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461) Dead Law
Author
Series
Cass Leary legal thriller volume 11
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Abandoned as an infant, Zoe Paul's grandmother Marilyn raised her until a tragic accident left Zoe all alone. Now, sixteen years later, Zoe discovers an unclaimed check worth millions among her grandmother's things. Zoe's curiosity about the check quickly turns to suspicion and she goes to Cass for help. Cass is used to representing small-town clients with big-time troubles. Soon Zoe's long-lost relatives crawl out of the woodwork with claims to the...
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
1930's Kansas. Neva Shilling's husband travels to neighboring communities and sells items from his wagon. In his absence she runs the Shilling Mercantile, working to keep their business strong as the Depression takes its toll, and caring for their twins. Then a deputy delivers three young children-- Warren and his wife have died, and their last request that the three children go live with "Aunt Neva." Neva's heart is shattered; she wants nothing more...
Author
Language
English
Description
Now 94 and living a quiet life, Cecily Larson, when her family surprises her with an at-home DNA test, finds the unexpected results not only bringing to light the tragic love story she's kept hidden for decades but also calls into question everything about the family she's raised and claimed as her own.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Haunted by memories of the Great War, failed academic Frank Nichols and his wife have arrived in the sleepy Georgia town of Whitbrow, where Frank hopes to write a history of his family's old estate--the Savoyard Plantation--and the horrors that occurred there. At first their new life seems to be everything they wanted. But under the facade of summer socials and small-town charm, there is an unspoken dread that the townsfolk have lived with for generations....
465) Banyan moon: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. In the years since she's last seen Minh, Ann has built a seemingly perfect life--a beautiful lake house, a charming professor boyfriend, and invites to elegant parties that bubble over with champagne and good taste--but it all crumbles with one positive pregnancy test. With both her relationship and carefully planned future...
466) The match
Author
Series
Wilde (Harlan Coben) volume 2
Language
English
Description
When a DNA match on an online ancestry database leads him to a second cousin who disappears as quickly as he resurfaces after an epic fall from grace, WIlde must figure out if his cousin is linked to a cunning conspiracy involving a ruthless killer.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a shipwreck surfaces, old secrets are sure to follow. Or so goes the lore in Ivy Neale's hometown of Nags Head, North Carolina. When Ivy inherits her family's beachfront cottage upon her grandmother's death, she knows returning to Nags Head means facing the best friend and the boyfriend who betrayed her years ago. But then a winter gale uncovers the shipwreck of local legend - and Ivy soon begins to stumble across more skeletons in the closet...
468) Summer by the tides
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following a painful betrayal, Maddy Monroe's love life is a wreck, and her restaurant career is in shambles. When her grandmother goes missing, she and her estranged sisters converge at the family beach house in Sea Haven, North Carolina. Being with Nora and Emma at the place where their family broke apart is a struggle, and undercurrents of jealousy and resentment threaten to pull the sisters under. In the midst of the storm, sparks begin to fly...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
At age eighty-two and in failing health, Olivia Morrow must decide whether she will expose a long-held family secret and reveal that her cousin, Catherine, gave birth to a son at age seventeen and gave him up for adoption before entering a convent. Now deceased, Sister Catherine is being considered for beatification by the Catholic Church.
Olivia Morrow, a Manhattan psychologist, begins to suspect that her husband Jonathan, a brilliant obstetrician...
470) Fruits basket: 11
Author
Series
Fruits basket volume 11
Publisher
Tokyopop
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
While at the Sohma vacation home, Tohru is caught in a whirlwind of familial strife. Can she relax and put the fun in dysfunctional? None of the Sohmas are going to make it easy, including an angry horse that attacks Tohru. Could this be a new member of the Zodiac? Meanwhile in a fierce argument with Akito, Kyo reveals his true feelings for Tohru. Will Akito tell Tohru about Kyo's secret crush? And speaking of secrets, Akito makes a major announcement--one...
