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4221) Sea of lost love
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Celestria always spends her summer holiday at Pendrift Hall, the rambling, shabby Cornish mansion adorned with wisteria and clematis that has been home to the Montague family for generations. In the summer of 1958, the highlight is a lavish ball in honour of Archie Montague's fiftieth birthday, and the beautiful girl, on the cusp of womanhood, is looking forward to practising her flirtation skills on the Wilmotte boys. But what is supposed to be a...
Author
Series
The Etera Chronicles volume The Age of Shadows Book 9
Publisher
Dragon Wings Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
What If...Dark clouds are forming. The Sarnonn rebels, seduced by Hakani's stories of the comparative ease of life at High Rocks, eye Kthama with jealousy.Akar's abduction of Tehya continues to haunt her, affecting her health and Khon'Tor vows to end the problem of his estranged son once and for all.Meanwhile, crimes from the past, long concealed, are now revealed before the High Council with devastating consequences.Wisdom says there is a time to...
Author
Series
The Etera Chronicles volume The Age of Shadows Book 6
Publisher
Dragon Wings Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
What If…Long-held beliefs about their origin, their true relationship with the Sarnonn, and the role of the Ancients are shattered by voices from the past.As Adia deals with the Sarnonn sickness which has spread throughout Kthama, tension builds as Khon'Tor's son demands his place as heir to the leadership of High Rocks.What If…Time is running out, and the High Council must soon decide the course of the People or face inevitable extinction. But...
Author
Series
The Etera Chronicles volume The Age of Shadows Book 8
Publisher
Dragon Wings Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
What If…The mysteries of the ages are finally laid open to the People of High Rocks. Engaging the power of the Aezaitera, the life force of the Great Spirit, Haan and his forty Sarnonn followers open Kthama Minor.As they disturb the dust of thousands of years, the leaders of High Rocks move reverently through the underground chambers until they come upon the legendary Wall of Records—the complete accounting of the sins of the Ancients, the Fathers-of-Us-All....
4225) The regrets: a novel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Reality and dream collide in Amy Bonnaffons's dazzling, darkly playful debut novel about a love affair between the living and the dead. For weeks, Rachel has been noticing the same golden-haired young man sitting at her Brooklyn bus stop, staring off with a melancholy air. When, one day, she finally musters the courage to introduce herself, the chemistry between them is undeniable: Thomas is wise, witty, handsome, mysterious, clearly a kindred spirit....
Author
Series
Missing pieces volume 6
Publisher
Random Acts Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Motherhood adds and subtracts at a feverish pace. More belly laughs and moments of awe. Far less sleep and hardly any self-care. With the toddler years in full effect, Gwen has found herself both overwhelmingly happy and suddenly rudderless. Seeking a work/home balance proves baffling as she watches her identity float off like pollen in a summer breeze. When a family friend seeks out her expertise as a geneticist to solve a long-forgotten cold case,...
Author
Series
Miss Julia series volume 17
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"It's up to Miss Julia to sort out the murder of a hoity-toity newcomer in the latest addition to the "New York Times" bestselling series"--
4229) Bells for Eli: a novel
Author
Publisher
Mercer University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"First cousins Ellison (Eli) Winfield and Adeline (Delia) Green are meant to grow up happily and innocently across the street from one another amid the supposed wholesome values of small-town Green Branch, South Carolina, in the 1960s and 70s. But Eli's tragic accident changes the trajectory of their lives and of those connected to them. Shunned and even tortured by his peers for his disfigurement and frailty, Eli struggles for acceptance in childhood...
4230) Starfish cottage
Author
Series
Shell cove volume 1
Publisher
Meredith Summers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Maddie Montgomery has finally found her slice of heaven - a charming cottage on the sugar-sand beach of Shell Cove, Maine. There's only one problem, the flow of tourists to Shell Cove dried up years ago and now it's up to her to bring them back.
