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43) I'll never tell
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"What happened to Amanda Holmes? Twenty years ago, she was found bludgeoned in a rowboat at the MacAllister family's Camp Macaw. No one was ever charged with the crime. Now, after their parents' sudden deaths, the MacAllister siblings return to camp to read the will and decide what to do with the prime real estate the camp occupies. Ryan needs to sell. Margaux hasn't made up her mind. Mary believes in leaving well enough alone. Kate and Liddie--the...
Author
Series
Narrativas hispánicas volume 685
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
En Cuernavaca, tras años sin verse, se cruzan tres amigas que se conocieron en la adolescencia: Natalia, Erre y Conejo. El reencuentro del trío saca a relucir el pasado y los confronta con su presente: la amistad y el deseo, el lejano descubrimiento de la sexualidad, las complejas relaciones padre-hijo, el estrés de crecer y buscar un lugar en la vida, y la creatividad que busca expresarse.
In Cuernavaca, after years without seeing each other,...
Author
Publisher
Arcade CrimeWise
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Murder on the Orient Express meets The Last Time I Lied in this gripping thriller set in a remote Scottish mansion. In 1995, six university students moved into the house at 215 Caldwell Street. Months later, one of them was found dead on the sofa the morning after their end-of-year party. His death was ruled an accident by the police. The remaining five all knew it wasn't, and though they went on with their lives, the truth of what happened to their...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Newly widowed and stuck in a middle-aged funk, Poppy has been running on cookies, infomercials, and one-sided chats with her cat for months. There's no way on earth she's attending her twenty-five-year class reunion--especially after receiving a very bizarre letter from Barbie, the popular cheerleader who taunted her all through high school. At least, not until Poppy's best friend practically drags her to the event .
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the rich tradition of African American reunions, a multigenerational story follows the experiences of young Ruby, who helps loved ones prepare the foods they are bringing while trying to think of a signature dish of her own.
48) Intermission
Author
Publisher
Dafina
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The Diamonds, a 1990s girl band who broke up on the cusp of stardom when a member's mother was forced out as manager, attempts a reunion years later as the women grapple with secrets, unspoken betrayals, and mid-life crises.
49) Boone style
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment/Youngblood Films
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Story of a typical, semi-dysfunctional, Midwestern, family reunion, during a late summer setting in Des Moines, Iowa. An imaginative eight-year-old negotiates delicate affairs as the Boones confront delicate issues and tackle issues of the heart.
50) The returned
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harold and Lucille Hargave's lives have been both joyful and sorrowful in the decades since their only son, Jacob, died tragically at his eighth birthday party in 1966. In their old age they've settled comfortably into life without him, their wounds tempered through the grace of time .... Until one day Jacob mysteriously appears on their doorstep -- flesh and blood, their sweet, precocious child, still eight years old. All over the world people's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Waterhouse Press LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Zara Pierce has had a crush on Corey Jensen for years, but she's never acted on it. When she sees him at their high school reunion, she decides to throw caution to the wind and finally make a move. The steamy encounter that follows makes one thing perfectly clear: she wants more of Corey. Colton Jensen may have an identical twin, but he's his own man. A self-proclaimed bachelor for life, Colt is set in what he wants and knows exactly who he is. Too...
52) The night house
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"From the internationally best-selling author, a twisted, multi-layered spin on the classic horror novel. In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne. Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone suspects the new, angry boy is responsible for his disappearance....
Author
Publisher
Dunecadia Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Working as a successful PI in Los Angeles, Heather Nelson hasn't seen any of her high school classmates from Iowa in over a decade. When she makes a last minute decision to attend her class reunion, she and her once tight-knit group of friends are surprised at dinner by a delivery of an elaborate forget-me-not floral arrangement. But the accompanying card contains an ominous message: you deserve to die--a message they brush off as an elaborate prank...
Author
Series
Hot jocks volume 4
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Asher Reed is a hockey player for the Seattle Ice Hawks who finds himself with unexpected time off due to an injury. He plans to recover at his family's beach house in San Diego, but learns the team requires him to travel with medical supervision. Bailey Erickson just finished medical school. She's known Asher for about two years and volunteered to be his caretaker. As they develop mutual attraction , their relationship begins to move out of the friend...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"While recovering from a traumatic head injury, Polly Schuster struggles to find her way through one chaotic week in July when her entire extended family descends upon the bucolic town of Livingston, Montana for their annual gathering. As she contents with a series of unexpected events and the haunting echoes of her past inconveniently resurfacing as a result of her injury, Polly soon learns that her perception of her family and their life together...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Elinor Noel—Nory for short—is quite content running her secondhand bookshop in London. Forever torn between her working-class upbringing and her classmates’ extravagant lifestyles at the posh private school she attended on scholarship, Nory has finally figured out how to keep both at equal distance. So when two of her oldest friends invite their whole gang to spend the time leading up to their wedding together at the castle near their old school,...
Author
Publisher
Spark Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-five years ago, a group of ninth graders produced a Saturday Night Live-style videotape to cheer up their ailing friend. The show's running time was only ninety minutes, but it had a lasting impact: Becca laughed her way through recovery, and the group-Jordana, Seth, Holly, and Lex-became her supporting cast for life. On the silver anniversary of Becca Night Live, the friends reunite over the Fourth of July to celebrate Becca's good health--but...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A story of young friendship, musical obsession, and a missing person, set in the metal scene of the late eighties and early nineties"--
Kip, Leslie, and Kira are outliers -- even in the metal scene they love. In arch-conservative Gulf Coast Florida in the late 1980s, just listening to metal can get you arrested, but for the three of them the risk is well worth it, because metal is what leads them to one another. Different as they are, Kip, Leslie,...
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