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141) Eden in winter
Author
Series
Martha's Vineyard volume 3
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two months after the suspicious and much-publicized death of his father on the island of Martha's Vineyard, it is taking all of Adam Blaine's will to suture the deep wounds the tragedy has inflicted upon his family and himself. As the court inquest into Benjamin Blaine's death casts suspicions on those closest to him, Adam struggles to protect them from those who still suspect that his father was murdered by one of his kin. But the sternest test...
144) Infinity
Author
Series
Num8ers volume 3
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Adam, Sarah, and Mia are living together, struggling with the fame brought about by their knowing the dates when people will die, but ever since Mia swapped her number for another, her new power makes her a target that puts them all in jeopardy.
145) A ghost story
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After he dies, a man returns as a white-sheeted ghost to try to reconnect with his grieving wife.
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"After Aggie Dunkirk's career is unceremoniously ended by her own mistakes, she finds herself traveling to Wisconsin, where her grandmother, Mumsie, lives alone in her rambling old home. She didn't plan for how eccentric Mumsie has become, obsessing over an old, unsolved crime scene--even going so far as to re-create it in the attic. Mystery seems to follow her when she finds work as a secretary helping to restore the flooded historical part of the...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative that turns on the death of a vivid and particular woman, and becomes the occasion for a man's deeper examination of love, friendship, and biography. This beautiful, spare novel of platonic unrequited love springs into being around the singular character of the stoic, exacting Professor Elizabeth Finch. Neil, the narrator, takes her class on Culture and Civilization, taught not for undergraduates...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. In rural Indonesia, she watches a man clean and dress his grandfather's mummified body, which has resided in the family home for two years. In La Paz, she meets Bolivian natitas (cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skulls), and in Tokyo she encounters the Japanese kotsuage ceremony, in which relatives use chopsticks...
150) The tea rose
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"East London, 1888 - a city apart. A place of shadow and light where thieves, whores, and dreamers mingle, where children play in the cobbled streets by day and a killer stalks at night, where bright hopes meet the darkest truths. Here, by the whispering waters of the Thames, Fiona Finnegan, a worker in a tea factory, hopes to own a shop one day, together with her lifelong love, Joe Bristow, a costermonger's son. With nothing but their faith in each...
151) The zero night
Author
Series
Jonathan Stride volume 11
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After nearly dying of a gunshot wound, Jonathan Stride has been on leave from the Duluth Police for more than a year. When his partner, Maggie Bei, gets called about a suspicious abduction involving a local lawyer, she tells Stride it's time for him to come back. Attorney Gavin Webster says he paid $100,000 in ransom money to the men who kidnapped his wife. Now they've disappeared with the cash, and she's still missing. Gavin claims to be desperate...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
10-year-old Kenyatta, known as KB, has discovered her fathers dead body in the garage of their home on a dead-end street in Detroit. Soon after, KBs mother leaves her and her older sister, Nia, at their grandfathers house on a green and noiseless street in Lansing, Michigan. Their mother offers no explanation of where she is going or when she will be back. KB tries hard to relate to Nia and understand why she is so angry and distant. KB also attempts...
Publisher
Distributed by Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Chick Benetto, a broken-down former baseball player who has collapsed into alcoholism and despair, returns one night to his small hometown with plans to take his life. At the final moment, he is magically granted one more day with his departed mother, Posey Benetto, who illuminates the secrets of both their lives and shows him a way to redemption.
154) The Honeys
Author
Publisher
PUSH
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Mars has always been the lesser twin, the shadow to his sister Caroline's radiance. But when Caroline dies under horrific circumstances, Mars is propelled to learn all he can about his once-inseparable sister who'd grown tragically distant. Mars's genderfluidity means he's often excluded from the traditions--and expectations--of his politically-connected family. This includes attendance at the prestigious Aspen Conservancy Summer Academy where his...
155) After death
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Michael Mace, head of security at a top-secret research facility, opens his eyes in a makeshift morgue twenty-four hours following an event in which everyone perished-including him and his best friend, Shelby Shrewsberry. Having awakened with an extraordinary ability unlike anything he-or anyone else-has ever imagined, Michael is capable of being as elusive as a ghost. He sets out to honor his late friend by helping Nina Dozier and her son, John,...
156) Burden of proof
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Ethan missed the chance to save his brother's life. When his brother's widow reveals that she and her husband were involved in a legal case that threatens the global power structure, Ethan must face his past and join the search for answers to discover how to redeem his future.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Follow the angelic messengers as they comfort and gently guide unsuspecting people through the trials of a secular world. Join the novice, Monica, as she adapts to her appointed missions with the aid of her mentor and supervisor Tess.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Follow the angelic messengers as they comfort and gently guide unsuspecting people through the trials of a secular world. Join the novice, Monica (Roma Downey), as she adapts to her appointed missions with the aid of her mentor and supervisor Tess (Della Reese). Along with Andrew (John Dye), the compassionate Angel of Death and caseworker, the three integrate the love of God into everything they do.
159) Strange but true
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A family is caught in a web of lies, fears, and suspense after the ex-girlfriend of their deceased son appears five years after his death and tells them she is carrying his child.
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
What happens when the world's greatest literary icon dies before she finishes the final book in her best-selling series? And what happens when she leaves that book in the hands of her unstable, neurotic daughter, who swears she's not a real writer? Sara Grayson is a thirty-two-year-old greeting card writer about to land the toughest assignment of her life. Three weeks after the death of her mother--a world-famous suspense novelist--Sara learns that...
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