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161) 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...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Portia Cuthcart and her two sisters find their way from Texas to Manhattan over the years, the heiresses to a dilapidated brownstone on the Upper West Side. Portia is running from a bad divorce and the knowledge that she has always been a little bit different, a little bit strange: the talented cook who knew exactly what to serve on what occasion, even to the point of predicting events that hadn't even happened yet. But she doesn't cook anymore....
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
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"When the illustrious India Hartley is accused of murder, she has to uncover the deceptions of others to save herself...India Hartley, the famous and beautiful actress, is now alone in the world after her father's death and embarks upon a tour of theaters across the South. Her first stop is Savannah's Southern Palace. On the eve of the second night's performance, something goes horribly wrong. Her co-star, Arthur Sterling, is shot dead on stage in...
165) 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,...
166) Compared
Author
Series
Sweet Rom "Com" volume 1
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...
167) Bag of bones
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A bestselling novelist grieving over the sudden death of his wife four years earlier returns to the town where she died, where he becomes involved in the lives of a powerful millionaire and a widowed young mother, and suddenly recovers his writing ability.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Sixty-nine-year-old Arthur Pepper lives a simple life. He gets out of bed at precisely 7:30 a.m., just as he did when his wife, Miriam, was alive. He dresses in the same gray slacks and mustard sweater-vest, waters his fern, Frederica, and heads out to his garden. But on the one-year anniversary of Miriam's death, something changes. Sorting through Miriam's possessions, Arthur finds an exquisite gold charm bracelet he's never seen before. What follows...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Years ago, bookseller and mystery aficionado Malcolm Kershaw compiled a list of the genre's most unsolvable murders, those that are almost impossible to crack--which he titled "Eight Perfect Murders"--chosen from among the best of the best including Agatha Christie's A. B. C. Murders, Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, Ira Levin's Death Trap, A. A. Milne's Red House Mystery, Anthony Berkeley Cox's Malice Aforethought, James M. Cain's Double...
170) Sweet success
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Gifted chocolatier Allison Thomas is out to save the world, one truffle at a time. Although her career is delicious, her love life is semisweet at best--okay, nonexistent--until Matt Baker arrives in coastal Saint Maggie, California, with an intriguing smile and a mysterious past. Since tragedy derailed his life, Matt has bounced from town to town, always alone. But despite his attempts to stay away from Ali, her kindness and beauty begin to melt...
171) 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
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter. This sentimental bird is drawn to the grieving family and threatens to stay until they no longer need him. As weeks turn to months and the pain of...
Author
Series
[Keane-Morrison family saga] volume 3
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Have you ever just...had a feeling...like a spiritual impression, but...subtle? Subtle, maybe, but...still undeniable? And it's like...you're being prepared for something? As trials come thick and fast, Wade Morrison finds himself facing devastating loss and a desperate loneliness greater than he ever could have imagined. Thankfully he has a large and loving family, without whose support he could not survive. Ultimately, however, Wade's greatest source...
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