Engel, Amy
Summary: Returning to her family's Kansas estate in the hopes of discovering the fate of her missing cousin, Lane reconnects with a young man from her past and is confronted by dark family secrets that prompted her to flee years earlier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENGEngel, Amy
Summary: After her mother's suicide, fifteen year-old Lane Roanoke came to live with her grandparents and fireball cousin, Allegra, on their vast estate in rural Kansas. Lane knew little of her mother's mysterious family, but she quickly embraced life as one of the rich and beautiful Roanoke girls. But when she discovered the dark truth at the heart of the family, she ran ... fast and far away. Eleven...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ENGRendell, Ruth
Summary: The psychologically charged affairs between residents and servants on a posh London street escalate to violence involving a handsome valet who is sleeping with a lord's wife and daughter, an au pair who aids her mistress's affair, and a disturbed gardener.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2012
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Summary: A decade after the killing of her stepfather, Ismay is still haunted by nightmares of his murder and of seeing his naked body floating in the bathtub and her sister, Heather, standing over him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RENBender, Aimee.
Summary: Being able to taste people's emotions in food may at first be horrifying. But young, unassuming Rose Edelstein grows up learning to harness her gift as she becomes aware that there are secrets even her taste buds cannot discern.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Publishing 2012
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Summary: Violet Minturn, a half-Chinese/half-American courtesan who deals in seduction and illusion in Shanghai, struggles to find her place in the world, while her mother, Lucia, tries to make sense of the choices she has made and the men who have shaped her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harperluxe 2013
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Summary: When Hadley McCauley tries to take her own life after an explosive accident, her doctor, friends, family, and the investigator want to know what happened that day, but Hadley's not talking. The McCauleys look perfect on the outside, but this family is hiding a dark secret. Hadley will do anything to keep her sister safe from their father. When Hadley's forbidden relationship with Charlie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GILScheibe, Amy.
Summary: "[Emmaline] Nelson and her sister Birdie grow up in the hard, cold, rural, Lutheran world of strict parents, strict milking times, and strict morals. Marriage is preordained, the groom practically predestined. Though it's 1958, southern Minnesota did not see changing roles for women on the horizon. Caught in a time bubble between a world war and the ferment of the 1960s, Emmy doesn't see that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHBurns, Amy Jo
Summary: An hour from the closest West Virginia mining town, fifteen-year-old Wren Bird lives in a cloistered mountain cabin with her parents. They have no car, no mailbox, and no visitors-except for her mother's lifelong best friend. Every Sunday, Wren's father delivers winding sermons in an abandoned gas station, where he takes up serpents and praises the Lord for his blighted white eye, proof of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Burns 2020Nathan, Amy Sue
Summary: When a tragic car accident ends the life of Richard Glass, it also upends the lives of Evie and Nicole, and their children. There's no love lost between the widow and the ex. In fact, Evie sees a silver lining in all this heartache-- the chance to rid herself of Nicole once and for all. But Evie wasn't counting on her children's bond with their baby half-brother, and she wasn't counting on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: When a tragic car accident ends the life of Richard Glass, it also upends the lives of Evie and Nicole, and their children. There's no love lost between the widow and the ex. In fact, Evie sees a silver lining in all this heartache-- the chance to rid herself of Nicole once and for all. But Evie wasn't counting on her children's bond with their baby half-brother, and she wasn't counting on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NATAbu-Jaber, Diana
Summary: "A mesmerizing breakthrough novel of family myths and inheritances by the award-winning author of Crescent. Amani is hooked on a mystery-a poem on airmail paper that slips out of one of her father's books. It seems to have been written by her grandmother, a refugee who arrived in Jordan during the First World War. Soon the perfect occasion to investigate arises: her Uncle Hafez, an advisor to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABUAbi-Ezzi, Nathalie
Summary: "In her peaceful town outside Beirut, Ruba is slowly awakening to the shifting contours within her household: hardly speaking and refusing to work, her father has inexplicably withdrawn from his family in favor of his favorite armchair; her once-youthful mother looks so sad that Ruba imagines her heart must have withered like a fig in the heat; and Ruba's brother, Naji, has started to spend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABIJohns, Ana
Summary: "Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura's prearranged marriage to the son of her father's business associate would secure her family's status in their traditional Japanese community, but Naoko has fallen for another man--an American sailor, a gaijin--and to marry him would bring great shame upon her entire family. When it's learned Naoko carries the sailor's child, she's cast out in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHReyes, Ana
Summary: "Maya was a high school senior when her best friend, Aubrey, mysteriously dropped dead in front of the enigmatic man named Frank whom they'd started spending time with that summer. Seven years later, Maya lives in Boston with a loving boyfriend and is kicking the secret addiction that has allowed her to cope with what happened years ago, the gaps in her memories, and the lost time that she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC PALStandish, Ali
Summary: While spending the summer with her mother's old friend, twelve-year-old Miranda tries to uncover the mysteries behind her mother's past and to understand why her mother seems so distant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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Summary: Not far from Luella and Effie Tildon's large family mansion looms the House of Mercy, a workhouse for wayward girls. When the sisters accidentally learn a secret about their father, the brazen older sister, Luella, becomes emboldened to do as she pleases. But then one morning she is mysteriously gone. Effie suspects her father has sent Luella to the House of Mercy, and the only way to free...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BURHoover, Colleen
Summary: "Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of best-selling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, hoping for a respite in the French countryside, are instead caught up in a case that turns both bewildering and intensely personal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2024
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Summary: When Autumn returns to her hometown, she runs into a previous boyfriend and old feelings resurface. But should she hold out hope for the return of her missing husband?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Letting go of her ex-husband is harder than wedding-dress designer Jenny Tate expected--especially since his new wife wants to be Jenny's new best friend. Sensing this isn't exactly helping her achieve closure, Jenny trades the Manhattan skyline for her hometown up the Hudson, where she'll start her own business and bask in her sister Rachel's picture-perfect family life--and maybe even find a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015