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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The new Chief Inspector Gamache novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author."--
When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farmhouse, the former head of the Sûreté du Québec discovers that a complete stranger has named him one of the executors of her will. Still on suspension, and frankly curious, Gamache accepts and soon learns that the other two executors are Myrna Landers, the bookseller from Three Pines,...
Author
Language
English
Description
A young woman discovers a delicious cache of heirlooms in an abandoned safe deposit box: bundles of handwritten letters, photographs, expired passports, both American and Italian, and twenty-two leather boxes, each holding a priceless piece of jewelry. Drawn to the mysterious woman in the photographs, Jane digs deeper into the woman's luxurious, golden life and the older, dashing man who occupies her pictures and letters. The details are both glamorous...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The story of a man's last wish to make a difference--and of the loved ones he leaves behind fulfilling their destinies at last" --
"Handsome, widowed, sophisticated, utterly charming, Paul Parker won the heart of a wealthy young Frenchwoman--the daughter of an American financier, the granddaughter of a major French art connoisseur--as his second wife. In two marriages, he has fathered a challenging son and three very different daughters. But as...
Author
Language
English
Description
A woman is summoned back to the town and the house where she grew up where she finds a series of letters addressed to her. Each of the letters is a piece of a story that will completely change the world she thought she knew, and throw her into a love more powerful than she ever imagined could be possible.
Author
Series
Fairmile volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Midsummer Eve, 1670. Two unexpected visitors arrive at a shabby warehouse on the south side of the River Thames. The first is a wealthy man hoping to find the lover he deserted twenty-one years before. James Avery has everything to offer, including the favour of the newly restored King Charles II, and he believes that the warehouse's poor owner Alinor has the one thing his money cannot buy-his son and heir. The second visitor is a beautiful widow...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Turning twenty-seven may be terrifying for some, but for Alex, a struggling artist living in the midwestern United States, it is cataclysmic. Inheriting a huge expanse of land should have made him a rich and happy man; but something about this birthday, his name, and the beautiful woman whose life he just saved, has suddenly made him--and everyone he loves--into a target. A target for extreme and uncompromising violence ....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The middle daughter of struggling California fruit farmers, Alice Bush is accustomed to feeling inferior and destitute. But when her elder sister's husband strikes a vein of gold in the Yukon Territory, Alice finally seizes control of her destiny by joining a wave of white settlers making the dangerous trek to the Klondike. What follows is an awakening of ambition for the quietly opportunistic Alice, who, by luck and circumstance, becomes tightly...
Author
Series
Stonewycke trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
1986
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
An American draft dodger has left land and money to the town of Trafalgar, British Columbia, with the provision that they be used to build a garden honoring draft dodgers. The small town is torn apart over the bequest and then the body of a garden opponent is murdered. Detective Sergeant John Winters and Constable Molly Smith investigate the murder while Trafalgar is descended upon by media and outside agitators.
Author
Series
Hudson sisters novel volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first in an "all-new series, The Hudson Sisters, following a trio of reluctant sisters as they set out to fulfill their father's dying wish. In the process, they find not only themselves, but the father they only thought they knew. When celebrated and respected agent Fritz Hudson passes away, he leaves a trail of Hollywood glory in his wake--and two separate families who never knew the other existed. Allie and Des Hudson are products of Fritz's...
11) The oak leaves
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
401 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Drawing on her own Fragile X experience, Christy Award nominee Maureen Lang tells the griping tale of two women wrestling with the same "curse." Talie Ingram is blessed with a devoted husband, a precious toddler, and a baby on the way. But her ideal world unravels when she uncovers a shocking family secret in the 19th-century journal of her British relative Cosima Escott. Only by reading Cosima's words can Talie make peace with the sobering legacy...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
201 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Theodore Hamilton's good friend and Joey Anderson's great-grandmother, Sally May Anderson, touched many lives during her lifetime. Joey, however, has little interest in his great-grandmother's final wishes when she dies - until he learns that she has left him Anderson House, her bed-and-breakfast. But he will only inherit if he lives there and follows Sally May's instructions. How can Joey ever meet her challenge? Jason Stevens knows how Joey is...
Author
Publisher
[Beth Duke]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
i, 293 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Veronica "Ronni" Johnson, licensed practical nurse and aspiring writer, meets the captivating Violet in the assisted living facility where Violet requires no assistance, just lots of male attention. When she dies, she leaves Ronni a very generous bequest ... only if Ronni completes a book about her life within one year. As she's drawn into the world of young Violet, Ronni is mesmerized by life in a simpler time. It's an irresistible journey filled...
Author
Series
Utopian testament volume 1
Publisher
Jim Christopher
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
473 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Caleb Allard is dying. Rather than drag his children through a battle he knows he will lose, Caleb arranges his medically-assisted suicide. The banality of his legacy haunts him: a pointless career and two angry children estranged from one another. Then a voice arrives. Immense. Debilitating. It fills Caleb's skull, promising the one thing Caleb wants more than anything else--a purpose for his miserable life. It tells him of a young boy with miraculous...
15) The peach seed
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
438 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On a routine trip to the Piggly Wiggly in Albany, Georgia, widower Fletcher Dukes smells a familiar perfume, then sees a tall woman the color of papershell pecans with a strawberry birthmark on the nape of her neck. He knows immediately that she is his lost love, Altovise Benson. Their bond, built on county fairs, sit-ins, and marches, once seemed a sure and forever thing. But their marriage plans were disrupted when the police turned a peaceful...
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Series
Publisher
Tate Publishing & Enterprises, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Melody, who only recently turned twenty-eight, is the last of the American Farrs; and because of a quirk in her father's will, she is unable to inherit the family's American estate until her thirtieth birthday. Her English cousin, Sir Arthur Roland Farr, viscount of Gibbons, is her closest Farr male relative and, by provision of her father's wishes, her guardian until she inherits. Lord Arthur agrees to take in his American cousin and ward, but wants...
Author
Publisher
Blue Box Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
268 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two sisters find that forgiveness never goes out of style when they inherit their mother's jackets, purses... and pearls of wisdom. Estranged half-sisters Gabrielle Winslow and Lulu Quattro seem to have only two things in common: mounds of debt and coils of unresolved enmity toward Bette Bradford, their controlling and imperious recently deceased mother. Gabrielle, the firstborn, was raised in relative luxury on Manhattan's rarefied Upper East Side....
18) The aviary
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In late nineteenth-century Maine, isolated, eleven-year-old Clara Dooley gains a friend and uncovers a magical secret that changes her life when she learns to care for the once-feared birds in the aviary attached to the Glendoveer mansion where she lives.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Spanish edition.
Physical Desc
313 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
The discovery of a cache of letters, photos, and jewels in an abandoned safe deposit box brings together several unlikely people who investigate the mysterious disappearance of a beautiful young countess seventy-five years earlier.
"En una caja de seguridad abandonada en un banco de Nueva York aparecen un fajo de cartas manuscritas, fotogra̕fas, pasaportes caducados y veinti̤ds joyas de un valor incalculable. Jane Willoughby, empleada judicial,...