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Author
Series
Ladybug Farm novels volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Books
Language
English
Description
"A year after taking the chance of a lifetime, Cici, Lindsay, and Bridget are still trying to make a home for themselves on the newly-renovated Ladybug Farm. Life in the Shenandoah Valley is picturesque, but filled with unexpected trials? such as the introduction of two young people into the ordered life the women have tried to build for themselves. As the walls of the old house reveal their secrets and the lives of those who have gone before begin...
Author
Publisher
Delphinium Books
Language
English
Description
The Gretchen Question recounts a day in the life of Roberta Chase, who does not have much time left to make peace with the son who's punishing her for withholding his father's true identity. A single mother torn between protecting her only child or revealing herself fully to the people she loves most, Roberta finds herself at war with conflicting loyalties, the increasing betrayal by her own body, the confused love she feels for her oldest friend,...
883) Next to you: a novel
Author
Publisher
Dell
Language
English
Description
"Two friends battle feelings for each other as they work together to renovate a school bus into a home in this charming romance novel from viral TikTok author of Next of Kin and Out on a Limb Lane is in the middle of an identity crisis. Her friends are all partnered up, her career is leading nowhere, and simply put, she's not happy. So, after a night out celebrating her birthday, she makes one hell of an impulsive purchase: a giant yellow forty-eight...
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Language
English
Description
"In this powerful and unforgettable memoir, award-winning writer Amy Butcher examines the shattering consequences of failing a friend when she felt he needed one most. Four weeks before their college graduation, twenty-one-year-old Kevin Schaeffer walked Amy Butcher to her home in their college town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Hours after parting ways with Amy, he fatally stabbed his ex-girlfriend, Emily Silverstein. While he was awaiting trial,...
885) Britt-Marie was here
Author
Publisher
Sceptre
Language
English
Description
For as long as anyone can remember, Britt-Marie has been an acquired taste. Behind the passive-aggressive, socially awkward, absurdly pedantic busybody is a woman who has more imagination, bigger dreams, and a warmer heart than anyone around her realizes. So when Britt-Marie finds herself unemployed, separated from her husband of 20 years, left to fend for herself in the miserable provincial backwater that is Borg, and somehow tasked with running...
887) Once a monster
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Language
English
Description
London, 1861: Ten-year-old Nell belongs to a crew of mudlarks who work a stretch of the Thames along the Ratcliffe Highway. An orphan since her mother died four years past, leaving Nell with only broken dreams and a pair of satin slippers in her possession, she spends her days dredging up coals, copper and pieces of iron spilled by the river barges - searching for treasure in the mud in order to appease her master, Benjamin Murdstone. But one day,...
888) Big summer: a novel
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
A powerful tale of friendship and forgiveness set on Cape Cod during the disastrous wedding of an old friend.
889) A Christmas cruise
Author
Publisher
Ulverscroft, Linford Romance
Language
English
Description
1976. Working in the Purser's Office of a cruise ship, Carys is immersed in a drama with cabaret singer Noah, who witnesses a fight. One passenger falls overboard - but tycoon Rupert, heavily involved in the scuffle, disappears, leaving Noah to report the incident. Carys and Noah form a sleuthing partnership to ensure justice is done. Christmas sparkle is everywhere, while the liner visits idyllic sunny ports, and the friendship turns to something...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Language
English
Description
Del Wensley, wife of the most celebrated preacher in Harlan County, tries to mind her place. Until her husband's infidelity pushes an already strained marriage to a breaking point. Clinging to her last hope for self-respect, Del turns her back on the rigid life she's known. A coal train is rolling through the valley. With her eyes wide open to the unfamiliar, and to the freedom she craves, Del takes to the rails. Rumbling across America, Del is soon...
891) Monday rent boy
Author
Publisher
Random House Canada
Language
English
Description
Monday Rent Boy begins in Somerset, England, in the mid-1980s, with the winning and heart-warming story of two 13-year-old friends and fellow altar boys, Arthur Barnes and Ernie Castlefrank. Endearing outcasts, they try not to speak of the secret tie that binds them: both boys are routinely preyed on by The Zipper, their nickname for Father Ziperto, the local Catholic priest. Still, they find adventure and release in the mischief they get up to together,...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Language
English
Description
"Emily Hunt went missing from her affluent liberal arts school on graduation weekend. Her body was found floating in a river, and a quiet loner who most people on campus really didn't know died by suicide. A tenuous link--one text--bound the two dead students together and was enough for law enforcement to close the case. ... Twelve years later, college friends gather to celebrate an engagement over a long overdue getaway on a swanky private island...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Language
English
Description
"Thirty years after a tragic accident shut down production of the classic children's program Mister Magic, the five surviving cast members have done their best to move on. But just as generations of cultishly devoted fans still cling to the lessons they learned from the show, the cast, known as the Circle of Friends, have spent their lives searching for the happiness they felt while they were on it. The friendship. The feeling of belonging. And the...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Language
English
Description
Leah has been living with akinetopsia, or motion blindness, since she was a child. Most people assume she's blind, but the truth is Leah sees a good deal, and with her acute senses of smell and hearing, very little escapes her notice. Leah's quiet life changes when Alice moves into the apartment next door and Leah can immediately smell the anxiety wafting off her. Then one night, Leah wakes up to someone in her apartment. And when she hears Alice...
897) The murder book
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Tom Thorne has it all. In Nicola Tanner and Phil Hendricks, Thorne has good friends by his side. He finally has a love life worth a damn and is happy in the job to which he has devoted his life... He has everything to lose. Hunting the woman responsible for a series of grisly murders, Thorne has no way of knowing that he will be plunged into a nightmare from which he may never wake. And he'll do anything to keep it. Finally, Thorne's past has caught...
898) When the rain ends
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When artist Dani Manchester learns she's slowly losing her vision, she becomes unmoored. Her ex-husband died only months before, leaving Dani and her preteen daughter grief stricken ... On a whim, Dani sells her waterfront home and buys an old farm inland near the Virginia state line ... Dani's daughter recoils at the sudden, drastic change ... But Dani is resolute, and the pair move to Virginia to embark on a challenging renovation. That summer,...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Language
English
Description
The year is 1921. Lesley Hamlyn and her husband, Robert, a lawyer and war veteran, are living at Cassowary House on the Straits Settlement of Penang. When "Willie" Somerset Maugham, a famed writer and old friend of Robert's, arrives for an extended visit with his secretary Gerald, the pair threatens a rift that could alter more lives than one. Maugham, one of the great novelists of his day, is beleaguered: Having long hidden his homosexuality, his...
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