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41) Abide with me
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In the late 1950s, in a small New England town, Reverend Tyler Caskey has suffered a terrible loss and finds it hard to be the person he once was. He struggles to find the right words in his sermons and in his conversations with those facing crises of their own, and to bring his five-year-old daughter, Katherine, out of the silence she has observed in the wake of the family&;s tragedy. Tyler&;s usually patient and kind congregation now questions his...
Author
Language
English
Description
The classic story of Captain Ahab and his obsession with a huge whale, Moby Dick. The whale caused the loss of Ahab's leg years before, leaving Ahab so crazed by his desire to kill the whale that he is prepared to sacrifice his life, the lives of his crew members, and even his ship to find revenge.
43) Behind her eyes
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
David and Adele seem like the ideal pair. He's a successful psychiatrist, she is his picture-perfect wife who adores him. But why is he so controlling? And why is she keeping things hidden? As Louise, David's new secretary, is drawn into their orbit, she uncovers more puzzling questions than answers. The only thing that is crystal clear is that something in this marriage is very, very wrong. But Louise can't guess how wrong--and how far a person might...
44) The dovekeepers
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Language
English
Description
A tale inspired by the tragic first-century massacre of hundreds of Jewish people at Masada presents the stories of a hated daughter, a baker's wife, a girl disguised as a warrior, and a medicine woman who keep doves and secrets while Roman soldiers draw near.
45) The swell
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Kenna Ward takes a surprise trip to Australia to celebrate best-friend Mikki's sudden engagement. However, Mikki is not as excited about the wedding as Kenna had assumed. She agrees to go surfing with Mikki in hopes that it will provide more time to persuade Mikki to return home. At Sorrow Bay, Kenna is introduced to The Tribe, seven surfers who stake their claim on "the swell" and disapprove of outsiders. The rules are simple: tell nobody anything...
46) Ward D
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward. Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital's inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody can ever find out. And as the hours tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening within these tightly secured walls. When patients and staff...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a rural Wiltshire town lies the Devil's Corridor--a haunted road which has witnessed eerie happenings, from unexplained deaths to the sounds of a child crying in the night. In this bucolic stretch of Southwest England famous for its otherworldly sites, nothing is more puzzling than the Olivia Rutherford case. Four girls were driving home. After their car crashed only one--Olivia--was found. What happened to the girls who disappeared? On the twentieth...
48) One of us
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Dr. Sheridan Doyle--a fastidiously groomed and TV-friendly forensic psychologist--is the go-to shrink for the Philadelphia District Attorney's office whenever a twisted killer's mind eludes other experts. But beneath his Armani pinstripes, he's still Danny Doyle, the awkward, terrified, bullied boy from a blue-collar mining family, plagued by panic attacks and haunted by the tragic death of his little sister and mental unraveling of his mother years...
49) The other Mrs
Author
Language
English
Description
Sadie and Will Foust have only just moved their family from bustling Chicago to small-town Maine when their neighbor Morgan Baines is found dead in her home. The murder rocks their tiny coastal island, but no one is more shaken than Sadie. But it's not just Morgan's death that has Sadie on edge. And as the eyes of suspicion turn toward the new family in town, Sadie is drawn deeper into the mystery of what really happened that dark and deadly night....
50) The cove
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Series
Publisher
Storm Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Dear Diary, I saw Daddy do something weird again. I mean, worse than weird. I shouldn't even write it down here in case he finds this. But I need to tell someone. I'm so, so scared. Six months later, after the sudden death of her husband, Christine Harvey would do anything to give her precious children, Molly and Ryan, a fresh start. The huge clifftop house she's hastily purchased has the most breath-taking ocean view she's ever seen. Surely here...
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