Powell-Tuck, Maudie
Summary: In this moving story of love, family, and the magic of Christmas, Benji, whose family has very little, stumbles upon a magnificent store on Christmas Eve where he learns that the most important gifts are the ones money can't buy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiger Tales 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE POWMackie, Bella
Summary: When Grace Bernard discovers her absentee millionaire father has rejected her dying mother's pleas for help, she vows revenge, and sets about to kill every member of his family. Readers have a front row seat as Grace picks off the family one by one - and the result is as gruesome as it is entertaining in this wickedly dark romp about class, family, love - and murder. But then Grace is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Borough Press 2021
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Summary: Recently married, psychologist Bea and Dan, a mixed-race artist, rent out their tiny flat to escape London for a few precious months. Driving through France they visit Bea's dropout brother Alex at the hotel he runs in Burgundy. Disturbingly, they find him all alone and the ramshackle hotel deserted, apart from the nest of snakes in the attic. When Alex and Bea's parents make a surprise visit,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONJones, Sadie
Summary: Recently married, psychologist Bea and Dan, a mixed-race artist, rent out their tiny flat to escape London for a few precious months. Driving through France they visit Bea's dropout brother Alex at the hotel he runs in Burgundy. Disturbingly, they find him all alone and the ramshackle hotel deserted, apart from the nest of snakes in the attic. When Alex and Bea's parents make a surprise visit,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JONMedie, Peace A.
Summary: When Selasi and Akorfa were young girls in Ghana, they were more than just cousins; they were inseparable. Selasi was exuberant and funny, Akorfa quiet and studious. They would do anything for each other, imploring their parents to let them be together, sharing their secrets and desires and private jokes. Then Selasi begins to change, becoming hostile and quiet; her grades suffer and she builds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEDO'Farrell, Maggie
Summary: "Daniel Sullivan, a young American professor reeling from a failed marriage and a brutal custody battle, is on holiday in Ireland when he falls in love with Claudette, a world famous sexual icon and actress who fled fame for a reclusive life in a rural village. Together, they make an idyllic life in the country, raising two more children in blissful seclusion until a secret from Daniel's past...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction O'Farrell 2016Stiefvater, Maggie
Summary: Here is a thing everyone wants: a miracle. Here is a thing everone fears: what it takes to get one. Any visitor to Bicho Raro, Colorado, is likely to find a landscape of dark saints, forbidden love, scientific dreams, miracle-mad owls, estranged affections, one or two orphans, and a sky full of watchful desert stars. At the heart of this place you will find the Soria family, who all have the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC STIBostwick, Marie
Summary: "The Restoration of Celia Fairchild is wise, witty, and utterly compelling." --Jane Green, New York Times bestselling author of The Friends We Keep Evvie Drake Starts Over meets The Friday Night Knitting Club in this wise and witty novel about a fired advice columnist who discovers lost and found family members in Charleston, by the New York Times bestselling author of The Second Sister. Celia...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BOSBostwick, Marie
Summary: "Celia Fairchild, known as advice columnist 'Dear Calpurnia,' has insight into everybody's problems - except her own. Still bruised by the end of a marriage she thought was her last chance to create a family, Celia receives an unexpected answer to a "Dear Birthmother" letter. Celia throws herself into proving she's perfect adoptive mother material - with a stable home and income - only to lose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOSBostwick, Marie
Summary: Esme Cahill thinks she has failed spectacularly: fired from her New York City publishing job, divorced from her husband, and possessing little more than a broken-down car and a pile of unfinished manuscripts, she drives home to Asheville at the request of her late grandmother, Adele, who had begged her, just before she died, to return to the place she grew up. There she discovers the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: Follows four generations of the Montrose family, who have been living with a curse that leaves any person they fall in love with dead, stemming back to a Voodoo sorceress in 1950s New Orleans' French Quarter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROEverson, Eva Marie
Summary: "Can an ordinary life leave an extraordinary legacy? In 1977, when nineteen-year-old Allison Middleton receives a proposal of marriage from Westley Houser, she eagerly accepts, having no idea the secret Westley carries--a secret that will change Allison's life forever. But Allison rises to the challenge of raising Westley's toddling daughter as though she were her own. Over the course of their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Southern Fiction, an imprint of Lighthouse Publishers of the Carolinas 2021