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Sharpe and Walker volume 2
Publisher:
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date:
©2024
Language:
English
Description:
"Vacant homes in a new housing development are erupting into flames in broad daylight with no apparent cause. It's a perplexing mystery for dogged arson investigator Walter Sharpe and his restless new partner, Andrew Walker, an ex-US marshal who craves action. But as they puzzle over the blazes, another home miles away burns to the ground, leaving a man's corpse in the ashes and homicide detectives Eve Ronin and Duncan Pavone demanding answers. The...
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English
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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"Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life--living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising their beautiful son, Asher--was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined that she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in and taking over her father's beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too....
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English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
When professional house-sitter Lila Emerson witnesses a murder/suicide from her current apartment-sitting job, life as she knows it takes a dramatic turn. Suddenly, the woman with no permanent ties finds herself almost wishing for one. Artist Ashton Archer knows his brother isn't capable of violence--against himself or others. He recruits Lila, the only eyewitness, to help him uncover what happened. Ash longs to paint her as intensely as he hungers...
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Series:
Blood and ash volume 2
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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"A Betrayal...Everything Poppy has ever believed in is a lie, including the man she was falling in love with. Thrust among those who see her as a symbol of a monstrous kingdom, she barely knows who she is without the veil of the Maiden. But what she does know is that nothing is as dangerous to her as him. The Dark One. The Prince of Atlantia. He wants her to fight him, and that's one order she's more than happy to obey. He may have taken her, but...
5. Even now
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Series:
Lost Love volume 1
Language:
English
Description:
Sometimes hope for the future is found in the ashes of yesterday. Shane Gelernter is a man ready to put down roots after years of searching. But is he making the right choice? Or is there a woman somewhere who even now remembers-as does he-those long-ago days . . . and a love that hasn't faced with time? Lauren Gibbs is a successful international war correspondent who gave up on happily-ever-after years ago-when it was ripped away from her. Since...
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English
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Caelum Quirk and his wife Maureen move to Colorado and find jobs at Columbine High School. One day in April 1999, when Caelum is called away by a family emergency, Maureen cowers in a cupboard in the school library, hiding from two students on a murderous rampage. Though miraculously she survives, Maureen cannot recover from the trauma. Seeking solace, the couple returns to Connecticut to an illusion of safety on the Quirk family farm. As Maureen...
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Series:
Home to Ireland mystery volume 1
Language:
English
Description:
"New Yorker Tara Meehan's first trip to Galway may be her last ... Tara never imagined her introduction to Ireland like this - carrying her mam's ashes to honor her final request: Tell Johnny I'm sorry ... Take me home. She's never met her mam's estranged brother, Johnny Meehan, who owns an architectural salvage business in Galway. Although Tara is immediately charmed by the medieval city, the locals seem wary of strangers and a gypsy warns her that...
8. Lady smoke
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Series:
Ash Princess volume 2
Lexile measure:
860L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"After fleeing Astrea and regaining her freedom, Theo searches for new allies to help her reclaim her throne, although that comes at a steep price. And with her enemies closer than she thinks, Theo's fight to win back Astrea may prove not only impossible, but deadly"--
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Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble returns to the beach in her latest summer read about the family we create and the wishes we make that can shape us. Zoe Bascombe has never said no to her family. When she blew her Juilliard audition, she caved to their wishes and went to business school. But when her mother dies and leaves instructions for Zoe to spread her ashes at a place called Wind Chime Beach, she defies her brothers and starts...
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English
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She's blossomed from a wealthy surgeon's beautiful daughter to elegant socialite to being the top fashion stylist in the country. And Nora Mackenzie is only days away from marrying into one of New York's richest, most powerful families. But her fairy tale rise is rooted in an incredible deception-one scandal away from turning her perfect world to ashes . . . What no one knows is that Nora is the biracial daughter of a Caribbean woman and a long-gone...
11. The rebel heir
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English
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Caught in a web of lies, torn between duty and desire, what's a con artist to do but deceive all of London and steal the one lady who dared match wits with the devil himself?
