Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
"Eighteen-year-old Stella Sandell stands accused of the brutal murder of a man almost fifteen years her senior. She is an ordinary teenager from an upstanding local family. What reason could she have to know a shady businessman, let alone to kill him? Stella's father, a pastor, and mother, a criminal defense attorney, find their moral compasses tested as they defend their daughter, while struggling to understand why she is a suspect. Told in an unusual...
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Elfrida Phipps, once on the London stage and retired at sixty-two, never anticipates going off with a man. But after a devastating tragedy, church organist Oscar Blundell asks for her companionship. So with her brown-and-white dog in tow, Elfrida begins her journey, not knowing that joining her and Oscar at a rundown Victorian house in Scotland will be a young woman nursing a broken heart, a teenage escaping an unhappy home, and a stranger arriving...
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Three couples. Three houses. One home to die for… When one of the sales falls through, how far will someone go to get everything they’ve always wanted?A totally addictive and absolutely gripping psychological thriller with a killer twist you won’t see coming.
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Sisters Lindsay and Kerrie Ann, who endured a difficult life without help from their neglectful mother, try to reconnect thirty years later, after being separated and put into foster care, and find that they ended up in dissimilar situations that make formation of a new bond difficult.
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
"Grandpa and Noah are sitting on a bench in a square that keeps getting smaller every day. The square is strange but also familiar, full of the odds and ends that have made up their lives: Grandpa's work desk, the stuffed dragon that Grandpa once gave to Noah, the sweet-smelling hyacinths that Grandma loved to grow in her garden. As they wait together on the bench, they tell jokes and discuss their shared love of mathematics. Grandpa recalls what...
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On his last day in power, with a blizzard threatening Wyoming with 18 inches of snow, Sheriff Bittersmith is called to the scene of a crime. A farmer has been stabbed clean through the neck with a pitchfork. Two sets of tracks lead from the barn, and the dead man's frantic wife exclaims her daughter is missing. Convinced it was Gale G'Wain, the orphan who worked at the farm, Bittersmith follows the vanishing footprints into the storm. Three miles...
Author
Series
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
Deals with a young girl's quest for reality and her eventual acceptance of the place of illusion in human existence.
This novel is one of the most ambitious and remarkable literary achievements of our time. It is a picaresque, psychological novel--a novel of the road, a journey or voyage of the human spirit in its search for reality in a world of illusion and nightmare. It is an epic of what might be called the Arabian Nights of American life. Marguerite...
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Working as a hotel maid despite her dreams of being an artist, Misty keeps a diary as she sits by the side of her husband, comatose after a suicide attempt, which unlocks Misty's creative energies and causes her to paint compulsively.
10) Not guilty
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Keely Bennett will do almost anything to defend her son when an ambitious prosecutor tries to implicate him in the drowning death of his stepfather, but Keely's investigation into what really happened leads to the revelation of old secrets that someone is willing to kill to keep.
Author
Series
Chocolat novels (Joanne Harris) volume 2
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
The wind has always dictated Vianne Rocher's every move, buffeting her from the French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes to the crowded streets of Paris. Cloaked in a new identity, that of widow Yanne Charbonneau, she opens a chocolaterie on a small Montmartre street, determined to still the wind at last and keep her daughters, Anouk and baby Rosette, safe. But the weather vane soon turns, and Zozie de l'Alba blows into their lives.
12) Ladder of years
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Baltimore woman disappears during family vacation, declares the headline. Forty-year-old Delia Grinstead is last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing nothing more than a bathing suit and carrying a beach tote with five hundred dollars tucked inside. To her husband and three almost-grown children, she has vanished without trace or reason. But for Delia, who feels like a tiny gnat buzzing around her family's edges, "walking away from it all"...
14) 72 hour hold
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Trina suffers from bipolar disorder, making her paranoid, wild, and violent. Watching her child turn into a bizarre stranger, Keri searches for assistance through normal channels. She quickly learns that a seventy-two hour hold is the only help you can get when an adult child starts to spiral out of control. After three days, Trina can sign herself out of any program. Fed up with the bureaucracy of the mental health community and determined to save...
15) Broken for you
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
“A dazzling mosaic of intersecting lives and fates . . . Comparisons to John Irving and Tennessee Williams would not be amiss in this show-stopping debut” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
The national bestseller and Today Show Book Club selection, Broken for You is the story of two women in self-imposed exile whose lives are transformed when their paths intersect . . ....
The national bestseller and Today Show Book Club selection, Broken for You is the story of two women in self-imposed exile whose lives are transformed when their paths intersect . . ....
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
The contented life of an American woman living in Switzerland, dating a rich Swiss industrialist, is turned upside down when a famous photographer awakens her passionate side, which had lay dormant since the death of her husband.
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
When Julia learns that her sister has been violently murdered, she must uncover why. Becoming involved with a dangerous stranger online, she starts losing herself ... losing control ... perhaps losing everything. Her search for answers will jeopardize her marriage, her family, and her life.
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Young widow Grace Bagshaw Vance, an ex-beauty queen in Dahlonega, Georgia, decides to take whatever steps are necessary to preserve her late husband's reputation after action-movie superstar Stone Senterra decides to bring Harp's life story to the big screen, but soon finds her efforts complicated by her growing feelings for Boone Noleene, Senterra's bodyguard.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request