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Death benefits: a hideaway novel (Hideaway series #08)
Par Hannah Alexander. 2007
"Ginger Carpenter wants a Hawaiian vacation when her brother gets married. Instead she gets a tropical nightmare with an escaped…
murderer on the loose and on the trail of her two foster nieces. To protect them, Ginger has to rely on Dr. Ray Clyde, a man she never wanted to see again. She's never forgiven him for his interference with her vocation as a foreign missionary. Now, with danger lurking behind every tree, she has to find a way to forget the past and make sure they all have a future...." -- Provided by publisherObedeciendo tus reglas (Tus reglas, mi juego #02)
Par Violeta Boyd. 2018
"Astrid Fissher is a quiet girl who dreams of going unnoticed in her second year of school after her older…
brother, Patrick, suffered at the hands of Mika McFly, a self-centered, deranged, manipulative boy who, along with his two inseparable friends, controls the halls of Jackson thanks to three drastic rules: 1. Don't touch them. 2. Don't look at them. 3. No talking to them. Astrid tries to follow those rules discreetly, because she knows the danger she is in if Mika discovers that she is the sister of the man who dared to confront him. However, one small mistake will uncover their secret and, with it, truths neither of them imagines." -- Translation provided by NLSOne for the blackbird, one for the crow: a novel
Par Olivia Hawker. 2019
Wyoming, 1876. The Bemis and Webber families have relied on each other to survive on the frontier. But then Ernest…
Bemis finds his wife, Cora, in a compromising situation with their neighbor. In one impulsive moment, a man is dead, Ernest is off to prison, and the women left behind are divided by rage and remorse. Some violence and some strong language. 2019A place to call home
Par Lizzie Page. 2022
"Shilling Grange Orphanage, England, 1949. She would do anything to protect the innocent children in her care. But soon they…
could be sent into danger.... When Clara Newton's fiancé died during World War Two, she thought her life was over. But now she looks after orphans who, like her, lost everything during the war. Children like sweet little Peg who won't speak, and Joyce whose body was scarred by polio. Clara loves them all dearly, even though life as a housemother can be lonely--especially now that Ivor, a D-Day war hero with dark brown eyes who once helped with the children, has disappeared.... But then Clara receives some terrible news. The orphanage is going to be sold and the children sent far away. Joyce and Peg will be taken to a notorious home for disabled children. The others will be sent to Australia, where Clara fears they will be mistreated by unknown families. Any day now, the children could lose everything she worked so hard to provide.... With wealthy buyers lined up to purchase Shilling Grange and a ship already docked waiting to carry the children away, Clara is desperate. She must find loving new homes for them quickly, but time is running out.... Can she save the orphans before they lose everything all over again? And even if Ivor returns when she needs him the most, will it be too late?" -- Provided by publisherThe night of many endings: A Novel
Par Melissa Payne. 2021
"Orphaned at a young age and witness to her brother's decline into addiction, Nora Martinez has every excuse to question…
the fairness of life. Instead, the openhearted librarian in the small Colorado community of Silver Ridge sees only promise. She holds on to the hope that she'll be reunited with her missing brother and does what she can at the town library. It's her home away from home, but it's also a sanctuary for others who, like her brother, could use a second chance. There's Marlene, an elderly loner who believes that, apart from her husband, there's little good left in the world; Jasmine, a troubled teen; Lewis, a homeless man with lost hope and one last wish; and Vlado, the security guard who loves a good book and, from afar, Nora. As a winter storm buries Silver Ridge, this collection of lonely hearts takes shelter in the library. They'll discover more about each other, and themselves, than they ever knew-and Nora will be forced to question her brother's disappearance in ways she never could have imagined. No matter how stranded in life they feel, this fateful night could be the new beginning they didn't think was possible." -- Provided by publisherA road through the mountains
Par Elizabeth McGregor. 2004
Lingering in a coma after a car accident, gifted painter Anna Russell subconsciously fights for survival to reclaim a life…
and love she thought were lost to her. Anna's mother, Grace contacts David Mortimer, Anna's one time lover, to inform him that he is the father of ten-year-old Rachel. He learns that she has a form of autism known as Asperger's syndrome. David finds a way to be in their lives and bridge the distance between the three of them. Adult. UnratedHaven
