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Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 1
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Formats
Description
Journeying up the Missouri River in 1830, the wealthy Berrybenders encounter the challenges of the untamed American West before Tasmin Berrybender falls in love with frontiersman and part-time preacher Jim Snow.
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume Book 25
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The charges: explosive. Alex Cross has never been on the wrong side of the law -- until now. Charged with gunning down followers of his nemesis Gary Soneji in cold blood, Cross is being turned into the poster child for trigger-happy cops who think they're above the law. Cross knows it was self-defense. But will a jury see it that way? The evidence: shocking. As Cross fights for his professional life and his freedom, his former partner John Sampson...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Language
English
Description
Moving to the mill city of Lowell in 1832 to escape farm life, young Alice is disillusioned by the local factory's harsh working conditions and struggles to advocate on their behalf while recklessly falling in love with the mill owner's son, a situation that is complicated by a murder and sensational trial.
44) Emma
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Occasionally thoughtless, always headstrong, and constantly meddling in the affairs of her friends, Emma is a character for the ages. Hers is a story that has seamlessly translated to contemporary life. Sparkling with rare literary energy, Emma is a comedy of manners, depicting the self-contained world of 19th-century English life.
47) The Search
Author
Language
English
Description
Fiona, a dog trainer who participates in canine search-and-rescue missions, is devastated after her fiance is murdered, but her emotions are rekindled when Simon, a newcomer to town, brings his puppy Jaws to her for obedience training.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a full moon rises over Melbourne, Australia, a young woman gets ready for a party. She is autistic, yet within her mind, she is whoever she wants to be. What appears to an ordinary night out is - through the prism of her singular perspective - extraordinary. As the evening unfolds, each encounter reveals the vast discrepancies between what she is thinking and feeling, and what she is able to say. And there's so much she'd like to say. So when...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
515 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1950, a young, beautiful Polish refugee arrives in Hyannisport, Massachusetts, to work as a maid for one of the wealthiest families in America. Alicia is dazzled by the large, charismatic family -- in particular the oldest son, Jack, a rising politician. The pair is soon engaged, but Jack's father forbids the marriage. The Summer I Met Jack is based on the real life of Alicia Corning Clark, who J. Edgar Hoover insisted was paid by the Kennedys...
Author
Series
Edwardian Brides volume 2
Publisher
Multnomah Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Beautiful Katherine Ramsey travels to London to make her society debut and find a proper husband, but when a scandal forces her from the spotlight, she volunteers with the poor, deepens her faith in God, and develops a friendship with a young medical student.
52) Mariana
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
After inheriting her sixteenth-century childhood home, Julia Beckett is astonished when she is transported back in time and into the body of Mariana, a woman who is struggling against treachery for her love of Richard de Mornay.
Author
Series
In death volume 54
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The woman’s body was found in the early morning, on a bench in a New York City playground. She was clean, her hair neatly arranged, her makeup carefully applied. But other things were very wrong—like the tattoo and piercings, clearly new. The clothes, decades out of date. The fatal wound hidden beneath a ribbon around her neck. And the note: Bad Mommy, written in crayon as if by a child.
Eve Dallas turns to the department’s top profiler, who...
Author
Series
Postcards from Pullman volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Language
English
Description
Olivia Mott struggles to balance her two jobs, one as an assistant chef at Hotel Florence and the other as a rail spy for the Pullman Palace Car Company, with the unexpected demands of motherhood as she cares for the infant Lady Charlotte left in her care.
55) The unseen
Author
Series
Krewe of Hunters volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
When San Antonio becomes a dumping ground for the battered bodies of young women, Texas Ranger Logan Raintree must use his powerful ability to commune with the dead and lead a brand-new group of elite paranormal investigators to solve this disturbing case.
56) Luster
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties--sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a series of inappropriate sexual choices. She is also haltingly, fitfully giving heat and air to the art that simmers inside her. And then she meets Eric, a digital archivist with a family in New Jersey, including an autopsist wife who has agreed to an open marriage--with rules. As if navigating the constantly shifting...
57) A proper pursuit
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Physical Desc
432 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Violet Hayes ventures to Chicago during the World's Fair in search of her mother, who has been missing from her life since she was nine, and as she uncovers the missing parts of her past, Violet will ultimately find herself.
Author
Series
Will Trent volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Investigating a brutal murder that eerily resembles another from years earlier, Will Trent reopens the case of a possibly wrongly convicted prisoner before teaming up with medical examiner Sara Linton to hunt down the true killer.
59) Remembered
Author
Series
Fountain Creek chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Language
English
Description
The owner of a freight business drives Veronique Girard, a beautiful French woman, to mining towns in Colorado so that she can search for her father, whom she has not seen in twenty-five years.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Escaping from an abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone to the vibrant 1950s pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the most highly requested henna artist - and confidante - to the wealthy women of the upper class. But trusted with the secrets of the wealthy, she can never reveal her own...Known for her original designs and sage advice, Lakshmi must tread carefully to avoid the jealous gossips who could ruin her reputation...