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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"For the past five years, Ryan Richardson has relived that terrible night. The car door ripping open. The crushing blow to the head. The hands yanking him from the vehicle. His girlfriend Ali's piercing scream as she is taken. With no trace of Ali or the car, a cloud of suspicion hangs over Ryan. But with no proof and a good lawyer, he's never charged, though that doesn't matter to the podcasters and internet trolls. Now, Ryan has changed his last...
3) A good life
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Emma and Agathe are sisters. They were thick as thieves when they were young but have always been as different as can be. Agathe, the younger sister, is disorderly, chaotic, and fiery. Five years older, Emma has always been the more mature sister, the defender, the protector, the worrier. Their relationship as adults is scarred by a tragedy that transformed their happy, ordinary childhoods into something much more complex and challenging. For a long...
Author
Publisher
[Marco Manfre]
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Tells the tale of a once-acclaimed writer-turned recluse who, in his last year, reveals the mistakes and missteps that he has taken over the course of a lifetime. However, the book is more than the great man's narration of his successes and failures, noble deeds and reprehensible acts, times when he soared to great heights and occasions when he plummeted to the trough of despair. It is also a story within a story, that of the unnamed narrator, who,...
Author
Publisher
Bonnie Thies and Robin L. Flanigan
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Climbing Out is the true story of a two-time cancer survivor who decides to climb Mount Kilimanjaro to cope with the sudden death of her husband. Along the way she discovers the healing power of friendship, self-love, and resilience—one step at a time." from https://www.amazon.com/Climbing-Out-Adventure-Rediscovering-After/dp/1733410120
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Language
English
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Description
"Have you ever wanted to change the past and discover the result of choices not taken? Now, in this brilliantly fun novel of what-ifs, missed chances, and new beginnings, Frankie McKenzie discovers what starting over might bring... Despite living firmly in her comfort zone, Frankie McKenzie feels unsettled. She can't help feeling something's missing. Is it a home to call her own? Travel? A more rewarding job? A relationship? Before she can work it...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Thirty-four-year-old Wren Waters believes that if you pay attention, the universe will send you exactly what you need. But her worldview shatters when the universe delivers two life-altering blows she didn't see coming, and all she wants to do is put the whole heartbreaking mess behind her. No one is more surprised than Wren when she discovers that geocaching--the outdoor activity of using GPS to look for hidden objects--is the only thing getting...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Her husband's cheating on her. She hates Boca. Sylvia is mad and she isn't going to take it anymore. She's moving back north, to the city of her dreams--with her best friend, Evie, in tow. Think a screwball comedy featuring a sophisticated Thelma and Louise with martinis in hand . . . When sixty-three-year-old Sylvia finds her husband in bed with the floozy of their Boca retirement community, she's shocked and furious . . . at first. By the time...
9) The gulf
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Ever since Oli found a pamphlet for a remote island commune as a kid, it's all she can think about. Now that she's nearing the end of high school, feeling frustrated with the mounting pressure to choose a career and follow a path she has no interest in, the desire to escape it all has been steadily increasing. Everything comes to a head when Oli's relationship with her best friend goes south and she claps back at a school bully with more than just...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of Tom Perrotta's novel about life in a small town after many of its residents vanished in a Rapture-like event. In the third season, the Garvey and Murphy families come together as they desperately grasp for a system of belief to better explain what defies explanation. The world is crackling with the energy of something big about to happen, a corresponding bookend to the Sudden Departure that sent them all spinning years earlier, bringing...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: avoided by fellow villagers because of the stigma attached to her job and underappreciated by her husband, whose fecklessness has pushed the couple close to the brink of breakup. But just when things couldn't be bleaker, she takes a leap of faith--and in so doing, things start to take a surprising turn for the better"--
12) Sandcastle Inn
Author
Series
Hope Harbor Novel volume 10
Language
English
Description
"Vienna Price never intended to return for more than a passing visit to Oregon and all the bad memories she'd left behind. But when your career tanks, home is where you go to nurse your wounds and chart a new course. Only temporarily, of course -- because as much as she loves her quirky mom, anything more than a short stay would drive them both crazy. A trip to Oregon isn't in Matt Quinn's plans, either, until a perfectly timed appeal for help arrives...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"After a tragic accident claims the life of one of her children, Marie Egide is desperate to carve out a fresh start for her family. With her husband and their three surviving children, Marie travels to New Hampshire, where she plans to sell a family estate and then, just maybe, they'll be able to heal from their grief. Marie's plans are thwarted when she realizes a war veteran known by locals as "the river witch" is living in a cabin on the property,...
14) Beauchamp Hall
Author
Publisher
Plaza & Janés
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"La esperanzadora historia de una mujer que toma una decisión que cambiará su mundo para siempre y se embarca en una aventura extraordinaria. Winona Farmington soñaba con mudarse a Nueva York y dedicarse al mundo editorial, pero la vida la obligó a abandonar los estudios para volver a su pequeña ciudad del estado de Michigan y cuidar a su madre enferma. Años más tarde, Winnie se consuela viendo Beauchamp Hall, un drama de época ambientado...
15) For a lifetime
Author
Series
Timeless volume 3
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Grace and Hope are identical twin sisters born with the ability to time-cross together between 1692 Salem, Massachusetts, and 1912 New York City. As their twenty-fifth birthday approaches, they will have to choose one life to keep and one to leave behind forever, no matter the cost.
Author
Publisher
[Melissa Whitney]
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Can distance bring breaking hearts back together? For Colm and Evie, they hope that the miles between him in Costa Rica and she in California can help them find them each other again. Colm and Evie never made sense. She's a pumpkin spice latte. He's a large black coffee. But for the last five years they've been utterly in love. That is until a tragic night a year ago. Now Evie's big smile no longer reaches her eyes and far too often the seat beside...
17) Another life
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Angie DeSaria has spent years of her life trying to have a child. Now, her marriage has crumbled under the strain. Adrift and alone, she returns to her childhood home, a small coastal town in the Pacific Northwest, to help try and rescue the beloved, failing family business. Lauren Ribido is a senior in high school. She dreams of an Ivy League education, escaping her hometown and her troubled mother. When Angie hires Lauren to work at the restaurant,...
18) One moment
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The day Scarlett dies should have been one of the most important of her life. It doesn't feel fair that she'll never have the chance to fulfil her dreams. And now, she's still here wherever here is watching the ripple effect of her death on the lives of those she loved the most. Evie cannot contemplate her life without Scarlett, and she certainly cannot forgive Nate, the man she blames for her best friend's death. But Nate keeps popping up when she...
19) JADED: a novel
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Jade has molded herself to fit in at her fancy London law firm and is perfectly in control of her life. Until one terrible night after a work gala reveals that everything can easily come tumbling down.