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1381) Clara Callan: a novel
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Pub. Date
p2002
Description
Two sisters try to find their place within the complex web of social expectations for young women in the 1930s.
1382) The mountains sing
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Tran Dieu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North. Years later in Ha Noi, her young granddaughter, Hương, comes of age as her parents and uncles head off down the Ho Chi Minh Trail to fight in a conflict that tore not just her beloved country but also her family apart."--
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Series
Witch novels (Suzanne Palmieri) volume 1
Pub. Date
p2013
Description
When young Eleanor Amore finds herself pregnant, she returns home to her estranged family in the Bronx, called by the "Sight" they share, which now grows strong within her. She has only been back once before, when she was ten years old, and while everyone else remembers that summer of sun-drenched beaches, laughter, and cartwheels, Eleanor can't recall anything earlier than the moment she left the house on her last day there. With her past now coming...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Every mother and daughter has her own distinctive voice, style, and secrets. When a mother and daughter go on a dream vacation to Paris, they unpack a lifetime of surprising hopes and secrets.
A mother and daughter on vacation in Paris unpack a lifetime of secrets and hopes—with a giant Pattersonian twist at the end!
Every daughter has her own distinctive voice, her inimitable style, and her secrets.
Laurie is an artist, a collector of experiences....
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Description
Honest illusions: As the daughter of a world-renown magician who is equally accomplished as a jewel thief, Roxy Nouvelle inherits her father's genius. Dashing escape artist Luke Callahan also possesses a gift for relieving the wealthy of their valuables. Brought up together, Roxy and Luke are partners first in illusion, then in crime.
Montana sky: When Jack Mercy died, he left behind a lot of enemies and a ranch worth nearly twenty million dollars....
1386) The wedding: (abridged)
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Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
A Hollywood wedding sets the scene for a vivid portrayal of a prominent family whose hopes and fears are as real as our own.
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop and tell stories. With each passing night, more and more neighbors gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned pails. Gradually the tenants, some of whom have barely spoken to each other, become real neighbors. In this Decameron-like serial novel, general editor Margaret Atwood, Authors Guild president Douglas...
1388) The inheritance
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Arden Moore enjoyed an affluent life thanks to her husband's job. But after his death, she is a grieving single mother in debt with her three children. Then a call from an estate lawyer in New York offers a glimmer of hope. It is the beginning of a legal journey that could mean the difference between a life of poverty and wealth thanks to her father, a deceased billionaire.
1390) Night road (CD): a novel
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Pub. Date
p2011
Description
Jude Farraday is a happily married, stay-at-home mom who puts everyone's needs above her own. Her twins, Mia and Zach, are bright and happy teenagers. When Lexi Baill enters their lives, no one is more supportive than Jude. A former foster child with a dark past, Lexi quickly becomes Mia's best friend. Then Zach falls in love with Lexi and the three become inseparable. But senior year of high school brings unexpected dangers and one night, Jude's...
1391) The good nanny
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Pub. Date
p2004
Description
Literary editor Stuart Cross and his wife Andie, a film critic, hire the talented Louise to be nanny to their two young girls. Louise's perfection, however, begins to irritate the ambitious, but less accomplished Stuart and Andie, and soon the parents' jealousy gets the better of them.
1392) Birthright
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
When a backhoe blade hits a 5,000-year-old human skull, archaeologist Callie Dunbrook is called to excavate the site. She almost quits when she finds her new partner is her ex-husband, Jake, but it turns out that he is only the beginning of her problems.
1393) Fallen skies
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Pub. Date
2019 .
Description
Lily Valance is determined to forget the horrors of the war by throwing herself into the decadent pleasures of the 1920s and pursuing her career as a music hall singer. When she meets Captain Stephen Winters, a decorated veteran, she's immediately drawn to his wealth and status. And Stephen, burdened by his guilt over surviving the Flanders battlefields where so many soldiers perished, sees the possibility of forgetting his anguish in Lily, but his...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Molly Gray is not like anyone else. With her flair for cleaning and proper etiquette, she has risen through the ranks of the glorious five-star Regency Grand Hotel to become the esteemed Head Maid. But just as her life reaches a pinnacle state of perfection, her world is turned upside down when J.D. Grimthorpe, the world-renowned mystery author, drops dead, very dead, on the hotel's tea room floor. When Detective Stark, Molly's old foe, investigates...