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Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"By the bestselling author of A Beautiful, Terrible Thing, a haunting thriller about a mother and daughter who need to draw strength from each other when they find themselves trapped in a cabin with a man who wants to either control them--or kill them."--
Author
Series
Chocolat novels (Joanne Harris) volume 3
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Vianne Rochet returns to the French village of Lansquenet with her daughters, Anouk and Rosette, before allying herself with a desperate Father Frances Reynaud to reverse disturbing local changes.
103) Antiques con
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Brandy and Vivian--chaperoned by their trusty shih tzu, Sushi--are heading to the Big Apple to sell a rare 1940s Superman drawing, unaware that they will soon cross paths with a killer.
104) Miss Pearly's girls
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Four estranged sisters must return to rural Arkansas when their mother is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Their mother wants them to repair their shattered relationships, but first they'll have to face the lies and obstacles they've worked so hard to leave behind..."--
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A popular advice columnist for forty years, Wendy Wise decides to meddle in her own troubled daughters' lives even though they are holding onto some resentments from childhood, while her daughters discover that Wendy has been hiding more than a few problems of her own.
106) The midwife's tale
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In 1830s small-town Pennsylvania, midwife Martha Cade's world changes when she faces tense relationships, a new doctor in town whose arrival threatens her job, a town scandal, and an unexpected romance"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Learning of the infidelity of her husband, Nora Cunningham packs up her daughters--Annie, seven; and Ella, twelve--and takes refuge on Burke's Island, a craggy spit of land off the coast of Maine where her mother disappeared at sea long ago. Just as Nora begins to regain her balance, her daughters embark on a reckless odyssey of their own--forcing Nora to finally face the truth about her marriage, her mother, and her long-buried past.
109) The dream daughter
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Caroline Sears receives the news that her unborn baby girl has a heart defect, she is devastated. It is 1970 and there seems to be little that can be done. But her brother-in-law, a physicist, tells her that perhaps there is. Hunter appeared in their lives just a few years before--and his appearance was as mysterious as his past. With no family, no friends, and a background shrouded in secrets, Hunter embraced the Sears family and never looked...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Following the migrating monarchs across the United States to Mexico, Luz Avila arrives in San Antonio to find her aunt and meets her mother, who she had always believed dead. Now Luz must face her mother's reappearance in her life and get her grandmother's ashes to Mexico for the Day of the Dead.
111) The vanishers
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Julia Severn is a student at an elite institute for psychics. Her mentor, the legendary Madame Ackermann, afflicted by jealousy, refuses to pass the torch to her young disciple. Instead, she subjects Julia to the humiliation of reliving her mother's suicide when Julia was an infant. As the two lock horns, and Julia gains power, Madame Ackermann launches a desperate psychic attack that leaves Julia the victim of a crippling ailment.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Getting to know Penny, the daughter she placed for adoption sixteen years ago, thirty -five-year-old Mika Suzuki finds unexpected love with Penny's widowed father and finally has a chance to have the life and family she's always wanted until her deceptions catch up with her..
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen years after her mother's disappearance, Josephine, with her future in doubt in a world where single women are closely monitored, is offered the opportunity to honor one last request from her mother's will and leaves her regular life to feel connected to her one last time.
115) The hidden: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
While investigating the brutal attack on Gregor, a seemingly single man, DS Joanna Harper discovers that her estranged daughter Ruby is somehow involved in this case that is steeped in Celtic mythology.
116) The beach house
Author
Series
South Carolina sunsets volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A 43-year-old unexpectedly divorced woman buys a house on a small South Carolina island, gets involved with her estranged sister and mother, and tries to figure out what life is all about.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Years ago, Lyra Davis left behind a world of wealth and privilege and the people she loved most in the world, unable to reconcile the expectations of her celebrated family with the longings of her own wild heart. Now she lives quietly among a community of expatriates on the isle of Capri--until her daughter Pell travels across an ocean to find the mother she remembers and the deeper truths they all need so desperately.
118) Dare you to
Author
Series
Pushing the limits volume 2
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Forced to choose between her mom's freedom and her own happiness, skater girl Beth Risks moves in with an aunt. At her new school friends of Ryan Stone, a popular baseball jock, dare him to ask Beth out on a date. What follows is an intense attraction that neither Ryan nor Beth expected.
119) My kind of Christmas
Author
Series
Virgin River volume 20
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Patrick Riordan's plans for a relaxing Christmas--a much-needed break from his work as a Navy pilot--are complicated when he falls for Angie LeCroix, who is visiting Virgin River in order to escape her hovering mother.
120) Petals on the wind
Author
Series
Dollanganger family series volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Cathy discovers that she has the power to revenge those childhood years locked in an attic with her brother and sister.
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