471) Fruits basket: 10
Author
Series
Fruits basket volume 10
Publisher
Tokyopop
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Toru and the Sohmas spend time at the Sohma's summerhous. Alas, it's not all fun in the sun on this little trip. Akito pays a surprise visit, causing a commotion for the rest of the family. Shigure takes a stroll down memory lane with an old friend, remembering the days when Hatori wasn't so aloof. Meanwhile, Tohru begins to wonder: what must life be like for the loved ones of a cursed member of the Sohma family? Can life with this family truly be...
472) The shadow lily
Author
Series
Island murders volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Small-town police detective Hanna Duncker has a past. Her deceased father was convicted of murder and arson long ago, and she has taken up residence and resumed her police career in her hometown after his death. She and her partner Erik Lindgren are called to investigate the disappearance of a father and his infant son from their home while his wife was away on a weekend trip. As the investigation unfolds, Hanna makes a breakthrough in her ongoing...
Author
Series
Amish secrets volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
hen a surprise visitor shows up on Charlotte's doorstep in Texas, she’s forced to put aside her own worries to help her Amish friends in Lancaster County. Soon she is entangled in a web of deception—and this time, she isn’t the only one keeping secrets. Daniel Byler discovers that a member of his family is in danger of being shunned. His only way to help is by partnering with Charlotte, a woman he barely knows who has already deceived them...
Author
Series
No more (Kerry Lonsdale) volume 1
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Forced to choose between abortion or adoption, Olivia Carson's younger sister, Lily, runs away from home. Sixteen and pregnant, she never returns. But once a year Lily mails a picture of her son, Josh, to Olivia until his thirteenth year. Then it's Josh himself who arrives at Olivia's house, alone, terrified, and in possession of a declaration from Lily. It begins, "In the event I go missing..." Josh has difficulty talking. He can't read or write,...
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When her beloved grandmother passes away, Mia Broadhurst returns to the snow-covered seaside village of Winsted Cape, North Carolina, where Grandma Ruth ran the lighthouse overlooking the golden beach. This will be Mia’s first Christmas without her, and she can’t bear to part with the lighthouse that has been in their family for generations. But her life is back in New York, dedicated to a busy PR firm, and she has no choice but to sell. With...
476) The waters: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
On an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp—an area known as “The Waters” —herbalist and eccentric Hermine “Herself” Zook has healed the local women of their ailments for generations. As stubborn as her tonics are powerful, Herself inspires reverence and fear in the locals, and even in her own three estranged daughters. The youngest—the beautiful, inscrutable Rose Thorn—has left her own daughter, eleven-year-old Dorothy “Donkey”...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Ursa possesses a very special gift. She can travel through memory and revisit her past. After she flees her hometown for the counterculture glory of 1950’s California, the intoxicating potential of her unique ability eventually draws a group of women into her orbit and into a ramshackle mansion in the woods outside Santa Cruz. Yet Ursa’s powers come with a cost. Soon this cultish community of sisterhood takes an ominous turn, prompting her son,...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Dove Jarrod was a renowned evangelist and faith healer. Only her granddaughter, Eve Candler, knows that Dove was a con artist. In the eight years since Dove's death, Eve has maintained Dove's charitable foundation - and her lies. But just as a documentary team wraps up a shoot about the miracle worker, Eve is assaulted by a vengeful stranger intent on exposing what could be Dove's darkest secret: murder...Tuscaloosa, 1934: a wily young orphan escapes...
479) A spell for trouble
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Aleksandra Daniels hasn't set foot in the quiet seaside town of Bellamy Bay, North Carolina in over twenty years. Ever since her mother's tragic death, her father has mysteriously forbidden her from visiting her aunt and cousins. But on a whim, Alex accepts an invitation to visit her estranged relatives and to help them in their family business: an herbal apothecary known for its remarkably potent teas, salves, and folk remedies. Bellamy Bay doesn't...
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