Par Sherry Gomes. 2021
Elizabeth Bennett is seeking healing after her emotionally abusive, unscrupulous ex-husband used his family's political influence to gain sole custody…
of their daughter--on the basis that Elizabeth is blind. Michael Kelly's grief for his wife is fresh as when he lost her three years ago, but he focuses on his love for the son he is now raising alone. A good man, a good father, and a good pastor to the community, he deeply longs for companionship and love. These two people, nearly broken by disaster, meet on a snowy night that will change their lives. AdultPlan B (Liaden universe #04)
Par Sharon Lee. 2007
"Val Con yos'Phelium is a fugitive. The heir of Clan Korval is wanted by the covert Liaden agency known as…
the Department of the Interior, whose rulers have declared unofficial war against the entire clan. With only his love, Miri Robertson, by his side, Val Con plans a desperate gamble by forming an alliance with Clan Erob on the planet where Miri was born. But Val Con's cousin, Shan yos'Galan, can't wait for help that may never arrive. With enemy agents closing in, he invokes Plan B-setting in motion a series of events that will have dire consequences not only for him and his life-mate Priscilla Mendoza, but for all of Liad." -- Provided by publisherOn borrowed wings: a novel
Par Chandra Prasad. 2007
Adele Pietra is to marry a quarryman from the Stony Creek mine, but when her brother, Charles dies, she sees…
a chance to change her life. She enrolls as Charles at Yale, assuming his identity and gender, as a way to leave behind her mother's expectations and limitations of her provincial Connecticut townThe curse of the big water
Par Peter Georgas. 2016
The Fischer Art Center's PR director is caught up in a murder after putting his job on hold to write…
a history of the Fischer's reclusive benefactors. Adult. Some descriptions of sex. Some strong language. Some violencePoeta chileno
Par Alejandro Zambra. 2020
Gonzalo is a wannabe poet and a wannabe father of Vicente, a boy addicted to cat food who refuses to…
go to college. He dreams of also becoming a poet in a country famous for poetry, despite his lonely mother Carla and mediocre father Leon's advice. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. Spanish language. 2020Miss Mole (A Virago modern classic)
Par E. H Young. 1930
I.O.U (Jenny Cain mystery #07)
Par Nancy Pickard. 1991
"Pickard's sixth Jenny Cain mystery and first Pocket Books hardcover, Bum Steer, was widely acclaimed by critics and readers alike.…
Now, in I.O.U., Jenny explores her own family's unsettling, mysterious past, beginning with her mother's death--was it murder?" -- GoodreadsSummer love: a novel
Par Nancy Thayer. 2022
"When four strangers rent bargain-basement rooms in an old hotel near the beach, they embark on the summer of their…
lives. First there's Ariel Spencer, who has big dreams of becoming a writer and is looking for inspiration in Nantucket's high society. Her new friend Sheila Murphy is a good Catholic girl from Ohio whose desire for adventure is often shadowed by her apprehension. Then there's small-town Missourian Wyatt Smith, who's immediately taken with Ariel. The last of the four, Nick Volkov, is looking to make a name for himself and have a blast along the way. Despite their differences, the four bond over trips to the beach, Wednesday-night dinners, and everything that Nantucket has to offer. But venturing out on their own for the first time, with all its adventure and risks, could change the course of their lives. Twenty-six years after that amazing summer, Ariel, Sheila, Wyatt, and Nick reunite at the hotel where they first met. Now it's called The Lighthouse and Nick owns the entire operation with his wife and daughter. Ariel and Wyatt, married for decades, arrive with their son, and Sheila's back too, with her daughter by her side. Life hasn't exactly worked out the way they had all hoped. Ariel's dreams have since faded and been pushed aside, but she's determined to rediscover the passion she once had. Nick has the money and reputation of a successful businessman, but is it everything he had hoped for? And Sheila has never been able to shake the secret she's kept since that summer. Being back together again will mean confronting the past and finding themselves. Meanwhile, the next generation discovers Nantucket: Their children explore the island together, experiencing love and heartbreak and forging lifelong bonds, just as their parents did all those years ago. It's sure to be one unforgettable reunion." -- Provided by publisherHistoria de una trenza (Narrativa (Editorial Lumen))
Par Anne Tyler. 2022
"The Garrett family falls apart over the decades. Beginning in 1959, Mercy would rather be creating art than keeping house…
for her husband, Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common. Their youngest, David, is intent on escaping his family's orbit, for reasons none of them understands." -- Provided by NLSMissing
Par Alberto Fuguet. 2016
