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2) The River
Author
Language
English
Description
"When two sisters return home for a visit after leaving the Amish world, both are troubled by the secrets--and the people--they left behind"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her father's unexpected death in 1964, Ibby Bell finds herself living at a New Orleans Garden District estate with her eccentric grandmother and her house staff including a sassy black cook named Queenie, and her smart-mouthed daughter Dollbaby.
Author
Series
Firefly Lake volume 1
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Returning home to Firefly Lake to sell her mother's cottage, Charlotte Gibbs is overwhelmed by the memories that remind her of what she's been missing, especially the love of her life, Sean Carmichael, the man she left behind when he needed her the most.
5) Calico Joe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
A surprising and moving novel of fathers and sons, and of forgiveness and redemption, set in the world of Major league Baseball.
Author
Publisher
Storehouse Media Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When an international drug smuggler makes a life-changing decision, he finds himself pursuing a different type of thrill all the way into eternity. With a hunger for excitement, Freddie Crow becomes an international smuggler, piloting plane loads of marijuana from Belize, Central America, into various areas of North Florida. Because flying drugs into the United States requires avoiding radar detection and nerves of steel, Freddie eagerly embraces...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sunday Kennedy has never had an easy life, but nothing has troubled her like the love she has for two men. Malik "King" Shields is the first man she's ever loved, but she walked away from him when he was arrested...and her broken heart was saved by rising street hustler Caesar Jones. Caesar knows Sunday will never love him the way she loved Malik, but she is a trophy in his eyes. Now the father of her son, he's determined to keep her by his side....
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Eduardo Quintana is a broken man. The tragedy that cost him the lives of his family is a wound he daily tears open afresh. The once-renowned painter wallows in grief, subsisting on alcohol and drugs, eking out a living with whatever painting commissions he can get. But when he is approached by a mysterious woman who wants him to paint a portrait of the man who killed her son, he soon becomes entangled in a web of deceit in which no one, and nothing,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
11) Finally a bride
Author
Series
Texas boardinghouse brides volume 3
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Jacqueline 'Jack' Davis is a reporter for the Lookout Ledger bent on discovering the truth and nabbing her story at any cost. When Noah Jeffers comes to Lookout as a temporary pastor, Jack suspects there may be something hidden beneath his shepherding ways. Soon, though, Jack begins to be attracted to the new pastor despite her initial hesitation. But as she uncovers the truth, will this story cost her too much? Will she reveal what she's uncovered...
Author
Publisher
Oceanview
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of his wife's apparent suicide, Jackson Robert Hunter wakes up outside a bar with a badly battered head and no memory. Revelations convince Jackson that his wife's death wasn't a suicide, but a murder, and he sets out to find the killer. While hunting the villain and struggling with his amnesia, Jackson discovers that his own backstory is a dark one, littered with broken hearts and dead bodies: a wife he betrayed; a lover he abandoned;...
Author
Publisher
KK Smith Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Dear Reader, suffer a thought of anguish... theones you love stolen away, the killer you chase cannot be stopped... Is Cain losing his mind, or will each nightmare draw him closer to understanding the clues left behind by a serial killer in his home town of Crossroads? In this psychological thriller
Author
Series
Goddesses Anonymous volume 1
Publisher
Harlequin/Mira
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When Charlotte Hale faces her own mortality, she realizes that her ambition has almost destroyed her chance at happiness and vows to make amends.
15) Picture this
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Peaks Island, Maine, vibrates with its own special magic, a unique flow to life that knits together the small community that calls it home. The people, the animals, and even the houses have a charm and personality all their own. Just ask Rocky Pelligrino. Devastated by her husband Bob's sudden death, she found hope thanks to a relentlessly loyal black Lab named Cooper. Warm friends and a new job--as the island's animal control warden--have helped...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A starkly beautiful, morally complicated and astonishingly accomplished debut set in 1920s rural Alabama following Roscoe T. Martin, a prideful electrician sent to prison after his illegal siphoning of electrical state power for his wife's family's farm leads to an innocent man's death"--
"In this astonishingly accomplished, morally complicated, "exceptional and starkly beautiful debut" (Kevin Powers, National Book Award-nominated author of The...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Seven strangers, each with a secret to bury, meet at Lake Tahoe's El Royale, a rundown hotel with a dark past. Over the course of one fateful night, everyone will have a last shot at redemption; before everything goes to hell.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"December 1348. What if you had just six days to save your soul? With the country in the grip of the Black Death, brothers John and William fear that they will shortly die and suffer in the afterlife. But as the end draws near, they are given an unexpected choice: either to go home and spend their last six days in their familiar world, or to search for salvation across the forthcoming centuries living each one of their remaining days ninety-nine...
19) The caretakers
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Filmmaker Tessa Shepherd helped free a man she believed was wrongly imprisoned for murder. When he kills again, Tessa's life is upended. She's reeling with guilt, her reputation destroyed. Worse, Tessa's mother has unexpectedly passed away and her sister, Margot, turns on her after tensions from their past escalate. Hounded by a bullying press, Tessa needs an escape. That's when she learns of a strange inheritance bequeathed by her mother: a derelict...
20) China room
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A transfixing novel about two unforgettable characters seeking to free themselves-one from the expectations of women in early 20th century Punjab, and the other from the weight of life in the contemporary Indian diaspora Mehar, a young bride in rural 1929 Punjab, is trying to discover the identity of her new husband. Married to three brothers in a single ceremony, she and her now-sisters spend their days hard at work in the family's "china room,"...
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