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"Joan Blakely had an unconventional childhood: the daughter of a globe-trotting supermodel and a world-famous artist. Her artist father died on 9/11, and Joan—an art historian by training—has spent more than a decade maintaining his legacy. Life in the art world is beginning to wear on her—and then one fateful afternoon her husband drops a bombshell: he’s fathered twins with another woman. Furious but secretly pleased to have a reason to...
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"A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the Booker Prize-finalist author of A Tale for the Time Being After the tragic death his beloved musician father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house-a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn't understand what these things are saying, he can sense their...
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Seven sisters (Lucinda Riley) volume 7
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English
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"The story of Merope, the missing sister, is waiting to be told ... Following Georg Hoffman's revelation that he may have found The Missing Sister, Maia and Ally discover that all they have to go on is an address of a vineyard in New Zealand, plus a drawing of an unusual star-shaped emerald ring. Deciding that CeCe, who lives in Australia, is the closest, they send her to investigate with her partner, Chrissie. So begins a race against time to identify...
45) Every Sunday
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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Johnny Cantini, Nick's oldest son, is left holding the needle and thread that stitches the family together. Johnny must continue with the small business his father built while trying to fill his father's shoes as the family's head.
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English
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In this book, the author tells the story of a woman's homecoming, a family secret, and the old house that holds the key to the true legacy of a family. At a crossroads in her life, Lucy Jarrett returns home from Japan, only to find herself haunted by her father's unresolved death a decade ago. Old longings stirred up by Keegan Fall, a local glass artist who was once her passionate first love, lead her into the unexpected. Late one night, as she paces...
49) The scapegoat
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Investigating the suspicious death of his estranged father at a hotel that was once the site of a Spanish mission, a California university employee begins experiencing hallucinatory daydreams as his academic colleagues turn increasingly hostile.--
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2014.
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"Riley MacPherson has spent her entire life believing that her older sister Lisa committed suicide as a teenager. Now, over twenty years later, her father has passed away and she's in New Bern, North Carolina cleaning out his house when she finds evidence to the contrary. Lisa is alive. Alive and living under a new identity. But why exactly was she on the run all those years ago, and what secrets are being kept now? As Riley works to uncover the truth,...
51) Daddy's girls
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
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Growing up with all the advantages of life except for the love of their father, four daughters live surrounded by luxury while struggling with their progenitor's harsh criticism, which eventually pushes one of them into a murderous act.
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2021
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English
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"Our narrator, Francisco Goldberg, an American writer, has been living and working in Mexico City as a journalist for over a decade, but has recently returned to New York City in hopes of 'going home again.' It's been five years since the end of his last relationship and he is falling in love again with a new woman. Soon, though, he is beckoned back to Boston by his former high school girlfriend who was witness to his greatest youthful humiliations,...
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2017.
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English
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"It is New York, 1904, and Dulcy Remfrey, despite an idiosyncratic, traveling childhood, faces the predictable life of a woman of the time. All that changes when her eccentric father returns from his expedition to Africa without any of the proceeds from the sale of a gold mine. It seems he's lost his mind along with the money, and Dulcy's obsessive ex-fiance (and her father's business partner) insists she come to Seattle to decipher her father's cryptic...
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2004
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English
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Dante Mancuso works for The Company, a security organization operating just this side of the law. Returning home to San Francisco's Little Italy to attend the funeral of his father, Dante finds himself being pursued by Frank Ying, a Chinese detective eager to know the secrets Dante hides.
55) Dark water
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
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English
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Two decades ago, Sarah Jane Whitman's father disappeared with an embezzled fortune from his local bank, an act of betrayal that subjected his wife and daughter to a vicious scandal. Now a body has been pulled from its watery tomb, a body that is identified as Frank Whitman's. This grim discovery proves Sarah's father was innocent . . . and that the real thief got away with murder.
57) The tea rose
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Series
Tea rose trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martins Griffin
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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Her family and dreams shattered by her father's untimely death at the hands of a ruthless tea baron, Fiona Finnegan flees East London and eventually establishes herself at the head of the tea trade in New York.
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Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Struck and killed by lightening in a village high in the Pyrenees, Domenec is surrounded by the ghosts of seventeenth-century witches, and so begins this spellbinding novel about the human dramas that unfold against the uncontainable life force of the land itself.
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Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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After her father’s involvement in a public scandal, Daisy must navigate the sale of the family home, her sister’s inconvenient crush, and her best friend writing an expose, in a modern retelling of Jane Austen’s classic Sense and Sensibility.
60) Lies that bind
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Maeve Conlon novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"Maeve's moving on with everyday life when the unthinkable happens: her father dies of a massive heart attack. Maeve's mother died when Maeve was very young, and growing up, it was always just her and her father. But on the day of his funeral, Maeve learns a shocking secret: she might have a sister she's never met. Maeve knows her father would never have kept something like that from her--unless he thought he had to"--
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