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Author
Series
Peachtree Bluff novels volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After finding out her military husband is missing in action, Sloane's world crumbles. She can barely climb out of bed, much less summon the strength to be the parent her children deserve. Her mother, Ansley, provides a much-needed respite as she puts her personal life on hold to help Sloane and her grandchildren wade through their new grief-stricken lives. But between caring for her own aging mother, her daughters, and her grandchildren, Ansley's...
1002) Ouija : origin of evil
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
In 1967 Los Angeles a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their seance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small family confronts unthinkable fears to save her and send her possessor back to the other side.
1003) Queen of hearts
Author
Series
Royal Spyness mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"My mother, the glamorous and much-married actress, is hearing wedding bells once again--which is why she must hop across the pond for a quickie divorce in Reno. To offer my moral support, and since all expenses are paid by her new hubby-to-be, Max, I agree to make the voyage with her. Crossing the Atlantic, with adventure in the air and wealthy men aboard, Mother meets movie mogul Cy Goldman, who insists on casting her in his next picture. Meanwhile,...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake's longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she's warily drawn back to the town--and people--she left behind almost a decade earlier. But Hazel's not the only relic of the past to return: a drought has descended on the region, and as the water level in the lake drops, long-hidden secrets begin to emerge . . . including evidence that may help finally explain the mystery of her mother's...
Author
Series
Seven sisters (Lucinda Riley) volume 6
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Electra d'Aplièse is a top model who seems to have it all: beauty, fame, and wealth. But beneath the glittery veneer, she's cracking under all the pressure. When her father dies, she turns to alcohol and drugs to ease the pain. As friends and colleagues fear for her health, Electra receives a shocking letter from a stranger who claims to be her grandmother. In 1939, New Yorker Cecily Huntley-Morgan arrives in Kenya's Lake Naivasha region for the...
1006) The secret hours
Author
Series
Deverill chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Arethusa Clayton has always been formidable, used to getting her own way. On her death, she leaves unexpected instructions. Instead of being buried in America, on the wealthy East Coast where she and her late husband raised their two children, Arethusa has decreed that her ashes be scattered in a remote corner of Ireland, on the hills overlooking the sea. All Arethusa ever told Faye was that she grew up in a poor farming family and left Ireland, alone,...
1007) Little lovely things
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A mother's chance decision leads to a twist of fate that is every parent's worst nightmare--her daughters are missing. All she has to hold on to are her strained marriage, a potentially unreliable witness who emerges days later, and the desperate but unquenchable belief that her daughters are out there somewhere"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Penny and Tate have often clashed, despite their mothers' epic friendship; but now that they are living in the same house, beset by medical crises and Penny's problems dealing with the trauma of her father's death, they have to come to terms with their true feelings for each other.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, about addiction and sex, family and independence, and who holds the power in a modern underworld. Camp counselor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one of her campers offers an alternative. The CEO of a Fortune...
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A fictional retelling of the life of Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, the daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, who redefined the role of a princess in Victorian England"--
"Based on the true story of the free-spirited daughter of Queen Victoria. As a young woman, Princess Louise is considered the most beautiful and talented daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. She is also strong-willed and resists following the queen's rigid rules...
1011) The breaking point
Author
Series
Chammont Point volume 3
Publisher
Pink Sand Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
For most of her life, Taylor O'Shea preferred being a loner. After her mother was incarcerated when Taylor was seven, she grew up hard-thanks in part to her construction-worker grandfather who made her tough as nails. Finally, in Chammont Point, Taylor, for the first time, finds friends who love her for her rough edges, not in spite of them. With her best friends in tow, she heads to Arizona to face the woman whose bad choices shaped the very woman...
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Maleficent travels to a grand old castle to celebrate young Aurora's upcoming wedding to Prince Phillip. While there, she meets Aurora's future mother-in-law -- a conniving queen who hatches a devious plot to destroy the land's fairies. Hoping to stop her, Maleficent joins forces with a seasoned warrior and a group of outcasts to battle the queen and her powerful army.
1013) Estrella de mar
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA, LLC
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
Ellie está cansada de que la avergüencen por su peso y decide cambiar eso en esta conmovedora novela en verso, la primera de Lisa Flipps. Desde que Ellie usó un traje de baño de ballena y causó gran revuelo en su fiesta de cumpleaños número 5, ha sido acosada por su peso. Para sobrellevar la situación, trata de vivir según las Reglas de las Chicas Gordas, como "no hacer olas", "evitar comer en público" y "no moverse tan rápido para que...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A searing and deeply personal memoir that explores the institutions--family, society, country--that defined a Puerto Rican woman and what she unlearned to rediscover herself. Growing up in the Midwest, raised by a Puerto Rican mother who was abandoned by her family, Jamie Figueroa and her sisters were estranged from their culture, consumed by the whiteness that surrounded them. In Mother Island, Figueroa traces her search for identity as shaped by...
1015) The empty nesters
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Dear friends and army wives Diana, Carmen, and Joanie have been through war, rumors of war, marital problems, motherhood, fears, joy, and heartache. But none of the women are prepared when their daughters decide to enlist in the army together. Facing an empty nest won't be easy ... With nothing to lose and no one at home, the girlfriends impulsively accept an unexpected offer from their elderly neighbor. The recently widowed Tootsie has an RV, a...
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