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1) Birnam Wood
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
New Zealand's South Island. Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice: on the sides of roads, in forgotten parks, and neglected backyards. For years, the group has struggled to break even. Then Mira stumbles on an answer, a way to finally set the group up...
2) Our fault
Author
Series
Culpable volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Nick and Noah's rocky relationship is struggling through its worst moment, and it seems that nothing can go back to the way it was before. They will have to surmount a new and frightening set of challenges to finally understand if they are really made for each other or if being apart is their only chance to be happy. Love is not always enough, and forgiveness sometimes doesn't fix what's been broken. But can you forget such a strong connection? How...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
None of them would claim to be a particularly good person. But who among them is actually capable of murder? Jen Weinstein and Lauren Parker rule the town of Salcombe, Fire Island every summer. They hold sway on the beach and the tennis court, and are adept at manipulating people to get what they want. Their husbands, Sam and Jason, have summered together on the island since childhood, despite lifelong grudges and numerous secrets. Their one single...
Author
Series
Rivalries volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When Frank Culhane, the wealthy patriarch of one of Texas's most prestigious families, is murdered, Detective Sam Rafferty, a city outsider, is propelled into a tangle of simmering rivalries and forbidden attractions as Frank's second wife and his scorned first wife hold the future of his ranching dynasty in their hands.
5) Ilium
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
She is young and unmoored, with no family and no sense of self or purpose, and longs for a life less boring. When a mysterious older man named Marcus woos her at a party in the very same garden she coveted as a child, it seems less coincidence than salvation. After a whirlwind romance and marriage, Marcus confesses he is dying and enlists her in a mission that offers an identity and a lifestyle surpassing anything she could ever have imagined. Enter...
Author
Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
What would you do if you... were offered an obscene amount of money for your family's ancestral land? For Nalani and her mother, the money that could change their lives--at the sacrifice of everything they believe--is a double edged blade, and they're not sure they can trust the secretive tech billionaire holding it out to them as if it were an olive branch. But what happens when a man with unlimited wealth is given an answer he doesn't want to hear?...
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Sue Parker finds herself in a desperate battle to save her family's struggling business, which is on the brink of collapse due to her father's neglect. When a handsome drifter comes into town she sees him as the only chance to prevent their bar from falling into the hands of a ruthless local tycoon. What starts as a simple plan to save her family, quickly spirals into larceny, lawlessness and deadly consequences.
Author
Series
Walk through England mystery volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Cozies
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Retired San Diego police inspector Rick "Chase" Chasen is still mourning the death of his longtime partner and tries to alleviate his depression by traveling to England for a walking tour of Devon with the Wanderers, a group of fellow Americans. He's eager to catch up with his old friend, a retired librarian, and meet new ones. Their tour guide is new to the company, and the travelers on the tour are excited to see north Devon. Business tycoon Ronald...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Lulu, the bride-to-be, is not in love with her fiance, and her future wealthy in-laws are unkind, but family pressure is pushing her to go through with the ceremony. Her friends Jane and Riva are also unhappy, and the three hatch a plot to steal the wedding gift money and start their lives over. The plot, beginning 10 months before the wedding and counting down to the big day, is breezy and non-demanding. The friends just need to assemble a crew and...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Ride through Rubberwick in your Rolly Royce with Freddie and Peccary! This story collection is full of whimsical illustrations and laugh-out-loud adventures. From solving problems like the mysterious knock-knocking door, to saving the day with a fresh batch of waffle batter, Freddie Parrott knows that he can always count on his loyal butler and best friend, Peccary.
11) Second rite
Author
Series
Filthy rich vampires volume 2
Publisher
Amara, an imprint of Entangled Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Thea Melbourne has a broken heart. A month after her world turned upside down, she's struggling to return to the life she left behind. Her mother is in a coma, she's selling off designer gowns to pay the bills, and her roommates seem to think she's made of glass. But when the vampire who broke her heart shows up at the hospital, she learns a devastating secret. To save the love of his life, Julian pushed her away. Now he has to live with the pain...
12) Master gardener
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Follows Narvel Roth, the meticulous horticulturist of Gracewood Gardens. He is as much devoted to tending the grounds of this beautiful and historic estate, to pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager Mrs. Haverhill. When Mrs. Haverhill demands that he take on her wayward and troubled great-niece Maya as a new apprentice, chaos enters Narvel's spartan existence, unlocking dark secrets from a buried violent past that threaten them all.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
This summer, meet your neighbors. The residents of the exclusive cul-de-sac on Alton Road are entangled in a web of secrets and scandal utterly unknown to the outside world, and even to each other. On the night of the annual Summer block party, there hasbeen a murder. But, who did it and why takes readers back one year earlier, as rivalries and betrayals unfold--discovering that the real danger lies within their own block and nothing--and no one--is...
14) Twisted
Author
Series
Never after volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
She's his diamond in the rough. He's her worst nightmare. Yasmin Karam was raised in prosperity. Daughter to one of the richest men in the world, she's been fortunate to never know strife. When her father falls ill, he has one last wish: to see her married to someone of his choosing. Determined to make his last days his happiest, she agrees. But there's one problem: her heart belongs to someone else. A servant. A street rat. A man who would never...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 2005, scholarship student Rosie Macalister from small-town Western Plains, Ill., is heading back to New Haven, Conn., for her senior year at Yale. When Rosie arrives at the house she shares with four other members of the university's equestrian team, she discovers that she's been assigned a roommate: new recruit Annelise Tattinger. A skilled rider, Annelise's arrival shifts the dynamics in the highly competitive house, causing once unspoken rivalries...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Young heiress Scarlett Lancaster is delighted when her father tells her he hired a famous pop star and former boy band member to play at her eighteenth birthday. But delight becomes utter disappointment when it turns out he wasn't talking about Harry Styles. No, Scarlett's dad hired Tate Ramsey, former lead singer of the band Five Car Pileup, who hasn't been popular for years. Tate, after years of alcohol- and drug-fueled partying, is sober and ready...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Meet Otto and Cecil. Two brothers growing up privileged in the Welsh countryside. They enjoy watching nature shows, playing with their pet pony, impersonating their grandfather...and killing the help. Murder is the family business after all. Downton Abbey, this is not. However, it's not so easy to continue the family legacy with the constant stream of threats and distractions seemingly leaping from the hedgerow. First there is the matter of the veritable...
Author
Series
(Jennifer Lynn).Inheritance games volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Grayson Hawthorne was raised as the heir apparent to his billionaire grandfather, taught from the cradle to put family first. Now the great Tobias Hawthorne is dead and his family disinherited, but some lessons linger. When Grayson's half-sisters find themselves in trouble, he swoops in to do what he does best: take care of the problem--efficiently, effectively, mercilessly. And without getting bogged down in emotional entanglements. Jameson Hawthorne...
Author
Series
House of Trelawney volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A modern English comedy of morals and manners, about a highborn family of outrageous characters, in a story that proves revenge can be sweet. In the months leading up to the Brexit referendum, Ayesha, the beautiful, young secret daughter of the late Enyon Trelawney, has married the much older thuggish banker Tomlinson Sleet with whom she has a young daughter, Stella. Ayesha is busy restoring the once run-down Trelawney Castle in Cornwall, which Sleet...
Author
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Johann Sebastian Bach Smith was immensely rich—and very old. Though his mind was still keen, his body was worn out. His solution was to have surgeons transplant his brain into a new body. The operation was a great success—but the patient was no longer Johann Sebastian Bach Smith. He was now fused with the very vocal personality of his gorgeous, recently deceased secretary, Eunice—with mind-blowing results! Together they must learn to share control...
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