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22) The dry: a novel
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Series
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English
Description
"A small town hides big secrets in The Dry. After getting a note demanding his presence, Federal Agent Aaron Falk arrives in his hometown for the first time in decades to attend the funeral of his best friend, Luke. Twenty years ago when Falk was accused of murder, Luke was his alibi. Falk and his father fled under a cloud of suspicion, saved from prosecution only because of Luke's steadfast claim that the boys had been together at the time of the...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Williams family returns to Eulalia, Georgia, for the funeral of their beloved patriarch. When a secret is revealed during the eulogy, the family is left reeling: If their grandparents perfect marriage was anything but, what hope do they have of finding love?"--
24) Ohio: a novel
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"On one feverish, fateful summer night in 2013, four former classmates converge on the rustbelt town they grew up in--a region ravaged by the Great Recession, an opioid crisis, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan--each of them with a mission, all of them haunted by regrets, secrets, losses, and love." --
25) The long call
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Series
Two rivers volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his estranged father's funeral takes place. When Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family too. Now, as he turns and walks away again, he receives a call from one of his team. A body has been found on the beach nearby: a man with a tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death. The case calls...
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English
Description
Twenty years after her childhood friend Lauren disappeared, Nicola returns to her Appalachian hometown where she, driven by a desperate need to know what happened to Lauren, obsessively searches for the truth in a place where the answers are tucked in the hollows and valleys of this small Blue Ridge community.
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Series
Butternut Lake volume 6
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English
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Readers who love Susan Wiggs and Susan Mallery will adore New York Times bestselling author Mary McNear newest novel. A young woman travels home to Butternut Lake, confronting her past and the tragedy she and her friends have silently carried with them for over a decade while also facing an unknown future.
Butternut Lake is an idyllic place—but for one woman, her return to the lake town she once called home is bittersweet...
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English
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Annie Harlow knows how lucky she is. The producer of a popular television cooking show, she loves her handsome husband and the beautiful Manhattan home they share. And now, she's pregnant with their first child. But in an instant, her life is shattered. And when Annie awakes from a year-long coma, she discovers that time isn't the only thing she's lost. Grieving and wounded, Annie retreats to her old family home in Switchback, Vermont, a maple farm...
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Series
Amish brides of Birch Creek volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Bestselling author Kathleen Fuller returns to the Amish community of Birch Creek, where an inn provides the perfect backdrop for romance"--
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English
Description
"Amber Glass has spent her entire adult life putting as much distance as possible between her and her hometown of Baltimore, where she fears she will forever be known as Prom Mom--the girl who allegedly killed her newborn baby that no one knew about, especially not her date, Joe Simpson, who had abandoned her that night to pursue the girl he really liked. But when circumstances bring Amber back to the city, she realizes she can have a second chance--as...
32) Family meal
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English
Description
"Cam is living in Los Angeles and falling apart after the love of his life has died. Kai's ghost won't leave Cam alone; his spectral visits wild, tender, unexpected, and explosive. When Cam returns to his hometown of Houston, he crashes back into the orbit of his former best friend, TJ, and TJ's family bakery. TJ's not sure how to navigate this changed Cam, impenetrably cool and self-destructing, or their charged estrangement. Can they find a way...
33) Kala: a novel
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Language
English
Description
"In the seaside village of Kinlough, on Ireland's west coast, three old friends meet for the first time in years. They--Helen, Joe and Mush--were part of an original group of six inseparable teenagers in the summer of 2003, with motherless, reckless Kala Lannan at its white-hot center. But later that year, Kala disappeared without a trace. Now remains have been discovered in the woods--including a skull with a polaroid photo tucked inside--and the...
Author
Series
Walnut Creek volume 4
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Kendra Troyer always knew she would leave Walnut Creek the first chance she got. When she was accepted into design school, she tried her best not to look back at the four siblings she was abandoning, but ahead to Columbus, where she was determined to stay - far away from her abusive home and far away from Nate Miller, the boy she vowed to despise for the rest of her life.Though she suffered through dark times in Columbus, Kendra found her faith in...
35) The do-over
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Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
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Description
McKenna Keaton is perfectly content with her single life-until a work scandal, a family curse, and the reappearance of Henry Blumenthal make her question a life's worth of good choices.
36) Driftwood Point
Author
Series
Chesapeake diaries volume 10
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Returning home to Cannonball Island, up-and-coming artist Lisbeth Parker, while recording her ailing centenarian great-grandmother's stories of the island's rich history, goes up against a man from her past, environmental engineer Alec Jansen, who is on the opposite side of the debate over the island's future.
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English
Description
"An epic, mesmerizing debut novel set against a rapidly changing post-Cultural Revolution China that reckons with the costs of pursuing one's dreams and the lives we leave behind"--
A Chinese mathematician living in America returns to China after receiving word that his estranged father has vanished from his village, and reunites with a childhood friend he left behind as the pair search and grapple with their pasts.
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Series
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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.
39) Community board
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English
Description
"Darcy Clipper, prodigal daughter, nearly thirty, has returned home to Murbridge, Massachusetts, after her life takes an unwelcome left turn. Murbridge, Darcy is convinced, will welcome her home and provide a safe space in which she can nurse her wounds and harbor grudges, both real and imagined. But Murbridge, like so much else Darcy thought to be fixed and immutable, has changed. And while Darcy's first instinct might be to hole herself up in her...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After the Geller sisters' mother passes away, they are left with the family vacation home as their inheritance. Claire, Sophie, and Beck make their way to Mount Desert Island, Maine, to sever their connection to "the camp," and take their share of the proceeds. The home, a 1960s bungalow overlooking the water, becomes the center of the story as the sisters tie up loose ends and sell the property. Fowler writes in chapters that alternate characters'...
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