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721) The sea gate
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Canada
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"One house, two women, a lifetime of secrets... Following the death of her mother, Becky begins the sad task of sorting through her empty flat. Starting with the letters piling up on the doormat, she finds an envelope post-marked from Cornwall. In it is a letter that will change her life forever. A desperate plea from her mother's elderly cousin, Olivia, to help save her beloved home. Becky arrives at Chynalls to find the beautiful old house crumbling...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In this gripping tale of self-discovery, Victoria Benton Frank introduces us to Maggie, a South Carolina transplant in New York City struggling to find her place in the world. When she receives a phone call from her troubled sister, Violet, Maggie must return to her hometown of Sullivan's Island, where she uncovers shocking secrets about her family's past. Upon her arrival, Maggie is confronted with a disarrayed situation at The Magic Lantern, the...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A mesmerizing breakthrough novel of family myths and inheritances by the award-winning author of "Crescent." Amani is hooked on a mystery -- a poem on airmail paper that slips out of one of her father's books. It seems to have been written by her grandmother, a refugee who arrived in Jordan during the First World War. Soon the perfect occasion to investigate arises: her Uncle Hafez, an advisor to the King of Jordan, invites her father to celebrate...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In a story alternating between the past and present, Laura Preston flies to Thailand to meet a stranger claiming to be her lost brother, who disappeared when the Preston family lived in Bangkok forty years ago.
Washington, DC, 2019: Laura Preston is a reclusive artist at odds with her older sister Bea as their elegant, formidable mother slowly slides into dementia. When a stranger contacts Laura claiming to be her brother who disappeared forty years...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Glass Ferry, Kentucky, is bourbon country. Whiskey has been a way of life for generations, enabling families to provide and survive even in the darkest times. Flannery Butler's daddy, Beauregard 'Honey Bee' Butler, was known for making some of the best whiskey in the state. And Flannery is the only person Honey Bee ever entrusted with his recipes before he passed on, swearing her to secrecy as he did so. But Flannery is harboring other secrets too,...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Like a jewel shimmering in a Midwest skyline, the Toledo Institute of Astronomy is the nation's premier center of astronomical discovery and a beacon of scientific learning for astronomers far and wide. Here, dreamy cosmologist George Dermont mines the stars to prove the existence of God. Here, Irene Sparks, an unsentimental scientist, creates black holes in captivity. George and Irene are on a collision course with love, destiny and fate. They have...
727) Trouble is what I do
Author
Series
Leonid McGill mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Leonid McGill's spent a lifetime building his reputation as a private investigator in New York. His seemingly infallible instincts and inside knowledge of the crime world make him the ideal man to help when Phillip "Catfish" Worry comes knocking. Catfish is a ninety-four-year-old Mississippi blues-man who needs Leonid's help with a simple task: deliver a letter revealing the black lineage of a wealthy heiress and her corrupt father. The opportunity...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When a shipwreck surfaces, old secrets are sure to follow. Or so goes the lore in Ivy Neale's hometown of Nags Head, North Carolina. When Ivy inherits her family's beachfront cottage upon her grandmother's death, she knows returning to Nags Head means facing the best friend and the boyfriend who betrayed her years ago. But then a winter gale uncovers the shipwreck of local legend - and Ivy soon begins to stumble across more skeletons in the closet...
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
16 de julio de 1936, Islas Canarias. Un asesinato desencadena el golpe de estado de Franco y el inicio de la Guerra Civil española. 20 de julio de 1969, Rabat, Marruecos. Una familia celebra el aterrizaje a la luna en el jardín de una antigua mansión. Un asesinato tendrá lugar esa misma noche, destrozando el destino de la familia. Madrid, época actual. Helena Guerrero es una artista de renombre internacional, conocida por las sombras que invaden...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Sam Wakefield's ancestral home, a decaying mansion built on the edge of a swamp, isn't a place for children. Its labyrinthine halls, built by her mad ancestors, are filled with echoes of the past: ghosts and memories knotted together as one. In the presence of phantoms, it's all Sam can do to disentangle past from present in her daily life. But when her pregnant sister Elizabeth moves in after a fight with her husband, something in the house shifts....