"For years Alberto Fuguet listened to vague or elusive stories about the whereabouts of his uncle Carlos, who one day…
just disappeared from the family circle. With the vague hint that he might be lost in the United States, the nephew, now a renowned writer, began an investigation in which he mixed facts and imaginings, intuitions and memories. |Missing|, the book that records everything, is not so much a thriller, since the uncle soon appears and his voice takes over the novel, but a captivating autobiographical inquiry and an exploration into the human will to disappear, into the drifts of failure. A journey down the unpaved roads of the American dream. This edition includes an afterword recounting the behind-the-scenes of the novel and some journalistic farce surrounding its appearance." -- Translation provided by NLSGreenwood: A Novel
Par Michael Christie. 2019
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEA CBC BOOKS "BEST CANADIAN FICTION" TITLE OF THE YEARNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the award-winning author…
of If I Fall, If I Die comes a propulsive, multigenerational family story, in which the unexpected legacies of a remote island off the coast of British Columbia will link the fates of five people over a hundred years. Cloud Atlas meets The Overstory in this ingenious nested-ring epic set against the devastation of the natural world.They come for the trees. It's 2038 and Jacinda (Jake) Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich-eco-tourists in one of the world's last remaining forests. It's 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, sprawled on his back after a workplace fall and facing the possibility of his own death. It's 1974 and Willow Greenwood is just out of jail for one of her environmental protests: attempts at atonement for the sins of her father's once vast and rapacious timber empire. It's 1934 and Everett Greenwood is a Depression-era drifter who saves an abandoned infant, only to find himself tangled up in the web of a crime, secrets, and betrayal that will cling to his family for decades. And throughout, there are trees: a steady, silent pulse thrumming beneath Christie's effortless sentences, working as a guiding metaphor for withering, weathering, and survival. Transporting, beautifully written, and brilliantly structured like the nested growth rings of a tree, Greenwood reveals the knot of lies, omissions, and half-truths that exists at the root of every family's origin story. It is a magnificent novel of greed, sacrifice, love, and the ties that bind--and the hopeful, impossible task of growing toward the light.Wish me home: a novel
Par Kay Bratt. 2017
"A hungry, stray dog is the last thing Cara Butter needs. Stranded in Georgia with only her backpack and a…
few dwindling dollars, she already has too much baggage. Like her twin sister, Hana, who has broken Cara's heart one too many times. After a lifetime of family troubles, and bouncing from one foster home to another, Cara decides to leave it all behind and strike out alone-on foot. Cara sets off to Florida to see the home of her literary hero, Ernest Hemingway, accompanied only by Hemi, the stray dog who proves to be the perfect travel companion. But the harrowing trip takes unexpected turns as strangers become friends who make her question everything, and Cara finds that as the journey unfolds, so does her life-in ways she could never imagine." -- Provided by publisherA day like this: a novel
Par Kelley McNeil. 2021
"What if everything you've ever loved, ever known, ever believed to be true...just disappeared? Annie Beyers has everything - a…
beautiful house, a loving husband, and an adorable daughter. It's a day like any other when she takes Hannah to the pediatrician...until she wakes hours later from a car accident. When she asks for her daughter, confused doctors tell Annie that Hannah never existed. In fact, nothing after waking from the crash is the same as Annie remembers. Five happy years of her life apparently never happened. Annie's marriage is coming to an end. Now a successful artist living in Manhattan, she's no longer home in their beloved upstate farmhouse. Her long-estranged sister is more like a best friend, and her recently deceased dog is alive and well. With each passing day, Annie's remembered past and unfamiliar present begin to blur. Haunted by visions of Hannah, and with knowledge of things she can't explain, Annie wonders...is everyone lying to her? The search for answers leads Annie down an illuminating path far from home, to reconcile the memories with reality and to discover the truth about the life she's living." -- Provided by publisherTodo es posible
Par Elizabeth Strout. 2017
"A collection of stories of the residents of the small Illinois town of Amgash, the hometown of Lucy from My…
Name Is Lucy Barton. Experiencing more than their fair share of violence, abuse, and general unhappiness, the residents all share a connection to the absent Lucy." -- Provided by NLS