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1) Bear
Author
Pub. Date
2024
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Summary
They were sisters and they would last past the end of time. Sam and Elena dream of another life. On the island off the coast of Washington where they were born and raised, they and their mother struggle to survive. Sam works on the ferry that delivers wealthy mainlanders to their vacation homes while Elena bartends at the local golf club, but even together they can't earn enough to get by, stirring their frustration about the limits that shape their...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Summary
"Darcy Gray is a successful influencer with her blog, The Gray Zone, trusted by more than a million followers for her integrity and taste. At forty-two, she has the life she wants in many ways. Darcy and her husband, department store magnate Charles Gray, are a power couple in Manhattan and on the international stage. Their beloved twin daughters are each enjoying their junior year abroad, Penny in Hong Kong and Zoe at the Sorbonne in Paris. To celebrate...
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"[A] story of sisterhood, healing, and the meaning of home. A hidden past isn't past at all. Violet Figg and her sister Trudy have lived a quiet life in Sugar Bend, Alabama, since a night forty years ago that stole Trudy's voice and cemented Violet's role as her sister's fierce and loyal protector. Now Trudy spends her days making sculptures from found objects and speaking through notes written on scraps of paper, while Violet runs their art shop,...
4) Rain
Author
Series
(Virginia C.).Hudson family volume 1
Summary
Rain grew up in the ghettos, but when she is sent to live with her biological parents, she is also out of place in this world of wealth and privilege. This is the first in a thrilling new series by bestselling author V.C. Andrews.
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"Eliza Bontrager and Jesse Ebersol have fallen in love and are determined to marry, despite the belief of their Amish community and respective families that there's a hidden curse-one that only shows up when an Ebersol and Bontrager marry. Before the ceremony on the day of the wedding, Eliza's great-aunt Rose gives her a family heirloom quilt and tells her that she may use it to change one event in the past. Eliza appreciates the woman's heart, but...
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Series
(Virginia C.).Hudson family volume 4
Pub. Date
c2001
Summary
After her aunt suddenly dies, sixteen-year-old Summer learns about the Hudson family secrets and discovers that both she and her cousin Harley are in grave danger.
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Series
De Beers family volume 4
Pub. Date
2003
Summary
Grace Houston, an only child, finds her world torn apart by the death of her father and her mother's remarriage to Kirby Scott, a scheming fortune hunter with his eye on vulnerable and innocent Grace.
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Series
(Virginia C.).Logan family volume 4
Summary
Laura's idyllic days on Cape Cod are slowly poisoned by the whispered rumors about her family, until Robert Royce arrives to drive the shadows away.
9) Familiaris
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Summary
It is spring 1919, and John Sawtelle's imagination has gotten him into trouble, again. Now John and his newlywed wife, Mary, along with their two best friends and their three dogs, are setting off for Wisconsin's northwoods, where they hope to make a fresh start, and, with a little luck, discover what it takes to live a life of meaning, purpose and adventure. But the place they are headed for is far stranger and more perilous than they realize, and...
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Series
Henry Heckelbeck volume 15
Summary
"Henry tries to convince his parents that he is old enough to stay home alone"--
11) Willow
Author
Series
(Virginia C.).Beers family volume 1
Pub. Date
c2002
Summary
Willow De Beers discovers the identity of her birth family and sets out for Palm Beach to see them for herself.
12) Melody
Author
Series
Pub. Date
Ã1996
Summary
Growing up in a hardscrabble West Virginia mining town, Melody Logan often wished that her flighty, movie-star-gorgeous mother, Haille, wasn't so unhappy. But in the warmth of her wonderful father's unwavering love, Melody always felt safe and secure - until a dreadful mining accident tore her from her family's moorings. Melody was still devastated by her father's death when she came home from school to find her mother gaily packing suitcases. Soon...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Summary
While on her family's yearly escape to Cape Cod, Rocky, sandwiched between her half-grown kids and fully aging parents, relives the tenderness and sorrow of a handful of long-ago summers, coming face-to-face with her family's history and future and accepting she can no longer hide her secrets from the people she loves.
Author
Series
(Virginia C.).Logan family volume 3
Pub. Date
c1997
Summary
After losing her mother and step-father in fatal accidents, Melody Logan is settling in with her East coast relations, when the appearance of her mother's picture in a catalog sends her back to California to seek her out.
15) Honey: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2024].
Summary
Meet a woman as tenacious as Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge and as irresistible as Andrew Sean Greer's Arthur Less: Honey Fasinga. Honey, the glamorous daughter of a notorious New Jersey mobster, is returning home at last, ready to reckon with her violent past. As a rebellious teenager, Honey managed to escape her father's circle of influence and reinvent herself in a world of art and beauty, working for a high-end auction house in Los Angeles....
16) Twisted roots
Author
Series
(Virginia C.).Beers family volume 3
Pub. Date
c2002
Summary
Abandoned by her family and living in her mother's shadow, Hannah Eaton escapes to New Orleans and into the arms of Heyden Reynolds, a sexy guitar player, but the dark secrets of her past follow her to the Big Easy.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Summary
"Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the placid plateau of mid-life. But Julia has never navigated the world with the equanimity of her current privileged class. Having nearly derailed herself several times, making desperate bids for the kind of connection that always felt inaccessible to her, she finally feels, at age fifty seven, that she has a firm handle on things. She's unprepared, though,...
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Bibsy Cross volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Summary
When precocious eight-year-old Bisby's library hosts a bike-a-thon to raise money to buy books, she is determined to win the fundraiser.
Author
Series
Bibsy Cross volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Summary
Precocious eight-year-old Bibsy navigates a relationship with a teacher who thinks she talks too much.