Author
Publisher
John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Twelve months after her younger sister Anahita's death, Mitra Jahani reluctantly returns to her parents' home in suburban New Jersey to observe the Iranian custom of "The One Year." Ana is always in Mitra's heart, though they chose very different paths. While Ana, sweet and dutiful, bowed to their domineering father's demands and married, Mitra rebelled, and was banished. Caught in the middle is their mother, Shireen, torn between her fierce love...
732) A river in the trees
Author
Publisher
Quercus Editions Limited
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Two women. Two stories. One hundred years of secrets. 1919. Hannah is nineteen years old and living on her family's farm in West Cork. Her peaceful world is shattered forever by the eruption of the War of Independence, Ireland's bid for freedom from Britain. Hannah's family hide rebel soldiers in their attic, putting them in great danger from the Black and Tans who roam the countryside. An immediate connection between Hannah and O'Riada, the leader...
733) Out of the attic
Author
Series
(Virginia C.).Dollanganger family volume 7
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Married to the handsome, wealthy Garland Foxworth following a wildfire romance, and an unexpected pregnancy, young Corrine Dixon finds her life very different from how she imagined it. Often alone in the mansion of Foxworth Hall, she can practically feel the ancestors' judgment of her as insufficient--as not a Foxworth. Stern portraits glare at her from the walls, and the servants treat her strangely. Nothing in the vast place is truly hers. Even...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
At thirty-six, Hope McKenna-Smith is no stranger to bad news. She lost her mother to cancer, her husband left her, and her bank account is nearly depleted. Her own dreams of becoming a lawyer long gone, she's running a failing family bakery on Cape Cod and raising a troubled preteen. Now, Hope's beloved French-born grandmother Mamie is drifting away in a haze of Alzheimer's. But in a rare moment of clarity, Mamie realizes that unless she tells Hope...
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
A disturbing family secret is revealed beginning a journey into the past, from the sunny streets of Madrid and Valencia to exile in France, the atrocities of Franco's prisons, and Geman concentration camps. From Berlin to Casablanca to Mexico, this family's saga takes place during twelve years when the world changed forever.
"A partir de la revelación de un desconcertante secreto de familia comienza un viaje al pasado que llevará al lector por...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
1999: The Kim family is struggling to move on after their mother, Sunny, vanished a year ago. Sixty-one-year-old John Kim feels more isolated from his grown children, Anastasia and Ronald, than ever before. But one evening, their fragile lives are further upended when John finds the body of a stranger in the backyard, carrying a letter to Sunny, leaving the family with more questions than ever about the stranger's history and possible connections...
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"11-year-old Meranda thought her life was complicated enough with her weak legs (she needs crutches to walk because of cerebral palsy) and her helicopter parents. She lives in Calgary but has always felt drawn to the East Coast, where her parents grew up...though she's never visited. Her mother, a pediatric ER doctor, has all the excuses: it's too far, it's too expensive, it's not safe near the water. When her great-uncle Mark dies, Meranda's parents...
738) Winter cottage
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Still grieving the loss of her wandering, free-spirited mother, Lucy Kincaid leaves Nashville for the faded town of Cape Hudson, Virginia. She goes to see the house she's inherited - one she never knew existed, bequeathed to her by a woman she's never even met. At the heart of this mystery is the hope that maybe - just maybe - this "Winter Cottage" will answer the endless questions about her mother's past...including the identity of her birth father....
739) The ghostly photos
Author
Series
Mysteries of trash and treasure volume 2
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Colin and Nevaeh are great at finding things. After all, they found each other and became best friends--even though their parents are business rivals. They also found hidden boxes of secret letters, which led them to unravel mysteries about kids from the 1970s. But when they started Mystery Solvers Inc., they didn't expect to be asked to find a ghost. Ree recruits them to investigate a series of old, spooky photos left behind in her family's new house....
740) Honeysuckle season
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Adrift in the wake of her father's death, a failed marriage and multiple miscarriages, Libby McKenzie feels truly alone. Though her new life as a wedding photographer provides a semblance of purpose, it's also a distraction from her profound pain. When asked to photograph a wedding at the historic Woodmont estate, Libby meets the owner, Elaine Grant. Hoping to open Woodmont to the public, Elaine has employed young widower Colton Reese to help restore...
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