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1) Dollbaby
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Ibby Bell's father dies in a tragic accident in the summer of 1964, her mother unceremoniously deposits Ibby with her eccentric grandmother, Fannie, and throws in her father's urn for good measure. Fannie's Victorian house is like no place Ibby has ever been--and Fannie, who has a tendency to end up in the local asylum every once in a while--is like no one she has ever met. Fortunately, her black cook, Queenie ... and Queenie's feisty daughter...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Victorian explorer William Day, 13 years after a failed expedition resulted in abandonment, betrayal and cannibalism, embarks on an uncanny journey into his past to find his missing second-in-command during which he must face up to the things he's done as the restless dead follow closely behind.
Author
Language
English
Description
Harry Crane is an analyst for the US Forest Service, until his wife dies suddenly and he is unable to cope. Leaving his job and his old life behind, Harry makes his way to the remote woods of northeastern Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains. Determined to lose himself, he takes up residents in the woods. Oriana and her mother, Amanda, are struggling to pick up the pieces from their own tragedy. Oriana roams the forest searching for answers, and she...
5) Calico Joe
Author
Language
English
Description
Follows the divergent paths of a rookie hitter for the Chicago Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher.
6) Beloved
Author
Series
Where the heart lives volume 3
Publisher
Zondervan
Language
English
Formats
Description
With her husband Tyson missing for eight years, Diana Brennan seeks to declare him legally dead in order to remarry, but when Tyson returns as a supposedly changed man, Diana must decide if he has really changed for the better.
8) Spin the sky
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A nationwide televised dance competition holds tryouts near Magnolia's small Oregon town of Summerland, and she wants the chance to show the townspeople who she really is, as well as the opportunity to finally get her and her sister out of town for good. Meanwhile, she's also going to compete against her best friend, George.
Author
Language
English
Description
Christopher Flynn is trying to get it right. After years of trouble and rebellion that enraged his father and nearly cost him his life, he has a steady job in his father's company, he's seriously dating a woman he respects, and, aside from the distrust that lingers in his father's eyes, his mistakes are firmly in the past. One day on the job, Chris and his partner come across a temptation almost too big to resist. Chris does the right thing, but
...10) The searcher
Author
Series
Solomon Creed novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
On a hilltop in the town of Redemption, Arizona, the townspeople gather at an old cemetery for the first time in decades to bury a local man. The somber occasion is suddenly disrupted by a thunderous explosion in the distant desert. A plane has crashed, and it's pouring a pillar of black smoke into the air. As Sheriff Garth Morgan speeds toward the crash, he nearly hits a tall, pale man running down the road, with no shoes on his feet and no memory...
Author
Series
A Kevin Corvelli mystery volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
12) From the dead
Author
Publisher
Segue Blue
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
13) Redemption bay
Author
Series
Haven Point volume 2
Language
English
Description
McKenzie Shaw would do anything for her hometown of Haven Point. It may be small, but it's never let her down... unlike gorgeous, infuriating Ben Kilpatrick. He was her childhood hero until he closed his family's factory, leaving the town's economy in shambles. Now his tech firm is considering opening a local facility. For Haven Point's sake, McKenzie has to grit her teeth and play nice. What could a town filled with painful memories ever offer Ben?...
14) The rake
Author
Language
English
Description
A woman holds the key to one man's destiny in this classic Regency romance from the legendary New York Times bestselling author.
Disinherited and disgraced, Reginald Davenport's prospects cried for a dire end. But fate has given him one last chance at redemption—by taking his rightful place as the heir of Strickland, his lost ancestral estate. Davenport knows his way around women, yet nothing prepares him for his shocking...
Disinherited and disgraced, Reginald Davenport's prospects cried for a dire end. But fate has given him one last chance at redemption—by taking his rightful place as the heir of Strickland, his lost ancestral estate. Davenport knows his way around women, yet nothing prepares him for his shocking...
Author
Series
Blessings volume 9
Language
English
Description
Malachi 'Mal' July's reputation as a player is making trouble for him, even though he's now a recovering alcoholic trying to redeem himself in the eyes of his family and the citizens of Henry Adams, Kansas. He's turning his diner into a profitable business, and mentors the town's foster kids. And he's even staying true to one woman-- Bernadine Brown. But all it takes is a moment of pride for Mal to betray his friends and family, and lose Bernadine's...
Author
Publisher
Worthy Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
She was a widow, a businesswoman, an adulteress. In her lifetime, she knew murder, prejudice, and faith. She transformed from a Jewish girl longing for family to one of the closest friends of Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God. Her name was Mary Magdalene.
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When an old family friend arrives, Jinx, plagued by guilt, paralyzed by shame, and entrenched in a childhood home filled with violent memories, must relive her mother's last days, confront her grief, and finally speak the truth.
18) Midsummer night
Author
Series
Aetherial tales volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
412 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young woman studying art at a vast country estate near the site where a child was snatched by fairies decades earlier, stumbles onto the portal to the Otherworld through which a handsome, charming, and innocent young man emerges and captures her heart.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Early 1970s. The Vietnam War is raging, the US Navy has only recently begun the process of integration, and the country is reeling from racial turmoil and unrest. César Alvarez, a street-tough kid of Afro-Cuban descent, enlists in the navy to escape a life of crime-- and Mr. Mike, a sociopathic gangster who was once a mentor but has now turned on him. Deployed aboard the USS Kitty Hawk, he finds racial tensions are high and are moving quickly toward...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xiv, 107 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
A sequel to "A Christmas Carol" set twenty years after Scrooge's famous reformation finds him teaming up with a returning cast of ghosts to help the restless spirit of Jacob Marley make amends to victimized associates in order to find peace.
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