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22) Darkness
Author
Language
English
Description
"BOOM. That's the sound that changes everything for Dr. Gina Sullivan, a renowned ornithologist on a group research grant trip on the remote island of Attu, Alaska. When an everyday outing turns sinister at the onset of one of Attu's infamous storms, Gina expects thunder and lightning -- but what she doesn't see coming is the small jet plane that drops out of the sky and into the water mere feet from her boat. Even more unprecedented: there's a sole...
23) The lost ticket
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When Libby Nicholls arrives in London, brokenhearted and with her life in tatters, the first person she meets on the bus is elderly Frank. He tells her about the time in 1962 that he met a girl on the number 88 bus, with beautiful red hair just like hers. They made plans for a date at the National Gallery art museum, but Frank lost the bus ticket with her number on it. For the past sixty years, he's ridden the same bus trying to find her, but with...
Author
Series
Wayfarers volume 4
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has going for it is a chance proximity to more popular worlds, making it a decent stopover for ships traveling between the wormholes that keep the Galactic Commons connected. If deep space is a highway, Gora is just your average truck stop. At the Five-Hop One-Stop, long-haul spacers can stretch their legs (if they have legs, that is), and get fuel, transit...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Five international vacationers, strangers to each other, misfits running from their daily lives, are brought together at the same small seaside Hotel of Dreams by a rental scam, an international art heist, passion, murder, and a haunting. It had seemed like the perfect getaway for Malibu's famous TV private investigator, Mac Reilly and his girlfriend/partner, Sunny Alvarez, along with his three-legged, one-eyed rescue dog Pirate, and her snippy three-pound...
Author
Series
Pony-crazed princess volume 1
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Princess Ellie must rescue her pony from a stranger.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Penny spends her afternoons sitting outside a sandwich shop, surrounded by ghosts. Fourteen years ago, this shop was her childhood dance studio--and she was a dancer on the rise. Now she's a suburban housewife, dreading the moment her son departs for MIT, leaving her with an impeccably decorated McMansion and a failing marriage. She had her chance at wild, stars-in-her-eyes happiness, but that was a lifetime ago. After The Kiss. Before The Decision....
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nobody ever talks to strangers on the train. It's a rule. But what would happen if they did? From the New York Times bestselling author of The Authenticity Project, a heartwarming novel about unexpected friendships and the joy of connecting. Every day Iona, a larger-than-life magazine advice columnist, travels the ten stops from Hampton Court to Waterloo Station by train, accompanied by her dog, Lulu. Every day she sees the same people, whom she...
29) The photo album
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"No one seems to recognize the young man caught in the background of some old photos that Annie found in the attic of Grey Gables. But Mary Beth, owner of A Stitch in Time, turns strangely pale when Annie shows the photos at the Hook and Needle Club meeting. Annie is determined to find out who this stranger is and what became of him. His young, sad face haunts her and she feels compelled to unearth his story. Then disturbing information gleaned from...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
940L
Physical Desc
456 pages : illustration, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Selly's father leaves her high and dry in the port of Kirkpool, she has no intention of riding out the winter on land while he sails to adventure in the north seas. But any plans to follow him are dashed when a handsome stranger with tell-tale magician's marks on his arm boards her ship, presenting her and the crew with a dangerous mission: to cross the Crescent Sea without detection so he can complete a ritual on the sacred Isles of the Gods....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One dark evening on New York City's Upper West Side, two strangers meet by chance. Over drinks, Amanda and Wendy realize they have much in common, especially loneliness and an intense desire for revenge against the men who destroyed their families. As they talk into the night, they come up with the perfect plan: if you kill for me, I'll kill for you. In another part of the city, Ruth is home alone when the beautiful brownstone she shares with her...
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"On a snowy evening in January, thirtysomething Noelle Butterby is on her way back from an event at her old college when disaster strikes. With a blizzard closing off roads, she finds herself stranded, alone in her car, without food, drink, or, even worse, a working charger for her phone. All seems lost until Sam Attwood, also trapped in a nearby car, knocks on her window and offers assistance. After eight perfect hours together, morning arrives...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six comes an intimate and contemporary study of time, space, and the nature of love. Alone with You in the Ether explores what it means to be unwell, and how to face the fractures of yourself and still love as if you're not broken. Chicago, sometime-- Two people meet in the armory of the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts...
34) Heart string
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
AD 340L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"Follow the thread of this reassuring story to see how, even in a world as vast as ours, there is always a bond that connects us to the ones we love--and to the world we share." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jen Miller, Kittie Spears, and Cynthia Nichols have been friends since childhood. Now approaching forty, their lives have changed, but their insular East Texas town has not. They stay sane by drinking wine in the afternoons, dishing about other women in the neighborhood, and bonding over the heartache of raising ungrateful teens and their own encroaching middle age. Then Will Harding comes to town, moving into one of the neighborhood's grandest homes....
36) Good husbands
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Jessica, Stephanie and Priyanka are complete strangers, but they have one thing in common: they've each received a letter accusing their husbands of committing a sexual assault more than two decades prior. Is the accusation true or is there more to the story? It was a secret that remained buried for years. With their worlds suddenly turned upside down, they don't know who to trust ... The three women come together to embark on a hunt for the truth,...
38) Strays
Author
Series
Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When fourteen-year-old Quentin's bike breaks down in the strange town of Ravens Pass, he and his friend Reese find themselves surrounded by feral cats--is this an attack or something else?
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First US edition.
Lexile measure
NC 760L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
"Camila the chicken, Mr. Martinez the fox, Felipe the mouse, Rodolfo the cat, Matilde the pig, Mrs. Paquita the owl, Pepe the ogre, and Matilde the inventor all live on the same street, but nobody talks to anybody else. One day a chain reaction begins that turns this neighborhood into a true community"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (144 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Seven strangers, each with a secret to bury, meet at Lake Tahoe's El Royale, a rundown hotel with a dark past. Over the course of one fateful night, everyone will have a last shot at redemption; before everything goes to hell.