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1) Intervention
Author
Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
A mother's last hope becomes the beginning of a new nightmare in this New York Times bestselling suspense novel. Barbara Covington has one more chance to save her daughter from a devastating addiction, by staging an intervention. But when eighteen-year-old Emily disappears on the way to drug treatment-and her interventionist is found dead at the airport-Barbara enters her darkest nightmare of all. Barbara and her son set out to find Emily before...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The beloved author of the Mystic Creek series gifts readers with a novel of homespun good cheer, as two families discover the joy of hope and redemption--just in time for the holidays. As summer gives way to fall in Rustlers Gulch, widow Maddie McLendon begins to have second thoughts about uprooting her life to move there with her son and grandson. Contractors have yet to break ground on their new house, leaving them--along with four horses, three...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
When his father and sister are injured in an accident that has rendered his father comatose, estranged son Edward decides to stop his father's life support so that his organs can be donated, a choice his sister urges him to reconsider.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
As Anthony and Rachel Brinkley welcome their third daughter-in-law to the family, they dont quite realize the profound shift that is about to take place. For different reasons, the Brinkleys two previous daughters-in-law hadnt been able to resist Rachels maternal control and Anthonys gentle charm and had settled into their husbands family without rocking the boat. But Charlotte-very young, very beautiful, and spoiled-has no intention of falling into...
6) Home safe
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Recently widowed Helen Ames and her twenty-seven-year-old daughter Tessa discover that money has disappeared in several big withdrawals from the Ames' retirement savings. What Helen's husband did with all their money turns out to be provocative, revelatory--and leads Helen and her daughter to embark on new adventures, and change.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
A lawyer searches the Brazilian jungle for a missionary doctor working with Indians, the illegitimate daughter of an American tycoon who left her his fortune. But the tycoon's legitimate children are determined to prevent the inheritance.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Heather Willette has a good life in Concord, Massachusetts -- complete with a husband who runs his own business and a son to take up his mantle one day. But now that her marriage has fizzled out and Ross, her only child, is graduating from college and getting serious with his girlfriend, Heather wonders if that life is the one she really wants. Ready to seek out her own happiness and discover herself again, Heather decides to leave her husband and...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Frustrated with the sad state of her dating life, restaurateur Chloe Anderson penned a single romance novel featuring the man of her dreams. Upon the book's publication, the hero resonated with thousands of women, catapulting the book to the top of the bestsellers list and earning the novel a movie option. Chloe is thrilled a production company wants to bring her movie to the big screen and film it right in her hometown, Stillwater Bay, North Carolina....
10) Modern lovers
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times' bestselling author of The Vacationers, a smart, highly entertaining novel about a tight-knit group of friends from college--their own kids now going to college--and what it means to finally grow up well after adulthood has set in. Friends and former college bandmates Elizabeth and Andrew and Zoe have watched one another marry, buy real estate, and start businesses and families, all while trying to hold on to the identities...
11) Family ties
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Annie Ferguson was a bright young Manhattan architect. Talented, beautiful, just starting out with her first job, new apartment and boyfriend, she had the world in the palm of her hand, until a single phone call altered the course of her life forever. Overnight, she became the mother to her sister's three orphaned children, keeping a promise she never regretted making, even if it meant putting her own life indefinitely on hold.