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1) Joy: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When she is only six years old, Allegra Dixon's party-loving mother leaves without so much as a goodbye. Her father, an emotionally distant military officer, is also unable-or unwilling-to care for her. Sent to live like a ghost in her grandparents' joyless home, Allegra finds her only solace through an escape into books. Attending boarding school, life finally takes a turn when she meets a dashing young West Point cadet named Shep Williams. Soon...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
It's autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer, Lucy Barton, who lives down the road in a house by the sea with her husband, William. Together, Lucy and Bob go on walks and talk about their lives, their fears and regrets, and what might have...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
They were sisters and they would last past the end of time. Sam and Elena dream of another life. On the island off the coast of Washington where they were born and raised, they and their mother struggle to survive. Sam works on the ferry that delivers wealthy mainlanders to their vacation homes while Elena bartends at the local golf club, but even together they can't earn enough to get by, stirring their frustration about the limits that shape their...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Darcy Gray's perfect life falls apart when a surprise visit to her husband leads to a horrible shock. She flees to visit her daughter in Paris, where a worldwide health crisis strands her indefinitely. There, she finds refuge with a widowed American engineer and beings to imagine a new life.
Author
Series
It happened in Charleston volume 2
Publisher
Dell Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
It's been twelve years since June Broaden has seen her high school enemy (and secret crush), Ryan Henderson. That's a long time to hold a grudge over some petty feud, but the sharp memory of him dangling a kiss at graduation, then pulling away at the last second, has fueled many angry fantasies since. Now's her chance to get even. Ryan, along with most of her high school class, is back in town for her best friend's wedding, and June is eager to show...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Deep in the heart of London, a photographer walks the streets and captures whatever catches his eye: an old man drinking coffee; a beautiful woman sipping champagne in St. Pancras station; a cloud of moths, disturbed, taking flight across the sky. But with each photo, he captures something unseen by the eye, and as each negative develops—revealing a person he hadn’t met, a danger he hadn’t noticed, and a world he hadn’t seen—he is drawn...
Author
Series
It happened in Charleston volume 1
Publisher
Dell Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Evie Jones has dedicated her life and very limited funds working for Southern Service Paws, the company that matched her with the love of her life: Charlie, a service dog trained to assist with her epilepsy. But it's no secret that the company has been struggling to make ends meet. It's up to her and her longtime mentor and boss to throw the fundraiser of the century to keep the doors open. Then Evie meets Jacob Broaden at a client consultation meeting....
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Brooke Harmon is ready to end her brief affair. Gideon Ross is charming and sexy, but he’s not worth throwing away everything she holds dear. So she breaks it off, hoping Gideon will understand. He doesn’t. Gideon insists that he and Brooke are meant to be together. Finally, he backs off, but not before issuing a promise: he’ll never let her go. Little more than a year later, Brooke wants to believe it’s all behind her. Her family has survived...
Author
Series
Vinland Viking saga volume 3
Publisher
One More Chapter
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Anja has just settled into a new life on the silver shores of Vinland with her beloved, Bjorn. But then a local warrior bursts onto the scene seeking revenge, swearing to spill Viking blood.And so Bjorn must risk everything to save the woman he loves before she steps into the darkness and sets their world ablaze.
Author
Series
Meant to be volume 4
Publisher
Hyperion Avenue
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Ren has never held an iPhone, googled the answer to a question, or followed a crush on social media. What she has done: Read a book or two, or three (okay, hundreds). Taught herself to paint. Built a working wind power system from scratch. But for all the books she’s read, Ren has never found one that’s taught a woman raised on a homestead and off the grid for most of her twenty-two years how to live in the real world. So when she finally achieves...
12) A photo finish
Author
Series
Gold Rush Ranch volume 2
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
What happened between Cole Harding and Violet Eaton in their anonymous online chats was meant to stay buried in the past until it didn't. It's a small world, but Ruby Creek is even smaller, and when Cole reluctantly moves to town for a business venture, he finds Violet working as a jockey on the family ranch, just as tempting as he remembers. Cole had his chance with her, and he blew it. She ghosted him, and he closed himself off further than ever....
Author
Series
Sunrise Cove volume 6
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anna Moore didn't just wake up one day and decide to go on a wild quest-especially since her life no longer lends itself to wild anything-so how in the world does she end up racing against the clock with Owen Harris, a sexy, enigmatic adventurist, to prove her beloved dad innocent of stealing a million-dollar necklace? It's all Wendy's fault. Her older, bossy sister, who's seven months pregnant and on bed rest in their small Lake Tahoe hometown,...
14) 15 summers later
Author
Publisher
Canary Street Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Ava Howell seemed to have it all. She moved away from Emerald Creek, Idaho, married the love of her life and published a bestselling memoir. But she never expected that her husband would feel so betrayed by a secret from her past—the truth of what happened to her and her sister all those years ago—that he’d walk away. Now Ava is back home and trying to move on with the only person who can truly understand.
Author
Series
Artefacts of Ouranos volume 3
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
With the Heart Crown now in her possession, Lor must navigate the dangers of being an heir on the run, knowing more than one power-hungry ruler is after her blood. No stranger to battles, she continues to fight her attraction to the Aurora Prince, understanding this might be the one she finally loses. As the past mixes with the present, Lor starts uncovering the truth about the Artefacts and their influence over Ouranos. And more importantly, whether...
Author
Series
Big shots volume 2
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Tallulah is smart, vivacious, and studying to be a marine biologist. She's also twenty-six and broke. So when Burgess, a battle-scarred hockey veteran and newly single dad, offers her a job as his live-in nanny, she jumps at the opportunity to get paid while living in a super fancy neighborhood and being around Lissa, his cool but introverted tween. Her tween charge isn't the only one who could use some help fitting in, though. According to well,...
17) Golden lord
Author
Series
Dangerous gifts volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
England, 1803. The oldest foster child of the Earl and Countess Tremayne, Caden Tremayne was one of several abandoned children rescued into the fold of the “Tribe of Tremayne,” each bearing a special gift. Now that he is grown, Cade’s superior investigative abilities and talent for preventing violence—or when necessary, executing it—are urgently required by the Home Office. For after an all-too-brief peace, Britain and France are about...
Author
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Harlow Hayes came to Sea Blue Beach, Florida, to hide and heal. Instead she finds a former co-star with a ruined career, and his plucky grandmother who runs the local landmark skating rink. The place has a kind of magic, but when it's threatened for demolition, saving the Starlight might be the second chance everyone needs.
19) Finding you
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
On the outside, twenty-seven-year-old Darcy Larsen is a pretty, put-together professional—but inside she’s falling apart. Eighteen months ago, she lost her fiancé in an accident she still blames herself for. After a successful transplant, her kidney disease seems to be in check, but she worries that her future children—if she has any—will also suffer from the same condition. And she’s overcome with indecision about finding her birth mother,...
20) Unforgiven
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Ex-con Seth Zimmerman has spent the last three years making amends by helping the vulnerable in his former Amish community. Lately, this mission includes calling on Tabitha Yoder, whose divorce from her abusive husband has isolated her from the community. Even though she never comes out of her house to talk to him, Seth knows she watches him from the window while he chops wood, clears her driveway, and drops off food. An uneasy friendship is just...
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