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Fans of Jodi Picoult and Fredrik Backman will fall for this tenderhearted debut mystery following a young girl on a quest to save her family.**
I know my brother is dead. But sometimes Mama gets confused.
There's plenty about the grownup world that six-year-old Aoife doesn't understand. Like what happened to her big brother Theo and why her mama is in the hospital instead of home where she belongs. Uncle Donny says she just needs to be patient,...
42) Eve Green
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With the death of a mother and the abduction of a young girl, Susan Fletcher has written a vividly beautiful novel about the innocence and terror of childhood. Following the loss of her mother, eight-year-old Evie is sent to a new life in rural Wales – a dripping place, where flowers appear mysteriously on doorsteps and people look at her twice. With a sense of being lied to she sets out to discover her family's dark secret – unaware that there...
43) Here I am!
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When Frankie's mother dies, the six-year-old comes up with a plan: go to France, find a police station, and ask the officers to ring his father.
44) Johnny Angel
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In her fifty-eighth bestselling novel, Danielle Steel tells the breathtaking story of a mother’s love and a son’s gift, of the tragedy that nearly destroyed a family...and the miracle that saved them.
Johnny Angel
With a word or a smile, seventeen-year-old Johnny Peterson could light up a room, fill his mother’s heart with pride, and inspire the best in those around him. A star athlete and class valedictorian, tall,...
Johnny Angel
With a word or a smile, seventeen-year-old Johnny Peterson could light up a room, fill his mother’s heart with pride, and inspire the best in those around him. A star athlete and class valedictorian, tall,...
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He was a man who didn't deserve a second chance. But he needed one…
Emily and her husband Sandy Portman seemed to live a gracious if busy life in an old-world, Upper West Side apartment in the famous Dakota building. But one night on the way to meet Emily, Sandy dies in a tragic accident. The funeral isn't even over before Emily learns she is on the verge of being evicted from their apartment. But worse than the possibility of losing her home,...
46) Flynn's folly
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A Heartwarming Romance (An Exmoor Romance: Book 1) Two men …One, the family friend she has known all her life.The other, a stranger who threatens her very livelihood.When wealthy hotelier, Max Corrigan, claims part ownership of The Folly, Jessica Flynn is not about to give in without a fight. Even if he is drop-dead gorgeous. Following the death of her father, Jessica returns to The Folly, her home on Exmoor, to find the house neglected and a once...
47) Into the water
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Doubleday Canada
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With the same propulsion that captivated millions of readers around the world in her novel "The Girl on the Train," Paula Hawkins unfurls a gripping, twisting, layered plot, interwoven with a powerful understanding of human instincts and the damage they can inflict.
48) The cactus
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In this charming and poignant debut, one woman's unconventional journey to finding love means learning to embrace the unexpected.
For Susan Green, messy emotions don't fit into the equation of her perfectly ordered life. She has a flat that is ideal for one, a job that suits her passion for logic, and an "interpersonal arrangement" that provides cultural and other, more intimate, benefits. But suddenly confronted with the loss of her mother and the...
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Grieving and suddenly alone in the world after the loss of her parents, Caitlin Maharg leaves Canada for the seashore of Northern Ireland on a whim to study with a well-known poet. As her feelings for him deepen, the complications of his life and the haunting of her grief threaten their future. It is time travel in two ways: as both a view into Northern Ireland in the 1990s and written with Caitlin's family history criss-crossing the story, The Most...
50) Behold the many
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Behold the Many is the eerily beautiful story of three young sisters, Anah, Aki, and Leah. In 1913, they are sent away from their family for treatment for tuberculosis to an orphanage in Hawaii's Kalihi Valley. Of the three, two will die there, in spite of the nuns' best efforts to save them, and only Anah, the eldest, will grow to adulthood.
But the ghosts of the dead children are afraid to leave the grounds of St. Joseph's, which is the only place...
52) Opposite of dark
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When the cops tell Casey that her father was murdered the previous night, she doesn't believe them. After all, Casey buried her dad three years earlier...or did she? 1st in the Casey Holland transit mystery series.
53) Loving
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When her father, the famous author Justin Daniels, dies, Bettina finds herself plagued with debts and hounded by men who utter empty promises and meaningless words of love.
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Confessions (James Patterson) volume 1
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
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Tandy Angel is, along with her brothers, a suspect in their parents' murder but having grown up under Malcolm and Maud Angel's perfectionist demands, Tandy decides she must clear the family name no matter what.
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"My father proposed to my mother at gunpoint when she was nineteen, and knowing that she was already pregnant with a dead man's child, she accepted." Thus begins this spellbinding story of Elsie's journey toward understanding her late mother, a narcissist who left her only child an inheritance of debts and mysteries. A dancer in Los Angeles, Elsie was estranged from her mother for years. But now she's back in Toronto, trying to piece together the...
56) Testament
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On June 6, 2012, Vickie Gendreau was diagnosed with a brain tumor. In between treatments, between hospital stays and her "room of her own," she wrote Testament, an autofictional novel in which she imagines her death and at the same time, bequeaths to her friends and family both the fragmented story of her last year and the stories of the loved ones who keep her memory alive, in language as raw and flamboyant as she was.
In the teasing and passionate...
57) Red hook road
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As lyrical as a sonata, Ayelet Waldman’s follow-up novel to Love and Other Impossible Pursuits explores the aftermath of a family tragedy.
Set on the coast of Maine over the course of four summers, Red Hook Road tells the story of two families, the Tetherlys and the Copakens, and of the ways in which their lives are unraveled and stitched together by misfortune, by good intentions and failure, and by love and calamity....
Set on the coast of Maine over the course of four summers, Red Hook Road tells the story of two families, the Tetherlys and the Copakens, and of the ways in which their lives are unraveled and stitched together by misfortune, by good intentions and failure, and by love and calamity....
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Summer beach volume 2
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When real estate developers discover the hidden enclave of SANS--Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest and Nineveh--the home of African American elites, Olivia Jones fights to preserve her new Black utopia, leading her to define the meaning of love, friendship, community and family.
59) Secondhand souls
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Death merchant Charlie Asher waits for a new body while a motley crew of would-be heroes tackles a thief who is stealing the souls of the dead in San Francisco.
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Two very different sisters, Glenn and Natalie, haunted by the murder of their father twenty years earlier, find the past rushing back when Glenn, a rising star in the baking world, begins receiving ominous messages that could be linked to the events of that night long ago.
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