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Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"As the owner of Twisted, Seattle's best salons, Erica knows that the sharpest cuts come from the people we love. She's terrified that she's losing her teen daughter, Summer, to her "other" family, especially to her stepmom, Allison. All it takes to blow up Allison's happy life is one collect call. From prison. Her beloved husband, Peter, has been arrested, leaving Allison pregnant, broke, scared and alone with a toddler. But when her stepdaughter...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"As they do each June, the Foxes have driven the winding roads of Appalachia to drop off their children for a two-week stay at their grandmother's. Here, twelve-year-old Thea can run free and breathe in the smells of pine and fresh bread and Grammie's handmade candles. But as her parents head back to suburban Virginia, they have no idea they're about to cross paths with a ticking time bomb. Back in Kentucky, Thea and her grandmother Lucy both awaken...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
The #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Identity presents a suspenseful new novel of tragedy and trauma, love and family, and the evil that awaits.
As they do each June, the Foxes have driven the winding roads of Appalachia to drop off their children for a two-week stay at their grandmother's. Here, twelve-year-old Thea can run free and breathe in the smells of pine and fresh bread and Grammie's handmade candles. But as her
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Simpatía is set in the Venezuela of Nicolas Maduro amid a mass exodus of the intellectual class who have been leaving their pets behind. Ulises Kan, the protagonist and a movie buff, receives a text message from his wife, Paulina, saying she is leaving the country (and him). Ulises is not heartbroken but liberated by Paulina's departure. Two other events end up disrupting his life even further: the return of Nadine, an unrequited love from the past,...
Author
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"She didn't paint women like the men painted women. Her close friends included Van Gogh, Degas, and Renoir. Paris celebrated her as a sought-after model, until she picked up the brush herself, at a time when art schools refused to accept female students. By the time Suzanne Valadon was 15 years old, she'd been a horse walker, a milliner, a funeral wreath maker, and a circus acrobat, but that was just the beginning of her adventures. Here is her story,...
Author
Series
Seaside saga volume 19
Publisher
Joanne DeMaio
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Hidden by dune grass on the edge of the Barlows' craggy bluff is a stairway to the sea. Depending on the tides, it leads to a tiny secluded beach. But for years, the stairway's been neglected and nearly forgotten. Until now. Until a sudden offer to restore it brings a sea change, both to the stairway itself--and to the man rebuilding it. Conversations. Revelations. Secrets. Desires. All are intimately told in this sacred spot where sea and sky meet....
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024].
Language
English
Description
They last spoke as teens...But on a country road twelve years later, a surprise encounter reunites ornithologist Celia Burke with veterinary surgeon Burnaby Hayes, and they plunge into the most unusual romance of her life. After a decade of marriage, Celia and Burnaby have found a unique and beautiful rhythm. Then tragedy strikes while Celia hunts for the nest of a research hawk near the Snake River. Reeling with grief, she's certain Burnaby won't...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The weight of their family secrets could not have shaped Pearl and Ruby Crenshaw any differently. Ruby's a runner, living in Dallas and only reluctantly talking to their mother, Birdie, when she calls from prison. Pearl is still living in her mother's fixer-upper and finds herself facing a line in the sand: her weight is threatening to kill her. She's hundreds of pounds beyond the point where she can celebrate her curves or benefit from the body...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
After a failed engagement and her mother's battle with cancer, Charlotte Carter's life is finally turning around now that she's landed a dream job teaching music. What she didn't see coming was the imminent closure of the school's music program. She's determined to save it, even if it means getting creative. There's no way she's chalking this up as just another failure in her book of recent embarrassments. Zach Bryant is back in town just long enough...
11) Alice & Jack
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When Alice and Jack first meet, they are bound by a connection so powerful it seems nothing can break it. But a deep trauma from Alice's past causes her to reject Jack, leading them to part ways. Over the years that follow, their lives continue to intersect. Each time, the raw love between them is broken by circumstance, the past, or their own imperfections. Then, just when it seems that their love will finally become tangible, they receive terrible...