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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Shay Miller has three strikes against her: no job, no apartment, no love in her life. But when she witnesses a perfectly normal looking young woman about her age make the chilling decision to leap in front of an ongoing subway train, Shay realizes she could end up in the same spiral. She is intrigued by a group of women who seem to have it all together, and they invite her with the promise: "You are not alone." Why not align herself with the glamorous...
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 9
Language
English
Description
It is said that everyone over a certain age can remember distinctly what they were doing when they heard that President Kennedy had been assassinated, or that Princess Diana had been killed in a Paris car crash, but I, for one, could recall all too clearly where I was standing when a policeman told me that my wife had been murdered. Bill Russell is acting as a volunteer steward at Warwick races when he confronts his worst nightmare--the violent death...
Author
Language
English
Description
Jo Nesbø is known the world over as a consummate mystery/thriller writer. Famed for his deft characterisation, hair-raising suspense and shocking twists, Nesbø's dexterity with the dark corners of the human heart is on full display in these inventive and enthralling stories. A detective with a nose for jealousy is on the trail of a man suspected of murdering his twin, a bereaved father must decide whether vengeance has a place in the new world order...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In this taut, thrilling debut, an unraveling woman, unhappily childless and recently separated, becomes fixated on her neighbor -- a beautiful, famous actress. The unnamed narrator can't help noticing, with wry irony, that though she and the actress live just a few doors apart, they are separated by a chasm of professional success and personal fulfillment. When an interaction with the actress at the annual block party takes a disastrous turn, what...
6) Glamourpuss
Author
Language
English
Description
Glamourpuss loves being the center of attention. So when an unwelcome guest (a dog, no less!) steals the spotlight with some tasteless bow-wowing and undignified tail-wagging, Glamourpuss worries that she's going to fall out of fashion. Is there room for only one superstar in this mansion? When Glamourpuss makes her most majestic move to find out, the result is pure purrfection.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When Megan discovers photographs of her estranged identical twin sister on her husband's phone, she wants answers. Leah already has everything Megan has ever wanted. Fame, fortune, freedom to do what she wants. And when Megan confronts Leah, an argument turns to murder. The only way Megan can get away with killing her twin is to become her. But then lockdown hits. How can she continue living two lives? And what happens if someone else knows her secret...
Author
Language
English
Description
"1765. Lady Isabella Gerard, a respectable member of Georgian society, orders her maid to take her new golden gown and destroy it, its shimmering beauty tainted by the actions of her brutal husband the night before. Three months later, Lord Gerard stands at the shoreline of the lake, looking down at a woman wearing the golden gown. As the body slowly rolls over to reveal her face, it's clear this was not his intended victim. 250 years later ... When...
Author
Series
Purrmaids volume 10
Language
English
Description
Shelly is hosting new student Leeza, a grrmaid, at her house, but becomes jealous when Leeza seems more interested in being friends with Coral and Angel.
11) Bink & Gollie
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Description
Two roller-skating best friends--one tiny, one tall--share three comical adventures involving outrageously bright socks, an impromptu trek to the Andes, and a most unlikely marvelous companion.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
While dealing with wedding preparations and the cantankerous ghost of her grandma who has declared war on the fanged residents of River Oaks, Jane is ordered by the Council to babysit a newborn vamp until he can control his thirst, which causes her fiance to become insanely jealous.
13) I'm not missing
Author
Language
English
Description
"Sick of the pressures of pet life, one dog escapes to fulfill his true Lone Wolf destiny, but then he sees his owner with a new dog and feels unexpectedly jealous."--
15) Esio Trot
Author
Language
English
Description
Shy Mr. Hoppy devises a plan to win the heart of his true love by teaching her a spell to make her tortoise grow bigger.
Author
Language
English
Description
At loose ends after the devastating death of her mother, Una Richardson responds to an advertisement for a ladies' companion, a position that leads her into the wealthy, secluded world of Mrs. Elspeth McKenzie. But Elspeth's home isn't the comforting haven it seems. Kathryn, her cold and bitter daughter, resents Una's presence. More disturbing is evidence suggesting two girls lived here before her. What happened to the young women? Why won't the McKenzie's...
Author
Series
Crafty Cat volume 3
Publisher
First Second
Language
English
Description
When eight other classmates also want to be the star of second-grader Birdie's class play, the little girl's alter ego, Crafty Cat, saves the day.
Author
Series
Just Grace volume 9
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When her teacher announces that the class will be putting on a play, Grace hopes she will win the part of the forest fairy queen.
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