12. I Will Find You
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Publisher:
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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Three sisters…One terrible secret Ashleigh: A creative, free spirit and loyal. But Ash is tormented by her demons and a past that refuses to be laid to rest. Jessica: Perfect wife and loving mother. But although Jessica might seem to have it all, she lives a secret life built on lies. Grace: An outsider, always looking in, Grace has never known the love of her sisters and her resentment can make her do bad things. When Ashleigh goes missing, Jessica...
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Publisher:
Red Mango Publishing
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
A hero's journey starts with a single step-but what if that step rested on a broken foundation?When all you know about your world crumbles into ashes.When truth rests on a broken foundation.When what you believe to be true lies on a broken foundation.A book, a broken faith, a promise of hope.Never open a book without knowing what lies between its covers.When what you knew to be truth crumbles in the face of reality.When your heritage leads you to...
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Series:
Faye Longchamp mystery volume 10
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
A woman waits under five feet of dirt-a woman who is by now nothing but bones stained the deep red of Oklahoma clay. A delicate silver necklace, a handful of ancient pearls, and a priceless figurine rest with her. Twenty-nine years is a long time to wait for a proper burial. Faye Longchamp-Mantooth, who runs a small and shakily financed archaeological consulting firm with her husband, Joe, has come to Sylacauga so she and Joe can join his father,...
Author:
Publisher:
Julie Hodgson
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
When twenty-eight-year-old Fran Grace takes the journey to Scotland to scatter her father's ashes in the small town in which he was raised, she is expecting a peaceful, emotional opportunity to say goodbye and connect with the man whose essence was lost many years before his death to dementia. However, her pilgrimage is transformed beyond recognition when she stumbles upon a quirky local café.Purple Moons and Coffee Spoons may look like a simple,...
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Series:
Kitty Norville volume 6
Language:
English
Description:
Sometimes what happens in Vegas doesn't stay in Vegas. Kitty and Ben flee The City That Never Sleeps, thinking they were finished with the dangers there, but the sadistic cult of lycanthropes and their vampire priestess have laid a curse on Kitty in revenge for her disrupting their rituals. Starting at the next full moon, danger and destruction the form of fire strikes Kitty and the pack of werewolves she's sworn to protect. She enlists the help...
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English
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I NEVER saw that land before, And now can never see it again Yet, as if by acquaintance hoar Endeared, by gladness and by pain, Great was the affection that I bore To the valley and the river small, The cattle, the grass, the bare ash trees, The chickens from the farmsteads, all Elm-hidden, and the tributaries Descending at equal interval The blackthorns down along the brook With wounds yellow as crocuses Where yesterday the labourers hook Had sliced...
18. Afterlove
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Publisher:
GodwinBooks, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date:
2022
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 830L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"In this powerful, all-encompassing YA love story, a girl who becomes a grim reaper must figure out what the future holds--especially when it comes to the girlfriend she left behind. When Ashana Persaud meets Poppy Morgan on a school trip, she's sure it's too good to be true. Ash has never had much luck with girls, but Poppy proves different. Coffee dates turn to museum trips until, soon, the two girls can see a future together--one that's seemingly...
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Series:
Ember in the ashes volume 3
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 680L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
Beyond the Martial Empire and within it, the threat of war looms ever larger. Helene Aquilla, the Blood Shrike, is desperate to protect her sister's life and the lives of everyone in the Empire. But she knows that danger lurks on all sides: Emperor Marcus, haunted by his past, grows increasingly unstable and violent, while Keris Veturia, the ruthless Commandant, capitalizes on the Emperor's volatility to grow her own power--regardless of the carnage...
20. The dark bones
Author:
Series:
Dark lure novel volume 2
Publisher:
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date:
©2019
Language:
English
Description:
"When Detective Rebecca North left her rural hometown, she vowed never to return. Her father's apparent suicide has changed that. The official report is that retired cop Noah North shot himself, knocked over a lantern, and set his isolated cabin ablaze. But Rebecca cannot believe he killed himself. To prove it, she needs the help of Ash Haugen, the man she left behind. But Rebecca and Ash share more than broken hearts. Something darker lies between...