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21) Akin: a novel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
339 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Noah Selvaggio is a retired chemistry professor and widower living on the Upper West Side, but born in the South of France. He is days away from his first visit back to Nice since he was a child, bringing with him a handful of puzzling photos he's discovered from his mother's wartime years. But he receives a call from social services: Noah is the closest available relative of an eleven-year-old great-nephew he's never met, who urgently needs someone...
22) The garden house
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Marcia Willett's The Garden House is a charming and heartwarming novel about family, yearning, and long-buried secrets ..."--
23) The dilemma
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A woman's birthday party takes a dark turn in a poignant, heart-stopping new novel from the reigning queen of suspense, NYT and USA Today bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors, The Breakdown, and Bring Me Back"--
24) Verity
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't...
25) The hollow kind
Author
Publisher
MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
434 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Andy Davidson's jaw-dropping, epic horror novel about the spectacular decline of the Redfern family, haunted by an ancient evil"--
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1978, Lizzie Morgan and Ritchie Schneider embark on a whirlwind romance on the bright beaches and glamorous yachts of Long Island. Over the years, their relationship has its share of ups and downs, including a nine-month hiatus that ends with a stunning eleven-carat ring--one that looks just like the diamond Richard Burton gifted Liz Taylor after their own separation. Like the famous couple, despite the drama that would unfold throughout the Schneiders'...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
When a custody battle divides her placid town, straitlaced family woman Elena Richardson finds herself pitted against her enigmatic tenant and becomes obsessed with exposing her past, only to trigger devastating consequences for both families.
28) The kingdom
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
549 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A mechanic from a rural mountain village finds the limits of his family loyalties tested when his entrepreneur brother announces plans to revitalize the community through a hotel project that becomes increasingly overshadowed by greed and dangerous secrets.
Author
Language
English
Description
On the anniversary of her daughter Emily's death, Sarabess, the matriarch of the Windsor family, enlists the help of lawyer Jake Forrest to find Trinity, the daughter she had given up for adoption, a desperate search that exposes dark secrets and has unexpected consequences.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pearl and Wagner, a rabbit and a mouse who are best friends, learn about secrets during a trip to an ice cream factory and an amusement park birthday party.
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After the death of her beloved, intensely private mother, Sutton Douglas, leaving the Ozarks behind, heads to a magical Michigan resort town where she hopes to find answers to the lifelong questions she's had about not only her mother's past but her own place in the world.
33) Low pressure
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Basing her bestselling novel on the night her older sister Susan was murdered on a stormy Memorial Day eighteen years earlier, Bellamy Lyston Price, writing under a pseudonym, becomes the target of an unnamed assailant who either wants the truth about Susan's murder to remain unknown or, even more threatening, is determined to get vengeance for a man wrongfully accused and punished.
34) The time between
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seeking atonement over her guilt that she caused her sister's paralysis, Eleanor takes a job caring for an elderly woman and becomes caught up in the woman's life of passion, danger, heartache, and deception in Hungary during World War II.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake's longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she's warily drawn back to the town-and people-she left behind almost a decade earlier. But Hazel's not the only relic of the past to return: a drought has descended on the region, and as the water level in the lake drops, long-hidden secrets begin to emerge ... including evidence that may help finally explain the mystery of her mother's...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A senior partner at a prestigious New York law firm, Kate Morgan couldn't be prouder of her three grown children. Tamara, Anthony, and Claire all went to great schools, chose wonderful career paths, and would have made their father proud. A single mother for years after the death of her husband, Kate keeps a tight rein on her family, her career, and even her own emotions, never once asking herself if she truly knows her children . . . or if her hopes...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
As this year's summer beckons, Evie's family gathers once more at the beautiful old riverside house they all adore. But when Evie discovers a secret that threaten their future, a shadow falls over them all: this summer by the river could be their last together.
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
When his aunt's illness keeps Ollie in North Carolina, he hopes his summer fling with Will can grow into something more, but at school Will proves to be a completely different--and firmly closeted--man.
Author
Series
Bella Vista chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Harlequin Mira
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Set to inherit half of Bella Vista, a one hundred-acre apple orchard in a town called Archangel, along with a half-sister she's never heard of, Tess Delaney, who makes a living restoring stolen treasures to their rightful owners, discovers a world filled with the simple pleasures of food and family.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
During a party at the family farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson has escaped to her childhood tree house and is dreaming of the future. She spies a stranger coming up the road and sees her mother speak to him. Before the afternoon is over, Laurel will witness a shocking crime that challenges everything she knows about her family and especially her mother, Dorothy. Now, fifty years later, Laurel is a successful and well-regarded...