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A young woman starts having doubts about her dream man in this unsettling thriller from the bestselling author of Girl in Bed Three . Nineteen-year-old Ellen is thrilled to have Jack Bryant as a best friend and roommate. She would be even happier to have him as a boyfriend. Ellen doesn't just love Jack, she loves his entire family--so perfect, so wealthy, so envied by the neighbours. Then, one terrible Saturday morning, Ellen and Jack visit his family...
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Head of Zeus / Vearsa Limited
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2022.
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English
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Three estranged sisters. Six months to come back together. When G eorgie, I ris and N ola's mother died, the sisters made a pact: they would always be there for one another, no matter what. Now, decades later, they can barely stand to be in the same room. As his health declined, their father came up with a plan to bring them back to one another. He stated in his will that before they can claim their inheritance, they must spend six months living together...
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At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from...
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HarperCollins
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[2012]
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English
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The year is 1985, and twenty-two-year-old Galen lives with his emotionally dependent mother in a secluded old house surrounded by a walnut orchard in a suburb of Sacramento. He doesn't know who his father is, his abusive grandfather is dead, and his grandmother, losing her memory, has been shipped off to a nursing home. Galen and his mother survive on the family's trust fund-old money that his aunt, Helen, and seventeen-year-old cousin, Jennifer,...
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Open Road Media
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2015.
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English
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"A wanderer struggles to understand his uncle's downfall six years after a financial catastrophe George Chell has never met a man as witty, as charming, or as brilliant as his uncle. Edward Chell was a financial titan, ruling over a kingdom of profit with an emperor's savage grace--until a stock market crash revealed that everything he had was built on sand. It destroyed both empire and emperor in one fell swoop, and nephew George was cast out into...
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Days of redemption volume 3
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HarperCollins
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[2013]
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English
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Eventide is the riveting conclusion to The Days of Redemption trilogy by Shelley Shepard Gray, celebrated author of tender Christian romance novels set in Amish country. Honest and faithful Elsie Keim falls for her new neighbor, Landon, but she can't bear to tell him the truth: She's going blind. Landon is enamored with Elsie. When Elsie's brother Roman steps in and shares the truth of Elsie's disease, Landon is floored. His job is demanding and takes...
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Sourcebooks
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2010.
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English
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Roseflower Creek is a compelling, fast-paced narrative that captivates from the first page to the last. It is beautifully written and sensitively told. Don't miss it! -Haywood Smith, author of Queen Bee of Mimosa Branch and The Red Hat Club "The morning I died it rained. Poured down so hard it washed the blood off my face." It seems everyone in young Lori Jean's life has a secret, but only one secret will cost her everything. A surprising tribute...
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The Permanent Press
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[2015]
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English
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Back home in Wyoming, June used to be a star bronco rider and a honky-tonk queen. Now, at 21, having ridden too many barstools into oblivion, she finds herself at The Pines, an elegant New England mental hospital and rehab center for out-of-control celebrities, eccentric millionaires, and assorted troubled souls.
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Europa Editions
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Winner of the Landerneau Prize for Crime Fiction: "A combination of a South American Western and a noir [with] airs of Faulknerian tragedy" ( Lire ). By the time Rafael is born, the family farm has already gone to hell. Rafael's father has abandoned them. His older twin brothers blame Rafael for their father's departure and exact revenge. Rafael's other sibling is a simpleton whose affections and allegiances change with the shifting winds. And ruling...
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MIRA
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[2012]
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English
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Christmas has never brought out the best in the MacDougal family. Still, year after year they gather together in the Blue Ridge Mountains to try to make the season merry and bright. But this year is an especially strained one, with Shayne's impending divorce, Morwenna's slavish devotion to work and Bobby's reluctance to face what life has to offer. They've never felt less like a family. Then, in the midst of a sibling shouting match, a mysterious...
11) The nest
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A warm, funny and acutely perceptive debut novel about four adult siblings and the fate of the shared inheritance that has shaped their choices and their lives. Every family has its problems. But even among the most troubled, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on an unseasonably cold afternoon in New York City as Melody, Beatrice, and Jack Plumb gather to confront...
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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From the Golden Age mystery author comes "a richly detailed and entertaining romp, with a fascinating resolution and an unconventional and winning sleuth" (Chicago Tribune).
Albert Campion heads to Cambridge as a favor to a friend, whose fiancée is employed by the elderly Faraday family, to investigate the disappearance of her uncle Andrew. What the self-proclaimed "Deputy-Adventurer" finds is foul play of the most heinous kind: murder.
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13) Shooter
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The groundbreaking and widely praised novel about a school shooting, from the acclaimed author of Monster. Multiple narratives, a personal journal, and newspaper and police reports add perspective and pull readers into the story.
"Questions of guilt and innocence drive the plot and stay with the reader," said Hazel Rochman in a starred Booklist review. "Highly readable."
"A haunting story that
...14) Dirty
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MIRA
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[2012]
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English
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I met him at the candy store. He turned and smiled at me and I was surprised enough to smile back. This was not a children's candy store, mind you-this was the kind of place you went to buy expensive imported chocolate truffles for your boss's wife because you felt guilty for having sex with him when you were both at a conference in Milwaukee. Hypothetically speaking, of course. I've been hit on plenty of times, mostly by men with little finesse who...
15) Persuasion
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Persuasion unfolds against the backdrop of early 19th-century England, where societal norms and familial expectations shape the lives of its characters. At the heart of the narrative is Anne Elliot, a woman of quiet strength and discernment. The story begins with a fateful decision: Anne, guided by the counsel of her family, reluctantly breaks off her engagement with the charming and ambitious Captain Frederick Wentworth. Eight years pass, and the...
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Soho Press
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[2011]
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English
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A touching and funny novel of a dysfunctional family and one man's struggle to both get away from them and to hold them close ( Publishers Weekly ). In the summer of 1969, twelve-year-old Seth lives with his unstable mother, Ruth, and his brother and sister in a two-bedroom apartment in New Jersey. His father lives with his new wife in a ten-room houseand has no interest in Seth and his siblings. Seth is dying to escape from his mother's craziness...
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Bestselling British author Patrick Gale casts an empathetic and ferocious eye on the domestic wounds inflicted by families and lovers in this dark comedy. One minute Deborah Curtis's husband, Julian, is alive, a handsome figure leaving their rented house in an African principality, kissing his wife goodbye in the early morning sunshine. The next moment he's dead, the ground shaking in the aftermath of a deafening explosion. Months later, Deborah...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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"A beautifully written, finely wrought, race-to-the-end novel about finding your family, finding a life and finding yourself. Tish Cohen is the next great thing in women's fiction.--- Allison Winn Scotch, New York Times bestselling author of The One That I Want and Time of My Life Just as Delilah's father falls further and further into Alzeimer's, she discovers that he's been harboring a horrible secret for over 15 years, but he no longer remembers...
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Harlequin
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2014.
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English
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Harlequin® Historical brings you three new titles for one great price, available now! This Harlequin® Historical bundle includes Rebel Outlaw by Carol Arens, The Scarlet Gown by Sarah Mallory and Betrayed, Betrothed and Bedded by Juliet Landon. Look for six compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Historical!
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MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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Just five days after they meet, Julie Hanrahan and Dr. Thomas Larkin exchange vows on a moonlit Caribbean beach, the whirlwind conclusion to a romance that's swept her off her feet. Tom is sexy, witty and charming and Julie's sure she's found her Prince Charming.
But not every fairy tale ends happily ever after.
With a workaholic husband, a hostile mother-inlaw and a resentful stepdaughter, the honeymoon doesn't last long. Especially after Julie...
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