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After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker's entire family is assembling for Nana's 80th birthday party in Nana's crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. Finally back together one last time, when the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours. The family arrives, each of them harboring secrets. Then at the stroke of midnight, as a storm rages, Nana is found dead. And an hour later, the next family member...
Author
Series
Ernest Cunningham volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I'm not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I'm Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I'd killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it's a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let's get started"--...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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While recovering from a traumatic head injury, Polly Schuster struggles to find her way through one chaotic week in July when her entire extended family descends upon the bucolic town of Livingston, Montana for their annual gathering. As she contends with a series of unexpected events and the haunting echoes of her past inconveniently resurfacing as a result of her injury, Polly soon learns that her perception of her family and their life together...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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As the Baxter's make plans to come together for a summer lakeside reunion, the unthinkable happens. When the family rallies together, memories come to light that bring healing and hope during a time when darkness might have the final word. From bestselling author Karen Kingsbury, Coming Home---a stand-alone novel---can serve as either a grand introduction or a beautiful conclusion in the saga of the Baxter Family.
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Series
Miller family volume 4
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Language
English
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During a rumschpringe visit to Niagara Falls, Phoebe Miller meets Eli Riehl, who charms her--and everyone else--with his exceptional storytelling ability. When Phoebe sketches scenes to illustrate one of his tales, Eli encourages her talent, and together they embark on a lofty and unlikely business venture for two young Amish people--writing and illustrating a children's book.
6) Found
Author
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Firstborn volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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John Baxter attempts to fulfill his wife's dying wish to find their firstborn son, actor Dayne Matthews embarks on a personal search for truth, and theater director Katy Hart makes a decision that may completely transform her life.
7) Sisters
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Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Four sisters, a Manhattan brownstone, and a tumultuous year of loss and courage...
SISTERS
Candy is blazing her way through Paris, New York, and Tokyo as fashion’s latest international supermodel…Her sister, Tammy, has a job producing the most successful hit show on TV…In New York, oldest sister Sabrina is an ambitious young lawyer, while Annie is an American in Florence, living for her art...One Fourth of July...
SISTERS
Candy is blazing her way through Paris, New York, and Tokyo as fashion’s latest international supermodel…Her sister, Tammy, has a job producing the most successful hit show on TV…In New York, oldest sister Sabrina is an ambitious young lawyer, while Annie is an American in Florence, living for her art...One Fourth of July...
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Returning home for the annual family reunion, Laura Bartone and her brother, Steve, are stunned by their sister, Caroline, and her allegations of shocking behavior on the part of their mother, and are forced to come to terms with the truth and lies within their family, as well as painful cycle of denial, blame, repression, and forgiveness.
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English
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"Aaron Miller knows a thing or two about loss. He's lost love. Dignity. Second, and even third, chances. Once honored for his heroism, he now lives in near obscurity, working as a handyman in a humble trailer park. But God is a master at finding and redeeming the lost things of life. Unbeknownst to Aaron, someone is searching for him."--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Fresh off the heels of her college graduation, Eleanor's dear granddaughter, Ari, has just ended an engagement that felt less like true love and more like a chore. She longs for a change of scenery and to venture far from her parents' snobbish expectations. Taking advantage of her newfound freedom, she heads to Nantucket to clear her head before graduate school, moving in with her grandmother and taking a job at the local beach camp. As she watches...
13) Lucia in love
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
While attending a family reunion, Lucia encounters a former boyfriend, and when a body turns up on the beach, both become entangled in a mystery.
Author
Series
Christmas novellas volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Henry Rathbone arrives to spend Christmas at the Dreghorn family manor house near Ullswater. He is greeted by the news that the master of the house, Judah Dreghorn has slipped while crossing a stream in the grounds of the estate in the middle of the night, and drowned. Not only this, but Ashton Gower, recently released from prison, is slandering Judah's name, claiming that his family rightfully owns the estate and that the forged deeds for which he...
16) The traitor King
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Darren and his family show up at their family reunion and find their Uncle Will missing, Darren and his sister go in search of clues to discover what happened.
Author
Series
Deadtime stories volume 10
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
During a family reunion, cousins C. T. and Lea are bored until they find home movies hidden in the attic from when their grandfather was a boy, and they discover that cows, pigs, and chickens are not the only creatures living on the family farm.
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