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A profoundly moving story of family, history, and the meaning of home, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, exploring the divisions between cultures and the rifts within a family, and uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India's Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning--and in Kerala, water is everywhere"--
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"Even though running Crewel World keeps Betsy plenty busy, a little extra cash on the side doesn't hurt. So when the local senior complex, Watered Silk, asks her to teach a class on the tricky punchneedle technique, Betsy jumps at the opportunity to win over some new customers. Unfortunately, the business that Betsy drums up is not of the needlework variety. A young woman is found floating in Watered Silk's therapy pool, and Betsy's sleuthing skills...
Author
Series
Drowned gods duology volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Language
English
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Teen mage Emory must unravel the truth behind the secret society that may have been involved in her classmates' deaths.
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Baby Ganesh Agency investigations volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"The first is the case of a drowned boy, whose suspicious death no one seems to want solved. And the second is a baby elephant. As his search for clues takes him across the teeming city of Mumbai, from its grand high rises to its sprawling slums and deep into its murky underworld, Chopra begins to suspect that there may be a great deal more to both his last case and his new ward than he thought. And he soon learns that when the going gets tough, a...
8) The almanack
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Series
Tabitha Hart novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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During the midsummer of 1752, following a desperate summons from her mother, Tabitha Hart departs London for her home village of Netherlea - only to discover that her mother has drowned. Determined to discover the truth about the Widow Hart's death, Tabitha consults her almanack and uncovers a series of cryptic notes describing her mother's terror of someone she names only as 'D'. Teaming up with young writer Nat Starling, Tabitha begins a race against...
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Series
Quarry Road novels volume 2
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Still stuck in his small Central Pennsylvania hometown, Ilya Stern is used to feeling like a disappointment. After his high school girlfriend, Jennilynn, drowned, he married her sister, Alicia, only to divorce a decade later. Now that Babulya, Ilya's gentle Russian grandmother, has died, he's sure there's no one left who believes in him. Theresa Malone was Ilya's stepsister for only a year, but she's in town for Babulya's funeral-- and to facilitate...
11) Secrets so deep
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Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
382 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Twelve years ago, Avril's mother drowned at Whisper Cove theater, just off the rocky Connecticut coastline. It was ruled an accident, but Avril's never been totally convinced. Local legend claims that the women in the waves -- ghosts from old whaling stories -- called her mother into the ocean with their whispering. Because, as they say at Whisper Cove, what the sea wants, the sea will have. While Avril doesn't believe in ghosts, she knows there are...
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