Catalog Search Results
8261) The good soldier
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Two upper-class couples, one British and one American, meet yearly at a German spa and forge a perfect friendship that is later revealed to be a facade concealing deception and infidelity.
8262) Two good dogs
Author
Description
Single mom Skye Mitchell has sunk her last dime into a dream, owning the venerable, if run-down LakeView Hotel in the Berkshire Hills. It's here where she believes she'll give her fourteen-year-old daughter Cody a better life. But being an innkeeper is more challenging than she imagined, and Cody still manages to fall in with the wrong crowd. In addition, Cody is keeping an earth-shattering secret that she's terrified to reveal. The once loving, open...
8263) Again, Rachel
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday Canada
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"From internationally bestselling author Marian Keyes comes the eagerly awaited sequel to Rachel's Holiday. Back in the long ago nineties, Rachel Walsh was a mess. But a spell in rehab transformed everything. Life became very good, very quickly. These days, Rachel has love, family, a great job as an addiction counsellor, she even gardens. Her only bad habit is a fondness for expensive running shoes. But with the sudden reappearance of a man she'd...
8264) A tempest at sea
Author
Series
Formats
Description
"Charlotte Holmes's brilliant mind and deductive skills are pulled into a dangerous investigation at sea in the new mystery in the bestselling Lady Sherlock series. After feigning her own death in Cornwall to escape from Moriarty's perilous attention, Charlotte Holmes goes into hiding. But then she receives a tempting offer: Find a dossier the crown is desperately seeking, and she might be able to go back to a normal life. Her search leads her aboard...
8265) Splendor in the grass
Series
Description
Deanie is a beautiful and sensitive teenager who would do whatever her mother and her 1928 Kansas hometown find proper. Her boyfriend, Bud, has intense desires for Deanie and the two are very much in love. But, sexual pressures in society creates a rift in their relationship. She restrains herself while Bud acts on them, but with another girl. Bud's actions drive Deanie to madness. She is committed into an institution while Bud reluctantly obeys his...
8266) When you believe
Author
Formats
Description
Intervening when she senses that a teen student is having problems, high school teacher Lydia Porter is shocked when the girl accuses a fellow teacher--Lydia's fiancé--of sexual abuse, a situation that forces her to make the most difficult decision of her life.
8267) The glass woman: a novel
Author
Formats
Description
"Shortlisted for the Historical Writers Association Debut Crown Award In the tradition of Jane Eyre and Rebecca--The Glass Woman by Caroline Lea in which a young woman follows her new husband to his remote home on the Icelandic coast in the 1680s, where she faces dark secrets surrounding the death of his first wife amidst a foreboding landscape and the superstitions of the local villagers. Rósa has always dreamed of living a simple life alongside...
8268) A murderous procession
Author
Description
In 1176, King Henry II sends his daughter Joanna to Palermo to marry his cousin, the king of Sicily. Henry chooses Adelia Aguilar, his Mistress of the Art of Death, to travel with the princess and safeguard her health. But when people in the wedding procession are murdered, Adelia and Rowley must discover the killer's identity ... and whether he is stalking the princess or Adelia herself. --
8269) The last Tudor
Author
Series
Description
"The latest novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory features one of the most famous girls in history, Lady Jane Grey, and her two sisters, each of whom dared to defy her queen. Seventeen-year-old Jane Grey was queen of England for nine days. Her father and his allies crowned her instead of the dead king's half-sister Mary Tudor, who quickly mustered an army, claimed her throne, and locked Jane in the Tower of London. When...
8270) It's elementary
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Mavis Miller reluctantly finds herself in charge of the school's brand-new DEI committee. As one of the few Black parents at this elite California elementary school, Mavis tries to convince herself this is an opportunity for real change. But things go off the rails at the very first meeting when the new principal's plans leave PTA president Trisha absolutely furious. Later that night, Mavis spies Trisha in yellow rubber gloves and booties, lugging...
8271) When Haru was here
Author
Formats
Description
Eric, a lonely nineteen-year-old grappling with the loss of his best friend, retreats into his imagination and finds solace in a memory of a day spent with a boy named Haru, but Eric's imagination and reality blur together when he walks into a coffee shop and sees Haru.
8272) Stealing infinity
Author
Series
Publisher
Entangled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
An ordinary girl waking up in an extraordinary world where art is revered, history is changeable, and students travel though time, Natasha Clarke experiences the wonders of the past and discovers her true origins--and her destiny.
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Max has it all; looks, wit, and a beautiful family. He's untouchable, yet his life is far from picture perfect. As his addiction spirals out of control, Max's family is kept in the dark about his reality. During the wake of a federal investigation Max realizes he must fight off his demons and rediscover the true meaning of love.
8274) Murder in Bloomsbury
Author
Series
Description
Aristocratic adventurer Atlas Catesby has spent the last year trying to forget Lady Lilliana Warwick, but when she reappears in his life imploring him to help her solve a murder, Atlas feels compelled to say yes. The nerre-do-well brother of Lillianas maid died of arsenic poisoning. Authorities are ruling his death an accident, but his sister suspects he was murdered. As Atlas and Lilliana investigate, they discover that the victim had a mysterious...
8275) Hide and seek
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
While Emma continues to investigate her twin sister's death, Laurel is sneaking around with her sister's ex-boyfriend.
8276) A handful of dust
Series
Description
In 1930s England, Tony and Brenda Last and their son, John Andrew, live an idyllic life in the huge Victorian country house that is the symbol of Tony's family pride. The chance arrival of a penniless scrounger irrevocably shatters the gentle balance of their lives as Brenda's search for excitement and Tony's determination to hold on to what is his eventually lead in the direction of divorce and send Tony to South America.
8278) Redcoat
Author
Series
Formats
Description
It is autumn 1777, and the cradle of liberty, Philadelphia, has fallen to the British. Yet the true battle has only just begun. On both sides, loyalties are tested and families torn asunder. A young Redcoat, Sam Gilpin, has seen his brother die. Now he must choose between duty to a distant king and the call of his own conscience. And for the men and women of the prosperous Becket family, the revolution brings bitter conflict between those loyal to...
8279) The heretic's creed
Author
Series
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Créme de la Crime, an imprint of Severn House Publishers LTD
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Ursula Blanchard must acquire a mysterious medieval manuscript in the latest enthralling historical adventure. February, 1577. Sir William Cecil has a dangerous new mission for Ursula Blanchard. He has asked her to visit Stonemoor House on the bleak Yorkshire moors, the home of a group of recusant women led by Abbess Philippa Gould. In their possession is an ancient book, and the Queen's advisor, Dr John Dee, is eager to get hold of it. However, while...
8280) The Bostonians
Author
Series
Description
A great novel about sex and conflict on various levels, the only one in the Jamesian canon. A feminist and a southern gentleman compete for the possession of a gifted young woman.