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Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Nell is twenty-six and has never been to Paris. She's never even been on a romantic weekend away -- to anywhere -- before. Traveling abroad isn't really her thing. But when Nell's boyfriend fails to show up for their mini-vacation, she has the opportunity to prove everyone -- including herself -- wrong. Alone in Paris, Nell finds a version of herself she never knew existed: independent and intrepid. Could this turn out to be the most adventurous...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Silver Matlock and Jared Newman know traveling together is a bad idea. Bad for Silver's already tarnished reputation in her small Colorado town. Bad for bounty hunter Jared's secret, single-minded mission for revenge. But Silver is determined to track down the rogue who left her at the altar and stole the last remnant of her father's fortune. And Jared's in a hurry to hunt down the murderer who destroyed his family-- even if Silver is too distractingly...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago Ellie Cavanaugh, a reporter, helped convict her neighbor of murder. Was he really guilty or had a terrible mistake been made? Determined to find the answers, Ellie returns to the scene of the crime: her hometown. But learning the truth may prove to be fatal.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Spirited Elizabeth Bennet copes with the suit of the snobbish Mr. Darcy while trying to sort out the romantic entanglements of two of her sisters, sweet and beautiful Jane and scatterbrained Lydia.
Author
Series
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"London, 1887. As the city prepares to celebrate Queen Victoria's golden jubilee, Veronica Speedwell is marking a milestone of her own. After burying her spinster aunt, the orphaned Veronica is free to resume her world travels in pursuit of scientific inquiry--and the occasional romantic dalliance. As familiar with hunting butterflies as she is fending off admirers, Veronica wields her butterfly net and a sharpened hatpin with equal aplomb, and with...
Author
Publisher
FaithWords
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Sir Giles Knyvet and Lady Mirabella Tirel were childhood playmates and close friends. Giles secretly loves Mirabella but plans to settle an old family debt before sharing his feelings. When Mirabella decides to endure one more London season, find a suitable match and settle down in the country, Giles fears he may have run out of time"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The thrilling new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of An Anonymous Girl and The Wife Between Us. Shay Miller has three strikes against her: no job, no apartment, no love in her life. But when she witnesses a perfectly normal looking young woman about her age make the chilling decision to leap in front of an ongoing subway train, Shay realizes she could end up in the same spiral. She is intrigued by a group of women who seem to...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"An extraordinarily imaginative and immersive novel, this one set in New York from 1911-1925"--
The daughter of a Coney Island boardwalk curiosities museum's front man pursues an impassioned love affair with a Russian immigrant photographer who after fleeing his Lower East Side Orthodox community has captured poignant images of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"A magical debut novel for readers of Naomi Novik's Uprooted, Erin Morgenstern'sThe Night Circus, and Neil Gaiman's myth-rich fantasies, The Bear and the Nightingale spins an irresistible spell as it announces the arrival of a singular talent with a gorgeous voice. At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn't mind--she spends the winter nights huddled around the...
50) The women
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The long-awaited, daring, and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad. Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn...
Author
Series
Virgin River volume 6
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Twenty-five-year-old Shelby MacIntyre discovers that opposites really do attract when, while visiting Virgin River, she meets Luke Riordan, a thirty-eight-year-old jaded former Blackhawk pilot who is afraid of commitment.
53) Dear Lucy
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Lucy is a young woman with an uncommon voice and an unusual way of looking at the world. She doesn't understand why her mother has sent her to live with old Mister and Missus on their farm, but she knows she must never leave or her mother won't be able to find her again. Also living at the farm is a pregnant teenager named Samantha who tells conflicting stories about her past and quickly becomes Lucy's only friend. When Samantha gives birth and her...
54) Abiding Mercy
Author
Series
An Amish mercies novel volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Faith has worked full-time in her parents' restaurant since she finished eighth grade. She loves her Amish community--and the romantic attentions of her longtime friend, Gideon. When her sister seems to be getting too friendly with Englischers, and her parents are in a buggy accident, Faith wants to escape into her dream of joining the church and getting married. But then a local newspaper runs a story about a child named Adriana...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When Jessica Farris signs up for a psychology study conducted by the mysterious Dr. Shields, she thinks all she'll have to do is answer a few questions, collect her money, and leave. But as the questions grow more and more intense and invasive and the sessions become outings where Jess is told what to wear and how to act, she begins to feel as though Dr. Shields may know what she's thinking ... and what she's hiding."--
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Molly Murphy, on the run from the police in Ireland, becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a man at Ellis Island.
58) Shattered
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Attorney Lisa Grant is back home in Kentucky to care for her ill mother. The Thoroughbred farm that has been in her mother's family for generations is near bankruptcy, so Lisa takes the only job available: research assistant to District Attorney Scott Buchanan. While reviewing cold cases, she comes across the file on a family disappearance thirty years earlier in which the mother and the toddler bear an uncanny resemblance to herself. Together with...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Two sisters reconnect and pursue their dreams on the beautiful island of Nantucket, overcoming life's challenges and finding new love, in this heartwarming and hopeful novel by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer. Eddie Grant is happy with her life and her work as a personal assistant to Dinah Lavender, one of the most famous and renowned romance authors in the business. But being a spectator to notoriety and glamour isn't as fulfilling...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
Description
A young woman in 1960's North Carolina resents the moonshining operation her family has conducted for generations, blaming it for her mother's death. When her father insists that moonshining is in her veins, Jessie devises a plan to destroy the stills. Her scheme escalates an old rivalry and reveals long-held grudges.