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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
""Christensen is a forceful writer whose . . . prose is visceral and poetic. . . . She is a portrait artist, drawing in miniature, capturing the light within."-San Francisco Chronicle From the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a novel about grief, love, growing older, and the complications of family that is the story of a fifty-something woman who goes home-reluctantly-to Maine after the death of her mother. Can you ever truly...
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Language
English
Description
When human bones are found beneath an old chapel in the woods, evidence suggests the remains could be linked to the decades-old case of missing teen Annalise Jansen. Homicide detective Jane Munro--pregnant and acutely attuned to the preciousness of life--hopes the grim discovery will finally bring closure to the girl's family. But for a group of Annalise's old friends, once dubbed the Shoreview Six by the media, it threatens to expose a terrible pledge...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Germany, 1946: Emmy Clarke is a librarian not a soldier. But that doesn't stop the Library of Congress from sending her overseas to Germany to help the Monuments Men retrieve and catalog precious literature that was plundered by the Nazis. The Offenbach Archival Depot and its work may get less attention than returning art to its rightful owners, but for Emmy, who sees the personalized messages on the inside of the books and the notes in margins of...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Frustrated with the sad state of her dating life, restaurateur Chloe Anderson penned a single romance novel featuring the man of her dreams. Upon the book's publication, the hero resonated with thousands of women, catapulting the book to the top of the bestsellers list and earning the novel a movie option. Chloe is thrilled a production company wants to bring her movie to the big screen and film it right in her hometown, Stillwater Bay, North Carolina....
Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Helen Zhang hasn't seen Grant Shepard once in the thirteen years since the tragic accident that bound their lives together forever. Now she's in Los Angeles, where the two have to work together. The result is messy, and electrifying.
Author
Series
Harlequin romantic suspense volume 2270
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"My bestselling-mystery-author career had come to a standstill, and I was plagued with writer's block. So I asked myself: What would my favorite fictional girl detective do? She would find a suspect to inspire her to finish the case, of course! Luckily, I have a new, mysterious and very dreamy private investigator next door to follow. I'm going to help him solve the case and finally finish this book of mine. Then maybe the two of us can pursue The...
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Language
English
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"1942.Though she survived the bomb that destroyed her home, Yvonne Rudellat's life is over. She's estranged from her husband, her daughter is busy with war work, and Yvonne―older, diminutive, overlooked―has lost all purpose. Until she's offered a chance to remake herself entirely... The war has taken a turn for the worse, and the men in charge are desperate. So, when Yvonne is recruited as Britain's first female sabotage agent, expectations...
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Sara Little Turnbull was a girl with a big heart and a bigger imagination. Her creativity and curiosity led her to the world of design--a world of imagining, planning, and creating something useful. Discover the true story of a talented girl who grew up to design everything from cake mix to spacesuits to the N95 mask. With a curious mind and a big heart, see how the smallest idea can make a very big difference"--
Author
Series
Mystery of 1920s Bombay volume 4
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"India, 1922: Perveen Mistry is the only female lawyer in Bombay, a city where child mortality is high, birth control is unavailable and very few women have ever seen a doctor. Perveen is attending a lavish fundraiser for a new women's hospital specializing in maternal health issues when she witnesses an accident. The grandson of an influential Gujarati businessman catches fire--but a servant, his young ayah, Sunanda, rushes to save him, selflessly...
Author
Series
Harlequin special edition volume 3042
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
For starters, Jared Leiman is home for the holidays. Because though he and Caroline Weiss were high school sweethearts, their postcollege lives took them in different directions. Jared became a big-time entertainment lawyer in LA, while Caroline became a fitness instructor and stayed in town to care for her sick mother. And though her mother passed away three years ago, Caroline is finally free to go where she chooses. Meanwhile Jared, who inherited...
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Florrie Butterfield--eighty-seven, one-legged, and of cheerful disposition--believes there can't be any more surprises in life. Yet one evening, there's an accident at Babbington Hall--the adult residence where she lives--so shocking and strange that Florrie is suspicious; is this really an accident? Or is she being lied to? Is she living alongside a potential murderer? In her efforts to learn the truth, Florrie is forced to look back on her own life,...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In her third Rainy Lake historical drama, Mary Casanova takes us back to pristine and rugged northern Minnesota. It's 1922, women have won the right to vote, and Trinity Baird is of age. But at 21, and after nearly two years at Oak Hills Asylum, she returns to her family's island summer home with her self-confidence in tatters and her mind seared by haunting memories. Her parents are oblivious to what they have put her through and instead watch their...
Author
Series
Harlequin heartwarming volume 510
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Could a charming stray... Bring this new family together? Returning to her hometown to care for her father, veterinarian Jessica Trombo is confronted with a painful past. But when a stray dog leads her to single dad Briggs Longfellow and his shy son, it could be a beautiful new beginning. Briggs isn't looking for romance--or a dog--but Jessica and Buddy are exactly what his little family needs. Could love give them all a forever home?
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Heartwarming
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A second chance...with his first love? Single dad and rancher Colter Wayne has moved mountains to bring teachers to Pronghorn, Oregon. So he's floored when one of the new arrivals is the woman he almost married. To make matters worse, it looks like Willa Marshall still hasn't forgiven him. But the kids need Willa, and she needs his help navigating small-town life. Can Colter and Willa learn to let go of the past and embrace the future...together?...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The saboteur targeting Rory VanDam's hotshot team or Brittney Townsend, the hot reporter asking too many questions? Maybe the secrets Rory has had to keep since he survived a plane crash are more dangerous than both of them. When a killer pursues the guarded firefighter and relentless journalist, it’s Rory’s past that could cost them their lives. And his reluctant attraction to the newswoman could make him expose the shocking truth.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When pregnant widow Courtney Meadows steals away from her duplicitous in-laws in the dead of night, she has one goal: to protect her baby. An unexpected car breakdown miles away and a looming hurricane are the last things she needs! Enter a gruff knight in shining armor in Officer Brigg Harrington. Courtney's compelled by the lawman's compassion and integrity... and she has to admit he makes her pulse race in a way no one has since the tragic death...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Cassie Andrews works in a New York City bookshop, shelving books, making coffee for customers, and living an unassuming, ordinary life. Until the day one of her favorite customers--a lonely yet charming old man--dies right in front of her. Cassie is devastated. She always loved his stories, and now she has nothing to remember him by. Nothing but the last book he was reading. But this is no ordinary book...It is the Book of Doors. Inscribed with enigmatic...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Christmas comes early to McCredie's little Old Town bookshop in Edinburgh. It's summer, but an American production company has decided that McCredie's is the perfect location to film a Christmas movie. Carmen Hogan, the bookshop's manager, is a bit horrified by the goings-on, but the money the studio is paying is too good to pass up. She uses the windfall from filming to create new displays and fend off a buyout offer from a millionaire who wants...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Carpenter Whitney Whitaker and her cousin Buck are hot for a historical property that has just come on the market -- a fire station in Nashville’s Germantown neighborhood that was built nearly a century ago. The cousins have just begun the interior demolition work at the fire station when Joanna Hartzell, who lives in a townhouse around the corner, comes by with a plea for help. Joanna owns the right half of her building, which she proudly...
20) #crimetime
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When a burglary occurs in the apartment upstairs, Nadiya's half-brother Chase decides to film the action. The videos amass a huge following, but Chase and Nadiya are soon plunged into a world of organized crime.
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