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261) 21st birthday
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 21
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Detective Lindsay Boxer vows to protect a young woman from a serial killer long enough to see her twenty-first birthday. When Tara Burke goes missing with her baby girl, all eyes are on her husband, Lucas. He paints her not as a missing person but a wayward wife--until a gruesome piece of evidence turns the investigation criminal. ADA Yuki Castellano sizes Lucas up as a textbook domestic offender ... who suddenly puts forward an unexpected suspect....
262) Little women
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
As the Civil War rages on, the four sisters of the March family struggle to grow up without the guiding hand of their loving father.
263) Light and air
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Halle and her mother find unexpected solace on a tuberculosis ward in 1930s upstate New York--
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
It tells the unlikely love story of Maddy, a smart, curious and imaginative eighteen-year-old who, due to an illness, cannot leave the protection of the hermetically sealed environment within her house and Olly, the boy next door who won't let that stop them. Maddy is desperate to experience the much more stimulating outside world, and the promise of her first romance.
266) Eve's daughters
Author
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A novel of a family, this is the compelling story of four generations of women and the secret that has changed their lives. As a granddaughter's marriage unravels, only eighty-year-old Emma can free them from a legacy of wrong choices.
269) The waters: a novel
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Spending the days searching for truths on an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp, eleven-year-old Dorothy Zook, the granddaughter of an herbalist and eccentric healer, finds her childhood upended by family secrets, passionate love, and violent men where the only bridge across the water is her wayward mother.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harlow Smith thought she had finally achieved the quiet life she wanted-a little bookstore on Cape Cod, an apartment in her grandpa's house, a more or less happily single life-when the biggest secret from her past walked into town and changed everything. A kid walks into your bookstore and says to you, Guess what? I'm your son. The one you put up for adoption seventeen years ago. The one you never told anyone about. Surprise! His name is Matthew Walker,...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
Four years after the death of her mother, seven-year-old Allie goes with her grandfather to a performance of "The Nutcracker" on Christmas Eve, hears about the special day he had with her mother going to her first "Nutcracker," and shares his loving
273) Hawk
Author
Series
Hawk volume 1
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Maximum Ride's seventeen-year-old daughter, Hawk, is living under the radar in post-apocalyptic New York City until a destiny that is perilously close to her mother's forces her to take flight.
274) Turning tide
Author
Series
Publisher
WhiteFire Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
As the Great War rages on, Sunset Cove continues to feel its impact. Running the small town newspaper, Anna McDowell can't escape the grim reports from the other side of the world, but home-front challenges abound as well. Dr. Daniel is serving the wounded on the front lines. And Katy, expecting her first child, with her husband in the trenches, tries to support the war effort with her Red Cross club. Even as the war winds down the costs are high--and...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin's breathtaking novel of love and redemption. Charlie Finn had to grow up fast, living alone by age sixteen. Highly intelligent, he earned a life-changing scholarship to Harvard, where he learned how to survive and thrive on the outskirts of privileged society. That skill served him well in the cutthroat business world, as it does in more lucrative but dangerous ventures he now operates off the coast...
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
De’Andrea Whitman, her husband Malik, and their five-year-old daughter, Nina, are new to the upper-crust white suburb of Rolling Hills, Virginia—a move motivated by circumstance rather than choice. De’Andrea is heartbroken to leave her comfortable life in the Black oasis of Atlanta, and between her mother-in-law’s Alzheimer's diagnosis, her daughter starting kindergarten, and the overwhelming whiteness of Rolling Hills, she finds herself struggling...
277) Gingerbread
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Perdita Lee may appear to be your average British schoolgirl; Harriet Lee may seem just a working mother trying to penetrate the school social hierarchy; but there are signs that they might not be as normal as they think they are. For one thing, they share a gold-painted, seventh-floor walk-up apartment with some surprisingly verbal vegetation. And then there's the gingerbread they make. Londoners may find themselves able to take or leave it, but...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press/ a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A new hero's fantastic and fantastical adventure--her next appearance can't come soon enough.--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) An own-voices ghost story fantasy based on a well-known Mexican legend by an acclaimed author Modern science clashes with old-fashioned superstition Interesting mother-daughter dynamics Explores socioeconomic and racial struggles Budding romance Thrills and chills combine to make a highly entertaining read Includes an introduction...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Flair Hardwicke knows three things: magic is real, love isn’t, and relying on either ends in disaster. So while she’s grateful for the chance to take over her grandmother’s Kansas bakery after she finally leaves her cheating husband, she won’t be embracing Nana’s fortune-telling side-hustle. Hers is a strictly no-magic operation—until the innocent batch of Tarot card cookies Flair bakes for the town’s Halloween celebration unleashes...
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