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Author
Series
Peachtree Bluff novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the journeys of three sisters and their mother-and a secret from their past that has the potential to tear them apart and reshape their very definition of what it means to be a family. Caroline Murphy swore she'd never set foot back in the small Southern town of Peachtree Bluff; she was a New York girl born and bred and the worst day of her life was when, in the wake of her father's death, her mother selfishly forced her to move-during...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
Después que la tía de Emily muere, Emily se entera de que todo en lo que ella siempre ha creído es una mentira, y su mundo se desmorona. Obligada a enfrentarse al hecho de que su madre no es quien ella pensaba que era, Emily intenta encontrar la verdad acerca de su pasado y dar sentido a su futuro. Se envuelve en el graffiti y el vandalismo como una manera de lidiar con su ira, ella se da cuenta de que hay más de una familia que comparte ADN.
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4) Panther gap
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The thrilling follow-up to the Edgar Award-winning Bearskin, about two siblings on the verge of inheriting millions but who discover dark secrets in their family's past. Siblings Bowman and Summer were raised by their father and two uncles on a remote Colorado ranch. They react differently to his radical teachings and the confusions of adolescence. As young adults, they become estranged but are brought back together in their thirties by the prospect...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
If there are two subjects that are universally fascinating and rife with controversy, they are sex and fat. Though our culture is obsessed with both, the two commingling are sometimes seen as offensive, obscene, or even grotesque. Fat people are not viewed as sexual beings. Of course, this perception is far from accurate. Fat people have normal and peculiar sex lives, just like everyone else. A compilation of true stories, cultural references, and...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
BASED ON ACTUAL EVENTS - My name is Cassidy Connor and my parents hate me. Well, they can go to hell. After yet another fight with my manipulative lawyer father and bible thumping mother, I disappear onto Hollywood Blvd among the other street kids. Or so I thought. The cops pick me up for a BS crime I didn't commit, and Dad announces the only way I can avoid charges is to voluntarily admit myself into Oak Dale, a psych ward for crazy teens. I don't...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Kat is a tough, independent woman who makes her living as a professional poker player. She is single, childless and happy about it. But when her best friend, Josie, commits suicide, she names Kat as the temporary guardian of her ten-year-old son, David, until his father can come for him. In the few weeks that David is with her, Kat finds herself changed in ways she had never thought imaginable. With the old poker adage "bet with your head, not your...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Daniel Russell was only thirteen years old when his father tried to kill them both by driving their car into Moon Lake. Miraculously surviving the crash-and growing into adulthood-Daniel returns to the site of this traumatic incident in the hopes of recovering his father's car and bones. As he attempts to finally put to rest the memories that have plagued him for years, he discovers something even more shocking among the wreckage...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
La especialidad secreta de Crystal son los muffins de calabaza, pero este no es su ?unico secreto ni el mejor guardado. Todo marcha sobre ruedas en su vida en Seattle hasta la ma?nana en la que descubre que su chico ha desaparecido sin dejar rastro. Crystal emprender?a una larga b?usqueda con su hijo Bonnie a trav?es de m?as de diez estados hasta llegar a su pueblo natal en Carolina del Sur, donde acaba de encontrar una pista sobre el posible paradero...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Two sisters-in-law find themselves at painful odds when the man who connects them-the brother of one, the husband of the other-is accused of a brutal crime in this twisty thriller from the author of the "exceedingly entertaining" (The New York Times) The Family Plot. Julia and Sienna Larkin are sisters-in-law, connected by Julia's husband and Sienna's brother, Jason. More than that, the two have been devoted best friends since Jason introduced them....
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"It's not like they're family."
Sound familiar? If you're grieving the death of a friend, you've probably heard that from people who just don't get it. And if it made you angry, well, you're not alone. In the first of a series on grieving the death of a friend, Friend Grief and Anger: When Your Friend Dies and No One Gives A Damn, you'll meet people who also struggled with anger after their friend died. And they'll help you answer the question "Okay,...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Families only."
Those who were killed on September 11, 2001 left behind more than family members. They left thousands of friends who are often forgotten and ignored: co-workers, first responders, neighbors and survivors who struggle to find a way to grieve the friends killed when the World Trade Center towers fell.
In Friend Grief and 9/11: The Forgotten Mourners, you'll learn how they adjust to life without their friends, and find ways to honor...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
It happens all the time. A business owner gets served with divorce papers then tries to convince the court that business is suffering. Stories vary, but the argument is the same: there is no money to pay for spouse and child support. In this book, Mark Kohn draws upon 25 years of professional experience as a forensic accountant to show readers how to detect when a spouse is hiding income — and how to find it. In this book, readers will learn: What...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
It's been likened to a plague, but A.I.D.S. was never just a health crisis.
The second in a series on grieving the death of a friend, Friend Grief and AIDS: Thirty Years of Burying Our Friends revisits a time when people with A.I.D.S. were also targets of bigotry and discrimination. In stories about Ryan White, ACT UP, the Names Project, red ribbons and more, you'll learn why friends made all the difference: not just caregiving or memorializing,...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"They were killing my friends."
That was how Medal of Honor recipient Audie Murphy justified his heroic actions in World War II. As long as there have been wars, men and women in the military have watched their friends die. Experts warn that delaying our grief will complicate our lives. But what about those who have no choice but to delay it until the battle is over?
In Friend Grief and the Military: Band of Friends you'll meet military and non-combatants...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Two violent deaths. Separated by time, but with a fatal connection… A man loses his father. A young woman loses her mother. Both in tragic circumstances that lead, when they meet, to surprising revelations from the past. Louisa needs to find the father she has never known, to warn him of possible danger - for them both. Her search takes her from England to Guernsey. Malcolm's journey is more tortuous: conceived in Guernsey, he travels to Canada...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Tragedy seems to follows Jeanne Le Page around.
Can she really go through it again and survive?
Jeanne Le Page is lucky to be alive. Fifteen years ago, she was almost killed in a boating accident which brought heart-breaking family tragedy. Now 31, Jeanne is returning reluctantly to the island of Guernsey following the death of her beloved grandmother. Struggling for breath as the ferry nears the island, Jeanne feels a dark foreboding overwhelm...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Five years after an unspeakable tragedy, Gordie Allen is living with his half-brother Kevin, the only person who can protect Gordie at school and keep him focused on getting his life back on track. But just when it seems like things are becoming normal, Gordie’s biological father comes back into the picture, demanding a place in his life. Now there’s nothing to stop Gordie from falling into a tailspin that could cost him everything—including...
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