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1681) Dinner party
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Kate has taught herself to be careful, to be meticulous. To mark the anniversary of a death in the family, she plans a dinner party - from the fancy table settings to the perfect Baked Alaska waiting in the freezer. Yet by the end of the night, old tensions have flared, the guests have fled, and Kate is spinning out of control. Set between the 1990s and the present day, from a farmhouse in Carlow to Trinity College, Dublin, Dinner Party is a dark,...
1682) Ransom river
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Selected as a jury member during a high-profile murder case, Rory reflects on the accident that ended her affair with a longtime friend while gradually realizing her dangerous connection to an unsolved case. By the Edgar Award-winning author of The Nightmare Thief.
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"No te pierdas este bestseller del New York Times y USA Today, una novela psicológica adictiva con un giro asombroso que tiene a Instagram y a TikTok de cabeza: La empleada, de Freida McFadden. Es perfecta para lectores de Ruth Ware, Lisa Jewell y Verity.
Todos los días limpio la hermosa casa de los Winchester de arriba abajo, recojo a su hija de la escuela y preparo una deliciosa cena para toda la familia antes de irme a comer sola a mi pequeña...
1685) The memory of lemon
Author
Series
Cake therapist volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"The author of The Cake Therapist returns with another sweet and emotional tale featuring Neely, the baker with a knack for finding exactly the right flavor for any occasion... A crisp tang of citrus that is at once poignant and familiar, sharpening the senses and opening the mind to possibilities once known and long forgotten... Claire "Neely" Davis is no ordinary pastry chef. Her flavor combinations aren't just a product of a well-honed palate:...
1687) The secret skin
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Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
The Secret Skin by Wendy N. Wagner is a sawmill gothic that begins with June Vogel's return to Storm Break, her family's estate. Things in the great house aren't what they used to be. Doors slam in the night. Faucets turn on, untouched. Something is always watching, whatever June does. And when her brother returns with his new bride, deceit and betrayal threaten to destroy everything she loves.
1688) The lost melody: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"When concert pianist Vivienne Mourdant's father dies, he leaves to her the care of an adult ward she knew nothing about. The woman is supposedly a patient at Hurstwell Asylum. The woman's portrait is shockingly familiar to Vivienne, so when the asylum claims she was never a patient there, Vivienne is compelled to discover what happened to the figure she remembers from childhood dreams.The longer she lingers in the deep shadows and forgotten towers...
1689) Willful transgressions
Author
Series
Savannah secrets volume 7
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"The last will and testament of Wilhelmina Styles Worthington states that her fortune shall go to her great-granchildren when her last grandchild has passed. With the death of Tommy Two, Willa's grandson, the will has finally been activated, and Magnolia Investigations is hired to confirm who's in...and who's out. Meredith and Julia find themselves at the mercy of not only a complicated will, but a complex family tree. In a tangled web of lies, secrets,...
1690) August
Author
Series
Conspiracy 365. Original series volume 8
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"Stuck in his most horrifying predicament yet, Cal's chances of survival are running out fast. Thanks to unknown attackers, he's lost the Jewel and the Riddle, and now he is buried alive in a coffin. Six feet under. His friends are frantically trying to find him before it's too late. Meanwhile, Gabbi, Cal's comatose sister, has been kidnapped, and he is the prime suspect! The clock is ticking. Any second could be his last." --From the publisher....
Author
Pub. Date
c2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Violet is in love with River, a mysterious seventeen-year-old stranger renting the guest house behind the rotting seaside mansion where Violet lives, but when eerie, grim events begin to happen, Violet recalls her grandmother's frequent warnings about the devil and wonders if River is evil.
1692) Another dawn
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Series
Coleman and Langston series volume 2
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On her wedding day Banner Coleman was a misty-eyed bride -- and a betrayed and jilted woman. The dramatic scene at the altar had shocked the town. It also aroused a storm of emotions -- protective and otherwise -- in Jake Langston. Best friend to Banner's parents and one of the toughest cowhands in Texas, Jake soon found himself in love with Banner and caught in a scandal that could shatter a family. But theirs wasn't the only affair stirring up trouble...
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Series
Emma Griffin FBI mystery volume 7
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
The dark mysteries of Emma's life are ready to be told. Meanwhile, she is playing a dangerous cat and mouse game with a killer.
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Series
Bourbon kings volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
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"When Edward Baldwine is arrested for his father's murder, life for the Baldwine family is thrown into disarray. Tensions at Easterly, the family estate, are already high--the family's bourbon business is hanging on by a thread and Miss Aurora, head of Easterly's kitchen and surrogate mother of the Baldwine children, is in the ICU. Lane Baldwine, the younger and more successful of the Baldwine siblings, has taken control of the Bradford Bourbon Company...
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Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
As children in 1920s Levy, S.C., Maggie and George's idyllic youth was interrupted by the arrival of a mysterious magician, and the dark secret he carries will leave one person dead, a house burned down, and all of their lives forever altered. Though George has lived with his long buried past, he decides, at 80, that it's time to return to South Carolina and face the truth.
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Series
Troy Chance volume 2
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
Freelance writer Troy Chance is snapping photos of the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival ice palace when the ice-cutting machine falls silent. Encased in the ice is the shadowy outline of a body--a man she knows. One of her roommates falls under suspicion, and the media descends. Troy's assigned to write an in-depth feature on the dead man, who, it turns out, was the privileged son of a wealthy Connecticut family who had been playing at a blue collar life...
1698) Tangled roots
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Hannah Ives's sister, Georgina, has some astonishing news. A DNA test has revealed she is part Native American, and Hannah's test has similar results. The link seems to come from their late mother. But how? As Hannah dives into constructing her family tree, she uncovers a heart-breaking love story and a mysterious death, while DNA matching turns up two second cousins, Mai and Nicholas. Hannah and her niece, Julie, are eager to embrace their new relatives...
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"In 1865, Goldie O'Neill was nine years of age when she trekked across the unclaimed American West with her family to form their own Irish catholic Colony. Their new community had dreams of self-governance and prosperity far removed from the anti-Irish sentiment and prejudice of the ruling classes. They soon learned about the extremes of the American West and the ongoing Indian war. A year after their arrival, Goldie blames herself for her sister's...
1700) Lights out
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
When a bloodthirsty supernatural being that lurks in the shadows preys upon her family, a young woman must fight to protect herself, save her younger brother, and uncover a mystery about her family's shadowy past.