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161) The peach seed
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
On a routine trip to the Piggly Wiggly in Albany, Georgia, widower Fletcher Dukes smells a familiar perfume, then sees a tall woman the color of papershell pecans with a strawberry birthmark on the nape of her neck. He knows immediately that she is his lost love, Altovise Benson. Their bond, built on county fairs, sit-ins, and marches, once seemed a sure and forever thing. But their marriage plans were disrupted when the police turned a peaceful protest...
162) The cruel dark
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Millicent Foxboro is haunted. Not by ghosts, but by the anguish of her past and the uncertainty of her future. After all, even in the progressive year of 1928, most people would balk at hiring a woman who'd spent two months in a mental ward for traumatic amnesia. So when an uncommon assistantship to a reclusive professor of mythology falls into her lap with an ungodly salary attached, her desperation for stability overrides her cautious nature. To...
163) Boca knights
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In a debut novel sure to both excite passions and elicit laughter, author Steven M. Forman has created a different kind of hero in a most unlikely criminal hotbed: Boca Raton. Eddie Perlmutter's career as a much-honored Boston cop has come to an end. At sixty, he's still energetic and virile, but decades of harsh New England winters and collaring the pug-uglies of Boston's underworld have taken their toll - especially on his knees. So what does a...
164) The new husband
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A riveting new thriller about the lies we tell ourselves from the author of Saving Meghan. Just because you love someone doesn't mean you know them. Nina Garrity learned that the hard way after discovering that her missing husband, Glen, had been leading a double life with another woman. But Glen's gone-presumably drowned while fishing on his boat-so she can't confront him about the affair or any of his other misdeeds. A year and a half after the...
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A man's obsession with a silent-film star sends him on a journey into a shadow world of lies, illusions, and unexpected love. Six months after losing his wife and two young sons in an airplane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in a blur of alcoholic grief and self-pity. Then, watching television one night, he stumbles upon a clip from a lost silent film by comedian Hector Mann. Zimmer's interest is piqued, and he...
Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The 1960 baseball season is shaping up to be the worst year of Eddie O'Leary's life. He can't manage to hit the ball, his new teammates hate him, he's living out of a suitcase, and he's homesick. When the team's owner orders him to give a bunch of interviews to some snobby reporter, he's ready to call it quits. He can barely manage to behave himself for the length of a game, let alone an entire season. But he's already on thin ice, so he has no choice...
167) Miracle
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is New Years Eve when the storm of the century hits northern California. In a quiet neighborhood in San Francisco, amid the chaos of fallen trees and damaged homes, the lives of three strangers are about to collide. For Quinn Thompson, what happens in the storms wake will bring down a barrier he has built around himself since his wifes death. For neighbor Maggie Dartman, it will spark friendship at a time when she needs...
168) Iron Lake: a novel
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mystery volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cork O'Connor has lost both his wife and his job as sheriff and falls into a profound emotional isolation. As a wild blizzard buries his lakeside town, a despised though influential resident is found dead, and a young Ojibwe Indian boy seems to have left home in a hurry. Cork has never taken Indian legends to heart, but when an old sage warns him that a cruel spirit with a heart of ice is near, all that changes.
169) Su último día
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
La nueva novela de suspenso nacional del autor más vendido del New York Times de The Couple Next Door y Someone We Know In Upstate New York, Stephanie y Patrick se están adaptando a la vida con sus bebés gemelos con cólicos. Las niñas son un puñado, pero a Stephanie no le importa ser una ama de casa, cuidándolas mientras Patrick hace de nueve a cinco para pagar las cuentas. Cuando una mujer del pasado de Patrick se les acerca inesperadamente,...
170) Table for two
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
After accepting a job offer for a creative consultant from recently widowed Alex Steadman, Jana Barrowman arrives in Washington to work side by side with him transforming a shabby house into a charming boutique. But it soon becomes clear to her that Alex wants more than a friendship. Will she be able to come to terms with the fact that Alex's deceased wife will always be a big part of his life, as well as Alex's and her differing religious convictions?...
171) Compared
Author
Series
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Meg Confession: I'm attracted to my student's dad. Let me give you Tyler Dixon's resume: thoughtful, manly, father of the year, widower, ridiculously attractive (basically the opposite of a dad bod). This might sound like good news for someone like me--someone who dreams of getting married and becoming a mom--but it's not. Getting involved with a parent is grounds for immediate removal at my school, and right now, my fragile heart can't handle being...
172) Safe haven: a novel
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Forced to endure grueling labor in a cotton mill far from her remaining family, Susanna Thayer and her best friend, Jane, become involved with the Mormon Church and are thus dismissed from employment. Using their meager savings for travel to New York, they join a company of Saints bound for California. Yet Susanna's efforts to build a new life are marked by continued misfortune--and continued encounters with the man who abandoned her in the past....
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the author of A Little Hope--a Read with Jenna Bonus Pick--comes an enormously powerful and life-affirming novel about three individuals whose lives intersect in unforeseen ways. Set in a close-knit Pennsylvania suburb in the grip of winter, A Quiet Life follows three people grappling with loss and finding a tender wisdom in their grief. Chuck Ayers used to look forward to nothing so much as his annual trip to Hilton Head with his wife, Cat--that...
174) Malibu summer
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Ivy Bauer is a young, bright environmental scientist, PhD candidate, and inventor of a game-changing organic irrigation system. She's on top of the world when, suddenly, her husband is killed in a biking accident. Needing space to grieve, she takes a summer job as a gardener in Malibu. Conrad Reed is a wealthy Hollywood has-been who, after the death of his young wife, feels overwhelmed by the care of his rambunctious stepson Hudson, massive beach...
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