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1341) Sunburn: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
When they meet at a local tavern in the small town of Belleville, Delaware, Polly is set on heading west. Adam says he's also passing through. Yet they stay-- and over a punishing summer, Polly and Adam abandon themselves to a steamy, inexorable affair. Still, each holds something back from the other-- dangerous, even lethal, secrets. Then someone dies. Accident, or part of a plan? By now, Adam and Polly are so ensnared in each other's lives and lies...
1342) The lilac bouquet
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Center Point large print edition.
Physical Desc
391 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Come hell or high water, Emmy Jo Massey will have a wedding. After three generations of Massey women with children out of wedlock, she wants the whole town of Hickory, Texas, to witness the legitimacy of her union with Logan Grady. But dream weddings aren't cheap. So she accepts a highly lucrative stint as a home health assistant to retired realtor, and town recluse, Seth Thomas, decision her great-grandmother Tandy is dead-set against. Seth isn't...
1343) Once you go this far
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Junior-high school nurse Rebecca Newsome was an experienced hiker, until she plummeted to her death to the bottom of a ravine in a Columbus metro park. Her daughter, Maggie, doesn't believe it was an accident, and Rebecca's ex-husband is her prime suspect. But he's a well-connected ex-cop and Maggie is certain that's the reason no one will listen to her. Roxane quickly uncovers that the dead woman's ex is definitely a jerk, but is he a murderer?...
1344) Murder by numbers
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
201 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"December, 1956. Donald Langham's wife Maria Dupre receives a chilling invitation to attend a death at the home of Maxwell Falwell Fenton in Essex. The once-prominent artist has a number of enemies, and has faded into obscurity since the war ended. Is the invitation to his own death or someone else's? Arriving at Winterfield on a cold winter evening, Donald and Maria meet five strangers who have also received numbered invitations. They all had a reason...
1345) Forest of secrets
Author
Series
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"May, 1586. Ursula and her retinue return home from a lengthy trip to discover she has an unexpected visitor. Etheldreda Hope is a simple countrywoman who has come to Ursula with disturbing tales of strange goings-on in her rural village. Fearing that Etheldreda's reports of mysterious forest rites indicate a possible conspiracy to overthrow Queen Elizabeth in favour of her cousin, Mary Stuart, the queen's spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, orders...
1346) To save a king
Author
Series
Publisher
Hauck House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
349 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After growing up in small-town Hearts Bend, Tennessee, Gemma Stone set off to Hollywood to make her mark in the world. But her ambition turned into a journey of a 'thousand' bad decisions and after twelve years of seeking fame and fortune, Gemma returns home with a limp and a dark secret. Now she runs a rescue ranch and is raising her friends' orphaned daughter. HRH Crown Prince John has learned a royal title cannot shield him from heartbreak. As...
1347) A perfect bind
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Libararian Tru Beckett, ardent defender of the printed word, is about to find out that keeping murder checked out of her beloved library is much harder than she thought... Tru Beckett succeeded in building a secret book room in her now bookless library, where book lovers from lovely Cypress, South Carolina, can rejoice in the printed word. Now she's working hard to maintain the little library downstairs while keeping her "real job" upstairs in the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"While investigating a man claiming to be the long-lost heir to a noble family, Veronica Speedwell gets the surprise of her life in this new adventure from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn. London, 1889. Veronica Speedwell and her natural historian beau, Stoker, are summoned by Sir Hugo Montgomerie, head of Special Branch. He has a personal request on behalf of his goddaughter, Euphemia Hathaway. After years...
1349) Between us: a novel
Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Roisin and Joe join their friends for a weekend at a country house, it's a triple celebration--a birthday, an engagement, and the launch of Joe's shiny new TV show. But as the weekend unfolds, tensions come to light in the group and Roisin begins to question her own relationship. And as they watch the first episode of Joe's drama, she realizes that the private things she told him--which should have stayed between them--are right there on the...
1350) The Borgia confessions
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"'During the sweltering Roman summer of 1492, Rodrigo Borgia has risen to power as pope. Rodrigo's eldest son Cesare, forced to follow his father into the church and newly made the Archbishop of Valencia, chafes at his ecclesiastical role and fumes with jealousy and resentment at the way that his foolish brother has been chosen for the military greatness he desired. Maddalena Moretti comes from the countryside, where she has seen how the whims of...
