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5481) The dark road: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Far away from the Chinese economic miracle ... is a vast rural hinterland, where life goes on much as it has for generations, with one extraordinary difference: "normal" parents are permitted by the state to have only a single child. 'The Dark Road' is the story of one such family ..."--Inside front cover.
5483) The Christmas bus
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
247 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
5484) Hope Springs
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old crafter Jubilee Johnson's assumptions about her vagabond life, her estranged mother, and her idol, television's perfect crafter Arletta Paisley, start to change after Jubi and her grandmother move to a small Texas town.
5485) Braided lives
Author
Pub. Date
[1982]
Physical Desc
443 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows the lives of Jill, a woman whose passionate friendships with other women are her emotional lifeline, and Donna, Jill's flirtatious cousin and closest friend, determined to attach herself to a man for her identity. Set in the 1950s.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mallory Graham is returning home to the heat and vines of Southern California in search of the peace she can't find in the city. Her parents' vineyard is an escape for tourists, but full of mixed memories for Mallory. It may also be the one place she can find the forgiveness she seeks. But can things ever go back to the way they once were--in the days before that long, hot, heartbreaking summer? Growing up, it was Mallory and Kelly. Kelly and Mallory....
5487) Pearl in the mist
Author
Series
Landry family volume 2
Pub. Date
[1994]
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Despite attempts to fit into her newfound family and befriend her twin sister, Ruby continually encounters only evil, bitterness, backstabbing and tragedy.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Julien Azouly, the famous French writer of beautiful romance novels, has stopped believing in love. When his beloved wife, Hélène, dies at the age of thirty-three, leaving him alone to raise their young son, Arthur, he is so devastated that he loses faith in the happier side of life - and along with that his ability to write. But Hélène was clever. Before her death, she made her husband promise to write her thirty-three letters, one for each...
5489) So much owed
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Dr. Richard Buckley returns home to his wife and beloved hometown of Dunderrig, his mind is wearied by the ravages of The Great War. Disillusioned by the horror and pointlessness of battle, his civilian transition strains more than just his state of mind, as his marriage crumbles beneath the weight of duty. Out of the rubble of this doomed relationship, twins James and Juliet arrive-born into an uncertain and hostile new world. Against the backdrop...
Author
Series
New directions volume 03
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The final book in the New Directions series delves into the complexities of a blended Amish family" --
Susan has been in Wyoming long enough to feel at home, but instead she finds herself still struggling to adapt to the dusty landscape, the different customs, and life so far from family. She knows she should be appreciating the big, beautiful log home that Isaac built, but sometimes even that feels like a burden—so much of it to clean, and...
5491) The family
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After the sudden death of her husband, Laura and her 17-year-old daughter are taken in by a local community who offer them a home, but when sinister things start to happen, Laura must find a way to save her daughter from the group's charismatic leader.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
531 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Dirt-poor farmer, Paul Steele, is tested in Nebraska of the 1850's. He and his wife meet adversity head-on and overcome it while teaching their children honesty, loyalty and dedication. As the adults begin to overcome their challenges, the story centers more around their eldest son Simon's friendship with his best friend, Buell. Though these boys have dramatically different personalities, their loyalty to each other is unwavering, and each one takes...
5493) The desert sky before us
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
545 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Billie is released from a correctional facility in Decatur, her sister Rhiannon is there to meet her, even though the two haven't seen each other in months. Painful secrets and numerous unspoken betrayals linger between them--but most agonizing is the sudden passing of their mother, a renowned paleontologist. Rhiannon and Billie must overcome their differences as they set off on a road trip west, following the breadcrumb-trail of their late mother's...
5494) Sweet Carolina
Author
Series
Heroines of the Golden West volume 1
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
223 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traveling to Montana to settle her brother's estate, capable businesswoman Carolina Cantrell finds that the untamed man's world she is now in a challenge to everything in her life--her business sense, her faith, her plans and her heart.
5495) Rich man, poor man
Author
Pub. Date
[1970]
Physical Desc
723 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A novel of two brothers from the end of World War II to the 1960's. The story of Rudolph, Gretchen, and Thomas Jordache, children of an embittered German immigrant. Nurtured on traditional views of American success, each pursues the illusion of happiness in his own way, determined to achieve his "birthright."
5496) Mine
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
359 pages (large print) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tessa was prepared for the hurricane. Lindsey was the storm she didn't see coming. When Tessa Taylor unlocked her husband Ethan's iPad to discover nude photos from a twenty-six-year-old bombshell named Lindsey, her seemingly perfect life came to a screeching halt. With a hurricane barreling toward Florida and Ethan stuck on a business trip, Tessa finds herself imprisoned in her own home with a choice to make: Does she ride out the storm until she...
5497) Plus One: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Christopher Noxon's debut novel Plus One is a comedic take on bread-winning women and caretaking men in contemporary Los Angeles. Alex Sherman-Zicklin is a mid-level marketing executive whose wife's fourteenth attempt at a TV pilot is produced, ordered to series, and awarded an Emmy. Overnight, she's sucked into a mad show-business vortex and he's tasked with managing their new high-profile Hollywood lifestyle. He falls in with a posse of Plus Ones,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Determined to resist the invading Nazis, a Greek Jewish woman's greatest dream has become her worst nightmare, and now she faces an impossible choice whose consequences echo across the generations. 1941--The pounding of Nazi boots on the streets of Salonika, Greece, reverberates in Mathilda Nissim's ears, shaking her large community of Sephardic Jews to its core and altering her life forever. If only her people would rise up and resist their captors....
5499) When we were young
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Three generations of women live and love amidst family secrets and traditions, from Sarah who falls in love with a non-Jewish fisherman in 1942 to Joey in 2019 Florida who considers leaving her fiancé.
"Three generations of women come together in this page-turning debut full of family secrets, heart-wrenching drama, and the promise of second chances. Corfu, 1942: To sixteen-year-old Sarah Batis, the Nazis are a distant danger-of far greater threat...
5500) Moonlit shadows
Author
Series
Secrets of Wayfarers Inn volume 9
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The ladies of the Wayfarers Inn have planned a sweetheart banquet, but everything goes wrong. Meanwhile, Janice suspects her son Stuart has been keeping a very big secret from her.
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