4231) Saltwater Sweets
Author
Series
Shell cove volume Book 3
Publisher
Meredith Summers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Motel owner Gina Gallagher can't believe that her future happiness hinges solely on tracking down her cheating embezzling louse of a husband. He ran off with all their money and now Gina wants her share back. She needs it to start her dream business. But when the P. I. she hired tells her that a mysterious person is looking for her, things get complicated. Her ex stole money from a client. Hopefully that person isn't trying to get his revenge through...
4232) The puzzle bark tree
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Grace Hammond Barnett grew up in the emotionally desolate company of the strangers who were her mother and father. Her only happy memories are of the times spent with her younger sister, Melanie, and Jemma, the warm-hearted family housekeeper who helped fill the void left by Grace's detached, inaccessible parents. Now a mother herself, Grace feels trapped in a sterile marriage to a prominent surgeon and haunted by the recurrent dreams of drowning....
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Lala must deal with a chain of events that have terrible consequences when her petty criminal husband is interrupted in his attempt to rob one of the mansions in their "paradise" home of Baxter Beach, Barbados.
In Baxter's Beach, Barbados, Lala's grandmother Wilma tells her a cautionary tale of the one-armed sister, and what happens to girls who disobey their mothers and go into the Baxter's Tunnels. Now Lala lives on the beach with her husband,...
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A professional African-American woman rediscovers her roots. Maxine McCoy, an executive producer of a TV show in Los Angeles, returns to Philadelphia to check on her grandmother, a jazz singer who brought her up when her mother died. Amid the drugs and crime, Maxine finds an impressive community spirit. By the author of Brothers and Sisters.
4235) For better, for worse
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Near the end of WWI, Stella marries John, an army captain with a shoulder wound and battle fatigue, whom she has spent two months nursing back to health. The joy of a whirlwind romance and wedding soon ends when John is shipped back to the battlefield and killed. Now John's wealthy family wants to meet the common girl who tricked their beloved son into marrying her.
4236) Picture this
Author
Series
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ellie has arrived with her cousin Marsha at the Wayfarer's Inn. During their stay, Thorn proposes to his ex-wife, Beverly, prompting Ellie to offer to plan their wedding, though LuAnn ends up shouldering most of the burden. Ellie and Marsha bicker constantly, until Marsha vanishes, leaving the ladies of the inn to find her and the secret behind the cousins' bizarre behavior.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Kyuri is a heartbreakingly beautiful woman with a hard-won job at a 'room salon', an exclusive bar where she entertains businessmen while they drink. Though she prides herself on her cold, clear-eyed approach to life, an impulsive mistake with a client may come to threaten her livelihood. Her roommate, Miho, is a talented artist who grew up in an orphanage but won a scholarship to study art in New York. Returning to Korea after college, she finds...
Author
Series
South Carolina sunsets volume 2
Publisher
Rachel Hanna
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"He's standing right in front of her...after ten long years. No one knows why Dixie's sone is standing there, on Christmas Day no less. And he doesn't look happy. Dixie is keeping a big secret that will shake up everyone around her. Julies daughter, Colleen, is coming home for a visit, but she's not alone. Janie makes a new friend, but nobody is thrilled about it. Julie and Dawson question their budding relationship. Will they move forward or decide...
Author
Publisher
Amsterdam Publishers
Language
English
Description
"Nina Argenta doesn't want the traditional life of a rural Italian woman. The daughter of a strong-willed midwife, she is determined to define her own destiny. But when her brother emigrates to America, she promises her mother to never leave. When childhood friend Pietro Pante briefly returns to their mountain town, passion between them ignites while Mussolini forces political tensions to rise. Just as their romance deepens, Pietro must leave again...
4240) Yukon Quest
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Language
English
Description
Treasures of the North- Grace Hawkins flees north during the Alaskan gold rush to escape an arranged marriage with a sinister man. Will her new relationship with a young ship owner be threatened when her furious fianc ̌tracks her down? Ashes and Ice- Heartbroken by loss, Karen Pierce is bound by a promise to watch over two young adults in her care.
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