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At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from...
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
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Español
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"Las Ramírez de Stanten Islan orbitan alrededor de la ausencia. Cuando Ruthy, a los trece años, desapareció sin dejar rastro después de un entrenamiento de atletismo, su familia quedó marcada y deshecha. Una noche, doce años después, Jessica, la hermana mayor, ve en la pantalla de su televisión a una mujer que aparece en Catfight, un reality show subido de tono. Se apresura a decírselo a Nina, su hermana menor. El pelo de esta mujer está...
2463) What happens in Texas
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Cathy Andrew's biological clock has passed the ticking stage and is dangerously close to "blown plumb up." While her twin sister Marty thinks settling down with one man is just a waste of good cowboys, Cathy wants it all: the perfect husband, the baby, and a little house right there in Cadillac. But even as the town is laying bets on whose wedding will be next, Cathy doesn't see happily-ever-after happening anytime soon. Fortunately, Cathy and Marty...
2464) Fly by night
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RH Graphic
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"There are monsters in the woods. But they aren't who you should be afraid of. When Dee returns to her small New Jersey hometown to search for her missing twin, she dives deeper into her sister's life, only to come up with secrets and lies. With a mysterious boyfriend, a conspiracy that might destroy the endangered pinelands, and maybe something supernatural in the woods, Dee looks for answers and finds secrets underneath every question she asks....
2465) Spectacle: Book two
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Spectacle volume 2
Publisher
ONI Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Sisters Anna and Kat return for the second book of Megan Rose Gedris's paranormal circus murder mystery, Spectacle! A murder is tough thing to solve, even without temperamental performers, supernatural occurrences, and the ghost of the victim giving commentary. But as Kat's only link to the living world, it's up to scientifically-minded Anna to figure out who killed her sister--before any more murders rock the small traveling community. Yet as she...
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"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
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2013.
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English
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Ely, Minnesota. 1890. When Chantel Panetta's younger sister claims to be in love with Orlando Calarco, Chantel knows there is no hope. The Panettas and Calarcos have been sworn enemies for decades, and young love cannot heal the deep wounds between the two iron-mining families. Yet, unable to resist Isabella's pleas, Chantel agrees to help her sister spend time with Orlando...only to have a run-in with Dante, Orlando's brother. Chantel can't deny...
2468) A sister's power
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"For the five Reeves women, nothing is more important than keeping their family bond tight and their communication flowing. But honesty isn't so clear cut when it could blow up everything they've fought to build... Now between revenge, grief, and forgiveness, these siblings will challenge themselves - and all they think they know about each other - in a showdown that may leave them united - or cause them to forever fall apart"--
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