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Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Lucy and her husband, Adam, have been best friends with another couple, Cora and Scott, for years. The four are practically family at this point--they vacation together, co-own a beach cottage, and their young children are inseparable. So Lucy is devastated when, while looking at a colleague's photos of a trip to the Maldives, she spots a picture of Scott, apparently on a luxurious holiday with another woman. Lucy is determined to protect her best...
43) The transition
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Do you or your partner spend more than you earn? Have your credit card debts evolved into collection letters? Has either of you received a court summons? Has either of you considered turning to a life of a crime? You are not alone. We know. We can help. Welcome to the Transition. While taking part in the Transition, you and your partner will spend six months living under the supervision of your mentors, two successful adults of a slightly older generation....
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"On Oklahoma's Big Rock Prairie, a deaf boy finds a body in Pennington Creek. Johnston County Deputy Hannah Bond and Chickasaw Lighthorse Police Sergeant Bill Maytubby find a crime scene where nothing seems to fit-from the dead angler's oversize waders to the kind of fish in his creel. They scour the creekside brush, then hit the road for Texas in a widening search for the killer. On the Big Rock, a towering bearded man is building a limestone replica...
49) 419
Author
Publisher
Pintail
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A car tumbles through darkness down a snowy ravine. A woman without a name walks out of a dust storm in Africa. And in the seething heat of Lagos City, a criminal cartel scours the Internet, looking for victims. Lives intersect. Worlds collide. And it all begins with a single email: 'Dear Sir, I am the daughter of a Nigerian diplomat, and I need your help ... ' At once a chilling thriller about a lonely woman avenging her father's death and an epic...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"With her preacher father in prison for fraud, Elizabeth Yoder's life in the community of Bounti-ful has been painfully uprooted. Mindful of wearing out her welcome with her family, she jumps at the chance to stay with elderly Bridget Lantz while the woman's daughter is away. Elizabeth has secret plans to leave for another Amish community where she might get a fresh start, but here with Bridget, she feels comfortable--until Bridget's strapping grandson,...
51) The impersonator
Author
Series
Roaring twenties ; 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"In 1917, Jessie Carr, fourteen years old and sole heiress to her family's vast fortune, disappeared without a trace. Now, years later, her uncle Oliver Beckett thinks he's found her: a young actress in a vaudeville playhouse is a dead ringer for his missing niece. But when Oliver confronts the girl, he learns he's wrong. Orphaned young, Leah's been acting since she was a toddler. Oliver, never one to miss an opportunity, makes a proposition: with...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Like few novels before it, The Woman in White thrilled readers across England when it debuted in 1860. It famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit road. Engaged as a drawing-master to beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his charming friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons, and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the...
55) F
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Having a profound experience on a hypnotist's stage in spite of not believing in magic, Arthur abruptly abandons his family in the middle of the night and becomes a famous author while his sons grow into men shaped by loss and doubt.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The drawback to having a picture-perfect life is that there's nowhere to go but down--and Annalise Haverford is falling fast. Once, she was the self-proclaimed queen bee of Magnolia, North Carolina. Now her husband has been arrested for fraud, and she's become an outcast in the shallow circles she used to rule. There's only one affordable rental in town, and it's owned by the woman Annalise got fired from a lucrative job. Much as single mother Shauna...
Author
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
[2011][2005-2007]
Language
English
Description
When Samantha Harrigan's champion quarter horses are poisoned and she is the prime suspect, veterinarian Tucker Coulter helps her prove her innocence, and Faith Randolph flees from an arranged marriage and finds love with farm owner Patrick O'Shannessy.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
When a black woman lawyer in England lands a big client, other lawyers turn against her from envy. That is just one problem facing Lee Mitchell, defending a millionaire in a fraud case, another is that he is a womanizer and is intruding in her life. A first novel.
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Butch Hightower, long-lost older brother of stand-up comic Buster, has many talents. Video poker isn't one. So he borrows gambling money from some no-necks, who give him a chance to reduce his debt by helping them steal a valuable artwork from a mansion. It's that or broken fingers."--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
While searching her father's drugstore for clues to his disappearance, medical student Becky Westerfield encounters private detective Nick Acropolis, and when they join forces to find Becky's father, they stumble into a massive welfare fraud scheme.
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