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Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
144 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Artemis Sparke has had it with humans, she heads to the nearby salt marsh to hang out with the birds, plants and mollusks who don't make a big deal of her stutter. The shoreline sanctuary is predictable, unlike her family and friends, and the data in her science journal proves it. But one day that data goes haywire, and her bird friend RT confirms it: the salt marsh is dying. Artemis discovers that the historic hotel where she lives with her...
2042) Dying for a taste
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sally Solari quits her job as an attorney to help her recently widowed father run his restaurant. When her aunt is found murdered and her sous chef is the prime suspect, Sally is determined to clear his name and find the real murderer.
2043) Perla
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
235 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Set in Buenos Aires, "Perla" is a coming-of-age story, based on a recent shocking chapter of Argentine history, about a young woman who makes a devastating discovery about her origins with the help of an enigmatic houseguest.
2044) The sand dog
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
259 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Grandfather had been gone for two years but I never thought it would be an ordinary day he'd come back, like a Monday or a Tuesday; I always knew he'd return across the water, triumphing over a few monsters on the way, I just didn't know when . . . When Azi's grandfather leaves their small Mediterranean island, Azi waits every day for him to return. The arrival of a nesting turtle and a tall sandy dog convinces Azi that it must mean that Grandfather...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sam Wakefield's ancestral home, a decaying mansion built on the edge of a swamp, isn't a place for children. Its labyrinthine halls, built by her mad ancestors, are filled with echoes of the past: ghosts and memories knotted together as one. In the presence of phantoms, it's all Sam can do to disentangle past from present in her daily life. But when her pregnant sister Elizabeth moves in after a fight with her husband, something in the house shifts....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxi, 360 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When young ghostwriter Jenni Clark agrees to pen the memoir of an elderly farm owner, she expects nothing more than the ordinary, quiet tale of a life well-lived by a woman well-loved. But Klara's life has been far from quiet; and as she narrates her story of a family ripped apart by life in the internment camps of Java during World War II, Jenni finds herself forced to face her own ghosts, products of a long-buried, devastating childhood secret"--...
2047) The Noh family
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Chloe Chang travels to Seoul to meet her deceased father's ultra-rich family, but there is a reason why her mom kept her away from the Nohs, and Chloe begins to wonder if her new family's intentions are pure.
2048) A single rose
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
141 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Rose has turned 40, but has barely begun to live. When the Japanese father she never knew dies and she finds herself an orphan, she leaves France for Kyoto to hear the reading of his will. In the days before Haru's last wishes are revealed, his former assistant, Paul, takes Rose on a tour of the temples, gardens and eating places of this unfamiliar city. Initially a reluctant tourist and awkward guest in her late father's home, Rose gradually comes...
2049) The things we don't say
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A beguiling painting holds the secrets of a woman's past and calls into question everything she thought she knew about the man she loved.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 24 cm
Language
Español
Description
Tras la muerte de su querida abuela, una escritora estadounidense viaja a La Habana, donde descubre las raíces de su identidad y desentierra un secreto familiar oculto desde la Revolución. La Habana, 1958. Elisa Pérez, hija de un barón del azúcar, pertenece a la alta sociedad cubana y vive protegida de la creciente inestabilidad del país, hasta que se embarca en un romance clandestino con un apasionado revolucionario. Después del triunfo de...
2051) El ladrón de espadas
Author
Series
39 clues volume 2
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
156 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Amy and Dan Cahill have been located once again, this time in the company of the notoriously unreliable Alistair. Spies report that Amy and Dan seem to be tracking the life of one of the most powerful fighters the world has ever known. If this fearsome warrior was a Cahill, his secrets are sure to be well-guarded.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Someone You Love Is Gone is a beautifully rendered, multi-generational story of secrets and ghosts that haunt a family. A powerful exploration of loss and love, memory and history, family ties and family secrets, and the thin veil between this life and the next.
Simran's mother has died but is not gone. Haunted by her mother's spirit and memories of the past, she struggles to make sense of her world while facing disillusion in her marriage, growing...
2053) Whispers in the mist
Author
Series
A County Clare mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Lisfenora, Ireland, a strange fog has rolled in off the Atlantic. Along with the fog comes tales of Grey Man, a predatory faery of local lore who snatches innocent souls into his deadly gloom. And with the mists come murder. When a teenage boy dies in Detective Sergeant Danny Ahern's arms, Danny finds himself pursuing his own grey man, a killer who becomes more elusive the closer Danny gets to the truth. A mute woman may be the key to solving...
2054) Last girls
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
On a secret compound in the Washington wilderness, Honey Juniper and her sisters are training to hunt, homestead, and protect their own. They think they're prepared for every situation. But when danger strikes from within, putting her sisters at risk, training becomes real life. And only one thing is certain: Nowhere is safe. -- adapted from jacket
2055) The Paris model
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
A stunning novel of love, betrayal and family secrets for all fans of Fiona McIntosh and Natasha Lester. Raised on a vast Australian sheep farm, the beautiful Grace Woods is compelled to travel to tumultuous, postwar Paris in order to start a new life. While working as a glamorous model for Christian Dior, the world's newly acclaimed emperor of fashion, Grace mixes with counts and princesses, authors and artists, diplomats and politicians. Amongst...
2056) Beyond wounded hearts
Author
Series
Wounded hearts volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
447 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After suffering disabling burns during the fall of Richmond, Adelaide Hanover awakens in a hospital alone and destitute, escalating her already stanch hatred for Yankees. When the Union soldier who freed her from the rubble begins paying her visits, she wants nothing to do with him . . . or his faith. Yet, his persistent kindness penetrates her resolve and forges a much-needed friendship. But after a dangerous man threatens Addie, she flees Richmond,...
2057) The mermaid: in 3D
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hmong
Description
Shan, a mermaid, is sent to assassinate Xuan, a developer who threatens the ecosystem of her race, but ends up falling in love with him instead.
2058) Behind love's wall
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Visit the Grand Hotel of Mackinac Island where Lily, a popular soloist, is questioning her sanity in a journal rediscovered 125 years later. --
2059) Bad fruit
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Bad Fruit is about the difficult, sometimes abusive, relationship between a mother and daughter. As the boundaries of mother love are crossed, universal themes of family, history, and identity help reveal the shattering effects of generational trauma"--
2060) Greater than gold
Author
Series
Secrets of Wayfarers Inn volume 4
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
LuAnn, Janice, and Tess have finally turned an old Ohio hotel, which had served as a stop on the Underground Railroad, into a bed and breakfast. However, a broken elevator marred opening day and local handyman, Thorn, has disappeared. LuAnn discovers a valuable Civil-War era bracelet in Thorn's toolbox, which is a part of a long-ago tale of theft, betrayal, and sacrifice.
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