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101) The big finish
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Eighty-eight-year-old Duffy Sinclair wants the last leg of his bachelor life to be strictly predictable, so Centennial Assisted Living is perfect: low-sodium meals, off-key sing-alongs, and the company of his best pal and roommate Carl. It may not sound like much, but compared to the piss-smelling, roach-infested nursing home down the road, Centennial is paradise. There's only one problem: Carl's estranged granddaughter Josie has just clambered through...
102) Proposing mischief
Author
Series
Joplin chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Left to rue her mistake of falling in love with the wrong man, Maisie Kentworth keeps busy by exploring the idle mine nearby. While managing his mining company, Boone Bragg stumbles across Maisie and the crystal cavern she's discovered. He makes her a proposal that he hopes will solve all their problems, but instead it throws them into chaos"--
Author
Series
Banda de Zoé volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
Pero de la buena... La clase de Miss Loopas se va de campamento conm tan mala suerte que Mr Plumilla queda fuera de combate. Mientras, allí pasan cosas muy raras.... Carla y Marla aprovechan para hacerse las amas del cotorro y poner a La Banda <>. ¡Qué caraduras!
104) The Choosing
Author
Series
Seer novels (Rachelle Dekker) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Like all citizens since the Ruining, Carrington Hale knows the importance of this day. But she never expected the moment she'd spent a lifetime preparing for--her Choosing Ceremony--to end in disaster. Ripped from her family, she'll spend her days serving as a Lint, the lowest level of society. She knows it's her duty to follow the true way of the Authority. As Carrington begins this nightmare, rumors of rebellion rattle her beliefs. Though the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend and comrade-in-arms is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, Frances and Bobbi catch the eye of Melissa, a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into Melissa's world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman's sophisticated...
107) The husband list
Author
Series
Culhane family romances volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the family from the bestselling Love in a NutshellThe Husband List .A Macmillan Audio production.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Based on a real story - in 1950, a young, beautiful Polish refugee arrives in Hyannisport, Massachusetts to work as a maid for one of the wealthiest families in America. Alicia is at once dazzled by the large and charismatic family, in particular the oldest son, a rising politician named Jack. Alicia and Jack are soon engaged, but his domineering father forbids the marriage. And so, Alicia trades Hyannisport for Hollywood, and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
Publisher Annotation: When Jessica Farris signs up for a psychology study conducted by the mysterious Dr. Shields, she thinks all she'll have to do is answer a few questions, collect her money, and leave. But as the questions grow more and more intense and invasive and the sessions become outings where Jess is told what to wear and how to act, she begins to feel as though Dr. Shields may know what she's thinking...and what she's hiding. USA, 464pp....
110) Los veraneantes
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
Español
Description
"Un viaje de dos semanas a Mallorca con su familia y amigos es una celebracion: Franny y Jim celebran su trigesimo quinto aniversario de boda, y su hija, Sylvia, se ha graduado de la escuela secundaria. La isla iluminada por el sol, sus montañas y playas, tambien prometen un escape de las tensiones latentes en su casa en Manhattan. Pero no todo va de acuerdo al plan: en el transcurso de las vacaciones, secretos salen a luz, rivalidades resurgen y...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In 1850, three lone wagons on the California Trail become trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountains by a sudden snowstorm. Stuck in tight quarters with others forces Cynthia Copper to question her engagement to a near stranger and to reconsider her dreams for marriage alongside her responsibility to care for her mother"--
112) Emma
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
Emma Woodhouse is a young English woman raised in a wealthy family who not only does not have the slightest intention of getting married, but also insists on being a matchmaker for her circle of friends. In particular, for her protégé Harriet Smith. Emma's advice produces all kinds of misunderstandings and embarrassing situations, which translates into a fun work that, two centuries after its appearance, continues to delight readers.
113) Ink and bone
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
For as long as she can remember, twenty-year-old Finley Montgomery has been able to see into the future. She dreams about events before they occur and sees beyond the physical world, unconsciously using her power to make supernatural things happen. But Finley can't control these powers and there's only one person who can help. So Finley moves to The Hollows, a small town in upstate New York where her grandmother lives, a renowned seer who can finally...
114) Vanishing acts
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Language
English
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Description
Life is going well for Delia Hopkins. She has a daughter and a fiancé, and with her search-and-rescue bloodhound, she helps find missing persons. But as she plans for her wedding, she is haunted by inexplicable flashbacks to a devastating time she cannot recall.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Anna Hart is a seasoned missing persons detective in San Francisco with far too much knowledge of the darkest side of human nature. When unspeakable tragedy strikes her personal life, Anna, desperate and numb, flees to the Northern California village of Mendocino. She spent summers there as a child with her beloved grandparents, and now she believes it might be the only place left for her to heal. Yet the day she arrives, she learns a local teenage...
116) A curious beginning
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"London, 1887. As the city prepares to celebrate Queen Victoria's golden jubilee, Veronica Speedwell is marking a milestone of her own. After burying her spinster aunt, the orphaned Veronica is free to resume her world travels in pursuit of scientific inquiry--and the occasional romantic dalliance. As familiar with hunting butterflies as she is fending off admirers, Veronica wields her butterfly net and a sharpened hatpin with equal aplomb, and with...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Rosie Hopkins's life is...comfortable. She has a steady nursing job, a nice apartment, and Gerard, her loyal (if a bit boring) boyfriend. And even though she might like to pursue a more rewarding career, and Gerard doesn't seem to have any plans to propose, Rosie's not complaining. Things could be worse. Right? Life gets a bit more interesting when Rosie's mother sends her out to the country to care for her ailing great aunt Lilian, who owns an old-fashioned...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Renaissance is a word with hope infused in every letter. Since she was a child, Meg has dreamed of taking a promised trip to Florence, Italy, and being able to finally step into the place captured in a picture at her grandmothers house. But after her grandmother passes away and it falls to her less-than-reliable father to take her instead, Megs long-anticipated travel plans seem permanently on hold. When her dad finally tells Meg to book the trip,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
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
The Revolution of Marina M volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
St. Petersburg, New Year's Eve, 1916. Marina Makarova is a young woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life, a life about to be violently upended by the vast forces of history. Swept up on these tides, Marina will join the marches for workers' rights, fall in love with a radical young poet, and betray everything she holds dear, before being betrayed in turn.
As her country goes through almost unimaginable upheaval,...
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