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Author
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Haunted by the loss of her parents and twin sister at sea, Henna cloisters herself in a Northeastern village where the snow never stops. When she discovers the body of a young woman at the edge of the forest, she's plunged into the mystery of a centuries-old letter regarding one of the most famous stories of Arctic exploration--the Franklin expedition, which disappeared into the ice in 1845. At the center of the mystery is Franklin's wife, the indomitable...
82) The faces
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
From Tove Ditlevsen, the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, comes The Faces, a searing, haunting novel of a woman on the edge, portrayed with all the vividness of lived experience.Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three, is increasingly haunted by disembodied faces and voices. She is convinced that her husband, already extravagantly unfaithful, will leave her. Most of all, she is scared that she will never...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised--the place that Fabienne helped Agnès escape ten years ago. Now, Agnès is free to tell her story. As children in a war-ravaged, backwater town, they'd built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves--until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agnès on an epic...
Author
Series
Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Firmly established in her new home in the sleepy village of Sawrey, England, Beatrix Potter turns sleuth to investigate the suspicious death of local shepherd Ben Hornby, a kindly man with no apparent enemies.
Author
Series
Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 7
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
1912. The peace of the Lake District is interrupted by the noisy test flights of a new flying machine: the hydroplane-- and Beatrix's friend Grace is receiving anonymous letters that threaten her good name and her plans to marry.
Author
Series
Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When a baby arrives on her doorstep during Sawrey's annual summer fete, Beatrix Potter sets out to discover the truth about the abandoned baby, following her only clue, a scarab ring, to Hawthorn House, a legendary manor reputed to be haunted.
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Ellie Jenkins definitely didn't peak in high school. She was an outsider, an invisible girl with a desperate crush on Mark Wright, a guy who hardly knew her name. Ten years later, she's living in Los Angeles, trying to write a hit show about cool high school kids, when an invitation for her high school reunion arrives. She doesn't want to go, but her writing has been suffering and her boss makes her an ultimatum: go to this reunion or lose her big...
89) Ghosts: a novel
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Nina Dean owns her own apartment, is about to publish her second book, has a great relationship with her ex-boyfriend, and enough friends to keep her social calendar full and her hangovers plentiful. When she downloads a dating app, she does the seemingly impossible: She meets a great guy on her first date. Max is handsome and built like a lumberjack; he has floppy blond hair and a stable job. Nina and Max have chemistry: their conversations are witty...
90) Wyoming heart
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Cort Grier is no ordinary rancher. Despite his vast wealth, he still works the land with his own bare hands, unlike his troublesome new neighbor, Ophelia Dresden. Fiery, beautiful Ophelia infuriates and entrances Cort, awakening feelings he'd thought long buried. But he knows falling for a city girl can lead only to heartbreak. Bestselling author Ophelia hardly expects to meet a man like the ones in her novels. But roguishly handsome Cort is an alpha...
Author
Series
Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
When Beatrix Potter returns to her new hometown of Sawrey after some time away, she finds the village threatened by a mysterious outsider who plans to destroy the pristine shoreline of Lake Windermere by constructing a number of villas.
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
England, 1898. When Evelyn first married the famous novelist William Aubrey, she was dazzled by his brilliance. But their newlywed bliss is brief when William is gripped by writer's block, and he becomes jealous of Evelyn's writing talent. When he commits the ultimate betrayal, stealing a draft of her novel and passing it off as his own, Evelyn decides to write her way out of their unhappy marriage. California, 2006. Abigail always wondered about...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Sara Medlar's home is her refuge and she loves having her niece Kate and dear friend Jack Wyatt together under her roof. The Medlar Three, as they are known, have sworn off getting involved in any more murder investigations. But when Kate stumbles upon a dead body, the Medlar Three are back in the sleuthing game. Kate also has a charming new real estate client with a mysterious past. It doesn't take long to discover that the murder and the new man...
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Contains 3 novelettes. Hannah Swensen of the Cookie Jar in Lake Eden, Minn., discovers her neighbor's head bashed in; Jaine Austen's holiday stay at her parents' home in the Tampa Vistas retirement community is enlivened by the murder of an elderly lothario; and, Maine reporter Lucy Stone investigates a four-year-old boy's disappearance. Includes recipes.
95) A willing murder
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sara Medlar is a household name in romance, with millions of books sold. But lately, retirement has been boring her and she's found herself back in her hometown of Lachlan, Florida, remodeling the grand old mansion she'd admired as a child. It's much too big for her alone, but she'd die before letting anyone in town know that. Then Sara's niece Kate is offered a job in Lachlan - a start in what could be a very successful career in real estate. She...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Jaine's life has been a royal pain since she started penning dialogue for Some Day My Prince Will Come - a cheesy dating show that features bachelorettes competing for the heart of Spencer Dalworth VII, a very distant heir to the British throne. As if fending off golf ball-sized bugs on a sweltering island wasn't tough enough, Jaine must test her patience against an irritable production crew and fierce contestants who will do anything to get their...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Barataria
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Su vida cambia cuando conoce a Jesús, un joven rebelde que se opone pacíficamente a la dominación de Roma, que no hace milagros pero sí ayuda a pobres y prostitutas y que se convierte en líder casi a su pesar. Pero lo que se cuenta aquí no se la historia que ya conocemos sino la de las mujeres en una época en la que la inteligencia, el ingenio y la inquietud, eran propiedad de los hombres. Una reivindicación feminista en una novela en la...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
New York, 1997. As the city's gritty edges are being smoothed into something safer and shinier, two girls meet at a music magazine. Rose--brash and self-possessed--is a staff writer. Charlotte--hesitant, bookish-- is an editor. First wary, then slowly admiring, they recognize in each other an insatiable and previously unmatched ambition. Soon they're inseparable, falling into the kind of friendship that makes you better, makes every day an adventure,...
99) Who's that Earl
Author
Publisher
Lyrical Press/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Miss Jane Quayle excels at invention. How else could the sheltered daughter of an English gentleman create lurid gothic novels so infamous someone wants their author silenced forever? Fortunately, Jane has taken steps to protect herself, first by assuming a pen name, and second, by taking up residence at remote Dunnock Castle, surrounded by rugged scenery that might have been ripped from the pages of one of her books. Her true identity remains a...
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