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Author
Series
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After she takes over her mother's shop, Alanis McLachlan tries to help a loyal customer escape her abusive marriage, but when the client's husband turns up dead, Alanis uses her knowledge of tarot to investigate the murder.
522) Beyond the tides
Author
Series
Prince Edward Island shores volume 1
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When Meg's father decides to sell his Prince Edward Island lobster fishing business to her high school nemesis Oliver, she sets out to prove she should inherit it instead. But there is more than just a fleet on the line--her heart is, too"--
523) Said no one ever
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A peaceful vacation turns into a roller coaster ride of family drama. Two handsome men with competing agendas cause mix-ups and betrayal. Sometimes you have to put your foot down to get what you really want in life. Ellie Reed's self-esteem can't take any more of her family's constant criticism and attempts to control her life. But when she rents an Airbnb on a gorgeous farm in Montana, she encounters a whole new set of family drama and finds herself...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Sara Marsala barely knows who she is anymore after the failure of her business and marriage. On top of that, her beloved great-aunt Rosie passes away, leaving Sara bereft with grief. But Aunt Rosie's death also opens an escape from her life and a window into the past by way of a plane ticket to Sicily, a deed to a possibly valuable plot of land, and a bombshell family secret. Rosie believes Sara's great-grandmother Serafina, the family matriarch...
Author
Publisher
Miracle Wang
Pub. Date
[2019].
Language
English
Description
"On a mountainside at the edge of the Kaigenese Empire live the most powerful fighters in the world, warriors capable of raising the sea and wielding blades of ice. For centuries, the fighters of the Kusanagi Peninsula have held the Empire's enemies at bay, earning their treacherous spit of land the name "The sword of Kaigen.' Born into Kusanagi's legendary Matsuda family, fourteen-year-old Mamoru has always know his purpose: to master his family's...
526) The rabbit factor
Author
Series
Rabbit factor volume 1
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
What makes life perfect? Insurance mathematician Henri Koskinen knows the answer because he calculates everything down to the very last decimal. And then, for the first time, Henri is faced with the incalculable. After suddenly losing his job, Henri inherits an adventure park from his brother-its peculiar employees and troubling financial problems included. The worst of the financial issues appear to originate from big loans taken from criminal quarters...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls and The Forgotten Daughter comes a compulsively readable mother-daughter story in which two women who share a difficult past must come to together to claim the future they deserve. Arden Moore enjoyed an affluent life thanks to her husband's high-paying job. But a year after his death, the 36-year-old is a grieving single mother deeply in debt and living paycheck to paycheck with her three...
529) Simpatía
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Ulises Kan es hǔrfano y ciňfilo. Paulina, su mujer, como tantas personas que huyen del pa̕s en ruinas en que viven, ha decidido irse. Sin ̌l. Dos sucesos m̀s terminan de trastocar su vida: el regreso de Nadine, un amor inconcluso del pasado, y la muerte de su suegro, el general Mart̕n Ayala. Gracias al testamento de este, Ulises descubre que se le ha encomendado una misi̤n: transformar Los Argonautas, la gran casa familiar, en un hogar para...
530) The stranger I wed
Author
Series
Doves of New York volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"New to wealth and to London high society, American heiress Cora Dove discovers that with the right man, marriage might not be such an inconvenience after all. . . . Cora Dove and her sisters' questionable legitimacy has been the lifelong subject of New York's gossipmongers and a continual stain on their father's reputation. So when the girls each receive a generous, guilt-induced dowry from their dying grandmother, the sly Mr. Hathaway vows to release...
531) The red lamp
Author
Publisher
Pnezler Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"An all-around skeptic when it comes to the supernatural, literature professor William Porter gives no credence to claims that Twin Towers, the seaside manor he's just inherited, might be haunted. He finds nothing mysterious about the conditions in which his Uncle Horace died, leaving the property behind; it was a simple case of cardiac arrest, nothing more. So, though his wife, more attuned to spiritual disturbance, refuses to occupy the main house,...
Series
Abandoned empress volume 1
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Aristia la Monique was the child of prophecy, raised to be the companion of the future emperor--until she wasn't. When the actual child of prophecy appears on the palace grounds, Aristia is immediately cast aside by both fiancé and country and forced to watch as Jieun is handed the love, future, and throne that was supposed to be hers. Her only reward for a lifetime of obedience is death...or rather, a second chance at life! When she unexpectedly...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Cora Matthews returns to Moonberry Lake to settle her mother's affairs and then get on with her life. What she finds is a strangely enticing inheritance, including a dilapidated lodge, a lot of eccentric neighbors, a handsome stranger, and a whole lot of family secrets to unravel"--|cProvided by publisher.
535) The Amish mother
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Amish widow Lizzie Fisher loves her seven stepchildren as though they were her own. But her brother-in-law's unexpected arrival on the farm has her worried. After all, Zachariah Fisher is the true heir of the property. And he could decide to send her away from her family and her home of two years. Lizzie is determined to show the handsome farmer that her physical challenges don't prevent her from being a hard worker or a loving mother. For she finds...
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