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41) Annabel Lee
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Series
Language
English
Description
Fourteen miles east of Peachtree, Alabama, a secret is hidden. That secret's name is Annabel Lee Truckson, and even she doesn't know why her mysterious uncle has stowed her deep underground in a military-style bunker. He's left her with a few German words, a barely-controlled guard dog, and a single command: "Don't open that door for anybody, you got it? Not even me." As the race begins to find her, private investigators Trudi Coffey and Samuel Hill...
Author
Series
Forgetters volume 2
Publisher
McSweeney's
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
90 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this long short story, or short novella, Dave Eggers gives us an unforgettable duo, Helen and Peter Mahoney, a homebody niece and her adventurous, almost-British uncle. Helen designs invitations to parties and galas to which she is not welcome, and is quite comfortable with that. One day, though, Peter wonders, "Why not print an extra invite and I'll be your plus one?" What starts out as an innocuous lark becomes much more -- a very funny and...
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English
Description
Having spent a formative summer in Ansel-by-the-Sea, Maine, as an adolescent, Annie Bliss returns to the sleepy harbor town after more than a decade and finds herself face to face with more than just a mystery. Her great-uncle Bob, now in a medically induced coma, has left her a series of clues that tell a deeper story of three generations in her family history and their connection to the strange ruins on the island. But if Annie hopes to find any...
44) Cross my heart
Author
Series
Ty and Hunter romances volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Lacey Kincaid, a.k.a. heiress Lillian Dumont, decides to come out of hiding and claim her rightful inheritance at the urging of her childhood sweetheart Ty, her uncle will stop at nothing, not even murder, to keep her from getting what is hers.
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English
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People say the house is cursed. It preys on the weakest, and young women are its favorite victims. Bram wanted was to disappear from her old life and the scandal that continues to haunt her. She ends up in Louth, a tiny town on the Hudson River where her uncle, James, has been renovating an old mansion. Months earlier his beloved wife died in a fire that people say was set by her daughter. The old manor is creepy-- and the people of Louth don't want...
47) The land beyond
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Series
Publisher
Gere Donovan Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Land Beyond is the third and final novel in Dana Stabenow's Silk and Song trilogy. The story began in Everything Under the Heavens, when 16-year old Johanna fled Cambaluc--and her murderous stepmother--joining her uncle's westbound caravan on the Silk Road. Their journey has taken them across an entire continent. And now to the land beyond the sea."--
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Series
Publisher
Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"In the rough edges of 1940s Chicago, the discovery of a corpse in an alleyway isn't always enough to cause a big stir--especially when the victim is killed in the midst of a night-long bender, caught between barrooms in what appears to be a mugging gone awry. Which is why the police don't take a huge interest in finding the murderer of Wallace Hunter, a linotype operator who turns up dead after a solitary drinking adventure that led through many...
49) Skull water
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Language
English
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Description
"Growing up outside a US military base in South Korea in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, Insu--the son of a Korean mother and a German father enlisted in the US Army--spends his days with his "half and half" friends skipping school, selling scavenged Western goods on the black market, watching Hollywood movies, and testing the boundaries between childhood and adulthood. When he hears a legend that water collected in a human skull will cure any sickness,...
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Series
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lady Anne Stone believes she's found her long lost uncle. Unwilling to meet him on her own, Daniel Adams accompanies her to her uncle's ranch. But both Dan and Anne are convinced that the man introduced as her uncle is an imposter and decide to continue the search for the new Earl of Stoneford. And the swindler is now on their trail, hoping to steal Uncle David's inheritance. Dan tries to protect Anne and also his heart. He's good at keeping her safe,...
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Language
English
Description
In the village of Noon Sun, Benedict Stone has settled into a predictable routine. Business at his jewelry shop has dried up; his marriage is on the rocks. His life is in desperate need of a jump start. And then a surprise arrives at his door. Gemma is Benedict's audacious niece - the daughter of his estranged brother, Charlie. The two brothers haven't spoken in almost two decades, since Charlie left for America. Reckless and stubborn, Gemma invites...
52) The kind folk
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
217 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Luke Arnold is a successful stage comedian who, with his partner Sophie Drew, is about to have their first child. Their life seems ideal and Luke feels that true happiness is finally within his grasp. This wasn't always the case. Growing up in a loving but dysfunctional family, Luke was a lonely little boy who never felt that he belonged. While his parents adored him, the whole family knew that due to a mix-up at the hospital, Luke wasn't their biological...
Author
Series
Irish castle mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Rodeo Drive bridalwear designer Rayne McGrath expected her thirtieth birthday to start with a power lunch and end with champagne, lobster, and a diamond engagement ring from her fiancé. Instead, flat-broke and busted, she's on a plane to Ireland where she discovers that she's inherited a run-down family castle. Uncle Nevin's will contains a few caveats--for example, if Rayne doesn't turn McGrath Castle around within a year, the entire village will...
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Series
Publisher
Gere Donovan Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
221 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Everything Under the Heavens, 16-year old Johanna fled Cambaluc -- and her murderous stepmother-- joining her uncle's westbound caravan on the Silk Road. With her foster brother Jaufre and a few faithful companions, they made it to the rooftop of the world--Terak Pass-- separating Mongol China from the scattered sheikdoms of the Persian empire. Then, disaster struck. In a climactic skirmish, Johanna and her stallion, North Wind, were abducted...
55) Don't tempt me
Author
Series
Pearl Island volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Paprebacks
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Klaatu diskos volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In a far distant future, Tucker Feye and the inscrutable Lia find themselves atop a crumbling pyramid in an abandoned city. In present-day Hopewell, Tucker's uncle Kosh faces armed resistance and painful memories as he attempts to help a terrorized woman named Emma, who is being held captive by a violent man. And on a train platform in 1997, a seventeen-year-old Kosh is given an instruction that will change his life, and the lives of others, forever....
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