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21) The spite house
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife, his house, his whole life behind in Maryland, he's desperate for money--it's not easy to find steady, safe work when you can't provide references, you can't stay in one place for long, and you're paranoid that your past is creeping back up on you. When he comes across the strange ad for the Masson House in Degener, Texas, Eric thinks they may have finally...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Zoe, a sometime artist, is from California. Martin, an engineer, is from Yorkshire. Both have ended up in picturesque Cluny, in central France. Both are struggling to come to terms with their recent past - for Zoe, the death of her husband; for Martin, a messy divorce. Looking to make a new start, each sets out alone to walk 2000 kilometres from Cluny to Santiago de Compostela, in northwestern Spain, in the footsteps of pilgrims who have walked the...
Author
Series
Angel Falls novel volume 2
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Gabby Langdon has always tried to make people happy. She even went to law school to please her father, and now she's a highly successful-albeit bored-attorney. But Gabby secretly dreams of being a writer, so for once she does something for herself-she signs up for a writing class taught by best-selling novelist Caden Marshall. There's only one problem: her brooding, sexy professor is a distraction she can't afford if she's finally going to get the...
24) Jamesland
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Jamesland, the buoyant second novel by Michelle Huneven, critically acclaimed author of Round Rock, is a witty, sophisticated, and deeply humane comedy of unlikely redemption. When thirty-three-year-old Alice Black discovers a deer in her dining room after fighting with her boyfriend, she wonders if shes going crazy. Pete Ross, forty-six, knows hes crazy. Hes wrecked his marriage, slashed his wrists, and done time in a psychiatric...
25) Jackson
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Caroline Carruthers thinks she buried her dreams along with the love of her life...until a stranger named Celeste dares her to chase a dream all on her own. Moving to Redemption, Texas, is chapter one in Caroline's new life story. Opening a bookstore is the next. Finding love is the last thing on her mind as she settles into this new place called home. But when she meets a handsome, soulful man who's also starting over, all bets are off. to reach...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Someone is telling the story of the life of Charlie Barnes, and it doesn't appear to be going well. Too often divorced, discontent with life's compromises and in a house he hates, this lifelong schemer and eternal romantic would like out of his present circumstances and into the American dream. But when the twin calamities of the Great Recession and a cancer scare come along to compound his troubles, his dreams dwindle further, and an infinite past...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Espanol
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
"Cuando leas este libro, harás muchas suposiciones. Supondrás que estás leyendo acerca de una exesposa celosa. Pensarás que esta ́obsesionada con su reemplazo: una mujer joven y hermosa que está a punto de casarse con el hombre que las dos aman. Creerás que conoces a la anatomía de este triángulo de amor. No supongas nada. Retorcido y deliciosamente escalofriante, La esposa entre nosotros explora hábilmente las complejidades ocultas del...
Author
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Toby Fleishman creyó saber qué podía esperar cuando él y su mujer, con quien ha estado casado durante casi quince años, se separan: fines de semana y vacaciones alternadas con los niños, alguna amargura residual, algún momento de tensión esporádico para negociar la crianza compartida de sus hijos. Pero no podía predecir que un día, en el medio de su emancipación sexual recién adquirida, Rachel dejaría a sus dos hijos en su casa y no...
29) Shem Creek
Author
Series
Lowcountry tales volume 3
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Pat Conroy has called her books "hilarious and wise", noting that they are "funny, sexy and usually damp with sea water." Anne Rivers Siddons said of Sullivans Island that it "roared with life." Now Dorothea Benton Frank takes us back to the Lowcountry to introduce a whole new cast of characters whose lives will surely move your heart.Linda Breland has no experience managing a restaurant, but then neither did Brad Jackson, and he owns the place. Meet...
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Camp counselor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one of her campers offers an alternative. The CEO of a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company, Rolo Picazo is middle-aged, divorced, magnetic. He is also intoxicated by Cory. When Rolo proffers a childcare job (and an NDA), Cory quiets an internal warning and allows herself to be ferried to his private...
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