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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When Annie Brown, a fun-loving woman, suddenly dies, her husband, best friend, and her children all struggle to find ways to go on after the loss of the woman who was the center of their lives, and who made life happy, fun, and secure. Her husband is overwhelmed with four children to raise, and turns to his teenage daughter for help, and to an old girlfriend for solace. Annie's best friend struggles again with opioid addiction, having depended on...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
One rainy night fifteen years ago, a knock at the door changed Liss Kehoe's life forever. On that night, Ashley Hay stood on Liss's front porch and handed over her brand-new baby Callan. She was never seen or heard from again. Since then, Liss has raised Callan as her own, and loves him as fiercely as any mother would. But in the back of her mind, she's always wondered whether Ashley is still out there somewhere--and feared what might happen if she...
Author
Series
Blessings novel volume 11
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
As Bernadine Brown and Malachi July prepare for their upcoming wedding, Amari's birth mother comes to Henry Adams, Kansas, with the hope of spending Christmas with her son.
Author
Series
Mitford years volume 4
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In Mitford, the little town with a big heart, Father Tim and his wife are pondering retirement, a brash new mayoral candidate is calling for aggressive development, a suspicious realtor with plans for a health spa is eyeing the beloved house on the hill, and worst of all, the Sweet Stuff Bakery may be closing.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When 12-year-old Dory Byrne's pop left New York City's Lower East Side to fight Hitler, he promised her and her brothers that they'd be safe. Like he always said, "the neighborhood will give you what you need." There's the lady from the bakery, who saves them leftover crullers. The kind landlord who checks in on them. And every Thursday night, the Byrnes enjoy a free bowl of seafood stew at Mr. Caputo's restaurant. . . which is where Dory learns about...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Many Americans have no idea how badly our largest, Democrat-run cities have deteriorated. We've been complacent for far too long, assuming that the craziest elements of the radical Left would stay confined to the East and West coasts. But crime, drug addiction, homelessness, left-wing school indoctrination, so-called inclusive housing policies, and outrageous taxes don't stay within the big city limits of places like Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland,...
10) Far sector
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The first murder in 500 years. Twenty billion suspects. One Hope. The City Enduring, a booming metropolis at the edge of the universe, hasn't experienced a violent crime in generations. The Emotion Exploit has erased its citizens' full range of feelings, allowing three resident races to overlook their turbulent history and coexist peacefully--until now. Rookie Green Lantern Sojourner "Jo" Mullein is still adjusting to her assignmnet to protect this...
11) American spirits
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Three interlocking stories focusing on the residents of a town called Sam Dent, the undercurrent of the Trump movement in America, and a series of local tragedies. A husband sells property to a mysterious, temperamental stranger, and is hounded on social media when he publicly questions the man's character. A couple grows concerned when an enigmatic family moves next door, and the children start sneaking over to beg for help. Two dangerous criminals...
Author
Series
Cameron Winter volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cameron Winter is known for having a sense about crime. His background as a spy trained his mind--and his body--for action, and his current role as an English professor gives him a sharp understanding of human nature. But beyond that, he was born with a "strange habit of mind"--the ability to recreate detailed crime scenes in his imagination and dissect the motives and encounters that produced them. And after reading a puzzling news story about a...
Author
Publisher
Nodin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This collection takes its title from the introductory essay, in which the author describes the house where he and his wife, Hilary, have lived for more than thirty years, near a parkland corridor running for several miles on the western edge of Minneapolis. The essays that follow describe day-to-day events at home-the seasons, the sky, the garden, the passing deer, the trees, the birds, and the sounds of the night-and forays into town to farmers'...
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