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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
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
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
2018.
Language
English
Description
Life is good for Dr. Drew Coleman, a successful young eye doctor living in Uptown New Orleans, and he knows it. Having met and married his beautiful medical school classmate, Kate, the two settle happily into the routine of raising their two young daughters. Drew’s charmed life is soon shattered by devastating news, causing him to go on a ten-year transcontinental journey of self-discovery, during which he explores the nature of God and Man, the...
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Melanie Henderson's life is a lie. The scandal of her birth and the identity of her true parents is kept from her family's small, conservative Colorado town. Not even she knows the truth: that her birth mother was just 14 and unmarried to her father, a local boy who drowned when he tried to take a shortcut across an icy river. Thirty-five years later, in Denver, Melanie dabbles in affairs with married men while clinging to a corporate job that gives...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Until the call came Ben hadn't known he'd fathered a child. Now Kyle is on his doorstep, a five year old with autism. Teacher Melanie Nicols sees Ben as a dead-beat dad, but gradually comes to admire the way he hangs in, willing to learn for his son's sake. Her admiration grows to more as father and son come to rely on Melanie being a part of their lives. When parents receive the news that their child has autism, they spend countless hours researching...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old Jason is lost. The rush of graduation parties has subsided, the ubiquitous discussion of college departures dimmed to a dull roar. His former classmates have made elaborate plans, but the only date on Jason’s calendar is a court appearance next Monday. Jason, who dropped out of high school just two months shy of graduation, finds himself stuck in the well-worn grooves of his hometown. But when his over-achieving girlfriend Lisa...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Fifty-year-old Karen Anders, a high school English teacher and the adoptive mother of Tiffany, comes to terms with being a single-parent and a clumsy drunk in the multicultural melting pot of Houston, Texas, as she forges an unlikely friendship with Leona Supak, a WWII Hungarian refugee, who inspires Karen to change her views on motherhood, drinking, and men. Karen’s teaching job provides an ongoing challenge with low scoring students and a lack...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Theodora Ziolkowski’s novella tells the story of twenty-eight-year-old Eva, in grief from the death of her childhood best friend and lover Sebastian. After Eva agrees to be her eccentric mother’s maid of honor, she finds herself swept up in events leading to her mother’s second marriage—including a mother-daughter adventure at a New Jersey spa. Startling revelations spur Eva to come to terms with not only her grief but a secret that threatens,...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
According to the old adage, a dog is man’s best friend. However, in small town West Texas, a dog is also young girl’s best friend. Told through the eyes of an adolescent female narrator, Carol Thornton’s Tails on the Hill depicts the happenings of the Hill Gang, an eclectic collection of dogs that wander in and out of her life. A refuge for all abandoned dogs, the narrator’s home shelters all types of personalities. Told in brief tales, each...
16) Catedrales
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Una adolescente aparece quemada y descuartizada en un descampado. Treinta a?nos despu?es, el crimen sigue sin aclararse y su familia y entorno se han desmoronado. Hace treinta a?nos, en un terreno bald?io de un barrio tranquilo, apareci?o descuartizado y quemado el cad?aver de una adolescente. La investigaci?on se cerr?o sin culpables y su familia -de clase media educada, formal y cat?olica- silenciosamente se fue resquebrajando. Pero, pasado ese...
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Lisa Hodges needs to make a decision fast. Thanks to her dead husband's gambling addiction, their savings is almost gone. In her early fifties with a large, waterfront home on Nantucket to support, Lisa hasn't worked in over thirty years, has no in-demand skills and is virtually unemployable. Her only options are to sell the house and move off-island, or, she could use her cooking and entertaining skills and turn her home into a bed and breakfast....
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
The journey began in Big Southern Hair & Highlights when two little girls were born in Truway, Texas. The girls didn't meet each other until they turned fourteen. By then they endured unexpected twists in their young lives, one of which was finding a diary hidden in a cellar which turned out to belong to their mother. The girls go on a quest to find out why they were separated and what happened to their mom. In Southern Grit & Glamour the twins are...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
The third and final book in the Southern Thyme Mystery Series, Southern Thyme Catering Company, is about CJ' s granddaughter, Trinity Taylor. She is on her own and the proud owner of her first restaurant in Reverence, Arizona. She hasn't been in town long when people start getting sick and falling into a deep sleep without waking up. Trinity and Pete Butler, a retired decorated army officer, join forces with their special local friend, Otis Warner,...
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