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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"The Nazis have forced Natia and Teodor from their Polish farm to a labor camp. Separated, Natia is chosen to be the housekeeper for the camp's overseer, and her husband Teodor is sent to work in the factory. Despite the strict camp rules--and the consequences for disobeying them--Natia finds a way to communicate with Teodor by sending messages through song as she passes Teodor's dormitory. But then Natia finds a Jewish orphan on the overseer's doorstep....
20022) The Fetch: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
After 350 years as a Fetch, or death escort, Calder breaks his vows and enters the body of Rasputin, whose spirit causes rebellion in the Land of Lost Souls while Calder struggles to convey Ana and Alexis, orphaned in the Russian Revolution, to Heaven.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
As often as possible high school senior Reiko Smith-Mori drives to the nearby California desert to escape from the increasingly claustrophobic life at home and her parents' expectations. There she meets Seth Rogers, a boy from school who shares her love of the desert but also wants a closer relationship with Reiko, which is just adding to her problems. Because Reiko has a secret: in her mind her older sister, Mika, who died years ago, is always with...
20024) Poison in the pen
Author
Series
Miss Silver mysteries volume 30
Pub. Date
1976, c1957
Description
A series of cruel letters upends life in a small village, and Miss Silver searches for the anonymous scribe It is through her friend Frank Abbott, of Scotland Yard, that Miss Silver first learns of the anonymous letters. A widowed cousin of his, living in a small country village, is being tortured by an unknown author who insinuates that the young woman's husband may not have died of natural causes. It is a case of the kind of cruelty that is all...
20025) Feral pride
Author
Series
Feral series volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
The explosive finale to the Feral series by New York Times best-selling author Cynthia Leitich Smith. Anti-shifter sentiment is at an all-time high when Kayla's transformation to werecat is captured on video and uploaded for the world to see. Suddenly she becomes a symbol of the werebeast threat and--along with fellow cat Yoshi, lion-possum Clyde, and human Aimee--a hunted fugitive. Meanwhile, a self-proclaimed weresnake has kidnapped the governor...
20026) Cloak of scarlet
Author
Series
Dericott tale volume 5
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Orphan Violet and knight Sir Merek team up to fight against the villainous Baron Dunham and corruption in the kingdom, while also navigating their growing feelings for each other.
20027) Santa Fe trail
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Follows the lives of Jeb Stuart (Flynn), George Custer (Reagan) and other characters in the years before the Civil War. The West Point graduates must hunt down abolitionist raider John Brown. Their conflict is deepened by their differing views over the issue of slavery and Brown's abolitionist cause. Friendship and dedication to duty carry them through but the storm clouds of Civil War can be seen on the horizon.
Author
Series
In death volume 44
Pub. Date
2017
Description
"THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES . . . The chilling new suspense novel from the author of Brotherhood in Death. After a party in New York, Lieutenant Eve Dallas rides home with her billionaire husband, Roarke, happy to be done with cocktails and small talk. After another party, not far away, a woman retires to her bedroom with her husband--and walks into a brutal nightmare. Their paths are about to collide... When the young woman--dazed,...
Author
Series
Hometown brothers volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"magnetic second chance romance...McClain pits her charming, authentic characters against the realistic problems of everyday life, making for a story that is deeply emotional but never soapy...Readers won't want to put this down."--Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW A Chesapeake island homecoming--and a life-changing discovery When Ryan Hastings first came to Teaberry Island, he was a troubled teen on his last chance. He's returning as a renowned scientist,...
20030) The Book of Lies
Author
Formats
Description
"Twin teen girls with very different upbringings meet for the first time at their mother's funeral. As they get to know each other, it becomes clear that one of the sisters is driven by a secret destructive power-or is it both?"--
20031) Out of the depths
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
When it seems that vandals are threatening her campground and canoe rentals, Trudy Lynn Brown accepts help from Cody Keringhoven, who is recuperating from a white-water rafting accident; but the vandals are criminals who will stop at nothing to drive Trudy Lynn from her land.
20032) Sleepover
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
When Julie and her best friends throw a sleepover to celebrate the end of junior high, they unexpectedly find themselves challenged to an all-night scavenger hunt. A challenge issued by the most popular girls in school. The girls end up hijacking one of the Dad's cars, sneaking into a club, boosting a cute boys' boxer shorts, and even crashing the high school's prom. It's all part of the fun.
20033) Teen beach movie
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Centers around two teen surfers, Brady and Mackenzie, who are magically transported into a 1960s beach movie where they must try to blend in until they can find their way out. They soon discover that there is an intense rivalry between the local surfers and bikers. Things don't go according to plan when our modern-day duo accidentally change the plot of the movie, and the two lead characters fall for them instead of each other!
20035) Looking for Trouble
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
A good reason to be bad. Librarian Sophie Heyer has walked the straight and narrow her entire life to make up for her mother's mistakes. But in tiny Jackson Hole, Wyoming, juicy gossip doesn't just fade away. Falling hard for the sexiest biker who's ever ridden into town would undo everything she's worked for. And to add insult to injury, the alluring stranger is none other than Alex Bishop-the son of the man Sophie's mother abandoned her family for....
20037) Valentina
Author
Pub. Date
[1993]
Description
Valentina Grunowska is a countess, a great beauty, and an unwilling Polish agent - ordered by her brutal husband to spy on Napoleon's plans for the attack on Russia. Colonel de Chavel is cold, contemptuous, and head of the French intelligence service. Theirs seems like the least likely of love stories. But, as Napoleon's army sweeps on towards Moscow, great events will throw them together - and pull them apart again. As the French face defeat and...
20038) Sweet pea summer
Author
Series
Full bloom farm volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Can first love truly have a second chance when two high school sweethearts find themselves working together to save their respective businesses in this charming, laugh-out-loud retelling of Jane Austen's Persuasion? Eight years ago, May Anderson made the biggest mistake of her life and watched her high school sweetheart Tom Riley leave Hillsboro, California--and her--in his rearview mirror. Now, after traveling the world, he's come back home. While...
20039) Pride & puppies
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Dr. Charlotte Rodriguez is single-again-and she blames Jane Austen. She made brooding, aloof men sound oh so dreamy. But after years of failing to find her own Mr. Darcy, Charlotte decides it's time to swear off dating. She's going to lavish all her love and affection on someone who actually deserves it: her new puppy, Bingley. And there's no one better to give her pet advice than her neighbor and coworker George Leneghan. He's quiet and patient...
20040) Batter royale
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"In this fun graphic novel, a talented young chef is selected to participate in a baking reality show and finds herself mixed up in spicy competition, bitter rivalry, and sweet romance." --