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Author
Series
Happily Inc volume 6
Language
English
Description
An independent businesswoman and single mother offers support to her neighbor and secret crush during a holiday season shaped by a prickly daughter's pregnancy, a painful secret, difficult past mistakes, and an unexpected second chance at love.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twenty years ago in the dead of night, four seemingly random individuals pulled the ultimate heist and almost walked away with half a million dollars. But by daybreak, their plan had been shot to hell. One of them was in the hospital. One was in jail. One was dead. And one got away with it. Arden Maxwell, the daughter of the man who disappeared all those years ago, presumably with the money, after murdering his accomplice, has never reconciled with...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Matthew Keating, a one-time Navy SEAL--and a past president--has always defended his family as staunchly as he has his country. Now those defenses are under attack. A madman abducts Keating's teenage daughter, Melanie--turning every parent's deepest fear into a matter of national security. As the world watches in real time, Keating embarks on a one-man special-ops mission that tests his strengths: as a leader, a warrior, and a father"--
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Working with the Search and Rescue bloodhound team to find missing people, single mother Delia Hopkins anticipates her upcoming nuptials, until a series of unsettling flashbacks threatens to devastate her life and the lives of those she loves.
Author
Series
Coyote Canyon volume 2
Publisher
Mira
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"With her piercings, tattoos and spiky blond hair, Ellen Truesdale doesn't quite fit in with the other folks in Coyote Canyon--and that's just fine with her. She's only here to put her father out of business, as payback for abandoning her when she was young. Either way, she's struggling to keep her rival well-drilling company afloat. And being a single woman in a male-dominated field has started to take a toll. So when Hendrix Durrant steps in to...
Author
Language
English
Description
Years after discovering her father's predatory double life, successful photographer Naomi Bowes struggles to hide her painful past from her fellow residents in a community thousands of miles away, a situation that introduces her to a new relationship and forces her to confront her demons.
8) Two by two
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
"At 32, Russell Green has it all: a stunning wife, a lovable six year-old daughter, a successful career as an advertising executive and an expansive home. He is living the dream, and his marriage to the bewitching Vivian is the center of that. But underneath the shiny surface of this perfect existence, fault lines are beginning to appear, and no one is more surprised than Russ when he finds every aspect of the life he took for granted turned upside...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout returns home to Maycomb to visit her father and struggles with personal and political issues as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to transform the United States in the mid-1950s.
10) The younger wife
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sally Hepworth, the newest breakout star of domestic suspense delivers her next twisty novel about family secrets and lies in The Younger Wife. Stephen Aston is getting married again. The only problem is, he's still married to his first wife, even though she is in a care facility for dementia. But he'll take care of that easily, by divorcing her--even if his adult daughters protest. Tully and Rachel Aston look upon Heather as nothing but an interloper....
12) Don't go
Author
Language
English
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Description
Fleeing home from his military service in Afghanistan when his wife dies in an apparent freak household accident, Dr. Mike Scanlon struggles with the tragedy, his inability to bond with his new baby daughter, and a downsizing in his medical practice.
13) Eileen
Author
Language
English
Description
Dreaming of life in the city while caring for her alcoholic father and working in a 1960s boys' prison, a disturbed young woman is manipulated into committing a psychologically charged crime during the holiday season.
The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father's caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as...
14) Winners: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
When a horrific chairlift accident leaves seventeen year old competitive skier Lily Thomas paralyzed, she must come to grips with the fact that she'll not only be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life, but will never fulfill her lifelong dream of winning Olympic gold. But just as all hope seems lost, Lily meets Teddy, a young man even more badly injured than she, but as doggedly determined to live an enriching life.
15) The last song
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father--a former concert pianist and teacher--moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alientated from her parents, especially her father ... until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. An unforgettable story of love...
Author
Series
Quincy/Rainie volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
When the daughter of FBI Special Agent Pierce Quincy dies suddenly, the death is ruled an accident, until investigator Rainie Conner uncovers evidence that points to a killer with the ability to unleash his victims' innermost fears.
Author
Series
The Sutherland volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After the tragic death of her mother and a long period of isolation under the thumb of a cruel grandfather, young Caroline Brady has little to hope for in her life in the foreboding Southerland mansion. Her only companion, her enigmatic cousin, Simon, may be a wolf in sheep's clothing and is not to be trusted. But when Caroline's estranged father suddenly resurfaces with news of a new wife and stepchildren in Hawaii that she'll finally be allowed...
18) Nervous water
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
Boston attorney Brady Coyne comes face to face with his past when he agrees to assist an aged relative with a sensitive family matter, embarking on a quest to find the man's missing daughter.
19) The Tuscan child
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1944, a wounded British bomber pilot parachuted into German-occupied Tuscany and found refuge in the arms of Sofia Bartoli. Nearly thirty years later his estranged daughter finds a letter addressed to Sofia and embarks on a journey to Tuscany to discover his secrets and a past some would prefer be left undisturbed"--
20) Love walked in
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirty-one-year-old Philadelphia cafe manager Cornelia Brown, who harbors romantic notions about golden-age Hollywood film stars, embarks on a too-good-to-be-true relationship with the debonair Martin Grace.