Dallas' novel traces the experiences of three generations of women who live in a Victorian Colorado house, from Nealie, a hired girl torn between two suitors; to motherless Pearl, whose grieving father sabotages her happiness; to proud...
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Author:Dallas, SandraSummary: - Author:Heitzmann, KristenSummary:
Morgan Spencer is shattered in the wake of his wife's death. After two years of mourning on his brother's ranch, Morgan meets Quinn Riley, and hope blossoms that he could love again. But Quinn is fleeing a dangerous man bent on revenge...
- Author:Hoffman, AliceSummary:
Master storyteller Alice Hoffman brings us the conclusion of the Practical Magic series in a spellbinding and enchanting final Owens novel brimming with lyric beauty and vivid characters. The Owens family has been cursed in matters of...
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Author:Oldfield, PamelaSummary:A gripping murder mystery set in Henley-on-Thames - 1912, Henley-on-Thames. Twenty-four-year old Marianne Lefevre is pleased to be taken on as a governess in the affluent Matlowe household. The young twins Emmie and Edie are bright and...
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Author:Davids, C. A.Summary:Historian, Zara Black, is far from home, trying to come to terms with her family's past. The unearthing begins with her grandfather who concealed his race to escape the harsh realities of the diamond mines before ultimately changing his...
- Author:Peters, AmandaSummary:
A four-year-old girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that will remain unsolved for nearly fifty years July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the...
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Author:Nazemian, AbdiSummary:Iranian-American Daria and her friends call themselves the Authentics, because they pride themselves on always keeping it real. But Daria soon learns something shocking about her past. Can she figure out how to stay true to herself?
- Author:Hala AlyanSummary:
A rich family story, a personal look at the legacy of war in the Middle East, and an indelible rendering of how we hold on to the people and places we call home. The Nasr family is spread across the globe—Beirut, Brooklyn, Austin, the...
- Author:Klassen, JulieSummary:
Lillian longs to soar beyond her provincial limits. After enjoying London's sophisticated society and the attentions of wealthy suitors, Lilly returns home to help her ailing dad. Determined to resurrect his apothecary business, Lilly...
- Author:Jackson, JoshilynSummary:
Superheroes have always been Leia Birch Briggs' weakness. One tequila-soaked night at a comics convention, the usually level-headed graphic novelist is swept off her barstool by a handsome and anonymous Batman. It turns out the caped...
- Author:Gibson, RachelSummary:
Maddie Dupree's mother was once the other woman in a love triangle with Mick Hennessy's parents. It ended tragically. When Maddie returns to Truly, Wyoming, after a long absence, sparks fly between her and Mick. But can white-hot...
- Author:Lee, FoxgloveSummary:
Every family has its ghosts... It's December 1994 and Sylvie's spending Christmas in a small Canadian town where her father is renovating the creepy old house he grew up in. The mansion is haunted, according to local lore. Townsfolk are...
- Author:Feng, Linda RuiSummary:
A lyrical novel set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution that follows a father's quest to reunite his family before his precocious daughter's momentous birthday, which Garth Greenwell calls "one of the most beautiful...
- Author:Ward, CatrionaSummary:
Sundial is a twisty psychological horror novel perfect for fans of The Push and Girl A, from Catriona Ward, author of The Last House on Needless Street. All Rob ever wanted was a normal life. Nothing like her childhood, growing up in...
- Author:Novak, BrendaSummary:
After the death of her father, Marlow travels to Florida to help her mother settle the family estate. But when her father's will reveals an earth-shattering secret, she finds herself questioning her past, and her future.
- Author:Woods, JanetSummary:
A married woman, pregnant with her sea-captain lover's child, dies giving birth. The child, Serafina Finn, is abandoned to an orphanage and grows up longing to feel that she belongs somewhere. Eighteen years later, her father,...
- Author:Christopher, AdamSummary:
Christmas, Hawkins, 1984. All Chief Jim Hopper wants is to enjoy a quiet first Christmas with Eleven, but his adopted daughter has other plans. Over Hopper’s protests, she pulls a cardboard box marked “New York” out of the basement -...
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Author:Kacer, KathySummary:Sara has never been out of the tiny town of Hope, Ontario, where she has been in an orphanage all her life. After a fire destroys the orphanage, clues about her parentage, a medical certificate and a Star of David, lead her to Germany....
- Author:Haines, CarolynSummary:
In Carolyn Haines's next charming mystery, Southern belle turned PI Sarah Booth Delaney digs into a cold case when a film crew comes to town to research the death of a prominent family's son. Private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney and...
- Author:Yelchin, EugeneSummary:
In this noir mystery middle grade from Newbery Honor author Eugene Yelchin, a boy stumbles upon a secret that jeopardizes American national security. It's 1953 and the Cold War is on. Communism threatens all that the United States...
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