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Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Sisters and amateur sleuths Patricia Anne and Mary Alice set off for the "World's Luckiest Fishing Village" in search of some excitement, but instead they stumble upon a dead body and a string of seemingly unrelated events and people that hold the answers to the identity of the killer.
822) The wicked sister
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
For a decade and a half, Rachel Cunningham has chosen to lock herself away in a psychiatric facility, tortured by gaps in her memory and the certainty that she is responsible for her parents' deaths. But when she learns new details about their murders, Rachel returns, in a quest for answers, to the place where she once felt safest: her family's sprawling log cabin in the remote forests of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. As Rachel begins to uncover what...
823) Any way you look
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Ainy is looking forward to working at her mother's clothing store for the summer--and someday soon wearing a hijab--but when certain boys harass her, and the boy she has a crush on does not step in, she turns to her older sister for help.
824) Medusa: a novel
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Exiled to a far-flung island after being abused by powerful Gods, Medusa has little company other than the snakes that adorn her head instead of hair. Haunted by the memories of a life before everything was stolen from her, she has no choice but to make peace with her present: she is Medusa the Monster. But when the charmed and beautiful Perseus arrives on the island, her lonely existence is blown open, unleashing desire, love--and betrayal."--
825) The alternatives
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"The Flattery sisters, four brilliant and very different girls raised in a small town south of Dublin, were plunged prematurely into adulthood when their parents died in a tragic accident. Now, in their thirties--each unmarried, each holding a PhD--they are striving to make an impact on an increasingly volatile world. The four lead disparate, distanced lives, from classrooms in Connecticut to fancy catering gigs in London's Notting Hill, until one...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Andrea Rodríguez is nine years old when her mother whisks her and her brother, Pablo, away from Woronoco, the tiny Massachusetts factory town that is the only home they’ve known. With no plan and no money, she leaves them with family in the mountainside villages of Puerto Rico and promises to return. Months later, when Andrea and Pablo are brought back to Massachusetts, they find their hometown significantly changed. As they navigate the...
Author
Publisher
Five Spot
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Eliot Gordon would do anything for her family. A 38-year-old working mother, she lives an ordinary but fulfilling life in suburban Atlanta with her partner, Grant Delaney, and their three daughters. The two older girls are actually Eliot's stepdaughters, a distinction she is reluctant to make as she valiantly attempts to maintain a safe, happy household. Then Finn Montgomery, Eliot's long-lost first love, appears, triggering a shocking chain of events...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Three estranged sisters reconnect in their Louisiana hometown to face an unresolved past in a heartfelt novel about family, grief, secrets, and forgiveness"--
"Three estranged sisters reconnect in their Louisiana hometown to face an unresolved past in a heartfelt novel about family, grief, secrets, and forgiveness. Savannah was four years old when her twin sister, Georgia, went missing from their small Louisiana town, fracturing their family. Twenty-eight...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"In an isolated outport on Newfoundland's northern coastline, Abe Strapp is about to marry the daughter of a rival merchant to cement his hold on the shore when the Widow Caines arrives to throw the wedding and Abe's plans into chaos. That ruthless act ofsabotage is the opening salvo in a battle between the man and woman who own Mockbeggar's largest mercantile firms, each fighting for the scarce resources of the north Atlantic fishery, each seeking...
830) Sisters of fortune
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"April,1912: It's the perfect finale to a Grand Tour of Europe—sailing home on the largest, most luxurious ocean liner ever built. For the Fortune sisters, the voyage offers a chance to reflect on the treasures of the past they've seen—magnificent castles and museums in Italy and France, the ruins of Greece and the Middle East—and contemplate the futures that await them. For Alice, there's foreboding mixed with her excitement. A fortune teller...
831) Splinters of light
Author
Publisher
NAL Accent
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Ten years ago, Nora Glass started writing essays about being a single mother of a six-year-old daughter. Her weekly column made her a household name, and over the years, her fans have watched Ellie grow from a toddler to a teenager. But now Nora is facing a problem that can't be overcome. Diagnosed with a devastating disease that will eventually take away who she is, she is scared for herself, but even more frightened about what this will mean for...
832) The Banty House
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In the fading town of Rooster, Texas, all that's really left is a service station, a church... and the Banty House, a long-ago Depression-era brothel. For more than seventy-five years, Betsy, Connie, and Kate Carson have called their mama's house a home. The three eccentric sisters get by just fine with their homemade jams and jellies, a little moonshine on the side, and big hearts always open to strangers. Like Ginger Andrews. An abandoned teen...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Two sisters reconnect and pursue their dreams on the beautiful island of Nantucket, overcoming life’s challenges and finding new love, in this heartwarming and hopeful novel by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer. Eddie Grant is happy with her life and her work as a personal assistant to Dinah Lavender, one of the most famous and renowned romance authors in the business. But being a spectator to notoriety and glamour isn’t as fulfilling...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"They were two sisters with nothing in common but their parents. Frances Turner has a confession to make: her sister, Crosby, who has built her life on good luck and good looks, drives her crazy. The woman wakes up in the morning with perfect hair. Men flock to her. And she somehow managed to jump out of the frying pan and into fame, writing a blockbuster novel—and making a zillion bucks—without even trying. And Frances, who has followed every...
835) Two sisters: a novel
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The third child in a family that wanted only two, Muriel Sullivant has always been the outsider. Single at twenty-three, she's living in a New York City rent-stabilized walk-up, a weaver finch nest of an apartment fitted out as much by serendipity as by intent: note the three-legged bedside table, her squat hand-painted pine dresser, a splotchy framed mirror, the spindled bathroom corner shelf. Her old sister, Pia-who lives in an endless house in...
836) Relative strangers
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Korean-American sisters Eleanor and Amelia Bae-Wood support their newly widowed mother when they are caught up in a court battle with someone claiming to be their late father's first-born child and only son-secret love child from his Korean youth-who's fighting for everything they have.
"From the acclaimed author of A Good Family comes a timely spin on Sense and Sensibility, a twenty-first-century family drama featuring two half-Korean sisters, their...
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Sisters Emmy and Callie have no secrets between them until a mysterious accident robs one of a crucial memory and sparks troubling visions. Only through letters they exchange while painfully separated do the sisters reveal hidden truths leading back to afateful springtime day--and a chilling September night--that changed them both forever"--
"Two Sisters. One Single Event. A Family Changed Forever. At the turn of the twentieth century, sisters...
838) Texas woman
Author
Series
Sisters of the Lone Star volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The New York Times bestselling author of The Cowboy, The Texan, and The Loner weaves her seductive magic once again as she journeys back to the lawless frontier of Nineteenth-century Texas to bring us the story of two warring hearts and a seduction that began amid the fires of passion and treachery... Cruz Guerrero wanted Sloan Stewart from the first moment he laid eyes on the headstrong beauty. But Sloan, eldest daughter of a wealthy cotton planter,...
839) Appalachian song
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Bertie Jenkins has spent forty years serving as a midwife for her community in the Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee. Out of all the mothers she's tended, none affects her more than the young teenager who shows up on her doorstep, injured, afraid, and expecting, one warm June day in 1943. As Bertie and her four sisters tenderly nurture Songbird back to health, the bond between the childless midwife and the motherless teen grows strong. But...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"How far would you go? How much would you risk? Hailey MacIntyre seems conjured from the depths of Samuel Fiddes's loneliness. Caring for his young sister in the tenements of Glasgow, Scotland, Samuel has known only hunger, while Hailey has never known want. Yet, when Samuel saves Hailey's brother from a runaway carriage, their connection is undeniable. Through secret meetings and stolen moments, their improbable love grows. But then the City of...
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