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1) Double take
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Lake City heroes volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Lainie Jackson survived her fiancé's murder plot and her attacker is dead--isn't he? Now, with the help of former Army Ranger James Holton, it's time to find out if the past has come back to haunt her--or if the recent attempts on her life come from a new threat"--
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English
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"In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting for fate to find her. The Farrow women are known for their thriving flower farm--and the mysterious curse that has plagued their family line. The whole town remembers the madness that led to Susanna Farrow's disappearance, leaving June to be raised by her grandmother and haunted by rumors. It's been a year since June started seeing and hearing things that weren't there....
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Returning to her ancestral home in the North Carolina mountains to complete her graduate thesis, Toya, a young black artist, sets her sights on something bigger when she encounters a still-standing Confederate monument in the heart of town and two horrific crimes split the county apart.
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Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After her academic career in New York flames out, Rachel Ruskin returns to her family's tobacco farm in North Carolina and is haunted by memories and by her hometown's buried history of racism and violence. When a child is accidentally shot and killed, Rachel can no longer avoid confronting her own past wrongs; nor can she continue to hold herself apart from her community"--
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English
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"Sexy Southern romance with a charming plus-size heroine and a gruff, grumpy hero. Rose Barnes feels best when she's invisible-so when she wins the lottery and is suddenly thrust into the spotlight where everyone wants something, hiding out in a small town in North Carolina makes perfect sense. Rose has got curves for days-and to Angus, the big, burly, bearded contractor working on her new house, she's just plum perfect. Rose is surprised to learn...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"A disgraced soccer executive reluctantly enlists the help of a retired soccer star in coaching a children's team"--
Adalyn Reyes has spent years perfecting her daily routine: wake up at dawn, drive to the Miami Flames FC offices, try her hardest to leave a mark, go home, and repeat. But her routine is disrupted when a video of her in an altercation with the team's mascot goes viral. Rather than fire her, the team's owner--who happens to be her father--sends...
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Book retreat mysteries volume 9
Language
English
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"Jane and her fiancé, Edwin, are headed to the North Carolina coast for a much-needed vacation. Their harborside loft has floor-to-ceiling bookcases and breathtaking views, but Jane's hopes of exploring the town with her man are stymied when Edwin steps on a stingray. Things take an even less romantic turn when Jane stumbles across a dead body . . . Instead of taking leisurely beach strolls, Jane is suddenly on a literary chase through time, unearthing...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Esme Cahill thinks she has failed spectacularly: fired from her New York City publishing job, divorced from her husband, and possessing little more than a broken-down car and a pile of unfinished manuscripts, she drives home to Asheville at the request of her late grandmother, Adele, who had begged her, just before she died, to return to the place she grew up. There she discovers the once-charming lakeside retreat run by her family is sliding toward...
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Series
Jess Keeler novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"True-crime podcaster Jess Keeler has returned to Deeton County, North Carolina, to pick up where her grandfather left off. Sheriff's Deputy Big Jim Ballard, her grandfather, was a respected detective -- until it all came crashing down during a 1972 murder investigation. For Jim, solving the murders of two teens should have been the highlight of his already storied career. Instead, he battled his own mind, unsure where his hunches ended and the truth...
11) Starstruck
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Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
For Heather Gordon, life in her small North Carolina town has always been simple and uneventful. Until one night when a rowdy food fight breaks out in her family’s restaurant where she’s a waitress. The culprits? The internationally famous rock band, Kirwan. And when Alex Kirwan, the charming and enigmatic lead singer, wants to make amends for his brothers’ (and bandmates’) behavior and invites her to attend one of their concerts as a guest...
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Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When three women receive an unexpected phone call that leaves them reeling, they have no other choice but to reckon with a lifetime of memories they've long tried to bury. Only in facing the past will they find their path forward. Frances Mae Livingston's firm grip of her family's destructive history makes her hold her husband and four children even closer. But she's losing bits of herself while proving to everybody and her mama that she's enough....
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she's not only North Carolina's richest woman, she's also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family's estate high in the Blue Ridge mountains. In the aftermath of her death, that estate -- along with a nine-figure fortune and the complicated legacy of being a McTavish -- pass...
14) Amor en juego
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Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Adalyn Reyes siempre ha estado centrada en su carrera dentro de los Miami Flames. Sin embargo, su impecable recorrido se ve afectado cuando el vídeo de un altercado con la mascota del equipo se hace viral. En consecuencia, el dueño del club (que es también su padre) la envía a un pueblo en mitad de la nada para reflotar el equipo de fútbol local y Adalyn está dispuesta a dejarse la piel para conseguirlo. Pero no contaba con que sus jugadores...
15) Never fall again
Author
Series
Gossamer Falls volume 1
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Landry Hutton, quiet artist-in-residence of The Haven, came to Gossamer Falls to build a new life and a new home for her and her daughter -- with the unexpected help of a handsome former Marine. But when danger threatens them, can Callum Shaw help protect both their hearts and lives?"--
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Series
Carolina girls volume 5
Publisher
Canary Street Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Annalise Haverford, Shauna Myer, and Meghan Banks have little in common, and even some bad blood, but when life's complications threaten to drown them, they'll have to rely on each other to stay afloat.
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Publisher
47 North
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When the remains of Sofia Lyon are found, the grieving women who loved her return home to find her killer, but as Sofia's secrets begin to unravel, they realize she might not be who they thought she was at all--and that whoever--or whatever--killed her is coming after them."--
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Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"North Carolina, 1960s. Lorraine has it all -- the boyfriend, the good grades, the white picket fence, the ambition to become the first woman astronaut. But when she-the darling girl-next-door-becomes pregnant, she learns that love is conditional and ambition has its limits. In an effort to hide their daughter's secret shame, her parents send her away to a maternity home -- a common solution for "wayward" girls during that time period. Lorraine soon...
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Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The annual fishing tournament and festival in Hokes Folly, North Carolina, is the high-water mark event of the year. Antiquarian bookseller Jenna Quinn, owner of the Twice Upon a Time bookstore, is ready to catch some new customers with her fishing-themed book display at the festival. That is, she was...until a local author was found dead in his booth. All fingers point to Frank Sutter, a former detective with the police department. His soon-to-be...
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