Alyssa Bresnahan
1) The keepsake
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
When a perfectly preserved "mummy" is discovered in the dusty basement of Boston's Crispin Museum and an archaeologist turns up missing, medical examiner Maura Isles and Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli have precious little time to derail the Archaeology Killer before he adds another chilling piece to his monstrous collection.
Author
Series
Brides of Seattle volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Abrianna Cunningham has always viewed her longtime friend, Wade Ackerman, as a protective brother. Lately, however, she's begun to see him differently and finds herself attracted romantically to him. But she's confused and overwhelmed by these unfamiliar feelings. Wade, on the other hand, has loved Abrianna for some time and has been waiting for her to realize they are more than just friends. When he asks her to marry him, she asks for time to adjust...
Author
Series
Brides of Seattle volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, A division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In 1880s Seattle, Washington, Lenore Fulcher desires love while so many around her are finding it; when lawyer Kolbein Booth arrives searching for his sister at a finishing school for mail-order brides, he and Lenore face danger and uncertainty amidst their growing attraction"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Brides of Seattle volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In 1889 Seattle, Washington, Militine and Thane meet while serving the local poor. Though both carry a dark history and a sense of haunting pain, they begin to grow closer and wonder whether God can build something new and beautiful from the debris of the past"-- Provided by publisher.
5) Mercy
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult comes a “sensitive exploration of the balance of love” (Publishers Weekly).
What would you do for someone you love?
Would you lie?
Would you leave?
Would you kill?
Cameron MacDonald has spent his life guided by duty. As the police chief of a small Massachusetts town that has been home to generations of his Scottish clan, he...
What would you do for someone you love?
Would you lie?
Would you leave?
Would you kill?
Cameron MacDonald has spent his life guided by duty. As the police chief of a small Massachusetts town that has been home to generations of his Scottish clan, he...
Author
Series
Nantucket legacy volume 1
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Phoebe Starbuck has always adjusted her sails and rudder to the whims of her father. Now, for the first time, she's doing what she wants to do: marrying Captain Phineas Foulger and sailing far away from Nantucket. As she leaves on her grand adventure, her father gives her two gifts, both of which Phoebe sees little need for. The first is an old sheepskin journal from Great Mary, her highly revered great-grandmother. The other is a "minder" on the...
Author
Series
Nantucket legacy volume 2
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Six long years ago, Captain Reynolds Macy sailed away from his bride, looking forward to the day when he would return to Nantucket Island with a ship's hold full of whale oil. But when that momentous day finally arrives, Ren soon discovers that everything has changed in his absence. Everything. Suzanne Woods Fisher welcomes readers back to the Quaker community on Nantucket Island for a riveting love story full of unexpected moments.
Author
Series
Nantucket legacy volume 3
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When a young Quaker woman learns her inheritance comes with strings attached, she must decide whether to remain true to family ties or follow her heart.
Author
Series
Zimmerman restoration trilogy volume 1
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Suzanne Zimmerman was only seventeen and pregnant when her shamed mother quietly sent her away from their Old Order Mennonite community in Kansas. With her old home, family, and first love firmly behind her, Suzanne moved to Indiana, became a nurse, and raised a daughter, Alexa, on her own. Now, nearly twenty years later, an unexpected letter arrives from Kansas. Her brother asks her to bring her nursing abilities home and care for their ailing mother....
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Home. . . . That's what Martha's Vineyard is to Annie Sutton now.
After a winter spent writing her latest novel, Annie looks forward to a summer with friends who have become like the family she never had. But then her landlord announces that his grandson will be moving into her cozy Chappaquiddick cottage-and she'll be moving out. Year-round island housing is tough to find at any time; in summer, it's nearly impossible. Shaken by the thought of...
Author
Publisher
Knopf/Borzoi
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Unfolding over the course of a single, emotionally fraught day, this stunning novel encompasses a lifetime of dreams, regrets, and reckonings. Maggie and Ira Moran are on a road trip from Baltimore, Maryland, to Deer Lick, Pennsylvania, to attend the funeral of a friend. Along the way, they reflect on the state of their marriage and its trials and its triumphs—through their quarrels, their routines, and their ability to tolerate each other's...
Author
Series
Zimmerman restoration trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Waterbrook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
It wasn't easy to move back to the Old Order Mennonite community from which quiet, responsible Suzanne Zimmerman was shamefully sent away as a pregnant teen. Returning twenty years later to take care of her mother, Suzanne and Alexa -- the daughter she raised as her own -- have spent months rebuilding relationships with her family. Now with the upcoming wedding of their biological daughter, Suzanne and Paul find themselves drawn to one another once...
14) When Grace sings
Author
Publisher
Waterbrook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
As Alexa Zimmerman tries to win over the members of her Kanasas Old Order Mennonite community, a Chicago reporter with unknown motivation becomes a long-term guest at her bed and breakfast and a cousin arrives with a secret related to Alexa's own.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow & Company
Pub. Date
20221206
Language
English
Description
Darby Kane, the author of the critically acclaimed and #1 International Bestseller Pretty Little Wife, has crafted another gripping and twisty suspense about an invitation to an exclusive club that comes with deadly consequences.
They meet the second Tuesday of every month and vote...and then someone dies.
Over the last few years, prominent people, a retired diplomat, beloved basketball coach, the CEO of an empire, have died in a series of fluke...
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An imaginative story of a woman caught in an alternate world-where she will need to learn the skills of magic to surviveNora Fischers dissertation is stalled and her boyfriend is about to marry another woman. During a miserable weekend at a friends wedding, Nora wanders off and walks through a portal into a different world where shes transformed from a drab grad student into a stunning beauty. Before long, she has a set of glamorous new friends...