1351) Bottle grove: a novel
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is a story about two marriages. Or is it? It begins with a wedding, held in the small San Francisco forest of Bottle Grove -- bestowed by a wealthy patron for the public good, back when people did such things. Here is a cross section of lives, a stretch of urban green where ritzy guests, lustful teenagers, drunken revelers, and forest creatures all wait for the sun to go down. The girl in the corner slugging vodka from a cough-syrup bottle is...
Author
Language
English
Description
Pregnant and on bed rest, McKenna calls her sister Natalie, who fled Shelter Springs, Idaho, after family tragedies took their toll, pleading for help running the Shelter Inn during the busy upcoming Christmas season.
Nat Shepherd has no desire to come home for Christmas. After her beloved mother and brother died when she was a teenager and her grief-stricken father abandoned the family, she left home for college and never looked back. Her sister,...
1353) Afloat
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
543 pages (large print) : map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dark waters are rising... There's sabotage lurking in the waters of Eagle's Talon, an elite floating community designed by gifted architect Vance Nolan. There's also something else in the water -- a mysterious presence friendly to some and hostile to others. And when disaster strikes, not even the saboteur expects it to be the first in a series of crushing blows. Stranded by a flood and surrounded by unnatural darkness, a limping band of residents,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In a land ruled by ruthless Fae, twenty-one-year-old Lore Alemeyu's village is trapped in a forested prison. Lore knows that any escape attempt is futile-her scars are a testament to her past failures. But when her village is threatened, Lore makes a desperate deal with a Fae lord. She will leave her home to catalog/organize an enchanted library that hasn't been touched in a thousand years. No Fae may enter the library, but there is a chance a human...
1355) What a dog knows
Author
Language
English
Description
"Ruby Heartwood has spent her life running away. Away from the orphanage where she was left as a newborn, away from those who exploited her, and away from the man who raped her. She ran from child welfare authorities as a runaway and teenage mother. She's never stayed put. She's never felt connected. Until now. Ruby is a psychic, a fortune teller. She has spent most of her life working at street fairs, carnivals, and the odd Renaissance Faire. Of...
1356) Trace of evil
Author
Series
Natalie Lockhart volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Natalie Lockhart always knew she was going to be a cop. A rookie detective in Burning Lake, a town known for its dark past, she was raised on the wisdom of her chief-of-police father. Natalie uses these lessons and the scars of her past - a beloved sister, murdered as a teenager - to give families the closure she never got. Her task is to uncover the whereabouts of nine missing transients who have disappeared. One night, after a day of no leads,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Randall Haight has a secret: He is a convicted murderer, a man with the blood of a young girl on his hands. He has built a new life for himself in the small Maine town of Pastor's Bay, but someone has discovered the truth about him. He is being tormented by anonymously sent reminders of his crime. He wants private detective Charlie Parker to make them go away. But another girl has gone missing, this time from Pastor's Bay itself, and her family has...
1358) Simple choices
Author
Series
Harmony trilogy (Nancy Mehl) volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Freelance graphic designer Gracie Temple is trying to concentrate on her upcoming marriage to Sam Goodrich, the man of the dreams--until events make her simple life in Harmony, Kansas, a mess of complication and fear. Foremost there's Hannah Mueller, daughter of the local Mennonite pastor and the girl Gracie sees as her protégé. Gracie promises Hannah's parents that an art workshop in Wichita won't adversely affect the shy Mennonite girl, but once...
1359) Of silver and shadow
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
474 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ren Kolins is a silver wielder---a dangerous thing to be in the kingdom of Erdis, where magic has been outlawed for a century. Ren is just trying to survive, sticking to a life of petty thievery, card games, and pit fighting to get by. But when a wealthy rebel leader discovers her secret, he offers her a fortune to join his revolution. The caveat: she won't see a single coin until they overthrow the King. Behind the castle walls, a brutal group of...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
408 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Dora Blake is a talented jewelry designer who lives under the thumb of her suspicious and odious uncle, who is running her late parents' beloved shop of antiquities into the ground. When he begins acting erratically after a mysterious Greek vase is delivered and locked in the basement, Dora enlists the help of Edward Lawrence, a young antiquarian scholar, who (unbeknownst to her) sees the vase as an opportunity to unlock his academic future. Dora...
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