart. Until she receives a bundle of mysterious letters from her estranged sister to be read in the...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Three generations. Seven days. One big secret. The author of The Coincidence of Coconut Cake Gina Zoberski wants to make it through one day without her fastidious mother, Lorraine, cataloguing all her faults, and her sullen teenage daughter, May, snubbing her. Too bad there's no chance of that. Her relentlessly sunny disposition annoys them both, no matter how hard she tries. Instead, Gina finds order and comfort in obsessive list-making and her work...
987) The emperor's code
Author
Series
The 39 clues. Main series volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the race to find the 39 Clues builds to its explosive finish, Amy and Dan must explore an ancient culture and steal a clue guarded by thousands of the world's best-trained soldiers. It's the most dangerous search yet ... and it may mean the end for Amy and Dan.
988) If you only knew
Author
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Letting go of her ex-husband is harder than wedding-dress designer Jenny Tate expected...especially since his new wife wants to be Jenny's new best friend. Sensing this isn't exactly helping her achieve closure, Jenny trades the Manhattan skyline for her hometown up the Hudson, where she'll start her own business and bask in her sister Rachel's picture-perfect family life...and maybe even find a little romance of her own with Leo, her downstairs neighbor,...
989) West of the sea
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"When her mom disappears from their small Texas town, paleontology-loving Haven is determined to find her. But as she uncovers truths about her mom's identity, Haven also uncovers a monstrous family secret. Her mom can take the shape of a human and, in the right environment, also turn into an amphibious creature known as a kitskara. And now that she's growing up, Haven is discovering she has this ability, too. This newfound identity is her only clue...
990) Last seen in Havana
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
" In 2019, newly widowed baker Mercedes Spivey flies from Miami to her native Cuba to care after her ailing paternal grandmother. Mercedes's life has been shaped by loss, beginning with the mysterious unsolved disappearance of her mother when Mercedes wasa little girl. Returning to Cuba revives Mercedes's hopes of finding her mother as she attempts to piece together the few scraps of information she has. Could her mother still be alive? Thirty-three...
991) Anna and Johanna
Author
Publisher
Prestel Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"This delightful tale about two young friends in 17th-century Holland is inspired by Vermeer's two masterpieces, The Milkmaid and The Lacemaker. Although one is the daughter of a wealthy Dutch family and the other a household servant, Anna and Johanna become friends. Born on the same day, they celebrate their joint birthdays by making gifts for each other. But then a letter arrives that changes their lives forever. Told against the backdrop of the...
992) A hustler's queen
Author
Publisher
Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A hard-working daddy's girl, Precious Cummings is sure she's going to college. But when her father is murdered, she discovers he lied for years about money they never had--and hid a shocking family secret. Shattered and lost, she starts hanging with savvy hood chick Keisha and falls hard for DaVon, LA's most powerful drug dealer. As his new lady, Precious soon gets the best of every luxurious thing and fast learns the ropes of her lover's lethal hustle....
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Lucy Acosta's mother died when she was three. Growing up in a Victorian mansion in the middle of the woods with her cold, distant father, she explored the dark hallways of the estate with her cousin, Margaret. They're inseparable--a family. When her aunt Penelope, the only mother she's ever known, tragically disappears while walking in the woods surrounding their estate, Lucy finds herself devastated and alone. Margaret has been spending a lot of...
Author
Publisher
B
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"UNA HISTORIA IMPOSIBLE DE AMOR VERDADERO DOS HERMANAS ENFRENTADAS UN SECRETO INCONFESABLE QUE LAS SEPARARÁ PARA SIEMPRE Madrid, 1925. Helena y Carmen Galiana son dos hermanas huérfanas que son como polos opuestos: una siempre ha querido casarse y ser madre, la otra aspira a ser fotógrafa y vivir entre artistas bohemios y mujeres feministas en los bulliciosos cafés literarios. Y, sin embargo, un mismo hombre hace tambalear la vida de ambas. Cuando...
995) The postcard
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life, an enthralling investigation into family secrets, and poignant tale of a Jewish family devastated by the Holocaust and partly restored through the power of storytelling. January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home. On the front, a...
996) Unbecoming
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Life has just become very complicated for seventeen-year-old Katie; her father walked out a year ago, her mother is stressed out, her brother is a "special needs" teenager, and she is caring for the maternal grandmother she has never met, who is suffering from Alzheimer's--and Katie has a secret of her own that she cannot reveal.
997) Dreams of fear
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Jane Ferguson suffers from horrific nightmares which she claims not to be able to explain. And when her traumatised 6-year-old daughter finds Jane dead, hanging by the neck in the hallway of the family's seaside home, it is assumed she took her own life. But routine police enquiries reveal evidence indicating that Jane has been murdered, and her businessman husband Felix, commodore of the local yacht club, becomes the chief suspect. Called in to launch...
998) Useless Bay
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
On Whidbey Island, north of Seattle, the Gray family's quintuplets join the search for a young boy gone missing and soon discover deep family secrets and that crimes have been committed.
999) False conclusion
Author
Series
Abbot Agency mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Bea Abbot is looking forward to spending the summer with her fourteen-year-old ward, Bernice, but her plans go awry when one of Bernice's schoolfriends finds herself in trouble. Evelina Trescott's uncle has died in a mysterious accident at their country house, and her aunt, Mrs Trescott, is keen to hide Evelina away from the police. Evelina arrives on Bea's doorstep catatonic, heavily drugged up on epilepsy medication and unable to remember finding...
1000) The garden of angels
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Nico Uccello’s grandfather is dying, and from his deathbed he gives Nico an unwelcome gift: a yellowing manuscript, containing a story Nico must keep secret from his father. Nico loves his grandfather, but as the heart-breaking tale of what really happened in Nazi-occupied Venice of 1943 unfolds, he begins to wonder if he ever knew him at all …"--
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