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Series
Lost night files volume 2
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious informant disappears, Talia March, searching for a list of people like her and her friends, is forced to team up with Luke Rand, a hunted and haunted man chasing the same list, when they are both targeted by a killer.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"When her return home to Graybridge coincides with the murder of her friend Kara, former professional ballerina Esmé Foster, haunted by a past tragedy, must shine a light into the darkness to learn what really happened in the woods the night Kara died to bring this nightmare to an end"--
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"When popular restaurateur Laurel Thibodeau is found brutally murdered in her own home, and her husband is the prime suspect, six friends gather together, sharing theories about Laurel's death, soon realizing they each have something to hide as jealousy, revenge, adultery and greed converge"--
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In segregated High Cotton, Texas, in 1964, the racial divide is as clear as the railroad tracks running through town. This is the last summer of thirteen-year-old Corky Corcoran's childhood, and her family hires a Haitian housekeeper who brings her daughter, America, along with her. Corky is quick to befriend America and eager to share her favorite new "grown-up" novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. As their friendship grows, Corky finds out America's hidden...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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When tens of thousands of owls descend on her hometown library, rending and tearing at anyone foolish enough to step outside, Madigan Purdy, tasked with keeping her students safe, seeks inspiration from her favorite childhood book, The Silent Queen, to find a solution to their dilemma.
6) Beautyland
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. As a child, she recognizes that she is different; she also possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. The arrival of a fax machine enables her to contact her extraterrestrial relatives, beings who have sent her to report on the oddities of earthlings. For years, as she moves through the world...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Downtown Los Angeles, 1990. Alone in her luxury hotel suite, the reclusive Lacey Crane receives a message: Edith is waiting for her in the lobby. Former best friends, Lacey and Edith haven't spoken to one another in over four decades. As young adults meeting at summer camp in Maine, and later making their way in the glitzy spotlight of postwar Hollywood, Edith and Lacey share a deep-rooted bond that once saved them from isolation and despair, providing...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Two women in 1947 Helsinki, one American and one Russian, have their loyalties and friendship put to the test when their husbands drunkenly challenge each other to a secret cross-country ski race at an embassy party pitting freedom against communism"--
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Moving into an off-campus house with magnetic and addictive Lucy Sharpe and two other girls, shy and quiet Margot finally comes out of the shell she's been in since her best friend Eliza died until one of the fraternity boys next door is murdered and Lucy goes missing.
Author
Language
English
Description
"After a series of terrible dates, Marni McGuire, the host of a popular TV cooking show, forms an unbreakable bond with her best friend Ellen as well as a young intern on the show and her pregnant daughter Bella as they navigate the challenges and celebrate the joys of life" --
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Language
English
Description
"It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job, and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie's starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopardized by odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks, and illicit intrigue."--
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A bridesmaid for one of her oldest friends, 33-year-old Athena Matthias, still reeling from a messy divorce from her wife, arrives in Watercolor, Florida, for the wedding where an unexpected guest from the past throws the entire wedding party into chaos.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Jen has dumped Andy, and he's handling the breakup in exactly the way all his friends and family might have expected: very, very badly. Crashing at his mother's house and obsessively photographing his hairline, Andy embraces the rites and rituals of every breakup-the ill-advised decision to move onto a houseboat, the forced merriment of a lads' night out, the accidental late-night text to the ex-all resulting in a never-ending shame spiral. Even...
14) The hollow dead
Author
Series
Gravekeeper novels volume 4
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"To stop a shadowy organization profiting off spectral energy to extend their power and reach, Keira and her friends prepare to fight for the souls of the tormented dead but Keira soon discovers what she doesn’t know about her past may ultimately come back to haunt her"--
15) The guest
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Iris and Gabriel have just arrived home from a make-or-break holiday. But a shock awaits them. One of their closest friends, Laure, is in their house. The atmosphere quickly becomes tense as she oversteps again and again: sleeping in their bed, wearing Iris' clothes, even rearranging the furniture. Laure has walked out on her husband--and their good friend--Pierre, over his confession of an affair and a secret child. Iris and Gabriel want to be supportive...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edtion.
Physical Desc
370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Benny Catspaw's perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée, and his favorite chair. He's not paranoid. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn't know who or why. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he's never heard of: a giant crate and a video message. All will be well in time. How strange though it's a blessing, his uncle promises. Stranger yet is what's inside the crate. He's a seven-foot-tall...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Returning home to Pennywhistle, Tennessee, for her beloved daddy's funeral, PJ Spoon, abandoning her PhD program at Vanderbilt, impulsively takes a job as a fry cook at the Chickie Shak, where she meets and falls for Boof, a talented singer-songwriter searching for her birth mother.
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Language
English
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In the small town of Los Lobos, California, three women join a local indie bookstore's summer book club--devoted entirely to romance novels--and become life-long friends as they navigate the messiness of motherhood, second chances and becoming the person you've always wanted to be.
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Language
English
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Starting a new life in New York, Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, moves into a beautiful midtown penthouse where she forms an instant connection with her movie-star next-door neighbor over their strong impulse to help those in need after a devastating crisis strikes the city.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Best friends don't always have the best intentions. On a brisk fall night in a New York apartment, 35-year-old Billie West hears terrified screams. It's her lifelong best friend Cassie Barnwell, one floor above, and she's just realized her infant daughter has gone missing. Billie is shaken as she looks down into her own arms to see the baby, remembering--with a jolt of fear--that she is responsible for the kidnapping that has instantly shattered...
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