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41) Red oblivion
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"When Jill Lau receives an early morning phone call that her elderly father has fallen gravely ill, she and her sister Celeste catch the first flight from Toronto to Hong Kong. The man they find languishing in the hospital is a barely recognizable shadow of his old, indomitable self. According to his housekeeper, a couple of mysterious photographs arrived anonymously in the mail in the days before his collapse. These pictures are only the first link...
42) All for you
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The new gripping psychological thriller from the bestselling author The Date and The Sister MEET THE WALSH FAMILY Lucy: Mother. Wife. Falling to pieces ...Aidan: Father. Husband. In too deep ...Connor: Son. Brother. Can never tell the truth ... Everyone in this family has something to hide, but what are they trying to protect, and at what cost? IT WAS ALL FOR YOU. * * * What authors and readers are saying about Louise Jensen: 'So good, raced through...
43) Astonish me
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"From the author of the widely acclaimed debut novel Seating Arrangements, winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize: a gorgeously written, fiercely compelling glimpse into the passionate, political world of professional ballet and its magnetic hold over two generations. Astonish Me is the irresistible story of Joan, a ballerina whose life has been shaped by her relationship with the world-famous dancer Arslan Ruskov, whom she helps defect from the Soviet...
44) Dandelion
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An Asian woman traces her mother's past journey in order to learn who she really is and where she belongs.
45) Missing pieces
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A woman uncovers earth-shattering secrets about her husband's family in this chilling page-turner from New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf Sarah Quinlan's husband, Jack, has been haunted for decades by the untimely death of his mother when he was just a teenager, her body found in the cellar of their family farm, the circumstances a mystery. The case rocked the small farm town of Penny Gate, Iowa, where Jack was raised, and for years...
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Christmas bookshop volume 1
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Laid off from her department store job, Carmen has perilously little cash and few options. The prospect of spending Christmas with her perfect sister Sofia, in Sofia’s perfect house with her perfect children and her perfectly ordered yuppie life does not appeal.
Frankly, Sofia doesn’t exactly want her prickly sister Carmen there either. But Sofia has yet another baby on the way, a mother desperate to see her daughters get along, and a client...
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All four Bird children have an idyllic childhood. But one Easter weekend a tragedy strikes the Bird family that is so devastating that, almost imperceptibly, it begins to tear them apart. The years pass and the children become adults and begin to develop their own quite separate lives. Soon it's almost as though they've never been a family at all. But then something happens that will call them home, back to the house they grew up in - and to what...
48) Henry's sisters
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Ever since the Bommarito sisters were little girls, their mother, River, has written them a letter on pink paper when she has something especially important to impart. This time, the message is urgent-River requires open-heart surgery, and Isabelle and her sisters are needed at home to run the family bakery and care for their brother and ailing grandmother.
Isabelle has worked hard to leave Trillium River, Oregon, behind as she travels the globe...
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Tales of the city volume 9
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Follows ninety-two-year-old Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane, as she joins her former tenant Brian on a road trip to Nevada where she attends to unfinished business she has long avoided.
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"Barbados, 1962. Lost soul Iapetus roams the island, scared and alone, driven mad after witnessing his father's death at the hands of his mother and older brother, Cronus. Just before Iapetus is lost forever, he has a son, but the baby is not enough to save him from himself--or his family's secrets. Seventeen years later, Iapetus's son, the stoic Atlas, lives in a loveless house under the care of his uncle Cronus, and in the shadow of his charismatic...
51) The nix
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 36
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"An epic novel about a son, the mother who left him as a child, and how his search to uncover the secrets of her life leads him to reclaim his own"-- Publisher.
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A hostile relationship with her sister and a complicated past with her father's second wife have kept Robin estranged from her family for many years. But when her father's new family is attacked in their house, she returns home determined to put her experience as a therapist to use to help mend fences. It looks like a random robbery gone awry, but as Robin spends more time with her family members, she learns they all had their secrets - and one of...
53) Dark territory
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Signy Shepherd novels volume 2
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published by Simon & Schuster
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English
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Signy Shepherd has spent her career with the Line, a modern underground railroad, shepherding at-risk women out of peril. When Signy takes Lizzy, a young woman desperate to save her infant son, under her protection, the case appears to be like any other. Suddenly, she finds the police hot on their tail, and when Lizzy's erratic behaviour propels them into further danger, Signy begins to suspect that her new ward is not the victim she claims to be....
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"A blazing talent debuts with the tale of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her social ambitions, absent mother, and Puerto Rican roots, all in the wake of Hurricane María. It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's powerbrokers....
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Forbidden sister volume 1
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When she discovers that her sister Roxy, who was kicked out of the house by their father eight years earlier, has become a high-priced New York call girl, Emmie sets out to spy on her sister and learn more about her life.
57) Haven point
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
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English
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"1944. A cadet nurse at Walter Reed Medical Center, Maren Larsen is swept off her feet by Dr. Oliver Demarest, a handsome Boston Brahmin whose family spends summers on the rocky coast of Maine. 1970. As the nation grapples with war in Vietnam, Maren and Oliver's daughter, seventeen-year-old Annie, grapples with young love. But before the sumer is over, a terrible tragedy will strike Haven Point, changing Annie's life forever. 2008. Skye never knew...
58) Unyielding hope
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When hope calls volume 1
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English
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In the early twentieth century, Lillian Walsh rushes to a reunion after discovering the sister she believed dead is likely alive. But Grace has dreams beyond anything Lillian imagines. Can Lillian set aside her own plans and join her sister in an adventure that will surely change them both?
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The Girls with No Names pulls readers into the gilded age of New York City in the 1910s, when suffragettes marched in the street, unions fought for better work conditions-and girls were confined to the House of Mercy for daring to break the rules.
Not far from Luella and Effie Tildon's large family mansion in Inwood looms the House of Mercy, a work house for wayward girls. The sisters grow up under its shadow with the understanding that even as...
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