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Series
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
On Valentine's Day, four members of the Coverdale family were murdered in the space of fifteen minutes. Their housekeeper, Eunice Parchman, shot them one by one in the blue light of a televised performance of Don Giovanni. When the police arrest Miss Parchman two weeks later, they discover a second tragedy: the key to the Valentine's Day massacre, a private humiliation Eunice Parchman has guarded all her life.
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Language
English
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In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting for fate to find her. The Farrow women are known for their thriving flower farm--and the mysterious curse that has plagued their family line. The whole town remembers the madness that led to Susanna Farrow's disappearance, leaving June to be raised by her grandmother and haunted by rumors. It's been a year since June started seeing and hearing things that weren't there. Faint...
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
At age ninety-two, Tish Darling is the matriarch and protector of what's left of the Darling family fortune, including the decades-old beach house, Riptide. Located on the crook of Cape Cod, it's a place she once loved but has not returned to in decades, since a tragic family accident one perfect summer day. Still, she is determined to keep Riptide in the family. Even if that means going back there on the cusp of her granddaughter's wedding. Even...
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Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Margie Robineau, fighting for her family's long-held allotment land, uncovers events connected to a long-ago escape plan, and the burial--at once figurative and painfully real--of not one crime but two. While Margie pieces the facts together, Dale Ann is confronted by her own tightly held secrets and the truth that the long ago and the now are all indelibly linked, no matter how much we try to forget.
25) Hard girls
Author
Series
Jane and Lila Pool volume 1
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Jane Pool likes her safe, suburban existence just fine. She has a house, a family, (an infuriating mother-in-law,) and a quiet-if-unfulfilling administrative job at the local college. Everything is wonderfully, numbingly normal. Yet Jane remains haunted by her past: her mercurial, absent mother, her parents’ secrets, and the act of violence that transformed her life. When her estranged twin, Lila, makes contact, claiming to know where their mother...
26) Wait for dark
Author
Publisher
Kiersten Modglin
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The Ashleys are determined to build a future detached from the issues in their pasts, and it seems to be working. They're happily married. In love. Established in their dream careers. Closer than ever to being debt-free. Soon, they meet her. She's rich. Powerful. Single-minded in her goals. She is not used to being told no. If they don't do exactly what she wants, the ramifications of their secrets being exposed are endless. In a battle of wits against...
27) The whispers
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Language
English
Description
The Loverlys sit by the hospital bed of their young son who is in a coma after falling from his bedroom window in the middle of the night; his mother, Whitney, will not speak to anyone. Back home, their friends and neighbors are left in shock, each confronting their own role in the events that led up to what happened that terrible night: the warm, altruistic Parks who are the Loverlys' best friends; the young, ambitious Goldsmiths who are struggling...
Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A DNA test tells you who you come from, not who you are. All her life, Summer Sutherland felt like the missing piece in a puzzle, left out and looking for the place she truly belongs. And when an at-home DNA test reveals her selfish mother and well-meaning grandfather lied about her father, Summer sets out to discover the truth. Her new instant family comes with two half sisters: one who accepts her with open arms, the other resistant to the stranger...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 1964, when Jaime Sonoro, Mexico's most renowned actor and singer, discovers a book telling of the multitude of horrific crimes committed by his ancestors, he must pay for their crimes unless he can uncover the truth about his grandfather, the legendary bandido El Tragabalas, The Bullet Swallower.
30) The cherished
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Jo Lavoie never new her paternal grandmother, and at sixteen never expected to inherit anything from her-- especially not a farmhouse and 190 acres of land. She arrives to find that the tenants are slightly... off. Jo feels something dark and decrepit in the old shack behind the house. And the things that her father used to talk about in his delusions-- Jo is starting to believe they might be real. Her grandmother's letter mentioned responsibilities--...
31) All my secrets
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Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
When her husband's unexpected death bestows his fortune on a male heir, Sylvia tries to marry her daughter off to a wealthy husband to maintain their lifestyle, but is stopped by her mother-in-law, who wants more for her granddaughter.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
At the center of the tale is Silvio, who in his younger years fled the boredom of the village for of travel and adventure, returns to live in a farmer's hovel in the middle of the woods. Much to his family's dismay, Silvio is content with his solitude. But when he attends the wedding of his favorite young cousin, Silvio begins to be drawn back into the complicated life of this small town. As the narration unfolds, we are given an intimate picture...
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English
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When Iris moves to New York City to restart her life, her friend Bobby drags her to an autumn street fair in Little Italy. Among the food stalls, a family-run gelateria catches her eye. She returns the next day and meets Gio, whose uncle is recuperating from a stroke and cannot remember the family's gelato recipe. Sampling the last remaining batch, Iris realizes the recipe is the same as the one her mother makes. Iris offers her services to help re-create...
34) Final word
Author
Series
Wintercon deception volume 1
Publisher
Pixel+Ink
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Hope Smith can't stand rich people--the dictionary magnate family the Wintertons most of all. Not since she and her twin brother, Gordon, learned that their dad was one. So when Gordon enters the family into the Winterton's charity spelling bee, Hope wants nothing to do with it. But with their mom losing her job and the family facing eviction from the motel where they live, they desperately need the money, and it looks like Hope doesn't have much...
Author
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
It's not just Ellora Lockwood's home that's being emptied as she prepares to sell-- her heart seems to be empty too. Since the disappearance of her beloved Grandma June and separating from her husband, Alex, Ellora has felt adrift. When Alex sends her an invitation to teach history at a summer program at Alnwick Castle in England, he sends her information about the location of a medieval manuscript that was her grandmother's obsession before she vanished....
Author
Publisher
Dutotn
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Sara Marsala barely knows who she is anymore after the failure of her business and marriage. On top of that, her beloved great-aunt Rosie passes away, leaving Sara bereft with grief. But Aunt Rosie's death also opens an escape from her life and a window into the past by way of a plane ticket to Sicily, a deed to a possibly valuable plot of land, and a bombshell family secret. Rosie believes Sara's great-grandmother Serafina, the family matriarch who...
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Caught up in a criminal enterprise, Ashley and her young daughter turn to her estranged father, Matt, for help. Retired and living a beach bum's life in The Caymans, her dad's secret past is revealed as the Mob tracks them down on the island.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Remy Wadia left India for the United States long ago, carrying his resentment of his mother with him. He has now returned to Bombay to adopt a baby--and to see his elderly mother for the first time in several years. Discovering that she is in the hospital, has stopped talking, and seems to have given up on life, he is struck with guilt for not realizing just how sick she has become. His unexpected appearance and assiduous attention revives her and...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Nicole Oruwari has the perfect life: a handsome husband; a palatial house in the heart of glittering Lagos, Nigeria; and a glamorous group of friends. She left gloomy London and a troubled family past behind for sunny, moneyed Lagos, becoming partof the Nigerwives--a community of foreign women married to Nigerian men. But when Nicole disappears without a trace after a boat trip, the cracks in her so-called perfect life start to show. As...
40) Night's edge
Author
Publisher
Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
I'm always careful not to disturb mom. A rude awakening can definitely set her off, especially if she wakes up hungry. I can't forget what she is. What she could do to me." Having a mom like Izzy meant Mia had to grow up fast. No extracurricular activities, no inviting friends over, and definitely no dating. The most important rule: tell no one of Izzy's hunger - the one only blood can satisfy. But Mia is tired of being her mother's keeper. She's...
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