Atherton, Nancy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATHMorton, Kate
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009
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Summary: A tiny girl is abandoned on a ship headed for Australia in 1913. She arrives completely alone with nothing but a small suitcase containing a few clothes and a single book -- a beautiful volume of fairy tales. She is taken in by the dockmaster and his wife and raised as their own. On her twenty-first birthday, they tell her the truth, and with her sense of self shattered and very little to go...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P MORJames, Rebecca
Summary: "Rebecca James unveils a chilling modern gothic novel of a family consumed by the shadows and secrets of its past in The Woman in the Mirror. For more than two centuries, Winterbourne Hall has stood atop a bluff overseeing the English countryside of Cornwall and the sea beyond. In 1947, Londoner Alice Miller accepts a post as governess at Winterbourne, looking after Captain Jonathan de Grey's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Theia 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYSteel, Danielle
Summary: Sabrina Brooks is a successful author of gripping thrillers living a peaceful life, hiding a painful past. When she inherits an estate outside London, she plans to sell it. Why upset her stability? But a tour with handsome estate attorney Grayson Abbot makes her reconsider.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STESo, Anthony Veasna
Summary: "The late Anthony Veasna So's debut story collection, Afterparties, was a landmark publication, hailed as a "bittersweet triumph for a fresh voice silenced too soon" (Fresh Air). And he was equally known for his comic, soulful essays, published in n+1, the New Yorker, and The Millions. Songs on Endless Repeat gathers those essays together, along with previously unpublished fiction. Written with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: For Glory Hopkins, inheriting her Aunt Lucille's Harlem brownstone feels more like a curse than a blessing. As a restless artist struggling to find gallery representation, Glory doesn't have the money, time, or patience to look after the aging house of an aunt she barely knew. But when she stumbles into Parkie de Groot, a savvy, ambitious auction house appraiser on the verge of a coveted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC LYOWilkerson, Charmaine
Summary: "In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILQuincy, Diana
Summary: When his American stepmother, who inherited his father's estate, is found dead, the Duke of Strickland, whom everyone knows detested the dowager duchess, fights for his castle and his reputation when Raya Darwish, the dowager duchess's heir, arrives to claim what is hers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC QUIAtherton, Nancy.
Summary: Lori Shepherd, with the ghost of her Aunt Dimity by her side, uncovers skeletons in the closets at a lush English country estate where her husband has been summoned to a will reading.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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Summary: Accompanying her husband to the Earl of Harrisford's will reading, Lori Shepherd witnesses the Harrisford family erupt in a heated dispute involving burning topiaries, threatening notes, and suspicious maids.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS ATHWillett, Marcia.
Summary: When Maudie Todhunter, the elderly owner of a charming farmhouse in Cornwall, decides to sell the family homestead, a family drama unfolds, with old secrets bubbling to the surface.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILGregory, Philippa.
Summary: From the Publisher: Beatrice Lacey, as strong-minded as she is beautiful, refuses to conform to the social customs of her time. Destined to lose her family name and beloved Wideacre estate once she is wed, Beatrice will use any means necessary to protect her ancestral heritage. Seduction, betrayal, even murder-Beatrice's passion is without apology or conscience. "She is a Lacey of Wideacre,"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 2003
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Summary: When Jennifer Smiley's grandmother leaves her an old farmhouse, she can't pass up the chance for a new start. But she soon learns there is a lot to uncover in Ross County, and more than one secret better left buried.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GRASummary: A beautiful musical comedy that follows one young man's journey as he experiences the true spirit of Ukraine on his search for a woman to call his wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HUTForbes, Lani
Summary: Thrust into leadership upon the death of his emperor father, young Prince Ahkin feels completely unready for his new position. Though his royal blood controls the power of the sun, he's now responsible for the lives of all the Chicome people. And despite all of Ahkin's efforts, the sun is fading--and the end of the world may be at hand. For Mayana, the only daughter of the Chicome family whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FORMonir, Alexandra.
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Imogene Rockford turned away from her family and their English country manor after her parents' death, but assumes her duty as the new Duchess of Wickersham despite threats and strange occurrences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2014
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC MONHostin, Sunny
Summary: A novel about a life-changing summer along the beaches of Martha's Vineyard. Oak Bluffs is the most exclusive black beach community in the country, a mecca for the crème de la crème of black society. Thirty years ago, Amelia Vaux Tanner and her husband built a house high on the bluffs, a cottage they named Chateau Laveau. "Ama's" three gifted "goddaughters:" Esperanza "Perry" Soto, an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HOSSebastian, Laura
Summary: Princess Theodosia was a prisoner in her own country for a decade. As the Ash Princess she endured relentless abuse and ridicule from the Kaiser and his court. Now free, with a misfit army of rebels to back her, Theo must liberate her enslaved people and face a terrifying new enemy: the new Kaiserin. Imbued with a magic no one understands, the Kaiserin is determined to burn down anyone and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SEBEvanovich, Janet
Summary: When Stephanie's beloved Grandma Mazur's new husband died on their wedding night, the only thing he left her was a beat-up old easy chair...and the keys to a life-changing fortune. But as Stephanie and Grandma Mazur search for Jimmy Rosolli's treasure, they discover that they're not the only ones on the hunt. Two dangerous enemies from the past stand in their way--along with a new adversary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2020
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Summary: "The empire is in full festival mode. But for Aristia, the ballroom is yet another battlefield and every dance step a desperate riposte. Princesses from neighboring kingdoms are here, and they have one goal--to take her place by Ruveliss's side! To that end, they are willing to use every dirty trick in the book to humiliate Tia and turn the prince against her. But as she begins to falter under...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2023
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Summary: "When Grandma Mazur's new husband dies on their wedding night, the only thing he left her was an old easy chair and the keys to a fortune, but as Stephanie and Grandma Mazur search for the treasure, they discover that two past enemies, along with a new adversary stand in their way, and the search turns into a race against time with more on the line than ever before because Stephanie's deepest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M EVAAusten, Jane
Summary: "Sense and Sensibility (1811) marked the auspicious debut of a novelist identified only as 'A Lady.' Jane Austen's name has since become as familiar as Shakespeare's, and her tale of two sisters has lost none of its power to delight. Patricia Meyer Spacks guides readers to a deeper appreciation of the richness of Austen's delineation of her heroines, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, as they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013